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The gardens at Montgomery Place once featured decorative garden ornaments and furniture, displaying a wide mix of styles, alongside the plants. Examples of statuary, furniture, potted plants, and hanging baskets that have been documented in early photographs of Montgomery Place will be presented in the exhibition.
Exhibition produced in partnership with and curated by Barbara Israel and her staff from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Funding provided by the A. C. Israel Foundation and Plymouth Hill Foundation.
For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail montgomeryplace@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/montgomeryplace.
Monday, August 26, 2019 – Friday, December 20, 2019
Learning Commons
The Learning Commons is home to Bard’s writing center and the community’s source of all writing support. Among other things, we provide the writing fellows, personal peer Senior Project–writing tutors, and one-on-one trained-peer writing collaboration for all Bard students, free of charge.
Our peer writing consultants look forward to meeting with you and talking about course readings, using informal writing as a tool for discovery, thinking through ideas for essay topics, generating research questions, developing written arguments with you, and generally helping you take your written drafts, inquiries, and research to the next level.
Students may make a writing appointment or subject-area tutoring appointment for any day of the week by dropping by and signing up.We may be reached at x7812 or blc@bard.edu. Also, visit our webpage at bard.edu/learningcommons. We are happy to bring back “Shut Up and Write!” and “Shut Up and SProj“ study room sessions too, so please feel free to ask about these.
See you in the BLC!
From Your Friends in the Learning CommonsSponsored by: Learning Commons.
For more information, call 845-758-7051 x7051, or e-mail keller@bard.edu.
Student Activities (along with six other offices) will be collecting donations for Border Angels, an organization dedicated to humane immigration reform, human rights, and providing supplies for migrants as they seek asylum. We will be collecting donations from September 16 to October 15 at the following donation sites: the Stevenson Library, Office of Student Activities, Kappa House, Sottery, Res Life, Gahagan House, and the Center for Civic Engagement.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, September 27, 2019 – Friday, November 22, 2019
New Annandale House
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/reading-room-2019/.
Monday, September 30, 2019 – Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Bard's MBA in Sustainability program, Office of Sustainability, and Experimental Humanities Program will be hosting the Patagonia Worn Wear Repair Wagon from September 30th to October 1st on Bard's Annandale-on-Hudson campus. Students and community members are invited to bring one item of clothing to this event for repair. The Worn Wear team will repair any brand of clothing and repairs will be done on a first come, first served basis.
We will also be hosting student makers, local B Corps and food trucks on Monday 9/30 for a Community Sustainability Exhibition from 1-6 PM. Participating B Corps companies include:Featured Bard student makers and community groups include:
Location: Bard College Experimental Humanities Quad (directions can be found here)
Monday September 30th:
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability; Bard Office of Sustainability; Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/mba/.
Licensed Massage Therapist Christine Welker
$35 for a half hour, $65 for an hour
Please bring cash or check (or in a pinch, PayPal) to the session.
Text 845-702-6751 to make an appointment on campus.
Massages are not covered by insurance.
Massages with Christine are available on Tuesdays and Fridays in the Center for Spiritual Life, which is located at Resnick Commons, Building A. Enter at the back of the building, and wait in the lobby until called.
Massage is excellent for stress relief, to ease tense muscles, for headaches and backaches, and promotes a general sense of well-being. As a massage therapist, Christine Welker thoroughly tends to the physical body, incorporating Swedish massage, Thai stretches, Shiatsu meridian work, Lomi Lomi strokes, and site-specific deep tissue work. As an energy worker, she makes contact with the nervous system, and silently encourages the unwinding of tension held in the cells and tissues of the body.
Christine is a licensed massage therapist and a registered somatic movement therapist. She has extensive training in the healing arts, including Eastern and Western massage, movement-based expressive art therapy, yoga dance, and Lomi Lomi massage (Hawaiian-style bodywork). She is a graduate of Columbia University.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, e-mail areyes@bard.edu, or visit http://www.gentlemountain.com.
"Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-7281.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 – Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Kline, President's Room
Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 – Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Kline, College Room
Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, September 23, 2019 – Friday, October 25, 2019
Stevenson Library 4th Floor Seminar Room
Join us for a Relaxation Drop-in Series at the Stevenson Library, 4th floor seminar room. We gather Monday through Friday from 4:15 to 5:00 pm.Sponsored by: Health and Wellness Education.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail areyes@bard.edu.
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
More than a dozen works about Greece and Greek, modern and ancient, by translators, memoirists, novelists, scholars, essayists, lecturers, dramatists, and actors from England, America, Australia, Greece, and Italy have been published in just the past two years, and there are more in the works. The author of Greek to Me will celebrate recent work inspired by the language, literature, and landscape of Greece and inquire into whatever it is in our current situation that sends us back to the Greeks.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7283, or e-mail romm@bard.edu.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 – Thursday, December 19, 2019
RCK Chemistry pods
Sponsored by: Learning Commons.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail blc@bard.edu.
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Olin, Room 102
In 2018 Congress created the Syria Study Group, a bipartisan panel of 12 experts charged with assessing the situation in Syria, defining the U.S. policy objective in that war-torn country, and devising a strategy to accomplish the objective. Bard’s diplomat in residence, Ambassador Frederic C. Hof, served as a member of the Group, whose report is being issued on September 26. Please join Ambassador Hof for a discussion of what is in the report and what may be next for U.S. policy in Syria. Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program; Global and International Studies Program; Political Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail mkmurray@bard.edu.
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Olin, Room 102
Bard Tango club is a beginner tango club for dancers of all experiences. All classes throughout the semester are open to all students! Come learn the magic and beauty of Argentinian Tango with teacher Chungin Goodstein and club head Alice Downes. Private lessons available to any by request.
Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail gd5479@bard.edu.
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Friday, December 20, 2019
Hegeman 308
SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY • HEG 308 • 7–10 PM
A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Monday, September 9, 2019 – Thursday, December 19, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center
Peer-led drop-in study space for Biology every Monday–Thursday, 7pm–9pm, in the RKC pods. Sponsored by: Learning Commons.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail blc@bard.edu.
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Thursday, December 19, 2019
Center for Spiritual Life ; Resnick Commons
Philip is at Bard:
Wednesdays 8-1
Thursdays 8-5
Call 845 943 7644 for an appointment.
Acupuncture is a system of healing that is 3-5,000 years old and is part of a larger system simply known as Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Acupuncture is what Phillip Brown calls "inside" medicine to be distinguished from Western Medicine which he calls "outside" medicine. Acupuncture stimulates your innate healing capacity. Your body is already trying to heal whatever you need help with.
Classical acupuncture is a healing art based on the laws of nature. It takes into account all of the marvelous complexity of each person in body, mind, and spirit-that is-the total person. It works preventatively as well as curatively doing whatever nature will allow within us. Thus, the amount of treatment and the response to treatment vary according to the individual.
For more information, call 845-943-7644, e-mail rhinebeckacupuncture@mac.com, or visit http://www.hudsonvalley-acupuncture.com.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 – Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Olin, Room 104
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail blc@bard.edu.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 – Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Kline French Room
Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 – Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Kline, President's Room
Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 – Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Kline Commons
Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 – Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Kline, College Room
Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, September 18, 2019 – Thursday, December 19, 2019
Albee 106
Drop by just to study, or to work with a peer tutor in Economics. Sponsored by: Economics Program; Learning Commons.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail blc@bard.edu.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 – Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
We are a collective that focuses on self-care, wellness, holistic health care for body-mind-spirit-emotion and soul all equally considered, herbal medicine, earth based skills, intersectionality of our diverse rich backgrounds, connecting to land and place, aligning with the seasonal and cosmic flow of everything, ancestral remembrance, dream working, mysticism, ritual, magic, community gathering, circling up to honor life, each other, and more! We are a web that includes many projects woven together for the same ends. We run a student organized herbal apothecary project that supplies loose herbs for tea, some simple tinctures, syrups, balms and more for the community members who participate in the collective in some form or organize a trade or donation based exchange for our efforts so we can continue to sustainably do all the work we put forth. We are also in the midst of proposing the building of a Wellness Center on campus.
For more information, call 201-407-0116, or e-mail cb5385@bard.edu.
Tuesday, October 1, 2019 – Monday, December 16, 2019
120; Olin Language Center
The Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join!
Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail lcurtis@bard.edu.
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Thursday, December 19, 2019
Center for Spiritual Life ; Resnick Commons
Philip is at Bard:
Wednesdays 8-1
Thursdays 8-5
Call 845 943 7644 for an appointment.
Acupuncture is a system of healing that is 3-5,000 years old and is part of a larger system simply known as Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Acupuncture is what Phillip Brown calls "inside" medicine to be distinguished from Western Medicine which he calls "outside" medicine. Acupuncture stimulates your innate healing capacity. Your body is already trying to heal whatever you need help with.
Classical acupuncture is a healing art based on the laws of nature. It takes into account all of the marvelous complexity of each person in body, mind, and spirit-that is-the total person. It works preventatively as well as curatively doing whatever nature will allow within us. Thus, the amount of treatment and the response to treatment vary according to the individual.
For more information, call 845-943-7644, e-mail rhinebeckacupuncture@mac.com, or visit http://www.hudsonvalley-acupuncture.com.
Saturday, June 22, 2019 – Sunday, October 13, 2019
CCS Bard Galleries
Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/530-acting-out-works-from-the-marieluise-hessel-collection.
Saturday, June 22, 2019 – Sunday, October 13, 2019
Hessel Museum of Art
Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/529-nil-yalter-exile-is-a-hard-job.
Saturday, June 22, 2019 – Sunday, October 13, 2019
Hessel Museum of Art
Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/528-leidy-churchman-crocodile.
Thursday, September 5, 2019 – Thursday, December 19, 2019
Kline, President's Room
Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Monday, May 18, 2020
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail Sankai@dharma.net, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Thursday, September 5, 2019 – Friday, May 22, 2020
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
Every Thursday evening, students meet with David Nelson (Bard's rabbi) to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat) they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another with the openness and closeness that seem so natural in kitchens. All are welcome, and no culinary know-how is necessary!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail nelson@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Monday, May 25, 2020
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, e-mail nelson@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Visit the Montgomery Place website to learn more about special tours, events, and upcoming exhibitions.
Please note: On June 8, the mansion will be closed for private tours at 1:30 and 2:30.
For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail montgomeryplace@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/montgomeryplace/.
Sunday, September 29, 2019 – Sunday, December 15, 2019
RCK Chemistry Pods
Sponsored by: Chemistry Program; Learning Commons.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail blc@bard.edu.
Sunday, September 1, 2019 – Monday, May 25, 2020
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Monday, May 18, 2020
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail Sankai@dharma.net, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Kline, President's Room
Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Monday, May 18, 2020
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
The Muslim Prayer Room is located in the Center for Spiritual Life (basement of Village A Dorm) and is open to all students for prayer and meditation.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail nzaki@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Monday, September 9, 2019 – Monday, December 9, 2019
Campus Center, Red Room 202
Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet coaches and returning students and learn about all that we do—tournaments, public debates, outreach, and more! New students are most welcome and encouraged to attend!! No previous debate experience required!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-752-4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit https://debate.bard.edu.
Monday, September 9, 2019 – Friday, December 20, 2019
Olin, Room 102
Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Campus Center, Lobby
Are you a first-year or sophomore planning ahead for a study abroad semester in the coming years? Or a student looking for a study abroad program for this summer? Come meet a rep from API Study Abroad, with programs worldwide (including scores of programs in Spanish-speaking countries, including Cuba, Spain, Argentina, and more). Come see what’s possible!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad.
For more information, call 845-758-7080, e-mail fleming@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/bardabroad/bard-students/.
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
The men's soccer team hosts RPI in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
Please check http://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Robert DeCaroli is a specialist in the early history of Buddhism and has conducted fieldwork in India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia. He received his Ph.D. in the South and Southeast Asian art history from UCLA. The majority of this work deals with early aspects of South Asian material culture and its interaction with forms of regional religious practice.
He is the author of two books: Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism (Oxford UP 2004) , and Image Problems: The Origin and Development of the Buddha’s Image in Early South Asia (U Washington Press 2015). He is co-curator of the Encountering the Buddha exhibit at the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. He is currently an ACLS/Robert H. N. Ho Foundation Fellow, working on a project entitled “The Gods of Buddhism: Regional Deities and Spirits in Early South Asia.”Sponsored by: Art History Program; Asian Studies Program; Religion Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail rdavis@bard.edu.
Alexis Gambis, ’03
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Olin, Room 102
This talk explores the cultural geography of Cairo in the first decade of the 20th century in order to unpack and critique nahdawi representations of modernity as simulacrum. I offer a brief reading of Muhammad Al-Muwaylihi’s iconic text Hadith ʿIsa Ibn Hisham that shows how the nahda discourse on cultural authenticity masked a deep social conservatism that banished the “errant trajectories” of everyday translation practices emerging in and through the modern. Against this discourse, the talk will conclude with a discussion of adaptation as the motor of social change and cultural creativity.
Samah Selim teaches at Rutgers University. She is a scholar and translator of modern Arabic literature. Her most recent book, Popular Fiction, Translation and the Nahda in Egypt, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. She is currently working on a translation of Jordanian author Ghalib Halasa’s final novel Sultana (1987) with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
This event is co-sponsored by the Division of Languages and Literatures, Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative, and Human Rights Project.
Sponsored by: Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7506, or e-mail dramadan@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 3, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Jerome Rothenberg has been a dominant presence in American poetry and poetics for half a century. His poetry has always sought in the deepest realms of human experience to bring a clear word. His poems are marvels of colloquial immediacy and prophetic intensity. His explorations of ethnopoetics resulted in such game-changing anthologies as Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, and America: A Prophecy, as well as studies and translations of Native American poetries. His commitment to exploring the world of Jewish experience produced his remarkable Holocaust-minded poems in the books Poland 1931 and Khurbn and other Poems, as well as A Big Jewish Book and Exiled in the Word; and he was the first translator of Paul Celan. Besides continuing his own work, he has edited (with Pierre Joris '69) the first volumes of that immense anthology of modern poetics, Poems for the Millenium.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, e-mail ccape@bard.edu, or visit https://writtenarts.bard.edu.
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Kai Roberts is a professional mental health speaker from Active Minds. His story gives hope a voice. Kai tells the story of his battle with anxiety and panic disorder through interactive dialogue and hip-hop music.Sponsored by: Health and Wellness Education.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail areyes@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Stevenson Athletic Center, Aerobics Studio
Come learn basic Bollywood dance moves to perform at the ISO Cultural Show.
No prior dance experience required. Sponsored by: Office of International Student and Scholar Services.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ahanif@bard.edu.
Friday, October 4, 2019
Hegeman 107
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the heat left over from the hot Big Bang of the early universe. Careful studies of the CMB have greatly enriched our understanding of the history and properties of the universe—and what it was like very early on. In this talk, I will focus on the basic science of the CMB, and how this intertwined with the “discovery” of the CMB. I'll start with this proposition: the very early universe was dense, hot, and very, very simple.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Friday, October 4, 2019 – Friday, December 20, 2019
Kline Commons
September 13: College Room
September 20: College Room
September 27: President's Room
October 4: College Room
October 11: President's Room
October 18: College Room
October 25: Main Dining Room
November 1: Main Dining Room
November 8: President's Room
November 15: College Room
November 22: President's Room
November 29: College Room
December 6: President's Room
December 13: College Room
December 20: President's RoomSponsored by: Classical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail lcurtis@bard.edu.
Friday, October 4, 2019 – Saturday, November 2, 2019
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Five weekly lectures on the origins of prophecy deploy the earliest Hebrew Scriptures comparatively, in the context of studies of shamanism and related topics. The aim is to permit the texts to articulate how they envision events that run counter to the prevailing patterns of political and military power, and ultimately to intimate an alternative structure of reality itself.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7335, or e-mail iatatbard@gmail.com.
Saturday, October 5, 2019
The women's volleyball team hosts a tri-match. The schedule is as follows:
Sarah Lawrence vs. Bard, 11 a.m.
Sarah Lawrence vs. SUNY Maritime, 1 p.m.
SUNY Maritime vs. Bard, 3 p.m.
Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Saturday, October 5, 2019
The women's soccer team hosts RIT in a Liberty League game. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts
The women's tennis team hosts Vassar. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
We will have the annual blessing of the animals on Sunday, October 6, at 2:00 p.m. on the lawn in front of the Chapel of the Holy Innocents. Please bring your pets (leashed or caged), stuffed animals, photos of beloved pets, etc. All are welcome!
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu.
Monday, October 7, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Join Michelle Murray and BGIA alumni/ae for PIZZA and hear about their experiences with Bard's Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA), including:
Internships in NYC
Courses taught by scholar-practitioners
Dorms on Manhattan's Upper East Side
Fun social events (Broadway shows, concerts, dance, improv comedy, baseball and more!)
Monthly speaker series
Costs and financial aid Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
For more information, call 646-839-9262, or e-mail rmeyer@bard.edu.
Monday, October 7, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
Geneva Zane ’18 will read from her new book, Stringbean and the Grace of Dog (Pink Narcissus Press, 2019). Happens on the first floor of the library.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-7064, e-mail amurphy@bard.edu, or visit https://www.pinknarc.com/authors.html.
Monday, October 7, 2019
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Opening event for the Hannah Arendt Center Conference – “Racism and Antisemitism” (October 10-11, 2019). This debate will feature both the Bard and West Point debate teams. Co-sponsored by the Bard Debate Union, the Hannah Arendt Center, the Center for Civic Engagement, and the Bard-West Point exchange. For more information about this year’s Hannah Arendt Center Conference, visit: https://hac.bard.edu/conference2019; For more information about the Bard Debate Union, visit: https://debate.bard.edu/Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-752-4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit https://debate.bard.edu.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 – Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
Yom Kippur (the Jewish Day of Atonement) starts Tuesday Evening October 8 and ends at dark on Wednesday, October 9. All Bard community members are welcome to join us for any and all parts of the day. All events will be held in the Center for Spiritual Life
Yom Kippur Schedule
Kol Nidrei – Tuesday at 6 PM sharp.
Morning service – Wednesday at 10 AM.
Memorial service (Yizkr) 5:30 PM
Concluding service ( Ne'ilah) – 6:15 PM
Break the fast (with bagels!) – 7:10 PM sharp.
Between the morning service and the memorial service we encourage everyone to remain with us the Center for Spiritual Life for informal conversation, reflection, napping, and being with friends.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
New Annandale House
Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail eh@bard.edu, or visit https://eh.bard.edu/.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 – Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
Drop by for help with research, citation management, and more. Happens weekly on the first floor of Stevenson Library.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-7064, e-mail amurphy@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/library.
Dr. Sameer Sonkusale
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
RKC 122
This talk will explore the new realm of using threads as an ultimate platform for flexible and stretchable bioelectronics. Threads offer unique advantages of universal availability, low cost, material diversity and simple textile-based processing. Interestingly, threads also provide an ideal platform for passive microfluidic sampling and delivery of analytes. In this talk, I will report reel-to-reel fabrication of functional smart threads for variety of sensing and electronics application. I will report on nanomaterial-infused smart threads for sensing strain and temperature. Nano-infused threads will be presented for sensing pH, glucose, lactate, ammonium and other chemical and biological biomarkers directly in biological fluids such as sweat or wound exudate. Beyond sensing and microfluidics, I will present our recent work on making super-thin transistors and electronics directly on threads. This new toolkit of highly flexible thread-based microfluidics, sensors, transistors and electronics makes it possible to realize smart surgical sutures and flexible smart bandages for chronic wounds. Our recent work on using threads for closed loop spatiotemporal dosage controlled drug delivery will also be presented. If there is time, I will present some related research activities on ingestible devices for studying the gut microbiome, and on flexible microneedles for transdermal drug delivery.Sponsored by: Chemistry Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2353, or e-mail clafratt@bard.edu.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
From the Enlightenment era forward, the Pacific has served as a crucial touchstone for European speculation on differences between indigenous and Western cultures. My paper examines the role played by botanists in these considerations, with particular reference to social factors that shaped observations by European naturalists in Tahiti. Following a preliminary discussion of European-Tahitian botanical interactions over the course of James Cook’s Endeavour voyage (1768–71), I proceed to examine the heightened attention to epistemological contrasts between Tahitian and European environmental worldviews given in published accounts authored by Johann (1729–1798) and Georg Forster (1754–1794), who served aboard James Cook’s HMS Resolution (1772–75). I attribute this shift to the Forsters’ relative lack of acquaintance with Tahitian cultures and te reo Tahiti (the Tahitian language), owing largely to the more itinerant nature of the Resolution voyage. The second part of this presentation turns to HMS Bounty expedition’s (1787-1790) unprecedented length of stay at Tahiti to collect breadfruit trees en route to the Caribbean, which encouraged cross-cultural intimacies palpably—even dangerously—at odds with Forsterian dichotomizing. In bringing these case studies together, I reflect on a paradox: namely, that while some grasp of indigenous knowledge was fundamental to global botanical endeavors, it could also prove their ruination.
Dr. Bil received his PhD in history from the University of British Columbia in 2018. He was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humanities Institute, LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden from 2018 to 2019. He has published most recently in the British Journal for the History of Science, and his manuscript. Indexing the Indigenous: Plants, Peoples and Empire is under contract with John Hopkins University Press.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7870, or e-mail mdominy@bard.edu.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Olin, Room 102
In this lecture, Maestro Akaxe Yotzin, an expert of Prehispanic Mesoamerican semiotics and disciplines, will dismantle the popular myths of human sacrifices, cannibalism, imperialism, and deism in Prehispanic cultures. By analyzing the symbols and evidence through a cultural, philosophical, spiritual, and indigenous lens, he will bring to light missing pieces in the mainstream narrative.
Maestro Akaxe Yotzin traces his lineage to the ancient native traditions of Mesoamerica. He is a “Temachtiani” of the Toltekatl sciences, disciplines, rituals, and philosophies. He has taught across Europe, Latin America, and the United States, where he currently resides. Akaxe Yotzin is trilingual, Nahuatl, English, and Spanish.His lecture will be in English.Sponsored by: LAIS Program; La Voz; Religion Program; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6050, or e-mail plopezga@bard.edu.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Exploring how the pursuit of physical goals can informa and shape our life.Sponsored by: Health and Wellness Education.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail areyes@bard.edu.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Olin, Room 102
Bard Tango club is a beginner tango club for dancers of all experiences. All classes throughout the semester are open to all students! Come learn the magic and beauty of Argentinian Tango with teacher Chungin Goodstein and club head Alice Downes. Private lessons available to any by request.
Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail gd5479@bard.edu.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 – Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
Yom Kippur (the Jewish Day of Atonement) starts Tuesday Evening October 8 and ends at dark on Wednesday, October 9. All Bard community members are welcome to join us for any and all parts of the day. All events will be held in the Center for Spiritual Life
Yom Kippur Schedule
Kol Nidrei – Tuesday at 6 PM sharp.
Morning service – Wednesday at 10 AM.
Memorial service (Yizkr) 5:30 PM
Concluding service ( Ne'ilah) – 6:15 PM
Break the fast (with bagels!) – 7:10 PM sharp.
Between the morning service and the memorial service we encourage everyone to remain with us the Center for Spiritual Life for informal conversation, reflection, napping, and being with friends.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228.
The Ars Nova production of
by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Critics’ Pick
“A lacerating comedy on race…in-all-ways sensational.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times
Critics’ Pick
“Outrageously funny! Strikingly rendered by bold, smart performances.”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Explosive! Fearlessly, ferociously uninhibited . . . the show’s most subversive quality is also quintessentially American: it’s wildly entertaining.”—Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker
Good morning, America! Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of teachers are getting down and dirty with today’s lesson. The nimble duo goes round after round on the mat of our nation’s history, tackling race, sex, and power in this R-rated, kaleidoscopic, and fearless comedy. Lauded around the world and in the New York Times as “one of the best new American plays of the last 25 years,” Underground Railroad Game welcomes back Jennifer Kidwell, last seen in SummerScape 2016’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed.Sponsored by: Fisher Center and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/underground-railroad-game/.
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Please join Deirdre d'Albertis, Dean of the College
for
Cookies, Tea and Conversation
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WHEN: Wednesday, October 9, 2019
4:00pm - 5:30 pm
WHERE: Stevenson Library - First Floor
For more information, call 845-758-7421, or e-mail doc@bard.edu.
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
The Ars Nova production of
by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Critics’ Pick
“A lacerating comedy on race…in-all-ways sensational.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times
Critics’ Pick
“Outrageously funny! Strikingly rendered by bold, smart performances.”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Explosive! Fearlessly, ferociously uninhibited . . . the show’s most subversive quality is also quintessentially American: it’s wildly entertaining.”—Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker
Good morning, America! Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of teachers are getting down and dirty with today’s lesson. The nimble duo goes round after round on the mat of our nation’s history, tackling race, sex, and power in this R-rated, kaleidoscopic, and fearless comedy. Lauded around the world and in the New York Times as “one of the best new American plays of the last 25 years,” Underground Railroad Game welcomes back Jennifer Kidwell, last seen in SummerScape 2016’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed.Sponsored by: Fisher Center and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/underground-railroad-game/.
Organized by Bard College Berlin and Humboldt University’s Law and Society Institute
With the support of the American Social Science Research Council
Program
October 10, 2019 | 19:30 | Bard College Berlin, Lecture Hall, Platanenstr. 98a, 13156 Berlin
Geoffrey Harpham (Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University)
The Nation in The Birth of a Nation
October 31, 2019 | 18:15 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
David Dyzenhaus (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto)
Brexit and the Legal Idea of Sovereignty
November 20, 2019 | 18:15 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Ivan Krastev (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen)
Making sense of the long 1989
November 21, 2019 | 19:30 | Bard College Berlin, Lecture Hall, Platanenstr. 98a, 13156 Berlin
Adam Davis (Oregon Humanities)
The Voices of the People: From Dreams of Self-Rule to Practices of Mutual Understanding
December 10, 2019 | 18:15 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Daniel Ziblatt (Department of Government, Harvard University; Axel Springer Fellow, American Academy in Berlin)
The Rise and Fall of Democracy: Lessons From the Past for Today
January 21, 2020 | 18:15 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dieter Grimm (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
Popular Sovereignty as Dormant Sovereignty
All Humboldt events will take place in: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Juristische Fakultät, Unter den Linden 9, 10117 Berlin, Raum 213
Admission freeSponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail communications@berlin.bard.edu.
Thursday, October 10, 2019 – Friday, October 11, 2019
Olin Humanities Building
Racism and Antisemitism
A Conference Sponsored by
The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College.
Thursday and Friday, Oct. 10-11, 2019
“Racism may indeed carry out the doom of the Western world, and, for that matter, of the whole of human civilization.”
—Hannah Arendt
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Disease at the Edge of Species Distributions:
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
author of
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail jbecker@bard.edu, or visit https://cce.bard.edu.
Sodomite, Gay, Queer, Trans:
Carolyn Dinshaw, Dean for the Humanities, Silver Professor; Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and English,
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Olin, Room 102
For more information, call 845-758-7211, or e-mail mlibbon@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Campus Center, Meeting Room 214
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, October 10, 2019
ISABELLA TREE
author of
Wilding: The Return of Nature to Our Farm
winner of
the 2019 Richard Jefferies Prize for Nature Writing
and chosen by
Smithsonian as a top ten science book for 2018
Thursday, October 10, 2019
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
The author will be signing books after the presentation.
Books will be available for purchase at this event courtesy of Oblong Books & Music
Wilding - returning nature to our farm charts the story of the pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex where the author lives with her husband Charlie Burrell. Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy Sussex clay was economically ruinous, they decided to step back and let nature take over. By introducing free-roaming herbivores—proxies of the large animals that once roamed Britain—the Burrells’ degraded agricultural land has become a functioning ecosystem again. In less than twenty years, wildlife has rocketed and numerous endangered species have made Knepp their home. The Knepp experience challenges conventional ideas about our past and present landscapes, and points the way to a wilder, richer future—one that benefits farming, nature and us.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Lifetime Learning Institute; Office of Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail jbecker@bard.edu, or visit https://cce.bard.edu/events/isabella-tree.
Thursday, October 10, 2019
3rd floor of the Watts dePeyster Hall, Village of Tivoli
In honor of the legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt, the Human Rights Project at Bard College and the Village of Tivoli invite you to join us for a roundtable discussion about the current state of human rights.
In connection with the commemoration of her childhood home in Tivoli, this public event revisits Eleanor Roosevelt's famous answer to the question “Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?” For Eleanor Roosevelt, it was clear that “Without concerted citizen action to uphold” human rights “close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.” In that spirit, the event connects the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the increasingly dire challenges to human rights faced in the United States. How has the political discourse around human rights changed in the United States, and what are its implications? What does the term human rights mean in public culture today and how does it strengthen or limit the struggles around climate change, criminal justice, immigration, and racial, social and economic inequality? This event will take the form of a public conversation involving global and local activists, introduced by Peter Rosenblum, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, and moderated by Larry Cox, former Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, in which we all grapple together with these questions (and others) "in small places, close to home."Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail civic@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, 170 E 64th St, New York, NY 10065
With The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations, Michelle Murray offers a new answer to a perennial question in the field: how can established powers manage the peaceful rise of new great powers? Murray argues that power transitions are principally social phenomena whereby rising powers struggle to obtain recognition as world powers.
Her book examines a moment at the turn of the 20th century, when two rising states—the United States and Imperial Germany—looked to the established powers to recognize their status. Only one would succeed in securing a peaceful power transition.
What can Murray’s framework teach us about the social dynamics of power transitions? How can it help us to understand the economic and military rivalry between United States and China?
Michelle Murray is director of global initiatives and associate professor of political studies at Bard College.
She will be in conversation with:
Stephen Pampinella, assistant professor in the department of political science and international relations at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/michelle-murray-the-struggle-for-recognition-in-international-relations-status-revisionism-and-tickets-69879079207?discount=BGIA2019Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, October 10, 2019 – Friday, October 11, 2019
Olin Humanities Building
Racism and Antisemitism
A Conference Sponsored by
The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College.
Thursday and Friday, Oct. 10-11, 2019
“Racism may indeed carry out the doom of the Western world, and, for that matter, of the whole of human civilization.”
—Hannah Arendt
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
The Ars Nova production of
by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special
Friday, October 11, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Critics’ Pick
“A lacerating comedy on race…in-all-ways sensational.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times
Critics’ Pick
“Outrageously funny! Strikingly rendered by bold, smart performances.”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Explosive! Fearlessly, ferociously uninhibited . . . the show’s most subversive quality is also quintessentially American: it’s wildly entertaining.”—Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker
Good morning, America! Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of teachers are getting down and dirty with today’s lesson. The nimble duo goes round after round on the mat of our nation’s history, tackling race, sex, and power in this R-rated, kaleidoscopic, and fearless comedy. Lauded around the world and in the New York Times as “one of the best new American plays of the last 25 years,” Underground Railroad Game welcomes back Jennifer Kidwell, last seen in SummerScape 2016’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed.Sponsored by: Fisher Center and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/underground-railroad-game/.
Friday, October 11, 2019
Saw Kill
As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.
Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.
Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.
Open to everyone. Free training is available.
If interested, please contact:
Lindsey Drew
Bard Water Lab Manager
ldrew@bard.eduSponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, October 11, 2019
Hegeman 107
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to two separate discoveries that broadened our understanding of the Universe. One half of the prize was given to Jim Peebles “for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe” and the other half to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discover of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.” Both of these works fundamentally changed our view of our universe and our place in it. Faculty of the Physics Program will expand on the ideas behind the discoveries and emphasize their significance.
Pizza will be provided.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Friday, October 11, 2019
The women's volleyball team hosts Rochester Institute of Technology in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
The Ars Nova production of
by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Critics’ Pick
“A lacerating comedy on race…in-all-ways sensational.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times
Critics’ Pick
“Outrageously funny! Strikingly rendered by bold, smart performances.”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Explosive! Fearlessly, ferociously uninhibited . . . the show’s most subversive quality is also quintessentially American: it’s wildly entertaining.”—Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker
Good morning, America! Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of teachers are getting down and dirty with today’s lesson. The nimble duo goes round after round on the mat of our nation’s history, tackling race, sex, and power in this R-rated, kaleidoscopic, and fearless comedy. Lauded around the world and in the New York Times as “one of the best new American plays of the last 25 years,” Underground Railroad Game welcomes back Jennifer Kidwell, last seen in SummerScape 2016’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed.Sponsored by: Fisher Center and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/underground-railroad-game/.
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center
The day centers around activities that allow students and their families to explore the campus and experience the excitement of Bard College classes. Check-in is at the Reem-Kayden Center, where students will be directed to their classes in the Olin Humanities Building. All other visitors will attend a Q&A in Olin Auditorium with Leon Botstein, president of the College. Campus tours begin at Olin.
Lunch will be served from 1:00 to 2:00. Representatives from the Admission, Student Affairs, Career Development, Study Abroad, and Residence Life offices, as well as the Dean of the College, will be available to answer your questions.
The day ends with 20-minute facility drop-in tours, which are at 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, and 3:30 (Athletics and Recreation; Dance/Theater and Performance; Film and Electronic Arts; Music/Conservatory; Photography; Residence Halls; Science; Studio Arts).
In order to have dynamic class discussions, students are encouraged to complete short readings in advance. (These classes are modeled on Bard’s First-Year Seminar.) Please go to bard.edu/admission to download the short readings.
For more information, call 845-758-7472, or visit https://bard.edu/admission .
Monthly Meeting of the Citizens' Climate Lobby
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Olin Language Center
A potluck lunch followed by a chapter meeting designed to build political will for a federal solution to the climate crisis. We will dial in to the national call 1pm-1:30pm where we will hear from Kiera O'Brien, Students for Carbon Dividends.
There’s been a shift among Republicans in Congress on climate change, due in no small part to polling that shows younger GOP voters are as concerned about climate change as their progressive counterparts. As vice president of Students for Carbon Dividends, Kiera O’Brien is working to harness that passion among young conservatives to generate political will for carbon dividends legislation, which places a fee on carbon and gives revenue to households (sound familiar?). Kiera, who is President Emeritus of the Harvard Republican Club, recently testified at a congressional hearing alongside Republican pollster Frank Luntz. Over the summer, she spoke about carbon dividends at the Teen Vogue Summit: “There are many climate-oriented groups rallying around the problem, but Students for Carbon Dividends is rallying around the solution.”
Two Ways to Join
To connect by video conference, go to cclusa.org/meeting.
To connect by phone: If you have unlimited calling, please call 1-646-558-8656; otherwise you can call toll-free at 1-877-369-0926. Enter 2017-2017-17 as the meeting ID.
For more information, call 845-464-8025, or e-mail lauriehusted@gmail.com.
Saturday, October 12, 2019
The men's soccer team hosts Union in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Saturday, October 12, 2019
The women's volleyball team hosts Ithaca College in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Visiting Artists: Cong Quartet
Saturday, October 12, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail kiesewet@bard.edu.
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Olin, Room 102
Bard Tango club is a beginner tango club for dancers of all experiences. All classes throughout the semester are open to all students! Come learn the magic and beauty of Argentinian Tango with teacher Chungin Goodstein and club head Alice Downes. Private lessons available to any by request.
Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail gd5479@bard.edu.
Join and receive a $65 application fee waiver!
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
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Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
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Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information.
Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team.
WHAT WILL BE COVERED?
Degree Options Include:
MS in Environmental Policy
MS in Climate Science and Policy
MBA in Sustainability
Dual Degree Options Include:
MS/JD with Pace Law School
MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching
MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability
Peace Corps Programs Include:
Master's International (before you serve)
Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Caitlin O'Donnell for further details.
For more information, call 845-758-7073.
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For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit https://gps.bard.edu/informational-webinar-10-08-19.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Online
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail ebangood@bard.edu, or visit https://bluejeans.com/142290213.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
Zotero is a free, open-source citation management application that helps you save, organize, and cite sources in virtually any publication style. In this workshop, librarians Jeremy Hall and Alexa Murphy will show you how to set up and use this powerful tool. Bring your laptop. This workshop is open to all but is especially recommended for seniors. Please rsvp here. Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-7064, e-mail amurphy@bard.edu, or visit https://libguides.bard.edu/zotero.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
As the son of an African American father and a white mother, Williams followed conventional assumptions and thought of himself as Black. But after he married a French woman and fathered two blond, blue-eyed daughters, he has come to question the whole notion of “race.” Building on his provocative New York Times op-ed about the “one drop” rule of racial identity, Williams, a 2019 New America Fellow and the author of Losing My Cool, uses his family’s multigenerational transition from “black” to “white” to expose the illogic of racial categories of identity and how reliance on such categories can keep furthering that illogic.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-7878, or e-mail arendt@bard.edu.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
The women's volleyball team hosts Vassar College in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
Please check http://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Are We All in this Together? Generalized Prejudice Theory and Stigma Experiences
Diana Sanchez ’00
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Preston Theater
The contexts that give rise to identity threats and their pernicious consequences for minorities are well documented. Yet, until recently, stigma researchers have largely assumed the necessity of a direct correspondence between safety/threat cues and the target (e.g., sexist remarks impact women). In contrast, this work demonstrates stigma transfer, i.e., the tendency for stigmatized group members to be threatened by prejudice targeting other stigmatized groups. In addition, this presentation will explore lay conceptions of prejudice that facilitate stigma transfer. Lastly, studies explore parallel responses to identity safety cues across identity dimensions. This talk will challenge long-held notions about the boundaries of stigma and have important implications for minority health, organizational diversity, and intraminority relations.Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7223, or e-mail jdainerbest@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Sponsored by the Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative and Russian and Eurasian Studies, this panel explores the joys and challenges of translating Russian Avant-Garde and late Modernist poetry to English. Maria Khotimsky of MIT and Ainsley Morse of Dartmouth College address the question of translatability of Hylea and Cubo-Futurist poetry, with examples from Guro, Kruchenykh, Khlebnikov and Mayakovsky, and discuss the complexities of contemporary readers' perception and interpretation of late Mandelstam's poetry in translation.
Maria Khotimsky is a Senior Lecturer in Russian and Russian Language Coordinator in the Department of Global Studies and Languages at MIT. Her recent work includes articles and conference talks on the ideology of translation in the Soviet Union, and poetics of translation in the works of several leading twentieth-century Russian poets, as well as in the work of Russian-American translingual poets. She is a co-editor of a volume of scholarly essays on the poetry and philosophy of Olga Sedakova, published in Russia (Ol’ga Sedakova: stikhi, smysly, prochteniia, NLO, 2017), and in the US (The Poetry and Poetics of Olga Sedakova. Origins, Philosophies, Points of Contention, University of Wisconsin Press, 2019).
Ainsley Morse teaches in the Dartmouth College Russian department and translates Russian and former Yugoslav poetry and prose. Recent publications include Permanent Evolution, a collection of theoretical essays by the Formalist critic Yuri Tynianov (ASP; edited and translated with Philip Redko), Andrei Egunov-Nikolev's "Soviet pastoral" Beyond Tula (ASP), and, with Bela Shayevich, Kholin 66: Diaries and Poems by Igor Kholin (UDP) and Vsevolod Nekrasov’s I Live I See (UDP 2013). She is currently translating the late avant-garde novelist and poet Konstantin Vaginov and contributing to an anthology of contemporary feminist poetry. Sponsored by: Russian/Eurasian Studies Program; Translation and Translatability Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ovoronin@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Blum Hall
Codie is a live coding duo, working with sounds and visuals. This event will include a talk on the development of live coding performance techniques, followed by an improvised audio/video performance. The performance will feature Bard music seniors Bird Cohen, Ezra Kahn, and Maeve Schallert.
Free and open to all.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo & Kate Sicchio
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Blum Hall
This talk and performance will focus on the work of Codie, a live coding group working with visuals and sounds. The talk will give background to the live coding community as well as the development of our live coding practices. The performance will show a world of colors, shapes, beeps and boops all created through real-time computer programming.
Codie is a live coding a/v group based in Brooklyn NY and Richmond VA (USA). Codie is seen in New York, Philadelphia, Berlin, Madrid, Sheffield and beyond in clubs, in living rooms, and on roof tops. Codie makes live performance, films and installations with code. https://codie.live/
Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo is an artist, programmer, and erstwhile data designer. She has created data-obscured art sites, new computer languages, and hybrid nostalgia machines. Her current focus is livecode and digital abstraction. Sarah is an alumna of the School for Poetic Computation, Recurse Center, Brown University, and NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She has taken part in group shows at Sonar+D, Westbeth, Day for Night, and Flux Factory. http://sarahghp.com/
Dr. Kate Sicchio is a choreographer, , media artist and performer whose work explores the interface between choreography and technology with wearable technology, live coding, and video systems. Her work has been shown internationally in many countries including the US, Germany, Australia, Belgium, Sweden, and the UK at venues such as PS122 (NYC), Banff New Media Institute (Canada), V&A Digital Futures (London), and Artisan Gallery (Hong Kong). http://www.sicchio.com
6:15 p.m. talk / 7:00 p.m. performance with special Bard guests Bird Cohen, Ezra Kahn, and Maeve Schallert
Sponsored by: Computer Science Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2359, or e-mail kohara@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Santa Barraza is “a nationally important Tejana artist” who “paints bold represenations of Nepantla, the Land Between. Her work depicts the historical, emotional, and spiritual land between Mexico and Texas, between present reality and the mythic world of the ancient Aztecs and Mayas. Over the last twenty-five years of her career as a visual artist, Barraza has explored what it is to be a Chicana and a mestiza in this country. Utilizing a variety of media, she has embarked on an artistic journey full of family portraits, watercolor dream scenes, mixed media artist books, and murals that harken back to a pre-Columbian past. By tapping into pre-conquest symbols, personal memories, and traditional sacred art forms such as the retablo and the Codices, she incorporates the value of Mexican artistic traditions and their power to nurture and sustain cultural identity on this side of the border” (from Santa Barraza: Artist of the Borderlands [2001], edited by María Herrera-Sobek).Sponsored by: Art History Program; LAIS Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail aberth@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
LMHQ, 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, NYC
Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-promise-for-sustainability-in-employee-activism-tickets-73869039285?aff=JB.
Friday, October 18, 2019
Campus Center, Meeting Room 214
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Friday, October 18, 2019
Hegeman 107
General relativity and quantum mechanics are at the foundations of our understanding of space, time, gravity, and matter. Yet, it is not clear how they can fit into a consistent, encompassing framework, generically named a theory of “quantum gravity.” In this talk, I will paint in broad strokes the fundamental ideas underlying general relativity and quantum mechanics as well as some of the issues that arise when trying to combine their precepts. I will then present a possible way forward in the form of a theory of quantum geometro-dynamics, of which I will discuss the main characteristics. Curiously, we find that the way quantum space is supposed to evolve in a fictitious two-dimensional world (where the geometro-dynamics is well understood and solvable) is closely related to certain models of surface growth, known as solid-on-solid models (SoS).Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Friday, October 18, 2019
The men's soccer team hosts Clarkson in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Friday, October 18, 2019
The men's and women's swimming teams host Purchase College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Friday, October 18, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Friday, October 18, 2019
3rd Floor Village Hall, 86 Broadway, Tivoli
Pickup from Kline at 5:45
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail AS55345@bard.edu.
Friday, October 18, 2019
Olin, Room 101
Ceremonial Open with Schaghicoke First Nations, Penobscot, Tlingit, and Taino Peoples
Remarks by Naomi Hollard, Sunrise Movement – The Nexus of Climate, Gender Equality, and Women’s Leadership with Katharine Wilkinson, Project Drawdown VP of Communications & Engagement Healing and Transformation: A Conversation with Katharine Wilkinson and Sherri Mitchell Panel: Women Advancing Climate Policy Solutions with Rhiana Gunn-Wright (Green New Deal policy lead), Jen Metzger (NY senator), and Didi Barrett (NY assemblywoman) moderated by Carla Goldstein (Omega president and cofounder of the Omega Women’s Leadership Center).Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability; Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing; Division of Social Studies; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Human Rights Program; Office of Sustainability; Psychology Program; Science, Technology, and Society Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-464-8025, e-mail husted@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eomega.org/online-workshops/2019-drawdown-learn-conference-live-online.
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Xinran Li, a winner of Bard Conservatory’s concerto competition, takes on Sibelius’ touching violin concerto. Then, Shostakovich’s symphony—his first written after the death of Stalin—takes us from dark intensity to ecstatic joy.
Leon Botstein, conductor
Xinran Li, violin
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Shostakovich Symphony No. 10
Estimated run time: 2 hours and 5 minutesSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail boxoffice@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/sibelius-and-shostakovich/.
Where No Wall Remains
Emilio Rojas
Decolonized Feast
Saturday, October 19 2–4 pm
Bard Farm
The Sioux Chef: The (R)evolution of Indigenous Food Systems of North America
Tuesday, October 29 at 5 pm
LUMA Theater, Fisher Center
Studio Arts Visiting Artist Lecture: Baseera Kahn
Tuesday, October 29 at 5pm
Fisher Studio Arts Seminar Room
Lana Tatour: Citizenship as Domination: Settler Colonialism and the Making of Palestinian Citizenship in Israel
Monday, November 11 at 5 pm
Olin Hall room 202
Film Screening of Jürgen Böttcher's Die Mauer (The Wall), 1990, 98 min. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
Monday, November 11 at 6 pm
Preston Cinema
Where No Wall Remains festival introduction with Co-curators Gideon Lester and Tania El Khoury, with Biennial artists.
Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm
LUMA Theater
The Wall: A film on the effect of the Wall's Imposing Presence on Migrant Families
Thursday, November 14 at 7 pm
Preston Cinema Sponsored by: 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/liveartsbard2019/.
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Preston
Conference Program
9:00–10:10 a.m. From Anxiety to Action: Psychology for Climate Work with Renee Lertzman, PhD. Overview & Updates on the Drawdown Research with Chad Frischmann
10:30–11:20 a.m. Unpacking the Green New Deal: The Critical Importance of Equity
Description: The Green New Deal outlines the most ambitious and transformative national goals since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s original New Deal and the World War II economic mobilizations. A national mobilization of this size and scale presents an unprecedented opportunity not only to combat the climate crisis, but also to eliminate poverty in the United States and to make wealth, prosperity, and security available to every person who participates in the transition. In this session, discover how equity across all sectors must be at the center of, and integrated with, all our climate work. Gain a deep understanding of the strategies and tools that ensure climate solutions benefit all—because the only way forward is to leave no one behind.
Rhiana Gunn-Wright, policy lead, Green New Deal
Andrew Revkin, journalist & founding director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute.
11:35 a.m. – 12:25 p.m. The Paris Agreement and You: The Critical Role of Education and Public Engagement
Description: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) international environmental treaty of 1992 has the goal to "stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. A crucial part of the treaty includes the role of education and public engagement. The UNFCCC Charter and the 2015 Paris Agreement recognized six elements of this work, now collectively referred to as Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE). In this session, explore how ACE is and could further support the implementation of subnational, national, and global climate education strategy and strengthening of the Paris Agreement.
What does this mean for our work on a local level? What is a Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement, and why is it critical that we learn about this? What role can students and teachers play? This session is especially aimed at those working or interested in a field related to ACE, and to anyone who would like to incorporate Drawdown into climate change education, engagement, and/or outreach.
1:45–2:35 p.m. Cultivating Drawdown Scholars: An Overview of Penn State’s Landmark Program with Project Drawdown
Description: Penn State partnered with Project Drawdown to hold the inaugural Drawdown Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and the first International Science Conference on Drawdown. During the eight-week REU program this summer, 55 undergraduate students from across the United States were mentored by Penn State faculty and Project Drawdown's research team to study the Drawdown models and examine the feasibility of scaling them down locally as well as communicating findings. The students also developed curricular models and teaching tools for drawdown under the mentorship of Penn State faculty and Drawdown Education Fellows of the National Council for Science and the Environment. Students, faculty, and staff created materials that they shared at the end of the experience and were featured at the first Drawdown Scientific Conference at Penn State University Park in mid-September. During the conference, "Research to Action: The Science of Drawdown," Project Drawdown's research team and scientific experts and researchers from around the world met and had critical discussions about advancing and communicating the science of Drawdown. A platform for community engagement was also created through a theatrical performance involving the arts and sciences. In this session, discover how the programs were put together, accomplishments, and implications and explore some of the teaching tools, curricula concepts, and other resources.
3:05–3:55 p.m. Climate Learning at Scale: Washington State’s Story Applied to Your Reality
Description: Washington State is coherently building solutions-oriented climate science literacy across its preK–12 school system. It is doing so with a commitment to changing structures and partnering with tribal educators in a way that demonstrates climate literacy and action that is place-based and equitable. The ClimeTime initiative supports science teacher training linking Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and climate science. In addition to teacher professional development, the project supports the development of instructional materials, design-related assessment tasks and evaluation strategies, and facilitated student events. In one of these projects, educators from the Spokane and Karuk tribes and others set out to design “locally relevant, three-dimensional solutions oriented learning storylines (SOLS)” in order to strengthen teachers’ climate science education instruction. To date, 100 percent of teachers who have participated report they are more prepared to make learning experiences inclusive for Native American students and have increased their ability to implement research-based instructional practices. Session participants will learn from project leaders and researchers about what was learned in the program’s first year. Participants will have a chance to engage with speakers for application to their own work. Additionally, participants will be introduced to the resource portal for the entire ClimeTime initiative and have the opportunity to consider use of the open source materials for their own purposes, including teacher trainings, curriculum, formative assessment resources and STEM Teaching Tools.
4:25–5:15 p.m. Crowd-Sourced Learning and Action: How a GIS-Powered Tool Can Activate Community Climate Solutions
Description: What would happen if a critical mass of people across the planet could learn and act on the range of truly impactful climate solutions and resiliency measures that they could take individually and/or together with others? Leaders of this session have conceptually designed the tool to support this outcome and have begun prototyping the first elements with students and educators in Olympia, Washington, and Toronto, Canada. Join this session to advance this crowd-sourced, digital, and social technology that builds awareness, appreciation, community building, and action at the local to planetary scales.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability; Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing; Division of Social Studies; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Office of Sustainability; Psychology Program; Science, Technology, and Society Program.
For more information, call 845-464-8025, e-mail husted@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eomega.org/online-workshops/2019-drawdown-learn-conference-live-online.
Saturday, October 19, 2019
The men's soccer team hosts St. Lawrence in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Bard Farm
Join LAB Biennial artist, Emilio Rojas, as the harvest of indigenous crops from his live installation Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is reaped. Experience this interactive land art first-hand as you take a walk through the crop border and enjoy dishes prepared from the harvest.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is the first iteration of a multifaceted, interactive land art and community-based project, including a 72-foot long line of indigenous crops (corn, beans and squash, known as “the three sisters”) planted in the shape of the US/Mexican border line on the Bard Farm. Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/decolonized-feast/.
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library
"Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-7281.
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Heriberto, dead these 50 years, refuses to go to heaven until he is reunited with his beloved wife, Maruca. However, Maruca does not respond. She is still disoriented by the severe Alzheimer’s that afflicted her in life, and does not recognize Heriberto. It thus becomes his job to awaken her to the eternality of their love. His method: the cumbias and porros from the ’40s and ’50s, the music they danced and delighted to back in Santa Marta on the Atlantic coast of Colombia. Will this strategy work? If so, are Heriberto and Maruca ready to face the real music?
General admission: $20
$5 at the door for high school and college students with valid student ID.
Friday, October 18, 7:30pm, The Beverly, 224 Foxhall Ave., Kingston, NY 12401
Saturday, October 19, 7:30pm, Chapel of the Holy Innocents, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504
Sunday, October 20, 3:30pm, Trolley Barn, 489 Main St., Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Tickets sold at the La Voz office in Albee Annex basement, office #2, or on our Facebook page HERE.
Sponsored by: La Voz; iD Studio Theatre.
For more information, call 845-752-4739, e-mail nmeza@bard.edu, or visit https://lavoz.bard.edu.
Sunday, October 20, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Xinran Li, a winner of Bard Conservatory’s concerto competition, takes on Sibelius’ touching violin concerto. Then, Shostakovich’s symphony—his first written after the death of Stalin—takes us from dark intensity to ecstatic joy.
Leon Botstein, conductor
Xinran Li, violin
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Shostakovich Symphony No. 10
Estimated run time: 2 hours and 5 minutesSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail boxoffice@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/sibelius-and-shostakovich/.
Sunday, October 20, 2019
LMHQ 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10038
During the Saturday or Sunday of each Residency Weekend, we invite visiting prospective MBA students to:
Location: LMHQ 150 Broadway NY, NY 10038Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit https://gps.bard.edu/residency-visit-10-20-19.
Monday, October 21, 2019
Website
Join us for the first webinar of the admission cycle.
We will discuss the admission requirements, financial aid, and the enrollment process for the one-year MA and two-year MS programs.
International students: we will discuss the documents needed for processing a student visa, supporting materials, and possible funding sources.
Registration is required. Please use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox on a desktop, laptop, or Android mobile device to participate in the webinar. Other platforms (iPhone, iPad) are not currently supported. Alternatively, join us on the Levy Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy page to participate through Facebook LIVE!Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute; Levy Graduate Programs.
For more information, call 845-758-7776, e-mail levygrad@bard.edu, or visit https://connect.bard.edu/register/Oct21.
Monday, October 21, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Directed and produced by award-winning filmmaker Lynn Novick, produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns, College Behind Bars reveals the transformative power of higher education through the experiences of incarcerated men and women earning degrees in the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI), one of the country’s most rigorous college-in-prison programs.
This preview event will feature segments from the documentary followed by panel discussions with Lynn Novick, BPI Executive Director Max Kenner ’01, and BPI alumni featured in the film.Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/college-behind-bars/.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Olin, Room 201
Since the 2010 midterm election, a wave of voter suppression laws has been unleashed around the country. The ACLU has been at the frontlines, successful challenging unnecessary voter registration requirements and barriers on Election Day in dozens of states. Attacks on voting rights have now grown to encompass not only registration and the ballot, but also the Decennial Census itself, which the Trump Administration sought to weaponize by attempting to add citizenship question to the census questionnaire. ACLU Voting Rights Project Director, Dale Ho, who argued the census citizenship question case in the Supreme Court, will address these issues and emerging threats to voting rights as we head towards the 2020 election.Sponsored by: Human Rights Program; Political Studies Program; Sociology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail perlmann@bard.edu.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge
Empathy is a way of life. But, empathic communication and behavior absolutely can be developed. There are real skills and specific language use that promotes communication. We will both look at and practice these skills, paying special attention to resolving conflict with people who matter to us.Sponsored by: Health and Wellness Education.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail areyes@bard.edu.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Olin, Room 102
Bard Tango club is a beginner tango club for dancers of all experiences. All classes throughout the semester are open to all students! Come learn the magic and beauty of Argentinian Tango with teacher Chungin Goodstein and club head Alice Downes. Private lessons available to any by request.
Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail gd5479@bard.edu.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Hessel Museum of Art, Gallery 3
Will Rawls is a New York–based choreographer, performer and writer. His work has appeared at the MoMA and MoMA PS1; MCA, Chicago; Danspace Project; New Museum of Contemporary Art; Issue Project Room; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; Walker Arts Center. At Danspace Project, he co-curated Lost and Found, comprised of performances and artist projects focused on the intergenerational impact of HIV/AIDS on dancers, women, and people of color. His writing has been published by Artforum International, the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Modern Art. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Robert Rauschenberg Residency and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant. He teaches and lectures widely in university, community and festival contexts.
Through the Speaker Series, CCS Bard brings distinguished artists, scholars, and curators to campus to present on their work. Speaker Series talks are held within Classroom 102 at CCS Bard unless otherwise noted. All talks are free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/events/428-will-rawls-cursor.
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Olin LC 210
Viy (Вий, 1967, 1h 17min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror. Directors: Konstantin Ershov, Georgiy Kropachyov)
A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him… Based on the eponymous story by Nikolai Gogol.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Book and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/promenade/.
Professor Moshe Halbertal
Thursday, October 24th at 4:45pm in Olin 102
"The Biblical Book of Samuel and the Birth of Politics: Two Faces of Political Violence"
The Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book's anonymous author was more than an inspired storyteller. The author was also an uncannily astute observer of political life and the moral compromises and contradictions that the struggle for power inevitably entails. The lecture will explore the ways in which the book of Samuel understands political violence political violence unleashed by the sovereign on his own subjects as it is rooted in the paranoia of the isolated ruler and the deniability fostered by hierarchical action through proxies.
Sunday, October 27th at 7PM
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY
"Confronting Loss: The Meaning and Experience of Mourning form the Talmud to Maimonides"
The experience of loss and mourning is a painful and ultimately inescapable feature of human life. Jewish law established practices of mourning that prescribe a rather detailed structure of the mourner’s conduct as well as the response of the community to the mourner and its obligation to provide consolation. Maimonides codified this body of regulations in his great code of Jewish Law, the Mishneh Torah, in the section titled “The Laws of Mourning.” This lecture will focus on the attempt to understand the meaning and practice of mourning in the Talmudic tradition and in Maimonides’ thought. It will explore the relationship of the concept of mourning in the Jewish tradition to other understandings of the dynamics of mourning such as Freud’s seminal essay “Mourning and Melancholia.Sponsored by: Jacob Neusner Memorial Lecture Fund, Jewish Studies, Religion, and Political Studies program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail secunda@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Campus Center, Lobby
Attention, first-years and sophomores planning for study abroad next year (or anyone seeking a summer program): Where There Be Dragons is tabling in the Campus Center today with information about their programs in Bolivia, China, India, Nepal, and Peru.
“Dragons summer and semester programs push the boundaries of the classroom, embrace challenge, listen to local communities, and leave room for spontaneity. A variety of majors can be explored through the lens of the host country. All programs include language study, and there are no prerequisites.”
Stop by to see if one of their programs is for you!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad.
For more information, call 845-758-7080, e-mail fleming@bard.edu, or visit https://www.wheretherebedragons.com/program-category/college-credit/.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
CCS - Collection Teaching Gallery
Through the Speaker Series, CCS Bard brings distinguished artists, scholars, and curators to campus to present on their work. All talks are free and open to the public.
Earlier this year, CCS Bard acquired Prem Krishnamurthy’s professional papers from the late 1990s on. Parroting the title of his 2016 performance-lecture, Endless Archive (Part II) represents a partial unpacking of one specific past. Krishnamurthy’s talk at CCS circles around publishing, exhibition design, curating, and collecting through documents and archival materials from his wide-ranging work. At the same time, such remnants emerge as tomorrow’s seeds, potential prologues for yet-to-be-written futuresSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/events/426-prem-krishnamurthy-endless-archive-part-ii.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
RKC 200
American-style academic writing and plagiarism practicum led by Kaet Heupel.Sponsored by: Office of International Student and Scholar Services.
For more information, call 845-758-7328, or e-mail kalupaha@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Blum Hall
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Preston
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
Japanese language, English subtitles
Studio Ghibli Film, 1989
Genres: Fantasy, AdventureSponsored by: Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail myamanaka@bard.edu, or visit https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kikis_delivery_service.
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://www.annandaleonline.org/bardfallwknd.
Friday, October 25, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Book and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/promenade/.
I Work with Magnets: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of High-temperature Superconductors
Ingrid Stolt
Friday, October 25, 2019
Hegeman 107
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Friday, October 25, 2019
The women's volleyball team hosts Skidmore College in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Friday, October 25, 2019 – Saturday, October 26, 2019
Fisher Studio Arts Building
All proceeds go to benefit the Fund for Visual Learning established in 2014 to improve educational access to Studio Arts for everyone.Sponsored by: Division of the Arts; Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 646-369-3868, e-mail dooling@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardfvl.com.
Friday, October 25, 2019
Campus Center, Red Room 202
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://www.annandaleonline.org/bardfallwknd.
Friday, October 25, 2019 – Saturday, October 26, 2019
Fisher Studio Arts Building
All proceeds go to benefit the Fund for Visual Learning established in 2014 to improve educational access to Studio Arts for everyone.Sponsored by: Division of the Arts; Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 646-369-3868, e-mail dooling@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardfvl.com.
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Book and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/promenade/.
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Book and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/promenade/.
Saturday, October 26, 2019
The women's soccer team hosts defending Liberty League champion William Smith College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Olin Hall
Malia DuMont (Chief of Staff, Vice President for Strategy and Policy, and faculty member in the Political Studies program) and Chris McIntosh (Assistant Professor of Political Studies) join members of the Bard Debate Union for a Faculty-Student Roundtable discussion on Donald Trump and American foreign policy. Moderated by Ruth Zisman, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Co-Director of the Bard Debate Union. For more information about Family and Alumni weekend, visit: bard.edu/familyweekend; for more information about the Bard Debate Union, visit: debate.bard.edu.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Political Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit https://debate.bard.edu.
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Montgomery Place, Mansion
Enjoy an afternoon of vocal chamber music composed by women in celebration of Montgomery Place’s beautiful landscape and the women who shaped it. Fill in the Blank Ensemble was formed by alumni/ae of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard College and is dedicated to utilizing music as a motivator for social change. Graduate Vocal Arts Program and Bard College Conservatory of Music students will be featured. Advance registration required. Space is limited; sign up at registration for Family and Alumni/ae Fall Weekend.
For more information, call 845-758-7414, e-mail events@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/familyweekend/.
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Leon Botstein, Music Director
Ives The Fourth of July from Holiday Symphony
Sibelius Symphony No. 7
Honegger Symphony No. 3, Liturgique
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-OvertureSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/BCOM-Family-Weekend/.
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://www.annandaleonline.org/bardfallwknd.
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Book and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/promenade/.
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
A night of creative performances from around the world. Come and enjoy the diverse talents of Bard students.
This is a free (nonticketed) event for the College community and the community in the greater area. All are welcome to attend.Sponsored by: International Student Organization.
For more information, call 845-758-7328, or e-mail kalupaha@bard.edu.
Monday, October 28, 2019
Olin, Room 102
Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7280, or e-mail jelliott@bard.edu.
Stephanie Savell
Monday, October 28, 2019
Hegeman 204A
Americans are starting to say and hear more about the need to end this country’s “endless war,” the United States’ ongoing war on terrorism that began in 2001. Yet most people still don’t realize that this war’s costs – human, financial, environmental, social and political – are so far-reaching as to directly affect each and every American, as well as millions of people around the world. Nor do people recognize that this war is the latest excuse for American empire, and that in the name of counterterrorism, the U.S. government and military are acting in 80 countries, 40% of nations on the globe. Stephanie Savell, co-director of Brown University’s Costs of War project, will speak about bridging academic research and the public sphere to prompt Americans to ask big questions: Is our current approach making us any safer? Is it making others around the world any safer? If not, what could we be doing instead? Dr. Savell will address the project’s major findings and the essential work of translation in using academic research to make a difference in public debate.Sponsored by: Global and International Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7693, or e-mail mkmurray@bard.edu.
Monday, October 28, 2019
Olin, Room 202
Studying imagination shifts attention to the emergent and yet-possible. In 2018, I cocurated an exhibition that invited Jerusalem audiences to reimagine the city’s “possible” existence by building on ludic spatial-temporal moves that have distilled in contemporary Palestinian art. This paper explores the lessons artistic imaginings of a possible Jerusalem, one not confined to space-time coordinates we use to understand realpolitik, offer the exhibition’s participants and audiences.
Associate professor of anthropology at the American University of Beirut, Kirsten Scheid studies imagination technologies, artistic materialities, and social change specifically through cases of modern and contemporary Arab art. Her essays appear in Anthropology Now, ARTMargins, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Museum Anthropology and can be accessed at https://aub-lb.academia.edu/KirstenScheid. She has cocurated The Jerusalem Show (Jerusalem, 2018) and The Arab Nude (Beirut, 2016), exhibited at the New Museum (2011), and consulted for the Tate Modern (2014) and MoMA (2016–18). The 2019–20 Clark/Oakley Fellow at the Clark Art Institute, Scheid is currently completing an historically informed ethnography of aesthetic encounters that comprise contemporary Palestine and point to new political imaginings.
This event is cosponsored by the Africana Studies Program, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, the Art History and Visual Culture Program, and the Human Rights Project.
Sponsored by: Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7506, or e-mail dramadan@bard.edu.
Monday, October 28, 2019
Arendt Center
Contemporary efforts to answer the question, "Why memorialize atrocities," usually begin with the question, "For whom is the memory?"Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, October 28, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
The Photography Program and the Human Rights Project are pleased to announce that Martha Rosler will be giving a lecture at Weis Cinema on Monday, October 28! The lecture will begin at 6pm and is free and open to the public.
“Martha Rosler works in photography, video, sculpture, installation, and performance. Her practice centers on the interactions of the public and the private spheres, exploring issues from everyday life and the media to war and the built environment, especially as they affect women. She aims to engage people as citizens, investigating and challenging the way power is normalized through images and discourses. Rosler’s work has been widely exhibited, nationally and internationally. Her photo/text piece The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (1974–75) is considered a milestone in the examination of documentary practices in art and photography. She has published several books of photographs, texts, and commentary on the uses of space, ranging from airports, roads, and underground train systems to housing and gentrification. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Artforum, e-flux journal, and Texte zur Kunst. Rosler lives and works in Brooklyn.”Sponsored by: Human Rights Project; Photography Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail bfalk@bard.edu.
Monday, October 28, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
On Monday, October 28, at 6:30 p.m., in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Peter Orner reads from his new collection, Maggie Brown & Others. Presented by the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series and the Written Arts Program, and introduced by MacArthur Fellow Dinaw Mengestu, the reading is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Books by Peter Orner will be available for sale, courtesy of Oblong Books & Music.
An essential voice in American fiction, Peter Orner is the author of acclaimed books such as The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (2006), winner of the Bard Fiction Prize; Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge (2013); and the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Am I Alone Here? (2016), a memoir. Best known for his short fiction, Orner has been hailed as “a master of his form,” a writer who “doesn’t simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls” (New York Times). Now, in his sixth book, Maggie Brown & Others (2019), Orner gathers a novella and forty-four stories—many as short as a few paragraphs, none longer than twenty pages—into an orchestral, polyphonic collection, his most sustained achievement yet.
Peter Orner is the author of two novels, three story collections, and a memoir. His stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and twice received a Pushcart Prize. Orner has been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, as well as a Fulbright to Namibia. Currently, he is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and lives with his family in Norwich, Vermont.
“It’s been apparent since his first book, Esther Stories (2001), that Peter Orner was a major talent . . . You know from the second you pick him up that he’s the real deal. His sentences are lit from below, like a swimming pool, with a kind of resonant yearning that’s impossible to fake . . . Orner can do anything.” —New York Times
“Mr. Orner packs remarkable pathos into his condensed dramas.” ―Wall Street Journal
“Orner writes with a combination of sincerity and self-awareness. . . . Most vividly reminiscent of Raymond Carver.” ―San Francisco Chronicle
“Orner is incapable of dishonoring his characters. He treats all of them—even the minor figures—with a fierce humanity.” —Boston Globe
“Peter Orner is that rare find: a young writer who can inhabit any character, traverse any landscape, and yet never stray from the sound of the human heart.” —Washington Post
“[Orner] is one of our most empathetic writers today. . . His fiction has an intimate feel: we are in conversation with otherwise unknown and forgotten lives. This is what makes Orner’s characters live and breathe beyond the page . . . This is how his clean, simple sentences succeed far beyond the limited space he gives them . . . Let us be thankful for Peter Orner.” ―Los Angeles Review of Books
“Orner is secretly one of the best contemporary writers working today: his characters are indelible, his focus small and piercing, his insights moving . . . all with his special sense for truth, character, and wistful realism.” ―Literary HubSponsored by: Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series and the Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail nnyhan@bard.edu.
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7186, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Peace Corps Information Session
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Campus Center, Meeting Room 214
Come and learn about volunteering for the Peace Corps! All class years are invited to come hear about opportunities with the Peace Corps and get the inside scoop on what its like to be a Peace Corps Volunteer.
If you have a class that ends at 1:10pm, feel free to swing by afterwards from 1:30-3:00pm for drop in hours to get your questions answered.
For more information, please contact the Career Development Office, cdo@bard.edu.
For more information about the Peace Corps, visit: http://www.peacecorps.gov/Sponsored by: Career Development Office.
For more information, call 845-758-7539, e-mail cdo@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cdo.
Presented in association with Oblong Books & Music
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Sean Sherman, Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge reservation, and the founder of the company The Sioux Chef is committed to revitalizing Native American cuisine. Through his research, he has uncovered and mapped out the foundations of the indigenous food systems through an indigenous perspective. Chef Sean has become renowned nationally and internationally in the culinary movement of indigenous foods and with an ever-growing team of indigenous minded peers, is leading a movement to completely redefine North American cuisine through the understanding and utilization of indigenous food knowledge. This is an evolution of Native American Foods, taking important educations of the past and applying them to the now.
Run time is approximately 50 minutes, followed by a Q&A and book signing.Sponsored by: 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/the-sioux-chef/.
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Fisher Studio Arts Building
Baseera Khan is a New York–based artist who sublimates colonial histories through performance and sculpture in order to map geographies of the future. Her work navigates the political circumstances of her identity as a femme Muslim American who grew up in Texas. She received an MFA from Cornell University and a BFA from the University of North Texas.
Presented in association with Live Arts Bard’s festival about borders, Where No Wall Remains.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7679, or visit https://www.facebook.com/bardcollegestudioarts/.
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Campus Center, Meeting Room 214
Sponsored by: Career Development Office.
For more information, call 845-758-7539, e-mail cdo@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cdo/.
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Website
During this information session we will talk about requirements for admission, financial aid, specifications for international students and more.
Professor Tom Masterson, director of applied micro modeling and a research scholar in the Levy Economics Institute’s Distribution of Income and Wealth program will join us. He will chat about his work on the Levy Institute Measure of Well-being (LIMEW) and his research interests.
Registration is required: https://connect.bard.edu/register/OCTOBER30
** Please use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox on a desktop, laptop, or Android mobile device to participate in the webinar. Other platforms (iPhone, iPad) are not currently supported. Alternatively, join us on the Levy Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy page to participate through Facebook LIVE!Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute; Levy Graduate Programs.
For more information, call 845-758-7776, e-mail levygrad@bard.edu, or visit https://connect.bard.edu/register/OCTOBER30.
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
The Jefferson Project: Integrating Science and Technology for Enduring Lake Protection
Rick Relyea, Director, The Jefferson Project
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 31, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Looking to study abroad in Budapest, or St. Petersburg? Applications for Spring 2020 are due October 1!
Ottaway Gatehouse
Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7835, e-mail studyarboad@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/bardabroad/.
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Sponsored by: Career Development Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 – Sunday, October 6, 2019
Yom Kippur (the Jewish Day of Atonement) starts Tuesday Evening October 8 and ends at dark on Wednesday, October 9. All Bard community members are welcome to join us for any and all parts of the day. All events will be held in the Center for Spiritual Life
Yom Kippur Schedule
Kol Nidrei – Tuesday at 6 PM sharp.
Morning service – Wednesday at 10 AM.
Memorial service (Yizkr) 5:30 PM
Concluding service ( Ne'ilah) – 6:15 PM
Break the fast (with bagels!) – 7:10 PM sharp.
Between the morning service and the memorial service we encourage everyone to remain with us the Center for Spiritual Life for informal conversation, reflection, napping, and being with friends.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228.
Connect, learn, and help chart a path forward for solutions-based climate change education and action in your school or community.
Sunday, October 20, 2019
11:00 a.m.- 11:15 a.m.Updates from the Drawdown Organization with the Project Drawdown E.D.
11:15 a.m.–11:30 a.m.From Local Action to a Global Movement: Our Work in Hawaii with Henk Rogers
11:30 a.m. –12:30 a.mYouth Leadership Panel with Alexandria Villasenor, Xiye Bastida, Birch Kinsey, Naomi Hollard, and more
Conference close with Schaghicoke First Nations and other northeast Indigenous partners
Preston
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability; Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing; Division of Social Studies; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Human Rights Program; Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-464-8025, e-mail husted@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eomega.org/online-workshops/2019-drawdown-learn-conference-live-online#wsSchedule.
The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
An exhibit of decorative garden ornaments from the extensive Montgomery Place collection
Friday, May 24, 2019 – Saturday, October 12, 2019
Montgomery Place GroundsThe gardens at Montgomery Place once featured decorative garden ornaments and furniture, displaying a wide mix of styles, alongside the plants. Examples of statuary, furniture, potted plants, and hanging baskets that have been documented in early photographs of Montgomery Place will be presented in the exhibition.
Exhibition produced in partnership with and curated by Barbara Israel and her staff from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Funding provided by the A. C. Israel Foundation and Plymouth Hill Foundation.
For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail montgomeryplace@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/montgomeryplace.
Save this event: A+ Writing Support and Tutoring in the Learning Commons
Bard’s Source of Writing Support, Academic Services, and Tutoring, from L&T and FYSem to SProj!
Monday, August 26, 2019 – Friday, December 20, 2019
4–8 pm
Learning CommonsThe Learning Commons is home to Bard’s writing center and the community’s source of all writing support. Among other things, we provide the writing fellows, personal peer Senior Project–writing tutors, and one-on-one trained-peer writing collaboration for all Bard students, free of charge.
Our peer writing consultants look forward to meeting with you and talking about course readings, using informal writing as a tool for discovery, thinking through ideas for essay topics, generating research questions, developing written arguments with you, and generally helping you take your written drafts, inquiries, and research to the next level.
Students may make a writing appointment or subject-area tutoring appointment for any day of the week by dropping by and signing up.We may be reached at x7812 or blc@bard.edu. Also, visit our webpage at bard.edu/learningcommons. We are happy to bring back “Shut Up and Write!” and “Shut Up and SProj“ study room sessions too, so please feel free to ask about these.
See you in the BLC!
From Your Friends in the Learning CommonsSponsored by: Learning Commons.
For more information, call 845-758-7051 x7051, or e-mail keller@bard.edu.
Donate to Bard for Border Angels
Monday, September 16, 2019 – Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Stevenson Library, Office of Student Activities, Kappa House, Sottery, Res Life, Gahagan House, and the Center for Civic EngagementStudent Activities (along with six other offices) will be collecting donations for Border Angels, an organization dedicated to humane immigration reform, human rights, and providing supplies for migrants as they seek asylum. We will be collecting donations from September 16 to October 15 at the following donation sites: the Stevenson Library, Office of Student Activities, Kappa House, Sottery, Res Life, Gahagan House, and the Center for Civic Engagement.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Reading Room
Friday, September 27, 2019 – Friday, November 22, 2019
1–4 pm
New Annandale HouseOpen to the public, the Reading Room provides a space for individual and communal engagement with the discourse of Where No Wall Remains. A schedule of special events at the Reading Room, including public talks, readings, and screenings, can be found here.
This program is a part of the 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial: Where No Wall Remains.
The Reading Room is presented in association with Bard’s Center for Experimental Humanities.
*Open on Fridays only.
Sponsored by: 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial; Experimental Humanities Program.For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/reading-room-2019/.
Patagonia Worn Wear College Tour at Bard College
Sponsored by the Bard MBA in Sustainability | Co-sponsored by the Bard Office of Sustainability and Experimental Humanities Program
Monday, September 30, 2019 – Tuesday, October 1, 2019
1–6 pm
"Repair is a radical act" -Rose Marcario, Patagonia CEO
Bard's MBA in Sustainability program, Office of Sustainability, and Experimental Humanities Program will be hosting the Patagonia Worn Wear Repair Wagon from September 30th to October 1st on Bard's Annandale-on-Hudson campus. Students and community members are invited to bring one item of clothing to this event for repair. The Worn Wear team will repair any brand of clothing and repairs will be done on a first come, first served basis.
We will also be hosting student makers, local B Corps and food trucks on Monday 9/30 for a Community Sustainability Exhibition from 1-6 PM. Participating B Corps companies include:Featured Bard student makers and community groups include:
- Coco Ma - handmade jewelry
- Iris Engel - reusable menstrual products
- Quincy Ross - handmade tree sculptures
- Bard College Bike Coop - providing "fix a flat" tutorials for attendees
- Repair Cafe Hudson Valley - Woodworking experts will be onsite to provide repairs for chairs, small tables, picture frames, drawers (community members are invited to bring one item to this event for repair)
Location: Bard College Experimental Humanities Quad (directions can be found here)
Monday September 30th:
- 1:00 - 6:00 PM: Worn Wear Repair Hours + Community Sustainability Exhibition
- 1:00 - 6:00 PM: Screen Repair Workshop (led by the Bard College Experimental Humanities program, Bard students only, RSVP HERE)
- 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM: Worn Wear Repair Hours
- 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM: Screen Repair Workshop (led by the Bard College Experimental Humanities program, Bard students only, RSVP HERE)
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability; Bard Office of Sustainability; Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/mba/.
Massage Therapy Sessions
Thursday, September 19, 2019 – Friday, May 15, 2020
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm ALicensed Massage Therapist Christine Welker
$35 for a half hour, $65 for an hour
Please bring cash or check (or in a pinch, PayPal) to the session.
Text 845-702-6751 to make an appointment on campus.
Massages are not covered by insurance.
Massages with Christine are available on Tuesdays and Fridays in the Center for Spiritual Life, which is located at Resnick Commons, Building A. Enter at the back of the building, and wait in the lobby until called.
Massage is excellent for stress relief, to ease tense muscles, for headaches and backaches, and promotes a general sense of well-being. As a massage therapist, Christine Welker thoroughly tends to the physical body, incorporating Swedish massage, Thai stretches, Shiatsu meridian work, Lomi Lomi strokes, and site-specific deep tissue work. As an energy worker, she makes contact with the nervous system, and silently encourages the unwinding of tension held in the cells and tissues of the body.
Christine is a licensed massage therapist and a registered somatic movement therapist. She has extensive training in the healing arts, including Eastern and Western massage, movement-based expressive art therapy, yoga dance, and Lomi Lomi massage (Hawaiian-style bodywork). She is a graduate of Columbia University.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, e-mail areyes@bard.edu, or visit http://www.gentlemountain.com.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Tuesday, October 1, 2019 – Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library"Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-7281.
Spanish Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 – Tuesday, December 17, 2019
12–1:30 pm
Kline, President's RoomSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Russian Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 – Tuesday, December 24, 2019
12–1 pm
Kline, College RoomSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Relaxation Drop-in Series
Monday, September 23, 2019 – Friday, October 25, 2019
4:15–5 pm
Stevenson Library 4th Floor Seminar RoomJoin us for a Relaxation Drop-in Series at the Stevenson Library, 4th floor seminar room. We gather Monday through Friday from 4:15 to 5:00 pm.Sponsored by: Health and Wellness Education.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail areyes@bard.edu.
The New Greek Renaissance
Mary Norris, American author, writer, and copy editor for the New Yorker
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
5–6:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaMore than a dozen works about Greece and Greek, modern and ancient, by translators, memoirists, novelists, scholars, essayists, lecturers, dramatists, and actors from England, America, Australia, Greece, and Italy have been published in just the past two years, and there are more in the works. The author of Greek to Me will celebrate recent work inspired by the language, literature, and landscape of Greece and inquire into whatever it is in our current situation that sends us back to the Greeks.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7283, or e-mail romm@bard.edu.
Chemistry Study Room
Peed led study space for Chemistry
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 – Thursday, December 19, 2019
5–10 pm
RCK Chemistry podsSponsored by: Learning Commons.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail blc@bard.edu.
A Way Forward in Syria? The Report of the Syria Study Group
Ambassador Frederic Hof
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
5:30–7 pm
Olin, Room 102In 2018 Congress created the Syria Study Group, a bipartisan panel of 12 experts charged with assessing the situation in Syria, defining the U.S. policy objective in that war-torn country, and devising a strategy to accomplish the objective. Bard’s diplomat in residence, Ambassador Frederic C. Hof, served as a member of the Group, whose report is being issued on September 26. Please join Ambassador Hof for a discussion of what is in the report and what may be next for U.S. policy in Syria. Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program; Global and International Studies Program; Political Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail mkmurray@bard.edu.
Tango Club
(open to all students)
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
6–8 pm
Olin, Room 102Bard Tango club is a beginner tango club for dancers of all experiences. All classes throughout the semester are open to all students! Come learn the magic and beauty of Argentinian Tango with teacher Chungin Goodstein and club head Alice Downes. Private lessons available to any by request.
Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail gd5479@bard.edu.
Math Study Room
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Friday, December 20, 2019
7–10 pm
Hegeman 308SUNDAY–WEDNESDAY • HEG 308 • 7–10 PM
A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor.Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Biology Study Room!
Peer-led study space for Biology in RKC pods
Monday, September 9, 2019 – Thursday, December 19, 2019
7–9 pm
Reem-Kayden CenterPeer-led drop-in study space for Biology every Monday–Thursday, 7pm–9pm, in the RKC pods. Sponsored by: Learning Commons.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail blc@bard.edu.
CMIA – Masterworks of Japanese Cinema
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
7–11:55 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Throne of Blood
(Akira Kurosawa, 1957, Japan, 110 minutes, 35mm) - The Lower Depths
(Akira Kurosawa, 1957 Japan, 139 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Acupuncture at Bard
with Phillip Brown
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Thursday, December 19, 2019
8 am – 1 pm
Center for Spiritual Life ; Resnick CommonsPhilip is at Bard:
Wednesdays 8-1
Thursdays 8-5
Call 845 943 7644 for an appointment.
Acupuncture is a system of healing that is 3-5,000 years old and is part of a larger system simply known as Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Acupuncture is what Phillip Brown calls "inside" medicine to be distinguished from Western Medicine which he calls "outside" medicine. Acupuncture stimulates your innate healing capacity. Your body is already trying to heal whatever you need help with.
Classical acupuncture is a healing art based on the laws of nature. It takes into account all of the marvelous complexity of each person in body, mind, and spirit-that is-the total person. It works preventatively as well as curatively doing whatever nature will allow within us. Thus, the amount of treatment and the response to treatment vary according to the individual.
For more information, call 845-943-7644, e-mail rhinebeckacupuncture@mac.com, or visit http://www.hudsonvalley-acupuncture.com.
Music Theory Study Room
A peer-led study space for music theory and music analysis.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 – Wednesday, December 18, 2019
5–8 pm
Olin, Room 104Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail blc@bard.edu.
Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 – Wednesday, December 18, 2019
6–7 pm
Kline French RoomSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Chinese Table
Please join us weekly. Stay as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 – Wednesday, December 18, 2019
6–7:30 pm
Kline, President's RoomSponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Japanese Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 – Wednesday, December 18, 2019
6–7 pm
Kline CommonsSponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Italian Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 – Wednesday, December 18, 2019
6:30–7:30 pm
Kline, College RoomSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Economics Study Room
Peer-led study space for Economics.
Wednesday, September 18, 2019 – Thursday, December 19, 2019
7–9 pm
Albee 106Drop by just to study, or to work with a peer tutor in Economics. Sponsored by: Economics Program; Learning Commons.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail blc@bard.edu.
Wild Roots Wellness Collective Weekly Meetings
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 – Wednesday, December 11, 2019
7–10 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm AWe are a collective that focuses on self-care, wellness, holistic health care for body-mind-spirit-emotion and soul all equally considered, herbal medicine, earth based skills, intersectionality of our diverse rich backgrounds, connecting to land and place, aligning with the seasonal and cosmic flow of everything, ancestral remembrance, dream working, mysticism, ritual, magic, community gathering, circling up to honor life, each other, and more! We are a web that includes many projects woven together for the same ends. We run a student organized herbal apothecary project that supplies loose herbs for tea, some simple tinctures, syrups, balms and more for the community members who participate in the collective in some form or organize a trade or donation based exchange for our efforts so we can continue to sustainably do all the work we put forth. We are also in the midst of proposing the building of a Wellness Center on campus.
For more information, call 201-407-0116, or e-mail cb5385@bard.edu.
Latin Study Room
Tuesday, October 1, 2019 – Monday, December 16, 2019
8–9 pm
120; Olin Language CenterThe Latin Study Room is open to beginning and intermediate Latin students to work on their homework in a friendly setting, to do extra practice together, and to ask questions of the tutors, who will be on hand to help out. Please feel free to join!
Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail lcurtis@bard.edu.
Acupuncture at Bard
with Phillip Brown
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Thursday, December 19, 2019
8 am – 5 pm
Center for Spiritual Life ; Resnick CommonsPhilip is at Bard:
Wednesdays 8-1
Thursdays 8-5
Call 845 943 7644 for an appointment.
Acupuncture is a system of healing that is 3-5,000 years old and is part of a larger system simply known as Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Acupuncture is what Phillip Brown calls "inside" medicine to be distinguished from Western Medicine which he calls "outside" medicine. Acupuncture stimulates your innate healing capacity. Your body is already trying to heal whatever you need help with.
Classical acupuncture is a healing art based on the laws of nature. It takes into account all of the marvelous complexity of each person in body, mind, and spirit-that is-the total person. It works preventatively as well as curatively doing whatever nature will allow within us. Thus, the amount of treatment and the response to treatment vary according to the individual.
For more information, call 845-943-7644, e-mail rhinebeckacupuncture@mac.com, or visit http://www.hudsonvalley-acupuncture.com.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Saturday, June 22, 2019 – Sunday, October 13, 2019
12–6 pm
CCS Bard GalleriesActing Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/530-acting-out-works-from-the-marieluise-hessel-collection.
CCS Exhibition: Nil Yalter: Exile Is a Hard Job
Saturday, June 22, 2019 – Sunday, October 13, 2019
12–6 pm
Hessel Museum of ArtExile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/529-nil-yalter-exile-is-a-hard-job.
CCS Exhibition: Leidy Churchman: Crocodile
Saturday, June 22, 2019 – Sunday, October 13, 2019
12–6 pm
Hessel Museum of ArtCrocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/528-leidy-churchman-crocodile.
French Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, September 5, 2019 – Thursday, December 19, 2019
12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, President's RoomSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Meditation Group
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Monday, May 18, 2020
5–7:30 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm ATwice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail Sankai@dharma.net, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Cooking and Baking for Shabbat
Thursday, September 5, 2019 – Friday, May 22, 2020
7–9 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm AEvery Thursday evening, students meet with David Nelson (Bard's rabbi) to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat) they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another with the openness and closeness that seem so natural in kitchens. All are welcome, and no culinary know-how is necessary!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail nelson@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Shabbat
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Monday, May 25, 2020
6:30–8:30 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm AEvery Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, e-mail nelson@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Montgomery Place Mansion Tours
Saturday, June 1, 2019 – Saturday, October 12, 2019
Bard College: The Montgomery Place Campus offers regular mansion tours on Saturdays from June 1 through October 12, with tours at 10:30, 11:30, 1:30, and 2:30. The cost is $10 per person and no reservations are required. Depending on availability, private tours will be offered for groups of five or more at $20 per person.Visit the Montgomery Place website to learn more about special tours, events, and upcoming exhibitions.
Please note: On June 8, the mansion will be closed for private tours at 1:30 and 2:30.
For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail montgomeryplace@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/montgomeryplace/.
Chemistry Study Room
Peer-led Chemistry study space
Sunday, September 29, 2019 – Sunday, December 15, 2019
12–2 pm
RCK Chemistry PodsSponsored by: Chemistry Program; Learning Commons.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail blc@bard.edu.
Christian Services
Sunday, September 1, 2019 – Monday, May 25, 2020
3–5 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsYou are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Meditation Group
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Monday, May 18, 2020
5–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm ATwice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail Sankai@dharma.net, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
German Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Tuesday, December 17, 2019
6–7 pm
Kline, President's RoomSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Muslim Prayer Group
Monday, September 2, 2019 – Monday, May 18, 2020
6–8 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm AThe Muslim Prayer Room is located in the Center for Spiritual Life (basement of Village A Dorm) and is open to all students for prayer and meditation.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail nzaki@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/chaplaincy/.
Bard Debate Union – Weekly Meeting
Monday, September 9, 2019 – Monday, December 9, 2019
7–8 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 202Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet coaches and returning students and learn about all that we do—tournaments, public debates, outreach, and more! New students are most welcome and encouraged to attend!! No previous debate experience required!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-752-4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit https://debate.bard.edu.
Italian Film Series
Monday, September 9, 2019 – Friday, December 20, 2019
7–10 pm
Olin, Room 102Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Late Drop Period Ends - Pass/Fail Grading Option Deadline
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Bard College CampusSponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
API Study Abroad Tabling in Campus Center
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
11 am – 1 pm
Campus Center, LobbyAre you a first-year or sophomore planning ahead for a study abroad semester in the coming years? Or a student looking for a study abroad program for this summer? Come meet a rep from API Study Abroad, with programs worldwide (including scores of programs in Spanish-speaking countries, including Cuba, Spain, Argentina, and more). Come see what’s possible!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad.
For more information, call 845-758-7080, e-mail fleming@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/bardabroad/bard-students/.
Men's Soccer Match
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
7–9 pm
The men's soccer team hosts RPI in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
CMIA - Austrian silent film with new score by Donald Sosin and Alicia Svigals
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
7–10 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- The City Without Jews
(Hans Karl Breslauer, 1924, Austria, 91 minutes)*
*This new restoration from Filmarchiv Austria will be presented with the live performance of an original score by Donald Sosin and klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals. There will be a discussion about silent film music following the screening.
Please check http://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Making the Buddha: The Origin and Development of the Buddha's Image
Robert DeCaroli, Director of the MA Program in Art History Professor, George Mason University
Thursday, October 3, 2019
11:50 am – 1 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaRobert DeCaroli is a specialist in the early history of Buddhism and has conducted fieldwork in India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia. He received his Ph.D. in the South and Southeast Asian art history from UCLA. The majority of this work deals with early aspects of South Asian material culture and its interaction with forms of regional religious practice.
He is the author of two books: Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism (Oxford UP 2004) , and Image Problems: The Origin and Development of the Buddha’s Image in Early South Asia (U Washington Press 2015). He is co-curator of the Encountering the Buddha exhibit at the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. He is currently an ACLS/Robert H. N. Ho Foundation Fellow, working on a project entitled “The Gods of Buddhism: Regional Deities and Spirits in Early South Asia.”Sponsored by: Art History Program; Asian Studies Program; Religion Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail rdavis@bard.edu.
If Butterflies Could Speak!
Alexis Gambis, ’03
New York University
Thursday, October 3, 2019
12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
The Cultural Politics of Translation and the Nahda in Egypt
Samah Selim, Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Rutgers University
Thursday, October 3, 2019
6–8 pm
Olin, Room 102This talk explores the cultural geography of Cairo in the first decade of the 20th century in order to unpack and critique nahdawi representations of modernity as simulacrum. I offer a brief reading of Muhammad Al-Muwaylihi’s iconic text Hadith ʿIsa Ibn Hisham that shows how the nahda discourse on cultural authenticity masked a deep social conservatism that banished the “errant trajectories” of everyday translation practices emerging in and through the modern. Against this discourse, the talk will conclude with a discussion of adaptation as the motor of social change and cultural creativity.
Samah Selim teaches at Rutgers University. She is a scholar and translator of modern Arabic literature. Her most recent book, Popular Fiction, Translation and the Nahda in Egypt, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. She is currently working on a translation of Jordanian author Ghalib Halasa’s final novel Sultana (1987) with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
This event is co-sponsored by the Division of Languages and Literatures, Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative, and Human Rights Project.
Sponsored by: Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7506, or e-mail dramadan@bard.edu.
A Reading by Jerome Rothenberg
Thursday, October 3, 2019
7:30–8:30 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingJerome Rothenberg has been a dominant presence in American poetry and poetics for half a century. His poetry has always sought in the deepest realms of human experience to bring a clear word. His poems are marvels of colloquial immediacy and prophetic intensity. His explorations of ethnopoetics resulted in such game-changing anthologies as Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, and America: A Prophecy, as well as studies and translations of Native American poetries. His commitment to exploring the world of Jewish experience produced his remarkable Holocaust-minded poems in the books Poland 1931 and Khurbn and other Poems, as well as A Big Jewish Book and Exiled in the Word; and he was the first translator of Paul Celan. Besides continuing his own work, he has edited (with Pierre Joris '69) the first volumes of that immense anthology of modern poetics, Poems for the Millenium.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, e-mail ccape@bard.edu, or visit https://writtenarts.bard.edu.
Mental Health Through Music with Kai Roberts
A Suicide Prevention Presentation
Thursday, October 3, 2019
7:30–8:30 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomKai Roberts is a professional mental health speaker from Active Minds. His story gives hope a voice. Kai tells the story of his battle with anxiety and panic disorder through interactive dialogue and hip-hop music.Sponsored by: Health and Wellness Education.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail areyes@bard.edu.
Bollywood Dance Workshop
Thursday, October 3, 2019
9–10 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Aerobics StudioCome learn basic Bollywood dance moves to perform at the ISO Cultural Show.
No prior dance experience required. Sponsored by: Office of International Student and Scholar Services.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ahanif@bard.edu.
The Cosmic Microwave Background: Physics and History
Bruce Partridge, Haverford College
Friday, October 4, 2019
12–1 pm
Hegeman 107The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the heat left over from the hot Big Bang of the early universe. Careful studies of the CMB have greatly enriched our understanding of the history and properties of the universe—and what it was like very early on. In this talk, I will focus on the basic science of the CMB, and how this intertwined with the “discovery” of the CMB. I'll start with this proposition: the very early universe was dense, hot, and very, very simple.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Latin Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Please see description for locations!
Friday, October 4, 2019 – Friday, December 20, 2019
12–2 pm
Kline CommonsSeptember 13: College Room
September 20: College Room
September 27: President's Room
October 4: College Room
October 11: President's Room
October 18: College Room
October 25: Main Dining Room
November 1: Main Dining Room
November 8: President's Room
November 15: College Room
November 22: President's Room
November 29: College Room
December 6: President's Room
December 13: College Room
December 20: President's RoomSponsored by: Classical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail lcurtis@bard.edu.
The Institute of Advanced Theology Pre-Advent Lecture Series with Bruce Chilton
Prophetic Thinking—Ancient Israel
Friday, October 4, 2019 – Saturday, November 2, 2019
12:30–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsFive weekly lectures on the origins of prophecy deploy the earliest Hebrew Scriptures comparatively, in the context of studies of shamanism and related topics. The aim is to permit the texts to articulate how they envision events that run counter to the prevailing patterns of political and military power, and ultimately to intimate an alternative structure of reality itself.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7335, or e-mail iatatbard@gmail.com.
Women's Volleyball Matches
Saturday, October 5, 2019
11 am – 5 pm
The women's volleyball team hosts a tri-match. The schedule is as follows:Sarah Lawrence vs. Bard, 11 a.m.
Sarah Lawrence vs. SUNY Maritime, 1 p.m.
SUNY Maritime vs. Bard, 3 p.m.
Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Women's Soccer Match
Saturday, October 5, 2019
1–3 pm
The women's soccer team hosts RIT in a Liberty League game. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Women's Tennis Match
Sunday, October 6, 2019
11 am – 2 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis CourtsThe women's tennis team hosts Vassar. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Blessing of the Animals
Sunday, October 6, 2019
2–3 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsWe will have the annual blessing of the animals on Sunday, October 6, at 2:00 p.m. on the lawn in front of the Chapel of the Holy Innocents. Please bring your pets (leashed or caged), stuffed animals, photos of beloved pets, etc. All are welcome!
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu.
BGIA Alumni/ae Panel & Info Session
Monday, October 7, 2019
5:30–6:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumJoin Michelle Murray and BGIA alumni/ae for PIZZA and hear about their experiences with Bard's Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA), including:
Internships in NYC
Courses taught by scholar-practitioners
Dorms on Manhattan's Upper East Side
Fun social events (Broadway shows, concerts, dance, improv comedy, baseball and more!)
Monthly speaker series
Costs and financial aid Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
For more information, call 646-839-9262, or e-mail rmeyer@bard.edu.
Reading: Geneva Zane ’18
Monday, October 7, 2019
7–8 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. LibraryGeneva Zane ’18 will read from her new book, Stringbean and the Grace of Dog (Pink Narcissus Press, 2019). Happens on the first floor of the library.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-7064, e-mail amurphy@bard.edu, or visit https://www.pinknarc.com/authors.html.
Public Debate - Should the US Prison System be Abolished or Reformed?
Monday, October 7, 2019
7–8 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomOpening event for the Hannah Arendt Center Conference – “Racism and Antisemitism” (October 10-11, 2019). This debate will feature both the Bard and West Point debate teams. Co-sponsored by the Bard Debate Union, the Hannah Arendt Center, the Center for Civic Engagement, and the Bard-West Point exchange. For more information about this year’s Hannah Arendt Center Conference, visit: https://hac.bard.edu/conference2019; For more information about the Bard Debate Union, visit: https://debate.bard.edu/Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-752-4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit https://debate.bard.edu.
Yom Kippur Services
All are welcome to attend
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 – Wednesday, October 9, 2019
10 am – 8 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm AYom Kippur (the Jewish Day of Atonement) starts Tuesday Evening October 8 and ends at dark on Wednesday, October 9. All Bard community members are welcome to join us for any and all parts of the day. All events will be held in the Center for Spiritual Life
Yom Kippur Schedule
Kol Nidrei – Tuesday at 6 PM sharp.
Morning service – Wednesday at 10 AM.
Memorial service (Yizkr) 5:30 PM
Concluding service ( Ne'ilah) – 6:15 PM
Break the fast (with bagels!) – 7:10 PM sharp.
Between the morning service and the memorial service we encourage everyone to remain with us the Center for Spiritual Life for informal conversation, reflection, napping, and being with friends.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228.
Noon Concert: Works for Piano, Violin, and Voice by Chopin, J.S. Bach, Sibelius, and Charles Ives
An hour-long performance by Conservatory students featuring a violin concerto by Sibelius, songs by Charles Ives and J.S. Bach for countertenor, and Chopin's Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante for piano.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
12–1 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Experimental Humanities Open House
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
3:30–6 pm
New Annandale HouseSponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail eh@bard.edu, or visit https://eh.bard.edu/.
SPROJ Research Clinics
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 – Tuesday, December 17, 2019
4–5 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. LibraryDrop by for help with research, citation management, and more. Happens weekly on the first floor of Stevenson Library.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-7064, e-mail amurphy@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/library.
Flexible Bioelectronics on a Thread: Sensors, Microfluidics, Electronics and Drug Delivery
Dr. Sameer Sonkusale
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
4–6 pm
RKC 122This talk will explore the new realm of using threads as an ultimate platform for flexible and stretchable bioelectronics. Threads offer unique advantages of universal availability, low cost, material diversity and simple textile-based processing. Interestingly, threads also provide an ideal platform for passive microfluidic sampling and delivery of analytes. In this talk, I will report reel-to-reel fabrication of functional smart threads for variety of sensing and electronics application. I will report on nanomaterial-infused smart threads for sensing strain and temperature. Nano-infused threads will be presented for sensing pH, glucose, lactate, ammonium and other chemical and biological biomarkers directly in biological fluids such as sweat or wound exudate. Beyond sensing and microfluidics, I will present our recent work on making super-thin transistors and electronics directly on threads. This new toolkit of highly flexible thread-based microfluidics, sensors, transistors and electronics makes it possible to realize smart surgical sutures and flexible smart bandages for chronic wounds. Our recent work on using threads for closed loop spatiotemporal dosage controlled drug delivery will also be presented. If there is time, I will present some related research activities on ingestible devices for studying the gut microbiome, and on flexible microneedles for transdermal drug delivery.Sponsored by: Chemistry Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2353, or e-mail clafratt@bard.edu.
Empire on the Line: Botanical Ethnology and Social Distance in Enlightenment-era Tahiti
Dr. Geoff Bil, Visiting Assistant Professor History, University of Delaware
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
4:30–6:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumFrom the Enlightenment era forward, the Pacific has served as a crucial touchstone for European speculation on differences between indigenous and Western cultures. My paper examines the role played by botanists in these considerations, with particular reference to social factors that shaped observations by European naturalists in Tahiti. Following a preliminary discussion of European-Tahitian botanical interactions over the course of James Cook’s Endeavour voyage (1768–71), I proceed to examine the heightened attention to epistemological contrasts between Tahitian and European environmental worldviews given in published accounts authored by Johann (1729–1798) and Georg Forster (1754–1794), who served aboard James Cook’s HMS Resolution (1772–75). I attribute this shift to the Forsters’ relative lack of acquaintance with Tahitian cultures and te reo Tahiti (the Tahitian language), owing largely to the more itinerant nature of the Resolution voyage. The second part of this presentation turns to HMS Bounty expedition’s (1787-1790) unprecedented length of stay at Tahiti to collect breadfruit trees en route to the Caribbean, which encouraged cross-cultural intimacies palpably—even dangerously—at odds with Forsterian dichotomizing. In bringing these case studies together, I reflect on a paradox: namely, that while some grasp of indigenous knowledge was fundamental to global botanical endeavors, it could also prove their ruination.
Dr. Bil received his PhD in history from the University of British Columbia in 2018. He was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humanities Institute, LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden from 2018 to 2019. He has published most recently in the British Journal for the History of Science, and his manuscript. Indexing the Indigenous: Plants, Peoples and Empire is under contract with John Hopkins University Press.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7870, or e-mail mdominy@bard.edu.
From Human Sacrifices to Deism: Dismantling Myths of Prehispanic Mexico
A Lecture by Maestro Akaxe Yotzin
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
5–6:30 pm
Olin, Room 102In this lecture, Maestro Akaxe Yotzin, an expert of Prehispanic Mesoamerican semiotics and disciplines, will dismantle the popular myths of human sacrifices, cannibalism, imperialism, and deism in Prehispanic cultures. By analyzing the symbols and evidence through a cultural, philosophical, spiritual, and indigenous lens, he will bring to light missing pieces in the mainstream narrative.
Maestro Akaxe Yotzin traces his lineage to the ancient native traditions of Mesoamerica. He is a “Temachtiani” of the Toltekatl sciences, disciplines, rituals, and philosophies. He has taught across Europe, Latin America, and the United States, where he currently resides. Akaxe Yotzin is trilingual, Nahuatl, English, and Spanish.His lecture will be in English.Sponsored by: LAIS Program; La Voz; Religion Program; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6050, or e-mail plopezga@bard.edu.
Fitness as a Tool, Not a Goal!
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
5:30–6:30 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeExploring how the pursuit of physical goals can informa and shape our life.Sponsored by: Health and Wellness Education.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail areyes@bard.edu.
Japanese Film Series: The Water Magician (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1933)—100min
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
6–8:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaSponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tango Club
(open to all students)
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
6–8 pm
Olin, Room 102Bard Tango club is a beginner tango club for dancers of all experiences. All classes throughout the semester are open to all students! Come learn the magic and beauty of Argentinian Tango with teacher Chungin Goodstein and club head Alice Downes. Private lessons available to any by request.
Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail gd5479@bard.edu.
CMIA – The Indian New Wave
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
7–11:55 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Mirror of Illusion
(Kumar Shahani, 1972, India, 107 minutes) - Dhrupad
(Mani Kaul, 1983, India, 72 minutes)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Yom Kippur Services
All are welcome to attend
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 – Wednesday, October 9, 2019
10 am – 8 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm AYom Kippur (the Jewish Day of Atonement) starts Tuesday Evening October 8 and ends at dark on Wednesday, October 9. All Bard community members are welcome to join us for any and all parts of the day. All events will be held in the Center for Spiritual Life
Yom Kippur Schedule
Kol Nidrei – Tuesday at 6 PM sharp.
Morning service – Wednesday at 10 AM.
Memorial service (Yizkr) 5:30 PM
Concluding service ( Ne'ilah) – 6:15 PM
Break the fast (with bagels!) – 7:10 PM sharp.
Between the morning service and the memorial service we encourage everyone to remain with us the Center for Spiritual Life for informal conversation, reflection, napping, and being with friends.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228.
The Ars Nova production of
Underground Railroad Game
by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special
Directed by Taibi Magar
Produced by Octopus Theatricals
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterCritics’ Pick
“A lacerating comedy on race…in-all-ways sensational.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times
Critics’ Pick
“Outrageously funny! Strikingly rendered by bold, smart performances.”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Explosive! Fearlessly, ferociously uninhibited . . . the show’s most subversive quality is also quintessentially American: it’s wildly entertaining.”—Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker
Good morning, America! Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of teachers are getting down and dirty with today’s lesson. The nimble duo goes round after round on the mat of our nation’s history, tackling race, sex, and power in this R-rated, kaleidoscopic, and fearless comedy. Lauded around the world and in the New York Times as “one of the best new American plays of the last 25 years,” Underground Railroad Game welcomes back Jennifer Kidwell, last seen in SummerScape 2016’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed.Sponsored by: Fisher Center and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/underground-railroad-game/.
Northern Business School
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
12–1 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeA small group of leading graduate business schools from the United Kingdom will be visiting Bard for an information session. The business schools offer 1-year, specialized master’s degrees in subjects such as management, finance, marketing, innovation/entrepreneurship, big data, and sustainability/CSR. These graduate programs are perfect for college juniors and seniors to consider as they seek to bolster their qualifications with a master’s degree while engaging in a cultural experience overseas.
The schools taking part are: University of Edinburgh, University of Leeds, University of Manchester, and Newcastle University. Each of these universities belongs to the prestigious ‘Russell Group’ of schools (the UK’s equivalent to the Ivy League). In addition, the business schools are all triple-accredited – a qualification that is obtained by less than 1% of business schools around the world. Come and meet them, have a chat, and learn more!
When: October 9th 2019
Where: Yellow Room 214 Campus Center
Sponsored by: Career Development Office.The schools taking part are: University of Edinburgh, University of Leeds, University of Manchester, and Newcastle University. Each of these universities belongs to the prestigious ‘Russell Group’ of schools (the UK’s equivalent to the Ivy League). In addition, the business schools are all triple-accredited – a qualification that is obtained by less than 1% of business schools around the world. Come and meet them, have a chat, and learn more!
When: October 9th 2019
Where: Yellow Room 214 Campus Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tea Time with the Dean
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
4–5:30 pm
Please join Deirdre d'Albertis, Dean of the Collegefor
Cookies, Tea and Conversation
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WHEN: Wednesday, October 9, 2019
4:00pm - 5:30 pm
WHERE: Stevenson Library - First Floor
Bard will make every effort to provide reasonable accommodations for accessibility needs. Stevenson Library is an accessible space. For more information about this event's location, please contact the DOC office.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College.For more information, call 845-758-7421, or e-mail doc@bard.edu.
The Osteopathic Experience: University of New England, College of Osteopathic Medicine
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
5:30–6:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumHear firsthand from a third-year medical student about the
Osteopathic medical school experience and pathways.
When: October 9, 5:30pm.
Where: RKC 101
REFRESHMENTS SERVED!
* Co-Sponsored by Bard Pre-Health Club & Career Development Office (CDO)
Sponsored by: Bard Pre-Health Club; Career Development Office.Osteopathic medical school experience and pathways.
When: October 9, 5:30pm.
Where: RKC 101
REFRESHMENTS SERVED!
* Co-Sponsored by Bard Pre-Health Club & Career Development Office (CDO)
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CMIA - Montage
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
7–11 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Battleship Potemkin
(Sergei Eisenstein, 1925, USSR, 75 minutes) - The Passion of Joan of Arc
(Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928, France, 81 minutes)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
The Ars Nova production of
Underground Railroad Game
by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special
Directed by Taibi Magar
Produced by Octopus Theatricals
Thursday, October 10, 2019
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterCritics’ Pick
“A lacerating comedy on race…in-all-ways sensational.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times
Critics’ Pick
“Outrageously funny! Strikingly rendered by bold, smart performances.”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Explosive! Fearlessly, ferociously uninhibited . . . the show’s most subversive quality is also quintessentially American: it’s wildly entertaining.”—Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker
Good morning, America! Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of teachers are getting down and dirty with today’s lesson. The nimble duo goes round after round on the mat of our nation’s history, tackling race, sex, and power in this R-rated, kaleidoscopic, and fearless comedy. Lauded around the world and in the New York Times as “one of the best new American plays of the last 25 years,” Underground Railroad Game welcomes back Jennifer Kidwell, last seen in SummerScape 2016’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed.Sponsored by: Fisher Center and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/underground-railroad-game/.
Lecture Series on Popular Sovereignty
Thursday, October 10, 2019 – Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Bard College Berlin / Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinOrganized by Bard College Berlin and Humboldt University’s Law and Society Institute
With the support of the American Social Science Research Council
Program
October 10, 2019 | 19:30 | Bard College Berlin, Lecture Hall, Platanenstr. 98a, 13156 Berlin
Geoffrey Harpham (Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University)
The Nation in The Birth of a Nation
October 31, 2019 | 18:15 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
David Dyzenhaus (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto)
Brexit and the Legal Idea of Sovereignty
November 20, 2019 | 18:15 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Ivan Krastev (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen)
Making sense of the long 1989
November 21, 2019 | 19:30 | Bard College Berlin, Lecture Hall, Platanenstr. 98a, 13156 Berlin
Adam Davis (Oregon Humanities)
The Voices of the People: From Dreams of Self-Rule to Practices of Mutual Understanding
December 10, 2019 | 18:15 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Daniel Ziblatt (Department of Government, Harvard University; Axel Springer Fellow, American Academy in Berlin)
The Rise and Fall of Democracy: Lessons From the Past for Today
January 21, 2020 | 18:15 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dieter Grimm (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
Popular Sovereignty as Dormant Sovereignty
All Humboldt events will take place in: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Juristische Fakultät, Unter den Linden 9, 10117 Berlin, Raum 213
Admission freeSponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail communications@berlin.bard.edu.
Racism and Antisemitism
Hannah Arendt Center Annual Fall Conference 2019
Thursday, October 10, 2019 – Friday, October 11, 2019
10 am – 6 pm
Olin Humanities BuildingRacism and Antisemitism
A Conference Sponsored by
The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College.
Thursday and Friday, Oct. 10-11, 2019
Watch the Webcast Now
“Racism may indeed carry out the doom of the Western world, and, for that matter, of the whole of human civilization.”
—Hannah Arendt
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Disease at the Edge of Species Distributions:
Anther-smut Fungi of Wild Carnations
Michael Hood, Amherst College
Thursday, October 10, 2019
12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Isabella Tree
author of
Wilding: The Return of Nature to Our Farm
winner of
the 2019 Richard Jefferies Prize for Nature Writing
and chosen by
Smithsonian as a top ten science book for 2018
Thursday, October 10, 2019
5–7 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaThe author will be signing books after the presentation.
Books will be available for purchase at this event courtesy of Oblong Books & Music
Books will be available for purchase at this event courtesy of Oblong Books & Music
Wilding - returning nature to our farm charts the story of the pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex where the author lives with her husband Charlie Burrell. Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy Sussex clay was economically ruinous, they decided to step back and let nature take over. By introducing free-roaming herbivores—proxies of the large animals that once roamed Britain—the Burrells’ degraded agricultural land has become a functioning ecosystem again. In less than twenty years, wildlife has rocketed and numerous endangered species have made Knepp their home. The Knepp experience challenges conventional ideas about our past and present landscapes, and points the way to a wilder, richer future—one that benefits farming, nature and us.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Lifetime Learning Institute.For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail jbecker@bard.edu, or visit https://cce.bard.edu.
Sodomite, Gay, Queer, Trans:
A 14th-Century Document and Its Afterlives
Carolyn Dinshaw, Dean for the Humanities, Silver Professor; Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and English,
New York University
Thursday, October 10, 2019
5–6:30 pm
Olin, Room 102In 1394 in London a person named John Rykener but calling themself Eleanor was arrested in the act of having paid sex with a man from out of town. In a deposition Rykener gave a detailed account of their life as sex worker. Scholars as well as artists (and some scholar-artists) have taken up, researched, imagined, written, danced, and performed with puppets the life of Rykener based on this document. In this talk Dinshaw goes back to the original record and forward to modern and contemporary interpretations of it in order to discern who Rykener was then, and how they are understood -- and indeed animated -- now.
Carolyn Dinshaw, Dean for the Humanities, is also Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and English. She is a medievalist whose research not only focuses on the late Middle Ages in England and beyond, but also explores the relationship of past to present. Her award-winning book, Chaucer's Sexual Poetics (U of Wisconsin P, 1989), was the first full-length feminist study of Chaucer. She followed this with two books that develop analyses of our desires for past times: Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (Duke UP, 1999) and How Soon is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time (Duke UP, 2012). With David Wallace, she edited The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women’s Writing (Cambridge UP, 2003). And with David M. Halperin she founded and edited (1993-2005) the flagship journal of LGBT Studies, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (Duke UP). Before moving to NYU, Dean Dinshaw taught for many years at the University of California at Berkeley, where she was instrumental in the early development of LGBT Studies. At NYU, she founded and directed the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (1999-2005) and chaired the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (2012-15). In the classroom, she regularly teaches materials past and present, in courses ranging from Medieval Misogyny to Queer New York City.
Co-sponsored by Literature Program, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Human Rights
Sponsored by: Medieval Studies Program.Carolyn Dinshaw, Dean for the Humanities, is also Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and English. She is a medievalist whose research not only focuses on the late Middle Ages in England and beyond, but also explores the relationship of past to present. Her award-winning book, Chaucer's Sexual Poetics (U of Wisconsin P, 1989), was the first full-length feminist study of Chaucer. She followed this with two books that develop analyses of our desires for past times: Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (Duke UP, 1999) and How Soon is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time (Duke UP, 2012). With David Wallace, she edited The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women’s Writing (Cambridge UP, 2003). And with David M. Halperin she founded and edited (1993-2005) the flagship journal of LGBT Studies, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (Duke UP). Before moving to NYU, Dean Dinshaw taught for many years at the University of California at Berkeley, where she was instrumental in the early development of LGBT Studies. At NYU, she founded and directed the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (1999-2005) and chaired the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (2012-15). In the classroom, she regularly teaches materials past and present, in courses ranging from Medieval Misogyny to Queer New York City.
Co-sponsored by Literature Program, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Human Rights
For more information, call 845-758-7211, or e-mail mlibbon@bard.edu.
Thinking About Grad School?
Thursday, October 10, 2019
5–6 pm
Campus Center, Meeting Room 214Discussion Topics Will Cover:
- Choosing a Course of Study
- Determining the Prospect of Employment with a Specific Graduate Degree
- Financing Graduate School
- Winding Your Way through the Application Process, including the Personal Essay
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wilding: The Return of Nature to Our Farm
A conversation with author Isabella Tree
Thursday, October 10, 2019
5–7 pm
ISABELLA TREEauthor of
Wilding: The Return of Nature to Our Farm
winner of
the 2019 Richard Jefferies Prize for Nature Writing
and chosen by
Smithsonian as a top ten science book for 2018
Thursday, October 10, 2019
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
The author will be signing books after the presentation.
Books will be available for purchase at this event courtesy of Oblong Books & Music
Wilding - returning nature to our farm charts the story of the pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex where the author lives with her husband Charlie Burrell. Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy Sussex clay was economically ruinous, they decided to step back and let nature take over. By introducing free-roaming herbivores—proxies of the large animals that once roamed Britain—the Burrells’ degraded agricultural land has become a functioning ecosystem again. In less than twenty years, wildlife has rocketed and numerous endangered species have made Knepp their home. The Knepp experience challenges conventional ideas about our past and present landscapes, and points the way to a wilder, richer future—one that benefits farming, nature and us.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Lifetime Learning Institute; Office of Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail jbecker@bard.edu, or visit https://cce.bard.edu/events/isabella-tree.
In Small Places Close to Home
Thursday, October 10, 2019
5:30–7:30 pm
3rd floor of the Watts dePeyster Hall, Village of TivoliIn honor of the legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt, the Human Rights Project at Bard College and the Village of Tivoli invite you to join us for a roundtable discussion about the current state of human rights.
In connection with the commemoration of her childhood home in Tivoli, this public event revisits Eleanor Roosevelt's famous answer to the question “Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?” For Eleanor Roosevelt, it was clear that “Without concerted citizen action to uphold” human rights “close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.” In that spirit, the event connects the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the increasingly dire challenges to human rights faced in the United States. How has the political discourse around human rights changed in the United States, and what are its implications? What does the term human rights mean in public culture today and how does it strengthen or limit the struggles around climate change, criminal justice, immigration, and racial, social and economic inequality? This event will take the form of a public conversation involving global and local activists, introduced by Peter Rosenblum, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, and moderated by Larry Cox, former Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, in which we all grapple together with these questions (and others) "in small places, close to home."Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail civic@bard.edu.
Michelle Murray: The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations
Thursday, October 10, 2019
6–7:30 pm
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, 170 E 64th St, New York, NY 10065With The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations, Michelle Murray offers a new answer to a perennial question in the field: how can established powers manage the peaceful rise of new great powers? Murray argues that power transitions are principally social phenomena whereby rising powers struggle to obtain recognition as world powers.
Her book examines a moment at the turn of the 20th century, when two rising states—the United States and Imperial Germany—looked to the established powers to recognize their status. Only one would succeed in securing a peaceful power transition.
What can Murray’s framework teach us about the social dynamics of power transitions? How can it help us to understand the economic and military rivalry between United States and China?
Michelle Murray is director of global initiatives and associate professor of political studies at Bard College.
She will be in conversation with:
Stephen Pampinella, assistant professor in the department of political science and international relations at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/michelle-murray-the-struggle-for-recognition-in-international-relations-status-revisionism-and-tickets-69879079207?discount=BGIA2019Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Racism and Antisemitism
Hannah Arendt Center Annual Fall Conference 2019
Thursday, October 10, 2019 – Friday, October 11, 2019
10 am – 6 pm
Olin Humanities BuildingRacism and Antisemitism
A Conference Sponsored by
The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College.
Thursday and Friday, Oct. 10-11, 2019
Watch the Webcast Now
“Racism may indeed carry out the doom of the Western world, and, for that matter, of the whole of human civilization.”
—Hannah Arendt
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
The Ars Nova production of
Underground Railroad Game
by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special
Directed by Taibi Magar
Produced by Octopus Theatricals
Friday, October 11, 2019
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterCritics’ Pick
“A lacerating comedy on race…in-all-ways sensational.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times
Critics’ Pick
“Outrageously funny! Strikingly rendered by bold, smart performances.”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Explosive! Fearlessly, ferociously uninhibited . . . the show’s most subversive quality is also quintessentially American: it’s wildly entertaining.”—Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker
Good morning, America! Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of teachers are getting down and dirty with today’s lesson. The nimble duo goes round after round on the mat of our nation’s history, tackling race, sex, and power in this R-rated, kaleidoscopic, and fearless comedy. Lauded around the world and in the New York Times as “one of the best new American plays of the last 25 years,” Underground Railroad Game welcomes back Jennifer Kidwell, last seen in SummerScape 2016’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed.Sponsored by: Fisher Center and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/underground-railroad-game/.
Saw Kill Water Sampling
Friday, October 11, 2019
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Saw KillAs a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.
Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.
Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.
Open to everyone. Free training is available.
If interested, please contact:
Lindsey Drew
Bard Water Lab Manager
ldrew@bard.eduSponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
New Horizons in Cosmology: The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics
Bard Physics Program Faculty
Friday, October 11, 2019
12–1 pm
Hegeman 107The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to two separate discoveries that broadened our understanding of the Universe. One half of the prize was given to Jim Peebles “for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe” and the other half to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discover of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.” Both of these works fundamentally changed our view of our universe and our place in it. Faculty of the Physics Program will expand on the ideas behind the discoveries and emphasize their significance.
Pizza will be provided.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Women's Volleyball Match
Friday, October 11, 2019
7–9 pm
The women's volleyball team hosts Rochester Institute of Technology in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
The Ars Nova production of
Underground Railroad Game
by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special
Directed by Taibi Magar
Produced by Octopus Theatricals
Saturday, October 12, 2019
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterCritics’ Pick
“A lacerating comedy on race…in-all-ways sensational.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times
Critics’ Pick
“Outrageously funny! Strikingly rendered by bold, smart performances.”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Explosive! Fearlessly, ferociously uninhibited . . . the show’s most subversive quality is also quintessentially American: it’s wildly entertaining.”—Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker
Good morning, America! Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of teachers are getting down and dirty with today’s lesson. The nimble duo goes round after round on the mat of our nation’s history, tackling race, sex, and power in this R-rated, kaleidoscopic, and fearless comedy. Lauded around the world and in the New York Times as “one of the best new American plays of the last 25 years,” Underground Railroad Game welcomes back Jennifer Kidwell, last seen in SummerScape 2016’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed.Sponsored by: Fisher Center and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/underground-railroad-game/.
2019 Fall Open House for Prospective Students and Their Families
Saturday, October 12, 2019
9 am – 4 pm
Reem-Kayden CenterThe day centers around activities that allow students and their families to explore the campus and experience the excitement of Bard College classes. Check-in is at the Reem-Kayden Center, where students will be directed to their classes in the Olin Humanities Building. All other visitors will attend a Q&A in Olin Auditorium with Leon Botstein, president of the College. Campus tours begin at Olin.
Lunch will be served from 1:00 to 2:00. Representatives from the Admission, Student Affairs, Career Development, Study Abroad, and Residence Life offices, as well as the Dean of the College, will be available to answer your questions.
The day ends with 20-minute facility drop-in tours, which are at 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, and 3:30 (Athletics and Recreation; Dance/Theater and Performance; Film and Electronic Arts; Music/Conservatory; Photography; Residence Halls; Science; Studio Arts).
In order to have dynamic class discussions, students are encouraged to complete short readings in advance. (These classes are modeled on Bard’s First-Year Seminar.) Please go to bard.edu/admission to download the short readings.
For more information, call 845-758-7472, or visit https://bard.edu/admission .
Citizens' Climate Lobby with Students for Carbon Dividends
Monthly Meeting of the Citizens' Climate Lobby
Mid Hudson Chapter
Saturday, October 12, 2019
12–2:30 pm
Olin Language CenterA potluck lunch followed by a chapter meeting designed to build political will for a federal solution to the climate crisis. We will dial in to the national call 1pm-1:30pm where we will hear from Kiera O'Brien, Students for Carbon Dividends.
There’s been a shift among Republicans in Congress on climate change, due in no small part to polling that shows younger GOP voters are as concerned about climate change as their progressive counterparts. As vice president of Students for Carbon Dividends, Kiera O’Brien is working to harness that passion among young conservatives to generate political will for carbon dividends legislation, which places a fee on carbon and gives revenue to households (sound familiar?). Kiera, who is President Emeritus of the Harvard Republican Club, recently testified at a congressional hearing alongside Republican pollster Frank Luntz. Over the summer, she spoke about carbon dividends at the Teen Vogue Summit: “There are many climate-oriented groups rallying around the problem, but Students for Carbon Dividends is rallying around the solution.”
Two Ways to Join
To connect by video conference, go to cclusa.org/meeting.
To connect by phone: If you have unlimited calling, please call 1-646-558-8656; otherwise you can call toll-free at 1-877-369-0926. Enter 2017-2017-17 as the meeting ID.
For more information, call 845-464-8025, or e-mail lauriehusted@gmail.com.
Men's Soccer Match
Saturday, October 12, 2019
2–4 pm
The men's soccer team hosts Union in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Women's Volleyball Match
Saturday, October 12, 2019
2–4 pm
The women's volleyball team hosts Ithaca College in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Visiting Artists: Cong Quartet
Francis Chik, violin; Sally Law, violin; Caleb Wong, viola; Yan-Ho Cheng, cello
Performing works by Dvořák, J. Leifs, A. Wong, and Caroline Shaw
Saturday, October 12, 2019
6–8 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail kiesewet@bard.edu.
Fall Break
Monday, October 14, 2019 – Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Bard College CampusSponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Fall Break
Monday, October 14, 2019 – Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Bard College CampusSponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tango Club
(open to all students)
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
6–8 pm
Olin, Room 102Bard Tango club is a beginner tango club for dancers of all experiences. All classes throughout the semester are open to all students! Come learn the magic and beauty of Argentinian Tango with teacher Chungin Goodstein and club head Alice Downes. Private lessons available to any by request.
Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail gd5479@bard.edu.
Informational Webinar: Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability
Join and receive a $65 application fee waiver!
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
7–8 pm
Online<<<< REGISTER HERE FOR LINK >>>>
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
ABOUT
Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information.
Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team.
WHAT WILL BE COVERED?
- Overview of graduate program offerings
- Alumni success and career outcomes
- Admissions information
- Prerequisite course requirements
- Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
- Financial aid availability
- Tips for a standout application
Degree Options Include:
MS in Environmental Policy
MS in Climate Science and Policy
MBA in Sustainability
Dual Degree Options Include:
MS/JD with Pace Law School
MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching
MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability
Peace Corps Programs Include:
Master's International (before you serve)
Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Caitlin O'Donnell for further details.
For more information, call 845-758-7073.
<<<< REGISTER HERE FOR LINK >>>>Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit https://gps.bard.edu/informational-webinar-10-08-19.
CMIA – The Fifth Generation
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
7–11:55 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Yellow Earth
(Chen Kaige, 1985, 90 minutes, China, 35mm) - Raise the Red Lantern
(Zhang Yimou, 1994, 125 minutes, China/Hong Kong/Taiwan, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
National Climate Seminar: How Solar Inspires Business
Elysa Hammond | VP for Environmental Stewardship | Clif Bar
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
12–1 pm
OnlineThe 2030 date to achieve the Paris Climate Accords is forcing all of us to rethink “Business as Usual.” Join Elysa Hammond on Bard’s National Climate Seminar for a conversation about how ecological thinking has shaped Clif Bar’s journey as a company, and how in the coming decade, Clif Bar sees its business success coming from solar inspiration.
This webinar is part of a yearlong project, Solve Climate by 2030, sponsored by The Bard Center for Environmental Policy. The project takes as its starting point a recent IPCC report that we have only 10 years to forestall catastrophic climate change. Combining a national speaker network with a call for One-Night Teach-ins, the project culminates on April 7, 2020, in a national Power Dialog: 52 simultaneous, university-hosted webinars, one in every state, DC, and Puerto Rico. In these webinars, local climate solutions experts will suggest the top three ambitious but feasible state, urban, utility, or business initiatives that need to occur in Tennessee and Idaho, Missouri and New Jersey, Florida and Minnesota, if we aim to forestall catastrophic climate change. Following these state webinars, classes and other groups tuning in will have 45 minutes for “solutions sprints” designed to identify civic action opportunities for participants.
BARD CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
The Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability offer master’s programs in Environmental Policy, Climate Science and Policy, and Sustainable Business. The Bard Center for Environmental Policy’s career-focused, science-based, interdisciplinary master of science programs are located in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. The rigorous first-year coursework, followed by a required four-to-six-month immersive internship, culminates with a master’s Capstone Project and a 93 percent job placement rate within six months of graduation. Graduates are currently pursuing careers in many fields, such as alternative energy, international development, advocacy/lobbying, conservation, research, and strategic consulting. For more information: bard.edu/cep/.
Click HERE to access the webinar.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail ebangood@bard.edu, or visit https://bluejeans.com/142290213.
Introduction to Zotero
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
5–6 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. LibraryZotero is a free, open-source citation management application that helps you save, organize, and cite sources in virtually any publication style. In this workshop, librarians Jeremy Hall and Alexa Murphy will show you how to set up and use this powerful tool. Bring your laptop. This workshop is open to all but is especially recommended for seniors. Please rsvp here. Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-7064, e-mail amurphy@bard.edu, or visit https://libguides.bard.edu/zotero.
Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
A Book Reading and Signing with Thomas Chatterton Williams
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
6–7:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumAs the son of an African American father and a white mother, Williams followed conventional assumptions and thought of himself as Black. But after he married a French woman and fathered two blond, blue-eyed daughters, he has come to question the whole notion of “race.” Building on his provocative New York Times op-ed about the “one drop” rule of racial identity, Williams, a 2019 New America Fellow and the author of Losing My Cool, uses his family’s multigenerational transition from “black” to “white” to expose the illogic of racial categories of identity and how reliance on such categories can keep furthering that illogic.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-7878, or e-mail arendt@bard.edu.
Women's Volleyball Match
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
7–9 pm
The women's volleyball team hosts Vassar College in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
CMIA - Italian silent film with new score by John La Barbera
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
7–10 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Assunta Spina
(Gustavo Serena, 1916, Italy, 66 minutes)*
Please check http://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Energetic Mechanisms for Coping with Environmental Change
Sonya Auer, Williams College
Thursday, October 17, 2019
12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Are We All in this Together? Generalized Prejudice Theory and Stigma Experiences
Diana Sanchez ’00
Rutgers University
Thursday, October 17, 2019
4:45–6 pm
Preston TheaterThe contexts that give rise to identity threats and their pernicious consequences for minorities are well documented. Yet, until recently, stigma researchers have largely assumed the necessity of a direct correspondence between safety/threat cues and the target (e.g., sexist remarks impact women). In contrast, this work demonstrates stigma transfer, i.e., the tendency for stigmatized group members to be threatened by prejudice targeting other stigmatized groups. In addition, this presentation will explore lay conceptions of prejudice that facilitate stigma transfer. Lastly, studies explore parallel responses to identity safety cues across identity dimensions. This talk will challenge long-held notions about the boundaries of stigma and have important implications for minority health, organizational diversity, and intraminority relations.Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7223, or e-mail jdainerbest@bard.edu.
Words Forever Young: Russian Avant-Garde Poetry in Translation
Thursday, October 17, 2019
5:30–7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSponsored by the Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative and Russian and Eurasian Studies, this panel explores the joys and challenges of translating Russian Avant-Garde and late Modernist poetry to English. Maria Khotimsky of MIT and Ainsley Morse of Dartmouth College address the question of translatability of Hylea and Cubo-Futurist poetry, with examples from Guro, Kruchenykh, Khlebnikov and Mayakovsky, and discuss the complexities of contemporary readers' perception and interpretation of late Mandelstam's poetry in translation.
Maria Khotimsky is a Senior Lecturer in Russian and Russian Language Coordinator in the Department of Global Studies and Languages at MIT. Her recent work includes articles and conference talks on the ideology of translation in the Soviet Union, and poetics of translation in the works of several leading twentieth-century Russian poets, as well as in the work of Russian-American translingual poets. She is a co-editor of a volume of scholarly essays on the poetry and philosophy of Olga Sedakova, published in Russia (Ol’ga Sedakova: stikhi, smysly, prochteniia, NLO, 2017), and in the US (The Poetry and Poetics of Olga Sedakova. Origins, Philosophies, Points of Contention, University of Wisconsin Press, 2019).
Ainsley Morse teaches in the Dartmouth College Russian department and translates Russian and former Yugoslav poetry and prose. Recent publications include Permanent Evolution, a collection of theoretical essays by the Formalist critic Yuri Tynianov (ASP; edited and translated with Philip Redko), Andrei Egunov-Nikolev's "Soviet pastoral" Beyond Tula (ASP), and, with Bela Shayevich, Kholin 66: Diaries and Poems by Igor Kholin (UDP) and Vsevolod Nekrasov’s I Live I See (UDP 2013). She is currently translating the late avant-garde novelist and poet Konstantin Vaginov and contributing to an anthology of contemporary feminist poetry. Sponsored by: Russian/Eurasian Studies Program; Translation and Translatability Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ovoronin@bard.edu.
Electronic Music Concert, in collaboration with Experimental Humanities and Computer Science
Visiting Artists: Codie (Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo and Kate Sicchio)
Thursday, October 17, 2019
6–8 pm
Blum HallCodie is a live coding duo, working with sounds and visuals. This event will include a talk on the development of live coding performance techniques, followed by an improvised audio/video performance. The performance will feature Bard music seniors Bird Cohen, Ezra Kahn, and Maeve Schallert.
Free and open to all.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mongan@bard.edu.
Coding ++ Live Coding
Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo & Kate Sicchio
Thursday, October 17, 2019
6–8 pm
Blum HallThis talk and performance will focus on the work of Codie, a live coding group working with visuals and sounds. The talk will give background to the live coding community as well as the development of our live coding practices. The performance will show a world of colors, shapes, beeps and boops all created through real-time computer programming.
Codie is a live coding a/v group based in Brooklyn NY and Richmond VA (USA). Codie is seen in New York, Philadelphia, Berlin, Madrid, Sheffield and beyond in clubs, in living rooms, and on roof tops. Codie makes live performance, films and installations with code. https://codie.live/
Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo is an artist, programmer, and erstwhile data designer. She has created data-obscured art sites, new computer languages, and hybrid nostalgia machines. Her current focus is livecode and digital abstraction. Sarah is an alumna of the School for Poetic Computation, Recurse Center, Brown University, and NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She has taken part in group shows at Sonar+D, Westbeth, Day for Night, and Flux Factory. http://sarahghp.com/
Dr. Kate Sicchio is a choreographer, , media artist and performer whose work explores the interface between choreography and technology with wearable technology, live coding, and video systems. Her work has been shown internationally in many countries including the US, Germany, Australia, Belgium, Sweden, and the UK at venues such as PS122 (NYC), Banff New Media Institute (Canada), V&A Digital Futures (London), and Artisan Gallery (Hong Kong). http://www.sicchio.com
6:15 p.m. talk / 7:00 p.m. performance with special Bard guests Bird Cohen, Ezra Kahn, and Maeve Schallert
Sponsored by: Computer Science Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2359, or e-mail kohara@bard.edu.
Santa Barraza: Chicana Artist of the Borderlands
Thursday, October 17, 2019
6–7 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaSanta Barraza is “a nationally important Tejana artist” who “paints bold represenations of Nepantla, the Land Between. Her work depicts the historical, emotional, and spiritual land between Mexico and Texas, between present reality and the mythic world of the ancient Aztecs and Mayas. Over the last twenty-five years of her career as a visual artist, Barraza has explored what it is to be a Chicana and a mestiza in this country. Utilizing a variety of media, she has embarked on an artistic journey full of family portraits, watercolor dream scenes, mixed media artist books, and murals that harken back to a pre-Columbian past. By tapping into pre-conquest symbols, personal memories, and traditional sacred art forms such as the retablo and the Codices, she incorporates the value of Mexican artistic traditions and their power to nurture and sustain cultural identity on this side of the border” (from Santa Barraza: Artist of the Borderlands [2001], edited by María Herrera-Sobek).Sponsored by: Art History Program; LAIS Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail aberth@bard.edu.
The Promise for Sustainability in Employee Activism
Join diversity & inclusion expert Jennifer Brown for a conversation about how workplace activism has the potential to meet sustainability goals.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
6:30–8:30 pm
LMHQ, 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, NYC<<<<< TICKETS HERE >>>>>
About this Event
While trust in our institutions is on the decline, business is being looked to for solutions to issues from climate change to immigration and criminal justice. Employees are also leading the charge, leading petitions, staging walkouts and introducing shareholder proposals, asking CEOs to take a public stance and lead the charge. This new wave of employee activism may be a tipping point to achieve a more sustainable future. Join Clinical Professor of Marketing, Jorge Fontanez, of the Bard MBA in Sustainability Program in conversation with Jennifer Brown, an award-winning diversity and inclusion consultant and author. Her bestselling book, Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace and The Will to Change creates the case for leaders to embrace change.
While trust in our institutions is on the decline, business is being looked to for solutions to issues from climate change to immigration and criminal justice. Employees are also leading the charge, leading petitions, staging walkouts and introducing shareholder proposals, asking CEOs to take a public stance and lead the charge. This new wave of employee activism may be a tipping point to achieve a more sustainable future. Join Clinical Professor of Marketing, Jorge Fontanez, of the Bard MBA in Sustainability Program in conversation with Jennifer Brown, an award-winning diversity and inclusion consultant and author. Her bestselling book, Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace and The Will to Change creates the case for leaders to embrace change.
<<<<< TICKETS HERE >>>>>
Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-promise-for-sustainability-in-employee-activism-tickets-73869039285?aff=JB.
Alumni Talk: Law School
Friday, October 18, 2019
12–1:30 pm
Campus Center, Meeting Room 214Law School: The Real Deal
Thinking about Law School? Hear from Bard Alum Claudia Bennett, who is in her final year at Boston University. She will describe her experiences with classes, professors, internship, and exams. She will also explain the different types of law they can study before choosing school. Get ALL your questions answered!
Alumni/ae Talk
When: October 18, 2019 from 12-1:30pm
Where: Campus Center 214
Sponsored by:
Bard CDO & Pre-Law Club
Sponsored by: Career Development Office.Thinking about Law School? Hear from Bard Alum Claudia Bennett, who is in her final year at Boston University. She will describe her experiences with classes, professors, internship, and exams. She will also explain the different types of law they can study before choosing school. Get ALL your questions answered!
Alumni/ae Talk
When: October 18, 2019 from 12-1:30pm
Where: Campus Center 214
Sponsored by:
Bard CDO & Pre-Law Club
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
A Model for Quantum Geometro-Dynamics: On the Road to Quantum Gravity
Aldo Riello • Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Friday, October 18, 2019
12–1 pm
Hegeman 107General relativity and quantum mechanics are at the foundations of our understanding of space, time, gravity, and matter. Yet, it is not clear how they can fit into a consistent, encompassing framework, generically named a theory of “quantum gravity.” In this talk, I will paint in broad strokes the fundamental ideas underlying general relativity and quantum mechanics as well as some of the issues that arise when trying to combine their precepts. I will then present a possible way forward in the form of a theory of quantum geometro-dynamics, of which I will discuss the main characteristics. Curiously, we find that the way quantum space is supposed to evolve in a fictitious two-dimensional world (where the geometro-dynamics is well understood and solvable) is closely related to certain models of surface growth, known as solid-on-solid models (SoS).Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Men's Soccer Match
Friday, October 18, 2019
4–6 pm
The men's soccer team hosts Clarkson in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Men's & Women's Swim Meet
Friday, October 18, 2019
6–9 pm
The men's and women's swimming teams host Purchase College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
CMIA - French Comic Masterpieces
Friday, October 18, 2019
6–11 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- The Story of a Cheat
(Sacha Guitry, 1936, France, 81 minutes, 35mm) - The Elusive Corporal
(Jean Renoir, 1962, France, 105 minutes, 35mm)*
*Imported archival print courtesy Institut français
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Bard–Tivoli Potluck
Friday, October 18, 2019
6–8 pm
3rd Floor Village Hall, 86 Broadway, TivoliPickup from Kline at 5:45
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail AS55345@bard.edu.
Drawdown Learn Livestream: Conference Opening
Connect, learn, and help chart a path forward for solutions-based climate change education and action in your school or community.
Friday, October 18, 2019
7–10 pm
Olin, Room 101Ceremonial Open with Schaghicoke First Nations, Penobscot, Tlingit, and Taino Peoples
Remarks by Naomi Hollard, Sunrise Movement – The Nexus of Climate, Gender Equality, and Women’s Leadership with Katharine Wilkinson, Project Drawdown VP of Communications & Engagement Healing and Transformation: A Conversation with Katharine Wilkinson and Sherri Mitchell Panel: Women Advancing Climate Policy Solutions with Rhiana Gunn-Wright (Green New Deal policy lead), Jen Metzger (NY senator), and Didi Barrett (NY assemblywoman) moderated by Carla Goldstein (Omega president and cofounder of the Omega Women’s Leadership Center).Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability; Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing; Division of Social Studies; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Human Rights Program; Office of Sustainability; Psychology Program; Science, Technology, and Society Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-464-8025, e-mail husted@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eomega.org/online-workshops/2019-drawdown-learn-conference-live-online.
Sibelius and Shostakovich
Saturday, October 19, 2019
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterXinran Li, a winner of Bard Conservatory’s concerto competition, takes on Sibelius’ touching violin concerto. Then, Shostakovich’s symphony—his first written after the death of Stalin—takes us from dark intensity to ecstatic joy.
Leon Botstein, conductor
Xinran Li, violin
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Shostakovich Symphony No. 10
Estimated run time: 2 hours and 5 minutesSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail boxoffice@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/sibelius-and-shostakovich/.
Biennial Special Events
Where No Wall Remains
An International Festival About Borders
Saturday, October 19, 2019 – Saturday, November 23, 2019
Bard College CampusSpecial Events
Throughout the fall of 2019, partner programs across the Bard College campus will host a series of interdisciplinary events related to the the themes and discourse of Where No Wall Remains.Emilio Rojas
Decolonized Feast
Saturday, October 19 2–4 pm
Bard Farm
The Sioux Chef: The (R)evolution of Indigenous Food Systems of North America
Tuesday, October 29 at 5 pm
LUMA Theater, Fisher Center
Studio Arts Visiting Artist Lecture: Baseera Kahn
Tuesday, October 29 at 5pm
Fisher Studio Arts Seminar Room
Lana Tatour: Citizenship as Domination: Settler Colonialism and the Making of Palestinian Citizenship in Israel
Monday, November 11 at 5 pm
Olin Hall room 202
Film Screening of Jürgen Böttcher's Die Mauer (The Wall), 1990, 98 min. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
Monday, November 11 at 6 pm
Preston Cinema
Where No Wall Remains festival introduction with Co-curators Gideon Lester and Tania El Khoury, with Biennial artists.
Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm
LUMA Theater
The Wall: A film on the effect of the Wall's Imposing Presence on Migrant Families
Thursday, November 14 at 7 pm
Preston Cinema Sponsored by: 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/liveartsbard2019/.
2019 Drawdown Learn Conference Live Online
Connect, learn, and help chart a path forward for solutions-based climate change education and action in your school or community.
Saturday, October 19, 2019
9 am – 5:30 pm
PrestonConference Program
9:00–10:10 a.m. From Anxiety to Action: Psychology for Climate Work with Renee Lertzman, PhD. Overview & Updates on the Drawdown Research with Chad Frischmann
10:30–11:20 a.m. Unpacking the Green New Deal: The Critical Importance of Equity
Description: The Green New Deal outlines the most ambitious and transformative national goals since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s original New Deal and the World War II economic mobilizations. A national mobilization of this size and scale presents an unprecedented opportunity not only to combat the climate crisis, but also to eliminate poverty in the United States and to make wealth, prosperity, and security available to every person who participates in the transition. In this session, discover how equity across all sectors must be at the center of, and integrated with, all our climate work. Gain a deep understanding of the strategies and tools that ensure climate solutions benefit all—because the only way forward is to leave no one behind.
Rhiana Gunn-Wright, policy lead, Green New Deal
Andrew Revkin, journalist & founding director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute.
11:35 a.m. – 12:25 p.m. The Paris Agreement and You: The Critical Role of Education and Public Engagement
Description: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) international environmental treaty of 1992 has the goal to "stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. A crucial part of the treaty includes the role of education and public engagement. The UNFCCC Charter and the 2015 Paris Agreement recognized six elements of this work, now collectively referred to as Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE). In this session, explore how ACE is and could further support the implementation of subnational, national, and global climate education strategy and strengthening of the Paris Agreement.
What does this mean for our work on a local level? What is a Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement, and why is it critical that we learn about this? What role can students and teachers play? This session is especially aimed at those working or interested in a field related to ACE, and to anyone who would like to incorporate Drawdown into climate change education, engagement, and/or outreach.
1:45–2:35 p.m. Cultivating Drawdown Scholars: An Overview of Penn State’s Landmark Program with Project Drawdown
Description: Penn State partnered with Project Drawdown to hold the inaugural Drawdown Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and the first International Science Conference on Drawdown. During the eight-week REU program this summer, 55 undergraduate students from across the United States were mentored by Penn State faculty and Project Drawdown's research team to study the Drawdown models and examine the feasibility of scaling them down locally as well as communicating findings. The students also developed curricular models and teaching tools for drawdown under the mentorship of Penn State faculty and Drawdown Education Fellows of the National Council for Science and the Environment. Students, faculty, and staff created materials that they shared at the end of the experience and were featured at the first Drawdown Scientific Conference at Penn State University Park in mid-September. During the conference, "Research to Action: The Science of Drawdown," Project Drawdown's research team and scientific experts and researchers from around the world met and had critical discussions about advancing and communicating the science of Drawdown. A platform for community engagement was also created through a theatrical performance involving the arts and sciences. In this session, discover how the programs were put together, accomplishments, and implications and explore some of the teaching tools, curricula concepts, and other resources.
3:05–3:55 p.m. Climate Learning at Scale: Washington State’s Story Applied to Your Reality
Description: Washington State is coherently building solutions-oriented climate science literacy across its preK–12 school system. It is doing so with a commitment to changing structures and partnering with tribal educators in a way that demonstrates climate literacy and action that is place-based and equitable. The ClimeTime initiative supports science teacher training linking Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and climate science. In addition to teacher professional development, the project supports the development of instructional materials, design-related assessment tasks and evaluation strategies, and facilitated student events. In one of these projects, educators from the Spokane and Karuk tribes and others set out to design “locally relevant, three-dimensional solutions oriented learning storylines (SOLS)” in order to strengthen teachers’ climate science education instruction. To date, 100 percent of teachers who have participated report they are more prepared to make learning experiences inclusive for Native American students and have increased their ability to implement research-based instructional practices. Session participants will learn from project leaders and researchers about what was learned in the program’s first year. Participants will have a chance to engage with speakers for application to their own work. Additionally, participants will be introduced to the resource portal for the entire ClimeTime initiative and have the opportunity to consider use of the open source materials for their own purposes, including teacher trainings, curriculum, formative assessment resources and STEM Teaching Tools.
4:25–5:15 p.m. Crowd-Sourced Learning and Action: How a GIS-Powered Tool Can Activate Community Climate Solutions
Description: What would happen if a critical mass of people across the planet could learn and act on the range of truly impactful climate solutions and resiliency measures that they could take individually and/or together with others? Leaders of this session have conceptually designed the tool to support this outcome and have begun prototyping the first elements with students and educators in Olympia, Washington, and Toronto, Canada. Join this session to advance this crowd-sourced, digital, and social technology that builds awareness, appreciation, community building, and action at the local to planetary scales.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability; Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing; Division of Social Studies; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Office of Sustainability; Psychology Program; Science, Technology, and Society Program.
For more information, call 845-464-8025, e-mail husted@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eomega.org/online-workshops/2019-drawdown-learn-conference-live-online.
Men's Soccer Match
Saturday, October 19, 2019
2–4 pm
The men's soccer team hosts St. Lawrence in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Decolonized Feast
*Free, food is first-come first-serve
Saturday, October 19, 2019
2–4 pm
Bard FarmJoin LAB Biennial artist, Emilio Rojas, as the harvest of indigenous crops from his live installation Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is reaped. Experience this interactive land art first-hand as you take a walk through the crop border and enjoy dishes prepared from the harvest.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is the first iteration of a multifaceted, interactive land art and community-based project, including a 72-foot long line of indigenous crops (corn, beans and squash, known as “the three sisters”) planted in the shape of the US/Mexican border line on the Bard Farm. Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/decolonized-feast/.
Reception for "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage and Violetta White Delafield
Saturday, October 19, 2019
5:30–6:30 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library"Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-7281.
Cumbia de mi corazón
La Voz and iD Studio Theatre present a Spanish-language musical play with English subtitles.
Saturday, October 19, 2019
7:30–9 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsHeriberto, dead these 50 years, refuses to go to heaven until he is reunited with his beloved wife, Maruca. However, Maruca does not respond. She is still disoriented by the severe Alzheimer’s that afflicted her in life, and does not recognize Heriberto. It thus becomes his job to awaken her to the eternality of their love. His method: the cumbias and porros from the ’40s and ’50s, the music they danced and delighted to back in Santa Marta on the Atlantic coast of Colombia. Will this strategy work? If so, are Heriberto and Maruca ready to face the real music?
General admission: $20
$5 at the door for high school and college students with valid student ID.
Friday, October 18, 7:30pm, The Beverly, 224 Foxhall Ave., Kingston, NY 12401
Saturday, October 19, 7:30pm, Chapel of the Holy Innocents, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504
Sunday, October 20, 3:30pm, Trolley Barn, 489 Main St., Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Tickets sold at the La Voz office in Albee Annex basement, office #2, or on our Facebook page HERE.
Sponsored by: La Voz; iD Studio Theatre.
For more information, call 845-752-4739, e-mail nmeza@bard.edu, or visit https://lavoz.bard.edu.
Sibelius and Shostakovich
Sunday, October 20, 2019
2 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterXinran Li, a winner of Bard Conservatory’s concerto competition, takes on Sibelius’ touching violin concerto. Then, Shostakovich’s symphony—his first written after the death of Stalin—takes us from dark intensity to ecstatic joy.
Leon Botstein, conductor
Xinran Li, violin
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Shostakovich Symphony No. 10
Estimated run time: 2 hours and 5 minutesSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail boxoffice@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/sibelius-and-shostakovich/.
Bard MBA in Sustainability: October Residency Visit
Join Us to experience the Bard MBA program in action!
Sunday, October 20, 2019
12–6 pm
LMHQ 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10038Bard MBA October Residency Visit: RSVP HERE
During the Saturday or Sunday of each Residency Weekend, we invite visiting prospective MBA students to:
- sit in on a first or second year MBA class
- meet with Program Director Eban Goodstein + admissions staff
- have lunch with current MBA students
- participate in the Bard MBA Community Meeting
Location: LMHQ 150 Broadway NY, NY 10038Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit https://gps.bard.edu/residency-visit-10-20-19.
Levy Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy
Admission and Enrollment Overview
Monday, October 21, 2019
12–2 pm
WebsiteJoin us for the first webinar of the admission cycle.
We will discuss the admission requirements, financial aid, and the enrollment process for the one-year MA and two-year MS programs.
International students: we will discuss the documents needed for processing a student visa, supporting materials, and possible funding sources.
Registration is required. Please use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox on a desktop, laptop, or Android mobile device to participate in the webinar. Other platforms (iPhone, iPad) are not currently supported. Alternatively, join us on the Levy Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy page to participate through Facebook LIVE!Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute; Levy Graduate Programs.
For more information, call 845-758-7776, e-mail levygrad@bard.edu, or visit https://connect.bard.edu/register/Oct21.
College Behind Bars
Special Preview of the New Documentary
Monday, October 21, 2019
5 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterDirected and produced by award-winning filmmaker Lynn Novick, produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns, College Behind Bars reveals the transformative power of higher education through the experiences of incarcerated men and women earning degrees in the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI), one of the country’s most rigorous college-in-prison programs.
This preview event will feature segments from the documentary followed by panel discussions with Lynn Novick, BPI Executive Director Max Kenner ’01, and BPI alumni featured in the film.Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/college-behind-bars/.
From Voter Suppression to the Census: A Decade of Fighting for Voting Rights
Dale Ho, ACLU Voting Rights Project Director
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
4:45–6:15 pm
Olin, Room 201Since the 2010 midterm election, a wave of voter suppression laws has been unleashed around the country. The ACLU has been at the frontlines, successful challenging unnecessary voter registration requirements and barriers on Election Day in dozens of states. Attacks on voting rights have now grown to encompass not only registration and the ballot, but also the Decennial Census itself, which the Trump Administration sought to weaponize by attempting to add citizenship question to the census questionnaire. ACLU Voting Rights Project Director, Dale Ho, who argued the census citizenship question case in the Supreme Court, will address these issues and emerging threats to voting rights as we head towards the 2020 election.Sponsored by: Human Rights Program; Political Studies Program; Sociology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail perlmann@bard.edu.
Empathic Communication and Behavior
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
5:30–6:30 pm
Campus Center, George Ball LoungeEmpathy is a way of life. But, empathic communication and behavior absolutely can be developed. There are real skills and specific language use that promotes communication. We will both look at and practice these skills, paying special attention to resolving conflict with people who matter to us.Sponsored by: Health and Wellness Education.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail areyes@bard.edu.
Tango Club
(open to all students)
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
6–8 pm
Olin, Room 102Bard Tango club is a beginner tango club for dancers of all experiences. All classes throughout the semester are open to all students! Come learn the magic and beauty of Argentinian Tango with teacher Chungin Goodstein and club head Alice Downes. Private lessons available to any by request.
Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail gd5479@bard.edu.
CMIA – Taiwanese New Wave
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
7–11:55 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Dust in the Wind
(Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1986, Taiwan, 110 minutes, 35mm) - Taipei Story
(Edward Yang, 1985, Taiwan, 110 minutes, 16mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Speaker Series: Will Rawls – Cursor
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
5–7 pm
Hessel Museum of Art, Gallery 3Will Rawls is a New York–based choreographer, performer and writer. His work has appeared at the MoMA and MoMA PS1; MCA, Chicago; Danspace Project; New Museum of Contemporary Art; Issue Project Room; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; Walker Arts Center. At Danspace Project, he co-curated Lost and Found, comprised of performances and artist projects focused on the intergenerational impact of HIV/AIDS on dancers, women, and people of color. His writing has been published by Artforum International, the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Modern Art. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Robert Rauschenberg Residency and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant. He teaches and lectures widely in university, community and festival contexts.
Through the Speaker Series, CCS Bard brings distinguished artists, scholars, and curators to campus to present on their work. Speaker Series talks are held within Classroom 102 at CCS Bard unless otherwise noted. All talks are free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/events/428-will-rawls-cursor.
REAS Film Series: Viy (Вий)
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
7–8:30 pm
Olin LC 210Viy (Вий, 1967, 1h 17min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror. Directors: Konstantin Ershov, Georgiy Kropachyov)
A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him… Based on the eponymous story by Nikolai Gogol.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CMIA - The Arrival of Sound
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
7–11 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- 42nd Street
(Lloyd Bacon, 1932, USA, 89 minutes, 35mm) - The Scarlett Empress
(Josef von Sternberg, 1934, USA, 110 minutes, 35mm)*
*Studio vault print
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Promenade
Thursday, October 24, 2019
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterBook and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés
Music by Al Carmines
Directed by Morgan Green '12
Choreography by Lisa Fagan '11
Music Director Nathan Repasz
Scenic Design by Jian Jung
Costume Design by Alice Tavener
Lighting Design by Masha Tsimring
Sound Design by Tei Blow
Dramaturg Miriam Felton-Dansky
Stage Manager Samantha McCann*
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/promenade/.
Jacob Neusner Memorial Lecture in Jewish and Religious Studies
Professor Moshe Halbertal
NYU & Hebrew University
Thursday, October 24, 2019
at 4:45pm in Olin 102 & Sunday, October 27th at 7PM at The Sixth Street Community SynagogueThursday, October 24th at 4:45pm in Olin 102
"The Biblical Book of Samuel and the Birth of Politics: Two Faces of Political Violence"
The Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book's anonymous author was more than an inspired storyteller. The author was also an uncannily astute observer of political life and the moral compromises and contradictions that the struggle for power inevitably entails. The lecture will explore the ways in which the book of Samuel understands political violence political violence unleashed by the sovereign on his own subjects as it is rooted in the paranoia of the isolated ruler and the deniability fostered by hierarchical action through proxies.
Sunday, October 27th at 7PM
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street
New York, NY
"Confronting Loss: The Meaning and Experience of Mourning form the Talmud to Maimonides"
The experience of loss and mourning is a painful and ultimately inescapable feature of human life. Jewish law established practices of mourning that prescribe a rather detailed structure of the mourner’s conduct as well as the response of the community to the mourner and its obligation to provide consolation. Maimonides codified this body of regulations in his great code of Jewish Law, the Mishneh Torah, in the section titled “The Laws of Mourning.” This lecture will focus on the attempt to understand the meaning and practice of mourning in the Talmudic tradition and in Maimonides’ thought. It will explore the relationship of the concept of mourning in the Jewish tradition to other understandings of the dynamics of mourning such as Freud’s seminal essay “Mourning and Melancholia.Sponsored by: Jacob Neusner Memorial Lecture Fund, Jewish Studies, Religion, and Political Studies program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail secunda@bard.edu.
Where There Be Dragons Study Abroad Info Table
Thursday, October 24, 2019
11 am – 2 pm
Campus Center, LobbyAttention, first-years and sophomores planning for study abroad next year (or anyone seeking a summer program): Where There Be Dragons is tabling in the Campus Center today with information about their programs in Bolivia, China, India, Nepal, and Peru.
“Dragons summer and semester programs push the boundaries of the classroom, embrace challenge, listen to local communities, and leave room for spontaneity. A variety of majors can be explored through the lens of the host country. All programs include language study, and there are no prerequisites.”
Stop by to see if one of their programs is for you!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad.
For more information, call 845-758-7080, e-mail fleming@bard.edu, or visit https://www.wheretherebedragons.com/program-category/college-credit/.
Speaker Series: Prem Krishnamurthy - "Endless Archive (Part II)"
Thursday, October 24, 2019
3–5 pm
CCS - Collection Teaching GalleryThrough the Speaker Series, CCS Bard brings distinguished artists, scholars, and curators to campus to present on their work. All talks are free and open to the public.
Earlier this year, CCS Bard acquired Prem Krishnamurthy’s professional papers from the late 1990s on. Parroting the title of his 2016 performance-lecture, Endless Archive (Part II) represents a partial unpacking of one specific past. Krishnamurthy’s talk at CCS circles around publishing, exhibition design, curating, and collecting through documents and archival materials from his wide-ranging work. At the same time, such remnants emerge as tomorrow’s seeds, potential prologues for yet-to-be-written futuresSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/events/426-prem-krishnamurthy-endless-archive-part-ii.
Academic Writing Workshop Series
Thursday, October 24, 2019
5:30–6:30 pm
RKC 200American-style academic writing and plagiarism practicum led by Kaet Heupel.Sponsored by: Office of International Student and Scholar Services.
For more information, call 845-758-7328, or e-mail kalupaha@bard.edu.
Eli Weinstein Moderation Concert
Thursday, October 24, 2019
7–9 pm
Blum HallSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Film: Kiki's Delivery Service
Thursday, October 24, 2019
7:30–9:30 pm
PrestonDirected by Hayao Miyazaki.
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
Japanese language, English subtitles
Studio Ghibli Film, 1989
Genres: Fantasy, AdventureSponsored by: Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail myamanaka@bard.edu, or visit https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kikis_delivery_service.
Moderation Papers Due
Friday, October 25, 2019
Bard College CampusSponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Midterm Grades and Criteria Sheets Due
Friday, October 25, 2019
Bard College CampusSponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Family & Alumni/ae Weekend
Friday, October 25, 2019 – Sunday, October 27, 2019
Bard College CampusSponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://www.annandaleonline.org/bardfallwknd.
Promenade
Friday, October 25, 2019
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterBook and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés
Music by Al Carmines
Directed by Morgan Green '12
Choreography by Lisa Fagan '11
Music Director Nathan Repasz
Scenic Design by Jian Jung
Costume Design by Alice Tavener
Lighting Design by Masha Tsimring
Sound Design by Tei Blow
Dramaturg Miriam Felton-Dansky
Stage Manager Samantha McCann*
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/promenade/.
I Work with Magnets: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of High-temperature Superconductors
Ingrid Stolt
Bard class of 2015, Northwestern University
Friday, October 25, 2019
12–1 pm
Hegeman 107Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Women's Volleyball Match
Friday, October 25, 2019
4–6 pm
The women's volleyball team hosts Skidmore College in a Liberty League match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Big Foot Opening Reception: Annual Art Benefit Show for the Studio Arts Fund for Visual Learning
Opening reception, October 25, 5:00–7:00 pm. Sale continues on October 26 from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm. Online sales begin October 26 at 5:00 pm and continue until November 1 at 5:00 pm.
Friday, October 25, 2019 – Saturday, October 26, 2019
5–7 pm
Fisher Studio Arts BuildingAll proceeds go to benefit the Fund for Visual Learning established in 2014 to improve educational access to Studio Arts for everyone.Sponsored by: Division of the Arts; Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 646-369-3868, e-mail dooling@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardfvl.com.
Alumni/ae Talk: Career Paths for Performing & Liberal Arts: Alumni/ae Round Table
Friday, October 25, 2019
5–7 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 202Career Paths for Performing & Liberal Arts: Alumni/ae Round Table
Hear directly from Alumni/ae in arts about career paths and journeys! Get advice and learn how to apply your liberal arts education to fun rewarding careers.
When: October 25th 2019 5pm-7pm
Where: Campus Center Red Rom 202
Sponsored by: Career Development Office.When: October 25th 2019 5pm-7pm
Where: Campus Center Red Rom 202
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Family & Alumni/ae Weekend
Friday, October 25, 2019 – Sunday, October 27, 2019
Bard College CampusSponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://www.annandaleonline.org/bardfallwknd.
Big Foot Opening Reception: Annual Art Benefit Show for the Studio Arts Fund for Visual Learning
Opening reception, October 25, 5:00–7:00 pm. Sale continues on October 26 from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm. Online sales begin October 26 at 5:00 pm and continue until November 1 at 5:00 pm.
Friday, October 25, 2019 – Saturday, October 26, 2019
5–7 pm
Fisher Studio Arts BuildingAll proceeds go to benefit the Fund for Visual Learning established in 2014 to improve educational access to Studio Arts for everyone.Sponsored by: Division of the Arts; Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 646-369-3868, e-mail dooling@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardfvl.com.
Promenade
Saturday, October 26, 2019
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterBook and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés
Music by Al Carmines
Directed by Morgan Green '12
Choreography by Lisa Fagan '11
Music Director Nathan Repasz
Scenic Design by Jian Jung
Costume Design by Alice Tavener
Lighting Design by Masha Tsimring
Sound Design by Tei Blow
Dramaturg Miriam Felton-Dansky
Stage Manager Samantha McCann*
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/promenade/.
Promenade
Saturday, October 26, 2019
2 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterBook and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés
Music by Al Carmines
Directed by Morgan Green '12
Choreography by Lisa Fagan '11
Music Director Nathan Repasz
Scenic Design by Jian Jung
Costume Design by Alice Tavener
Lighting Design by Masha Tsimring
Sound Design by Tei Blow
Dramaturg Miriam Felton-Dansky
Stage Manager Samantha McCann*
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/promenade/.
Women's Soccer Match
Saturday, October 26, 2019
2–4 pm
The women's soccer team hosts defending Liberty League champion William Smith College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
Faculty-Student Roundtable: Trump and American Foreign Policy
Saturday, October 26, 2019
2–3 pm
Olin HallMalia DuMont (Chief of Staff, Vice President for Strategy and Policy, and faculty member in the Political Studies program) and Chris McIntosh (Assistant Professor of Political Studies) join members of the Bard Debate Union for a Faculty-Student Roundtable discussion on Donald Trump and American foreign policy. Moderated by Ruth Zisman, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Co-Director of the Bard Debate Union. For more information about Family and Alumni weekend, visit: bard.edu/familyweekend; for more information about the Bard Debate Union, visit: debate.bard.edu.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Political Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit https://debate.bard.edu.
Where the Heart Is: A Tribute to Montgomery Place, and the Women Who Called It Home
Fill in the Blank Ensemble and guest artists
Saturday, October 26, 2019
2–3:15 pm
Montgomery Place, MansionEnjoy an afternoon of vocal chamber music composed by women in celebration of Montgomery Place’s beautiful landscape and the women who shaped it. Fill in the Blank Ensemble was formed by alumni/ae of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard College and is dedicated to utilizing music as a motivator for social change. Graduate Vocal Arts Program and Bard College Conservatory of Music students will be featured. Advance registration required. Space is limited; sign up at registration for Family and Alumni/ae Fall Weekend.
For more information, call 845-758-7414, e-mail events@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/familyweekend/.
Bard Conservatory Orchestra Family Weekend Concert
Saturday, October 26, 2019
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterLeon Botstein, Music Director
Ives The Fourth of July from Holiday Symphony
Sibelius Symphony No. 7
Honegger Symphony No. 3, Liturgique
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-OvertureSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/BCOM-Family-Weekend/.
Family & Alumni/ae Weekend
Friday, October 25, 2019 – Sunday, October 27, 2019
Bard College CampusSponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://www.annandaleonline.org/bardfallwknd.
Promenade
Sunday, October 27, 2019
4 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterBook and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés
Music by Al Carmines
Directed by Morgan Green '12
Choreography by Lisa Fagan '11
Music Director Nathan Repasz
Scenic Design by Jian Jung
Costume Design by Alice Tavener
Lighting Design by Masha Tsimring
Sound Design by Tei Blow
Dramaturg Miriam Felton-Dansky
Stage Manager Samantha McCann*
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/promenade/.
ISO Cultural Show
Sunday, October 27, 2019
7–9 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterA night of creative performances from around the world. Come and enjoy the diverse talents of Bard students.
This is a free (nonticketed) event for the College community and the community in the greater area. All are welcome to attend.Sponsored by: International Student Organization.
For more information, call 845-758-7328, or e-mail kalupaha@bard.edu.
Laura Franklin-Hall (Philosophy Lecture)
Monday, October 28, 2019
4:45–6:30 pm
Olin, Room 102Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7280, or e-mail jelliott@bard.edu.
Ending the Endless War: The Costs of War Project and Activist Scholarship
Stephanie Savell
Co-Director, The Costs of War Project
Monday, October 28, 2019
5:30–7 pm
Hegeman 204AAmericans are starting to say and hear more about the need to end this country’s “endless war,” the United States’ ongoing war on terrorism that began in 2001. Yet most people still don’t realize that this war’s costs – human, financial, environmental, social and political – are so far-reaching as to directly affect each and every American, as well as millions of people around the world. Nor do people recognize that this war is the latest excuse for American empire, and that in the name of counterterrorism, the U.S. government and military are acting in 80 countries, 40% of nations on the globe. Stephanie Savell, co-director of Brown University’s Costs of War project, will speak about bridging academic research and the public sphere to prompt Americans to ask big questions: Is our current approach making us any safer? Is it making others around the world any safer? If not, what could we be doing instead? Dr. Savell will address the project’s major findings and the essential work of translation in using academic research to make a difference in public debate.Sponsored by: Global and International Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7693, or e-mail mkmurray@bard.edu.
Learning Politics with Art: Lessons from Curation under Occupation
Kirsten Scheid, American University of Beirut / Clark Art Institute
Monday, October 28, 2019
6–8 pm
Olin, Room 202Studying imagination shifts attention to the emergent and yet-possible. In 2018, I cocurated an exhibition that invited Jerusalem audiences to reimagine the city’s “possible” existence by building on ludic spatial-temporal moves that have distilled in contemporary Palestinian art. This paper explores the lessons artistic imaginings of a possible Jerusalem, one not confined to space-time coordinates we use to understand realpolitik, offer the exhibition’s participants and audiences.
Associate professor of anthropology at the American University of Beirut, Kirsten Scheid studies imagination technologies, artistic materialities, and social change specifically through cases of modern and contemporary Arab art. Her essays appear in Anthropology Now, ARTMargins, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Museum Anthropology and can be accessed at https://aub-lb.academia.edu/KirstenScheid. She has cocurated The Jerusalem Show (Jerusalem, 2018) and The Arab Nude (Beirut, 2016), exhibited at the New Museum (2011), and consulted for the Tate Modern (2014) and MoMA (2016–18). The 2019–20 Clark/Oakley Fellow at the Clark Art Institute, Scheid is currently completing an historically informed ethnography of aesthetic encounters that comprise contemporary Palestine and point to new political imaginings.
This event is cosponsored by the Africana Studies Program, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, the Art History and Visual Culture Program, and the Human Rights Project.
Sponsored by: Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7506, or e-mail dramadan@bard.edu.
A Talk: The Agency of Bones & Marginal Memory
By Bridget Conley
Monday, October 28, 2019
6–8 pm
Arendt CenterContemporary efforts to answer the question, "Why memorialize atrocities," usually begin with the question, "For whom is the memory?"Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Lecture: Martha Rosler
Monday, October 28, 2019
6–8 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaThe Photography Program and the Human Rights Project are pleased to announce that Martha Rosler will be giving a lecture at Weis Cinema on Monday, October 28! The lecture will begin at 6pm and is free and open to the public.
“Martha Rosler works in photography, video, sculpture, installation, and performance. Her practice centers on the interactions of the public and the private spheres, exploring issues from everyday life and the media to war and the built environment, especially as they affect women. She aims to engage people as citizens, investigating and challenging the way power is normalized through images and discourses. Rosler’s work has been widely exhibited, nationally and internationally. Her photo/text piece The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (1974–75) is considered a milestone in the examination of documentary practices in art and photography. She has published several books of photographs, texts, and commentary on the uses of space, ranging from airports, roads, and underground train systems to housing and gentrification. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Artforum, e-flux journal, and Texte zur Kunst. Rosler lives and works in Brooklyn.”Sponsored by: Human Rights Project; Photography Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail bfalk@bard.edu.
A Reading by Peter Orner
The Bard Fiction Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner reads from Maggie Brown & Others
Monday, October 28, 2019
6:30–7:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumOn Monday, October 28, at 6:30 p.m., in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Peter Orner reads from his new collection, Maggie Brown & Others. Presented by the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series and the Written Arts Program, and introduced by MacArthur Fellow Dinaw Mengestu, the reading is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Books by Peter Orner will be available for sale, courtesy of Oblong Books & Music.
An essential voice in American fiction, Peter Orner is the author of acclaimed books such as The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (2006), winner of the Bard Fiction Prize; Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge (2013); and the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Am I Alone Here? (2016), a memoir. Best known for his short fiction, Orner has been hailed as “a master of his form,” a writer who “doesn’t simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls” (New York Times). Now, in his sixth book, Maggie Brown & Others (2019), Orner gathers a novella and forty-four stories—many as short as a few paragraphs, none longer than twenty pages—into an orchestral, polyphonic collection, his most sustained achievement yet.
Peter Orner is the author of two novels, three story collections, and a memoir. His stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and twice received a Pushcart Prize. Orner has been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, as well as a Fulbright to Namibia. Currently, he is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and lives with his family in Norwich, Vermont.
PRAISE FOR PETER ORNER
“It’s been apparent since his first book, Esther Stories (2001), that Peter Orner was a major talent . . . You know from the second you pick him up that he’s the real deal. His sentences are lit from below, like a swimming pool, with a kind of resonant yearning that’s impossible to fake . . . Orner can do anything.” —New York Times
“Mr. Orner packs remarkable pathos into his condensed dramas.” ―Wall Street Journal
“Orner writes with a combination of sincerity and self-awareness. . . . Most vividly reminiscent of Raymond Carver.” ―San Francisco Chronicle
“Orner is incapable of dishonoring his characters. He treats all of them—even the minor figures—with a fierce humanity.” —Boston Globe
“Peter Orner is that rare find: a young writer who can inhabit any character, traverse any landscape, and yet never stray from the sound of the human heart.” —Washington Post
“[Orner] is one of our most empathetic writers today. . . His fiction has an intimate feel: we are in conversation with otherwise unknown and forgotten lives. This is what makes Orner’s characters live and breathe beyond the page . . . This is how his clean, simple sentences succeed far beyond the limited space he gives them . . . Let us be thankful for Peter Orner.” ―Los Angeles Review of Books
“Orner is secretly one of the best contemporary writers working today: his characters are indelible, his focus small and piercing, his insights moving . . . all with his special sense for truth, character, and wistful realism.” ―Literary HubSponsored by: Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series and the Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail nnyhan@bard.edu.
Noon Concert
An hour-long concert performed by Conservatory students.
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
12–1 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7186, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Peace Corps Information Session
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
12:15–1:15 pm
Campus Center, Meeting Room 214Peace Corps Information Session
When: Tuesday, October 29, 12:15 - 1:15pm
Drop In Hours 1:30-3:00pm
Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room
Drop In Hours 1:30-3:00pm
Where: Campus Center 214, Meeting Room
Come and learn about volunteering for the Peace Corps! All class years are invited to come hear about opportunities with the Peace Corps and get the inside scoop on what its like to be a Peace Corps Volunteer.
If you have a class that ends at 1:10pm, feel free to swing by afterwards from 1:30-3:00pm for drop in hours to get your questions answered.
For more information, please contact the Career Development Office, cdo@bard.edu.
For more information about the Peace Corps, visit: http://www.peacecorps.gov/
For more information, call 845-758-7539, e-mail cdo@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cdo.
The (R)evolution of Indigenous Food Systems of North America
Presented in association with Oblong Books & Music
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
5 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterSean Sherman, Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge reservation, and the founder of the company The Sioux Chef is committed to revitalizing Native American cuisine. Through his research, he has uncovered and mapped out the foundations of the indigenous food systems through an indigenous perspective. Chef Sean has become renowned nationally and internationally in the culinary movement of indigenous foods and with an ever-growing team of indigenous minded peers, is leading a movement to completely redefine North American cuisine through the understanding and utilization of indigenous food knowledge. This is an evolution of Native American Foods, taking important educations of the past and applying them to the now.
Run time is approximately 50 minutes, followed by a Q&A and book signing.Sponsored by: 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/the-sioux-chef/.
Baseera Khan
Artist Visit
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
5–6 pm
Fisher Studio Arts BuildingBaseera Khan is a New York–based artist who sublimates colonial histories through performance and sculpture in order to map geographies of the future. Her work navigates the political circumstances of her identity as a femme Muslim American who grew up in Texas. She received an MFA from Cornell University and a BFA from the University of North Texas.
Presented in association with Live Arts Bard’s festival about borders, Where No Wall Remains.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7679, or visit https://www.facebook.com/bardcollegestudioarts/.
Japanese Film Series: Godzilla (Ishirō Honda, 1954)—96min
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
6–8:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaSponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CMIA – Cinema of Hong Kong
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
7–11:55 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- The Killer
(John Woo, 1989, Hong Kong, 111 minutes, 35mm) - Days of Being Wild
(Wong Kar-wai, 1995, Hong Kong, 96 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Brooklyn Law School Info Session
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
12–1:30 pm
Campus Center, Meeting Room 214Interested in finding more about law school?
Hear from
Elizabeth Madigan, Esq., Assistant Director of Admissions at Brooklyn Law School
about the law school application process and timelines.
Get your questions answered!
Elizabeth Madigan, Esq., Assistant Director of Admissions at Brooklyn Law School
about the law school application process and timelines.
Get your questions answered!
ALL MAJORS AND CLASS YEARS ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND
WHEN: Wednesday, October 30, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
WHERE: Campus Center, RM 214
WHERE: Campus Center, RM 214
Sponsored by: Career Development Office.
For more information, call 845-758-7539, e-mail cdo@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cdo/.
Levy Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy
Information session and webinar
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
5–7 pm
WebsiteDuring this information session we will talk about requirements for admission, financial aid, specifications for international students and more.
Professor Tom Masterson, director of applied micro modeling and a research scholar in the Levy Economics Institute’s Distribution of Income and Wealth program will join us. He will chat about his work on the Levy Institute Measure of Well-being (LIMEW) and his research interests.
Registration is required: https://connect.bard.edu/register/OCTOBER30
** Please use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox on a desktop, laptop, or Android mobile device to participate in the webinar. Other platforms (iPhone, iPad) are not currently supported. Alternatively, join us on the Levy Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy page to participate through Facebook LIVE!Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute; Levy Graduate Programs.
For more information, call 845-758-7776, e-mail levygrad@bard.edu, or visit https://connect.bard.edu/register/OCTOBER30.
CMIA - Annus Mirabilis
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
7–11 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Ninotchka
(Ernst Lubitsch, 1939, USA, 110 minutes, 35mm) - Only Angels Have Wings
(Howard Hawks, 1939, USA, 121 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
The Jefferson Project: Integrating Science and Technology for Enduring Lake Protection
Rick Relyea, Director, The Jefferson Project
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Thursday, October 31, 2019
12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Conservatory Concerto Competition: Vocal Arts Preliminary Round
Students in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program audition for the Concerto Competition Final Round.
Thursday, October 31, 2019
7–9 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Bard Abroad CEU and Smolny Spring 2020 Application Deadline
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Looking to study abroad in Budapest, or St. Petersburg? Applications for Spring 2020 are due October 1!
Ottaway Gatehouse
Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7835, e-mail studyarboad@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/bardabroad/.
Peer Resume Review After Hours
Thursday, October 31, 2019
7–8:30 pm
Need to get your cover letter or resume reviewed after CDO is closed?
Attend peer resume walk-in hours every:
Tuesday from 7 pm - 8 pm George Ball Lounge Campus Center
&
Thursday from 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Library (second floor)
Attend peer resume walk-in hours every:
Tuesday from 7 pm - 8 pm George Ball Lounge Campus Center
&
Thursday from 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Library (second floor)
Sponsored by: Career Development Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Yom Kippur Services
All are welcome to attend
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 – Sunday, October 6, 2019
10 am – 8 pm
Yom Kippur (the Jewish Day of Atonement) starts Tuesday Evening October 8 and ends at dark on Wednesday, October 9. All Bard community members are welcome to join us for any and all parts of the day. All events will be held in the Center for Spiritual Life
Yom Kippur Schedule
Kol Nidrei – Tuesday at 6 PM sharp.
Morning service – Wednesday at 10 AM.
Memorial service (Yizkr) 5:30 PM
Concluding service ( Ne'ilah) – 6:15 PM
Break the fast (with bagels!) – 7:10 PM sharp.
Between the morning service and the memorial service we encourage everyone to remain with us the Center for Spiritual Life for informal conversation, reflection, napping, and being with friends.
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 201-956-8228.
Drawdown Learn Conference Live
Connect, learn, and help chart a path forward for solutions-based climate change education and action in your school or community.
Sunday, October 20, 2019
11 am – 12:30 pm
11:00 a.m.- 11:15 a.m.Updates from the Drawdown Organization with the Project Drawdown E.D.
11:15 a.m.–11:30 a.m.From Local Action to a Global Movement: Our Work in Hawaii with Henk Rogers
11:30 a.m. –12:30 a.mYouth Leadership Panel with Alexandria Villasenor, Xiye Bastida, Birch Kinsey, Naomi Hollard, and more
Conference close with Schaghicoke First Nations and other northeast Indigenous partners
Preston
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability; Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing; Division of Social Studies; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Human Rights Program; Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-464-8025, e-mail husted@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eomega.org/online-workshops/2019-drawdown-learn-conference-live-online#wsSchedule.
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Saturday, October 19, 2019
- 9 am – 5:30 pm 2019 Drawdown Learn Conference Live Online
- 1–4 pm Reading Room
- 2–4 pm Men's Soccer Match
- 2–4 pm Decolonized Feast
- 4–8 pm A+ Writing Support and Tutoring in the Learning Commons
- 5:30–6:30 pm Reception for "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage and Violetta White Delafield
- 7:30–9 pm Cumbia de mi corazón
- 8 pm Sibelius and Shostakovich
- Biennial Special Events
- Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
- Lecture Series on Popular Sovereignty
Sunday, October 20, 2019
- 12–6 pm Bard MBA in Sustainability: October Residency Visit
- 12–2 pm Chemistry Study Room
- 1–4 pm Reading Room
- 2 pm Sibelius and Shostakovich
- 3–5 pm Christian Services
- 4–8 pm A+ Writing Support and Tutoring in the Learning Commons
- 7–10 pm Math Study Room
- Biennial Special Events
- Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
- Lecture Series on Popular Sovereignty
Monday, October 21, 2019
- 12–2 pm Levy Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy
- 1–4 pm Reading Room
- 4–8 pm A+ Writing Support and Tutoring in the Learning Commons
- 4:15–5 pm Relaxation Drop-in Series
- 5 pm College Behind Bars
- 5–7 pm Meditation Group
- 6–7 pm German Table
- 6–8 pm Muslim Prayer Group
- 7–10 pm Math Study Room
- 7–8 pm Bard Debate Union – Weekly Meeting
- 7–9 pm Biology Study Room!
- 7–10 pm Italian Film Series
- 8–9 pm Latin Study Room
- Biennial Special Events
- Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
- Lecture Series on Popular Sovereignty
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
- 12–1:30 pm Spanish Table
- 12–1 pm Russian Table
- 1–4 pm Reading Room
- 4–8 pm A+ Writing Support and Tutoring in the Learning Commons
- 4–5 pm SPROJ Research Clinics
- 4:15–5 pm Relaxation Drop-in Series
- 4:45–6:15 pm From Voter Suppression to the Census: A Decade of Fighting for Voting Rights
- 5–10 pm Chemistry Study Room
- 5:30–6:30 pm Empathic Communication and Behavior
- 6–8 pm Tango Club
- 7–10 pm Math Study Room
- 7–9 pm Biology Study Room!
- 7–11:55 pm CMIA – Taiwanese New Wave
- Biennial Special Events
- Massage Therapy Sessions
- Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
- Lecture Series on Popular Sovereignty
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
- 8 am – 1 pm Acupuncture at Bard
- 1–4 pm Reading Room
- 4–8 pm A+ Writing Support and Tutoring in the Learning Commons
- 4:15–5 pm Relaxation Drop-in Series
- 5–7 pm Speaker Series: Will Rawls – Cursor
- 5–8 pm Music Theory Study Room
- 5–10 pm Chemistry Study Room
- 6–7 pm Arabic Table
- 6–7:30 pm Chinese Table
- 6–7 pm Japanese Table
- 6:30–7:30 pm Italian Table
- 7–10 pm Math Study Room
- 7–8:30 pm REAS Film Series: Viy (Вий)
- 7–9 pm Biology Study Room!
- 7–11 pm CMIA - The Arrival of Sound
- 7–9 pm Economics Study Room
- 7–10 pm Wild Roots Wellness Collective Weekly Meetings
- 8–9 pm Latin Study Room
- Biennial Special Events
- Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
- Lecture Series on Popular Sovereignty
Thursday, October 24, 2019
- 8 am – 5 pm Acupuncture at Bard
- 11 am – 2 pm Where There Be Dragons Study Abroad Info Table
- 12:30–1:30 pm French Table
- 1–4 pm Reading Room
- 3–5 pm Speaker Series: Prem Krishnamurthy - "Endless Archive (Part II)"
- 4–8 pm A+ Writing Support and Tutoring in the Learning Commons
- 4:15–5 pm Relaxation Drop-in Series
- 5–7:30 pm Meditation Group
- 5:30–6:30 pm Academic Writing Workshop Series
- 7–9 pm Biology Study Room!
- 7–9 pm Economics Study Room
- 7–9 pm Eli Weinstein Moderation Concert
- 7–9 pm Cooking and Baking for Shabbat
- 7:30 pm Promenade
- 7:30–9:30 pm Film: Kiki's Delivery Service
- Jacob Neusner Memorial Lecture in Jewish and Religious Studies
- Biennial Special Events
- Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
- Lecture Series on Popular Sovereignty
Friday, October 25, 2019
- 12–1 pm I Work with Magnets: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of High-temperature Superconductors
- 12–2 pm Latin Table
- 12:30–2 pm The Institute of Advanced Theology Pre-Advent Lecture Series with Bruce Chilton
- 1–4 pm Reading Room
- 4–6 pm Women's Volleyball Match
- 4–8 pm A+ Writing Support and Tutoring in the Learning Commons
- 4:15–5 pm Relaxation Drop-in Series
- 5–7 pm Big Foot Opening Reception: Annual Art Benefit Show for the Studio Arts Fund for Visual Learning
- 5–7 pm Alumni/ae Talk: Career Paths for Performing & Liberal Arts: Alumni/ae Round Table
- 6:30–8:30 pm Shabbat
- 7:30 pm Promenade
- Moderation Papers Due
- Midterm Grades and Criteria Sheets Due
- Family & Alumni/ae Weekend
- Biennial Special Events
- Massage Therapy Sessions
- Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
- Lecture Series on Popular Sovereignty
Saturday, October 26, 2019
- 1–4 pm Reading Room
- 2 pm Promenade
- 2–4 pm Women's Soccer Match
- 2–3 pm Faculty-Student Roundtable: Trump and American Foreign Policy
- 2–3:15 pm Where the Heart Is: A Tribute to Montgomery Place, and the Women Who Called It Home
- 4–8 pm A+ Writing Support and Tutoring in the Learning Commons
- 5–7 pm Big Foot Opening Reception: Annual Art Benefit Show for the Studio Arts Fund for Visual Learning
- 7:30 pm Promenade
- 8 pm Bard Conservatory Orchestra Family Weekend Concert
- Family & Alumni/ae Weekend
- Biennial Special Events
- Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
- Lecture Series on Popular Sovereignty
Sunday, October 27, 2019
- 12–2 pm Chemistry Study Room
- 1–4 pm Reading Room
- 3–5 pm Christian Services
- 4 pm Promenade
- 4–8 pm A+ Writing Support and Tutoring in the Learning Commons
- 7–10 pm Math Study Room
- 7–9 pm ISO Cultural Show
- Family & Alumni/ae Weekend
- Biennial Special Events
- Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
- Lecture Series on Popular Sovereignty
Monday, October 28, 2019
- 1–4 pm Reading Room
- 4–8 pm A+ Writing Support and Tutoring in the Learning Commons
- 4:45–6:30 pm Laura Franklin-Hall (Philosophy Lecture)
- 5–7 pm Meditation Group
- 5:30–7 pm Ending the Endless War: The Costs of War Project and Activist Scholarship
- 6–7 pm German Table
- 6–8 pm Muslim Prayer Group
- 6–8 pm Learning Politics with Art: Lessons from Curation under Occupation
- 6–8 pm Lecture: Martha Rosler
- 6–8 pm A Talk: The Agency of Bones & Marginal Memory
- 6:30–7:30 pm A Reading by Peter Orner
- 7–10 pm Math Study Room
- 7–8 pm Bard Debate Union – Weekly Meeting
- 7–9 pm Biology Study Room!
- 7–10 pm Italian Film Series
- 8–9 pm Latin Study Room
- Biennial Special Events
- Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
- Lecture Series on Popular Sovereignty
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
- 12–1 pm Noon Concert
- 12–1:30 pm Spanish Table
- 12–1 pm Russian Table
- 12:15–1:15 pm Peace Corps Information Session
- 1–4 pm Reading Room
- 4–8 pm A+ Writing Support and Tutoring in the Learning Commons
- 4–5 pm SPROJ Research Clinics
- 5 pm The (R)evolution of Indigenous Food Systems of North America
- 5–10 pm Chemistry Study Room
- 5–6 pm Baseera Khan
- 6–8:30 pm Japanese Film Series: Godzilla (Ishirō Honda, 1954)—96min
- 7–10 pm Math Study Room
- 7–9 pm Biology Study Room!
- 7–11:55 pm CMIA – Cinema of Hong Kong
- Biennial Special Events
- Massage Therapy Sessions
- Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
- Lecture Series on Popular Sovereignty
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
- 8 am – 1 pm Acupuncture at Bard
- 12–1:30 pm Brooklyn Law School Info Session
- 1–4 pm Reading Room
- 4–8 pm A+ Writing Support and Tutoring in the Learning Commons
- 5–8 pm Music Theory Study Room
- 5–10 pm Chemistry Study Room
- 5–7 pm
Levy Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy - 6–7 pm Arabic Table
- 6–7:30 pm Chinese Table
- 6–7 pm Japanese Table
- 6:30–7:30 pm Italian Table
- 7–10 pm Math Study Room
- 7–9 pm Biology Study Room!
- 7–11 pm CMIA - Annus Mirabilis
- 7–9 pm Economics Study Room
- 7–10 pm Wild Roots Wellness Collective Weekly Meetings
- 8–9 pm Latin Study Room
- Biennial Special Events
- Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
- Lecture Series on Popular Sovereignty
Thursday, October 31, 2019
- 8 am – 5 pm Acupuncture at Bard
- 12–1 pm The Jefferson Project: Integrating Science and Technology for Enduring Lake Protection
- 12:30–1:30 pm French Table
- 1–4 pm Reading Room
- 4–8 pm A+ Writing Support and Tutoring in the Learning Commons
- 5–7:30 pm Meditation Group
- 7–9 pm Conservatory Concerto Competition: Vocal Arts Preliminary Round
- 7–9 pm Biology Study Room!
- 7–9 pm Economics Study Room
- 7–9 pm Cooking and Baking for Shabbat
- Biennial Special Events
- Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
- Lecture Series on Popular Sovereignty