Wednesday, April 1, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING
2019, Sosnoff Theater, SummerScape
First performed in the U.S. almost 100 years after its world premiere in Hamburg, this lushly orchestrated allegorical tale was staged by Christian Räth in 2019. Performed by a remarkable cast and the 80-member American Symphony Orchestra, this staging was a stellar example of Maestro Botstein’s commitment to reintroduce rarely seen operatic treasures to a contemporary audience.
Wednesday, April 15, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING 2018, Sosnoff Theater, SummerScape
Rubinstein’s operatic masterpiece is based on a poem depicting the isolation and despair of a fallen angel. Premiered to great acclaim in 1871, Demon received its first fully staged U.S. performances at Bard in 2018. With rich choral writing and a fiery libretto, the production was staged by Thaddeus Strassberger and featured an all-Russian cast, Pesvebi Georgian Dancers and The American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Botstein.
Wednesday, May 13, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING Bard SummerScape Opera and the Bard Music Festival have become synonymous with a new kind of concert experience, one that provides a “rich web of context” (New York Times) for a full appreciation of each composer’s inspirations, significance, and legacy.
This week, UPSTREAMING illuminates the world of Russian composer Sergey Taneyev (1856–1915). A highly gifted pianist and composer, Taneyev was a protégé and champion of Tchaikovsky’s, serving as soloist in early performances of the older composer’s piano concertos.
Taneyev was one of Russia’s most influential music theorists, teaching for nearly three decades at the Moscow Conservatory, where his students included Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, and Glière; Stravinsky later recalled how highly he valued Taneyev’s treatise on counterpoint, calling it “one of the best books of its kind.” Yet in striving to synthesize counterpoint with folksong, he developed a distinct compositional voice that looked forward to Stravinsky himself. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-sergey-taneyev/.
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING Bard SummerScape Opera and the Bard Music Festival have become synonymous with a new kind of concert experience, one that provides a “rich web of context” (New York Times) for a full appreciation of each composer’s inspirations, significance, and legacy.
This week, UPSTREAMING illuminates the work of German Romantic composer Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), featuring:
Carl Maria von Weber’s short life was marked by many lows—frequent illnesses, an arrest on embezzlement and other charges—but he also became one of the most influential composers of the early 19th century whose prodigious gifts as a composer, pianist, conductor, and writer bring to mind Mozart. The premiere of Der Freischütz in 1821, an opera that immediately captured the imagination of audiences in Europe and beyond, was a transformative event in the history of Romanticism and helped to usher in a new sensibility in music. He did not have a comparable success in the remaining five years of his life, although the overtures to his later Euryanthe and Oberon became repertory standards. In these operas, and in less familiar compositions, his masterful orchestration and compelling evocation of mood became models for composers from Meyerbeer to Wagner, Liszt, Berlioz, Glinka, and Hindemith. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-carl-maria-von-weber/.
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING
This engrossing program encompasses varied works exploring religion and spirituality through the lens of female composers: Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, staged at Bard in 2015, animates a moral drama about social justice and personal courage, while Lili Boulanger’s Psalm 130 “Du fond de l'abîme” (1917) offers a deeply personal requiem dedicated to her father. Lera Auerbach’s Violin Concerto No. 3, “De Profundis” (2015) with Vadim Repin rounds out the program.
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING This week’s UPSTREAMING selection offers an exploration of French romanticism through the work of two composers—Emmanuel Chabrier and Hector Berlioz—who, while stylistically different, shared capacity for independent thought and innovation. The fully staged production of Chabrier’s Le roi malgré lui from the 2012 Bard SummerScape is complemented by Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette from the 2017 Bard Music Festival. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/French-Romanticism/.
Wednesday, August 5, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING “Botstein and Bard SummerScape show courage, foresight and great imagination, honoring operas that larger institutions are content to ignore. —Time Out New York
UPSTREAMING: Opera at Bard presents the musical centerpiece of the 2017 Bard SummerScape: Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s 1882 rare opera Dimitrij. Supporting content includes a recording of Janáček's Sinfonietta as performed by the American Symphony Orchestra and discussions including a lively and illuminating conversation between ASO music director Leon Botstein and noted Dvořák specialist Michael Beckerman. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-Dimitrij/.
Wednesday, August 19, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING
One of the most revered Romantic composers of the late 19th and early 20th century, Richard Strauss’s symphonic poems and operas remain an indispensable feature of the standard repertoire. This program—which includes the operatic rarity Die Liebe der Danae (The Love of Danae) from the 2011 Bard SummerScape along with various symphonic and choral works—explores the composer’s substantial melodic gifts and his mastery of instrumentation and expression.
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING
At once opulent and eerie, Pietro Mascagni’s Iris, composed in 1898 with libretto by Luigi Illica, received its North American premiere at Bard SummerScape in 2016. The American Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Leon Botstein performed with a brilliant cast of accomplished singers including the Australian tenor Gerard Schneider as a menacing and callous Osaka alongside the soprano Talise Travigne who movingly embodied the naivete and fragility of the eponymous character.
Leon Botstein in conversation with Stephanie Blythe
Sunday, October 25, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING For World Opera Day 2020, join two iconoclastic figures from the opera world for a wide-ranging and lively conversation. Revered mezzo & Artistic Director of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard, Stephanie Blythe joins Leon Botstein, Bard College President & Music Director of the American Symphony Orchestra engage in an engrossing discussion about their shared fascination with rarely-performed operas along with anecdotes and trenchant observations about the past, present, and future of the art form.
Free Lecture Series: The Origins of Civic Participation in Medieval and Early Modern Central European Political Thought
Thursday, September 30, 2021 – Thursday, December 16, 2021
Online Event This fall, Central European University is offering OSUN members a free online lecture series with renowned experts discussing the origins of civic participation in medieval and Early Modern Central European political thought and exploring its forms of expression in written and visual media from Late Antiquity to the seventeenth century.
The question of whether the governance and autonomy of medieval cities and the participation of their citizens in managing communal affairs may be regarded as a laboratory of democracy or yet another form of the rule of the privileged has re-emerged in recent scholarship. Along with urban and legal historians and scholars of political thought, research in art history, literacy, spatial studies, and global history have provided a set of new answers. Governing bodies and institutions, with varying degrees of participation by citizens with different social and legal standings, as well as the shaping of the physical environment, are all being considered.
The "Urban Governance and Civic Participation in Words and Stone" lecture series is co-organized by the Democracy in History Workgroup of the CEU Democracy Institute, the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU, the Department of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London, and the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Erfurt. It examines the notion of civic participation through a critical lens in medieval and Early Modern Central Europe in a long historical perspective and a broader geographical spectrum. The series is convened by Zoe Opacic (Birkbeck), Susanne Rau (Erfurt), and Katalin Szende (CEU DI).
Every lecture in the series is open to the public. Participation is possible for individual dates as well as for the entire lecture series. If you attend the entire lecture and write an essay (8-10 pages), you can get a certificate of attendance.
The lectures will also prepare the ground for a Summer University Course entitled Urban Governance and Civic Participation in Words and Stone to be organized by the Open Society University Network (OSUN) in July 2022.
Please visit the CEU Course Hub for further information on course requirements, readings and assessment. Registration is required to attend each lecture. More information on how to register is available upon clicking on the title of the lectures below.
Schedule 09/30/2021: Maarten Prak (University of Utrecht): Citizenship in Premodern Europe and Asia 07/10/2021: Caroline Goodson (University of Cambridge): Mediterranean Cities in the Early Middle Ages 14/10/2021: Fabrizio Nevola (University of Exeter): Writing on Walls in Early Modern Italy 21/10/2021: Beat Kumin (University of Warwick): Rural Subjects? Governance, Participation and Self-Representation in Imperial Villages 28/10/2021: Achim Timmermann (University of Michigan): Calvary Is Everywhere: Capital Punishment and the Civic Imagination 04/11/2021: Andreas Lehnertz (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Seals and Oath-Taking: Jewish Civic Participation in the Medieval Holy Roman Empire 11/11/2021: Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck, University of London): Guilds, Fraternities and Civic Life in London, 1300-1700 18/11/2021: Martin Scheutz (University of Vienna): Armed Citizens in Town. Control of Weapons and Armories 25/11/2021: Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London): How Strange Were the Strangers of Medieval Cities? [TBC] 02/12/2021: Sara Keller – Susanne Rau (University of Erfurt): Urban Governance in South Asian Cities 09/12/2021: Grigor Boykov (Austrian Academy of Sciences): When “The Land of Filibe Became Egypt and Meriç Turned Into Nile”: Governance, Architectural Patronage, and Water Management of the Mid-Fifteenth-Century Plovdiv 16/12/2021: Ferenc Horcher (University of Public Service, Budapest): The Political Ideology of the Renaissance and Early Modern City - From Bruni to Althusius For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://courses.ceu.edu/courses/2021-2022/urban-governance-and-civic-participation-words-and-stone.
Trick or treating comes early this October with Richard Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, which chronicles the misadventures of the titular practical jokester and German peasant folk hero. Then we get serious with a performance of Anton Bruckner’s massive and masterful Fifth Symphony. It was performed only once during the composer’s lifetime, and he died having never heard it.
Leon Botsteinconductor
R. StraussTill Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Bruckner Symphony No. 5Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Online Event We planning for both the October 1 and November 5, 2021 Bard College IWT Writer as Reader Workshops to be held online. We look forward to returning to in-person workshops in 2022.
Writer as Reader workshops model writing practices that inspire students to read more carefully, to grasp the meaning in more complex texts, and to infer meaning from what they read. These workshops invite secondary and college teachers to consider “writing to read” as a central classroom practice, one that shows rather than tells students how writing clarifies the meaning of texts. Working with diverse writing-to-read strategies, workshop participants discover what they bring to the text, what is apparent in the text, what is inferred, and what questions the text poses.
Workshop offerings:
Reading Climate, Writing Change: Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Christina Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac’s The Future We Choose: Surviving Climate Crisis
“Vulnerable to Foreign Ways of Seeing and Thinking”: James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues” and Gloria Anzaldúa's “La Conciencia de la Mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness”
Diving Into The Wreck: Daniel Defoe, Adrienne Rich, and J.M. Coetzee
“Who Will Take Up the Body?”: Sara Uribe’s Antígona González Reimagines Antigone within Today’s Global Politics
Othello and American Moor: Studying Shakespeare in a Racialized America
Science and Disenchantment: Max Weber’s “Science as Vocation” and the Role of Science in Ethical Life
Edith Wharton's Two New Yorks
“It’s Getting Started That’s the Puzzle”: Kelly Reichardt, First Cow, and telling American stories
"I would not paint — a picture —": Emily Dickinson’s Visual Poetics
The Lavender Scare: Mid-century Fictions and Fears
OSUN Talks 3: Popper in Critical Conversation—Arendt, Berlin, Shklar, and the Open Society
Friday, October 1, 2021 9–11 am
Online Event 9–11 AM New York l 3–5 PM Vienna
The Open Society Research Platform welcomes OSUN members to attend an online panel discussion on the writings of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and Judith Shklar on the concept of the Open Society.
Speakers Roger Berkowitz (Bard College) Oseni Afisi (Lagos State University) Allison Stanger (Middlebury College)
Moderator Christof Royer (Central European University)
Aims and Purposes The reviewers of the (relatively) recent Cambridge Companion to Popper (2016) tartly observe that scholarship on Karl Popper resembles a "closed society" as this literature is characterized by a "near total failure" to bring Popper and his concepts in conversation with thinkers and ideas in the near temporal and intellectual space. The purpose of this discussion is to take important steps to remedy this shortcoming.
The first aim is to initiate a critical conversation between Karl Popper, who popularized the concept of "open society" in The Open Society and Its Enemies, and mid-20th-century thinkers, who wrote in a common tradition of antitotalitarian thought, and whose works overlap but also diverge in important ways from Popper’s account of Open Society.
Particularly important interlocutors here—and, indeed, the theorists on which this workshop focuses—are Hannah Arendt, Judith Shklar, and Isaiah Berlin. Through a critical conversation between these thinkers, we hope to achieve a clearer picture of the potential meaning(s) and content of the concept of Open Society.
The second aim is to link this critical discussion to the present moment. As such, this workshop is not an exercise in either abstract political philosophy or intellectual history but rather an attempt to harness the ideas and insights of these theorists to think through and address contemporary problems. The aim is to show why and how a critical engagement with the concept of Open Society matters today.
Format This is the third event in a series of workshops/discussions on the concept of Open Society. The event is planned as a workshop with a set of preformulated questions that speakers will respond to. Subsequently, there will be a Q & A in which members of the audience can make comments or ask questions.
82.4 Million People: A Look at the UNHCR's Global Trends in Forced Displacement 2020
Friday, October 1, 2021 9–10:30 am
Online Event 9 AM NY l 3 PM Vienna
According to the latest figures captured in the UNHCR Global Trends in Forced Displacement report, 82.4 million people were forcibly displaced as of the end of 2020. This staggering figure is made even more surprising by the fact that 86% of these individuals are hosted by developing countries.
The OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives welcomes OSUN members to a panel discussion that grapples with a number of the June 2021 report’s findings. Speakers will give an overview of the report, including new areas and people of concern, the current global problems faced by refugees, displaced people and hosting countries, and will then focus on the challenges ahead, including donor fatigue.
Speakers: Edgar Scrase, Senior Statistics and Data Analysis, UNHCR Wyclife Otieno Barasa, Managing Director, Resilience Action International (Refugee-Led Organization) Alebachew Kemisso, Assistant Professor and Director for Center for Comparative Education and Policy Studies (CCEPS) at Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia
Moderator: Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives, Bard College; Director of the OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives
This webinar is part of the OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives and CCE Panel Series.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom. Sponsored by: OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives.
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Friday, October 1, 2021 12–1 pm
Bito Conservatory Rm 106 Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
FRIDAYS: 12:00 – 1:00 in Bito Conservatory Rm 106 with counselor Kahan Sablo. For more information, call 845-758-7433, or e-mail ibrent@bard.edu.
Employer Insight Series—Japan Exchange in Teaching Program (JET)
Friday, October 1, 2021 1–2 pm
Join us via Zoom to learn about postgrad opportunities to work, teach, and live in Japan. Register at https://tinyurl.com/cdojetprogram. Fall application deadlines for May 2022 grads.Sponsored by: Career Development Office.
Online Event Shut Up & Sproj provides a quiet, communal space for you to do Senior Project work. We meet on Zoom on Friday afternoons (and in person in Stevenson Library 402 on Mondays from 3:30 to 5:00 pm).
By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project at the same time each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 We meet each week to plan 1 of the largest outdoor concert events on campus! Drop in if you want to help us choose this year’s artists, events, etc. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jm3697@bard.edu.
Friday, October 1, 2021 – Saturday, October 2, 2021 9:30 pm – 2 am
SMOG A SMOG show with beloved Bard acts playing rock, metal, and alternative music, followed by a special performance by Uku Pacha. Uku Pacha is an electronic music producer and DJ who was born in Peru and is now based in NYC. It is his first time playing since before the pandemic, so pull up, dance, have a good time, and come celebrate Emmanuel's 21st birthday! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sk3833@bard.edu.
Friday, October 1, 2021 – Saturday, October 2, 2021 9:30 pm – 2 am
SMOG A SMOG show with beloved Bard acts playing rock, metal, and alternative music, followed by a special performance by Uku Pacha. Uku Pacha is an electronic music producer and DJ who was born in Peru and is now based in NYC. It is his first time playing since before the pandemic, so pull up, dance, have a good time, and come celebrate Emmanuel's 21st birthday! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sk3833@bard.edu.
Trick or treating comes early this October with Richard Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, which chronicles the misadventures of the titular practical jokester and German peasant folk hero. Then we get serious with a performance of Anton Bruckner’s massive and masterful Fifth Symphony. It was performed only once during the composer’s lifetime, and he died having never heard it.
Leon Botsteinconductor
R. StraussTill Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Bruckner Symphony No. 5Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's soccer team hosts William Smith College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Join us for a celebration of life and creation. Bring your dog, cat, bird, hamster, horse, or any beloved pet for a blessing. Photographs and favorite stuffed animals are also welcome. Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, reflections, and Holy Communion this Sunday in the Chapel as we prepare for the start of a new semester at Bard. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. George, my five-month-old King Charles Cavalier spaniel, will be joining us!
We welcome all — Christians, Non-Christian, Spiritual but Not Religious, Agnostics, Believers, Doubters, Seekers, anyone who has questions about faith and religion, and those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
University-Wide Seminar: Epistemologies of Academic Freedom
Monday, October 4, 2021 9:30–11 am
Online Event 9:30 AM NY l 3:30 PM Vienna
Academic freedom is an elusive and multi-dimensional concept. OSUN welcomes all network members to a university-wide seminar that proposes a discussion about how the epistemology, or epistemologies, of academic freedom impact its conceptualizations, regulatory frameworks and practice.
Liviu Matei, CEU Provost, will discuss the rationalist tradition, which is largely socially insensitive, embedded in European conceptualizations, and juxtapose it with North American approaches.
Maria Kronfeldner, Department of Philosophy, CEU will question the so-called “argument from truth," the claim that we need academic freedom to further the “advancement of knowledge," but with a constructive goal in mind, namely, to find a better epistemological foundation for defending academic freedom.
Milica Popović, OSUN Global Observatory on Academic Freedom, will discuss the concept of epistemic injustices (coined by Miranda Fricker), unpacking both testimonial and hermeneutical sides of the issue.
Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua, School of Law, University of Ghana, will discuss the “epistemic decolonization” in Africa, through a review of academic freedom and its critical role in the African context, which is to disrupt epistemic coloniality.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
OSUN's Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents Lawrence Abu Hamdan's "Natq," a live audiovisual essay on the politics and possibilities of reincarnation. Through listening closely to “xenoglossy” (the impossible speech of reincarnated subjects), this performance explores a collectivity of lives who use reincarnation to negotiate their condition at the threshold of the law—people for whom injustices and violence have escaped the historical record due to colonial subjugation, corruption, rural lawlessness, and legal amnesty. In the piece, reincarnation is not a question of belief but a medium for justice.
Dr. Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Internationally known Private Ear. Licensed and Bonded by Goldsmiths College. Civil, Criminal, Marital, Human, Theological. Offices in London, Berlin, Beirut and Dubai.
Event moderated by Danielle Riou, Human Rights Project, Bard College.
Stevenson Library Shut Up & Sproj provides a quiet, communal space for you to do Senior Project work. We meet in Stevenson Library 402 every Monday this semester (and on Zoom every Friday from 3:30 to 5:00).
By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project at the same time each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-332-6159, or e-mail jesmith@bard.edu.
FYSEM Forum Event: Choreographer Mark Morris's Adaptation of Henry Purcell's Opera Dido and Aeneas
Monday, October 4, 2021 4:45–6:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
FYSEM is delighted to announce our first FORUM event of the year: a screening of the modern dance piece DIDO AND AENEAS, with choreography by Mark Morris set to the music of the 17th-century English composer Henry Purcell.
The ill-fated love affair between Aeneas and Dido, queen of Carthage, is one of the most memorable and significant episodes of Virgil’s epic, dramatizing the human costs of the hero’s empire-founding mission: it has been adapted, riffed, and rewritten by a host of writers and creative artists over the past two thousand years. The most famous of these is Henry Purcell’s one-act opera Dido and Aeneas, written in the 1680s, which searingly presents the despair of the abandoned Dido. In 1995, the choreographer Mark Morris premiered his ballet, set to Purcell’s music, which amplified the story’s interest in gender: he himself danced the part of Dido.
Our event will consist of a screening of a performance of this 50-minute work, preceded by remarks by Aaron Mattocks, the former manager of the Mark Morris Dance Company, who will speak on elements of Morris’s technique and about “Dido” more specifically.
ATTENDANCE AT THIS EVENT IS MANDATORY. Masks are required and there will be room for generous spacing. Students who have special requests with respect to attendance are asked to speak with their FYSEM instructor.
Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.
For more information, call 845-758-7514, or e-mail fysem@bard.edu.
Preston Theater A Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown, nestled in the majestic butterfly forests of Michoacán. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his hybrid identity, sparking a personal metamorphosis.
Following the screening, meet the director Alexis Gambis and learn more about his Science New Wave movement, where scientific pursuit is free to co-exist and blend freely across disciplines and cultures.Sponsored by: Biology Program; Film and Electronic Arts Program; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Please bring your own mats/props. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Stevenson Library Zotero is a free citation management platform that integrates with your browser and your word processing app to help you manage your sources and generate citations quickly and easily as you write. In this workshop, we'll walk you though the set up process and basic functions of Zotero and answer your questions. Please bring your laptop. Please RSVP here. For more information, call 845-758-7064, or e-mail amurphy@bard.edu.
A Reading with Bard Fiction Prize Winner Akil Kumarasamy
Monday, October 4, 2021 6:30–8 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium “Akil Kumarasamy’s Half-Gods is a breathtaking debut by one of those rare writers whose compassionate understanding—in this case, a multigenerational family with a frayed, crazy-quilt history—is matched by the narrative gifts necessary to bring her tales to life,” writes the Bard Fiction Prize committee. “While each individual story in this inventive collection is told in vivid, lusciously worded, image-rich prose, the overarching symphonic whole has—much like Jamaica Kincaid’s first book, At the Bottom of the River—the sweep and scope of a novel. What Kumarasamy has given us with Half-Gods is ultimately a meditation, as most great stories are, on time, memory, and hope for the future.”
Akil Kumarasamy is a writer from New Jersey and the author of the story collection, Half Gods, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2018, which was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was the recipient of the Story Prize Spotlight Award and a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. Her work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, American Short Fiction, Boston Review, among others. She has received fellowships from the University of East Anglia, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Yaddo, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is an assistant professor at the Rutgers-Newark MFA program and her debut novel, Better Humans, is forthcoming with Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mbrien@bard.edu.
The first-ever Global Forum on Democratizing Work, on October 5–7, 2021, will allow us to build the future of the #DemocratizingWork movement together, across geographical and disciplinary boundaries.
The Global Forum will gather participants from universities, trade unions, progressive businesses, public institutions, environmental and human rights NGOs, the media. Beyond these communities, activists or concerned citizens who are interested in the message encapsulated in the manifesto is welcome. With such a transdisciplinary exchange of perspectives, we hope to fuel a productive and inclusive learning process about the Manifesto’s principles. Participants will have the opportunity not only to attend sessions with prominent figures whose work focuses on the three core principles (democratize, decommodify, decarbonize) but also to discuss ideas and initiatives in smaller groups, based on common but diverse interests, paving the way toward orchestration.Sponsored by: Economics Program.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Start the day with this 30-minute, bodyweight-only, high intensity interval training class. Participants will practice a variety of different exercises in sequence, repeatedly targeting different muscles in the body for a full-body workout. The class starts with a warm-up and ends with a cool down and stretching. No experience required. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Noon Concert ( Please note: Open to students and the Bard College community. Concert will be live-streamed.)
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 12–1 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Conservatory students perform short works during an hour-long program.
Live attendance to this event is limited to Bard College community and students. All other audience members are invited to visit our live stream of this concert - https://youtu.be/z3nJ8IJ6aVY Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 2–3 pm
Kappa House Conference Room Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
TUESDAYS: 2:00 – 3:00 in the Kappa House conference room with counselor Kahan Sablo. For more information, call 845-758-7433, e-mail ibrent@bard.edu, or visit https://hcw.bard.edu/counseling/.
Much of modern number theory involves studying solutions to equations with integer coefficients. By combining techniques of geometry and abstract algebra, mathematicians have been able to solve fundamental questions, such as Fermat's Last Theorem and the Sato-Tate Conjecture.
More recently, statistics has become an important tool for studying number theoretic problems that resist classical techniques. In this talk, we will introduce this area of mathematics by focusing on three specific examples taken from three different areas of number theory. We will also do some real-time computation and data generation. This talk should be accessible to anyone who has taken Proofs and Fundamentals.
Online Event Join Bard Abroad Program Coordinators, Carmen Nicole Smith (Berlin) and Leiah Heckathorn (Vienna), to discuss semester and summer study abroad programs with Bard Abroad!
Where Did the Virus that Causes COVID-19 Come From?
A panel discussion on the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 5:30–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema COVID-19 has killed nearly five million people worldwide, so far. Like most novel microbes, the virus that causes it—known as SARS-CoV-2-- was at first assumed to have come from nature. A person, perhaps a trapper or butcher, was infected by an animal that carried the virus. But early in the epidemic, members of the Trump administration began speculating openly that the virus could have leaked from a laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, located in the Chinese city where the disease was first detected. Since then, prominent scientists have argued fiercely over the natural transfer vs lab leak theories, and the Biden administration has also weighed in on the issue. Knowing how this pandemic started will help prevent future ones, but the search for answers is politically fraught. In this panel discussion, Bard biology professors Felicia Keesing and Brooke Jude will explain the science of what we do and do not know about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, and what the data so far tells us about what is and isn't possible.
Panelists: Felicia Keesing, an ecologist specializing in emerging infectious diseases teaches biology at Bard Brooke Jude, a molecular microbiologist specializing in bacteria and viruses teaches biology at Bard Helen Epstein (moderator) a writer and researcher specializing in public healthSponsored by: Biology Program; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing; Division of Social Studies; Human Rights Project.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail riou@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 6:30–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Preparing for Health and Medical Professions Overview
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 7–8 pm
Wondering how to prepare for careers in health, wellness, and medicine? Hear about pathways, course recommendations, and experiential learning while @Bard. Join us at https://tinyurl.com/healthoverviewbard.Sponsored by: Bard Pre-Health Adviser; Career Development Office.
Sawkill Coffee House Come join BSO for a night of hotepery and fun as we mimic black hoteps via poetry. "All hail the Black Nubian Queen!". A night of fun and letting go as Black students. For more information, call 845-758-7097, or e-mail studentactivities@bard.edu.
The first-ever Global Forum on Democratizing Work, on October 5–7, 2021, will allow us to build the future of the #DemocratizingWork movement together, across geographical and disciplinary boundaries.
The Global Forum will gather participants from universities, trade unions, progressive businesses, public institutions, environmental and human rights NGOs, the media. Beyond these communities, activists or concerned citizens who are interested in the message encapsulated in the manifesto is welcome. With such a transdisciplinary exchange of perspectives, we hope to fuel a productive and inclusive learning process about the Manifesto’s principles. Participants will have the opportunity not only to attend sessions with prominent figures whose work focuses on the three core principles (democratize, decommodify, decarbonize) but also to discuss ideas and initiatives in smaller groups, based on common but diverse interests, paving the way toward orchestration.Sponsored by: Economics Program.
Join leaders of the Global Debate Network and faculty from across OSUN institutions for our first Faculty Discussion Series event on using debate in the classroom. Faculty will be encouraged to share debate activities and assignments they are currently using in their classes as well as to ask questions and seek feedback from one another.
Subsequent discussion series events will address specific topics in debate theory and pedagogy such as drafting debate subjects, judging/evaluating classroom debates, teaching public speaking and presentation skills, and fostering healthy disagreement in the classroom, and more!
With questions or for more information, contact Clarence Brontë, OSUN Global Debate Network Program Coordinator at cbronte@bard.edu. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://forms.gle/tRvjDrk1YLz6oDxk6.
Stop by the Career Development Office table in the lobby of Campus Center (near DTR) for FREE COFFEE. Catch up with CDO staff—let us know what you did this summer. Ask CDO questions, and chat about CDO upcoming programs and services.
Wednesday, Sept 8, 2021 10:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday Sept 22, 2021 10:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday Oct 6, 2021 10:30 a.m. to noon For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail cdo@bard.edu.
Campus Center Missed the Bard Abroad Info Session? Stop by to learn all about the Bard Abroad programs and talk to the program coordinators!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 One tap mobile +16699009128,,89428252315# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,89428252315# US (Tacoma)
Dial by your location +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/khvw4DJr2Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail heid@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 12–1 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail twild@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 This 45-minute class is a combination of mobility work, functional fitness, and HIIT training all to a bumping playlist. With modifications for those new to fitness or getting back into the swing of things to elite athletes, these workouts are about maximizing the work we put in, building a strong core and foundation, having fun, and enjoying a little bit of "me time" before heading back to the grind of the week. We will incorporate body weight exercises, battle ropes, bands, kickboxing, and kettlebells. Each 45 minutes will include a warm up, workout of the day, and a cool down. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nshockey@bard.edu.
To receive zoom link please register in advance here.
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 1–3 pm
Online Event In this artist talk, Song-Ming Ang speaks about his interdisciplinary art practice and its underlying concerns, as well as ruminations on the potentials and limitations of art. Ang looks back at several artworks and projects over his last decade of art practice, including collaborations with other artists, projects involving public participation, and his presentation at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 for the Singapore Pavilion.
Song-Ming Ang (Singapore/Berlin) makes art focusing on how we relate to music individually and as a society. Drawing from the everyday and popular culture, Ang creates objects and encounters in various formats. In his work, music often serves as an entry point into other areas, like how fans and amateurs generate alternative forms of knowledge, and how structures and processes in experimental music may inform self-organisation and democracy.
Ang holds an M.A. in Aural & Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths University of London. He has presented works with The High Line (New York, US), Camden Arts Centre (London, UK), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, DE), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, DE), Witte de With (Rotterdam, NL), Museum Voorlinden (Wassenaar, NL), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, AU), 3rd Singapore Biennale (2011), 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015), and 4th Aichi Triennale (2019).
Introduced by Junni Chen and Guy Weltchek, Graduate Students, CCS Bard.
CCS Bard Speaker Series Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures are free and open, and will also be documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library & Archives. This semester, some talks will be in-person and others will be online. In order to receive a zoom link, registration is required in advance on eventbrite here.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Come Meet Gordon and Vinnie, Two of Bard's Super Cute and Fun Therapy Dogs!
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 4–5 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Masks, social distancing, and plenty of dog petting welcome! For more information, call 845-758-7433, or e-mail counselingservice@bard.edu.
Join MoMath for "QUADS: a SET®-like game" featuring Lauren Rose, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Bard College
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 4–5 pm
Online Event How good are your pattern-recognition skills? Find out as you learn this exciting, new SET®-like card game, QUADS. Join us for an evening of fun as Lauren Rose, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Bard College, shares the rules of this engaging game she co-invented, then dive beneath the surface to see how combinatorics, probability, and algebra are the underlying mathematical engines that drive the fun.
Special introduction by Liz McMahon, Professor of Mathematics at Lafayette College, and Gary Gordon, Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Mathematics at Lafayette College.
You can join in by participating in a live-stream broadcast of the event. Registration is free. Choose from two sessions:
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 4:30–6 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
The Red Hook Daily Catch & Local Journalism Info Session
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 4:30–5:30 pm
Become a Freelance Reporter & Photojournalist The Red Hook Daily Catch (thedailycatch.org) Seeking young journalists to cover local news, sports, feature stories and trends. Join us to learn about the newspaper & how to get PAID to contribute freelance stories & photographs - develop your own portfolio. The Daily Catch is run by an award-winning journalist who will train those with strong journalistic instincts and writing skills.
Wednesday, October 6. 2021 at 4:30p.m https://tinyurl.com/dailycatch
Campus Center, Weis Cinema How do you start and navigate a career in International affairs? Join BGIA Director Elmira Bayrasli Learn about: Government and State Department NGO's - What are the different opportunities there? Private sector & working abroad Interning For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Gahagan House 101 All international students are welcome to stop by with any questions, concerns or to chat. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail kalupaha@bard.edu.
Albee Come to Albee Basement (Chaplaincy) to knit or to learn how to knit. Everyone is welcome and materials are provided. We hope to knit Compassion Shawls to give out to those in our community who need comfort and support.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Please bring your own mats/props. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail baldasso@bard.edu.
The first-ever Global Forum on Democratizing Work, on October 5–7, 2021, will allow us to build the future of the #DemocratizingWork movement together, across geographical and disciplinary boundaries.
The Global Forum will gather participants from universities, trade unions, progressive businesses, public institutions, environmental and human rights NGOs, the media. Beyond these communities, activists or concerned citizens who are interested in the message encapsulated in the manifesto is welcome. With such a transdisciplinary exchange of perspectives, we hope to fuel a productive and inclusive learning process about the Manifesto’s principles. Participants will have the opportunity not only to attend sessions with prominent figures whose work focuses on the three core principles (democratize, decommodify, decarbonize) but also to discuss ideas and initiatives in smaller groups, based on common but diverse interests, paving the way toward orchestration.Sponsored by: Economics Program.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Start the day with this 30-minute, bodyweight-only, high intensity interval training class. Participants will practice a variety of different exercises in sequence, repeatedly targeting different muscles in the body for a full-body workout. The class starts with a warm-up and ends with a cool down and stretching. No experience required. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Thursday, October 7, 2021 – Friday, October 8, 2021
Online Event October 7-8, 2021 Budapest, Hungary and Online
The CEU Democracy Institute (DI) invites all OSUN members to its “Probing Democracy” conference, a hybrid online and offline event to be held on the DI premises in Budapest on October 7 and 8, 2021.
The event showcases the richness of the scholarly work conducted at DI on the crises and resilience of democratic societies. From law to history and political science, from environmental resource management to gender dynamics, and from social inequalities to the rule of law, DI is a research center that prides itself on studying democracy in a multidisciplinary format.
In line with this broad-based intellectual stance, the conference features roundtable discussions instead of traditional panels. These roundtables allow prominent experts to engage in fresh dialogue with colleagues hailing from different disciplinary backgrounds to reflect collectively on shared scientific and relevant policy research themes.
The four themes of the roundtables are: (1) Knowledge Production and (Re-) Democratization, (2) Illiberalism and the (Ab)Use of the Public Sphere, (3) Access to Water and Energy: Accommodating Social Justice, Security and Sustainability, and (4) The Robustness of the Rule of Law: Past and Present Perspectives.
Three book launch events present recently published works by DI scholars to foster a dialogue between the authors, expert discussants, and the attending public. The first book event presents DI Co-Director Eva Fodor’s The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary and Andrea Krizsan’s co-authored work Politicizing Gender and Democracy in the Context of the Istanbul Convention. The second focuses on Zsolt Enyedi’s co-authored work Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives, and Democracy in Europe, while the last one is devoted to Andras Sajo’s already widely-discussed recent work Ruling by Cheating.
The Keynote Lecture is delivered by Professor Branko Milanovic, whose seminal research on the distributive dimensions of democracy offers a conceptual anchor to the entire event.
For in-person attendance, proof of vaccination is required and wearing a mask is obligatory in all common areas and strongly recommended in rooms.
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd. Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 7, 2021 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail trudel@bard.edu.
How Journalists Should Write about Hate Groups and Hate Group Members
A Bard Center for the Study of Hate Webinar
Thursday, October 7, 2021 3–4 pm
Online Event 3 PM NY l 9 PM Vienna
The Bard Center for the Study of Hate (BCSH) hosts a discussion with Bill Morlin, a journalist long admired for his reporting on white supremacy, who will speak on “how journalists should write about hate groups and hate group members.”
Ken Stern, of BCSH, notes that "In my opinion, most journalists who cover hate groups, their leaders, or their members do a poor job. For example, when David Duke was running for elective office in Louisiana, he’d frequently be asked questions about his past as a Klan leader, which he would charmingly deflect. Some 1990s militia leaders explained their hate and planning for violence as, 'we’re only defending the Constitution,' and few journalists knew how to expose exactly what they meant . (Militia leaders claimed that the Constitution didn’t include Amendments after the Bill of Rights, and thus didn’t free the slaves or allow women to vote).
Writing about hate and hate groups takes special journalistic skill. Bill Morlin's powerful writing always treats the haters as real people but also clearly demonstrates the menace and danger of their ideas and organizing.
This is an online event. Register via Zoom.Sponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Hate.
Style, Sex, Shame, and the End of Literature in Ivy Compton-Burnett
Len Gutkin '07, Senior Editor, The Chronicle Review and Author
Thursday, October 7, 2021 5:30–7:30 pm
Olin, Room 102 Len Gutkin '07 is a senior editor at The Chronicle Review and the author of Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present (University of Virginia Press, 2020). His essays and reviews have appeared in venues including Times Literary Supplement, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books,Bookforum, and Post45.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Literature Program; Written Arts Program.
Chinese Table Please note: New time 6:30-7:30pm and now in person at Kline Tent.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 7, 2021 6:30–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Lawn Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ayou@bard.edu.
Olin, Room 203 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet the coaches and learn about all that we do — public debates, competitive debate, debate outreach, international network debates, prison debate, and more! No prior debate experience necessary! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Friday, October 8, 2021 12–1 pm
Bito Conservatory Rm 106 Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
FRIDAYS: 12:00 – 1:00 in Bito Conservatory Rm 106 with counselor Kahan Sablo. For more information, call 845-758-7433, or e-mail ibrent@bard.edu.
Online Event Shut Up & Sproj provides a quiet, communal space for you to do Senior Project work. We meet on Zoom on Friday afternoons (and in person in Stevenson Library 402 on Mondays from 3:30 to 5:00 pm).
By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project at the same time each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 We meet each week to plan 1 of the largest outdoor concert events on campus! Drop in if you want to help us choose this year’s artists, events, etc. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jm3697@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 7, 2021 – Friday, October 8, 2021
Online Event October 7-8, 2021 Budapest, Hungary and Online
The CEU Democracy Institute (DI) invites all OSUN members to its “Probing Democracy” conference, a hybrid online and offline event to be held on the DI premises in Budapest on October 7 and 8, 2021.
The event showcases the richness of the scholarly work conducted at DI on the crises and resilience of democratic societies. From law to history and political science, from environmental resource management to gender dynamics, and from social inequalities to the rule of law, DI is a research center that prides itself on studying democracy in a multidisciplinary format.
In line with this broad-based intellectual stance, the conference features roundtable discussions instead of traditional panels. These roundtables allow prominent experts to engage in fresh dialogue with colleagues hailing from different disciplinary backgrounds to reflect collectively on shared scientific and relevant policy research themes.
The four themes of the roundtables are: (1) Knowledge Production and (Re-) Democratization, (2) Illiberalism and the (Ab)Use of the Public Sphere, (3) Access to Water and Energy: Accommodating Social Justice, Security and Sustainability, and (4) The Robustness of the Rule of Law: Past and Present Perspectives.
Three book launch events present recently published works by DI scholars to foster a dialogue between the authors, expert discussants, and the attending public. The first book event presents DI Co-Director Eva Fodor’s The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary and Andrea Krizsan’s co-authored work Politicizing Gender and Democracy in the Context of the Istanbul Convention. The second focuses on Zsolt Enyedi’s co-authored work Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives, and Democracy in Europe, while the last one is devoted to Andras Sajo’s already widely-discussed recent work Ruling by Cheating.
The Keynote Lecture is delivered by Professor Branko Milanovic, whose seminal research on the distributive dimensions of democracy offers a conceptual anchor to the entire event.
For in-person attendance, proof of vaccination is required and wearing a mask is obligatory in all common areas and strongly recommended in rooms.
Join Ilyse Simon RDN CDN in this informal zoom support group devoted to disordered eating.
Friday, October 8, 2021 9:30–10:30 am
Online Event If you are struggling and want some extra support with your behaviors, feelings about food, and self-care, then join us. Friday mornings at 9:30 am EST. Join Zoom Meeting Bard Nutrition Support Group
Order in Chaos and the Fate of the World: The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
Paul Cadden-Zimansky & Hal Haggard, Associate Professors of Physics at Bard College
Friday, October 8, 2021 12–1 pm
Hegeman 107 This year's Nobel Prize in physics, awarded to Giorgio Parisi, Syukuro Manabe, and Klaus Hasselmann, was bestowed for finding order in what appear to be hopelessly complex systems. This general audience talk will explain how the laureates started from simple physical principles, braved a thicket of noise and intricate interactions, and emerged from the other side with new tools that deepen our understanding of systems ranging from the material to the biological, from machine learning to meteorology. Along the way they found answers to some scholarly questions and some with global climate implications.
Pizza to be served after the talk!Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Saturday, October 9, 2021 – Sunday, October 10, 2021
Online Event The OSUN Student Leadership Conference is a virtual international event taking place October 9 and 10, 2021, bringing together students who are interested in developing leadership skills and connecting to a global network of students. The conference is open to students from Open Society University Network member campuses.
The Student Leadership Conference offers seminars, keynotes, workshops, and trainings that teach leadership skills, connect students who share interests, explore the range of cultural contexts in which leaders operate, and encourages student-led cross-campus initiatives.
Faculty Recital: Marka Gustavsson, viola, and Frank Corliss, piano
Saturday, October 9, 2021 7–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Works by Bach, Hall Overton, and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Live attendance to this event is limited to Bard College community and students. All other audience members are invited to visit our live stream of this concert - https://youtu.be/60tyTOr8wSsSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, reflections, and Holy Communion this Sunday in the Chapel as we prepare for the start of a new semester at Bard. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. George, my five-month-old King Charles Cavalier spaniel, will be joining us!
We welcome all — Christians, Non-Christian, Spiritual but Not Religious, Agnostics, Believers, Doubters, Seekers, anyone who has questions about faith and religion, and those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Saturday, October 9, 2021 – Sunday, October 10, 2021
Online Event The OSUN Student Leadership Conference is a virtual international event taking place October 9 and 10, 2021, bringing together students who are interested in developing leadership skills and connecting to a global network of students. The conference is open to students from Open Society University Network member campuses.
The Student Leadership Conference offers seminars, keynotes, workshops, and trainings that teach leadership skills, connect students who share interests, explore the range of cultural contexts in which leaders operate, and encourages student-led cross-campus initiatives.
Stevenson Library Shut Up & Sproj provides a quiet, communal space for you to do Senior Project work. We meet in Stevenson Library 402 every Monday this semester (and on Zoom every Friday from 3:30 to 5:00).
By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project at the same time each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-332-6159, or e-mail jesmith@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Please bring your own mats/props. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Gendered violence increases against women in conflict-affected areas in comparison to women in a relatively stable society. This lecture shall consider the gendered nature of conflict and explores the relationship between gender and conflict. It aims to deepen our understanding of the complex role that gender plays in the context of war.
Dr. Ashjan Ajour's talk will focus on the case of Palestinian women's resistance and experience of living under Israeli occupation. In colonized Palestine there are complex and intersecting causes of violence against women in their everyday life. Women can’t afford to separate the struggle for social and gender justice from the struggle against colonialism.
In general, colonial oppression affects men and women in different ways. According to Spivak (1988), women are subjected to a double-colonisation by both male counterparts and the dominant colonial powers; the Palestinian case is a good example of this. When Palestinian women challenge colonial power gender norms, the meaning of femininity and masculinity are destabilised. Sumud (Steadfastness) is an important element for Palestinian women in their encounter with the Israeli occupation, and also in their everyday life.
Ashjan Ajour completed her PhD in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London in August 2019. Her research interests and teaching experience are situated in sociology; gender studies and feminist theories and movements; political subjectivity; incarceration; decolonization and global indigenous politics. She taught in the United Kingdom and Palestine at Goldsmiths, Warwick University and Birzeit University. In 2019 she engaged as a Teaching Fellow in Sociology at Warwick University convening modules in Gender Studies. Her last publications are an article by Cultural Politics (Duke University Press): The Spiritualization of Politics and the Technologies of Resistant Body: Conceptualizing Hunger Striking Subjectivity, and a forthcoming book by Palgrave Macmillan: Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body.
Fall BreakMonday, October 11, 2021 – Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Mornings with Mackie
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 7:30–8:30 am
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Start the day with this 30-minute, bodyweight-only, high intensity interval training class. Participants will practice a variety of different exercises in sequence, repeatedly targeting different muscles in the body for a full-body workout. The class starts with a warm-up and ends with a cool down and stretching. No experience required. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 2–3 pm
Kappa House Conference Room Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
TUESDAYS: 2:00 – 3:00 in the Kappa House conference room with counselor Kahan Sablo. For more information, call 845-758-7433, e-mail ibrent@bard.edu, or visit https://hcw.bard.edu/counseling/.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 6:30–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Open Networking Session on Defining Civic Engagement
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 9–10 am
Online Event The Civic Engagement Working Group is hosting a series of open networking sessions this term. On Tuesday, October 12, the topic of discussion is defining community engagement at your institution. Sessions are open to all faculty/staff across OSUN and suggestions for discussion topics are welcome!
Open Networking Session on Defining Civic Engagement
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 9–10 am
Online Event Bard College's Civic Engagement Working Group is hosting a series of open networking sessions this term. Sessions are open to all faculty/staff across OSUN and suggestions for discussion topics are welcome!
On Tuesday, October 12, Dr. Kwesi Daniels, Department Head and Assistant Professor of Architecture, Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science, Tuskegee University, will discuss Tuskegee's community engagement with built environment projects.
Launch of the Global Community of Practice: Expanding Durable Solutions for Refugee Youth through Higher Education
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 9–10:30 am
Online Event 9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna
Session II of the virtual trainings offered by the Global Task Force on Third Country Education Pathways is the launch of the Community of Practice, which will operate under the auspices of the GTF. Attendees will be encouraged to share their expertise or interest in developing and implementing higher education pathways for refugee youth, examine what is needed to further develop and expand these pathways, and discuss how the CoP can best support members in achieving their goals.
The series of virtual training sessions entitled “Expanding Durable Solutions for Refugee Youth through Higher Education," hosted by the Global Task Force on Third Country Education Pathways and co-chaired by the OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives runs from October 5 - December 14, 2021.
The series launches a Global Community of Practice (CoP), sharing knowledge and building the capacity of state entities, post-secondary education institutions, associations, foundations, NGOs, INGOs, and refugee networks to design and implement legal pathways for refugee youth through higher education programs in third countries.
While sessions can be taken separately, we recommend that stakeholders who are interested in joining the CoP and implementing and/or expanding higher education pathways for refugees commit to attending all sessions. Sessions will be recorded, and recordings will be shared with everyone registered for the series.
Online Event Interested in studying abroad on the Bard in Berlin program and want to hear from a current student abroad? Join the Bard Abroad Peer Advising Drop-In Hour with Study Abroad Ambassador, Jourdan Perez '22!
He will be taking questions about the application process, life abroad from a current abroad student, and more. To learn more about Jourdan check out @BardAbroad on Instagram!
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 information
Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
Financial aid and scholarships
Tips for a standout application
Degree Options 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 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 Margo Bogossian at mbogossian@bard.edu for further details.
The Orchestra Now Del Sol Quartet China Now Festival Chorus
The opening event of the fourth annual China Now Music Festival, Asian American Voices, presents two major works by New York-based composer Huang Ruo: A Dust in Time, composed in 2020 in response to the pandemic; and a preview of excerpts from the oratorio Angel Island, composed in 2021 to honor the stories of immigrants from China. Performances by the Del Sol Quartet from San Francisco, Bard’s own The Orchestra Now, and the China Now Festival Chorus. The festival’s artistic director, Jindong Cai, will conduct.Estimated run time: 97 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission.Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail heid@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 12–1 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail twild@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 This 45-minute class is a combination of mobility work, functional fitness, and HIIT training all to a bumping playlist. With modifications for those new to fitness or getting back into the swing of things to elite athletes, these workouts are about maximizing the work we put in, building a strong core and foundation, having fun, and enjoying a little bit of "me time" before heading back to the grind of the week. We will incorporate body weight exercises, battle ropes, bands, kickboxing, and kettlebells. Each 45 minutes will include a warm up, workout of the day, and a cool down. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nshockey@bard.edu.
Come Meet Gordon and Vinnie, Two of Bard's Super Cute and Fun Therapy Dogs!
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 4–5 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Masks, social distancing, and plenty of dog petting welcome! For more information, call 845-758-7433, or e-mail counselingservice@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 4:30–6 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
Gahagan House 101 All international students are welcome to stop by with any questions, concerns or to chat. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail kalupaha@bard.edu.
Albee Come to Albee Basement (Chaplaincy) to knit or to learn how to knit. Everyone is welcome and materials are provided. We hope to knit Compassion Shawls to give out to those in our community who need comfort and support.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Please bring your own mats/props. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail baldasso@bard.edu.
The OSUN Global Debate Network welcomes fellow students, debate coaches, and coordinators from across the network institutions to learn more about our upcoming student debate series and other opportunities for cross-campus conversations and debates, debate workshops, and more!
For questions or more information, contact Clarence Brontë, OSUN Global Debate Network Program Coordinator.
Sebastian Pilliteri on Geographic Information Systems
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 10:30 am – 12 pm
Online Event
10:30 AM New York
Sebastian Pillitteri is the Community Science Coordinator at Riverkeeper. In this role he organizes volunteers to collect water samples on a monthly basis at over 120 locations throughout the Hudson River Watershed. He is a graduate of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, lives in Kingston, is always trying to be a better socialist, and loves bikes.
Sebastian will be discussing issues specific to the intersection of water and environmental justice as well as "digging deeper" into the definition of environmental justice.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's volleyball team hosts Vassar College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Asian American Voices: Undercurrents in American Contemporary Music
A Multimedia Chamber Concert
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Jin Hi Kim Del Sol Quartet
The second night of China Now features the festival’s ensemble in residence, the Del Sol String Quartet, and Guggenheim Composer Fellow Jin Hi Kim, in a showcase of Asian American composers of contemporary American music. The quartet will perform new compositions by Erberk Eryilmaz, Takuma Itoh, Vijay Iyer, Erika Oba, and Jungyoon Wie, representing many diverse voices to reflect various aspects of Asian American society and history. Kim will perform the world premiere of her latest work, A Ritual for COVID-19, a multimedia composition honoring the spirits of those who lost their lives to the pandemic.Estimated run time: 92 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission.Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Start the day with this 30-minute, bodyweight-only, high intensity interval training class. Participants will practice a variety of different exercises in sequence, repeatedly targeting different muscles in the body for a full-body workout. The class starts with a warm-up and ends with a cool down and stretching. No experience required. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd. Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 14, 2021 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail trudel@bard.edu.
Chinese Table Please note: New time 6:30-7:30pm and now in person at Kline Tent.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 14, 2021 6:30–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Lawn Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ayou@bard.edu.
Olin, Room 203 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet the coaches and learn about all that we do — public debates, competitive debate, debate outreach, international network debates, prison debate, and more! No prior debate experience necessary! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom
Hannah Arendt Center 13th Annual Fall Conference
Thursday, October 14, 2021 – Friday, October 15, 2021 10 am – 6 pm
Olin Hall
Hannah Arendt knew that democracy is tenuous. In 1970 she famously wrote:
“Representative government is in crisis today, partly because it has lost, in the course of time, all institutions that permitted the citizens’ actual participation, and partly because it is now gravely affected by the disease from which the party system suffers: bureaucratization and the two parties’ tendency to represent nobody except the party machines.”
Vector-borne Disease Risk in Cities Influenced by Social and Ecological Legacies of (Dis)investment
Shannon LaDeau, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Thursday, October 14, 2021 12:10–1:10 pm
Online Event If you're interested in attending, please contact Felicia Keesing for information. This is an in-person event, but attendance is limited for everyone's safety.Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Levy Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy
Information Session
Thursday, October 14, 2021 7–8 pm
Online Event Dimitri Papadimitriou, President, Levy Economics Institute, will join us for an informal chat with prospective students. We'll talk about admission requirements, financial aid, and the future with a Levy degree. Registration is required: https://connect.bard.edu/register/OctoberSponsored by: Levy Economics Institute; Levy Graduate Programs.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, students meet with Joshua Boettiger (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 in the kitchen. All are welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Friday, October 15, 2021 12–1 pm
Bito Conservatory Rm 106 Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
FRIDAYS: 12:00 – 1:00 in Bito Conservatory Rm 106 with counselor Kahan Sablo. For more information, call 845-758-7433, or e-mail ibrent@bard.edu.
Online Event Shut Up & Sproj provides a quiet, communal space for you to do Senior Project work. We meet on Zoom on Friday afternoons (and in person in Stevenson Library 402 on Mondays from 3:30 to 5:00 pm).
By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project at the same time each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 We meet each week to plan 1 of the largest outdoor concert events on campus! Drop in if you want to help us choose this year’s artists, events, etc. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jm3697@bard.edu.
Join Ilyse Simon RDN CDN in this informal zoom support group devoted to disordered eating.
Friday, October 15, 2021 9:30–10:30 am
Online Event If you are struggling and want some extra support with your behaviors, feelings about food, and self-care, then join us. Friday mornings at 9:30 am EST. Join Zoom Meeting Bard Nutrition Support Group
Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom
Hannah Arendt Center 13th Annual Fall Conference
Thursday, October 14, 2021 – Friday, October 15, 2021 10 am – 6 pm
Olin Hall
Hannah Arendt knew that democracy is tenuous. In 1970 she famously wrote:
“Representative government is in crisis today, partly because it has lost, in the course of time, all institutions that permitted the citizens’ actual participation, and partly because it is now gravely affected by the disease from which the party system suffers: bureaucratization and the two parties’ tendency to represent nobody except the party machines.”
The Fisher Center at Bard and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities are teaming up to develop and present a new iteration of The Gauntlet, an immersive, community-inclusive choral work from artists Sxip Shirey and Coco Karol.
The Gauntlet is site-specific and bespoke. Each time it is performed, it takes on a new personality that reflects the performers, community, and location in which it is experienced. This iteration explores the theme “Spaces of Freedom,” in conjunction with the Hannah Arendt Center’s annual conference “Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom.”
Performed on and around the lawn of Bard’s Fisher Center (including on the Olafur Eliasson installation “the parliament of reality”), the libretto is comprised of text generated from 20 movement interviews with local activists, organizers, artists, scholars, elected officials, and citizens, and sung by a choir of singers assembled from all corners of the Bard College and Hudson Valley community.Sponsored by: Fisher Center LAB and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
Hegeman 107 Black holes are perhaps the most mind-boggling object ever conceived by physicists. At the same time, they are real astrophysical objects created at the end of the life of massive stars. And astronomers can observe them - or rather their influence on their interaction with their environment. Some of the best objects to do so are X-ray binaries, systems that consist of a black hole and a normal star. As some of the stellar material is accreted onto the black hole, an accretion disk forms and X-ray emission is produced. In this talk, I will first discuss how observing this emission using space-based X-ray telescopes allows us to learn more about black holes and in particular measure their spin and then focus on a recent discovery of so-called returning radiation from black hole accretion disks.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
59 Fisk Street, Red Hook Bring your fabric and cloth to our Print II: Textile Surface class for mending, patching, and sewing at the Red Hook Community Center (59 Fisk Street, Red Hook) on Friday, October 15 from 3-5pm. Snacks will be provided!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Guest Lecture: The Organic and Symbolic Structure of Bach's D minor Partita for Solo Violin An inquiry into the contrapuntal fabric of Bach’s music.
A talk by Philip Lasser, a composer, pianist, and music theorist on the faculty at the Juilliard School. (All events and concerts open to students and the Bard College community only until further notice.)
Friday, October 15, 2021 4–5:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building How does a composer write “abstract” music so that it can communicate to us as human beings and somehow create meaning? After all, pitches by themselves do not represent anything specific or concrete in the world. When a painter (abstraction aside) paints a landscape or a bouquet of peonies, though in fact the painting itself be only an assemblage of pigments and colors, we recognize with our eyes a “landscape,” or a “bouquet of peonies.”
Historically, music was long attached to the word through vocal music or instrumentally, through short and clearly defined dances bearing specific rhythms and recognizable gestures. JS Bach was born at a time when instrumental music takes on an ever increasing role in the production of music and was going well beyond the recognizable into true abstraction. Sounds organized by themselves and through themselves only, with no true reference to anything recognizable in the real world.
With Bach’s D minor Partita for Solo Violin as a subject, Dr. Philip Lasser, Professor at The Juilliard School and Director of the European American Musical Alliance (EAMA) Summer Music Institute and Online Academy, will discuss the use of specific sub-motivic units to create an internal organization of pitches from moment to moment enabling us to enjoy meaning, message and philosophy through pure abstract music. Using simple tools discussed in his treatise The Spiraling Tapestry - An inquiry into the Contrapuntal Fabric of Music, Dr. Lasser will elucidate how Bach creates organic structure and through symbolic and enigmatic motives, creates an aural universe of depth and meaning.
Philip Lasser is a visionary composer native to French and American traditions. His music, direct and undisguised, creates a unique sound world that blends together the colorful harmonies of French Impressionist sonorities and the dynamic rhythms and characteristics of American music.
Early in his musical training, Lasser entered Nadia Boulanger’s famed Ecole d’Arts Americaines in Fontainebleau, France, where he began to establish his connection to the French lineage. Following his studies at Harvard College, Lasser lived in Paris, where he worked with Boulanger’s closest colleague and disciple, Narcis Bonet, and legendary pianist Gaby Casadesus. He received his master’s degree from Columbia University while studying with Jacques-Louis Monod, and his doctorate at The Juilliard School, where he worked with David Diamond. Since 1994, Lasser has been a distinguished member of the faculty of The Juilliard School. He also directs the European American Music Alliance (EAMA) Summer Music Institute, a school dedicated to training composers, chamber musicians, and conductors in the tradition of Nadia Boulanger.
Lasser’s works can be heard on the Sony Classical, Telarc, New World, Delos, Crystal, and BMG RCA/Red Seal labels. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The men's soccer team hosts St. Lawrence University. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, and then a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The Fisher Center at Bard and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities are teaming up to develop and present a new iteration of The Gauntlet, an immersive, community-inclusive choral work from artists Sxip Shirey and Coco Karol.
The Gauntlet is site-specific and bespoke. Each time it is performed, it takes on a new personality that reflects the performers, community, and location in which it is experienced. This iteration explores the theme “Spaces of Freedom,” in conjunction with the Hannah Arendt Center’s annual conference “Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom.”
Performed on and around the lawn of Bard’s Fisher Center (including on the Olafur Eliasson installation “the parliament of reality”), the libretto is comprised of text generated from 20 movement interviews with local activists, organizers, artists, scholars, elected officials, and citizens, and sung by a choir of singers assembled from all corners of the Bard College and Hudson Valley community.Sponsored by: Fisher Center LAB and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's volleyball team hosts St. Joseph's College of Long Island and Maritime College. Bard will play St. Joseph's at 10, St. Joseph's will play Maritime at 12, and Bard will play Maritime at 2. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
A presentation and discussion about migrant farm worker justice.
Saturday, October 16, 2021 10:30 am – 12 pm
Olin Hall Farmworkers from Vermont are hitting the road this fall to spread the word about Milk with Dignity! Throughout the Corona Crisis, migrant farmworkers continue to work day in and day out to produce the milk and dairy products that line supermarket shelves. Join Migrant Justice for a 1.5 hour presentation to learn more about farmworkers’ groundbreaking Milk with Dignity program which brings together farmworkers, consumers, farmer owners and corporate buyers with the principal goal of fostering a sustainable Northeast dairy industry that advances the human rights of farm workers, supports the long-term interests of farm owners, and provides an ethical supply chain for retail food companies and consumers. We know that the cows don't milk themselves: Learn more about how you can get involved and help expand this powerful solution to the Hannaford supermarket’s supply chain. This event is only open to Bard students, Faculty, and Staff who are cleared for campus activities and is not open to the public. Event is located in Olin Hall from 10:30 a.m to 12:00 p.m. Masks are required.Sponsored by: Bard Farm.
For more information, call 518-653-6118, or e-mail ryoshino@bard.edu.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The men's soccer team hosts Clarkson University. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Jindong Cai conductor Yixin Wangguzheng Nina Yoshida Nelsenmezzo-soprano Helen Zhibing Huangsoprano Li Yitenor David Henry Hwang narrator
Jindong Cai conducts The Orchestra Now in a symphonic concert featuring works by Tan Dun, Huang Ruo, Peng-Peng Gong, and Xinyan Li. The program includes Tan’s Prayer and Blessing, his initial response to the pandemic, composed in early 2020; Li’s Awakening Light,concerto for guzheng and orchestra, commissioned by the festival to be performed by the winner of the 2019 Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition, Yixin Wang; Gong’s A Chinese in New York, a raw description of the experience of a Chinese student confronting cultural differences in America.
The concert concludes with several moving episodes from composer Huang Ruo’s 2014 opera, An American Soldier. The opera tells the powerful and haunting true story of the death of US Army Private Danny Chen, who was born and raised in New York's Chinatown and died in Afghanistan in 2001 after being subjected to relentless hazing and racial maltreatment by his superiors. The episodes presented here will be introduced by the opera’s librettist, Tony award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang. Estimated run time: 100 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission.Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Presented by the Office of Student Activities, Gypsy Theatre, and Sewanee: University of the South
Saturday, October 16, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Online Event What we know as Santeria is a rich, ancestral form of spirituality that has been around for centuries and brought by the enslaved people of Africa to the Caribbean. In this panel, we will break the stigma of Santeria and learn together about this ancient faith!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, reflections, and Holy Communion this Sunday in the Chapel as we prepare for the start of a new semester at Bard. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. George, my five-month-old King Charles Cavalier spaniel, will be joining us!
We welcome all — Christians, Non-Christian, Spiritual but Not Religious, Agnostics, Believers, Doubters, Seekers, anyone who has questions about faith and religion, and those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
The Fisher Center at Bard and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities are teaming up to develop and present a new iteration of The Gauntlet, an immersive, community-inclusive choral work from artists Sxip Shirey and Coco Karol.
The Gauntlet is site-specific and bespoke. Each time it is performed, it takes on a new personality that reflects the performers, community, and location in which it is experienced. This iteration explores the theme “Spaces of Freedom,” in conjunction with the Hannah Arendt Center’s annual conference “Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom.”
Performed on and around the lawn of Bard’s Fisher Center (including on the Olafur Eliasson installation “the parliament of reality”), the libretto is comprised of text generated from 20 movement interviews with local activists, organizers, artists, scholars, elected officials, and citizens, and sung by a choir of singers assembled from all corners of the Bard College and Hudson Valley community.Sponsored by: Fisher Center LAB and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
Stevenson Library Shut Up & Sproj provides a quiet, communal space for you to do Senior Project work. We meet in Stevenson Library 402 every Monday this semester (and on Zoom every Friday from 3:30 to 5:00).
By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project at the same time each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-332-6159, or e-mail jesmith@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Please bring your own mats/props. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Digital Commission: Only God Can Make Tomato Sauce
Monday, October 18, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event 12 PM New York l 6 PM PM Vienna
The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents the world premiere of a CHRA digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Brian Lobel and writer Season Butler, moderated by Jack Ferver (Bard College).
Two friends and food makers share their recipes for healing, their personal histories and food journeys, and wider reflections on medicine versus the medicinal, knowledge versus expertise, the homegrown and the home-y, the wholesome and the holy-cow-get-that-away-from-me.
Brian Lobel is a performer, teacher and curator who is interested in creating work about bodies and how they are watched, policed, poked, prodded and loved by others. His performance work has been shown internationally in a range of contexts from Harvard Medical School, to Sydney Opera House, to the National Theatre (London) and Lagos Theatre Festival, blending provocative humour with insightful reflection. Books include Theatre & Cancer, Purge and BALL & Other Funny Stories About Cancer. Brian has received commissions and grants from the Wellcome Trust, Complicite, and Arts Council England, among others. Brian is a Professor of Theatre & Performance at Rose Bruford College, a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Fellow and the co-founder of The Sick of the Fringe.
Season Butler is a writer, artist, dramaturg and lecturer in Performance Studies and Creative Writing. She thinks a lot about youth and old age; solitude and community; negotiations with hope and what it means to look forward to an increasingly wily future. Season’s current work-in-progress explores bodies and identities in constant motion, crossing borders, heading from crash to crash. Her recent artwork has appeared in the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Tate Exchange, the Latvian National Museum (Riga) and Hotel Maria Kapel (Netherlands). Her debut novel, Cygnet, was published in spring 2019 and won the Writers’ Guild 2020 Award for Best First Novel. She lives and works between London and Berlin.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Drop-in research and citation help for students working on their senior project.
Monday, October 18, 2021 4–5 pm
Stevenson Library New day & time! Seniors are invited to drop in to Sproj Clinic to ask librarians about research, citations, and formatting--or simply to chat about your work. We can help troubleshoot your research strategies, track down needed sources, show you how to use interlibrary loan, and problem-solve tricky citations. Happens every Monday from 4 - 5 pm near the Research Help Desk on the first floor of Stevenson Library. Can't make the clinic? Click here to request research help anytime. For more information, call 845-758-7064, or e-mail amurphy@bard.edu.
De-centering Rome: Dura-Europos, Digital Humanities, and the Global Turn
Anne Hunnell Chen, ARCHAIA Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University
Monday, October 18, 2021 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin, Room 102
The modern phrase “all roads lead to Rome'' frames the Roman Empire in terms of one city’s power, grandiosely (and Eurocentrically) implying both a singular centrality for that city and for the Roman Empire more generally. Yet there is good reason to think that the Romans’ own understanding of their world and their place within it was much more complex. Taking the fascinating archaeological site of Dura-Europos (Syria) and the art left behind by its inhabitants as a case study, this talk will argue that the comingling of diverse cultures, goods, and ideas—including those that traversed ancient political boundaries—was fundamental to life in the Roman Empire. It will also point to ways that colonialist dynamics and biases in play at the time of Dura’s initial excavation continue to shape modern understandings of the site. The talk will conclude with some thoughts on how the digital principle of Linked Open Data (LOD) holds promise for improving our understanding of the globally-interconnected premodern world.
Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail kboivin@bard.edu.
Ludlow Tent Please join us for our Literature Program Open House. The Open House will be an opportunity to meet Literature faculty, hear about next semester's courses, talk with Literature seniors and other students about their experiences, and celebrate the semester as a community.
Everyone -- whether or not you've already taken a course in Literature -- is welcome!Sponsored by: Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mmutter@bard.edu.
The 2017 American Book Award–winning author reads from his work
Monday, October 18, 2021 6:30–8 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Monday, October 18, at 6:30 p.m., in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Marc Anthony Richardson reads from his work. Presented by the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series and the Written Arts Program, and introduced by MacArthur Fellow Dinaw Mengestu.
Marc Anthony Richardson is an artist and novelist from Philadelphia, who specializes in dense, visceral prose that circles on itself and leaps from present to past, using language that is, at times, phantasmagoric. Year of the Rat, his debut novel, won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, and an American Book Award. Richardson was also the recipient of a PEN America grant, a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright fellowship, and a Vermont Studio Center residency. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Callaloo, Black Warrior Review, Western Humanities Review, and the anthology, Who Will Speak for America?, from Temple University Press. He received his MFA from Mills College, taught at Rutgers University, and currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the recipient of a 2021 Sachs Program Grant for Arts Innovation for his novel-in-progress, The Serpent Will Eat Whatever is in the Belly of the Beast, for which he has also received a 2021 Creative Capital Award. He will be a writer-in-residence at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.
PRAISE FOR MARC ANTHONY RICHARDSON
“Richardson has found a way to describe in words the inability to understand other people...once readers enter the story it’s easy to be swept into its stormy momentum, and to acknowledge the very promising start of the author’s career.” —Publishers Weekly
“Even the most challenging of transgressive writers pales in comparison...” —Kirkus Reviews
“This is a novel that commands attention, both because its forms and expressions are so contemporary, and because it reminds us that telling is often insufficient—that, even if it’s not thus excused, at least what’s most wanting about us might be accepted by virtue of being retold.” —Joe Milazzo for EntropySponsored by: Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series, Written Arts Program, and Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mbrien@bard.edu.
This lecture series, held throughout the 2021-2022 academic year, will explore the ongoing phenomenon of antisemitism by examining its myriad historical contexts and relationships to other forms of prejudice and hatred.
This presentation will first consider the recent debate whether anti-Semitism should be considered a form of racism or a unique form of hatred. Framing this discussion within a historical overview, we will consider how Judeophobia was entangled with Islamophobia and what Fanon called Negrophobia. We will unpack the origins of the terms “anti-Semitism” and “racism” and consider how many theorists in the aftermath of the Holocaust and during anti-colonial struggles understood the linkages between these terms. These theorists were opposed by scholars and writers who insist upon the singularity of anti-Semitism. I will suggest that the root of these claims stem from notions of Jewish choseness, Zionist understandings of anti-Semitism, and claims about the uniqueness of the Holocaust. I will argue that the assertions of uniqueness do not hold up to scrutiny, make a case for why exceptionalist arguments lead to a dead-end in efforts to fight anti-Semitism, and conclude that the struggle today demands that we be clear that anti-Semitism is racism and must be combatted as part of the broader anti-racist struggle.
Jonathan Judaken is the Spence L. Wilson Chair in the Humanities at Rhodes College. He is the author of Jean-Paul Sartreand the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual (Nebraska, 2006) and the editor of Race After Sartre: Antiracism, Africana Existentialism, Postcolonialism (SUNY 2008) and Naming Race, Naming Racisms (Routledge 2009). He recently edited a round table in the American Historical Review titled, “Rethinking Anti-Semitism” (October 2018) and co-edited a special issue of Jewish History (with Ethan Katz) on “Jews and Muslims in France Before and After Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher” (September 2018). He has just finished co-editing The Albert Memmi Reader (with Michael Lejman), a compendium of the Tunisian Franco-Jewish writer’s work (Nebraska, 2020).
NOTE: These lectures are open to the public but all visitors to the Bard campus must register in advance and provide proof of vaccination by completing this form.
Co-sponsored by The Hannah Arendt Center and The Center for the Study of Hate
Sponsored by: Office of the President and the Jewish Studies Program.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Start the day with this 30-minute, bodyweight-only, high intensity interval training class. Participants will practice a variety of different exercises in sequence, repeatedly targeting different muscles in the body for a full-body workout. The class starts with a warm-up and ends with a cool down and stretching. No experience required. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 2–3 pm
Kappa House Conference Room Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
TUESDAYS: 2:00 – 3:00 in the Kappa House conference room with counselor Kahan Sablo. For more information, call 845-758-7433, e-mail ibrent@bard.edu, or visit https://hcw.bard.edu/counseling/.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 6:30–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Conservatory students perform short works during an hour-long program.
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 12–1 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Live attendance to this event is limited to Bard College community and students. All other audience members are invited to visit our live stream of this concert - https://youtu.be/J-6DMrXH6-ISponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Online Event Learn how to create a resume that stands out, and how to spend a semester working a professional internship in New York City. Hosted by the Bard Globalization and International Affairs program (BGIA) in NYC.Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
Hegeman 102 Knot theory is a rich and active area of research involving questions of interest both to mathematicians and to researchers outside of mathematics, and many of these questions boil down to a single essential query: how can one tell when two knots are different? In this talk, we will discuss why this is a difficult question to answer. In particular, we will learn about polynomials used to detect properties of knots and the surprising geometric implications of some knot polynomials.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
Nothing to Lose but Our Tents: Camp, Revolution, Novel
Nasser Abourahme, Faculty Fellow, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, NYU
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 5:30–7 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Revolution and narrative are entangled forms. Both are understood as being about the forward progressive movement of time, as organized around totalizing events and central protagonists. The Palestinian Revolution was at once a territorial and narrational struggle. And these struggles came together in what was the Revolution’s principal dilemma—the camp. How one might form a historical subject of movement from the encamped refugees became itself a problem of narrative. If revolution and narrative are both about the movement of time, and camps are essentially devices for the immobilization of time, then how does one stage and write a revolution from the camp? The challenge required nothing less than the transformation of the camps into the means of their own undoing. This talk examines three novels of the revolutionary period to show that Palestinian revolutionary realism both heeded the insurrectionary call but also undermined it. Reading these novels along this defining tension, I argue, points us to political roads not taken, to ways of thinking about revolution itself differently.Nasser Abourahme is a faculty fellow at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University, where he works between political and urban geography, colonial studies, and political theory. Sponsored by: Literature Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail dramadan@bard.edu.
Asian American Voices: American Stories, American Music
A Symphonic Concert Online
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 7 pm
Online Event The fourth annual China Now Music Festival concludes online with a selection of pieces from the Festival’s live concerts, presented to the worldwide public for free. The Del Sol Quartet and China Now Festival Chorus perform a preview of excerpts from Huang Ruo’s Angel Island: oratorio for voices and string quartet. The Orchestra Now performs selected episodes from An American Soldier, with tenor Li Yi, mezzo-soprano Nina Yoshida Nelsen, soprano Helen Zhibing Huang, and live narration by librettist David Henry Hwang. The event concludes with two symphonic pieces by Peng-Peng Gong and Xinyan Li that further express the themes of Asian American experiences and reflections on this moment in history. Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 One tap mobile +16699009128,,89428252315# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,89428252315# US (Tacoma)
Dial by your location +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/khvw4DJr2Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail heid@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 12–1 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail twild@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 This 45-minute class is a combination of mobility work, functional fitness, and HIIT training all to a bumping playlist. With modifications for those new to fitness or getting back into the swing of things to elite athletes, these workouts are about maximizing the work we put in, building a strong core and foundation, having fun, and enjoying a little bit of "me time" before heading back to the grind of the week. We will incorporate body weight exercises, battle ropes, bands, kickboxing, and kettlebells. Each 45 minutes will include a warm up, workout of the day, and a cool down. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nshockey@bard.edu.
Come Meet Gordon and Vinnie, Two of Bard's Super Cute and Fun Therapy Dogs!
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 4–5 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Masks, social distancing, and plenty of dog petting welcome! For more information, call 845-758-7433, or e-mail counselingservice@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 4:30–6 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
Gahagan House 101 All international students are welcome to stop by with any questions, concerns or to chat. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail kalupaha@bard.edu.
Albee Come to Albee Basement (Chaplaincy) to knit or to learn how to knit. Everyone is welcome and materials are provided. We hope to knit Compassion Shawls to give out to those in our community who need comfort and support.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Please bring your own mats/props. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail baldasso@bard.edu.
Faculty Discussion on Drafting Debate Questions and Topics
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 9:30–11 am
Online Event 9:30 AM New York l 11:30 PM Vienna
Join leaders of the Global Debate Network and faculty from across OSUN institutions for a discussion about formulating questions and topics for in-class debates and speaking activities. While this may seem simple at first, the process of formulating a topic that has both balance and depth and engages the class readings in a productive way tends to be quite difficult. Together we will discuss the best way to go about this!
With questions or for more information, contact Clarence Brontë, OSUN Global Debate Network Program Coordinator at cbronte@bard.edu.
The Role of Institutions in Safeguarding Academic Freedom
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 11:30 am – 1 pm
Online Event 11:30 AM New York l 5:30 PM Vienna
OSUN's Global Observatory on Academic Freedom and Human Rights Initiative invite network members to an online panel reflecting on and discussing the role of higher education institutions in the ongoing struggle for academic freedom.
Throughout the world, academic freedom is endangered. From institutional attacks, from outside and within the institutions themselves, to unlawful detainments and imprisonments of scholars and students, including Central European University student Ahmed Samir in Egypt, the search for truth at universities has become a dangerous endeavor.
Universities do not control their national regulatory frameworks, which determine the degree of their institutional freedom and the professional freedoms of their academics and students, nor the limitations on their detractors. They can, however, challenge public authorities to create conditions for academic freedom, they can take action, within limits that differ from country to country, to document infringements of academic freedom, resist restrictive attempts by governments and regulators, and find ways to promote, assert and protect academic freedom.
This panel will address the following questions: How can universities provide safety for their communities? Are there existing practices that can serve as good practice examples? How can institutions further support the work of scholars and student unions in the fight for academic freedom? In what ways can university management, academic staff, and students combine forces? How much can diplomatic and international relations hinder the possibilities for action worldwide?
Speakers: Liviu Matei, Provost, Central European University Aysuda Kölemen, Threatened Scholars Initiative Manager, OSUN/Bard College Berlin Marielle Debos, Assistant Professor, Université Paris Nanterre Oishi Sengupta, Student, MA Program in Critical Gender Studies
Moderator: Milica Popović, OSUN Global Observatory on Academic Freedom
Online Event Artist-poet Cecilia Vicuña creates songs, performances, installations, paintings, films, written works, books, lectures, and sculptures. Vicuña’s work is always attentive to ethics, the earth, and history. Her object making includes Precarios —precarious works composed of fragile materials — and Quipus — dyed wool and fibers inspired by the Andean record keeping system of knotted cords. Her improvisatory, participatory performances emphasize the collective nature of action and creativity to bring forth justice, balance and transformation of the world.
Cecilia Vicuña’s retrospective “Seehearing the Enlightened Failure” opened February 21, 2021 at Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid, Spain. It is scheduled to open at Museo de Arte del Banco de la Republica in Bogota, Colombia in February 2022. Vicuña is the author of 27 art and poetry books.
Introduced by Laura Hakel, Graduate Student, CCS Bard. CCS Bard Speaker Series
Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures are free and open, and will also be documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library & Archives. This semester, some talks will be in-person and others will be online. In order to receive a zoom link, registration is required in advance on eventbrite here.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event President George W. Bush invaded Afghanistan in 2001, in an effort to capture and defeat Al Qaeda and its leader Osama bin Laden. Twenty years later, Joe Biden ended this "forever" war this past summer, noting that Washington achieved its goal of capturing bin Laden. Yet, the withdrawal from Afghanistan was chaotic, as thousands of Afghans scrambled to leave the country. Was withdrawal the right decision? Did the U.S. achieve its goal in Afghanistan? To answer thse questions, we'll be joined by former U.S. State Department official Annie Pforzheimer. Ms. Pforzheimer served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul from 2017-18. She also served as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Afghanistan. She will be joined by Bard professor Fred Hof, also an alumnus from the State Department. Via Zoom. RSVP required. Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
With Certified Yoga Instructor and Bard Student Julia Larberg, Class of 2022
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 7–8 pm
Stevenson Athletics Center, Classroom 1 Focus on reconnecting with your body with this mindful and gentle yoga for all levels and bodiesSponsored by: Health and Counseling.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Start the day with this 30-minute, bodyweight-only, high intensity interval training class. Participants will practice a variety of different exercises in sequence, repeatedly targeting different muscles in the body for a full-body workout. The class starts with a warm-up and ends with a cool down and stretching. No experience required. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd. Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 21, 2021 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail trudel@bard.edu.
Chinese Table Please note: New time 6:30-7:30pm and now in person at Kline Tent.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 21, 2021 6:30–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Lawn Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ayou@bard.edu.
Olin, Room 203 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet the coaches and learn about all that we do — public debates, competitive debate, debate outreach, international network debates, prison debate, and more! No prior debate experience necessary! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, students meet with Joshua Boettiger (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 in the kitchen. All are welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The Importance of Wildlife Declines to Global Food Security
Christopher Golden, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Thursday, October 21, 2021 12:10–1:10 pm
Online Event If you're interested in attending, please contact Felicia Keesing for information. This is an in-person event, but attendance is limited for everyone's safety.Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Online Event Learn how to write an effective, individualized cover letters, and how to spend a semester working a professional internship in New York City. Hosted by the Bard Globalization and International Affairs program (BGIA) in NYC.Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
with Sexual Health Educator- Elizabeth Greenblatt from Sex Savvy Hudson Valley
Space is limited Registration is required. Email wellness@bard.edu
Thursday, October 21, 2021 6–7 pm
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge "We may be living in a pandemic but communicating about sex is more important than ever! Join us for an opportunity to talk about sex, fantasies, desires, pleasure, and how to navigate safe and pleasurable sex during a pandemic. We will practice communication skills with partners to help support you in having safe, pleasurable, and consensual sexual experiences. Sharing about your personal experience is optional, and there will be opportunities to share your opinions/experiences anonymously throughout the workshop. Bring your phone! We will be using a text poll during the workshop."Sponsored by: Health and Counseling.
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Friday, October 22, 2021 12–1 pm
Bito Conservatory Rm 106 Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
FRIDAYS: 12:00 – 1:00 in Bito Conservatory Rm 106 with counselor Kahan Sablo. For more information, call 845-758-7433, or e-mail ibrent@bard.edu.
Online Event Shut Up & Sproj provides a quiet, communal space for you to do Senior Project work. We meet on Zoom on Friday afternoons (and in person in Stevenson Library 402 on Mondays from 3:30 to 5:00 pm).
By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project at the same time each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 We meet each week to plan 1 of the largest outdoor concert events on campus! Drop in if you want to help us choose this year’s artists, events, etc. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jm3697@bard.edu.
Join Ilyse Simon RDN CDN in this informal zoom support group devoted to disordered eating.
Friday, October 22, 2021 9:30–10:30 am
Online Event If you are struggling and want some extra support with your behaviors, feelings about food, and self-care, then join us. Friday mornings at 9:30 am EST. Join Zoom Meeting Bard Nutrition Support Group
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, and then a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Friday, October 22, 2021 – Sunday, October 24, 2021
Bard College Campus Please save the date for Family and Alumni/ae Weekend: October 22-24, 2021 in Annandale. We are excited to welcome families and alumni/ae back to campus to attend sample classes, take an informative tour, and hear from President Botstein at Ask the President. There will be a Conservatory Concert, a Fall Dance Concert, a Blithewood Garden Open House, and much more. Advanced online registration required. COVID-19 vaccinations are mandatory in order to attend. Registration is now closed. Join us for virtual events and watch our video series any time. #bardfallwknd
Navigating Contours of Refugee-Related Advocacy Initiatives
Friday, October 22, 2021 9–10:30 am
Online Event 9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna
On Friday, October 22nd, the Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives invites OSUN members to a panel on "Navigating the Contours of Refugee-Related Advocacy Initiatives."
The discussion will examine key global efforts to advocate for higher education opportunities for refugees and displaced people. It will ask -- and problematize -- how advocacy initiatives are determined, shaped, and executed by looking at the approaches of INGOs, universities, and refugee-led organizations. The panel will specifically address advocacy efforts with host country ministries and states, third country states and universities, and foundations.
Speakers:
Annick Suzor-Weiner, Professeur émérite à l'Université Paris-Saclay and Chargée de mission auprès de l’Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)
Helena Barroco, Diplomatic Advisor to President Jorge Sampaio, Portugal
Bara'ah Al Dalati, Souriyat Across borders , Programmes Director
Paula Banerjee, Professor, University of Calcutta and Former Vice-Chancellor The Sanskrit College and University
Searching for Signatures of Dark Matter with the GAPS Antarctic Balloon Experiment
Field Rogers, MIT
Friday, October 22, 2021 12–1 pm
Hegeman 107 Dark matter is a mysterious substance that composes ~85% of the total mass of the Universe and is responsible for the formation of galaxies in the early Universe and for the motion of stars in our Milky Way Galaxy today. Evidence for the existence of dark matter comes from astrophysical observations of its gravitational effects across a range of time and distance scales. However, despite its ubiquity and abundance, dark matter is difficult to detect because it barely interacts with other particles. Understanding the particle nature of dark matter remains one of the largest open questions in particle and astrophysics.
In this seminar, I will present diverse pieces of evidence for the existence of dark matter and discuss the current knowledge of its properties. I will then introduce the General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) Experiment, an upcoming NASA Antarctic balloon mission to detect cosmic particles as possible signatures of dark matter interactions in our Galaxy. I will highlight some of the detector development work at the heart of the GAPS mission, including contributions from undergraduate researchers. I will conclude by looking forward to the scientific results you can expect from GAPS over the next few years.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Finding Your Way Out of the Woods: Leaning into Discomfort to Influence Chemistry and Culture
Dani Schultz Merck Pharmaceuticals
Friday, October 22, 2021 12:10–1:10 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Aspects of this session will highlight my journey from a small town in northern Wisconsin to the bustling east coast where leaning into discomfort has been critical in driving my career at Merck and the chemistry that I have pursued. Throughout my career, I have tapped into my ability to forge meaningful collaborations, internally and externally, to challenge the status quo and drive disruptive thinking – both in chemistry but also in improving STEM culture. I’ll briefly touch upon some recently completed academic-industrial research collaborations that aimed to empower early-career female professors and provide a platform to mentor and train female professors and students in pharmaceutical research. Throughout all of this, I have a passion for diversity, equity and inclusion and will share how I’ve navigated raising important, and at times difficult, topics and how to influence workplace culture. I’ve learned a lot through failed experiments along the way and I am looking forward to an active discussion with fellow changemakers!
Dani Schultz received her PhD from the University of Michigan working with Professor John Wolfe and was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Professor Tehshik Yoon. Since joining Merck in 2014, Dani has been a member of Process Chemistry and Enabling Technologies in Rahway, NJ and as of 2021 became the Director of the Discovery Process Chemistry group in Kenilworth, NJ. Throughout her time at Merck, Dani has been involved in the development of synthetic routes for drug candidates spanning HIV and oncology – forging meaningful collaborations, both internally and externally, to address the synthetic challenges that occur during pharmaceutical development. Most recently, she has served as co-host to the Pharm to Table podcast that aims to elevate the people and stories behind #MerckChemistry.Sponsored by: Chemistry Program; the Women in STEM Club.
For more information, call 845-752-2355, or e-mail mclaughl@bard.edu.
324 Budds Corners Rd Red Hook NY Join Four Corners Community Farm and Bard Farm for a FREE workshop on the art and science behind followed by a seed swap at 324 Budds Corners Rd, Red Hook, NY 12574at Four Corners Community Farm. ReservationsSponsored by: Bard Farm; Bard MBA in Sustainability; Master of Arts in Teaching Program; Office of Sustainability.
Stevenson Library Learn about the ghosts that haunt the library! Find out about local legends! Visit the Bard Cemetery! For more information, call 845-758-7675, or e-mail jhall@bard.edu.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's volleyball team hosts Ithaca College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Friday, October 22, 2021 – Sunday, October 24, 2021
Bard College Campus Please save the date for Family and Alumni/ae Weekend: October 22-24, 2021 in Annandale. We are excited to welcome families and alumni/ae back to campus to attend sample classes, take an informative tour, and hear from President Botstein at Ask the President. There will be a Conservatory Concert, a Fall Dance Concert, a Blithewood Garden Open House, and much more. Advanced online registration required. COVID-19 vaccinations are mandatory in order to attend. Registration is now closed. Join us for virtual events and watch our video series any time. #bardfallwknd
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra with members of The Orchestra Now (TŌN), soloists from the Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, Bard College Chamber Singers, Bard Festival Chorale, Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and James Bagwell, choral director
Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony, which he composed over the span of nearly seven years emerged as one of his most powerful and successful compositions. When he began writing it in 1888, at age 28, he had no idea of the overall structure or how it would end; the process of discovery—and self-discovery—that unfolded during this time pondering issues no less weighty than the meaning of life and death. The conclusion was a particular problem and the solution proved something of a revelation: a choral finale setting the “Resurrection” poem by the 18th-century German writer Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, which Mahler adapted with his own words. What became known as the “Resurrection” Symphony is one of the longest, most ambitious, and profoundly moving orchestral works ever composed.
Estimated run time is 90 minutes.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's soccer team hosts Rochester Institute of Technology. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's volleyball team hosts Rochester Institute of Technology. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, reflections, and Holy Communion this Sunday in the Chapel as we prepare for the start of a new semester at Bard. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. George, my five-month-old King Charles Cavalier spaniel, will be joining us!
We welcome all — Christians, Non-Christian, Spiritual but Not Religious, Agnostics, Believers, Doubters, Seekers, anyone who has questions about faith and religion, and those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Friday, October 22, 2021 – Sunday, October 24, 2021
Bard College Campus Please save the date for Family and Alumni/ae Weekend: October 22-24, 2021 in Annandale. We are excited to welcome families and alumni/ae back to campus to attend sample classes, take an informative tour, and hear from President Botstein at Ask the President. There will be a Conservatory Concert, a Fall Dance Concert, a Blithewood Garden Open House, and much more. Advanced online registration required. COVID-19 vaccinations are mandatory in order to attend. Registration is now closed. Join us for virtual events and watch our video series any time. #bardfallwknd
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra with members of The Orchestra Now (TŌN), soloists from the Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, Bard College Chamber Singers, Bard Festival Chorale, Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and James Bagwell, choral director
Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony, which he composed over the span of nearly seven years emerged as one of his most powerful and successful compositions. When he began writing it in 1888, at age 28, he had no idea of the overall structure or how it would end; the process of discovery—and self-discovery—that unfolded during this time pondering issues no less weighty than the meaning of life and death. The conclusion was a particular problem and the solution proved something of a revelation: a choral finale setting the “Resurrection” poem by the 18th-century German writer Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, which Mahler adapted with his own words. What became known as the “Resurrection” Symphony is one of the longest, most ambitious, and profoundly moving orchestral works ever composed.
Estimated run time is 90 minutes.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Stevenson Library Shut Up & Sproj provides a quiet, communal space for you to do Senior Project work. We meet in Stevenson Library 402 every Monday this semester (and on Zoom every Friday from 3:30 to 5:00).
By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project at the same time each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-332-6159, or e-mail jesmith@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Please bring your own mats/props. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Drop-in research and citation help for students working on their senior project.
Monday, October 25, 2021 4–5 pm
Stevenson Library New day & time! Seniors are invited to drop in to Sproj Clinic to ask librarians about research, citations, and formatting--or simply to chat about your work. We can help troubleshoot your research strategies, track down needed sources, show you how to use interlibrary loan, and problem-solve tricky citations. Happens every Monday from 4 - 5 pm near the Research Help Desk on the first floor of Stevenson Library. Can't make the clinic? Click here to request research help anytime. For more information, call 845-758-7064, or e-mail amurphy@bard.edu.
by Ernest Chausson The American Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Leon Botstein Directed by Louisa Proske
Monday, October 25, 2021 – Monday, November 1, 2021
Online Event “Richly costumed and dramatically effective...Botstein, leading the American Symphony Orchestra, an impressive cast and the excellent Bard Festival Chorale, made a compelling case for the piece.”—New York Times, August 2021
First premiered in 1903, this richly lyrical opera by French composer Ernest Chausson was widely considered one of the finest examples of French romanticism but had inexplicably fallen from the repertory.
Staged by the dynamic young director Louisa Proske, the 2021 Bard SummerScape production (and first-ever fully staged US performances) garnered rapturous accolades from public and press alike for the moving portrayal of King Arthur’s betrayal by his queen Genièvre and his trusted knight Lancelot.
Performed by a stellar cast, helmed by baritone Norman Garrett in the titular role, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke as Queen Genievre and tenor Matthew White as Lancelot, this superb production is now available on HD video.
Directed by the acclaimed video director and producer Habib Azar, the HD video brings thrillingly to life the complex collision between idealism, treachery, honor, and perfidy. This digital release also includes interviews with various cast members and music director Leon Botstein. Not to be missed.
“This opera is a masterwork.” OperaWire, August 2021Sponsored by: Virtual Livestream.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Start the day with this 30-minute, bodyweight-only, high intensity interval training class. Participants will practice a variety of different exercises in sequence, repeatedly targeting different muscles in the body for a full-body workout. The class starts with a warm-up and ends with a cool down and stretching. No experience required. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 2–3 pm
Kappa House Conference Room Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
TUESDAYS: 2:00 – 3:00 in the Kappa House conference room with counselor Kahan Sablo. For more information, call 845-758-7433, e-mail ibrent@bard.edu, or visit https://hcw.bard.edu/counseling/.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 6:30–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Online Event Interested in studying abroad on the Bard in Berlin program and want to hear from a current student abroad? Join the Bard Abroad Peer Advising Drop-In Hour with Study Abroad Ambassador, Jourdan Perez '22!
He will be taking questions about the application process, life abroad from a current abroad student, and more. To learn more about Jourdan check out @BardAbroad on Instagram!
Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 One tap mobile +16699009128,,89428252315# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,89428252315# US (Tacoma)
Dial by your location +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/khvw4DJr2Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail heid@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12–1 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail twild@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 This 45-minute class is a combination of mobility work, functional fitness, and HIIT training all to a bumping playlist. With modifications for those new to fitness or getting back into the swing of things to elite athletes, these workouts are about maximizing the work we put in, building a strong core and foundation, having fun, and enjoying a little bit of "me time" before heading back to the grind of the week. We will incorporate body weight exercises, battle ropes, bands, kickboxing, and kettlebells. Each 45 minutes will include a warm up, workout of the day, and a cool down. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nshockey@bard.edu.
Come Meet Gordon and Vinnie, Two of Bard's Super Cute and Fun Therapy Dogs!
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 4–5 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Masks, social distancing, and plenty of dog petting welcome! For more information, call 845-758-7433, or e-mail counselingservice@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 4:30–6 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
Gahagan House 101 All international students are welcome to stop by with any questions, concerns or to chat. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail kalupaha@bard.edu.
Albee Come to Albee Basement (Chaplaincy) to knit or to learn how to knit. Everyone is welcome and materials are provided. We hope to knit Compassion Shawls to give out to those in our community who need comfort and support.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Please bring your own mats/props. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail baldasso@bard.edu.
With Certified Yoga Instructor and Bard Student Julia Larberg, Class of 2022
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 7–8 pm
Stevenson Athletics Center, Classroom 1 Focus on reconnecting with your body with this mindful and gentle yoga for all levels and bodiesSponsored by: Health and Counseling.
The OSUN Global Debate Network welcomes fellow students, faculty, and staff from OSUN institutions to attend the next Student Debate Series meeting. This virtual meeting introduces students to the basics of the world's largest intercollegiate debate format – British Parliamentary Debate – and offers students the opportunity to engage in an exciting impromptu debate.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 All About Academic Writing with Jane Smith, Visiting Instructor of Writing; Associate Director for Library Writing Support and Alexa Murphy, Outreach and Education For more information, call 845-758-7328, e-mail kalupaha@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/oisss/.
Join us & get ALL of your questions answered. Learn about how to prepare for Law School applications, timelines & LSATs, Q & A Event led by: Associate Director of Law School Admissions, Elizabeth Madigan, Esq. Brooklyn Law School & CDO
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's volleyball team hosts SUNY Cobleskill. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Start the day with this 30-minute, bodyweight-only, high intensity interval training class. Participants will practice a variety of different exercises in sequence, repeatedly targeting different muscles in the body for a full-body workout. The class starts with a warm-up and ends with a cool down and stretching. No experience required. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd. Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 28, 2021 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail trudel@bard.edu.
Chinese Table Please note: New time 6:30-7:30pm and now in person at Kline Tent.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 28, 2021 6:30–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Lawn Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ayou@bard.edu.
Olin, Room 203 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet the coaches and learn about all that we do — public debates, competitive debate, debate outreach, international network debates, prison debate, and more! No prior debate experience necessary! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, students meet with Joshua Boettiger (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 in the kitchen. All are welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
OSUN Network(ing) for your Career and for Civic Engagement
Thursday, October 28, 2021 2:30–3:30 pm
Online Event How do you network in a global network?
Join Career Services professionals at OSUN partner institution Bard College Berlin to identify unique ways to connect across OSUN's global network. Explore career and graduate school opportunities, student engagement initiatives and calls for proposals.
Surveying Quantities: Paris and the Modernization of Space
Thursday, October 28, 2021 3:50–5:10 pm
Online Event Min Kyung Lee is Assistant Professor of Modern Architecture in the Growth and Structure of Cities Department at Bryn Mawr College. Her work explores the relations of mapping, geography, architecture, and urbanism, tracing the transition from perspectival to orthographic representations of cities during the long nineteenth century. Her monograph, The Tyranny of the Straight Line: Mapping Modern Paris is currently under review, and focuses on the surveying of the French capital city. This project was linked to a program on the quantification of space that she conceived as the inaugural Banister Fletcher Global Fellow at the University of London- Institute of Paris, Queen Mary University and the Bartlett School of Architecture.Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; French Studies Program.
Focus Pocus! Make and Decorate Yummy Caramel Apples!
Take a 10-minute FOCUS II assessment and then dip/make caramel apples and watch Hocus Pocus!
Thursday, October 28, 2021 7–9 pm
Join OSA and CDO for a HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION! Focus in on your career and interest while at Bard! Not sure what career path is best for you? Take the FOCUS assessment test and see what fits you! BRING YOUR LAPTOP After a 10-minute assessment, create your own caramel or chocolate apple with sweet treats while watching Hocus Pocus.
Olin, Room 102 Reproductive health has always been under attack, and more recently with the restrictive laws put in place in Texas, we have every right to be frustrated. Come and learn more about what has brought us to this point decades after Roe v. Wade, and what you can do to stand up for access to reproductive healthcare.
This panel features Rupali Warke (Visiting Assistant Professor of Historial Studies), Allison McKim (Associate Professor of Sociology), and Aura Lopez Zarate (Community Organizer at PPGNY).Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Friday, October 29, 2021 12–1 pm
Bito Conservatory Rm 106 Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
FRIDAYS: 12:00 – 1:00 in Bito Conservatory Rm 106 with counselor Kahan Sablo. For more information, call 845-758-7433, or e-mail ibrent@bard.edu.
Online Event Shut Up & Sproj provides a quiet, communal space for you to do Senior Project work. We meet on Zoom on Friday afternoons (and in person in Stevenson Library 402 on Mondays from 3:30 to 5:00 pm).
By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project at the same time each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 We meet each week to plan 1 of the largest outdoor concert events on campus! Drop in if you want to help us choose this year’s artists, events, etc. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jm3697@bard.edu.
Join Ilyse Simon RDN CDN in this informal zoom support group devoted to disordered eating.
Friday, October 29, 2021 9:30–10:30 am
Online Event If you are struggling and want some extra support with your behaviors, feelings about food, and self-care, then join us. Friday mornings at 9:30 am EST. Join Zoom Meeting Bard Nutrition Support Group
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, and then a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Levy Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy
Information Session
Friday, October 29, 2021 9 am – 12 pm
Online Event The tools you are looking for to effect positive change in the world are closer than you think. For over 30 years, the Levy Institute has been providing alternative solutions to mainstream issues in economics and finance, while asking questions that others don’t. And for nearly 10 years, they have been training the next generation of heterodox thinkers in the Levy Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy. Join this information session to learn more about the academic programs, admission requirements, financial aid and more.Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute; Levy Graduate Programs.
Book Discussion: Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities
Friday, October 29, 2021 9:30–11 am
Online Event 9:30 AM New York l 2:30 PM Vienna
CEU Democracy Institute invites OSUN members to attend an in-person and online discussion with a co-editor and authors of "Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities," edited by Thomas Piketty.
Building on Thomas Piketty's seminal work on the structures and dynamics of inequalities, Professor Piketty gathered a team of more than 20 researchers to analyze the effects of inequality on political polarization across 50 democracies from 1948 to the present. The result of their collective work is "Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities" published recently with Harvard University Press.
The edited volume builds on a unique set of surveys conducted between 1948 and 2020 in fifty countries on five continents, analyzing the links between voters’ political preferences and socioeconomic characteristics, such as income, education, wealth, occupation, religion, ethnicity, age, and gender. This analysis sheds new light on why growing inequality in many parts of the world has not led to renewed class-based conflicts and how political movements succeed in coalescing multiple interests and identities in contemporary democracies. It also helps us understand the conditions under which conflicts over inequality become politically salient, as well as the similarities and constraints of voters supporting ethno-nationalist politicians like Narendra Modi, Jair Bolsonaro, Marine Le Pen, and Donald Trump.
CEU Democracy Institute is thrilled to receive Clara Martinez-Toledano, a co-editor of the book, who will introduce the methodology of this path-breaking volume, and its most important findings; as well as Tom Zawisza and Filip Novokmet, the co-authors of the chapter on Central and Eastern Europe who will present their chapter, followed by comments by István György Tóth and Gábor Tóka. ----
Please note that registration and proof of vaccination are required if you would like to attend the event in person. If you are unable to attend in person, the discussion will also be streamed online, on the DI’s Facebook page.
Compact Binary Coalescences: What Have We Learned from the LIGO-Virgo Observations and What’s Next?
Surabhi Sachdev, University of Milwaukee
Friday, October 29, 2021 12–1 pm
Hegeman 107 We are in the era of gravitational-wave and multi-messenger astronomy, kick-started by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. The Advanced detectors concluded their third observing run (O3) in March 2020. The latest catalog of compact binary coalescences which analyzed data up until the first half of O3 contains 55 events consistent with binary black holes and binary neutron stars. In addition, two events consistent with neutron star black hole binaries were reported in the data from the second half of O3. I will provide a summary of the gravitational-wave data observations and describe what we can learn from these. I will conclude by discussing what we can expect from the upcoming observing runs.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Conservatory violinists and chamber groups participate in a master class that will be livestreamed.. Please note that at this time attendance in person is limited to the Bard campus community.
Friday, October 29, 2021 4–6 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Violinist Eugene Drucker, a founding member of the Emerson String Quartet, is also an active soloist. He has appeared with the orchestras of Montreal, Brussels, Antwerp, Liege, Hartford, Richmond, Omaha, Jerusalem and the Rhineland-Palatinate, as well as with the American Symphony Orchestra and Aspen Chamber Symphony. A graduate of Columbia University and the Juilliard School, where he studied with Oscar Shumsky, Mr. Drucker was concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra, with which he appeared as soloist several times. He made his New York debut as a Concert Artists Guild winner in the fall of 1976, after having won prizes at the Montreal Competition and the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Mr. Drucker has recorded the complete unaccompanied works of Bach, reissued by Parnassus Records, and the complete sonatas and duos of Bartók for Biddulph Recordings. His novel, The Savior, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2007 and has appeared in a German translation called Wintersonate, published by Osburg Verlag in Berlin. Mr. Drucker's compositional debut, a setting of four sonnets by Shakespeare, was premiered by baritone Andrew Nolen and the Escher String Quartet at Stony Brook in 2008; the songs have appeared as part of a 2-CD release called "Stony Brook Soundings," issued by Bridge Recordings in the spring of 2010. Eugene Drucker lives in New York with his wife, cellist Roberta Cooper, and their son Julian. Violins: Antonius Stradivarius (Cremona, 1686), Samuel Zygmuntowicz (NY, NY 2002) Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The men's soccer team hosts Skidmore University. It's Senior Day. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Beattie Powers on Main, 310 Main St, Catskill, NY Singers from the Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, accompanied by Conservatory Collaborative Pianists perform works by Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Tagore. Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, reflections, and Holy Communion this Sunday in the Chapel as we prepare for the start of a new semester at Bard. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. George, my five-month-old King Charles Cavalier spaniel, will be joining us!
We welcome all — Christians, Non-Christian, Spiritual but Not Religious, Agnostics, Believers, Doubters, Seekers, anyone who has questions about faith and religion, and those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Wednesday, April 1, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING
2019, Sosnoff Theater, SummerScape
First performed in the U.S. almost 100 years after its world premiere in Hamburg, this lushly orchestrated allegorical tale was staged by Christian Räth in 2019. Performed by a remarkable cast and the 80-member American Symphony Orchestra, this staging was a stellar example of Maestro Botstein’s commitment to reintroduce rarely seen operatic treasures to a contemporary audience.
Wednesday, April 15, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING 2018, Sosnoff Theater, SummerScape
Rubinstein’s operatic masterpiece is based on a poem depicting the isolation and despair of a fallen angel. Premiered to great acclaim in 1871, Demon received its first fully staged U.S. performances at Bard in 2018. With rich choral writing and a fiery libretto, the production was staged by Thaddeus Strassberger and featured an all-Russian cast, Pesvebi Georgian Dancers and The American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Botstein.
Wednesday, May 13, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING Bard SummerScape Opera and the Bard Music Festival have become synonymous with a new kind of concert experience, one that provides a “rich web of context” (New York Times) for a full appreciation of each composer’s inspirations, significance, and legacy.
This week, UPSTREAMING illuminates the world of Russian composer Sergey Taneyev (1856–1915). A highly gifted pianist and composer, Taneyev was a protégé and champion of Tchaikovsky’s, serving as soloist in early performances of the older composer’s piano concertos.
Taneyev was one of Russia’s most influential music theorists, teaching for nearly three decades at the Moscow Conservatory, where his students included Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, and Glière; Stravinsky later recalled how highly he valued Taneyev’s treatise on counterpoint, calling it “one of the best books of its kind.” Yet in striving to synthesize counterpoint with folksong, he developed a distinct compositional voice that looked forward to Stravinsky himself. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-sergey-taneyev/.
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING Bard SummerScape Opera and the Bard Music Festival have become synonymous with a new kind of concert experience, one that provides a “rich web of context” (New York Times) for a full appreciation of each composer’s inspirations, significance, and legacy.
This week, UPSTREAMING illuminates the work of German Romantic composer Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), featuring:
Carl Maria von Weber’s short life was marked by many lows—frequent illnesses, an arrest on embezzlement and other charges—but he also became one of the most influential composers of the early 19th century whose prodigious gifts as a composer, pianist, conductor, and writer bring to mind Mozart. The premiere of Der Freischütz in 1821, an opera that immediately captured the imagination of audiences in Europe and beyond, was a transformative event in the history of Romanticism and helped to usher in a new sensibility in music. He did not have a comparable success in the remaining five years of his life, although the overtures to his later Euryanthe and Oberon became repertory standards. In these operas, and in less familiar compositions, his masterful orchestration and compelling evocation of mood became models for composers from Meyerbeer to Wagner, Liszt, Berlioz, Glinka, and Hindemith. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-carl-maria-von-weber/.
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING
This engrossing program encompasses varied works exploring religion and spirituality through the lens of female composers: Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, staged at Bard in 2015, animates a moral drama about social justice and personal courage, while Lili Boulanger’s Psalm 130 “Du fond de l'abîme” (1917) offers a deeply personal requiem dedicated to her father. Lera Auerbach’s Violin Concerto No. 3, “De Profundis” (2015) with Vadim Repin rounds out the program.
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING This week’s UPSTREAMING selection offers an exploration of French romanticism through the work of two composers—Emmanuel Chabrier and Hector Berlioz—who, while stylistically different, shared capacity for independent thought and innovation. The fully staged production of Chabrier’s Le roi malgré lui from the 2012 Bard SummerScape is complemented by Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette from the 2017 Bard Music Festival. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/French-Romanticism/.
Wednesday, August 5, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING “Botstein and Bard SummerScape show courage, foresight and great imagination, honoring operas that larger institutions are content to ignore. —Time Out New York
UPSTREAMING: Opera at Bard presents the musical centerpiece of the 2017 Bard SummerScape: Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s 1882 rare opera Dimitrij. Supporting content includes a recording of Janáček's Sinfonietta as performed by the American Symphony Orchestra and discussions including a lively and illuminating conversation between ASO music director Leon Botstein and noted Dvořák specialist Michael Beckerman. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-Dimitrij/.
Wednesday, August 19, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING
One of the most revered Romantic composers of the late 19th and early 20th century, Richard Strauss’s symphonic poems and operas remain an indispensable feature of the standard repertoire. This program—which includes the operatic rarity Die Liebe der Danae (The Love of Danae) from the 2011 Bard SummerScape along with various symphonic and choral works—explores the composer’s substantial melodic gifts and his mastery of instrumentation and expression.
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING
At once opulent and eerie, Pietro Mascagni’s Iris, composed in 1898 with libretto by Luigi Illica, received its North American premiere at Bard SummerScape in 2016. The American Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Leon Botstein performed with a brilliant cast of accomplished singers including the Australian tenor Gerard Schneider as a menacing and callous Osaka alongside the soprano Talise Travigne who movingly embodied the naivete and fragility of the eponymous character.
Leon Botstein in conversation with Stephanie Blythe
Sunday, October 25, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING For World Opera Day 2020, join two iconoclastic figures from the opera world for a wide-ranging and lively conversation. Revered mezzo & Artistic Director of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard, Stephanie Blythe joins Leon Botstein, Bard College President & Music Director of the American Symphony Orchestra engage in an engrossing discussion about their shared fascination with rarely-performed operas along with anecdotes and trenchant observations about the past, present, and future of the art form.
Free Lecture Series: The Origins of Civic Participation in Medieval and Early Modern Central European Political Thought
Thursday, September 30, 2021 – Thursday, December 16, 2021
Online Event This fall, Central European University is offering OSUN members a free online lecture series with renowned experts discussing the origins of civic participation in medieval and Early Modern Central European political thought and exploring its forms of expression in written and visual media from Late Antiquity to the seventeenth century.
The question of whether the governance and autonomy of medieval cities and the participation of their citizens in managing communal affairs may be regarded as a laboratory of democracy or yet another form of the rule of the privileged has re-emerged in recent scholarship. Along with urban and legal historians and scholars of political thought, research in art history, literacy, spatial studies, and global history have provided a set of new answers. Governing bodies and institutions, with varying degrees of participation by citizens with different social and legal standings, as well as the shaping of the physical environment, are all being considered.
The "Urban Governance and Civic Participation in Words and Stone" lecture series is co-organized by the Democracy in History Workgroup of the CEU Democracy Institute, the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU, the Department of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London, and the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Erfurt. It examines the notion of civic participation through a critical lens in medieval and Early Modern Central Europe in a long historical perspective and a broader geographical spectrum. The series is convened by Zoe Opacic (Birkbeck), Susanne Rau (Erfurt), and Katalin Szende (CEU DI).
Every lecture in the series is open to the public. Participation is possible for individual dates as well as for the entire lecture series. If you attend the entire lecture and write an essay (8-10 pages), you can get a certificate of attendance.
The lectures will also prepare the ground for a Summer University Course entitled Urban Governance and Civic Participation in Words and Stone to be organized by the Open Society University Network (OSUN) in July 2022.
Please visit the CEU Course Hub for further information on course requirements, readings and assessment. Registration is required to attend each lecture. More information on how to register is available upon clicking on the title of the lectures below.
Schedule 09/30/2021: Maarten Prak (University of Utrecht): Citizenship in Premodern Europe and Asia 07/10/2021: Caroline Goodson (University of Cambridge): Mediterranean Cities in the Early Middle Ages 14/10/2021: Fabrizio Nevola (University of Exeter): Writing on Walls in Early Modern Italy 21/10/2021: Beat Kumin (University of Warwick): Rural Subjects? Governance, Participation and Self-Representation in Imperial Villages 28/10/2021: Achim Timmermann (University of Michigan): Calvary Is Everywhere: Capital Punishment and the Civic Imagination 04/11/2021: Andreas Lehnertz (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Seals and Oath-Taking: Jewish Civic Participation in the Medieval Holy Roman Empire 11/11/2021: Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck, University of London): Guilds, Fraternities and Civic Life in London, 1300-1700 18/11/2021: Martin Scheutz (University of Vienna): Armed Citizens in Town. Control of Weapons and Armories 25/11/2021: Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London): How Strange Were the Strangers of Medieval Cities? [TBC] 02/12/2021: Sara Keller – Susanne Rau (University of Erfurt): Urban Governance in South Asian Cities 09/12/2021: Grigor Boykov (Austrian Academy of Sciences): When “The Land of Filibe Became Egypt and Meriç Turned Into Nile”: Governance, Architectural Patronage, and Water Management of the Mid-Fifteenth-Century Plovdiv 16/12/2021: Ferenc Horcher (University of Public Service, Budapest): The Political Ideology of the Renaissance and Early Modern City - From Bruni to Althusius For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://courses.ceu.edu/courses/2021-2022/urban-governance-and-civic-participation-words-and-stone.
Trick or treating comes early this October with Richard Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, which chronicles the misadventures of the titular practical jokester and German peasant folk hero. Then we get serious with a performance of Anton Bruckner’s massive and masterful Fifth Symphony. It was performed only once during the composer’s lifetime, and he died having never heard it.
Leon Botsteinconductor
R. StraussTill Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Bruckner Symphony No. 5Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Online Event We planning for both the October 1 and November 5, 2021 Bard College IWT Writer as Reader Workshops to be held online. We look forward to returning to in-person workshops in 2022.
Writer as Reader workshops model writing practices that inspire students to read more carefully, to grasp the meaning in more complex texts, and to infer meaning from what they read. These workshops invite secondary and college teachers to consider “writing to read” as a central classroom practice, one that shows rather than tells students how writing clarifies the meaning of texts. Working with diverse writing-to-read strategies, workshop participants discover what they bring to the text, what is apparent in the text, what is inferred, and what questions the text poses.
Workshop offerings:
Reading Climate, Writing Change: Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Christina Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac’s The Future We Choose: Surviving Climate Crisis
“Vulnerable to Foreign Ways of Seeing and Thinking”: James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues” and Gloria Anzaldúa's “La Conciencia de la Mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness”
Diving Into The Wreck: Daniel Defoe, Adrienne Rich, and J.M. Coetzee
“Who Will Take Up the Body?”: Sara Uribe’s Antígona González Reimagines Antigone within Today’s Global Politics
Othello and American Moor: Studying Shakespeare in a Racialized America
Science and Disenchantment: Max Weber’s “Science as Vocation” and the Role of Science in Ethical Life
Edith Wharton's Two New Yorks
“It’s Getting Started That’s the Puzzle”: Kelly Reichardt, First Cow, and telling American stories
"I would not paint — a picture —": Emily Dickinson’s Visual Poetics
The Lavender Scare: Mid-century Fictions and Fears
OSUN Talks 3: Popper in Critical Conversation—Arendt, Berlin, Shklar, and the Open Society
Friday, October 1, 2021 9–11 am
Online Event 9–11 AM New York l 3–5 PM Vienna
The Open Society Research Platform welcomes OSUN members to attend an online panel discussion on the writings of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and Judith Shklar on the concept of the Open Society.
Speakers Roger Berkowitz (Bard College) Oseni Afisi (Lagos State University) Allison Stanger (Middlebury College)
Moderator Christof Royer (Central European University)
Aims and Purposes The reviewers of the (relatively) recent Cambridge Companion to Popper (2016) tartly observe that scholarship on Karl Popper resembles a "closed society" as this literature is characterized by a "near total failure" to bring Popper and his concepts in conversation with thinkers and ideas in the near temporal and intellectual space. The purpose of this discussion is to take important steps to remedy this shortcoming.
The first aim is to initiate a critical conversation between Karl Popper, who popularized the concept of "open society" in The Open Society and Its Enemies, and mid-20th-century thinkers, who wrote in a common tradition of antitotalitarian thought, and whose works overlap but also diverge in important ways from Popper’s account of Open Society.
Particularly important interlocutors here—and, indeed, the theorists on which this workshop focuses—are Hannah Arendt, Judith Shklar, and Isaiah Berlin. Through a critical conversation between these thinkers, we hope to achieve a clearer picture of the potential meaning(s) and content of the concept of Open Society.
The second aim is to link this critical discussion to the present moment. As such, this workshop is not an exercise in either abstract political philosophy or intellectual history but rather an attempt to harness the ideas and insights of these theorists to think through and address contemporary problems. The aim is to show why and how a critical engagement with the concept of Open Society matters today.
Format This is the third event in a series of workshops/discussions on the concept of Open Society. The event is planned as a workshop with a set of preformulated questions that speakers will respond to. Subsequently, there will be a Q & A in which members of the audience can make comments or ask questions.
82.4 Million People: A Look at the UNHCR's Global Trends in Forced Displacement 2020
Friday, October 1, 2021 9–10:30 am
Online Event 9 AM NY l 3 PM Vienna
According to the latest figures captured in the UNHCR Global Trends in Forced Displacement report, 82.4 million people were forcibly displaced as of the end of 2020. This staggering figure is made even more surprising by the fact that 86% of these individuals are hosted by developing countries.
The OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives welcomes OSUN members to a panel discussion that grapples with a number of the June 2021 report’s findings. Speakers will give an overview of the report, including new areas and people of concern, the current global problems faced by refugees, displaced people and hosting countries, and will then focus on the challenges ahead, including donor fatigue.
Speakers: Edgar Scrase, Senior Statistics and Data Analysis, UNHCR Wyclife Otieno Barasa, Managing Director, Resilience Action International (Refugee-Led Organization) Alebachew Kemisso, Assistant Professor and Director for Center for Comparative Education and Policy Studies (CCEPS) at Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia
Moderator: Rebecca Granato, Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives, Bard College; Director of the OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives
This webinar is part of the OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives and CCE Panel Series.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom. Sponsored by: OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives.
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Friday, October 1, 2021 12–1 pm
Bito Conservatory Rm 106 Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
FRIDAYS: 12:00 – 1:00 in Bito Conservatory Rm 106 with counselor Kahan Sablo. For more information, call 845-758-7433, or e-mail ibrent@bard.edu.
Employer Insight Series—Japan Exchange in Teaching Program (JET)
Friday, October 1, 2021 1–2 pm
Join us via Zoom to learn about postgrad opportunities to work, teach, and live in Japan. Register at https://tinyurl.com/cdojetprogram. Fall application deadlines for May 2022 grads.Sponsored by: Career Development Office.
Online Event Shut Up & Sproj provides a quiet, communal space for you to do Senior Project work. We meet on Zoom on Friday afternoons (and in person in Stevenson Library 402 on Mondays from 3:30 to 5:00 pm).
By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project at the same time each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 We meet each week to plan 1 of the largest outdoor concert events on campus! Drop in if you want to help us choose this year’s artists, events, etc. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jm3697@bard.edu.
Friday, October 1, 2021 – Saturday, October 2, 2021 9:30 pm – 2 am
SMOG A SMOG show with beloved Bard acts playing rock, metal, and alternative music, followed by a special performance by Uku Pacha. Uku Pacha is an electronic music producer and DJ who was born in Peru and is now based in NYC. It is his first time playing since before the pandemic, so pull up, dance, have a good time, and come celebrate Emmanuel's 21st birthday! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sk3833@bard.edu.
Friday, October 1, 2021 – Saturday, October 2, 2021 9:30 pm – 2 am
SMOG A SMOG show with beloved Bard acts playing rock, metal, and alternative music, followed by a special performance by Uku Pacha. Uku Pacha is an electronic music producer and DJ who was born in Peru and is now based in NYC. It is his first time playing since before the pandemic, so pull up, dance, have a good time, and come celebrate Emmanuel's 21st birthday! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sk3833@bard.edu.
Trick or treating comes early this October with Richard Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, which chronicles the misadventures of the titular practical jokester and German peasant folk hero. Then we get serious with a performance of Anton Bruckner’s massive and masterful Fifth Symphony. It was performed only once during the composer’s lifetime, and he died having never heard it.
Leon Botsteinconductor
R. StraussTill Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Bruckner Symphony No. 5Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's soccer team hosts William Smith College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Join us for a celebration of life and creation. Bring your dog, cat, bird, hamster, horse, or any beloved pet for a blessing. Photographs and favorite stuffed animals are also welcome. Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, reflections, and Holy Communion this Sunday in the Chapel as we prepare for the start of a new semester at Bard. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. George, my five-month-old King Charles Cavalier spaniel, will be joining us!
We welcome all — Christians, Non-Christian, Spiritual but Not Religious, Agnostics, Believers, Doubters, Seekers, anyone who has questions about faith and religion, and those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
University-Wide Seminar: Epistemologies of Academic Freedom
Monday, October 4, 2021 9:30–11 am
Online Event 9:30 AM NY l 3:30 PM Vienna
Academic freedom is an elusive and multi-dimensional concept. OSUN welcomes all network members to a university-wide seminar that proposes a discussion about how the epistemology, or epistemologies, of academic freedom impact its conceptualizations, regulatory frameworks and practice.
Liviu Matei, CEU Provost, will discuss the rationalist tradition, which is largely socially insensitive, embedded in European conceptualizations, and juxtapose it with North American approaches.
Maria Kronfeldner, Department of Philosophy, CEU will question the so-called “argument from truth," the claim that we need academic freedom to further the “advancement of knowledge," but with a constructive goal in mind, namely, to find a better epistemological foundation for defending academic freedom.
Milica Popović, OSUN Global Observatory on Academic Freedom, will discuss the concept of epistemic injustices (coined by Miranda Fricker), unpacking both testimonial and hermeneutical sides of the issue.
Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua, School of Law, University of Ghana, will discuss the “epistemic decolonization” in Africa, through a review of academic freedom and its critical role in the African context, which is to disrupt epistemic coloniality.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
OSUN's Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents Lawrence Abu Hamdan's "Natq," a live audiovisual essay on the politics and possibilities of reincarnation. Through listening closely to “xenoglossy” (the impossible speech of reincarnated subjects), this performance explores a collectivity of lives who use reincarnation to negotiate their condition at the threshold of the law—people for whom injustices and violence have escaped the historical record due to colonial subjugation, corruption, rural lawlessness, and legal amnesty. In the piece, reincarnation is not a question of belief but a medium for justice.
Dr. Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Internationally known Private Ear. Licensed and Bonded by Goldsmiths College. Civil, Criminal, Marital, Human, Theological. Offices in London, Berlin, Beirut and Dubai.
Event moderated by Danielle Riou, Human Rights Project, Bard College.
Stevenson Library Shut Up & Sproj provides a quiet, communal space for you to do Senior Project work. We meet in Stevenson Library 402 every Monday this semester (and on Zoom every Friday from 3:30 to 5:00).
By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project at the same time each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-332-6159, or e-mail jesmith@bard.edu.
FYSEM Forum Event: Choreographer Mark Morris's Adaptation of Henry Purcell's Opera Dido and Aeneas
Monday, October 4, 2021 4:45–6:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
FYSEM is delighted to announce our first FORUM event of the year: a screening of the modern dance piece DIDO AND AENEAS, with choreography by Mark Morris set to the music of the 17th-century English composer Henry Purcell.
The ill-fated love affair between Aeneas and Dido, queen of Carthage, is one of the most memorable and significant episodes of Virgil’s epic, dramatizing the human costs of the hero’s empire-founding mission: it has been adapted, riffed, and rewritten by a host of writers and creative artists over the past two thousand years. The most famous of these is Henry Purcell’s one-act opera Dido and Aeneas, written in the 1680s, which searingly presents the despair of the abandoned Dido. In 1995, the choreographer Mark Morris premiered his ballet, set to Purcell’s music, which amplified the story’s interest in gender: he himself danced the part of Dido.
Our event will consist of a screening of a performance of this 50-minute work, preceded by remarks by Aaron Mattocks, the former manager of the Mark Morris Dance Company, who will speak on elements of Morris’s technique and about “Dido” more specifically.
ATTENDANCE AT THIS EVENT IS MANDATORY. Masks are required and there will be room for generous spacing. Students who have special requests with respect to attendance are asked to speak with their FYSEM instructor.
Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.
For more information, call 845-758-7514, or e-mail fysem@bard.edu.
Preston Theater A Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown, nestled in the majestic butterfly forests of Michoacán. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his hybrid identity, sparking a personal metamorphosis.
Following the screening, meet the director Alexis Gambis and learn more about his Science New Wave movement, where scientific pursuit is free to co-exist and blend freely across disciplines and cultures.Sponsored by: Biology Program; Film and Electronic Arts Program; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Please bring your own mats/props. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Stevenson Library Zotero is a free citation management platform that integrates with your browser and your word processing app to help you manage your sources and generate citations quickly and easily as you write. In this workshop, we'll walk you though the set up process and basic functions of Zotero and answer your questions. Please bring your laptop. Please RSVP here. For more information, call 845-758-7064, or e-mail amurphy@bard.edu.
A Reading with Bard Fiction Prize Winner Akil Kumarasamy
Monday, October 4, 2021 6:30–8 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium “Akil Kumarasamy’s Half-Gods is a breathtaking debut by one of those rare writers whose compassionate understanding—in this case, a multigenerational family with a frayed, crazy-quilt history—is matched by the narrative gifts necessary to bring her tales to life,” writes the Bard Fiction Prize committee. “While each individual story in this inventive collection is told in vivid, lusciously worded, image-rich prose, the overarching symphonic whole has—much like Jamaica Kincaid’s first book, At the Bottom of the River—the sweep and scope of a novel. What Kumarasamy has given us with Half-Gods is ultimately a meditation, as most great stories are, on time, memory, and hope for the future.”
Akil Kumarasamy is a writer from New Jersey and the author of the story collection, Half Gods, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2018, which was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was the recipient of the Story Prize Spotlight Award and a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. Her work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, American Short Fiction, Boston Review, among others. She has received fellowships from the University of East Anglia, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Yaddo, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is an assistant professor at the Rutgers-Newark MFA program and her debut novel, Better Humans, is forthcoming with Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mbrien@bard.edu.
The first-ever Global Forum on Democratizing Work, on October 5–7, 2021, will allow us to build the future of the #DemocratizingWork movement together, across geographical and disciplinary boundaries.
The Global Forum will gather participants from universities, trade unions, progressive businesses, public institutions, environmental and human rights NGOs, the media. Beyond these communities, activists or concerned citizens who are interested in the message encapsulated in the manifesto is welcome. With such a transdisciplinary exchange of perspectives, we hope to fuel a productive and inclusive learning process about the Manifesto’s principles. Participants will have the opportunity not only to attend sessions with prominent figures whose work focuses on the three core principles (democratize, decommodify, decarbonize) but also to discuss ideas and initiatives in smaller groups, based on common but diverse interests, paving the way toward orchestration.Sponsored by: Economics Program.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Start the day with this 30-minute, bodyweight-only, high intensity interval training class. Participants will practice a variety of different exercises in sequence, repeatedly targeting different muscles in the body for a full-body workout. The class starts with a warm-up and ends with a cool down and stretching. No experience required. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Noon Concert ( Please note: Open to students and the Bard College community. Concert will be live-streamed.)
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 12–1 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Conservatory students perform short works during an hour-long program.
Live attendance to this event is limited to Bard College community and students. All other audience members are invited to visit our live stream of this concert - https://youtu.be/z3nJ8IJ6aVY Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 2–3 pm
Kappa House Conference Room Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
TUESDAYS: 2:00 – 3:00 in the Kappa House conference room with counselor Kahan Sablo. For more information, call 845-758-7433, e-mail ibrent@bard.edu, or visit https://hcw.bard.edu/counseling/.
Much of modern number theory involves studying solutions to equations with integer coefficients. By combining techniques of geometry and abstract algebra, mathematicians have been able to solve fundamental questions, such as Fermat's Last Theorem and the Sato-Tate Conjecture.
More recently, statistics has become an important tool for studying number theoretic problems that resist classical techniques. In this talk, we will introduce this area of mathematics by focusing on three specific examples taken from three different areas of number theory. We will also do some real-time computation and data generation. This talk should be accessible to anyone who has taken Proofs and Fundamentals.
Online Event Join Bard Abroad Program Coordinators, Carmen Nicole Smith (Berlin) and Leiah Heckathorn (Vienna), to discuss semester and summer study abroad programs with Bard Abroad!
Where Did the Virus that Causes COVID-19 Come From?
A panel discussion on the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 5:30–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema COVID-19 has killed nearly five million people worldwide, so far. Like most novel microbes, the virus that causes it—known as SARS-CoV-2-- was at first assumed to have come from nature. A person, perhaps a trapper or butcher, was infected by an animal that carried the virus. But early in the epidemic, members of the Trump administration began speculating openly that the virus could have leaked from a laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, located in the Chinese city where the disease was first detected. Since then, prominent scientists have argued fiercely over the natural transfer vs lab leak theories, and the Biden administration has also weighed in on the issue. Knowing how this pandemic started will help prevent future ones, but the search for answers is politically fraught. In this panel discussion, Bard biology professors Felicia Keesing and Brooke Jude will explain the science of what we do and do not know about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, and what the data so far tells us about what is and isn't possible.
Panelists: Felicia Keesing, an ecologist specializing in emerging infectious diseases teaches biology at Bard Brooke Jude, a molecular microbiologist specializing in bacteria and viruses teaches biology at Bard Helen Epstein (moderator) a writer and researcher specializing in public healthSponsored by: Biology Program; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing; Division of Social Studies; Human Rights Project.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail riou@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 6:30–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Preparing for Health and Medical Professions Overview
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 7–8 pm
Wondering how to prepare for careers in health, wellness, and medicine? Hear about pathways, course recommendations, and experiential learning while @Bard. Join us at https://tinyurl.com/healthoverviewbard.Sponsored by: Bard Pre-Health Adviser; Career Development Office.
Sawkill Coffee House Come join BSO for a night of hotepery and fun as we mimic black hoteps via poetry. "All hail the Black Nubian Queen!". A night of fun and letting go as Black students. For more information, call 845-758-7097, or e-mail studentactivities@bard.edu.
The first-ever Global Forum on Democratizing Work, on October 5–7, 2021, will allow us to build the future of the #DemocratizingWork movement together, across geographical and disciplinary boundaries.
The Global Forum will gather participants from universities, trade unions, progressive businesses, public institutions, environmental and human rights NGOs, the media. Beyond these communities, activists or concerned citizens who are interested in the message encapsulated in the manifesto is welcome. With such a transdisciplinary exchange of perspectives, we hope to fuel a productive and inclusive learning process about the Manifesto’s principles. Participants will have the opportunity not only to attend sessions with prominent figures whose work focuses on the three core principles (democratize, decommodify, decarbonize) but also to discuss ideas and initiatives in smaller groups, based on common but diverse interests, paving the way toward orchestration.Sponsored by: Economics Program.
Join leaders of the Global Debate Network and faculty from across OSUN institutions for our first Faculty Discussion Series event on using debate in the classroom. Faculty will be encouraged to share debate activities and assignments they are currently using in their classes as well as to ask questions and seek feedback from one another.
Subsequent discussion series events will address specific topics in debate theory and pedagogy such as drafting debate subjects, judging/evaluating classroom debates, teaching public speaking and presentation skills, and fostering healthy disagreement in the classroom, and more!
With questions or for more information, contact Clarence Brontë, OSUN Global Debate Network Program Coordinator at cbronte@bard.edu. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://forms.gle/tRvjDrk1YLz6oDxk6.
Stop by the Career Development Office table in the lobby of Campus Center (near DTR) for FREE COFFEE. Catch up with CDO staff—let us know what you did this summer. Ask CDO questions, and chat about CDO upcoming programs and services.
Wednesday, Sept 8, 2021 10:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday Sept 22, 2021 10:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday Oct 6, 2021 10:30 a.m. to noon For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail cdo@bard.edu.
Campus Center Missed the Bard Abroad Info Session? Stop by to learn all about the Bard Abroad programs and talk to the program coordinators!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 One tap mobile +16699009128,,89428252315# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,89428252315# US (Tacoma)
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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail heid@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 12–1 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail twild@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 This 45-minute class is a combination of mobility work, functional fitness, and HIIT training all to a bumping playlist. With modifications for those new to fitness or getting back into the swing of things to elite athletes, these workouts are about maximizing the work we put in, building a strong core and foundation, having fun, and enjoying a little bit of "me time" before heading back to the grind of the week. We will incorporate body weight exercises, battle ropes, bands, kickboxing, and kettlebells. Each 45 minutes will include a warm up, workout of the day, and a cool down. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nshockey@bard.edu.
To receive zoom link please register in advance here.
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 1–3 pm
Online Event In this artist talk, Song-Ming Ang speaks about his interdisciplinary art practice and its underlying concerns, as well as ruminations on the potentials and limitations of art. Ang looks back at several artworks and projects over his last decade of art practice, including collaborations with other artists, projects involving public participation, and his presentation at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 for the Singapore Pavilion.
Song-Ming Ang (Singapore/Berlin) makes art focusing on how we relate to music individually and as a society. Drawing from the everyday and popular culture, Ang creates objects and encounters in various formats. In his work, music often serves as an entry point into other areas, like how fans and amateurs generate alternative forms of knowledge, and how structures and processes in experimental music may inform self-organisation and democracy.
Ang holds an M.A. in Aural & Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths University of London. He has presented works with The High Line (New York, US), Camden Arts Centre (London, UK), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, DE), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, DE), Witte de With (Rotterdam, NL), Museum Voorlinden (Wassenaar, NL), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, AU), 3rd Singapore Biennale (2011), 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015), and 4th Aichi Triennale (2019).
Introduced by Junni Chen and Guy Weltchek, Graduate Students, CCS Bard.
CCS Bard Speaker Series Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures are free and open, and will also be documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library & Archives. This semester, some talks will be in-person and others will be online. In order to receive a zoom link, registration is required in advance on eventbrite here.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Come Meet Gordon and Vinnie, Two of Bard's Super Cute and Fun Therapy Dogs!
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 4–5 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Masks, social distancing, and plenty of dog petting welcome! For more information, call 845-758-7433, or e-mail counselingservice@bard.edu.
Join MoMath for "QUADS: a SET®-like game" featuring Lauren Rose, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Bard College
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 4–5 pm
Online Event How good are your pattern-recognition skills? Find out as you learn this exciting, new SET®-like card game, QUADS. Join us for an evening of fun as Lauren Rose, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Bard College, shares the rules of this engaging game she co-invented, then dive beneath the surface to see how combinatorics, probability, and algebra are the underlying mathematical engines that drive the fun.
Special introduction by Liz McMahon, Professor of Mathematics at Lafayette College, and Gary Gordon, Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Mathematics at Lafayette College.
You can join in by participating in a live-stream broadcast of the event. Registration is free. Choose from two sessions:
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 4:30–6 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
The Red Hook Daily Catch & Local Journalism Info Session
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 4:30–5:30 pm
Become a Freelance Reporter & Photojournalist The Red Hook Daily Catch (thedailycatch.org) Seeking young journalists to cover local news, sports, feature stories and trends. Join us to learn about the newspaper & how to get PAID to contribute freelance stories & photographs - develop your own portfolio. The Daily Catch is run by an award-winning journalist who will train those with strong journalistic instincts and writing skills.
Wednesday, October 6. 2021 at 4:30p.m https://tinyurl.com/dailycatch
Campus Center, Weis Cinema How do you start and navigate a career in International affairs? Join BGIA Director Elmira Bayrasli Learn about: Government and State Department NGO's - What are the different opportunities there? Private sector & working abroad Interning For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Gahagan House 101 All international students are welcome to stop by with any questions, concerns or to chat. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail kalupaha@bard.edu.
Albee Come to Albee Basement (Chaplaincy) to knit or to learn how to knit. Everyone is welcome and materials are provided. We hope to knit Compassion Shawls to give out to those in our community who need comfort and support.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Please bring your own mats/props. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail baldasso@bard.edu.
The first-ever Global Forum on Democratizing Work, on October 5–7, 2021, will allow us to build the future of the #DemocratizingWork movement together, across geographical and disciplinary boundaries.
The Global Forum will gather participants from universities, trade unions, progressive businesses, public institutions, environmental and human rights NGOs, the media. Beyond these communities, activists or concerned citizens who are interested in the message encapsulated in the manifesto is welcome. With such a transdisciplinary exchange of perspectives, we hope to fuel a productive and inclusive learning process about the Manifesto’s principles. Participants will have the opportunity not only to attend sessions with prominent figures whose work focuses on the three core principles (democratize, decommodify, decarbonize) but also to discuss ideas and initiatives in smaller groups, based on common but diverse interests, paving the way toward orchestration.Sponsored by: Economics Program.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Instructional Classroom #1 Start the day with this 30-minute, bodyweight-only, high intensity interval training class. Participants will practice a variety of different exercises in sequence, repeatedly targeting different muscles in the body for a full-body workout. The class starts with a warm-up and ends with a cool down and stretching. No experience required. Open to Bard students, faculty, and staff. For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail hooper@bard.edu, or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Thursday, October 7, 2021 – Friday, October 8, 2021
Online Event October 7-8, 2021 Budapest, Hungary and Online
The CEU Democracy Institute (DI) invites all OSUN members to its “Probing Democracy” conference, a hybrid online and offline event to be held on the DI premises in Budapest on October 7 and 8, 2021.
The event showcases the richness of the scholarly work conducted at DI on the crises and resilience of democratic societies. From law to history and political science, from environmental resource management to gender dynamics, and from social inequalities to the rule of law, DI is a research center that prides itself on studying democracy in a multidisciplinary format.
In line with this broad-based intellectual stance, the conference features roundtable discussions instead of traditional panels. These roundtables allow prominent experts to engage in fresh dialogue with colleagues hailing from different disciplinary backgrounds to reflect collectively on shared scientific and relevant policy research themes.
The four themes of the roundtables are: (1) Knowledge Production and (Re-) Democratization, (2) Illiberalism and the (Ab)Use of the Public Sphere, (3) Access to Water and Energy: Accommodating Social Justice, Security and Sustainability, and (4) The Robustness of the Rule of Law: Past and Present Perspectives.
Three book launch events present recently published works by DI scholars to foster a dialogue between the authors, expert discussants, and the attending public. The first book event presents DI Co-Director Eva Fodor’s The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary and Andrea Krizsan’s co-authored work Politicizing Gender and Democracy in the Context of the Istanbul Convention. The second focuses on Zsolt Enyedi’s co-authored work Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives, and Democracy in Europe, while the last one is devoted to Andras Sajo’s already widely-discussed recent work Ruling by Cheating.
The Keynote Lecture is delivered by Professor Branko Milanovic, whose seminal research on the distributive dimensions of democracy offers a conceptual anchor to the entire event.
For in-person attendance, proof of vaccination is required and wearing a mask is obligatory in all common areas and strongly recommended in rooms.
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd. Bard College Farm's weekly farm stand featuring fresh produce, mushrooms, fresh honey and maple syrup when seasonally available. Preorders can be placed here.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 7, 2021 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail trudel@bard.edu.
How Journalists Should Write about Hate Groups and Hate Group Members
A Bard Center for the Study of Hate Webinar
Thursday, October 7, 2021 3–4 pm
Online Event 3 PM NY l 9 PM Vienna
The Bard Center for the Study of Hate (BCSH) hosts a discussion with Bill Morlin, a journalist long admired for his reporting on white supremacy, who will speak on “how journalists should write about hate groups and hate group members.”
Ken Stern, of BCSH, notes that "In my opinion, most journalists who cover hate groups, their leaders, or their members do a poor job. For example, when David Duke was running for elective office in Louisiana, he’d frequently be asked questions about his past as a Klan leader, which he would charmingly deflect. Some 1990s militia leaders explained their hate and planning for violence as, 'we’re only defending the Constitution,' and few journalists knew how to expose exactly what they meant . (Militia leaders claimed that the Constitution didn’t include Amendments after the Bill of Rights, and thus didn’t free the slaves or allow women to vote).
Writing about hate and hate groups takes special journalistic skill. Bill Morlin's powerful writing always treats the haters as real people but also clearly demonstrates the menace and danger of their ideas and organizing.
This is an online event. Register via Zoom.Sponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Hate.
Style, Sex, Shame, and the End of Literature in Ivy Compton-Burnett
Len Gutkin '07, Senior Editor, The Chronicle Review and Author
Thursday, October 7, 2021 5:30–7:30 pm
Olin, Room 102 Len Gutkin '07 is a senior editor at The Chronicle Review and the author of Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present (University of Virginia Press, 2020). His essays and reviews have appeared in venues including Times Literary Supplement, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books,Bookforum, and Post45.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Literature Program; Written Arts Program.
Chinese Table Please note: New time 6:30-7:30pm and now in person at Kline Tent.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, October 7, 2021 6:30–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Lawn Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ayou@bard.edu.
Olin, Room 203 Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet the coaches and learn about all that we do — public debates, competitive debate, debate outreach, international network debates, prison debate, and more! No prior debate experience necessary! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Friday, October 8, 2021 12–1 pm
Bito Conservatory Rm 106 Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
FRIDAYS: 12:00 – 1:00 in Bito Conservatory Rm 106 with counselor Kahan Sablo. For more information, call 845-758-7433, or e-mail ibrent@bard.edu.
Online Event Shut Up & Sproj provides a quiet, communal space for you to do Senior Project work. We meet on Zoom on Friday afternoons (and in person in Stevenson Library 402 on Mondays from 3:30 to 5:00 pm).
By making the commitment to show up for your Senior Project at the same time each week, you can turn 1.5 hours of focused work into a stable routine that yields real results.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 We meet each week to plan 1 of the largest outdoor concert events on campus! Drop in if you want to help us choose this year’s artists, events, etc. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jm3697@bard.edu.
Thursday, October 7, 2021 – Friday, October 8, 2021
Online Event October 7-8, 2021 Budapest, Hungary and Online
The CEU Democracy Institute (DI) invites all OSUN members to its “Probing Democracy” conference, a hybrid online and offline event to be held on the DI premises in Budapest on October 7 and 8, 2021.
The event showcases the richness of the scholarly work conducted at DI on the crises and resilience of democratic societies. From law to history and political science, from environmental resource management to gender dynamics, and from social inequalities to the rule of law, DI is a research center that prides itself on studying democracy in a multidisciplinary format.
In line with this broad-based intellectual stance, the conference features roundtable discussions instead of traditional panels. These roundtables allow prominent experts to engage in fresh dialogue with colleagues hailing from different disciplinary backgrounds to reflect collectively on shared scientific and relevant policy research themes.
The four themes of the roundtables are: (1) Knowledge Production and (Re-) Democratization, (2) Illiberalism and the (Ab)Use of the Public Sphere, (3) Access to Water and Energy: Accommodating Social Justice, Security and Sustainability, and (4) The Robustness of the Rule of Law: Past and Present Perspectives.
Three book launch events present recently published works by DI scholars to foster a dialogue between the authors, expert discussants, and the attending public. The first book event presents DI Co-Director Eva Fodor’s The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary and Andrea Krizsan’s co-authored work Politicizing Gender and Democracy in the Context of the Istanbul Convention. The second focuses on Zsolt Enyedi’s co-authored work Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives, and Democracy in Europe, while the last one is devoted to Andras Sajo’s already widely-discussed recent work Ruling by Cheating.
The Keynote Lecture is delivered by Professor Branko Milanovic, whose seminal research on the distributive dimensions of democracy offers a conceptual anchor to the entire event.
For in-person attendance, proof of vaccination is required and wearing a mask is obligatory in all common areas and strongly recommended in rooms.
Join Ilyse Simon RDN CDN in this informal zoom support group devoted to disordered eating.
Friday, October 8, 2021 9:30–10:30 am
Online Event If you are struggling and want some extra support with your behaviors, feelings about food, and self-care, then join us. Friday mornings at 9:30 am EST. Join Zoom Meeting Bard Nutrition Support Group
Order in Chaos and the Fate of the World: The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
Paul Cadden-Zimansky & Hal Haggard, Associate Professors of Physics at Bard College
Friday, October 8, 2021 12–1 pm
Hegeman 107 This year's Nobel Prize in physics, awarded to Giorgio Parisi, Syukuro Manabe, and Klaus Hasselmann, was bestowed for finding order in what appear to be hopelessly complex systems. This general audience talk will explain how the laureates started from simple physical principles, braved a thicket of noise and intricate interactions, and emerged from the other side with new tools that deepen our understanding of systems ranging from the material to the biological, from machine learning to meteorology. Along the way they found answers to some scholarly questions and some with global climate implications.
Pizza to be served after the talk!Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail akontos@bard.edu.
Saturday, October 9, 2021 – Sunday, October 10, 2021
Online Event The OSUN Student Leadership Conference is a virtual international event taking place October 9 and 10, 2021, bringing together students who are interested in developing leadership skills and connecting to a global network of students. The conference is open to students from Open Society University Network member campuses.
The Student Leadership Conference offers seminars, keynotes, workshops, and trainings that teach leadership skills, connect students who share interests, explore the range of cultural contexts in which leaders operate, and encourages student-led cross-campus initiatives.
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