Keep the Conversation Going with the Hannah Arendt Center
Friday, February 28, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2027
Hannah Arendt Center
Amor Mundi is the weekly publication of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Subscribe now to receive the Amor Mundi email in your inbox up to two times a week. You'll get the first look at original articles, essays, and journal features from Roger Berkowitz and other Arendtian thinkers. Read Amor Mundi now >>
The Virtual Reading Group. Join Founder and Academic Director Roger Berkowitz and Acting Assistant Director Samantha Hill on select Fridays as they lead a live, online group discussion in a thoughtful and spirited exploration of the works of Hannah Arendt. Learn more about the VRG >>
Meshell Ndegeocello Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin
Tuesday, September 15, 2020 – Wednesday, June 30, 2021
UPSTREAMING
Inspired by the writing of James Baldwin Created by Meshell Ndegeocello In collaboration with Charlotte Brathwaite Featuring the contributions of Staceyann Chin, Suné Woods, Nicholas Galanin, Paul Thompson '93, Justin Hicks, and more.
A Co-Production of Bismillah, LLC and Fisher Center at Bard Co-Commissioned by Live Arts Bard, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre, and Festival de Marseille.
“No label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and no religion is more important than the human being.”—James Baldwin
A project inspired by James Baldwin’s truth-telling treatise on justice in the United States, The Fire Next Time, and our endlessly changing world. Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin is a 21st-century ritual tool kit for justice. A call for revolution. A gift during turbulent times.
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy—but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” —James Baldwin
Each month, September–December 2020, we offered gifts—music, thoughts, meditations, and visual testimonies of resilience—inspired by James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time.
“This is my offering to you. This is a different experience so I hope you have an open mind or at least an open heart. I see James Baldwin as an Orisha, his writing as the living word. I wanted to pay homage to him and to the time and effort it took to sit, to physically and emotionally fill the page with a truth that made my own sorrow feel less lonely. He put me on a path of empathy and humility towards my parents. It humbled me towards my mother born in 1944 and my father born in 1939—a time I can’t imagine living in while black.” —Meshell
Call for Applications: The IX International Smolny Student Conference
Re:creating a New World
Friday, January 8, 2021 – Monday, February 8, 2021
Online Event The Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Smolny) at St. Petersburg University invites Bard College students to submit applications and paper proposals to participate in the IX International Smolny Student Conference. Join peers from St. Petersburg and across Russia, the Bard Network and globe to present original research and projects as seen through the lens of the global pandemic.
The IX International Smolny Student Conference Re:creating a New World Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Smolny College) St. Petersburg University April 16-18, 2021
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the conference will be offered in an online format for international participants.
The working languages of the conference will be English and Russian. The deadline for applications is February 8, 2021.
Thursday, January 21, 2021 – Friday, December 31, 2021
Various
“We projected ourselves into a future in which we are loved absolutely and we rehearsed our lives there.”
The Future Is Present is a process and a practice, it’s a model for building community in a very small and incredibly powerful way. Led by artists Charlotte Brathwaite, Justin Hicks, Janani Balasubramanian, Sunder Ganglani, June Cross, and Alyssa Simmons, the project built a small community of Black and Indigenous young people and small community of young artists from Bard College* to spend seven weeks cultivating intimacy and discourse.
The youth cohort created demands on our collective future. The Bard community members listened, deeply.
Now, a process of amplifying those demands is underway. The artists at Bard have made a film for the youth cohort and will be releasing it next month on this page. Stay tuned.
This is an invitation to you to participate, somehow, on terms that make sense in your community. We would love to talk about what that might mean for you. Reach out to coordinator@thefutureispresent.xyz.
* Adrian Costa, Megan Lacy, Cam Orr, Anya Petkovich, Taty Rozetta, Hakima SmithStone, Dani Wilder, and Mengchen Zhang
To read a transcript of the video, click here.Sponsored by: Bard Theater & Performance Program.
Please note this is an online event and registration is required. Registration link
PANELISTS
Kateryna Bornukova, Academic Director, BEROC Economic Research Center Anaïs Marin, Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House Artyom Shraibman, Nonresident Scholar,Carnegie Moscow Center Gábor Tóka, Senior Research Fellow, Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives, Central European University Kenneth S. Yalowitz, Adjunct Lecturer, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies
Addressing one of her last election rallies in the summer, independent presidential candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya prepared her followers for a patient wait until their apparent will to unseat their country’s long-serving and proudly authoritarian president Lukashenka will be honored. It will take more than just casting votes to get their will expressed in the outcome that matters, she suggested. But she will be there to fight for a fair acknowledgement of the true election results for many months if need be.
Nearly six months after the rigged August 9 elections, Tsikhanouskaya is in half-voluntary exile, and many of her supporters are in prison after a reported 30,000 were detained and often treated brutally by the security forces. Crucially, the latter remained, at least as an organization, loyal to the incumbent after he was (self-) declared the winner of the election while the massive, spirited and impressively enduring post-electoral protests of Tsikhanouskaya’s supporters slowly but inevitably diminished in size and determination. However, not only the pro-democracy movement and all foreign governments aspiring for influence in Belarus seem deprived of the outcome that they hoped for, but Lukashenka’s regime also remains severely deprived of domestic political authority and international respect.
Our roundtable shall explore what kind of political stabilization or destabilization may be awaiting Belarus, what the realistic options and constraints are for the regime, the opposition, Russia, and the international community concerned over the state of human rights in Belarus.
Please note this is an online event and registration is required. Registration linkSponsored by: Central European University.
Online Event Not for seasoned PowerPoint players, this class is for beginners. How to create a PowerPoint presentation from scratch. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/87450776435.
Бродский и Ахматова - знаковые имена в истории русской поэзии. В нобелевской лекции Бродский назвал Ахматову одним из «источников света», которым он обязан своей поэтической судьбой. Встречи с Ахматовой и ее стихами связывали Бродского с поэтической традицией «серебряного века». Оба они были не только поэтами, но и чуткими читателями и отголоски их бесед о великих книгах звучат во многих стихах Бродского.
Петербургский филолог Денис Ахапкин рассматривает в своей книге эпизоды жизни и творчества двух поэтов, показывая глубинную взаимосвязь между двумя поэтическими системами. Жизненные события причудливо преломляются сквозь призму поэтических строк, становясь фактами уже не просто биографии, а литературной биографии —и некоторые особенности ахматовского поэтического языка хорошо слышны в стихах Бродского. Книга сочетает разговор о судьбах поэтов с разговором о конкретных стихотворениях и их медленным чтением.
This event will be presented in Russian.
English description:
Brodsky and Akhmatova are significant names in the history of Russian poetry. In his Nobel lecture, Brodsky called Akhmatova one of the "sources of light," to whom his poetic fate is indebted. Meetings with Akhmatova and her poems connected Brodsky with the poetic traditions of the "Silver Age." They were both not only poets, but also keen readers. The results of their conversations about great books are present in Brodsky's poems.
In his book, Petersburg philologist Denis Akhapkin examines the creative spirit and episodes from the poets' lives, showing the deep relationship between two poetic systems. Life events are bizarrely refracted through the prism of verse, becoming facts of not just a biography, but a literary biography. Some features of Akhmatova's poetic language are present in Brodsky's poetry. The book combines a conversation about the poets' fate with a discussion about specific poems and reading them slowly. Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For folks already familiar with PowerPoint and want to learn about advanced features such as the Insert options including screen recording, selecting designs and creating variants, using text and object animations, searching for and using templates, inserting logos, audio and video. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/85189339917.
Covering all aspects of using Zoom from scheduling a meeting, adding it to your Google Calendar, holding and recording a Zoom meeting, using the chat room and displaying materials. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/81298535256.
Recording in Zoom is easy but where to store and how to share the files involves a little bit more time. We'll go over the details. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/6867140376.
Online Event Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Come to our first meeting of the semester to meet the coaches and current students and learn about all that we do—tournaments, public debates, outreach and more! No prior debate experience is necessary! Everyone is welcome!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
How to schedule an Zoom meeting with all the options available to you (under Bard's license). If you don't know how to put a Zoom meeting on your calendar, automatically record a meeting and where that goes, what your automatic choices are, how to use the waiting room and passcode and how to edit Zoom meetings, this is the class for you. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/88387569591.
WONDERING HOW STUDY ABROAD WORKS AT BARD? Attend this Zoom session to learn about the process, possibilities, timing, and more!
ATTENTION SOPHOMORES: If you plan to study abroad for Fall 2021 (or for the full academic year) it's important that you attend a Nuts and Bolts session and have a 1:1 meeting with Trish Fleming VERY SOON (see below re: how to schedule that)! Deadlines will be here before you know it!
WILL DISCUSS: Semester-long Bard Abroad Programs; Tuition Exchanges; Non-Bard Programs; the approval process; financial aid and scholarships; summer possibilities; deadlines/timelines, and more!
MEET WITH TRISH: Once you've attended a session, email Trish saying you've attended one and letting her know days/times that you are free (M-F, 9-5) and she'll reply with a GoogleMeet invite.
COME SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE!
Meeting ID: 878 6544 3491 Passcode: 885954Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Learn how to organize your files and folders, upload files/folders from your computer, make changes in documents without creating duplicates, highlight files/folders, add details to the properties of files/folders, and do advanced searches for files/folders. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82367998637.
A look at many of the options that make Gmail easier to look at, use, organize and search. Plus some advanced features such as creating a small mailing list in Gmail, using more than one signature, scheduling email, creating email templates and more. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/86881918010.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
WONDERING HOW STUDY ABROAD WORKS AT BARD? Attend this Zoom session to learn about the process, possibilities, timing, and more!
ATTENTION SOPHOMORES: If you plan to study abroad for Fall 2021 (or for the full academic year) it's important that you attend a Nuts and Bolts session and have a 1:1 meeting with Trish Fleming VERY SOON (see below re: how to schedule that)! Deadlines will be here before you know it!
WILL DISCUSS: Semester-long Bard Abroad Programs; Tuition Exchanges; Non-Bard Programs; the approval process; financial aid and scholarships; summer possibilities; deadlines/timelines, and more!
MEET WITH TRISH: Once you've attended a session, email Trish saying you've attended one and letting her know days/times that you are free (M-F, 9-5) and she'll reply with a GoogleMeet invite.
COME SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE!
Meeting ID: 875 1854 0869 Passcode: 934571 Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Online Event Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
Meeting ID: 509 771 5132 One tap mobile +16465588656,,5097715132# US (New York) +13017158592,,5097715132# US (Washington D.C)
Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 509 771 5132 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/k5ThMe4btSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
New Kinds of Attention: Writing-Based Teaching Online
Friday, February 5, 2021 9 am – 3:30 pm
Online Event Every winter, Bard IWT takes a few of our foundational workshops On the Road to select cities, where we enjoy meeting new people and making new connections. This year, of course, is different.
We are happy to announce that in 2021, we will launch a new online series that will offer teachers a unique opportunity to experience IWT’s writing-based teaching practices. New Kinds of Attention: Writing-Based Teaching Online will explore how writing practices can build community and foster renewed engagement in the online classroom in a moment when attention and energy for remote learning are often in short supply.
These one-day workshops will serve as a preliminary introduction to IWT practices and provide a taste of the experience of our popular July Weeklong Workshops on Bard College’s beautiful Annandale campus. Those who are new to IWT and have wanted to attend a workshop are especially welcome to join us.
The inaugural series of New Kinds of Attention workshops is launching at a discount—20% off our standard rate for online workshops, and 35 percent off the rate for in-person one-day workshops. Spaces are limited, so register early!
On each date, workshop sections will begin at different times to accommodate different US time zones. Please register for the time zone/schedule that best suits your needs.
February 5, 2021 • 9am–3:30pm EST/CST/PST Introduction to Writing & Thinking Introduction to Writing to Learn
March 5, 2021 • 9am–3:30pm EST/PST Introduction to Thinking Historically through Writing Introduction to Writing to Learn in the STEM Disciplines
More about Bard IWT workshops:
All of our workshops are capped at 15 participants.
IWT workshops help teachers develop writing practices that enliven classroom learning through writing. IWT’s philosophy and practice center on the principle that writing is not merely a record of completed thought, but also an exploratory process that deepens learning across disciplines.
Workshops model strategies that help students discover and interpret meaning, engage in productive dialogue, and learn critical thinking skills. Participants will write together, using IWT practices just as we might with our students.
Workshops introduce a selection of foundational IWT writing-based teaching practices. Teachers explore how to make these practices their own—how to reimagine writing prompts, work with new readings, and integrate collaborative learning into classrooms of all sizes.
If you've used PowerPoint, you can now also use Slides. This class is about enhancing a presentation that is already created, either in PowerPoint or Slides, using templates, layouts, premade presentations, themes, and diagrams. Should already have experience with creating presentations. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/87131579011.
WONDERING HOW STUDY ABROAD WORKS AT BARD? Attend this Zoom session to learn about the process, possibilities, timing, and more!
ATTENTION SOPHOMORES: If you plan to study abroad for Fall 2021 (or for the full academic year) it's important that you attend a Nuts and Bolts session and have a 1:1 meeting with Trish Fleming VERY SOON (see below re: how to schedule that)! Deadlines will be here before you know it!
WILL DISCUSS: Semester-long Bard Abroad Programs; Tuition Exchanges; Non-Bard Programs; the approval process; financial aid and scholarships; summer possibilities; deadlines/timelines, and more!
MEET WITH TRISH: Once you've attended a session, email Trish saying you've attended one and letting her know days/times that you are free (M-F, 9-5) and she'll reply with a GoogleMeet invite.
COME SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE!
Meeting ID: 831 9512 8598 Passcode: 698494Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Online Event Please join us for Shut Up & Sproj on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2:30 to 4:00 pm. Just click on https://bard.zoom.us/j/94131442602 to work quietly on your project in the virtual presence of other seniors. “Working on your project” means anything that pushes it forward. If you get stuck, not to worry. Jane Smith, associate director for library writing support, will be happy to meet with you in a breakout room to listen to your ideas and offer guidance.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Workshop led by Catherine Denial Bright Distinguished Professor of American History, Chair of the History Department, and Director of the Bright Institute at Knox College
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
TŌN music director Leon Botstein kicks off the spring season with Bach’s third Brandenburg Concerto and Schoenberg’s romantic tone poem Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night). Also on the program are works for string orchestra by Polish composer Witold Lutosławski and Venezuelan composer, pianist, and singer Teresa Carreño, who played for Abraham Lincoln at the White House in 1863.
Leon Botsteinconductor
Witold Lutosławski Funeral Music Teresa Carreño Serenade for Strings BachBrandenburg Concerto No. 3 Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
Estimated run time: 1 hour and 45 minutes Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Online Event You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Get ready to join us for this year's Super Bowl watch party! Stop by the Campus Center George Ball Lounge between 5 PM and 6 PM for FREE wings, Gatorade, and other snacks.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Online Event Join us for this year's Super Bowl watch party! Stop by the Campus Center George Ball Lounge between 5 PM and 6 PM for FREE wings, Gatorade, and other snacks. You can then access the game for FREE through CBS.com, join the Zoom call, and watch with your friends.
Adapting to the New Reality – Civic Universities Engaging in The Arts
Monday, February 8, 2021 9–10 am
PANELISTS
Adnan Z. Morshed, Professor, Catholic University of America and BRAC University Judith Mossman, Pro Vice-Chancellor Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Coventry University Kseniya Shtalenkova, MA in Sociology, PhD candidate at the joint doctoral programme of philosophy (EHU, VMU, LSRI); Assistant Lecturer in the Academic Department of Humanities and Arts, Academic Secretary to the Journal for Philosophy and Cultural Studies Topos, European Humanities University Tania El Khoury, Distinguished Artist in Residence in Theater & Performance and the Director of the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College
MODERATOR
Lorlene Hoyt, Executive Director, Talloires Network of Engaged Universities, Research Professor, Tisch College of Civic Life, Research Professor, Department of Urban + Environmental Policy + Planning, Visiting Scholar, President’s Office, Albion College
The COV-AID webinar series Adapting to the New Reality: Civically Engaged Universities Offer Strategies and Hope collects and shares stories of institutions and individuals who are taking action to mitigate the crisis, and documents practical steps and strategies that may be of use elsewhere. The series is a collaboration between the Open Society University Network and the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities.
When you need to create quick and easy surveys, questionnaires, and even quizzes, Google Forms is more than adequate. It even produces an automatic spreadsheet of your results in Google Sheets. Forms is simple, looks great and is easy to send or embed. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/86932164334.
WONDERING HOW STUDY ABROAD WORKS AT BARD? Attend this Zoom session to learn about the process, possibilities, timing, and more!
ATTENTION SOPHOMORES: If you plan to study abroad for Fall 2021 (or for the full academic year) it's important that you attend a Nuts and Bolts session and have a 1:1 meeting with Trish Fleming VERY SOON (see below re: how to schedule that)! Deadlines will be here before you know it!
WILL DISCUSS: Semester-long Bard Abroad Programs; Tuition Exchanges; Non-Bard Programs; the approval process; financial aid and scholarships; summer possibilities; deadlines/timelines, and more!
MEET WITH TRISH: Once you've attended a session, email Trish saying you've attended one and letting her know days/times that you are free (M-F, 9-5) and she'll reply with a GoogleMeet invite.
COME SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE!
Meeting ID: 872 5158 3670 Passcode: 113488Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Recording in Zoom is easy but where to store and how to share the files involves a little bit more time. We'll go over the details. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/6867140376.
Online Event Whether you're brand-new to Zotero or you've been using it and have some questions, join us for our first Zotero workshop of the semester. Learn how to get the most out of this powerful citation management tool. Bring questions if you have them! We recommend you install the Zotero app and browser plug-in before the workshop. Set up instructions can be found here.
Meeting ID: 836 4793 3100 Passcode: zotero One tap mobile +16465588656,,83647933100# US (New York) +13017158592,,83647933100# US (Washington DC)Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Covering all aspects of using Zoom from scheduling a meeting, adding it to your Google Calendar, holding and recording a Zoom meeting, using the chat room and displaying materials. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/81298535256.
Online Event Please join us for Shut Up & Sproj on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2:30 to 4:00 pm. Just click on https://bard.zoom.us/j/94131442602 to work quietly on your project in the virtual presence of other seniors. “Working on your project” means anything that pushes it forward. If you get stuck, not to worry. Jane Smith, associate director for library writing support, will be happy to meet with you in a breakout room to listen to your ideas and offer guidance.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Online Event The OSUN Engaged Research Fund invites applications for funding and research support for graduate students and faculty at OSUN partner institutions who are working to develop long-term, sustainable community partnerships as a central part of their research with a goal to develop shared knowledge about issues that align with OSUN priorities and themes.
The Engaged Scholar Award (ESA) is for graduate students pursuing research that integrates community engagement into new or existing scholarship. Award: $6,000
The Engaged Faculty Scholar Award (EFSA) is for faculty whose scholarship incorporates community-based research into new or existing research and supports sustained community partners as long term collaborators. Award: $9,000
The deadline for applications is April 15, 2021. The Engaged Research Application Portal will open on April 1, 2021.
Join us for an information session to learn more about these opportunities.
WONDERING HOW STUDY ABROAD WORKS AT BARD? Attend this Zoom session to learn about the process, possibilities, timing, and more!
ATTENTION SOPHOMORES: If you plan to study abroad for Fall 2021 (or for the full academic year) it's important that you attend a Nuts and Bolts session and have a 1:1 meeting with Trish Fleming VERY SOON (see below re: how to schedule that)! Deadlines will be here before you know it!
WILL DISCUSS: Semester-long Bard Abroad Programs; Tuition Exchanges; Non-Bard Programs; the approval process; financial aid and scholarships; summer possibilities; deadlines/timelines, and more!
MEET WITH TRISH: Once you've attended a session, email Trish saying you've attended one and letting her know days/times that you are free (M-F, 9-5) and she'll reply with a GoogleMeet invite.
COME SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE!
Meeting ID: 832 7900 2468 Passcode: 462121Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Explore is a built-in AI that monitors what you type and responds, with related, on-the-fly content as you type, generally. As with most AI features, it isn't perfect, but it does allow for some handy help when using Google Docs (it's pretty handy with citations), Sheets and Slides. Find out about it here. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/86732760485.
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
ABOUT Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information.
Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team.
WHAT WILL BE COVERED?
Overview of graduate program offerings
Alumni success and career outcomes
Admissions information
Prerequisite course requirements
Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
Financial aid availability
Tips for a standout application
DEGREE OPTIONS Degree Options Include: MS in Environmental Policy MS in Climate Science and Policy MBA in Sustainability
Dual Degree Options Include: MS/JD with Pace Law School MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability
Peace Corps Programs Include: Master's International (before you serve) Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Margo Bogossian at mbogossian@bard.edu for further details.
RSVP HERESponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Online Event Interested in learning more about debate at Bard? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet the coaches and current students, watch or participate in a practice debate, and learn about all that we do—tournaments, public debates, outreach, and more!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
How to schedule an Zoom meeting with all the options available to you (under Bard's license). If you don't know how to put a Zoom meeting on your calendar, automatically record a meeting and where that goes, what your automatic choices are, how to use the waiting room and passcode and how to edit Zoom meetings, this is the class for you. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/88387569591.
Learn how to organize your files and folders, upload files/folders from your computer, make changes in documents without creating duplicates, highlight files/folders, add details to the properties of files/folders, and do advanced searches for files/folders. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82367998637.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
Meeting ID: 870 3574 1591 One tap mobile +16465588656,,87035741591# US (New York) +13126266799,,87035741591# US (Chicago)
Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) Meeting ID: 870 3574 1591 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kyYH5JFZZSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
WONDERING HOW STUDY ABROAD WORKS AT BARD? Attend this Zoom session to learn about the process, possibilities, timing, and more!
ATTENTION SOPHOMORES: If you plan to study abroad for Fall 2021 (or for the full academic year) it's important that you attend a Nuts and Bolts session and have a 1:1 meeting with Trish Fleming VERY SOON (see below re: how to schedule that)! Deadlines will be here before you know it!
WILL DISCUSS: Semester-long Bard Abroad Programs; Tuition Exchanges; Non-Bard Programs; the approval process; financial aid and scholarships; summer possibilities; deadlines/timelines, and more!
MEET WITH TRISH: Once you've attended a session, email Trish saying you've attended one and letting her know days/times that you are free (M-F, 9-5) and she'll reply with a GoogleMeet invite.
COME SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE!
Meeting ID: 881 1146 6611 Passcode: 589905Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 – Thursday, February 11, 2021 5–6 pm
Hear from Bard alumnus Alex Franco ’12, education coordinator, talk about summer teaching opportunities at EXPLO. EXPLO is hiring college students FY–Seniors for summer positions for the summer residential program for children Elem – High School. Great pay! This session is hosted by Bard CDO and the Recruiting Consortia group of schools. February 10, 4:00 pm EST Watch here: https://bard.zoom.us/j/83383665679
Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago)
Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
A look at many of the options that make Gmail easier to look at, use, organize and search. Plus some advanced features such as creating a small mailing list in Gmail, using more than one signature, scheduling email, creating email templates and more. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/86881918010.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
Meeting ID: 509 771 5132 One tap mobile +16465588656,,5097715132# US (New York) +13017158592,,5097715132# US (Washington D.C)
Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 509 771 5132 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/k5ThMe4btSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 – Thursday, February 11, 2021 5–6 pm
Hear from Bard alumnus Alex Franco ’12, education coordinator, talk about summer teaching opportunities at EXPLO. EXPLO is hiring college students FY–Seniors for summer positions for the summer residential program for children Elem – High School. Great pay! This session is hosted by Bard CDO and the Recruiting Consortia group of schools. February 10, 4:00 pm EST Watch here: https://bard.zoom.us/j/83383665679
Online Event A decade has passed since hundreds of thousands poured into Cairo's Tahrir Square, igniting the Arab Spring. What has happened since? Join us on Thursday, February 11 (exactly 10 years to the day that Hosni Mubarak stepped down), at 12pm EST/6pm Vienna. We'll be joined by Century Foundation's Thanassis Cambanis, author of Once Upon a Revolution: An Egyptian Story, and Michael Hanna, author of Arab Politics Beyond the Uprisings.RSVP required. Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
Online Event Welcome to Bard-Smolny Trivia! Gather around your screens, and play solo or in a team of up to five people together with Smolny students. All questions are Russia-related, and you do not need to speak the language to participate. Your curiosity, intuition and a bit of luck will go a long way together with your knowledge of history, art, literature and music.
Join via ZoomSponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
A discussion with Thanassis Cambanis, Michael Hanna and Aya Ibrahim
Thursday, February 11, 2021 12–1 pm
Online Event A decade has passed since hundreds of thousands poured into Cairo's Tahrir Square, igniting the Arab Spring. What has happened since? Join us on Thursday, February 11 (exactly 10 years to the day that Hosni Mubarak stepped down) at 12 pm EST/6 pm Vienna. We'll be joined by Century Foundation's Thanassis Cambanis, author of Once Upon a Revolution: An Egyptian Story, and Michael Hanna, author of Arab Politics Beyond the Uprisings, and Deutsche Welle correspondent and BGIA alumnus Aya Ibrahim.
Join via Zoom. RSVP Required.Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
Online Event This is a moderated panel featuring Black trans people who will share their lived experiences and participate in a Q & A.Sponsored by: Dean of Student Affairs; Professionals of Color group .
Online Event Online screening of Ali (2001), which focuses on ten years in the life of the boxer Muhammad Ali, his conversion to Islam, criticism of the Vietnam War, and banishment from boxing. Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Professionals of Color Group.
Online Event Join us for a film and discussion series celebrating Black LGBTQ+ history and life. We will be playing a new film each Thursday in February at 7 PM and participating in a virtual discussion following the film.
Visit bit.ly/bhmfilm for the full schedule and registration link. This event is sponsored by the Hudson Valley LGBT Community Center and is advertised by the Dean for Inclusive Excellence. Sponsored by: Dean of Inclusive Excellence.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event Please join us for Shut Up & Sproj on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2:30 to 4:00 pm. Just click on https://bard.zoom.us/j/94131442602 to work quietly on your project in the virtual presence of other seniors. “Working on your project” means anything that pushes it forward. If you get stuck, not to worry. Jane Smith, associate director for library writing support, will be happy to meet with you in a breakout room to listen to your ideas and offer guidance.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Saw Kill As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.
Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.
Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.
Open to everyone. Free training is available.
If interested, please contact: Lindsey Drew Bard Water Lab Manager ldrew@bard.eduSponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Online Event In December, 2020, the Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohican Indians approved the text of a Bard College land acknowledgment for use in Stockbridge Munsee Homelands, where the Bard Annandale campus is located. Please join us for a conversation about this important document and best practices for bringing it into the classroom. More information, including the full text of the land acknowledgement, can be found here.
The session will be recorded for those who cannot attend.Sponsored by: Center for Faculty and Curricular Development.
Online Event What does it mean to “blame the system”? Blame in its paradigm case is second-personal. Persons blame other persons for wronging them. But, many argue, large-scale social and political systems and the structural injustices that are part of such systems are not reducible to individual persons and their actions. What does it mean for the system to be the object of blame?
Beginning from activists’ calls to “blame the system”, I argue that blaming the system is second-personal in the following sense. It involves the activist second-personally calling another to a particular kind of self-knowledge through blame. Blame is the mode by which the blamer comes to know how the system has formed them. It can thus motivate them to change themselves and the system. This call evinces a humanist response to structural injustice that resists common technocratic and objectivising cultural tendencies.
Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 829 7086 9747 / Passcode: 050296Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7280, or e-mail jelliott@bard.edu.
This workshop is all about what else you can do in Zoom — present different items in your presentation, use a whiteboard, use annotations on the whiteboard and other screens, and create polls. See some different reasons why you might use polls. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/6867140376.
Have questions about study abroad? Need copies of any of the study abroad handouts/forms? Need help with your Petition for Study Abroad?
Log into the Study Abroad Drop-In Zoom Room anytime between noon and 3:00 today and Study Abroad Adviser Trish Fleming will be happy to help you! Meeting ID: 863 2850 4935 Passcode: 778192 Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Spring 2021 Speaker Series: Adrienne Edwards, Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum
Friday, February 12, 2021 12–2 pm
Online Event Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are elected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives. This semester all talks will be held online - in order to receive the zoom link registration is required in advance on eventbrite here.
The series begins with Adrienne Edwards, Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum. Previously, she served as curator of Performa since 2010 and as Curator at Large for the Walker Art Center since 2016.
Edwards is co-curator of the 2022 Whitney Biennial with David Breslin. She curated Jason Moran, the artist’s first museum show, which originated at the Walker in 2018, and traveled to the ICA Boston, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Whitney. She organized the event and video commencing the construction of David Hammons’s Day’s End, featuring a commission by composer Henry Threadgill and a “water tango” on the Hudson River by the Fire Department of the City of New York’s Marine Company 9. Edwards also organized Moved by the Motion: Sudden Rise with WuTsang, boychild, and Fred Moten. She is currently curating Dave McKenzie’s first solo museum project in New York City and My Barbarian’s twenty-year survey, both to be presented in 2021.
While at the Walker, she co-led the institution-wide Mellon Foundation Interdisciplinary Initiative, an effort to expand ways of commissioning, studying, contextualizing, collecting, documenting, and conserving cross-disciplinary works. For Performa, Edwards realized new boundary-defying commissions, as well as pathfinding conferences and film programs with a wide range of over forty international artists. Edwards’s curatorial projects have included the critically acclaimed exhibition and catalogue Blackness in Abstraction, hosted by Pace Gallery in 2016, as well as Frieze’s Artist Award and the Live program ASSEMBLY in New York in 2018. Edwards is Visiting Critic at the University of Pennsylvania, and taught art history and visual studies at New York University and The New School. She is a contributor to numerous artist monographs, exhibition catalogues, and academic journals, including forthcoming publications for the National Gallery of Art’s Center for the Advanced Study in Visual Art and Phaidon.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Blaming the System: Lecture by Yarran Hominh, PhD Candidate, Columbia University
Friday, February 12, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event Join via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/82970869747?pwd=elp0TnN5a2wvT002VkFlalBxUVhOdz09
What does it mean to “blame the system”? Blame in its paradigm case is second-personal. Persons blame other persons for wronging them. But, many argue, large-scale social and political systems and the structural injustices that are part of such systems are not reducible to individual persons and their actions. What does it mean for the system to be the object of blame?
Beginning from activists’ calls to “blame the system,” I argue that blaming the system is second-personal in the following sense. It involves the activist second-personally calling another to a particular kind of self-knowledge through blame. Blame is the mode by which the blamer comes to know how the system has formed them. It can thus motivate them to change themselves and the system. This call evinces a humanist response to structural injustice that resists common technocratic and objectivizing cultural tendencies.
Zoom Meeting ID: 829 7086 9747 / Passcode: 050296Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Philosophy Program.
Want to Work in Publishing? …..Employer Insight Panel
Friday, February 12, 2021 – Saturday, February 13, 2021 1–2 pm
JOIN US! Hear directly from professionals working at top publishing companies about the many different positions available to work in this field. Get first hand insight and knowledge of what employers are looking for in talent.
Simon & Schuster - Director of Talent and Diversity Initiatives Scholastic - Editor Hachette - Subsidiary Rights Macmillan - Digital Production Manager SkyHorse Publishing - Publicity Director
Open to Bard and Vassar College students - All class years and majors!
Online Join Zoom Meeting - NEED TO USE PASSCODE https://bard.zoom.us/j/86076989410?pwd=ZjVmVVdnYldHTG5TeU8yZzU0OHFYQT09 Passcode: 619888 Meeting ID: 860 7698 9410
Online screening of Mooz-lum (2010), in which a young man from a strict Muslim background begins college, but due to the 9/11 attacks, he is pushed to confront his past and make some big decisions. Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Professionals of Color Group.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Want to Work in Publishing? …..Employer Insight Panel
Friday, February 12, 2021 – Saturday, February 13, 2021 1–2 pm
JOIN US! Hear directly from professionals working at top publishing companies about the many different positions available to work in this field. Get first hand insight and knowledge of what employers are looking for in talent.
Simon & Schuster - Director of Talent and Diversity Initiatives Scholastic - Editor Hachette - Subsidiary Rights Macmillan - Digital Production Manager SkyHorse Publishing - Publicity Director
Open to Bard and Vassar College students - All class years and majors!
Online Join Zoom Meeting - NEED TO USE PASSCODE https://bard.zoom.us/j/86076989410?pwd=ZjVmVVdnYldHTG5TeU8yZzU0OHFYQT09 Passcode: 619888 Meeting ID: 860 7698 9410
Students, faculty, staff, alumni/ae, and community members throughout the Open Society University Network and Bard International Network Partners are welcomed to join. To sign up for our email alerts: https://forms.gle/n3yaH2BAZjgAAfZH9
Questions? Contact Emily Levine at el4069@bard.edu or Lauren Cooke at lcooke@bard.edu.Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Online Event In celebration of Black History Month 2021, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. of the Mid-Hudson Valley, NY presents a roundtable on love and relationships featuring special guests from the Virtual Dating show.
The event/roundtable will be viewable on Facebook Live by visiting the Mid-Hudson Valley Alphas Facebook page. Come out and let's discuss love and relationships during this very difficult time of COVID-19.Sponsored by: Dean of Inclusive Excellence .
Online Event Online screening of Naz and Maalik (2015), an American drama film about the story of two closeted Muslim teens living in Brooklyn who struggle to come clean about their sexuality. Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Professionals of Color Group.
A Chinese New Year Concert with The Orchestra Now and Guests
Saturday, February 13, 2021 8 pm
UPSTREAMING
The US-China Music Institute presents the second annual production of The Sound of Spring, a concert of symphonic music to celebrate the Lunar New Year in collaboration with musicians both here and abroad.
The Sound of Spring features a new performance by The Orchestra Now conducted by Jindong Cai, along with performances from special guests including the Central Conservatory of Music Chinese Ensemble, the China NCPA Orchestra and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.
Hosted by acclaimed pipa performer Wu Man and conductor Jindong Cai, the program will feature works by Tan Dun, Bao Yuankai, Julian Yu, Li Shaosheng, and more. Musical selections will send a message of hope, renewal, and new beginnings, in the spirit of the Chinese New Year tradition of the Spring Festival.
For more information about The US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music, please visit their website.
Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Online Event Online screening of Life Without Basketball (2018), a documentary about Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir, who broke barriers in becoming the first Division I basketball player to play wearing a hijab. When a ruling ends her chances at playing professionally, she reexamines her faith and identity as a Muslim American.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Professionals of Color Group.
Online Event CIVICA--The European University of Social Sciences--warmly invites all OSUN members to the launch of the Public Lecture Series Tours d'Europe with an event on "Democracy in the Time of Pandemic" hosted online by Central European University on 15 February 2021, 11:30 am EST/5:30 pm CET.
With the Public Lecture Series Tours d'Europe, experts from CIVICA universities present their research on timely topics to the general public. The series aims to strengthen citizens' knowledge base and to facilitate a direct dialogue between social science researchers and the wider society.
Speakers Michael Ignatieff, Central European University Catherine E. De Vries, Bocconi University Martial Foucault, Sciences Po Andrés Velasco, London School of Economics
Moderator Krisztina Bombera, broadcast journalist
Registration for this online event is not required. Join the event here. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Covering all aspects of using Zoom from scheduling a meeting, adding it to your Google Calendar, holding and recording a Zoom meeting, using the chat room and displaying materials. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/81298535256.
Online Event Please join us for Shut Up & Sproj on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2:30 to 4:00 pm. Just click on https://bard.zoom.us/j/94131442602 to work quietly on your project in the virtual presence of other seniors. “Working on your project” means anything that pushes it forward. If you get stuck, not to worry. Jane Smith, associate director for library writing support, will be happy to meet with you in a breakout room to listen to your ideas and offer guidance.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Explore is a built-in AI that monitors what you type and responds, with related, on-the-fly content as you type, generally. As with most AI features, it isn't perfect, but it does allow for some handy help when using Google Docs (it's pretty handy with citations), Sheets and Slides. Find out about it here. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/86732760485.
Online Event Interested in learning more about debate at Bard? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet the coaches and current students, watch or participate in a practice debate, and learn about all that we do—tournaments, public debates, outreach, and more!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Holocaust Scholarship on Trial: Jan Grabowski (University of Ottawa) in Conversation with Masha Gessen (Bard College)
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event
In 2018 Jan Grabowksi and Barbara Engelking published Dalej jest noc: losy Żydów w wybranych powiatach okupowanej Polski [Night Without End: The Fate of the Jews in Selected Counties of Occupied Poland], which documents the range of Polish behavior towards Jews during the Holocaust in a series of local case studies. The Polish League against Defamation, which has close ties to the right-wing ruling Law and Justice Party, brought a lawsuit against Grabowski and Engelking on behalf of the niece of a figure discussed in the book. This action is widely viewed as a continuation of the government’s campaign to stifle free inquiry into Poland’s wartime history and to punish those who question the narrative of Poles as exclusively the victims of Nazi atrocities who rescued Jews on a massive scale. On February 9, 2021 a Warsaw court found Grabowski and Engelking guilty, declining to fine the scholars but demanding that they issue an apology. In his first public remarks since the trial Prof. Grabowski, in conversation with journalist Masha Gessen, will discuss his response to the verdict as well as its political and scholarly implications.
Jan Grabowski is Professor of History at the University of Ottawa. His books include Polacy, nic się nie stało! Polemiki z Zagładą w tle [Poles, Nothing Happened! Polemics with the Holocaust in the Background] (2021); Na posterunku: Udział polskiej policji granatowej i kryminalnej w zagładzie Żydów [On Duty: Participation of Blue and Criminal Police in the Destruction of the Jews], (2020); Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland (2013), which won the Yad Vashem International Book Prize; and "Ja Tego Żyda Znam!": Szantażowanie Żydów w Warszawie, 1939-1943 [“I Know that Jew!”: The Blackmailing of Jews in Warsaw, 1939-1943] (2004). He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and has held fellowships and guest professorships at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Munich), the University of Haifa, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Yad Vashem.
Masha Gessen is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of 11 books of nonfiction, most recently Surviving Autocracy (2020); as well as The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction; and The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). The Moscow-born Gessen is the recipient of Guggenheim, Andrew Carnegie, and Nieman Fellowships, Hitchens Prize, Overseas Press Club Award for Best Commentary, and an honorary doctorate from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.
Holocaust Scholarship on Trial: Jan Grabowski in Conversation with Masha Gessen
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event The Jewish Studies Program and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research present an online event featuring Jan Grabowski, Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, who was convicted in a Polish court for his work documenting Polish collaboration during the Holocaust. Grabowski will be in conversation with Masha Gessen, Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.
In 2018 Jan Grabowksi and Barbara Engelking published Dalej jest noc: losy Żydów w wybranych powiatach okupowanej Polski [Night Without End: The Fate of the Jews in Selected Counties of Occupied Poland], which documents the range of Polish behavior towards Jews during the Holocaust in a series of local case studies.
The Polish League against Defamation, which has close ties to the right-wing ruling Law and Justice Party, brought a lawsuit against Grabowski and Engelking on behalf of the niece of a figure discussed in the book. This action is widely viewed as a continuation of the government’s campaign to stifle free inquiry into Poland’s wartime history and to punish those who question the narrative of Poles as exclusively the victims of Nazi atrocities who rescued Jews on a massive scale.
On February 9, 2021 a Warsaw court found Grabowski and Engelking guilty, declining to fine the scholars but demanding that they issue an apology. In his first public remarks since the trial Prof. Grabowski, in conversation with journalist Masha Gessen, will discuss his response to the verdict as well as its political and scholarly implications.
Jan Grabowski is Professor of History at the University of Ottawa. His books include Polacy, nic się nie stało! Polemiki z Zagładą w tle [Poles, Nothing Happened! Polemics with the Holocaust in the Background] (2021); Na posterunku: Udział polskiej policji granatowej i kryminalnej w zagładzie Żydów [On Duty: Participation of Blue and Criminal Police in the Destruction of the Jews], (2020); Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland (2013), which won the Yad Vashem International Book Prize; and "Ja Tego Żyda Znam!": Szantażowanie Żydów w Warszawie, 1939-1943 [“I Know that Jew!”: The Blackmailing of Jews in Warsaw, 1939-1943] (2004). He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and has held fellowships and guest professorships at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Munich), the University of Haifa, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Yad Vashem.
Masha Gessen is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of 11 books of nonfiction, most recently Surviving Autocracy (2020); as well as The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction; and The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). The Moscow-born Gessen is the recipient of Guggenheim, Andrew Carnegie, and Nieman Fellowships, Hitchens Prize, Overseas Press Club Award for Best Commentary, and an honorary doctorate from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.
For more information, contact Cecile Kuznitz at kuznitz@bard.edu.
Tough Talks: Against Nonviolence with Vicky Osterweil
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 6–8 pm
Online Event Vicky Osterweil is a writer, editor and agitator based in Philadelphia. Her first book, In Defense of Looting, was released in August 2020 by Bold Type Books. Her work has appeared in Real Life, The New Inquiry, Al-Jazeera America, Dissent, The Baffler and The Paris Review.
The civil rights movement stands out as a bright, beautiful, all-too-brief moment of hope and struggle in American history, one whose tactics, strategies and meanings are invaluable to those who wish to understand how change is made. However, why is it drilled into our heads, from grade school onward, that the civil rights movement was victorious because it was nonviolent?
Did you know you can earn your master's degree and NYS teacher certification (grades 7–12) at Bard?
Join us and learn about the Bard MAT, Bard College's discipline-based graduate teacher preparation program leading to a master's degree and NYS Teacher Certification in grades 7–12.
There's still time to learn more and apply! Accepting applications through April 15, 2021.
Scholarship aid available. $65 application fee waiver for Bard seniors.
RSVP to cmaple@bard.edu. Zoom link: https://bard.zoom.us/j/89184673906?pwd=eDVQaGhCMzhGMjByaTMzRDZCTHk5QT09Sponsored by: Master of Arts in Teaching Program.
Learn more about the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program.
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 6–7 pm
Online Event Are you an undergrad eager for a career in international relations or foreign policy? Where do you start? What do you need to be considered? Join us to learn more about the Bard Globalization and International Affairs semester away program for Summer 2021/Fall 2021. We’ll help you get placed at a top organization, while earning academic credit. RSVP required.Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
Learn how to organize your files and folders, upload files/folders from your computer, make changes in documents without creating duplicates, highlight files/folders, add details to the properties of files/folders, and do advanced searches for files/folders. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82367998637.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
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Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
Online Event Seniors are invited to drop in to Sproj Clinic on Zoom 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 on the first and third Wednesdays from 3 to 4 pm and the second and fourth Tuesdays from 4 to 5 pm. Can't make the clinic? Click here to request research help anytime.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Project Horseshoe Farm: Community Health Fellowship
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 4:30–5:30 pm
Learn about the one-year Community Health Fellowship program—a great opportunity for students interested in making an impact in community healthcare, education, social justice, and leadership. Open to all class years.
Online Event Looking to join a club? Want to find your people and learn more about the community? Club Fair is for you! Join us for our annual Club Fair to see what clubs and organizations are planning this semester. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Online Event All are welcome to attend our Ash Wednesday service as we begin to observe a holy Lent. Due to the pandemic, we will not be distributing ashes but encourage everyone to participate in a time of prayer, scripture reading, and mediation during this service. To get the program for the service click here.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The Magic of RNA: From CRISPR Gene Editing to mRNA Vaccines
Thomas R. Cech, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 6:30–8 pm
Online Event In the past, Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) was considered to be mostly an intermediary between the genetic code in DNA and the proteins that do most of the work in biology; DNA makes RNA makes protein. The discovery of catalytic RNA (Nobel Prize, 1989) opened our eyes to RNA having more exciting functions. But the thrill of RNA was just getting started. Gene editing now uses guide RNAs to recruit the CRISPR genome editing machinery to specific sites of action on chromosomes, with exciting medical potential (Nobel Prize, 2020). And the coronavirus pandemic is now a battle of RNA against RNA: an RNA virus being fought with messenger RNA vaccines.
Thomas R. Cech, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and director of the Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology PhD Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. After earning his PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Cech joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder in 1978. In 1982 Dr. Cech and his research group discovered self-splicing RNA in Tetrahymena, providing the first exception to the long-held belief that biological reactions are always catalyzed by proteins. Because RNA can be both an information-carrying molecule and a catalyst, perhaps a primordial self-reproducing system consisted of RNA alone. Dr. Cech became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator in 1988 and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1990. From 2000 to 2009, he served as president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which is the largest private biomedical research organization in the U.S. In 2009, Dr. Cech returned to full-time research and teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Cech's work has been recognized by many national and international awards and prizes, including the Heineken Prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (1988), the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award (1988), the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1989), and the National Medal of Science (1995). In 1987 Dr. Cech was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and also awarded a lifetime professorship by the American Cancer Society.
You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Feb 17, 2021 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: The Magic of RNA: from CRISPR Gene Editing to mRNA Vaccines
Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://bard.zoom.us/j/89546778854?pwd=VXNIaXRZUUVYS293Z1FiZk9HMDFUQT09 Passcode: 340591 Or iPhone one-tap : US: +16465588656,,89546778854#,,,,*340591# or +13017158592,,89546778854#,,,,*340591# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 646 558 8656 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 669 900 9128 or +1 253 215 8782 Webinar ID: 895 4677 8854 Passcode: 340591 International numbers available: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kccdtBxiuF
Sponsored by: Biology Program; Chemistry Program; Dean of the College; Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
Attendees will hear from a panel of current students and alumni of Bard's MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy. Our panel of student/alum experts will discuss topics such as:
career outcomes -- how the MS and MEd degrees at CEP and the MBA in Sustainability have led to impactful sustainability careers
the program experience -- highlights on courses and key features at Bard (including the NYCLab course and the CEP internship)
how to get the most of your graduate school journey -- career development + student engagement opportunities at Bard
how to make your application stand out -- tips on perfecting your application materials, advice on getting through the graduate school admissions process
In addition: Program Director Eban Goodstein will provide an overview of the program offerings at Bard CEP and the MBA in Sustainability.
Our Admissions staff will also be on hand to provide information on the application process and answer questions regarding:
Event Location: This event will be held via Zoom. Access details will be shared with attendees upon event registration.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
A look at many of the options that make Gmail easier to look at, use, organize and search. Plus some advanced features such as creating a small mailing list in Gmail, using more than one signature, scheduling email, creating email templates and more. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/86881918010.
Online Event Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
Meeting ID: 509 771 5132 One tap mobile +16465588656,,5097715132# US (New York) +13017158592,,5097715132# US (Washington D.C)
Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 509 771 5132 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/k5ThMe4btSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
Online Event Join us for a film and discussion series celebrating Black LGBTQ+ history and life. We will be playing a new film each Thursday in February at 7 PM and participating in a virtual discussion following the film.
Visit bit.ly/bhmfilm for the full schedule and registration link. This event is sponsored by the Hudson Valley LGBT Community Center and is advertised by the Dean for Inclusive Excellence. Sponsored by: Dean of Inclusive Excellence.
Shedding Some Light on the Dark Matter of the Genomic Universe
Thomas R. Cech, PhD
Thursday, February 18, 2021 12:20–1:30 pm
Online Event Earlier in the 21st century, the human genome was thought to consist of islands of important genes, coding for proteins, surrounded by a vast sea of “junk DNA.” But we now know that much of the vast noncoding part of the genome is also transcribed into RNA – noncoding RNA. Many hundreds of research laboratories are now engaged in observing and interrogating this dark matter of the genomic universe. Dr. Cech will describe two examples, catalytic RNA and telomerase RNA.
Dr. Thomas R. Cech is Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and Director of the Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology PhD Program at the University of Colorado Boulder.
You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: February 18, 2021, at 12:00 pm Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Shedding Some Light on the Dark Matter of the Genomic Universe
Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://bard.zoom.us/j/87656848909?pwd=L1ZoTERnTnpzM0U3Y0pMak9WcmFiUT09 Passcode: 645895 Or iPhone one-tap : US: +16465588656,,87656848909# or +13126266799,,87656848909# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 646 558 8656 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 669 900 9128 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 Webinar ID: 876 5684 8909 International numbers available: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kdNzUccMMtSponsored by: Biology Program; Chemistry Program; Dean of the College; Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
Dr. Jan Willis, Professor Emerita of Religion at Wesleyan University
Thursday, February 18, 2021 5–6:30 pm
Online Event
Jan Willis, PhD was raised in the South during the Jim Crow era and marched with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She went on to become a distinguished scholar, author, an award-winning teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. In this talk she will discuss the many resonances she sees between key Buddhist principles and social activism.
Jan Willis is Professor Emerita of Religion at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Born in Docena, Alabama in 1948 and profoundly affected by the Civil Rights movement, she majored in philosophy at Cornell University and met Buddhism while traveling in Asia in the 1970s. She earned her PhD in Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and has studied with Tibetan Buddhists in India, Nepal, Switzerland, and the U.S. for five decades. The author of several books and numerous articles and essays on Buddhist philosophy, meditation, women and Buddhism and Buddhism and race, her memoir Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist was first published in 2001 and was re-issued in 2008 by Wisdom Publications. In December of 2000, TIME magazine named Willis one of six "spiritual innovators for the new millennium." She has been profiled in Newsweek and Ebony. Her latest book, Dharma Matters: Women, Race and Tantra; Collected Essays by Jan Willis was published in April 2020.
Online Event Interested in teaching? Did you know you can earn your master's degree and NYS teacher certification (grades 7–12) at Bard?
Join us and learn about the Bard MAT, Bard College's discipline-based graduate teacher preparation program leading to a master's degree and NYS Teacher Certification in grades 7–12.
There's still time to learn more and apply! Accepting applications through April 15, 2021.
Scholarship aid available. $65 application fee waiver for Bard seniors.
Online Event Please join us for Shut Up & Sproj on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2:30 to 4:00 pm. Just click on https://bard.zoom.us/j/94131442602 to work quietly on your project in the virtual presence of other seniors. “Working on your project” means anything that pushes it forward. If you get stuck, not to worry. Jane Smith, associate director for library writing support, will be happy to meet with you in a breakout room to listen to your ideas and offer guidance.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021
UPSTREAMING
A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.
Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914)
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)
Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
Jo Shaw on "Horizons of Freedom: The Paradoxes of Citizenship in the Pandemic"
Friday, February 19, 2021 8–10 am
Online Event The Open Society University Network and the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University in Belgrade invite all OSUN members to attend an online lecture by Jo Shaw on "Horizons of Freedom: The Paradoxes of Citizenship in the Pandemic."
Shaw, who holds the Salvesen Chair of European Institutions at the University of Edinburgh, will explore how the meaning of certain social acts has been shifting under pandemic conditions, allowing us to gain new insights into the character of constitutional citizenship and its relationship with political ideas such as populism and fundamental principles such as equality and dignity. The focal points of the lecture are face-coverings and masks, alongside public protests against restrictions on liberties imposed in the name of combating the spread of the virus.
These shifts in social acts illustrate the changing meaning of what constitutes the “good citizen," playing on what Jean Cohen terms “the paradoxical dialectic inherent in modern constitutionalism,” which “drives republican or liberal democratic conceptions of citizenship into the arms of thicker, more communitarian understandings of identity.” This, then, raises the question of whether it is feasible and reasonable to place a brake upon such trends, and to ask which types of norms and institutions, at the national and international levels, are suitable for that task.
The annual seminar 2020/21 “Horizons of Freedom” events at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, examine the intrinsic connection between freedom and engagement in order to expand the conceptual and political horizons of freedom as a central principle guiding action in democratic politics, and initiates a more intensive dialogue among antagonistic traditions of academic perception of freedom in the face of urgent challenges and threats to freedom and democracy.
Join Ilyse Simon RDN CDN in this informal zoom support group devoted to disordered eating.
Friday, February 19, 2021 9:45–10:45 am
Online Event If you are struggling and want some extra support with your behaviors, feelings about food, and self-care, then come join us. Friday mornings.
The Literal and Metaphorical Senses of Slavery in Mary Astell’s Some Reflections upon Marriage
Aminah Hasan-Birdwell Alva and Beatrice Bradley Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Furman University/Associate Research Scholar in Philosophy, Columbia University
Friday, February 19, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event
This paper examines the metaphorical and literal senses of Mary Astell’s feminist equation of marriage to slavery in SomeReflections upon Marriage (1700). I argue that Astell’s use of the concept of the slave to describe the inequality between men and women suggests an important intersection between the history of slavery, race, and gender. I will conclude with larger reflections on Astell’s Cartesian emphasis on the disembodied mind as the philosophical ground for equality between the sexes. This account of equality is a noteworthy contrast with twentieth-century thinkers on race and gender, who tend to emphasize embodiment.
Online Event Condensed matter physicists begin by developing simple models that capture the key properties of materials, but correlated electron materials are a class of materials where our simple models break down, giving rise to unusual electronic or magnetic properties. In this talk, I will share our research on one correlated electron material, EuO1-x, which is of interest for its possible spintronics applications. Because the transport and magnetic properties of EuO1-x are similar to another correlated electron material, the perovskite manganites, and phase inhomogeneity is important for describing the properties of the manganites, an interesting question is whether phase inhomogeneity is also relevant for describing EuO1-x. I will explore what phase inhomogeneity is, the evidence for phase inhomogeneity in the manganites, and our current understanding of the nature of phase inhomogeneity in EuO1-x, and I will share a bit about my journey as a physicist.
Out There Without Fear: Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion
Friday, February 19, 2021 1–3 pm
Online Event The Caribbean Students Association invites the Bard community to join a virtual live screening and panel discussion of the newest Jamaican Dancehall documentary, Out There Without Fear,by Bard student Joelle Powe. This is a multidisciplinary cross-cultural experience expanding into gender and sexuality studies, philosophy, theater, film, anthropology, sociology, music, Africana studies, history, preservation, and religion through the study of dance.
Day 1: Panel Discussion – February 19 from 1 pm to 3 pm EST Meet with the filmmaker and panelists calling in from Kingston, Jamaica. Musicologist Herbie Miller, iconic dancer Kool Kid, and internationally renowned choreographer Latonya Style want to answer your questions! The panel will be moderated by the documentarian, Joelle Powe.
Day 2: Dance Workshop – February 20 from 3 pm to 4 pm EST Dance with two award-winning Dancehall celebrities, Kool Kid and Latonya Style.
Building Classical Communities: A Roundtable Discussion
Friday, February 19, 2021 2–3:30 pm
Online Event How do we build more inclusive communities in Classics? How do we do Classics with joy and cultivate “belonging” with a sense of integrity and purpose? What are the opportunities and challenges for our field? This roundtable discussion is the opening event in our spring series, Collecta in Classicis / Together in Classics, hosted by the students and faculty of the Classical Studies program and supported by the Dean of the College’s Inclusion Challenge.
Roundtable speakers:
Bethany Hucks is a fourth-year PhD student at Heidelberg University in Germany, researching Egyptian influence on art and identity in imperial Rome. She has a background in biochemistry, museums, and marketing and spends her summers working on pottery at various archaeological excavations. In her free time, she works on aiding marginalized scholars and increasing/retaining diversity in ancient world studies and archaeology.
Suzanne Lye is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her AB from Harvard University, where she studied organic chemistry and the history of antibiotics. After receiving her PhD in Classics from the University of California, Los Angeles, she was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth College. Her first book project focuses on conceptions of the afterlife in ancient Greek Underworld narratives from Homer to Lucian. Her next project will focus on women’s anger in ancient literature and magic. She has published on ancient epic, ancient magic and religion, ancient representations of gender and ethnicity, ancient and modern pedagogy, and Classical reception. Additionally, she has contributed to several digital humanities initiatives through Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, including the Homer Multitext Project, and is co-chair of the steering committee for the Women’s Classical Caucus.
Nandini Pandey is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, trained in Classics and English at Swarthmore, Oxford, Cambridge, and Berkeley. She joins us from Germany, where she is writing a second book on Roman diversity thanks to a fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. Her first book, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome (Cambridge, 2018), won the 2020 CAMWS First Book Prize, and she has written numerous pieces for Eidolon as well as traditional classics journals.
This event is part of the Collecta in Classicis: Together in Classics series.
Collecta in Classicis : Together in Classics will provide a space for scholars, teachers, and students to have a conversation about inclusivity in Classics, what that means, what it looks like, and why Classics is not always inclusive. We welcome scholars who have engaged critically with diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, physical ability, and more as it relates to their experience in the field of Classics, or in their study of the Classical World, or both. Furthermore, we hope to include voices of marginalized groups typically silenced either in the past, or even today, by the Classics. How we make Classics more inclusive and accessible, and what that means and looks like, are difficult questions. We hope to encourage productive dialogues that contribute, in individual steps, to the transformative work needed in order for the field of Classics to be reimagined.
*A note on the name: The Latin title is representative of Classics, and having the words declined in the neuter, accusative, plural is representative of the inclusivity. The neuter excludes neither men nor women, while also including people identifying outside of masculine or feminine binaries. The plural is—quite literally—denoting that Classics is for and made up of all people. Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; DOC Inclusion Challenge.
Online Event The eighth annual Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference is now accepting applications! Join us during this info session to learn more: https://bard.zoom.us/j/4395717800
The conference will be held online April 10-11.
The Get Engaged Conference brings together undergraduate students (including Early College students) to strengthen a global network of leaders and innovators who are working with community partners to develop solutions to local and global challenges. The conference exposes students to a wide range of ideas and experiences to help them lead community-based projects more effectively. The Get Engaged conference is a venue for sharing experiences, learning new skills, honing leadership styles, and networking with international peers.
Who is eligible? This year we have two tracks available: 1) Students who are actively engaged in community based work and 2) students who want to develop and enhance leaderships skills in community engagement. Students from OSUN member institutions are eligible to apply for the virtual international conference. The conference is an inspirational and practical space that encourages young people to grow into their role as agents for change. Sponsored by: BHSEC Manhattan; BHSEC Newark; BHSEC Queens; Center for Civic Engagement.
THE CONDO CONCERTS: Leila Josefowicz, violin Works by Matthias Pintscher and J.S. Bach
Conservatory Scholarship Fund Benefit Recital--Reservations Required for Free Tickets
Friday, February 19, 2021 8–9:30 pm
Online Event Reserve your free tickets for this one-time streamed performance here.
Leila Josefowicz’s passionate advocacy of contemporary music for the violin is reflected in her diverse programs and enthusiasm to perform new works. Winner of the 2018 Avery Fisher Prize, she was also awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2008. Recent performances include concerts with the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the London, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, and Finnish Radio symphony orchestras.
THE CONDO CONCERTS is a series of four concerts in spring 2021 streamed from the Bard Conservatory with the generous support of artist George Condo as a benefit for the Conservatory Scholarship Fund. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Online Event Come join Bard After Dark for the first event of the semester, where we will share the words of Black poets, artists, and speakers.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021
UPSTREAMING
A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.
Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914)
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)
Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
Online Event Do you like making art? Are you often overwhelmed and feel you need a break? Join CEAP (pronounced seep): The Community Engagement Arts Project. We make art and do creative activities to feel good and have fun, rather than for the final product.
We conduct all sorts of arts workshops to introduce people to Expressive Art Therapy skills and to help take a step back from stressful college life. We make all types of art, including but not limited to painting, drawing, crafts, found poetry, clay, writing, movement, and watercolor, and use it to reflect, promote thoughtfulness, and connect to one another. No art experience is necessary! All you need is your beautiful self and a willingness to explore your creativity. Come meet new people, connect, and de-stress!!
Our first meeting will be discussing the project and what we’ll be doing this semester, and answering any questions you have!
Plus, if you’re interested, we volunteer off campus at various communities leading expressive arts workshops. If you come to our meetings and enjoy the work, you can volunteer if you want!
Online Event The Caribbean Students Association invites the Bard community to join a virtual live screening and panel discussion of the newest Jamaican Dancehall documentary, Out There Without Fear,by Bard student Joelle Powe. This is a multidisciplinary cross-cultural experience expanding into gender and sexuality studies, philosophy, theater, film, anthropology, sociology, music, Africana studies, history, preservation, and religion through the study of dance.
Day 1: Panel Discussion – February 19 from 1 pm to 3 pm EST Meet with the filmmaker and panelists calling in from Kingston, Jamaica. Musicologist Herbie Miller, iconic dancer Kool Kid, and internationally renowned choreographer Latonya Style want to answer your questions! The panel will be moderated by the documentarian, Joelle Powe.
Day 2: Dance Workshop – February 20 from 3 pm to 4 pm EST Dance with two award-winning Dancehall celebrities, Kool Kid and Latonya Style.
Online Event You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021
UPSTREAMING
A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.
Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914)
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)
Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
Spring lecture series program at the Rhinebeck Reformed Church by Bruce Chilton
Sunday, February 21, 2021 1–2 pm
Online Event
The Institute of Advanced Theology in collaboration with the Rhinebeck Reformed Church and the Jewish Federation of Dutchess County, introduce the Spring 2021 Lecture Series, Women of Faith. This series will occur every third Sunday of the month at 1 pm via zoom. Participants can register at the following link: https://jewishdutchess.org/events
The spring series of 2021, during a time of unique cultural and political challenge in the United States, will investigate the unique contributions of women within the traditions of Judaism and Christianity to a human, peaceful future. Week by week, women from both traditions will be paired in a comparative analysis:
February 21: the biblical period Miriam, the sister of Moses Mary Magdalene
March 21: the medieval period Hildegaard of Bingen Inés Esteban
April 18: the early modern period Francesa Sarah of Safed Theresa of Avila
May 16: the twentieth century Eleanor Roosevelt Trude Weiss-Rosmarin.
You may also find the last lecture series as well as other materials on the Rhinebeck Reformed site and a recent interview with Bruce Chilton on his latest book, Lanier Theological Library Podcasts (20 December 2020) David Capes Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail chilton@bard.edu.
This concert features the world premiere of Falling Together by composer Sarah Hennies, who was recently profiled in TheNew York Times, and the 2005 piece Popcorn Superhet Receiver by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, which was used in the film There Will Be Blood. The program also includes Grieg’s classic Holberg Suite and a popular work by Vaughan Williams.
TŌNteaches: Conductor James Bagwell will dive into these works and share the stories behind the music in a special Zoom seminar on Thu, Feb 18 at 8 PM. Join the discussion at bard.zoom.us/j/81391418015.
James Bagwellconductor
Sarah HenniesFalling Together (World Premiere) Jonny Greenwood Popcorn Superhet Receiver Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Grieg Holberg Suite
Estimated run time: 1 hour and 45 minutesSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021
UPSTREAMING
A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.
Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914)
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)
Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
Online Event Join us as we celebrate and discuss the beauty of Black hair. This will be a moderated panel featuring a black celebrity barber and hair stylist.
Passcode: 028970
Sponsored by: Dean of Student Affairs; Professionals of Color Group.
Black Radical Feminisms & The Combahee River Collective with Alaya Carr
Rise Up Kingston celebrates Black History Month
Monday, February 22, 2021 7–10 pm
Online Event This workshop will largely focus on the Combahee River Collective and their legacy on politics, contemporary critical theory and within Black feminist thought. This workshop will also provide an overview of Black feminist thought and Black feminist histories from a transnational perspective. Check out Alaya’s Zine The Combahee River Collective Statement made in collaboration with Mutual Aid Books: http://bit.ly/CombaheeZine
Alaya Carr (they/she) is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University. They are currently living and working on Occupied Coast Salish and Duwamish land near Seattle, WA. They are passionate about books, environmental justice, PIC abolition, and bringing Black and Indigenous feminisms to the public. You can follow some of these efforts in action on Instagram/Twitter/Patreon @mutualaidbooks.
Covering all aspects of using Zoom from scheduling a meeting, adding it to your Google Calendar, holding and recording a Zoom meeting, using the chat room and displaying materials. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/81298535256.
Online Event Please join us for Shut Up & Sproj on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2:30 to 4:00 pm. Just click on https://bard.zoom.us/j/94131442602 to work quietly on your project in the virtual presence of other seniors. “Working on your project” means anything that pushes it forward. If you get stuck, not to worry. Jane Smith, associate director for library writing support, will be happy to meet with you in a breakout room to listen to your ideas and offer guidance.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Online Event Interested in learning more about debate at Bard? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet the coaches and current students, watch or participate in a practice debate, and learn about all that we do—tournaments, public debates, outreach, and more!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021
UPSTREAMING
A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.
Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914)
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)
Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
The Bard College Center for Civic Engagement is pleased to announce faculty support grants for instructors from Bard International Network institutions not eligible for support from the Open Society University Network. Grants will be awarded for the 2020-21 academic year.
Eligible faculty may apply for grants in support of research and publishing projects as well as activities related to facilitating: -Student-led initiatives and civic engagement projects -Student volunteering -Student internships -Extra-curricular activities -Student scholarship including research, field work and conference participation -Summer opportunities for students, including summer academic programs -Public discourse through guest lectures, seminars, conferences, public debate and other events -Collaboration among the Bard International Network including joint courses, conferences, research and student projects
How to Apply
To apply, faculty should send short proposals (not longer than two pages) outlining planned activities for the 2020-21 academic year. Awards will be made based on the merit of proposals and commensurate to the amount of planned research/activities. Recipients will be required to regularly submit progress reports. Awards may not be transferred to any other participants, including students.
The proposals should be sent at civic@bard.edu by Tuesday, February 23, 2021. Please indicate “Faculty Support Grant” in the email subject line.
CLASP and the Global Debate Network: Debate in the Classroom
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 8:30–9:30 am
Online Event CLASP (Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Pedagogy) and the Global Debate Network invite faculty from across the network to join us for an informal gathering to share experiences and expertise related to classroom debates. We welcome faculty who already use debates in their classes as well as those looking to learn more and/or give it a try for the first time.
We will discuss strategies for both in-person and virtual debates, ways to fit debate into the curriculum, as well as the various pedagogical functions of debate (public speaking, English as a second language, critical thinking, research, argument construction, analytic writing, etc.). The session will offer us the time to share pedagogical approaches as well as to learn more about the offerings of the OSUN Global Debate Network.
Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: The Color of Law
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 11 am – 12 pm
Online Event This event takes place at 11 am EST/10 am CST
OSUN and network partner Tuskegee University invite you to attend an online discussion with Benjamin Crump, nationally recognized trial lawyer for justice, on "The Color of Law."
This event is part of the Tuskegee University 2021 Black History Month Lecture Series, "Embracing Our Heritage and Continuing the Struggle."
This and all events in the series are online, unless specified otherwise. Join via Zoom.Sponsored by: Tuskegee University.
Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: COVID-19 and the African American Community
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 2–4 pm
Online Event OSUN and network partner Tuskegee University invite you to attend an online discussion on COVID-19 and the African American Community with panelists: Deloris Alexander, Crystal James, Rueben Warren, and Frank Lee
This event is part of the Tuskegee University 2021 Black History Month Lecture Series, “Embracing Our Heritage and Continuing the Struggle.”
This and all events in the series are online, unless specified otherwise. Join via Zoom.Sponsored by: Tuskegee University.
Webinar: Nadine Strossen and Richard Wilson on "Law and Hateful Speech: What Is to Be Done?"
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 3–4:30 pm
Online Event Please join the Bard Center for the Study of Hate on Tuesday February 23, 2021 at 3:00pm Eastern Time as we welcome Nadine Strossen, a professor at New York Law School, past president of the American Civil Liberties Union, and author of HATE: Why We Should Resist it with Free Speech, Not Censorship, and Richard Wilson, professor of law and anthropology at the University of Connecticut and the author of Incitement on Trial: Prosecuting International Speech Crimes. They will speak on “Law and hateful speech—what is to be done?”
Join via Zoom. Register here.Sponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Hate.
Online Event Seniors are invited to drop in to Sproj Clinic on Zoom 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 on the first and third Wednesdays from 3-4 pm and second and fourth Tuesdays from 4-5 pm. Can't make the clinic? Click here to request research help anytime.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
How The Pandemic Killed Freedom, Individualism, and Free Speech Along with 500,000 Americans.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Online Event The political and cultural response to Covid-19 will long outlast the disease itself. With few exceptions, the pandemic has accelerated and exacerbated trends that centralize economic and social power in fewer and fewer hands; massively increased the amount of our lives subject to often-arbitrary government regulation and rule; and ushered in a new age of censorial behavior. If we want a future that is open-ended, adventurous, and fun, we must embrace libertarian ideals of individual empowerment, permissionless innovation, and a commitment to pluralism.
Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason,the libertarian magazine of “Free Minds and Free Markets," where he hosts The Reason Interview, a weekly podcast that explores what comes next in politics, culture, and libertarian ideas.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Learn how to organize your files and folders, upload files/folders from your computer, make changes in documents without creating duplicates, highlight files/folders, add details to the properties of files/folders, and do advanced searches for files/folders. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82367998637.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
Meeting ID: 870 3574 1591 One tap mobile +16465588656,,87035741591# US (New York) +13126266799,,87035741591# US (Chicago)
Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) Meeting ID: 870 3574 1591 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kyYH5JFZZSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago)
Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021
UPSTREAMING
A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.
Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914)
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)
Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 – Sunday, March 21, 2021
UPSTREAMING As Far As Isolation Goes (Online) is a collaboration between live artist Tania El Khoury and musician and street artist Basel Zaraa. Reimagined for an online context during coronavirus lockdown, the piece is built from their original collaboration entitled As Far As My Fingertips Take Me in which El Khoury commissioned Zaraa to record a rap song inspired by the journey his sisters made from Damascus to Sweden.
In As Far As Isolation Goes, Zaraa and El Khoury worked together to create another iteration of their previous piece focused on mental and physical health experiences of refugees in the United Kingdom. Zaraa created a song inspired by conversations with friends and colleagues who have recently claimed refuge in the UK.
In this online, interactive, 1-on-1 performance As Far As Isolation Goes (Online) uses touch, sound, and interactivity to bring audience members in contact with those faced with inhumane detention centers and a mental health system that disregard their political and emotional contexts. Sponsored by: Fisher Center.
Online Event The Open Society University Network and the CEU Democracy Institute cordially invite all OSUN members to an online event on "The Future of Democracy in EU Member States."
Debates on the state of democracy in EU Member States have been intensifying and attacks against the rule of law have regularly been occurring. Both authoritarian incumbents and their opponents try to use elements of the international legal and political framework for or against de-democratization.
In this debate Věra Jourová, Vice-President of the European Commission; Clément Beaune, Secretary of State for European affairs in the French government; and Michal Šimečka, MEP and Vice-Chair of the Renew Europe Group will address the question of how to strengthen democracy on the national level, integrating the political and legal aspects of the problem. The discussion will be moderated by R. Daniel Kelemen, Professor of Political Science and Law and Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Politics at Rutgers University. Opening remarks will be delivered by Dimitry Kochenov (CEU Democracy Institute).
Please note that registration is required to attend this online event. Please register here. Sponsored by: Central European University.
When you need to create quick and easy surveys, questionnaires, and even quizzes, Google Forms is more than adequate. It even produces an automatic spreadsheet of your results in Google Sheets. Forms is simple, looks great and is easy to send or embed. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/86932164334.
Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: Unforgotten: Photography as Resistance
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 2–4 pm
Online Event OSUN and network partner Tuskegee University invite you to attend an online discussion with Chester Higgins, staff photographer for the New York Times for more than four decades, on Unforgotten: Photography as Resistance.
This event is part of the Tuskegee University 2021 Black History Month Lecture Series, “Embracing Our Heritage and Continuing the Struggle.”
This and all events in the series are online, unless specified otherwise. Join via Zoom.Sponsored by: Tuskegee University.
Cultures of Risk in Medieval Commerce: Mediterranean, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean
Sarina Kuersteiner PhD Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 2–3:30 pm
Online Event Merchants who shipped goods across the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean in the Middle Ages faced many risks. Damage in transit was the most common. The loss of goods was another. Not knowing where and when goods would arrive was a third. Warfare and piracy were big risks too, but they occurred less often. In response, merchants employed sophisticated mechanisms to limit and cope with risk. They distributed their merchandise on several boats. They paid careful attention to packing and loading goods carefully. And they invested with various partners. But not all of these merchants—among whom we find Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Hindu traders—understood risk, the probable outcome of their undertakings, in the same way. “Cultures of Risk” examines and explains the different conceptions of risk in medieval commerce, as seen in various types of sources: Latin contracts, Arabic letters and formularies, and the rich corpus of Geniza documents, but also devotional objects, images, charms and amulets, travel accounts, histories, and biographies. These sources allow us to investigate a global commercial network that featured diverse languages, geographies, and religions. I argue that differences that I see in conceptions of risk are partly explicable by the different assumptions these traders had about divine providence and how to access it in this world. Looking at how they connected risk to the sacred will, I hope, reveal how risk appears to be shaped quite distinctly among the traders from different religious communities.
Combining approaches of cultural history, the history of religion, and art history with economic history, I endeavor to open up new avenues of interpretation. Through comparative studies such as “Cultures of Risk,” financial techniques that are currently explained from European perspectives only become explicable in unexpected ways.
Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 860 0894 6638 / Passcode: 596381Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Historical Studies Program.
Zoom Meeting Every other Wednesday from 4:00 to 5:00 pm beginning February 10, with Dan Sullivan, PhD. Learn to calm the mind and body, and build resilience to navigate difficult times. No sign-up; just stop by. Upcoming dates: 2/24, 3/10, 3/24, 4/7, 4/21, and 5/5. Please join by 4:10 pm. Join Zoom Meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/85094647714? Sponsored by: Health and Counseling.
Online Event The Written Arts program will be holding a moderation Q&A over Zoom. Students intending to moderate into the Written Arts will have the opportunity to speak with faculty about the Moderation process and specific Written Arts requirements. Students intending to moderate into Written Arts this semester are required to attend this event. Those who are unable to attend are asked to please notify the program coordinator (mbrien@bard.edu) in advance.
Meeting ID: 886 1007 6541 Passcode: 784518 One tap mobile +16465588656,,88610076541# US (New York) +13017158592,,88610076541# US (Washington DC)
Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 886 1007 6541 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/ks9GvKZmjSponsored by: Written Arts Program.
CFDC Panel and Conversation: Teaching Potentially Sensitive Topics
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 5–6 pm
Online Event What is the best way to prepare for moments when our courses touch on content that is potentially triggering for students? Join us for a conversation about how students experience such moments and how we might plan our courses (and teach our classes) so as to minimize the possibility of disruptive and/or painful moments in the classroom. How can we create a safe learning environment while continuing to teach material we feel is essential to the course?
Note: We realize that evening times are not ideal for everyone. Where possible, CFCD events are recorded; in other cases, we are happy to share notes afterwards. Please be in touch.
Online event – please refer to our event email for the Zoom link.Sponsored by: Center for Faculty and Curricular Development.
Online Event Eating disorders come in all shapes and sizes.
PREVALENCE among college students ranges from 8% to 17%. Recovery is an ongoing process. It's an ALWAYS. it's a journey. Recovery is possible.
This panel will showcase brave people who have volunteered to disregard the stigma and shame of dealing with an eating disorder. They will tell their stories and answer questions about the journey to recoverySponsored by: Health and Counseling.
Bard College will host performances by faculty, staff, students, and special guests celebrating Black spirituality on campus.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 6–9 pm
Online Event No Black History Month would be complete without a celebration of Gospel Music. From Slavery times to present time, Gospel music has been a source of uplifting the Black community. The Bible says, in Philippians 4:4, “Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.” Please join us as we take this time to celebrate our faith and charismatic expression of Black Christianity at Bard College. Livestreaming on YouTubeSponsored by: Professionals of Color; Student Activities.
Off-Campus Employment for International Students on a F1 Student Visa
Join the Office of International Student and Scholar Services and the Career Development Office to hear about your off-campus employment options as an F1 student visa holder.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 8–9 pm
Online Event Are you planning to apply for off-campus internship opportunities or job opportunities in your major field of study after you complete your degree at Bard? If so, plan to attend this session to gain information about your options and what steps to follow toward reaching your future goals.Sponsored by: Career Development Office; Office of International Student and Scholar Services.
A look at many of the options that make Gmail easier to look at, use, organize and search. Plus some advanced features such as creating a small mailing list in Gmail, using more than one signature, scheduling email, creating email templates and more. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/86881918010.
Online Event Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
Meeting ID: 509 771 5132 One tap mobile +16465588656,,5097715132# US (New York) +13017158592,,5097715132# US (Washington D.C)
Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 509 771 5132 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/k5ThMe4btSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
Online Event Join us for a film and discussion series celebrating Black LGBTQ+ history and life. We will be playing a new film each Thursday in February at 7 PM and participating in a virtual discussion following the film.
Visit bit.ly/bhmfilm for the full schedule and registration link. This event is sponsored by the Hudson Valley LGBT Community Center and is advertised by the Dean for Inclusive Excellence. Sponsored by: Dean of Inclusive Excellence.
Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021
UPSTREAMING
A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.
Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914)
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)
Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
Royal Power and a Piece of Bread: Sufi Discipleship and Islamic Patronage in the Maratha Empire
Rupali Warke, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Historical Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Thursday, February 25, 2021 2–3:30 pm
Online Event In 1707, after the last great Mughal emperor Aurangzeb died, the power and authority of the Mughal dynasty, which ruled over a substantial part of South Asia for about two hundred years, started to disintegrate. The imperial center's weakening emboldened the nascent regional powers to assert themselves in the emerging political vacuum. The Maratha empire established by Shivaji Bhosale in 1674 was one such important post-Mughal state. It posed a formidable challenge to the political ambitions of the British East India Company in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Conventionally, historians of early colonial and modern India have viewed the rise of Shivaji and the Maratha state as an assertion of Hindu religious orthodoxy. It has been argued that symbolic acts such as the coronation ceremony of Shivaji popularized the notion of caste and Brahmanical caste hierarchy in an unprecedented way which led to the hardening of caste and religious boundaries. This paper will critique the historical interpretations that associate Maratha polity with religious orthodoxy and the Brahmanization of Indian society by highlighting a parallel tradition of Indo-Islamic Sufi discipleship and Dargah worship practiced and patronized by the Maratha aristocracy.
Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 881 5887 5393 / Passcode: 407988Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Historical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ewing@bard.edu.
Book Launch for Uncooperative Contemporaries: Art Exhibitions in Shanghai in 2000, published by Afterall, in association with Asia Art Archive and CCS Bard
Thursday, February 25, 2021 5–7 pm
Online Event The event will feature three conversations between Hou Hanru, Artistic Director of MAXXI in Rome, and Tom Eccles, Executive Director, CCS Bard; Anthony Yung, Senior Researcher at Asia Art Archive, and Yang Zhenzhong, artist; and Ken Lum, artist, and Pauline Yao, Lead Curator, Visual Art, at M+ in Hong Kong. Co-presented by Asia Art Archive in America and CCS Bard. Register hereSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
In a series of videotapes and installations produced since the mid-1980s, Tony Cokes engages in cogent investigations of identity and opposition. His works question how race influences the construction of subjectivities (personal, cultural and historical), and how race, gender and class are perceived through what he terms the "representational regimes of image and sound," as perpetuated by Hollywood, the media and popular culture.
Tony Cokes was born in 1956. He received a BA from Goddard College, Vermont, participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, and gained an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. He has received grants and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Getty Research Institute. Cokes's video and multimedia installation works have been included in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum Soho, The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Documenta X, Kassel, Germany, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Recent solo exhibitions and screenings have taken place at REDCAT, Los Angeles, the Gene Siskel Film Center at the University of Chicago, and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York. Cokes is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Center for Curatorial Studies; Film and Electronic Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4658, or e-mail akitnick@bard.edu.
Off-Campus Employment for International Students on a F1 Student Visa
Join the Office of International Student and Scholar Services to hear about your off-campus employment options as an F1 student visa holder.
Thursday, February 25, 2021 8–9 pm
Online Event Are you planning to apply for off campus internship opportunities or job opportunities in your major field of study after you complete your degree at Bard? If so, plan to attend this session to gain information about your options and what steps to follow toward reaching your future goals.Sponsored by: Office of International Student and Scholar Services.
Thursday Night Live Presents: Bingo For the Culture
Thursday, February 25, 2021 8–10 pm
Online Event Thursday Night Live's first event of the semester is THIS WEEK!! In honor of Black History Month, we’ll be playing a “Bingo: For the Culture”, a game of bingo with themes related to blackness. Game and Raffle prizes include snacks and Fenty Beauty gift cards!
Online Event Please join us for Shut Up & Sproj on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2:30 to 4:00 pm. Just click on https://bard.zoom.us/j/94131442602 to work quietly on your project in the virtual presence of other seniors. “Working on your project” means anything that pushes it forward. If you get stuck, not to worry. Jane Smith, associate director for library writing support, will be happy to meet with you in a breakout room to listen to your ideas and offer guidance.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Join Ilyse Simon RDN CDN in this informal zoom support group devoted to disordered eating.
Friday, February 26, 2021 9:45–10:45 am
Online Event If you are struggling and want some extra support with your behaviors, feelings about food, and self-care, then come join us. Friday mornings.
Jurisdiction Matters in Mongol Iran: Law and Reality
Edith Chen Ph.D. Candidate Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Friday, February 26, 2021 10–11:30 am
Online Event After the Mongol conquests, we witnessed what would appear to be a “clash” of legal customs as unbelieving rulers came to rule over a majority-Muslim population in 13th century Iran. This triggered a debate among Muslim jurists, who disagreed on whether a land occupied for foreigners could still be counted as “dār al-islām”. However, some Hanafi jurists at this time redefined the terms that would allow occupied territories to still be considered as Islamic lands by insisting that what mattered was that certain features of Islamic life were allowed to continue, such as prayer, celebrating the feast days, and maintaining an Islamic judiciary. This line of reasoning was adopted by 19th century Indian social reformers for its application to British India. However, they would be challenged by Hanbali jurists, whose narrow definition of what constitutes “dār al-islām” would have reverberations during the modern period.
Using Persian local history, I argue that the state of self-rule in the Muslim vassal states in southern Iran (Fars, Shabankara, Kirman, Yazd) helped explain why Hanafi jurists during this period adopted their particular style of reasoning to permit a looser definition for what constitute “dār al-islām” even when under a government of unbelievers. I explore the evolution of this issue in Hanafi law from the founder Abu Hanifa’s time, its development during the 11-13th centuries when the Islamic lands in Transoxiana began to experience invasions from the steppes, and the definition that ultimately emerged in 19th century India. Within the semi-autonomous states, Mongol law or yasa had a very limited presence. This separation of jurisdiction created a scenario where Islamic life was allowed to continue and flourish during the decades before the Ilkhanid rulers converted to Islam.
Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 883 4741 3127 / Passcode: 006784Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Historical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ewing@bard.edu.
Jurisdiction Matters in Mongol Iran: Law and Reality
Edith Chen
Ph.D. Candidate Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Friday, February 26, 2021 10–11:30 am
Online Event After the Mongol conquests, we witnessed what would appear to be a “clash” of legal customs as unbelieving rulers came to rule over a majority-Muslim population in 13th century Iran. This triggered a debate among Muslim jurists, who disagreed on whether a land occupied for foreigners could still be counted as “dār al-islām”. However, some Hanafi jurists at this time redefined the terms that would allow occupied territories to still be considered as Islamic lands by insisting that what mattered was that certain features of Islamic life were allowed to continue, such as prayer, celebrating the feast days, and maintaining an Islamic judiciary. This line of reasoning was adopted by 19th century Indian social reformers for its application to British India. However, they would be challenged by Hanbali jurists, whose narrow definition of what constitutes “dār al-islām” would have reverberations during the modern period.
Using Persian local history, I argue that the state of self-rule in the Muslim vassal states in southern Iran (Fars, Shabankara, Kirman, Yazd) helped explain why Hanafi jurists during this period adopted their particular style of reasoning to permit a looser definition for what constitute “dār al-islām” even when under a government of unbelievers. I explore the evolution of this issue in Hanafi law from the founder Abu Hanifa’s time, its development during the 11-13th centuries when the Islamic lands in Transoxiana began to experience invasions from the steppes, and the definition that ultimately emerged in 19th century India. Within the semi-autonomous states, Mongol law or yasa had a very limited presence. This separation of jurisdiction created a scenario where Islamic life was allowed to continue and flourish during the decades before the Ilkhanid rulers converted to Islam.
Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval, PhD Candidate, Princeton University
Friday, February 26, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event Membership in a racial group is often precarious. Someone can be embraced as a member by some people and in some contexts yet be excluded by others or in other contexts. Instead of shying away from this fact, as do most philosophical accounts of race, I build a metaphysics of race around it. I argue that racial membership depends on relations of mutual recognition between individuals. Recognition is mutual, joint, and socially valuable. For two individuals to recognize each other is for both to hold that they are subject to the same social and moral values and disvalues, as concerns their distinctive, shared lot in life.
Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 853 2753 3763 / Passcode: 175957Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7280, or e-mail jelliott@bard.edu.
Having a rough day? In need of talking through a problem big or small? The Let’s Talk Program is available every Friday from 12:00 to 1:00 pm at https://doxy.me/tamaratelberg, and on Mondays from 4:00 to 5:00 pm at https://doxy.me/mattsamalin. No appointment is needed. No paperwork involved. Just click on the link and speak with a Bard counselor. Usually there is no waiting.Sponsored by: Health and Counseling.
Latin(x)Club Open Discussion Event on "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Argentine Writer Jorge Luis Borges
Friday, February 26, 2021 1–2 pm
Online Event Latin(x)Club of Bard College Berlin welcomes OSUN members to an open discussion with Luis Miguel Isava, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Emory University, Atlanta, USA), on the enigmatic short story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, considered by many the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. In this conversation, we will explore the metaphysical complexities in the story with the help of Isava, whose fields of study are poetry and contemporary poetics, relationships between literature and philosophy, theory, aesthetics and film studies.
The event will take place in Spanish, but all interested students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members throughout the Open Society University Network and Bard International Network Partners are welcomed to join. The conversation will stem from the principle that the attendants will already be familiar with the story, which means that reading it in advance is encouraged but feel free to join even if you haven’t had the time.
About Latin(x)Club:
Latin(x)Club wants to create a safe and sustainable space for the Latin American community across the OSUN Network using Bard College Berlin as a basis. This collective originates from the need to bring together the growing Latin American student body. We want to create a safe space to share our passion for our cultures and our personal experience of relocation. To continue this conversation across geographies and disciplines, we will host events open to the entire network inviting guest speakers to help us broaden our understanding of the region using literature, performance art, politics, theater, mix-media, among other cultural manifestations. The following event is the first of our international events open to the entire OSUN community.
REEES Race in Focus Series: #BLM: Reception in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia
Presented by the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Friday, February 26, 2021 2–3:30 pm
Online Event While the Black Lives Matter Movement has revived global conversations about racism and systemic inequality, its reception in the Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia region manifested not only in anti-racist solidarity protests but also in pro-nationalist activism, most notably in Russia. Join the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh to discuss whether the Black Lives Matter movement will have a lasting impact on the struggle against racism and for civil rights and social equality in this region.
MODERATOR: Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College
SPEAKERS: Angéla Kóczé, Central European University Diana Kudaibergenova, University of Cambridge Maxim Matusevich, Seton Hall University Jakobi Williams, Indiana University, Bloomington
Register to attend this event or watch live on Facebook.Sponsored by: Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
CripAntiquity: Making Ancient Studies More Accessible
Friday, February 26, 2021 5–7 pm
Online Event Collecta in Classicis : “Together in Classics,” will provide a space for scholars, teachers, and students to have a conversation about inclusivity in Classics, what that means, what it looks like, and why Classics is not always inclusive. We welcome scholars who have engaged critically with diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, physical ability, and more as it relates to their experience in the field of Classics, or in their study of the Classical World, or both. Furthermore, we hope to include voices of marginalized groups typically silenced either in the past, or even today, by the Classics. How we make Classics more inclusive and accessible, and what that means and looks like, are difficult questions. We hope to encourage productive dialogues that contribute, in individual steps, to the transformative work needed in order for the field of Classics to be reimagined.
In this interactive talk, Prof. Clara Bosak-Schoeder (she/they) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will discuss how the ableism of academia is exacerbated by the elitist culture of premodern disciplines and what CripAntiquity is doing to make ancient studies more accessible to all.
*A note on the name: The Latin title is representative of Classics, and having the words declined in the neuter, accusative, plural is representative of the inclusivity. The neuter excludes neither men nor women, while also including people identifying outside of masculine or feminine binaries. The plural is—quite literally—denoting that Classics is for and made up of all people.
Online Event Collecta in Classicis : “Together in Classics,” will provide a space for scholars, teachers, and students to have a conversation about inclusivity in Classics, what that means, what it looks like, and why Classics is not always inclusive. We welcome scholars who have engaged critically with diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, physical ability, and more as it relates to their experience in the field of Classics, or in their study of the Classical World, or both. Furthermore, we hope to include voices of marginalized groups typically silenced either in the past, or even today, by the Classics. How we make Classics more inclusive and accessible, and what that means and looks like, are difficult questions. We hope to encourage productive dialogues that contribute, in individual steps, to the transformative work needed in order for the field of Classics to be reimagined.
The second panel led by Clara Bosak-Schoeder, University of Illinois, founder of CripAntiquity, discusses an international advocacy organization for disabled and neurodiverse students, teachers, scholars, staff, artists, and writers in ancient studies.
*A note on the name: The Latin title is representative of Classics, and having the words declined in the neuter, accusative, plural is representative of the inclusivity. The neuter excludes neither men nor women, while also including people identifying outside of masculine or feminine binaries. The plural is—quite literally—denoting that Classics is for and made up of all people.
Zoom Link | Meeting ID: 863 8461 3896 | Passcode: 407309Sponsored by: Dean of Inclusive Excellence.
Online Event Please come and celebrate the Lantern Festival with us on zoom! Food and snacks will be served in advance.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Online Event Sean McMeekin, Francis Flournoy Professor of European History and Culture, will give the History Club a talk on war crimes committed during the two World Wars, in which he will pay particular attention to the Katyn forest massacre in WWII. Anyone interested in the topic is welcome to join via the link and credentials posted below.
Recital: The Sounds of China, with Yixin Wang, guzheng
Streamed recital with student guest musicians on guzheng, cello, flute, percussion, and piano.
Saturday, February 27, 2021 8:30–9:30 pm
Online Event Streaming at https://youtu.be/CDJbyMIpTEs
The Sounds of China Yixin Wang, Guzheng Recital PROGRAM 临安遗恨-Eternal Sorrow of Lin’an LIN, Jiliang HE, Zhanhao WANG, Yixin - Guzheng WANG, Derek - Piano
蝴蝶与蓝-Butterfly and Blue WU, Li WANG, Yixin - Guzheng LIU, Anjie - Guzheng HU, Meilin - Cello
伊犁河畔-By the Side of Yili River CHENG, Gongliang WANG, Yixin - Guzheng ZHU, Yining - Xinjiang Hand Drum
寒鸦戏水-Winter Crows Playing in Water Chaozhou folk music WANG, Yixin - Guzheng
Online Event You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Keep the Conversation Going with the Hannah Arendt Center
Friday, February 28, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2027
Hannah Arendt Center
Amor Mundi is the weekly publication of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Subscribe now to receive the Amor Mundi email in your inbox up to two times a week. You'll get the first look at original articles, essays, and journal features from Roger Berkowitz and other Arendtian thinkers. Read Amor Mundi now >>
The Virtual Reading Group. Join Founder and Academic Director Roger Berkowitz and Acting Assistant Director Samantha Hill on select Fridays as they lead a live, online group discussion in a thoughtful and spirited exploration of the works of Hannah Arendt. Learn more about the VRG >>
Meshell Ndegeocello Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin
Tuesday, September 15, 2020 – Wednesday, June 30, 2021
UPSTREAMING
Inspired by the writing of James Baldwin Created by Meshell Ndegeocello In collaboration with Charlotte Brathwaite Featuring the contributions of Staceyann Chin, Suné Woods, Nicholas Galanin, Paul Thompson '93, Justin Hicks, and more.
A Co-Production of Bismillah, LLC and Fisher Center at Bard Co-Commissioned by Live Arts Bard, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre, and Festival de Marseille.
“No label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and no religion is more important than the human being.”—James Baldwin
A project inspired by James Baldwin’s truth-telling treatise on justice in the United States, The Fire Next Time, and our endlessly changing world. Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin is a 21st-century ritual tool kit for justice. A call for revolution. A gift during turbulent times.
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy—but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” —James Baldwin
Each month, September–December 2020, we offered gifts—music, thoughts, meditations, and visual testimonies of resilience—inspired by James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time.
“This is my offering to you. This is a different experience so I hope you have an open mind or at least an open heart. I see James Baldwin as an Orisha, his writing as the living word. I wanted to pay homage to him and to the time and effort it took to sit, to physically and emotionally fill the page with a truth that made my own sorrow feel less lonely. He put me on a path of empathy and humility towards my parents. It humbled me towards my mother born in 1944 and my father born in 1939—a time I can’t imagine living in while black.” —Meshell
Call for Applications: The IX International Smolny Student Conference
Re:creating a New World
Friday, January 8, 2021 – Monday, February 8, 2021
Online Event The Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Smolny) at St. Petersburg University invites Bard College students to submit applications and paper proposals to participate in the IX International Smolny Student Conference. Join peers from St. Petersburg and across Russia, the Bard Network and globe to present original research and projects as seen through the lens of the global pandemic.
The IX International Smolny Student Conference Re:creating a New World Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Smolny College) St. Petersburg University April 16-18, 2021
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the conference will be offered in an online format for international participants.
The working languages of the conference will be English and Russian. The deadline for applications is February 8, 2021.
Thursday, January 21, 2021 – Friday, December 31, 2021
Various
“We projected ourselves into a future in which we are loved absolutely and we rehearsed our lives there.”
The Future Is Present is a process and a practice, it’s a model for building community in a very small and incredibly powerful way. Led by artists Charlotte Brathwaite, Justin Hicks, Janani Balasubramanian, Sunder Ganglani, June Cross, and Alyssa Simmons, the project built a small community of Black and Indigenous young people and small community of young artists from Bard College* to spend seven weeks cultivating intimacy and discourse.
The youth cohort created demands on our collective future. The Bard community members listened, deeply.
Now, a process of amplifying those demands is underway. The artists at Bard have made a film for the youth cohort and will be releasing it next month on this page. Stay tuned.
This is an invitation to you to participate, somehow, on terms that make sense in your community. We would love to talk about what that might mean for you. Reach out to coordinator@thefutureispresent.xyz.
* Adrian Costa, Megan Lacy, Cam Orr, Anya Petkovich, Taty Rozetta, Hakima SmithStone, Dani Wilder, and Mengchen Zhang
To read a transcript of the video, click here.Sponsored by: Bard Theater & Performance Program.
Please note this is an online event and registration is required. Registration link
PANELISTS
Kateryna Bornukova, Academic Director, BEROC Economic Research Center Anaïs Marin, Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House Artyom Shraibman, Nonresident Scholar,Carnegie Moscow Center Gábor Tóka, Senior Research Fellow, Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives, Central European University Kenneth S. Yalowitz, Adjunct Lecturer, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies
Addressing one of her last election rallies in the summer, independent presidential candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya prepared her followers for a patient wait until their apparent will to unseat their country’s long-serving and proudly authoritarian president Lukashenka will be honored. It will take more than just casting votes to get their will expressed in the outcome that matters, she suggested. But she will be there to fight for a fair acknowledgement of the true election results for many months if need be.
Nearly six months after the rigged August 9 elections, Tsikhanouskaya is in half-voluntary exile, and many of her supporters are in prison after a reported 30,000 were detained and often treated brutally by the security forces. Crucially, the latter remained, at least as an organization, loyal to the incumbent after he was (self-) declared the winner of the election while the massive, spirited and impressively enduring post-electoral protests of Tsikhanouskaya’s supporters slowly but inevitably diminished in size and determination. However, not only the pro-democracy movement and all foreign governments aspiring for influence in Belarus seem deprived of the outcome that they hoped for, but Lukashenka’s regime also remains severely deprived of domestic political authority and international respect.
Our roundtable shall explore what kind of political stabilization or destabilization may be awaiting Belarus, what the realistic options and constraints are for the regime, the opposition, Russia, and the international community concerned over the state of human rights in Belarus.
Please note this is an online event and registration is required. Registration linkSponsored by: Central European University.
Online Event Not for seasoned PowerPoint players, this class is for beginners. How to create a PowerPoint presentation from scratch. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/87450776435.
Бродский и Ахматова - знаковые имена в истории русской поэзии. В нобелевской лекции Бродский назвал Ахматову одним из «источников света», которым он обязан своей поэтической судьбой. Встречи с Ахматовой и ее стихами связывали Бродского с поэтической традицией «серебряного века». Оба они были не только поэтами, но и чуткими читателями и отголоски их бесед о великих книгах звучат во многих стихах Бродского.
Петербургский филолог Денис Ахапкин рассматривает в своей книге эпизоды жизни и творчества двух поэтов, показывая глубинную взаимосвязь между двумя поэтическими системами. Жизненные события причудливо преломляются сквозь призму поэтических строк, становясь фактами уже не просто биографии, а литературной биографии —и некоторые особенности ахматовского поэтического языка хорошо слышны в стихах Бродского. Книга сочетает разговор о судьбах поэтов с разговором о конкретных стихотворениях и их медленным чтением.
This event will be presented in Russian.
English description:
Brodsky and Akhmatova are significant names in the history of Russian poetry. In his Nobel lecture, Brodsky called Akhmatova one of the "sources of light," to whom his poetic fate is indebted. Meetings with Akhmatova and her poems connected Brodsky with the poetic traditions of the "Silver Age." They were both not only poets, but also keen readers. The results of their conversations about great books are present in Brodsky's poems.
In his book, Petersburg philologist Denis Akhapkin examines the creative spirit and episodes from the poets' lives, showing the deep relationship between two poetic systems. Life events are bizarrely refracted through the prism of verse, becoming facts of not just a biography, but a literary biography. Some features of Akhmatova's poetic language are present in Brodsky's poetry. The book combines a conversation about the poets' fate with a discussion about specific poems and reading them slowly. Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For folks already familiar with PowerPoint and want to learn about advanced features such as the Insert options including screen recording, selecting designs and creating variants, using text and object animations, searching for and using templates, inserting logos, audio and video. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/85189339917.
Covering all aspects of using Zoom from scheduling a meeting, adding it to your Google Calendar, holding and recording a Zoom meeting, using the chat room and displaying materials. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/81298535256.
Recording in Zoom is easy but where to store and how to share the files involves a little bit more time. We'll go over the details. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/6867140376.
Online Event Interested in learning more about the Bard Debate Union? Come to our first meeting of the semester to meet the coaches and current students and learn about all that we do—tournaments, public debates, outreach and more! No prior debate experience is necessary! Everyone is welcome!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
How to schedule an Zoom meeting with all the options available to you (under Bard's license). If you don't know how to put a Zoom meeting on your calendar, automatically record a meeting and where that goes, what your automatic choices are, how to use the waiting room and passcode and how to edit Zoom meetings, this is the class for you. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/88387569591.
WONDERING HOW STUDY ABROAD WORKS AT BARD? Attend this Zoom session to learn about the process, possibilities, timing, and more!
ATTENTION SOPHOMORES: If you plan to study abroad for Fall 2021 (or for the full academic year) it's important that you attend a Nuts and Bolts session and have a 1:1 meeting with Trish Fleming VERY SOON (see below re: how to schedule that)! Deadlines will be here before you know it!
WILL DISCUSS: Semester-long Bard Abroad Programs; Tuition Exchanges; Non-Bard Programs; the approval process; financial aid and scholarships; summer possibilities; deadlines/timelines, and more!
MEET WITH TRISH: Once you've attended a session, email Trish saying you've attended one and letting her know days/times that you are free (M-F, 9-5) and she'll reply with a GoogleMeet invite.
COME SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE!
Meeting ID: 878 6544 3491 Passcode: 885954Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Learn how to organize your files and folders, upload files/folders from your computer, make changes in documents without creating duplicates, highlight files/folders, add details to the properties of files/folders, and do advanced searches for files/folders. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82367998637.
A look at many of the options that make Gmail easier to look at, use, organize and search. Plus some advanced features such as creating a small mailing list in Gmail, using more than one signature, scheduling email, creating email templates and more. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/86881918010.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
WONDERING HOW STUDY ABROAD WORKS AT BARD? Attend this Zoom session to learn about the process, possibilities, timing, and more!
ATTENTION SOPHOMORES: If you plan to study abroad for Fall 2021 (or for the full academic year) it's important that you attend a Nuts and Bolts session and have a 1:1 meeting with Trish Fleming VERY SOON (see below re: how to schedule that)! Deadlines will be here before you know it!
WILL DISCUSS: Semester-long Bard Abroad Programs; Tuition Exchanges; Non-Bard Programs; the approval process; financial aid and scholarships; summer possibilities; deadlines/timelines, and more!
MEET WITH TRISH: Once you've attended a session, email Trish saying you've attended one and letting her know days/times that you are free (M-F, 9-5) and she'll reply with a GoogleMeet invite.
COME SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE!
Meeting ID: 875 1854 0869 Passcode: 934571 Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Online Event Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
Meeting ID: 509 771 5132 One tap mobile +16465588656,,5097715132# US (New York) +13017158592,,5097715132# US (Washington D.C)
Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 509 771 5132 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/k5ThMe4btSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
New Kinds of Attention: Writing-Based Teaching Online
Friday, February 5, 2021 9 am – 3:30 pm
Online Event Every winter, Bard IWT takes a few of our foundational workshops On the Road to select cities, where we enjoy meeting new people and making new connections. This year, of course, is different.
We are happy to announce that in 2021, we will launch a new online series that will offer teachers a unique opportunity to experience IWT’s writing-based teaching practices. New Kinds of Attention: Writing-Based Teaching Online will explore how writing practices can build community and foster renewed engagement in the online classroom in a moment when attention and energy for remote learning are often in short supply.
These one-day workshops will serve as a preliminary introduction to IWT practices and provide a taste of the experience of our popular July Weeklong Workshops on Bard College’s beautiful Annandale campus. Those who are new to IWT and have wanted to attend a workshop are especially welcome to join us.
The inaugural series of New Kinds of Attention workshops is launching at a discount—20% off our standard rate for online workshops, and 35 percent off the rate for in-person one-day workshops. Spaces are limited, so register early!
On each date, workshop sections will begin at different times to accommodate different US time zones. Please register for the time zone/schedule that best suits your needs.
February 5, 2021 • 9am–3:30pm EST/CST/PST Introduction to Writing & Thinking Introduction to Writing to Learn
March 5, 2021 • 9am–3:30pm EST/PST Introduction to Thinking Historically through Writing Introduction to Writing to Learn in the STEM Disciplines
More about Bard IWT workshops:
All of our workshops are capped at 15 participants.
IWT workshops help teachers develop writing practices that enliven classroom learning through writing. IWT’s philosophy and practice center on the principle that writing is not merely a record of completed thought, but also an exploratory process that deepens learning across disciplines.
Workshops model strategies that help students discover and interpret meaning, engage in productive dialogue, and learn critical thinking skills. Participants will write together, using IWT practices just as we might with our students.
Workshops introduce a selection of foundational IWT writing-based teaching practices. Teachers explore how to make these practices their own—how to reimagine writing prompts, work with new readings, and integrate collaborative learning into classrooms of all sizes.
If you've used PowerPoint, you can now also use Slides. This class is about enhancing a presentation that is already created, either in PowerPoint or Slides, using templates, layouts, premade presentations, themes, and diagrams. Should already have experience with creating presentations. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/87131579011.
WONDERING HOW STUDY ABROAD WORKS AT BARD? Attend this Zoom session to learn about the process, possibilities, timing, and more!
ATTENTION SOPHOMORES: If you plan to study abroad for Fall 2021 (or for the full academic year) it's important that you attend a Nuts and Bolts session and have a 1:1 meeting with Trish Fleming VERY SOON (see below re: how to schedule that)! Deadlines will be here before you know it!
WILL DISCUSS: Semester-long Bard Abroad Programs; Tuition Exchanges; Non-Bard Programs; the approval process; financial aid and scholarships; summer possibilities; deadlines/timelines, and more!
MEET WITH TRISH: Once you've attended a session, email Trish saying you've attended one and letting her know days/times that you are free (M-F, 9-5) and she'll reply with a GoogleMeet invite.
COME SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE!
Meeting ID: 831 9512 8598 Passcode: 698494Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Online Event Please join us for Shut Up & Sproj on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2:30 to 4:00 pm. Just click on https://bard.zoom.us/j/94131442602 to work quietly on your project in the virtual presence of other seniors. “Working on your project” means anything that pushes it forward. If you get stuck, not to worry. Jane Smith, associate director for library writing support, will be happy to meet with you in a breakout room to listen to your ideas and offer guidance.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Workshop led by Catherine Denial Bright Distinguished Professor of American History, Chair of the History Department, and Director of the Bright Institute at Knox College
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
TŌN music director Leon Botstein kicks off the spring season with Bach’s third Brandenburg Concerto and Schoenberg’s romantic tone poem Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night). Also on the program are works for string orchestra by Polish composer Witold Lutosławski and Venezuelan composer, pianist, and singer Teresa Carreño, who played for Abraham Lincoln at the White House in 1863.
Leon Botsteinconductor
Witold Lutosławski Funeral Music Teresa Carreño Serenade for Strings BachBrandenburg Concerto No. 3 Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
Estimated run time: 1 hour and 45 minutes Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Online Event You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Get ready to join us for this year's Super Bowl watch party! Stop by the Campus Center George Ball Lounge between 5 PM and 6 PM for FREE wings, Gatorade, and other snacks.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Online Event Join us for this year's Super Bowl watch party! Stop by the Campus Center George Ball Lounge between 5 PM and 6 PM for FREE wings, Gatorade, and other snacks. You can then access the game for FREE through CBS.com, join the Zoom call, and watch with your friends.
Adapting to the New Reality – Civic Universities Engaging in The Arts
Monday, February 8, 2021 9–10 am
PANELISTS
Adnan Z. Morshed, Professor, Catholic University of America and BRAC University Judith Mossman, Pro Vice-Chancellor Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Coventry University Kseniya Shtalenkova, MA in Sociology, PhD candidate at the joint doctoral programme of philosophy (EHU, VMU, LSRI); Assistant Lecturer in the Academic Department of Humanities and Arts, Academic Secretary to the Journal for Philosophy and Cultural Studies Topos, European Humanities University Tania El Khoury, Distinguished Artist in Residence in Theater & Performance and the Director of the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College
MODERATOR
Lorlene Hoyt, Executive Director, Talloires Network of Engaged Universities, Research Professor, Tisch College of Civic Life, Research Professor, Department of Urban + Environmental Policy + Planning, Visiting Scholar, President’s Office, Albion College
The COV-AID webinar series Adapting to the New Reality: Civically Engaged Universities Offer Strategies and Hope collects and shares stories of institutions and individuals who are taking action to mitigate the crisis, and documents practical steps and strategies that may be of use elsewhere. The series is a collaboration between the Open Society University Network and the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities.
When you need to create quick and easy surveys, questionnaires, and even quizzes, Google Forms is more than adequate. It even produces an automatic spreadsheet of your results in Google Sheets. Forms is simple, looks great and is easy to send or embed. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/86932164334.
WONDERING HOW STUDY ABROAD WORKS AT BARD? Attend this Zoom session to learn about the process, possibilities, timing, and more!
ATTENTION SOPHOMORES: If you plan to study abroad for Fall 2021 (or for the full academic year) it's important that you attend a Nuts and Bolts session and have a 1:1 meeting with Trish Fleming VERY SOON (see below re: how to schedule that)! Deadlines will be here before you know it!
WILL DISCUSS: Semester-long Bard Abroad Programs; Tuition Exchanges; Non-Bard Programs; the approval process; financial aid and scholarships; summer possibilities; deadlines/timelines, and more!
MEET WITH TRISH: Once you've attended a session, email Trish saying you've attended one and letting her know days/times that you are free (M-F, 9-5) and she'll reply with a GoogleMeet invite.
COME SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE!
Meeting ID: 872 5158 3670 Passcode: 113488Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Recording in Zoom is easy but where to store and how to share the files involves a little bit more time. We'll go over the details. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/6867140376.
Online Event Whether you're brand-new to Zotero or you've been using it and have some questions, join us for our first Zotero workshop of the semester. Learn how to get the most out of this powerful citation management tool. Bring questions if you have them! We recommend you install the Zotero app and browser plug-in before the workshop. Set up instructions can be found here.
Meeting ID: 836 4793 3100 Passcode: zotero One tap mobile +16465588656,,83647933100# US (New York) +13017158592,,83647933100# US (Washington DC)Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Covering all aspects of using Zoom from scheduling a meeting, adding it to your Google Calendar, holding and recording a Zoom meeting, using the chat room and displaying materials. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/81298535256.
Online Event Please join us for Shut Up & Sproj on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2:30 to 4:00 pm. Just click on https://bard.zoom.us/j/94131442602 to work quietly on your project in the virtual presence of other seniors. “Working on your project” means anything that pushes it forward. If you get stuck, not to worry. Jane Smith, associate director for library writing support, will be happy to meet with you in a breakout room to listen to your ideas and offer guidance.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Online Event The OSUN Engaged Research Fund invites applications for funding and research support for graduate students and faculty at OSUN partner institutions who are working to develop long-term, sustainable community partnerships as a central part of their research with a goal to develop shared knowledge about issues that align with OSUN priorities and themes.
The Engaged Scholar Award (ESA) is for graduate students pursuing research that integrates community engagement into new or existing scholarship. Award: $6,000
The Engaged Faculty Scholar Award (EFSA) is for faculty whose scholarship incorporates community-based research into new or existing research and supports sustained community partners as long term collaborators. Award: $9,000
The deadline for applications is April 15, 2021. The Engaged Research Application Portal will open on April 1, 2021.
Join us for an information session to learn more about these opportunities.
WONDERING HOW STUDY ABROAD WORKS AT BARD? Attend this Zoom session to learn about the process, possibilities, timing, and more!
ATTENTION SOPHOMORES: If you plan to study abroad for Fall 2021 (or for the full academic year) it's important that you attend a Nuts and Bolts session and have a 1:1 meeting with Trish Fleming VERY SOON (see below re: how to schedule that)! Deadlines will be here before you know it!
WILL DISCUSS: Semester-long Bard Abroad Programs; Tuition Exchanges; Non-Bard Programs; the approval process; financial aid and scholarships; summer possibilities; deadlines/timelines, and more!
MEET WITH TRISH: Once you've attended a session, email Trish saying you've attended one and letting her know days/times that you are free (M-F, 9-5) and she'll reply with a GoogleMeet invite.
COME SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE!
Meeting ID: 832 7900 2468 Passcode: 462121Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Explore is a built-in AI that monitors what you type and responds, with related, on-the-fly content as you type, generally. As with most AI features, it isn't perfect, but it does allow for some handy help when using Google Docs (it's pretty handy with citations), Sheets and Slides. Find out about it here. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/86732760485.
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
ABOUT Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information.
Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team.
WHAT WILL BE COVERED?
Overview of graduate program offerings
Alumni success and career outcomes
Admissions information
Prerequisite course requirements
Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
Financial aid availability
Tips for a standout application
DEGREE OPTIONS Degree Options Include: MS in Environmental Policy MS in Climate Science and Policy MBA in Sustainability
Dual Degree Options Include: MS/JD with Pace Law School MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability
Peace Corps Programs Include: Master's International (before you serve) Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Margo Bogossian at mbogossian@bard.edu for further details.
RSVP HERESponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Online Event Interested in learning more about debate at Bard? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet the coaches and current students, watch or participate in a practice debate, and learn about all that we do—tournaments, public debates, outreach, and more!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
How to schedule an Zoom meeting with all the options available to you (under Bard's license). If you don't know how to put a Zoom meeting on your calendar, automatically record a meeting and where that goes, what your automatic choices are, how to use the waiting room and passcode and how to edit Zoom meetings, this is the class for you. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/88387569591.
Learn how to organize your files and folders, upload files/folders from your computer, make changes in documents without creating duplicates, highlight files/folders, add details to the properties of files/folders, and do advanced searches for files/folders. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82367998637.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
Meeting ID: 870 3574 1591 One tap mobile +16465588656,,87035741591# US (New York) +13126266799,,87035741591# US (Chicago)
Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) Meeting ID: 870 3574 1591 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kyYH5JFZZSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
WONDERING HOW STUDY ABROAD WORKS AT BARD? Attend this Zoom session to learn about the process, possibilities, timing, and more!
ATTENTION SOPHOMORES: If you plan to study abroad for Fall 2021 (or for the full academic year) it's important that you attend a Nuts and Bolts session and have a 1:1 meeting with Trish Fleming VERY SOON (see below re: how to schedule that)! Deadlines will be here before you know it!
WILL DISCUSS: Semester-long Bard Abroad Programs; Tuition Exchanges; Non-Bard Programs; the approval process; financial aid and scholarships; summer possibilities; deadlines/timelines, and more!
MEET WITH TRISH: Once you've attended a session, email Trish saying you've attended one and letting her know days/times that you are free (M-F, 9-5) and she'll reply with a GoogleMeet invite.
COME SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE!
Meeting ID: 881 1146 6611 Passcode: 589905Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 – Thursday, February 11, 2021 5–6 pm
Hear from Bard alumnus Alex Franco ’12, education coordinator, talk about summer teaching opportunities at EXPLO. EXPLO is hiring college students FY–Seniors for summer positions for the summer residential program for children Elem – High School. Great pay! This session is hosted by Bard CDO and the Recruiting Consortia group of schools. February 10, 4:00 pm EST Watch here: https://bard.zoom.us/j/83383665679
Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago)
Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
A look at many of the options that make Gmail easier to look at, use, organize and search. Plus some advanced features such as creating a small mailing list in Gmail, using more than one signature, scheduling email, creating email templates and more. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/86881918010.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
Meeting ID: 509 771 5132 One tap mobile +16465588656,,5097715132# US (New York) +13017158592,,5097715132# US (Washington D.C)
Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 509 771 5132 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/k5ThMe4btSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 – Thursday, February 11, 2021 5–6 pm
Hear from Bard alumnus Alex Franco ’12, education coordinator, talk about summer teaching opportunities at EXPLO. EXPLO is hiring college students FY–Seniors for summer positions for the summer residential program for children Elem – High School. Great pay! This session is hosted by Bard CDO and the Recruiting Consortia group of schools. February 10, 4:00 pm EST Watch here: https://bard.zoom.us/j/83383665679
Online Event A decade has passed since hundreds of thousands poured into Cairo's Tahrir Square, igniting the Arab Spring. What has happened since? Join us on Thursday, February 11 (exactly 10 years to the day that Hosni Mubarak stepped down), at 12pm EST/6pm Vienna. We'll be joined by Century Foundation's Thanassis Cambanis, author of Once Upon a Revolution: An Egyptian Story, and Michael Hanna, author of Arab Politics Beyond the Uprisings.RSVP required. Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
Online Event Welcome to Bard-Smolny Trivia! Gather around your screens, and play solo or in a team of up to five people together with Smolny students. All questions are Russia-related, and you do not need to speak the language to participate. Your curiosity, intuition and a bit of luck will go a long way together with your knowledge of history, art, literature and music.
Join via ZoomSponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
A discussion with Thanassis Cambanis, Michael Hanna and Aya Ibrahim
Thursday, February 11, 2021 12–1 pm
Online Event A decade has passed since hundreds of thousands poured into Cairo's Tahrir Square, igniting the Arab Spring. What has happened since? Join us on Thursday, February 11 (exactly 10 years to the day that Hosni Mubarak stepped down) at 12 pm EST/6 pm Vienna. We'll be joined by Century Foundation's Thanassis Cambanis, author of Once Upon a Revolution: An Egyptian Story, and Michael Hanna, author of Arab Politics Beyond the Uprisings, and Deutsche Welle correspondent and BGIA alumnus Aya Ibrahim.
Join via Zoom. RSVP Required.Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
Online Event This is a moderated panel featuring Black trans people who will share their lived experiences and participate in a Q & A.Sponsored by: Dean of Student Affairs; Professionals of Color group .
Online Event Online screening of Ali (2001), which focuses on ten years in the life of the boxer Muhammad Ali, his conversion to Islam, criticism of the Vietnam War, and banishment from boxing. Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Professionals of Color Group.
Online Event Join us for a film and discussion series celebrating Black LGBTQ+ history and life. We will be playing a new film each Thursday in February at 7 PM and participating in a virtual discussion following the film.
Visit bit.ly/bhmfilm for the full schedule and registration link. This event is sponsored by the Hudson Valley LGBT Community Center and is advertised by the Dean for Inclusive Excellence. Sponsored by: Dean of Inclusive Excellence.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event Please join us for Shut Up & Sproj on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2:30 to 4:00 pm. Just click on https://bard.zoom.us/j/94131442602 to work quietly on your project in the virtual presence of other seniors. “Working on your project” means anything that pushes it forward. If you get stuck, not to worry. Jane Smith, associate director for library writing support, will be happy to meet with you in a breakout room to listen to your ideas and offer guidance.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Saw Kill As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.
Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.
Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.
Open to everyone. Free training is available.
If interested, please contact: Lindsey Drew Bard Water Lab Manager ldrew@bard.eduSponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Online Event In December, 2020, the Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohican Indians approved the text of a Bard College land acknowledgment for use in Stockbridge Munsee Homelands, where the Bard Annandale campus is located. Please join us for a conversation about this important document and best practices for bringing it into the classroom. More information, including the full text of the land acknowledgement, can be found here.
The session will be recorded for those who cannot attend.Sponsored by: Center for Faculty and Curricular Development.
Online Event What does it mean to “blame the system”? Blame in its paradigm case is second-personal. Persons blame other persons for wronging them. But, many argue, large-scale social and political systems and the structural injustices that are part of such systems are not reducible to individual persons and their actions. What does it mean for the system to be the object of blame?
Beginning from activists’ calls to “blame the system”, I argue that blaming the system is second-personal in the following sense. It involves the activist second-personally calling another to a particular kind of self-knowledge through blame. Blame is the mode by which the blamer comes to know how the system has formed them. It can thus motivate them to change themselves and the system. This call evinces a humanist response to structural injustice that resists common technocratic and objectivising cultural tendencies.
Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 829 7086 9747 / Passcode: 050296Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7280, or e-mail jelliott@bard.edu.
This workshop is all about what else you can do in Zoom — present different items in your presentation, use a whiteboard, use annotations on the whiteboard and other screens, and create polls. See some different reasons why you might use polls. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/6867140376.
Have questions about study abroad? Need copies of any of the study abroad handouts/forms? Need help with your Petition for Study Abroad?
Log into the Study Abroad Drop-In Zoom Room anytime between noon and 3:00 today and Study Abroad Adviser Trish Fleming will be happy to help you! Meeting ID: 863 2850 4935 Passcode: 778192 Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Spring 2021 Speaker Series: Adrienne Edwards, Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum
Friday, February 12, 2021 12–2 pm
Online Event Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are elected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives. This semester all talks will be held online - in order to receive the zoom link registration is required in advance on eventbrite here.
The series begins with Adrienne Edwards, Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum. Previously, she served as curator of Performa since 2010 and as Curator at Large for the Walker Art Center since 2016.
Edwards is co-curator of the 2022 Whitney Biennial with David Breslin. She curated Jason Moran, the artist’s first museum show, which originated at the Walker in 2018, and traveled to the ICA Boston, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Whitney. She organized the event and video commencing the construction of David Hammons’s Day’s End, featuring a commission by composer Henry Threadgill and a “water tango” on the Hudson River by the Fire Department of the City of New York’s Marine Company 9. Edwards also organized Moved by the Motion: Sudden Rise with WuTsang, boychild, and Fred Moten. She is currently curating Dave McKenzie’s first solo museum project in New York City and My Barbarian’s twenty-year survey, both to be presented in 2021.
While at the Walker, she co-led the institution-wide Mellon Foundation Interdisciplinary Initiative, an effort to expand ways of commissioning, studying, contextualizing, collecting, documenting, and conserving cross-disciplinary works. For Performa, Edwards realized new boundary-defying commissions, as well as pathfinding conferences and film programs with a wide range of over forty international artists. Edwards’s curatorial projects have included the critically acclaimed exhibition and catalogue Blackness in Abstraction, hosted by Pace Gallery in 2016, as well as Frieze’s Artist Award and the Live program ASSEMBLY in New York in 2018. Edwards is Visiting Critic at the University of Pennsylvania, and taught art history and visual studies at New York University and The New School. She is a contributor to numerous artist monographs, exhibition catalogues, and academic journals, including forthcoming publications for the National Gallery of Art’s Center for the Advanced Study in Visual Art and Phaidon.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Blaming the System: Lecture by Yarran Hominh, PhD Candidate, Columbia University
Friday, February 12, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event Join via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/82970869747?pwd=elp0TnN5a2wvT002VkFlalBxUVhOdz09
What does it mean to “blame the system”? Blame in its paradigm case is second-personal. Persons blame other persons for wronging them. But, many argue, large-scale social and political systems and the structural injustices that are part of such systems are not reducible to individual persons and their actions. What does it mean for the system to be the object of blame?
Beginning from activists’ calls to “blame the system,” I argue that blaming the system is second-personal in the following sense. It involves the activist second-personally calling another to a particular kind of self-knowledge through blame. Blame is the mode by which the blamer comes to know how the system has formed them. It can thus motivate them to change themselves and the system. This call evinces a humanist response to structural injustice that resists common technocratic and objectivizing cultural tendencies.
Zoom Meeting ID: 829 7086 9747 / Passcode: 050296Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Philosophy Program.
Want to Work in Publishing? …..Employer Insight Panel
Friday, February 12, 2021 – Saturday, February 13, 2021 1–2 pm
JOIN US! Hear directly from professionals working at top publishing companies about the many different positions available to work in this field. Get first hand insight and knowledge of what employers are looking for in talent.
Simon & Schuster - Director of Talent and Diversity Initiatives Scholastic - Editor Hachette - Subsidiary Rights Macmillan - Digital Production Manager SkyHorse Publishing - Publicity Director
Open to Bard and Vassar College students - All class years and majors!
Online Join Zoom Meeting - NEED TO USE PASSCODE https://bard.zoom.us/j/86076989410?pwd=ZjVmVVdnYldHTG5TeU8yZzU0OHFYQT09 Passcode: 619888 Meeting ID: 860 7698 9410
Online screening of Mooz-lum (2010), in which a young man from a strict Muslim background begins college, but due to the 9/11 attacks, he is pushed to confront his past and make some big decisions. Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Professionals of Color Group.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Want to Work in Publishing? …..Employer Insight Panel
Friday, February 12, 2021 – Saturday, February 13, 2021 1–2 pm
JOIN US! Hear directly from professionals working at top publishing companies about the many different positions available to work in this field. Get first hand insight and knowledge of what employers are looking for in talent.
Simon & Schuster - Director of Talent and Diversity Initiatives Scholastic - Editor Hachette - Subsidiary Rights Macmillan - Digital Production Manager SkyHorse Publishing - Publicity Director
Open to Bard and Vassar College students - All class years and majors!
Online Join Zoom Meeting - NEED TO USE PASSCODE https://bard.zoom.us/j/86076989410?pwd=ZjVmVVdnYldHTG5TeU8yZzU0OHFYQT09 Passcode: 619888 Meeting ID: 860 7698 9410
Students, faculty, staff, alumni/ae, and community members throughout the Open Society University Network and Bard International Network Partners are welcomed to join. To sign up for our email alerts: https://forms.gle/n3yaH2BAZjgAAfZH9
Questions? Contact Emily Levine at el4069@bard.edu or Lauren Cooke at lcooke@bard.edu.Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Online Event In celebration of Black History Month 2021, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. of the Mid-Hudson Valley, NY presents a roundtable on love and relationships featuring special guests from the Virtual Dating show.
The event/roundtable will be viewable on Facebook Live by visiting the Mid-Hudson Valley Alphas Facebook page. Come out and let's discuss love and relationships during this very difficult time of COVID-19.Sponsored by: Dean of Inclusive Excellence .
Online Event Online screening of Naz and Maalik (2015), an American drama film about the story of two closeted Muslim teens living in Brooklyn who struggle to come clean about their sexuality. Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Professionals of Color Group.
A Chinese New Year Concert with The Orchestra Now and Guests
Saturday, February 13, 2021 8 pm
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The US-China Music Institute presents the second annual production of The Sound of Spring, a concert of symphonic music to celebrate the Lunar New Year in collaboration with musicians both here and abroad.
The Sound of Spring features a new performance by The Orchestra Now conducted by Jindong Cai, along with performances from special guests including the Central Conservatory of Music Chinese Ensemble, the China NCPA Orchestra and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.
Hosted by acclaimed pipa performer Wu Man and conductor Jindong Cai, the program will feature works by Tan Dun, Bao Yuankai, Julian Yu, Li Shaosheng, and more. Musical selections will send a message of hope, renewal, and new beginnings, in the spirit of the Chinese New Year tradition of the Spring Festival.
For more information about The US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music, please visit their website.
Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
CCS Galleries The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture.
Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020, and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).
Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Online Event Online screening of Life Without Basketball (2018), a documentary about Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir, who broke barriers in becoming the first Division I basketball player to play wearing a hijab. When a ruling ends her chances at playing professionally, she reexamines her faith and identity as a Muslim American.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Professionals of Color Group.
Online Event CIVICA--The European University of Social Sciences--warmly invites all OSUN members to the launch of the Public Lecture Series Tours d'Europe with an event on "Democracy in the Time of Pandemic" hosted online by Central European University on 15 February 2021, 11:30 am EST/5:30 pm CET.
With the Public Lecture Series Tours d'Europe, experts from CIVICA universities present their research on timely topics to the general public. The series aims to strengthen citizens' knowledge base and to facilitate a direct dialogue between social science researchers and the wider society.
Speakers Michael Ignatieff, Central European University Catherine E. De Vries, Bocconi University Martial Foucault, Sciences Po Andrés Velasco, London School of Economics
Moderator Krisztina Bombera, broadcast journalist
Registration for this online event is not required. Join the event here. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Covering all aspects of using Zoom from scheduling a meeting, adding it to your Google Calendar, holding and recording a Zoom meeting, using the chat room and displaying materials. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/81298535256.
Online Event Please join us for Shut Up & Sproj on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2:30 to 4:00 pm. Just click on https://bard.zoom.us/j/94131442602 to work quietly on your project in the virtual presence of other seniors. “Working on your project” means anything that pushes it forward. If you get stuck, not to worry. Jane Smith, associate director for library writing support, will be happy to meet with you in a breakout room to listen to your ideas and offer guidance.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Explore is a built-in AI that monitors what you type and responds, with related, on-the-fly content as you type, generally. As with most AI features, it isn't perfect, but it does allow for some handy help when using Google Docs (it's pretty handy with citations), Sheets and Slides. Find out about it here. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/86732760485.
Online Event Interested in learning more about debate at Bard? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet the coaches and current students, watch or participate in a practice debate, and learn about all that we do—tournaments, public debates, outreach, and more!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Holocaust Scholarship on Trial: Jan Grabowski (University of Ottawa) in Conversation with Masha Gessen (Bard College)
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event
In 2018 Jan Grabowksi and Barbara Engelking published Dalej jest noc: losy Żydów w wybranych powiatach okupowanej Polski [Night Without End: The Fate of the Jews in Selected Counties of Occupied Poland], which documents the range of Polish behavior towards Jews during the Holocaust in a series of local case studies. The Polish League against Defamation, which has close ties to the right-wing ruling Law and Justice Party, brought a lawsuit against Grabowski and Engelking on behalf of the niece of a figure discussed in the book. This action is widely viewed as a continuation of the government’s campaign to stifle free inquiry into Poland’s wartime history and to punish those who question the narrative of Poles as exclusively the victims of Nazi atrocities who rescued Jews on a massive scale. On February 9, 2021 a Warsaw court found Grabowski and Engelking guilty, declining to fine the scholars but demanding that they issue an apology. In his first public remarks since the trial Prof. Grabowski, in conversation with journalist Masha Gessen, will discuss his response to the verdict as well as its political and scholarly implications.
Jan Grabowski is Professor of History at the University of Ottawa. His books include Polacy, nic się nie stało! Polemiki z Zagładą w tle [Poles, Nothing Happened! Polemics with the Holocaust in the Background] (2021); Na posterunku: Udział polskiej policji granatowej i kryminalnej w zagładzie Żydów [On Duty: Participation of Blue and Criminal Police in the Destruction of the Jews], (2020); Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland (2013), which won the Yad Vashem International Book Prize; and "Ja Tego Żyda Znam!": Szantażowanie Żydów w Warszawie, 1939-1943 [“I Know that Jew!”: The Blackmailing of Jews in Warsaw, 1939-1943] (2004). He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and has held fellowships and guest professorships at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Munich), the University of Haifa, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Yad Vashem.
Masha Gessen is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of 11 books of nonfiction, most recently Surviving Autocracy (2020); as well as The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction; and The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). The Moscow-born Gessen is the recipient of Guggenheim, Andrew Carnegie, and Nieman Fellowships, Hitchens Prize, Overseas Press Club Award for Best Commentary, and an honorary doctorate from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.
Holocaust Scholarship on Trial: Jan Grabowski in Conversation with Masha Gessen
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event The Jewish Studies Program and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research present an online event featuring Jan Grabowski, Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, who was convicted in a Polish court for his work documenting Polish collaboration during the Holocaust. Grabowski will be in conversation with Masha Gessen, Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.
In 2018 Jan Grabowksi and Barbara Engelking published Dalej jest noc: losy Żydów w wybranych powiatach okupowanej Polski [Night Without End: The Fate of the Jews in Selected Counties of Occupied Poland], which documents the range of Polish behavior towards Jews during the Holocaust in a series of local case studies.
The Polish League against Defamation, which has close ties to the right-wing ruling Law and Justice Party, brought a lawsuit against Grabowski and Engelking on behalf of the niece of a figure discussed in the book. This action is widely viewed as a continuation of the government’s campaign to stifle free inquiry into Poland’s wartime history and to punish those who question the narrative of Poles as exclusively the victims of Nazi atrocities who rescued Jews on a massive scale.
On February 9, 2021 a Warsaw court found Grabowski and Engelking guilty, declining to fine the scholars but demanding that they issue an apology. In his first public remarks since the trial Prof. Grabowski, in conversation with journalist Masha Gessen, will discuss his response to the verdict as well as its political and scholarly implications.
Jan Grabowski is Professor of History at the University of Ottawa. His books include Polacy, nic się nie stało! Polemiki z Zagładą w tle [Poles, Nothing Happened! Polemics with the Holocaust in the Background] (2021); Na posterunku: Udział polskiej policji granatowej i kryminalnej w zagładzie Żydów [On Duty: Participation of Blue and Criminal Police in the Destruction of the Jews], (2020); Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland (2013), which won the Yad Vashem International Book Prize; and "Ja Tego Żyda Znam!": Szantażowanie Żydów w Warszawie, 1939-1943 [“I Know that Jew!”: The Blackmailing of Jews in Warsaw, 1939-1943] (2004). He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and has held fellowships and guest professorships at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Munich), the University of Haifa, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Yad Vashem.
Masha Gessen is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of 11 books of nonfiction, most recently Surviving Autocracy (2020); as well as The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction; and The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). The Moscow-born Gessen is the recipient of Guggenheim, Andrew Carnegie, and Nieman Fellowships, Hitchens Prize, Overseas Press Club Award for Best Commentary, and an honorary doctorate from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.
For more information, contact Cecile Kuznitz at kuznitz@bard.edu.
Tough Talks: Against Nonviolence with Vicky Osterweil
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 6–8 pm
Online Event Vicky Osterweil is a writer, editor and agitator based in Philadelphia. Her first book, In Defense of Looting, was released in August 2020 by Bold Type Books. Her work has appeared in Real Life, The New Inquiry, Al-Jazeera America, Dissent, The Baffler and The Paris Review.
The civil rights movement stands out as a bright, beautiful, all-too-brief moment of hope and struggle in American history, one whose tactics, strategies and meanings are invaluable to those who wish to understand how change is made. However, why is it drilled into our heads, from grade school onward, that the civil rights movement was victorious because it was nonviolent?
Did you know you can earn your master's degree and NYS teacher certification (grades 7–12) at Bard?
Join us and learn about the Bard MAT, Bard College's discipline-based graduate teacher preparation program leading to a master's degree and NYS Teacher Certification in grades 7–12.
There's still time to learn more and apply! Accepting applications through April 15, 2021.
Scholarship aid available. $65 application fee waiver for Bard seniors.
RSVP to cmaple@bard.edu. Zoom link: https://bard.zoom.us/j/89184673906?pwd=eDVQaGhCMzhGMjByaTMzRDZCTHk5QT09Sponsored by: Master of Arts in Teaching Program.
Learn more about the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program.
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 6–7 pm
Online Event Are you an undergrad eager for a career in international relations or foreign policy? Where do you start? What do you need to be considered? Join us to learn more about the Bard Globalization and International Affairs semester away program for Summer 2021/Fall 2021. We’ll help you get placed at a top organization, while earning academic credit. RSVP required.Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
Learn how to organize your files and folders, upload files/folders from your computer, make changes in documents without creating duplicates, highlight files/folders, add details to the properties of files/folders, and do advanced searches for files/folders. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82367998637.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
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Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kpKD8Mih0 Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
Online Event Seniors are invited to drop in to Sproj Clinic on Zoom 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 on the first and third Wednesdays from 3 to 4 pm and the second and fourth Tuesdays from 4 to 5 pm. Can't make the clinic? Click here to request research help anytime.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Project Horseshoe Farm: Community Health Fellowship
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 4:30–5:30 pm
Learn about the one-year Community Health Fellowship program—a great opportunity for students interested in making an impact in community healthcare, education, social justice, and leadership. Open to all class years.
Online Event Looking to join a club? Want to find your people and learn more about the community? Club Fair is for you! Join us for our annual Club Fair to see what clubs and organizations are planning this semester. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Online Event All are welcome to attend our Ash Wednesday service as we begin to observe a holy Lent. Due to the pandemic, we will not be distributing ashes but encourage everyone to participate in a time of prayer, scripture reading, and mediation during this service. To get the program for the service click here.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The Magic of RNA: From CRISPR Gene Editing to mRNA Vaccines
Thomas R. Cech, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 6:30–8 pm
Online Event In the past, Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) was considered to be mostly an intermediary between the genetic code in DNA and the proteins that do most of the work in biology; DNA makes RNA makes protein. The discovery of catalytic RNA (Nobel Prize, 1989) opened our eyes to RNA having more exciting functions. But the thrill of RNA was just getting started. Gene editing now uses guide RNAs to recruit the CRISPR genome editing machinery to specific sites of action on chromosomes, with exciting medical potential (Nobel Prize, 2020). And the coronavirus pandemic is now a battle of RNA against RNA: an RNA virus being fought with messenger RNA vaccines.
Thomas R. Cech, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and director of the Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology PhD Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. After earning his PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Cech joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder in 1978. In 1982 Dr. Cech and his research group discovered self-splicing RNA in Tetrahymena, providing the first exception to the long-held belief that biological reactions are always catalyzed by proteins. Because RNA can be both an information-carrying molecule and a catalyst, perhaps a primordial self-reproducing system consisted of RNA alone. Dr. Cech became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator in 1988 and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1990. From 2000 to 2009, he served as president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which is the largest private biomedical research organization in the U.S. In 2009, Dr. Cech returned to full-time research and teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Cech's work has been recognized by many national and international awards and prizes, including the Heineken Prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (1988), the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award (1988), the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1989), and the National Medal of Science (1995). In 1987 Dr. Cech was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and also awarded a lifetime professorship by the American Cancer Society.
You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Feb 17, 2021 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: The Magic of RNA: from CRISPR Gene Editing to mRNA Vaccines
Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://bard.zoom.us/j/89546778854?pwd=VXNIaXRZUUVYS293Z1FiZk9HMDFUQT09 Passcode: 340591 Or iPhone one-tap : US: +16465588656,,89546778854#,,,,*340591# or +13017158592,,89546778854#,,,,*340591# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 646 558 8656 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 669 900 9128 or +1 253 215 8782 Webinar ID: 895 4677 8854 Passcode: 340591 International numbers available: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kccdtBxiuF
Sponsored by: Biology Program; Chemistry Program; Dean of the College; Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
Attendees will hear from a panel of current students and alumni of Bard's MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy. Our panel of student/alum experts will discuss topics such as:
career outcomes -- how the MS and MEd degrees at CEP and the MBA in Sustainability have led to impactful sustainability careers
the program experience -- highlights on courses and key features at Bard (including the NYCLab course and the CEP internship)
how to get the most of your graduate school journey -- career development + student engagement opportunities at Bard
how to make your application stand out -- tips on perfecting your application materials, advice on getting through the graduate school admissions process
In addition: Program Director Eban Goodstein will provide an overview of the program offerings at Bard CEP and the MBA in Sustainability.
Our Admissions staff will also be on hand to provide information on the application process and answer questions regarding:
Event Location: This event will be held via Zoom. Access details will be shared with attendees upon event registration.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
A look at many of the options that make Gmail easier to look at, use, organize and search. Plus some advanced features such as creating a small mailing list in Gmail, using more than one signature, scheduling email, creating email templates and more. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/86881918010.
Online Event Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
Meeting ID: 509 771 5132 One tap mobile +16465588656,,5097715132# US (New York) +13017158592,,5097715132# US (Washington D.C)
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Online Event Join us for a film and discussion series celebrating Black LGBTQ+ history and life. We will be playing a new film each Thursday in February at 7 PM and participating in a virtual discussion following the film.
Visit bit.ly/bhmfilm for the full schedule and registration link. This event is sponsored by the Hudson Valley LGBT Community Center and is advertised by the Dean for Inclusive Excellence. Sponsored by: Dean of Inclusive Excellence.
Shedding Some Light on the Dark Matter of the Genomic Universe
Thomas R. Cech, PhD
Thursday, February 18, 2021 12:20–1:30 pm
Online Event Earlier in the 21st century, the human genome was thought to consist of islands of important genes, coding for proteins, surrounded by a vast sea of “junk DNA.” But we now know that much of the vast noncoding part of the genome is also transcribed into RNA – noncoding RNA. Many hundreds of research laboratories are now engaged in observing and interrogating this dark matter of the genomic universe. Dr. Cech will describe two examples, catalytic RNA and telomerase RNA.
Dr. Thomas R. Cech is Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and Director of the Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology PhD Program at the University of Colorado Boulder.
You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: February 18, 2021, at 12:00 pm Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Shedding Some Light on the Dark Matter of the Genomic Universe
Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://bard.zoom.us/j/87656848909?pwd=L1ZoTERnTnpzM0U3Y0pMak9WcmFiUT09 Passcode: 645895 Or iPhone one-tap : US: +16465588656,,87656848909# or +13126266799,,87656848909# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 646 558 8656 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 669 900 9128 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 Webinar ID: 876 5684 8909 International numbers available: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kdNzUccMMtSponsored by: Biology Program; Chemistry Program; Dean of the College; Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
Dr. Jan Willis, Professor Emerita of Religion at Wesleyan University
Thursday, February 18, 2021 5–6:30 pm
Online Event
Jan Willis, PhD was raised in the South during the Jim Crow era and marched with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She went on to become a distinguished scholar, author, an award-winning teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. In this talk she will discuss the many resonances she sees between key Buddhist principles and social activism.
Jan Willis is Professor Emerita of Religion at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Born in Docena, Alabama in 1948 and profoundly affected by the Civil Rights movement, she majored in philosophy at Cornell University and met Buddhism while traveling in Asia in the 1970s. She earned her PhD in Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and has studied with Tibetan Buddhists in India, Nepal, Switzerland, and the U.S. for five decades. The author of several books and numerous articles and essays on Buddhist philosophy, meditation, women and Buddhism and Buddhism and race, her memoir Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist was first published in 2001 and was re-issued in 2008 by Wisdom Publications. In December of 2000, TIME magazine named Willis one of six "spiritual innovators for the new millennium." She has been profiled in Newsweek and Ebony. Her latest book, Dharma Matters: Women, Race and Tantra; Collected Essays by Jan Willis was published in April 2020.
Online Event Interested in teaching? Did you know you can earn your master's degree and NYS teacher certification (grades 7–12) at Bard?
Join us and learn about the Bard MAT, Bard College's discipline-based graduate teacher preparation program leading to a master's degree and NYS Teacher Certification in grades 7–12.
There's still time to learn more and apply! Accepting applications through April 15, 2021.
Scholarship aid available. $65 application fee waiver for Bard seniors.
Online Event Please join us for Shut Up & Sproj on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2:30 to 4:00 pm. Just click on https://bard.zoom.us/j/94131442602 to work quietly on your project in the virtual presence of other seniors. “Working on your project” means anything that pushes it forward. If you get stuck, not to worry. Jane Smith, associate director for library writing support, will be happy to meet with you in a breakout room to listen to your ideas and offer guidance.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021
UPSTREAMING
A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.
Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914)
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)
Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
Jo Shaw on "Horizons of Freedom: The Paradoxes of Citizenship in the Pandemic"
Friday, February 19, 2021 8–10 am
Online Event The Open Society University Network and the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University in Belgrade invite all OSUN members to attend an online lecture by Jo Shaw on "Horizons of Freedom: The Paradoxes of Citizenship in the Pandemic."
Shaw, who holds the Salvesen Chair of European Institutions at the University of Edinburgh, will explore how the meaning of certain social acts has been shifting under pandemic conditions, allowing us to gain new insights into the character of constitutional citizenship and its relationship with political ideas such as populism and fundamental principles such as equality and dignity. The focal points of the lecture are face-coverings and masks, alongside public protests against restrictions on liberties imposed in the name of combating the spread of the virus.
These shifts in social acts illustrate the changing meaning of what constitutes the “good citizen," playing on what Jean Cohen terms “the paradoxical dialectic inherent in modern constitutionalism,” which “drives republican or liberal democratic conceptions of citizenship into the arms of thicker, more communitarian understandings of identity.” This, then, raises the question of whether it is feasible and reasonable to place a brake upon such trends, and to ask which types of norms and institutions, at the national and international levels, are suitable for that task.
The annual seminar 2020/21 “Horizons of Freedom” events at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, examine the intrinsic connection between freedom and engagement in order to expand the conceptual and political horizons of freedom as a central principle guiding action in democratic politics, and initiates a more intensive dialogue among antagonistic traditions of academic perception of freedom in the face of urgent challenges and threats to freedom and democracy.
Join Ilyse Simon RDN CDN in this informal zoom support group devoted to disordered eating.
Friday, February 19, 2021 9:45–10:45 am
Online Event If you are struggling and want some extra support with your behaviors, feelings about food, and self-care, then come join us. Friday mornings.
The Literal and Metaphorical Senses of Slavery in Mary Astell’s Some Reflections upon Marriage
Aminah Hasan-Birdwell Alva and Beatrice Bradley Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Furman University/Associate Research Scholar in Philosophy, Columbia University
Friday, February 19, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event
This paper examines the metaphorical and literal senses of Mary Astell’s feminist equation of marriage to slavery in SomeReflections upon Marriage (1700). I argue that Astell’s use of the concept of the slave to describe the inequality between men and women suggests an important intersection between the history of slavery, race, and gender. I will conclude with larger reflections on Astell’s Cartesian emphasis on the disembodied mind as the philosophical ground for equality between the sexes. This account of equality is a noteworthy contrast with twentieth-century thinkers on race and gender, who tend to emphasize embodiment.
Online Event Condensed matter physicists begin by developing simple models that capture the key properties of materials, but correlated electron materials are a class of materials where our simple models break down, giving rise to unusual electronic or magnetic properties. In this talk, I will share our research on one correlated electron material, EuO1-x, which is of interest for its possible spintronics applications. Because the transport and magnetic properties of EuO1-x are similar to another correlated electron material, the perovskite manganites, and phase inhomogeneity is important for describing the properties of the manganites, an interesting question is whether phase inhomogeneity is also relevant for describing EuO1-x. I will explore what phase inhomogeneity is, the evidence for phase inhomogeneity in the manganites, and our current understanding of the nature of phase inhomogeneity in EuO1-x, and I will share a bit about my journey as a physicist.
Out There Without Fear: Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion
Friday, February 19, 2021 1–3 pm
Online Event The Caribbean Students Association invites the Bard community to join a virtual live screening and panel discussion of the newest Jamaican Dancehall documentary, Out There Without Fear,by Bard student Joelle Powe. This is a multidisciplinary cross-cultural experience expanding into gender and sexuality studies, philosophy, theater, film, anthropology, sociology, music, Africana studies, history, preservation, and religion through the study of dance.
Day 1: Panel Discussion – February 19 from 1 pm to 3 pm EST Meet with the filmmaker and panelists calling in from Kingston, Jamaica. Musicologist Herbie Miller, iconic dancer Kool Kid, and internationally renowned choreographer Latonya Style want to answer your questions! The panel will be moderated by the documentarian, Joelle Powe.
Day 2: Dance Workshop – February 20 from 3 pm to 4 pm EST Dance with two award-winning Dancehall celebrities, Kool Kid and Latonya Style.
Building Classical Communities: A Roundtable Discussion
Friday, February 19, 2021 2–3:30 pm
Online Event How do we build more inclusive communities in Classics? How do we do Classics with joy and cultivate “belonging” with a sense of integrity and purpose? What are the opportunities and challenges for our field? This roundtable discussion is the opening event in our spring series, Collecta in Classicis / Together in Classics, hosted by the students and faculty of the Classical Studies program and supported by the Dean of the College’s Inclusion Challenge.
Roundtable speakers:
Bethany Hucks is a fourth-year PhD student at Heidelberg University in Germany, researching Egyptian influence on art and identity in imperial Rome. She has a background in biochemistry, museums, and marketing and spends her summers working on pottery at various archaeological excavations. In her free time, she works on aiding marginalized scholars and increasing/retaining diversity in ancient world studies and archaeology.
Suzanne Lye is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her AB from Harvard University, where she studied organic chemistry and the history of antibiotics. After receiving her PhD in Classics from the University of California, Los Angeles, she was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth College. Her first book project focuses on conceptions of the afterlife in ancient Greek Underworld narratives from Homer to Lucian. Her next project will focus on women’s anger in ancient literature and magic. She has published on ancient epic, ancient magic and religion, ancient representations of gender and ethnicity, ancient and modern pedagogy, and Classical reception. Additionally, she has contributed to several digital humanities initiatives through Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, including the Homer Multitext Project, and is co-chair of the steering committee for the Women’s Classical Caucus.
Nandini Pandey is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, trained in Classics and English at Swarthmore, Oxford, Cambridge, and Berkeley. She joins us from Germany, where she is writing a second book on Roman diversity thanks to a fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. Her first book, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome (Cambridge, 2018), won the 2020 CAMWS First Book Prize, and she has written numerous pieces for Eidolon as well as traditional classics journals.
This event is part of the Collecta in Classicis: Together in Classics series.
Collecta in Classicis : Together in Classics will provide a space for scholars, teachers, and students to have a conversation about inclusivity in Classics, what that means, what it looks like, and why Classics is not always inclusive. We welcome scholars who have engaged critically with diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, physical ability, and more as it relates to their experience in the field of Classics, or in their study of the Classical World, or both. Furthermore, we hope to include voices of marginalized groups typically silenced either in the past, or even today, by the Classics. How we make Classics more inclusive and accessible, and what that means and looks like, are difficult questions. We hope to encourage productive dialogues that contribute, in individual steps, to the transformative work needed in order for the field of Classics to be reimagined.
*A note on the name: The Latin title is representative of Classics, and having the words declined in the neuter, accusative, plural is representative of the inclusivity. The neuter excludes neither men nor women, while also including people identifying outside of masculine or feminine binaries. The plural is—quite literally—denoting that Classics is for and made up of all people. Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; DOC Inclusion Challenge.
Online Event The eighth annual Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference is now accepting applications! Join us during this info session to learn more: https://bard.zoom.us/j/4395717800
The conference will be held online April 10-11.
The Get Engaged Conference brings together undergraduate students (including Early College students) to strengthen a global network of leaders and innovators who are working with community partners to develop solutions to local and global challenges. The conference exposes students to a wide range of ideas and experiences to help them lead community-based projects more effectively. The Get Engaged conference is a venue for sharing experiences, learning new skills, honing leadership styles, and networking with international peers.
Who is eligible? This year we have two tracks available: 1) Students who are actively engaged in community based work and 2) students who want to develop and enhance leaderships skills in community engagement. Students from OSUN member institutions are eligible to apply for the virtual international conference. The conference is an inspirational and practical space that encourages young people to grow into their role as agents for change. Sponsored by: BHSEC Manhattan; BHSEC Newark; BHSEC Queens; Center for Civic Engagement.
THE CONDO CONCERTS: Leila Josefowicz, violin Works by Matthias Pintscher and J.S. Bach
Conservatory Scholarship Fund Benefit Recital--Reservations Required for Free Tickets
Friday, February 19, 2021 8–9:30 pm
Online Event Reserve your free tickets for this one-time streamed performance here.
Leila Josefowicz’s passionate advocacy of contemporary music for the violin is reflected in her diverse programs and enthusiasm to perform new works. Winner of the 2018 Avery Fisher Prize, she was also awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2008. Recent performances include concerts with the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the London, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, and Finnish Radio symphony orchestras.
THE CONDO CONCERTS is a series of four concerts in spring 2021 streamed from the Bard Conservatory with the generous support of artist George Condo as a benefit for the Conservatory Scholarship Fund. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Online Event Come join Bard After Dark for the first event of the semester, where we will share the words of Black poets, artists, and speakers.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021
UPSTREAMING
A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.
Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914)
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)
Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
Online Event Do you like making art? Are you often overwhelmed and feel you need a break? Join CEAP (pronounced seep): The Community Engagement Arts Project. We make art and do creative activities to feel good and have fun, rather than for the final product.
We conduct all sorts of arts workshops to introduce people to Expressive Art Therapy skills and to help take a step back from stressful college life. We make all types of art, including but not limited to painting, drawing, crafts, found poetry, clay, writing, movement, and watercolor, and use it to reflect, promote thoughtfulness, and connect to one another. No art experience is necessary! All you need is your beautiful self and a willingness to explore your creativity. Come meet new people, connect, and de-stress!!
Our first meeting will be discussing the project and what we’ll be doing this semester, and answering any questions you have!
Plus, if you’re interested, we volunteer off campus at various communities leading expressive arts workshops. If you come to our meetings and enjoy the work, you can volunteer if you want!
Online Event The Caribbean Students Association invites the Bard community to join a virtual live screening and panel discussion of the newest Jamaican Dancehall documentary, Out There Without Fear,by Bard student Joelle Powe. This is a multidisciplinary cross-cultural experience expanding into gender and sexuality studies, philosophy, theater, film, anthropology, sociology, music, Africana studies, history, preservation, and religion through the study of dance.
Day 1: Panel Discussion – February 19 from 1 pm to 3 pm EST Meet with the filmmaker and panelists calling in from Kingston, Jamaica. Musicologist Herbie Miller, iconic dancer Kool Kid, and internationally renowned choreographer Latonya Style want to answer your questions! The panel will be moderated by the documentarian, Joelle Powe.
Day 2: Dance Workshop – February 20 from 3 pm to 4 pm EST Dance with two award-winning Dancehall celebrities, Kool Kid and Latonya Style.
Online Event You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021
UPSTREAMING
A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.
Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914)
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)
Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
Spring lecture series program at the Rhinebeck Reformed Church by Bruce Chilton
Sunday, February 21, 2021 1–2 pm
Online Event
The Institute of Advanced Theology in collaboration with the Rhinebeck Reformed Church and the Jewish Federation of Dutchess County, introduce the Spring 2021 Lecture Series, Women of Faith. This series will occur every third Sunday of the month at 1 pm via zoom. Participants can register at the following link: https://jewishdutchess.org/events
The spring series of 2021, during a time of unique cultural and political challenge in the United States, will investigate the unique contributions of women within the traditions of Judaism and Christianity to a human, peaceful future. Week by week, women from both traditions will be paired in a comparative analysis:
February 21: the biblical period Miriam, the sister of Moses Mary Magdalene
March 21: the medieval period Hildegaard of Bingen Inés Esteban
April 18: the early modern period Francesa Sarah of Safed Theresa of Avila
May 16: the twentieth century Eleanor Roosevelt Trude Weiss-Rosmarin.
You may also find the last lecture series as well as other materials on the Rhinebeck Reformed site and a recent interview with Bruce Chilton on his latest book, Lanier Theological Library Podcasts (20 December 2020) David Capes Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail chilton@bard.edu.
This concert features the world premiere of Falling Together by composer Sarah Hennies, who was recently profiled in TheNew York Times, and the 2005 piece Popcorn Superhet Receiver by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, which was used in the film There Will Be Blood. The program also includes Grieg’s classic Holberg Suite and a popular work by Vaughan Williams.
TŌNteaches: Conductor James Bagwell will dive into these works and share the stories behind the music in a special Zoom seminar on Thu, Feb 18 at 8 PM. Join the discussion at bard.zoom.us/j/81391418015.
James Bagwellconductor
Sarah HenniesFalling Together (World Premiere) Jonny Greenwood Popcorn Superhet Receiver Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Grieg Holberg Suite
Estimated run time: 1 hour and 45 minutesSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021
UPSTREAMING
A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.
Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914)
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)
Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
Online Event Join us as we celebrate and discuss the beauty of Black hair. This will be a moderated panel featuring a black celebrity barber and hair stylist.
Passcode: 028970
Sponsored by: Dean of Student Affairs; Professionals of Color Group.
Black Radical Feminisms & The Combahee River Collective with Alaya Carr
Rise Up Kingston celebrates Black History Month
Monday, February 22, 2021 7–10 pm
Online Event This workshop will largely focus on the Combahee River Collective and their legacy on politics, contemporary critical theory and within Black feminist thought. This workshop will also provide an overview of Black feminist thought and Black feminist histories from a transnational perspective. Check out Alaya’s Zine The Combahee River Collective Statement made in collaboration with Mutual Aid Books: http://bit.ly/CombaheeZine
Alaya Carr (they/she) is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University. They are currently living and working on Occupied Coast Salish and Duwamish land near Seattle, WA. They are passionate about books, environmental justice, PIC abolition, and bringing Black and Indigenous feminisms to the public. You can follow some of these efforts in action on Instagram/Twitter/Patreon @mutualaidbooks.
Covering all aspects of using Zoom from scheduling a meeting, adding it to your Google Calendar, holding and recording a Zoom meeting, using the chat room and displaying materials. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/81298535256.
Online Event Please join us for Shut Up & Sproj on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2:30 to 4:00 pm. Just click on https://bard.zoom.us/j/94131442602 to work quietly on your project in the virtual presence of other seniors. “Working on your project” means anything that pushes it forward. If you get stuck, not to worry. Jane Smith, associate director for library writing support, will be happy to meet with you in a breakout room to listen to your ideas and offer guidance.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Online Event Interested in learning more about debate at Bard? Stop by our weekly meeting to meet the coaches and current students, watch or participate in a practice debate, and learn about all that we do—tournaments, public debates, outreach, and more!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021
UPSTREAMING
A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.
Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914)
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)
Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.
The Bard College Center for Civic Engagement is pleased to announce faculty support grants for instructors from Bard International Network institutions not eligible for support from the Open Society University Network. Grants will be awarded for the 2020-21 academic year.
Eligible faculty may apply for grants in support of research and publishing projects as well as activities related to facilitating: -Student-led initiatives and civic engagement projects -Student volunteering -Student internships -Extra-curricular activities -Student scholarship including research, field work and conference participation -Summer opportunities for students, including summer academic programs -Public discourse through guest lectures, seminars, conferences, public debate and other events -Collaboration among the Bard International Network including joint courses, conferences, research and student projects
How to Apply
To apply, faculty should send short proposals (not longer than two pages) outlining planned activities for the 2020-21 academic year. Awards will be made based on the merit of proposals and commensurate to the amount of planned research/activities. Recipients will be required to regularly submit progress reports. Awards may not be transferred to any other participants, including students.
The proposals should be sent at civic@bard.edu by Tuesday, February 23, 2021. Please indicate “Faculty Support Grant” in the email subject line.
CLASP and the Global Debate Network: Debate in the Classroom
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 8:30–9:30 am
Online Event CLASP (Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences Pedagogy) and the Global Debate Network invite faculty from across the network to join us for an informal gathering to share experiences and expertise related to classroom debates. We welcome faculty who already use debates in their classes as well as those looking to learn more and/or give it a try for the first time.
We will discuss strategies for both in-person and virtual debates, ways to fit debate into the curriculum, as well as the various pedagogical functions of debate (public speaking, English as a second language, critical thinking, research, argument construction, analytic writing, etc.). The session will offer us the time to share pedagogical approaches as well as to learn more about the offerings of the OSUN Global Debate Network.
Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: The Color of Law
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 11 am – 12 pm
Online Event This event takes place at 11 am EST/10 am CST
OSUN and network partner Tuskegee University invite you to attend an online discussion with Benjamin Crump, nationally recognized trial lawyer for justice, on "The Color of Law."
This event is part of the Tuskegee University 2021 Black History Month Lecture Series, "Embracing Our Heritage and Continuing the Struggle."
This and all events in the series are online, unless specified otherwise. Join via Zoom.Sponsored by: Tuskegee University.
Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: COVID-19 and the African American Community
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 2–4 pm
Online Event OSUN and network partner Tuskegee University invite you to attend an online discussion on COVID-19 and the African American Community with panelists: Deloris Alexander, Crystal James, Rueben Warren, and Frank Lee
This event is part of the Tuskegee University 2021 Black History Month Lecture Series, “Embracing Our Heritage and Continuing the Struggle.”
This and all events in the series are online, unless specified otherwise. Join via Zoom.Sponsored by: Tuskegee University.
Webinar: Nadine Strossen and Richard Wilson on "Law and Hateful Speech: What Is to Be Done?"
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 3–4:30 pm
Online Event Please join the Bard Center for the Study of Hate on Tuesday February 23, 2021 at 3:00pm Eastern Time as we welcome Nadine Strossen, a professor at New York Law School, past president of the American Civil Liberties Union, and author of HATE: Why We Should Resist it with Free Speech, Not Censorship, and Richard Wilson, professor of law and anthropology at the University of Connecticut and the author of Incitement on Trial: Prosecuting International Speech Crimes. They will speak on “Law and hateful speech—what is to be done?”
Join via Zoom. Register here.Sponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Hate.
Online Event Seniors are invited to drop in to Sproj Clinic on Zoom 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 on the first and third Wednesdays from 3-4 pm and second and fourth Tuesdays from 4-5 pm. Can't make the clinic? Click here to request research help anytime.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
How The Pandemic Killed Freedom, Individualism, and Free Speech Along with 500,000 Americans.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Online Event The political and cultural response to Covid-19 will long outlast the disease itself. With few exceptions, the pandemic has accelerated and exacerbated trends that centralize economic and social power in fewer and fewer hands; massively increased the amount of our lives subject to often-arbitrary government regulation and rule; and ushered in a new age of censorial behavior. If we want a future that is open-ended, adventurous, and fun, we must embrace libertarian ideals of individual empowerment, permissionless innovation, and a commitment to pluralism.
Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason,the libertarian magazine of “Free Minds and Free Markets," where he hosts The Reason Interview, a weekly podcast that explores what comes next in politics, culture, and libertarian ideas.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Learn how to organize your files and folders, upload files/folders from your computer, make changes in documents without creating duplicates, highlight files/folders, add details to the properties of files/folders, and do advanced searches for files/folders. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82367998637.
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