CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Graduate Degree Recital: Joanne Evans, mezzo soprano, with collaborative pianist Chewon Park
Sunday, May 1, 2022 1–2:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Hailed as “a singer to watch” (Classical Voice America), London-born mezzo soprano Joanne Evans prides herself on her versatility in spanning various musical genres - and on her comedic timing. Of Joanne’s performance as Meg Page in Verdi’s Falstaf at Berkshire Opera Festival, Opera News wrote that her “striking personal timbre and refined artistry... made [for] a memorable Meg—not always an easy feat.” Joanne is excited to make her role debut as Olga in Eugene Onegin with Music Academy of the West this Summer, after which she will perform the roles of Maddalena in Rigoletto, and on tour as Stéphano in Romeo et Juliette as part of her role as Resident Artist with Opera Colorado. Joanne was recently named a winner of the Met Opera Competition Boston District, and was a finalist in the 2019 Harlem Opera Theatre competition. Elsewhere Joanne is credited as co-writer and vocalist of the theme song for the BBC show Pitch Battle (2017). www.joanne-evans.com
This event will also be live-streamed HERESponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Senior project writers are invited to drop in to the library from 2-4 for help with citations and formatting. Can't make it? Request an appointment with a librarian or stop by the Research Help Desk during posted hours. For more information, call 845-758-7064, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/library.
Refugee Access to Higher Education: Ethical Considerations, Barriers and Challenges
Monday, May 2, 2022 9–10:30 am
Online Event 9 am New York l 3 pm Vienna
We are seeing an increasing number of migrants and refugees globally. Institutions are grappling with how best to support and mitigate the situation. Join us for a discussion sponsored by Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and the Open Society University Network to learn how higher education institutions might overcome these challenges and provide equity for refugees who seek access to a college education.
Panelists:
Mark James Wood Research Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs working on the MIMC Project, MPA Candidate at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.
Oleksandr Shtokvych Head of OSUN Secretariat, Central European university and Co-Director, OSUN Threatened Scholars Integration Initiative
Rebecca Granato Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives, Bard College, Director of the Open Society University Network Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives.
Shahariar Sadat Director, Academic and Legal Empowerment, Centre for Peace and Justice, BRAC University
Janine Prantl Legal Fellow for the Global Strategic Litigation Council for Refugee Rights
Study Abroad 101: The Nuts and Bolts of Study Abroad at Bard
Monday, May 2, 2022 12–1 pm
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge ATTENTION SOPHOMORES: Want to study abroad for Spring 2023? Attend an Info Session, then schedule a 1:1 meeting with Study Abroad Adviser Trish Fleming at [email protected]. Deadlines for Spring programs arrive early in the Fall term, so start planning now.
WILL DISCUSS: - The Petition for Study Abroad process - Bard Abroad programs - Tuition Exchanges - New OSUN opportunities - Non-Bard programs - Summer programs - Financial Aid/Scholarships - Deadlines/timelines
COME SEE WHAT’S POSSIBLE!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
402; Stevenson Library Please join us in Stevenson Library 402 to work quietly in the supportive company of other Senior Project writers. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We've re-inaugurated the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially, students) of all religious backgrounds, and are now meeting weekly on Mondays at 5:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new (and exquisite) translation. Snacks will be provided! With Shai Secunda and Joshua Boettiger. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Join at any time, for any length of time! Monday: Guided meditation Thursday: Silent meditation
Monday, May 2, 2022 6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Monday 6:00-6:15 pm Meditation instruction & dharma teaching 6:15-6:45 pm Meditation for half an hour 6:45-7:00 pm Walking meditation & chanting Followed by sangha community time with tea and popcorn
Thursday 6:00-7:00 pm Meditation in stillness Followed by sangha community time with a simple bowl of riceSponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Anna Jones Memorial Garden This vigil will be hosted by the Afghan Club Hub to remember and honor the victims of recent events in Afghanistan and throughout the world. It will be an open space for all students grieving recent world events to join together in solidarity and support of each other. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesdays starting Feb. 22 with Licensed Massage Therapist, Christine Welker
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A 1 & 1/2 hour sessions available Bard students ($70), staff & faculty ($85) You can schedule with her by texting/calling 845-702-6751.
See poster for more details, including acupuncture. Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 9–10:30 am
Online Event 9 am New York l 3 pm Vienna
This discussion organized by the OSUN project on Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice, focuses on Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women by Kristen R. Ghodsee, University of Pennsylvania. Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism in Eastern Europe. By examining the revolutionary careers of five prominent socialist women active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—the aristocratic Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai; the radical pedagogue Nadezhda Krupskaya; the polyamorous firebrand Inessa Armand; the deadly sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko; and the partisan turned scientist turned global women’s activist Elena Lagadinova—Kristen Ghodsee tells the story of the personal challenges faced by earlier generations of socialist and communist women.
None of these women was a ‘perfect’ leftist. Their lives were filled with inner conflicts, contradictions, and sometimes outrageous privilege, but they still managed to move forward their own political projects through perseverance and dedication to their cause. Always walking a fine line between the need for class solidarity and the desire to force their sometimes callous male colleagues to take women’s issues seriously, these five women pursued novel solutions with lessons for today’s activists.
Kristen R. Ghodsee is an award-winning Professor of Russian and East European Studies and a member of the Graduate Group in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her articles and essays have also been translated into over twenty languages and have appeared in publications such as Dissent, Foreign Affairs, Jacobin, The Baffler, The New Republic, Quartz, NBC Think, The Lancet, Project Syndicate, Le Monde Diplomatique, Die Tageszeitung, The Washington Post, and the New York Times. She is also the author of eleven books, including: Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War (Duke University Press, 2019) and Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence (Bold Type Books, 2018 and 2020), which has already had fourteen international editions. Her most recent book is Taking Stock of the Shock: Social Impacts of the 1989 Revolutions, co-authored with Mitchell A. Orenstein and with Oxford University Press in 2021. She is also the host of the podcast, A.K. 47 - Forty-seven Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai.
This lecture series is jointly curated by faculty involved in Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice, an OSUN project that offers a sustainable platform for students and professors from network institutions to engage in rigorous academic work, express themselves freely, inspire each other through art, and work closely with local and international initiatives to further the feminist agenda for social justice.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 2–3 pm
Kappa House Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
Tuesdays at Kappa House, 2pm-3pmSponsored by: Health, Counseling, and Wellness.
Study Abroad 101: The Nuts and Bolts of Study Abroad at Bard
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 5–6 pm
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge ATTENTION SOPHOMORES: Want to study abroad for Spring 2023? Attend an Info Session, then schedule a 1:1 meeting with Study Abroad Adviser Trish Fleming at [email protected] Deadlines for Spring programs arrive early in the Fall term, so start planning now.
WILL DISCUSS: - The Petition for Study Abroad process - Bard Abroad programs - Tuition Exchanges - New OSUN opportunities - Non-Bard programs - Summer programs - Financial Aid/Scholarships - Deadlines/timelines
COME SEE WHAT’S POSSIBLE!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday in February by Appointment Wed- 12-2pm Friday 10-12pm Saturday 1-3pm
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Stevenson Athletic Center We are happy to provide this essential service to Bard students who need support with snacks, staple food items, and/or toiletries. Appointments are available on a weekly basis. Email [email protected] for the form.
Pantry Location: Stevenson Gymnasium. Ask the front desk for directions. Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Naked Agency / Protest: Between the Occult and the Internet
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 9–10:30 am
Online Event 9 am New York l 3 pm Vienna
The last two decades have registered an outstanding wave of naked protests globally. In Africa, the proliferation and hypervisibility of what is erroneously called "genital cursing" can be explained by multiple factors, including the power of the digital sphere and the intensification and multiplication of negative biopolitical conditions.
In this lecture, organized by the OSUN project on Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice, Naminata Diabate, Cornell University, traces the historical trajectory of mature women’s insurrectionary disrobing and examines its recent deployment during moments of socio-political duress. Diabate meditates on the impact of internet media to reframe the terms of the debate around women’s agency. As news and images of the gesture travel outside of their original site of performance, the women’s agency takes on new forms. Diverging, thus, from the longstanding logic that frames the women as endlessly empowered and empowering, Diabate proposes that we think of women's agency as naked, in the keys of instability and openness.
Naminata Diabate is an associate professor of comparative literature at Cornell University. A scholar of gender, sexuality, and race, drawing on archives of literary fiction, cinema, visual arts, and digital media, her most recent work has appeared in a monograph, peer-reviewed journals, and collections of essays, including Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (2020), Routledge Handbook of African Literature (2019), African Literature Today ALT 36 (2018), Critical Interventions (2017), Research in African Literatures (2016), and Fieldwork in the Humanities (2016). Her book, Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa was published by Duke University Press in 2020 and awarded the African Studies Association 2021 Best Book Prize. This year, she holds the Ali Mazrui Senior Research Fellowship at the Africa Institute of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, working on two monographs, “The Problem of Pleasure in Global Africa” and “Digital Insurgencies and Bodily Domains.”
This lecture series is jointly curated by faculty involved in Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice, an OSUN project that offers a sustainable platform for students and professors from network institutions to engage in rigorous academic work, express themselves freely, inspire each other through art, and work closely with local and international initiatives to further the feminist agenda for social justice.
A special session of Adhaar Desai’s Spring 2022 course at Bard College, “LIT 263: What is a Character?,” this open lecture will discuss the introduction to John Cheney-Lippold’s We Are Data (NYU, 2017) and relate it to conceptualizations of fictional character in contemporary fiction and cinema. As part of the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network’s “Reclaiming the Narrative Symposium,” the class will consider questions of agency, representation, and identity.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline Commons Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 1:30–3 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
A conversation with Nat Castañeda and Nariman El-Mofty from the Associated Press as a part of the EHCN Symposium “Reclaiming the Narrative.”
Nat Castañeda, Visual Storytelling Producer for the Enterprise and Investigations team for the Associated Press Nat Castañeda is a visual artist and journalist based in Denmark. Common issues in Castañeda’s work are the role of technology within narratives and the permanence of the historical record. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts and has shown at venues such as The High Line, El Museo del Barrio and Electronic Arts Intermix. Castañeda works at the Associated Press where she is a Visual Storytelling Producer for the Enterprise and Investigations team. She has contributed to projects on global migration and the civil war in Yemen, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2018. Castañeda’s photography has appeared in the New York Times, U.S. News & World Report and USA Today.
Nariman El-Mofty, photojournalist for the Associated Press based in Cairo, Egypt After five years photo editing in addition to photographing for the Associated Press Middle East photo desk, Nariman became a staff photojournalist. She tells compelling visual stories in the region – on subjects ranging from the antiquities of Egypt, Arab Spring protests, the annual Hajj in 2016, migration, and the horrors of wars. El-Mofty has covered Yemen, with a sensitive eye for portraiture that highlights the humanity of people struggling to survive amid a society in collapse. In 2019, she was part of an Associated Press team that won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for work uncovering the effects of Yemen's devastating war. She also received the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award for her Yemen photo reportage. She was awarded the Robert Capa citation for excellence for “Disembarking in Hell” on the dangerous journey of Ethiopian migrants – crossing the sea to Yemen and then making their way to Saudi Arabia. In 2020 she travelled to the Sudanese-Ethiopian border to document the Tigray people who take shelter by the thousands within sight of the homeland they fled in northern Ethiopia and was awarded the citation in the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for “Fleeing War.” The work was also exhibited in the International Festival of Photojournalism 2021 in Perpignan ‘Visa pour l'image.’
A conversation with Nat Castañeda and Nariman El-Mofty from the Associated Press as a part of the EHCN Symposium “Reclaiming the Narrative.”
Nat Castañeda, Visual Storytelling Producer for the Enterprise and Investigations team for the Associated Press Nat Castañeda is a visual artist and journalist based in Denmark. Common issues in Castañeda’s work are the role of technology within narratives and the permanence of the historical record. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts and has shown at venues such as The High Line, El Museo del Barrio and Electronic Arts Intermix. Castañeda works at the Associated Press where she is a Visual Storytelling Producer for the Enterprise and Investigations team. She has contributed to projects on global migration and the civil war in Yemen, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2018. Castañeda’s photography has appeared in the New York Times, U.S. News & World Report and USA Today.
Nariman El-Mofty, photojournalist for the Associated Press based in Cairo, Egypt After five years photo editing in addition to photographing for the Associated Press Middle East photo desk, Nariman became a staff photojournalist. She tells compelling visual stories in the region – on subjects ranging from the antiquities of Egypt, Arab Spring protests, the annual Hajj in 2016, migration, and the horrors of wars. El-Mofty has covered Yemen, with a sensitive eye for portraiture that highlights the humanity of people struggling to survive amid a society in collapse. In 2019, she was part of an Associated Press team that won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for work uncovering the effects of Yemen's devastating war. She also received the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award for her Yemen photo reportage. She was awarded the Robert Capa citation for excellence for “Disembarking in Hell” on the dangerous journey of Ethiopian migrants – crossing the sea to Yemen and then making their way to Saudi Arabia. In 2020 she travelled to the Sudanese-Ethiopian border to document the Tigray people who take shelter by the thousands within sight of the homeland they fled in northern Ethiopia and was awarded the citation in the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for “Fleeing War.” The work was also exhibited in the International Festival of Photojournalism 2021 in Perpignan ‘Visa pour l'image.’
The Keith Haring Lecture in Art and Activism: Constantina Zavistanos
Introduced by Evan Calder Williams, Associate Professor, CCS Bard This event will have ASL and open captions. In order to receive a Zoom link, registration is required in advance on Eventbrite here.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 5–7 pm
Online Event Constantina Zavitsanos (Keith Haring Fellow 2021-22) is a conceptual artist who works in sculpture, performance, text, and sound. Zavitsanos’s work elaborates what is invaluable in the re/production of debt, dependency, and other shared resources.
Their work questions how incapacity and the seemingly inconsequential performances of social life might exceed the threshold of measure. Zavitsanos’s practice celebrates disability and debt as difference beyond separability and works to reveal the false opposition of dependency and autonomy––a myth often used to reinforce scarcity (for the many) amid abundance (for the few). Yet, distribution itself has many forms: from the art historical takeaway, to the ubiquitously popular giveaway, from the solution of making a way, to the dissolution of making no way and living in means without ends. Zavitsanos’s work stays with this means beyond measure to deny measurement its claims on life at large (and small).
L&D Motel, their solo show at PARTICIPANT INC, New York, NY (2019), formally experimented with the holographic principle of quantum gravity through an installation that was built into the architecture of the gallery and which sculpted low frequency laser waves and infrasonic sound waves by feel. The exhibition foregrounded non-visual knowledge through participants’ experiences of touch and vibration. Zavitsanos has exhibited and performed in New York at the New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, The Kitchen, Artists Space, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA PS1, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Essex Street, and elsewhere in the U.S. at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH and Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT. They have exhibited and performed internationally at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin, Germany; Tramway in Glasgow, Scotland; Artspeak in Vancouver, Canada; Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg in Fribourg and the Gebert Stiftung für Kultur in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland; and the Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
With Park McArthur, they co-authored texts for Women and Performance: The Journal of Feminist Theory (Routledge, 2013), and Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (MIT Press, 2017). Zavitsanos was a New Museum Research and Development Season: SPECULATION Artist-in-Residence (2015) and was awarded the Wynn Newhouse Award (2015). They were a visiting artist at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2017).
With others in New York’s disability community, Zavitsanos co-organized the cross-disability arts festival, I wanna be with you everywhere, at Performance Space New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Zavitsanos holds an M.F.A. from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia and a B.F.A. from Millersville University and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program.
Zavitsanos was the 2021 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Art’s Roy Lichtenstein Award.
Learn MoreSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Albee Come to Albee Basement (Chaplaincy) to knit or to learn how to knit. Everyone is welcome and materials are provided. We hope to knit Compassion Shawls to give out to those in our community who need comfort and support.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center Our wellness team will have a variety of activities on a weekly basis for you, so stop by the Campus Center for snacks, fun, and a relaxing time. Co-sponsored by Peer Health, the Wellness Club, Brave OISSS, Council for Inclusive Excellence, Student Resouce Coordinators, and Gender Equity.Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Professor Robert Alter Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 5:30–7 pm
Olin, Room 102 and How to Read Biblical Narrative 2:30pm, May 1, 2022 Sixth Street Community Synagogue, New York City
Professor Robert Alter has written widely on the European novel from the eighteenth century to the present, on American fiction, and on modern Hebrew literature. He has also written extensively on literary aspects of the Bible. His twenty-eight published books include two prize-winning volumes on biblical narrative and poetry and award-winning translations of Genesis and of the Five Books of Moses. Among his publications over the past thirty years are Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem (1991), Canon and Creativity (2000), The Five Book of Moses: A Translation with Commentary (2004), Imagined Cities (2005), The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (2007), Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible (2010),The Wisdom Books: A Translation with Commentary (2010), The Art of Bible Translation (2019), and Nabokov and the Real World 2021). His completed translation of the Hebrew Bible with a commentary was published in 2018 in a three-volume set. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, and is past president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. He has twice been a Guggenheim Fellow, has been a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, and Old Dominion Fellow at Princeton University. Professor Alter is Professor of the Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967.
Sponsored by: Neusner Memorial Lecture Fund, Hebrew, Jewish Studies, and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline Commons Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline Commons Please note: Now inside Kline faculty dining area.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 – Thursday, May 5, 2022 6–8 pm
New Annandale House An exhibition of work curated and created by Bard students Kimbrielle Boult, Sahar Carter, Dana Debro, Emma Deutsch, Valentina Flores, Rasheeda Graham, Diana McCready, Sydney Oshuna, Lowell Thomas, and Immanuel Williams in collaboration with artist Natasha Marin.
May 4–9 at Campus Center Gallery Photography by Lowell Thomas and Rasheeda Graham Blacktivations Catalogue by Emma Deutsch
May 4 at New Annandale House Opening Ritual, 6-8 pm Performance by Kimbrielle Boult Installation by Dana Debro and Sydney Oshuna
May 5 at New Annandale House Closing Ritual 6-8 pm Installation by Dana Debro and Sydney Oshuna Interactive Performance by Diana McCready, Valentina Flores, Sahar Carter, and Immanuel WilliamsSponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network; Experimental Humanities Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Join at any time, for any length of time! Monday: Guided meditation Thursday: Silent meditation
Thursday, May 5, 2022 6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Monday 6:00-6:15 pm Meditation instruction & dharma teaching 6:15-6:45 pm Meditation for half an hour 6:45-7:00 pm Walking meditation & chanting Followed by sangha community time with tea and popcorn
Thursday 6:00-7:00 pm Meditation in stillness Followed by sangha community time with a simple bowl of riceSponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 – Thursday, May 5, 2022 6–8 pm
New Annandale House An exhibition of work curated and created by Bard students Kimbrielle Boult, Sahar Carter, Dana Debro, Emma Deutsch, Valentina Flores, Rasheeda Graham, Diana McCready, Sydney Oshuna, Lowell Thomas, and Immanuel Williams in collaboration with artist Natasha Marin.
May 4–9 at Campus Center Gallery Photography by Lowell Thomas and Rasheeda Graham Blacktivations Catalogue by Emma Deutsch
May 4 at New Annandale House Opening Ritual, 6-8 pm Performance by Kimbrielle Boult Installation by Dana Debro and Sydney Oshuna
May 5 at New Annandale House Closing Ritual 6-8 pm Installation by Dana Debro and Sydney Oshuna Interactive Performance by Diana McCready, Valentina Flores, Sahar Carter, and Immanuel WilliamsSponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network; Experimental Humanities Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, May 5, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center To make an appointment or for more information, contact Andrew Reid at 845-704-7729 or email [email protected].
• You must make an appointment • Pre-screening and counseling will be done prior to the appointment by phone • You must answer a COVID-19 health survey before your appointment (given by HVCS tester)Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
The Politics of Language and Translation: Reflections from the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Ahmad Ayyad (Al-Quds Bard College, Occupied Palestine)
Thursday, May 5, 2022 5–6:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium This event is part of the BTTI Symposium. Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7391, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, students meet with Joshua Boettiger (Bard's rabbi) to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat) they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Hall Come hear the students of the Jazz Vocal Workshop perform their annual spring selection of jazz standards and new jazz sounds.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday in February by Appointment Wed- 12-2pm Friday 10-12pm Saturday 1-3pm
Friday, May 6, 2022
Stevenson Athletic Center We are happy to provide this essential service to Bard students who need support with snacks, staple food items, and/or toiletries. Appointments are available on a weekly basis. Email [email protected] for the form.
Pantry Location: Stevenson Gymnasium. Ask the front desk for directions. Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Please join us for a full day of events all centered around translation—from student panels, to guest speakers, to the keynote address by Wyatt Mason, Seasons and Castles: Rimbaud Retranslated (5 pm, RKC 103).
All events will take place in RKC 103, 200, and 102.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-7391, or e-mail [email protected].
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Friday, May 6, 2022 12–1 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
Fridays, 12pm-1pm at the Bito ConservatorySponsored by: Health, Counseling, and Wellness.
Measuring Waves of Gravity from Across the Universe with Laser Interferometery
Joshua Smith, California State University-Fullerton
Friday, May 6, 2022 12–1 pm
Hegeman 107 Albert Einstein predicted gravitational waves in 1916, as a consequence of his general relativity theory. A century later, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) began observing these waves from merging systems of black holes and neutron stars. These observations cemented relativity theory and inaugurated an era of gravitational-wave multi-messenger astronomy.
LIGO and its partners are just sensitive enough to measure the strongest gravitational waves. Cosmic Explorer (CE) is a next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave observatory envisioned to begin operations in the 2030s. With its spectacular sensitivity, CE will peer deeply into the universe’s dark side — observing gravitational waves from remnants of the first stars — and open a wide discovery aperture to the novel and unknown. Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Bard College’s Case Manager Amy Tirado will host regular office hours on Fridays from 12-2 pm via Zoom.
Amy works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can join the Zoom anytime between 12-2 pm.
Putting the Cooker on Low: A Digital Commission by Ama Josephine Budge
Friday, May 6, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Online Event Join us for the launch of Putting the Cooker on Low, a new Digital Commission by Ama Josephine Budge. Ama was the 2020/21 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism at Bard, and we are honored to welcome her back to premiere her new video. Ama is a British-Ghanaian speculative writer, artist, researcher and pleasure activist whose intradisciplinary praxis works to hold together Blackness, pleasure, art and ecology towards queerly climate changing futures.
Putting the Cooker on Low explores the daily rituals that allow Black women, femmes, and nonbinary folk to keep creating in the midst of spiritual, emotional, familial, societal, and ecological crises. Putting the Cooker on Low intimates that which happens in the simmer and bubble, on the back burner and the top oven, in the side eye and the hot pot. Thinking with an ancestry of Black feminist petitions for self-preservation, this visual essay works to make visible and then unsettle the ways in which Black womxn artists internalize value-(as)-labor-(as)-capital. The cracks, crevasses, and slippages these antierotic modes of survival engender—as felt by both human and nonhuman ecologies—remain forced from view until they become black holes, into which we are swallowed and disappear. Often without a trace. It is with the cooker on low, that resistance might reduce into potency. It is with the cooker on low that we never run out of gas.
New York's Pathbreaking Climate Law: Learn and Send in Comments to Law Makers!
Friday, May 6, 2022 12:15–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Room 102 New York has some of the most ambitious climate goals in the world: 70% renewable electricity by 2030, 85% reduction in global warming pollution by 2050. The details are now out and open for public comment. So come comment! We'll talk about the law and explore a public comment tool built by Bardians to make it very easy to support climate action. Lots of people will be commenting in opposition, so if you want climate action, come learn how to express yourself.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space This event will also be live-streamed - https://youtu.be/nniunQNP3Fk Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, and then a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space This event will also be live-streamed - https://youtu.be/-XocKe4f6XMSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Spring FlingFriday, May 6, 2022 – Saturday, May 7, 2022
Interference
Saturday, May 7, 2022 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday in February by Appointment Wed- 12-2pm Friday 10-12pm Saturday 1-3pm
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Stevenson Athletic Center We are happy to provide this essential service to Bard students who need support with snacks, staple food items, and/or toiletries. Appointments are available on a weekly basis. Email [email protected] for the form.
Pantry Location: Stevenson Gymnasium. Ask the front desk for directions. Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Soccer Field Calling all Men's Soccer alumni/ae: Join coach TJ Kostecky for an alumni/ae game on campus! We hope to see you back in Annandale. If you did not receive the email invitation with full details, please email [email protected] and we will share it.Sponsored by: Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
Website Children, youth, adults, and seniors will certainly find something fun with live music, children’s games, unique vendors, and delicious local food.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Honey Field The baseball team hosts Rochester Institute of Technology in a crucial best-of-three series to determine who will go to the Liberty League playoffs. If a third game is necessary to determine the winner of the series, it will be played on Sunday at noon.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, or e-mail [email protected].
Graduate Degree Recital: Samantha Martin, soprano with Collaborative Pianist Elias Dagher
with Elias Dagher, piano
Saturday, May 7, 2022 3–4:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Samantha Martin is a second year in Bard College Conservatory’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program, where she studies with Edith Bers and Lucy Fitz Gibbon. An avid supporter of new music, Samantha has premiered and performed works by numerous contemporary composers, including Sheila Silver, Clarice Assad, Michael Csányi-Wills, Daron Hagen, Julianna Hall, John Musto, Györgi Kurtág, Libby Larsen, James Mobberly, and George Crumb. She has also work-shopped and performed in the world premiere of Tom Cipullo’s opera, Mayo, as Miss Goodrich and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. She will be performing works by Lanie Fefferman and Daniel Schlosberg in the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Festival Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today. This summer, Samantha will be interning with the chorus of Bard Summerscape’s 2022 Die Schweigsame Frau. Additional opera credits include Lauretta in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Buoso’s Ghost by Michael Ching and Laurie in Copland’s The Tender Land. She was also a featured recitalist at the 2021 Bard Music Festival’s Nadia Boulanger and her World. Named a winner in the Bard Conservatory’s 2020 Concerto Competition, she will appear with The Orchestra Now in September 2022 performing George Walker’s Lilacs. During her time at Bard, she also appeared in the Bard Vocal Arts Program’s production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium as Monica and Leoš Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen as Kohout. Samantha received her Bachelor of Music majoring in Voice Performance and Music Business from the State University of New York at Potsdam. In her downtime, Samantha enjoys playing the viola and trying new pescatarian recipes with all of the fresh vegetables that the Hudson Valley has to offer.
This event will also be live-streamed HERESponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Graduate Degree Recital: Melanie Dubil, mezzo-soprano, with Collaborative Pianist Chewon Park
Saturday, May 7, 2022 7–8:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space This event will also be live-streamed -https://youtu.be/DaZOKADGrywSponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Leon Botstein unearths more rarely-heard masterpieces in this concert spotlighting works from the late 1930s, including William Grant Still’s evocative portrait of enslaved people taking refuge while seeking freedom, and Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s commentary on conditions under the Nazi regime. These works are performed alongside Carlos Chávez’s virtuosic Piano Concerto and Witold Lutosławski’s adventurous Symphonic Variations.
Leon Botsteinconductor Gilles Vonsattelpiano Deborah Nansteel mezzo-soprano Frank Corliss piano
William Grant StillDismal Swamp Carlos Chávez Piano Concerto Witold Lutosławski Symphonic Variations Karl Amadeus Hartmann Symphony No. 1, Essay for a Requiem
Join us on the portico outside the Fisher Center starting at 1 PM on Sunday, May 8 for a celebratory end-of-season reception! Open to all ticket holders.
Spring FlingFriday, May 6, 2022 – Saturday, May 7, 2022
Interference
Sunday, May 8, 2022 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Leon Botstein unearths more rarely-heard masterpieces in this concert spotlighting works from the late 1930s, including William Grant Still’s evocative portrait of enslaved people taking refuge while seeking freedom, and Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s commentary on conditions under the Nazi regime. These works are performed alongside Carlos Chávez’s virtuosic Piano Concerto and Witold Lutosławski’s adventurous Symphonic Variations.
Leon Botsteinconductor Gilles Vonsattelpiano Deborah Nansteel mezzo-soprano Frank Corliss piano
William Grant StillDismal Swamp Carlos Chávez Piano Concerto Witold Lutosławski Symphonic Variations Karl Amadeus Hartmann Symphony No. 1, Essay for a Requiem
Join us on the portico outside the Fisher Center starting at 1 PM on Sunday, May 8 for a celebratory end-of-season reception! Open to all ticket holders.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space “God should have made girls lethal when he made monsters of men.” - Elisabeth Hewer
A femme fatale (literally "fatal woman"), sometimes called a man-eater or vamp, is a mystic character that is a beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms trap her lovers, often leading them into compromising, deadly circumstances. An archetype of literature and art. Her ability to enchant, entice and hypnotize her victim with a spell was in the earliest stories seen as verging on supernatural; hence, the femme fatale today is still often described as having a power akin to an enchantress, seductress, witch, having power over men. Femmes fatales are typically villainous, or at least morally ambiguous, and always associated with a sense of mystification, and unease. This projects tracks the course of the making of a femme fatale through a non-linear fashion: Innocence, Growing Up, Vulnerability, Betrayal, Revenge and the process of Healing.
Soprano Alexis Seminario is a second year student in the Graduate VAP. Operatic roles include Forester’s Wife (The Cunning Little Vixen), Monica (The Medium), Atalanta (Xerxes), Lusya (Moscow Cheryomushki), Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). In 2021, Alexis was an Apprentice at Bard SummerScape and was a featured soloist in the Bard Music Festival. In summer 2022, Alexis will be an Apprentice Artist with Des Moines Metro Opera covering the role of Rose in the premiere of A Thousand Acres. Alexis is an alum of Houston Grand Opera: YAVA. In April, Alexis appeared as the Soprano Soloist in Brahms Requiem with The Orchestra Now (TŌN.)
This event will also be live-streamed HERESponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Graduate Degree Recital: Sarah Rauch, mezzo-soprano, with Collaborative Pianist Elias Dagher
“A Box Full of Darkness”
Sunday, May 8, 2022 7–8:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
“A Box Full of Darkness” is a program exploring the experience of loss, and its transformation into the beauty of hope and connection. Taking inspiration from Mary Oliver’s poem “The Uses of Sorrow”, mezzo-soprano Sarah Rauch and pianist Elias Dagher curated this musical journey for the audience to reflect on their own emotional experiences amidst a world suffering profound losses and grief. The program includes music by composers Jake Heggie, Viktor Ullman, Enrique Truán, Joaquin Rodrigo, and Ruth Schonthal, among others; and features cellist Lily Moerschel and harpist Taylor Fleshman.
Mezzo-soprano Sarah Rauch (she/they) is a wholehearted and versatile performer whose musical explorations center on creating meaningfully connective performances. Sarah is a strong advocate for contemporary and under-performed repertoire, as well as the re-examination of narratives found within the traditional canon. Recent projects have included the curation and performance of the digital-release concert “I Bear Your Colors” - a program celebrating the unique relationships between queer women though American art song and chamber music - as well as performance of excerpts from György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragmente in collaboration with musicians from The Orchestra Now. Sarah was a featured recitalist in 2021 with ENY-NATS as the winner of their collegiate division art song competition, and is currently engaged as a teaching artist with ROK (Reimagining Opera for Kids), bringing opera to schools and community spaces. Other operatic credits include the Frog and Woodpecker in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts; Anna 1 in Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins and Toby in Giancarlo Menotti’s The Medium with Bard’s Vocal Arts Program; Zweite Dame in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Bloomington Chamber Opera; and Isolier in Rossini’s Le Comte Ory with Chicago Summer Opera. A native of southeastern Ohio, Sarah holds a Bachelor’s degree in voice from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and is completing her second year in Bard’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program. For more information, please visit sarahcrauch.com.
This event will also be live-streamed HERE Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We've re-inaugurated the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially, students) of all religious backgrounds, and are now meeting weekly on Mondays at 5:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new (and exquisite) translation. Snacks will be provided! With Shai Secunda and Joshua Boettiger. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Join at any time, for any length of time! Monday: Guided meditation Thursday: Silent meditation
Monday, May 9, 2022 6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Monday 6:00-6:15 pm Meditation instruction & dharma teaching 6:15-6:45 pm Meditation for half an hour 6:45-7:00 pm Walking meditation & chanting Followed by sangha community time with tea and popcorn
Thursday 6:00-7:00 pm Meditation in stillness Followed by sangha community time with a simple bowl of riceSponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Please join us for events on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday that reflect on the cultural politics of naming. All event information and zoom links are included in the attached PDF.Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hegeman 204A Then first you'll have to construct the table, which game regulations insist must pass through five given points. When you're done with that I’ll pick N<10, and to beat me you have to shoot the ball (from wherever I put it) so it returns in exactly N steps to where it started.
If you're not put off by a vector space of polynomials, you can make the elliptic table; and if you know how to spot a complex torus, then (with practice and foci) you can win. This is how I trap unsuspecting students into learning a bit of algebraic geometry.
Because the real title of this talk is: two theorems on conics in the plane!Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: An Analysis of the Origins and Potential Outcomes of Putin’s Barbaric Military Campaign
Monday, May 9, 2022 4:30–6 pm
Henderson 106 In February 2022, Russia launched an unprovoked, genocidal attack against the Ukrainian people. This lecture will review the origins of the conflict, how the United States and our NATO allies are likely to respond and what possible outcomes are on the horizon.
Scott Licamele ’91 is a Russia expert with over 20 years of experience dealing in the former Soviet Union. He has worked in various Russia-related capacities, including capital markets (at Sberbank CIB, Troika Dialog, and Alfa Bank) and government-related activities (at an NGO in Russia which was funded by the United States Information Agency in the 1990s). Licamele has lived and worked in Russia and Ukraine for seven years and is fluent in Russian. He is a graduate of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he studied Russian political economy. He received his BA in European History at Bard College. Licamele is currently unaffiliated with any Russia-related business or political entities.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program; Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-7084, or e-mail [email protected].
Reem-Kayden Center Come see what students in Experimental Humanities classes have been working on this semester!Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesdays starting Feb. 22 with Licensed Massage Therapist, Christine Welker
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A 1 & 1/2 hour sessions available Bard students ($70), staff & faculty ($85) You can schedule with her by texting/calling 845-702-6751.
See poster for more details, including acupuncture. Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 2–3 pm
Kappa House Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
Tuesdays at Kappa House, 2pm-3pmSponsored by: Health, Counseling, and Wellness.
Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Please join us for events on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday that reflect on the cultural politics of naming. All event information and zoom links are included in the attached PDF.Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium A screening of a series of short films narrating stories of Mexican oral tradition from 68 different Indigenous languages, traditions, and hearts. The series seeks to represent the richness of Indigenous communities and to promote their languages.Sponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability - May 2022 Online Info Session
**$65 application fee waiver available to webinar participants!** Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
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.
Learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session.
WHAT WE COVER:
Overview of graduate program offerings
Alumni success and career outcomes
Admissions information
Prerequisite course information
Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
Financial aid and scholarships
Tips for a standout application
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday in February by Appointment Wed- 12-2pm Friday 10-12pm Saturday 1-3pm
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Stevenson Athletic Center We are happy to provide this essential service to Bard students who need support with snacks, staple food items, and/or toiletries. Appointments are available on a weekly basis. Email [email protected] for the form.
Pantry Location: Stevenson Gymnasium. Ask the front desk for directions. Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline Commons Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 1:30–3 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Albee Come to Albee Basement (Chaplaincy) to knit or to learn how to knit. Everyone is welcome and materials are provided. We hope to knit Compassion Shawls to give out to those in our community who need comfort and support.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center Our wellness team will have a variety of activities on a weekly basis for you, so stop by the Campus Center for snacks, fun, and a relaxing time. Co-sponsored by Peer Health, the Wellness Club, Brave OISSS, Council for Inclusive Excellence, Student Resouce Coordinators, and Gender Equity.Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline Commons Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline Commons Please note: Now inside Kline faculty dining area.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Please join us for events on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday that reflect on the cultural politics of naming. All event information and zoom links are included in the attached PDF.Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
OSUN Student Conference on Public Service Employment Programs
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 9:30–11:30 am
Online Event
9:30 am New York l 3:30 pm Vienna
Students from the OSUN network will present and discuss real-world public service employment programs that have aspired to answer the call of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 23, stating that all people have “the right to work, to free choice of employment, and to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.”
Join OSUN students from Al-Quds Bard College (Palestine), American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan), and Bard College (USA) in this important conversation.
The Cultural Politics of Naming Symposium Virtual Forum
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 10–11:30 am
Online Event The Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network invites students from across OSUN to attend a virtual forum where students from American University of Central Asia, University of Thessaly, Bard College Annandale, and Bard College Berlin share the stories of their names. Readings are followed by small group discussions and finally an open forum in which students share their reflections with the group.
A Polynomial Generalization of Binomial Coefficients
Andrew Schultz, Wellesley College
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 12–1 pm
Hegeman 204A Binomial coefficients are a staple in the world of combinatorics. Their usefulness in enumeration is nearly unparalleled, but their humble beginnings belie intricate structure and surprising depth. In the pursuit of understanding binomial coefficients more completely, one can encode them in a family of polynomials called Gaussian coefficients. Do these Gaussian coefficients have their own structure and depth? In this talk we'll introduce the Gaussian coefficients and see some surprising ways in which they are (almost!) as nice as their more famous brethren (and maybe a way or two in which they are even nicer).Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
With pianists Elias Dagher and Sindy Yang, and Juan Diego Mora, cuatro and pian
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 4–5:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Works by Bach, Guastavino, Price, Bor, Valderrama, and Lopez To attend in person, bring proof of vaccination and a mask!
Mutual Benefit: The Secret Sauce of Reciprocal Partnerships
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 6–8 pm
Online Event 5/11, 6:00 pm New York | 5/12 12:00 am Vienna
CommUniversity presents “Mutual Benefit: The Secret Sauce of Reciprocal Partnerships.”
CommUniversity welcomes the University of Technology Sydney Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion as they share insights about key approaches to developing long-term partnerships that have real impact across multiple contexts. Their approach has proven vital through the disrupted COVID period and has allowed the Centre to be quick to adapt and to take meaningful community engaged action in response to a crisis. Join us to learn about their approach to creating long-term sustainable positive change.
The CommUniversity 2022 workshop series, organized by OSUN and the Talloires Network, showcases community-university engaged research and learning to support engaged scholars seeking to address the following questions:
How do engaged scholars collaborate with communities to co-design and implement engagement programs?
In what ways do community members contribute to the engaged scholarship?
In what ways does engaged scholarship contribute to building civic values and skills for students?
How might engaged scholarship impact students’ choices about career path or future involvement in their community?
To what extend has the engagement program positively affected the community?
How does one assess engaged scholarship?
How do engaged scholars present their achievements at the time of promotion or career transition?
In what ways are universities adapting internal review processes to reward engaged scholarship?
What are the key elements for a successful long-term university-community partnership?
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Join at any time, for any length of time! Monday: Guided meditation Thursday: Silent meditation
Thursday, May 12, 2022 6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Monday 6:00-6:15 pm Meditation instruction & dharma teaching 6:15-6:45 pm Meditation for half an hour 6:45-7:00 pm Walking meditation & chanting Followed by sangha community time with tea and popcorn
Thursday 6:00-7:00 pm Meditation in stillness Followed by sangha community time with a simple bowl of riceSponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, May 12, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, students meet with Joshua Boettiger (Bard's rabbi) to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat) they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Please join us for events on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday that reflect on the cultural politics of naming. All event information and zoom links are included in the attached PDF.Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room At this evening event attendees can speak with students about the civic engagement projects they have developed during the semester.
Projects in include: War Poetry Slam, Musical Mentorship Initiative, The Earth's Tomorrow Foundation, Engaged Liberal Arts and Science classes, OSUN courses, TLS projects and STEAM Student Teams, among many others.
There will also be a spotlight on certain projects, featuring video clips and even a tango performance! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Songs, Arias, and Ensembles "Songs for the Unbeaten Path"
Thursday, May 12, 2022 7–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Singers and Pianists of the Graduate Conservatory Programs present songs, arias, and ensembles in support of Unbeaten Path, an organization based in Lviv that has been operating in the field of culture, education and inclusion since 2001.
Nepoptana Stezhyna (Unbeaten Path) is an aid organization in Lviv in Western Ukraine. They are an umbrella organization that runs the annual Lviv Bandurfest bandura festival and an arts service organization. Their space has been transformed to now also shelter and assist refugees from the eastern oblasts. English language site detailing their work since war broke out: HOME | Unbeaten Path (stezhyna.org.ua) Ukrainian language site that reflects pre-war programming, and some of what has continued since Feb 24th: Unbeaten Path (stezhyna.com)
To donate to our efforts to support them, please venmo @Teryn-Kuzma This event will also be live-streamed - https://youtu.be/6NMWfdoChWA Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Senior Projects in Dance and Multidisciplinary Studies
Thursday, May 12, 2022 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Leslie Morales Jude Markey-Smith Rose Xu
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday in February by Appointment Wed- 12-2pm Friday 10-12pm Saturday 1-3pm
Friday, May 13, 2022
Stevenson Athletic Center We are happy to provide this essential service to Bard students who need support with snacks, staple food items, and/or toiletries. Appointments are available on a weekly basis. Email [email protected] for the form.
Pantry Location: Stevenson Gymnasium. Ask the front desk for directions. Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Friday, May 13, 2022 12–1 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
Fridays, 12pm-1pm at the Bito ConservatorySponsored by: Health, Counseling, and Wellness.
Online Event Bard College’s Case Manager Amy Tirado will host regular office hours on Fridays from 12-2 pm via Zoom.
Amy works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can join the Zoom anytime between 12-2 pm.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, and then a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Please join us for events on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday that reflect on the cultural politics of naming. All event information and zoom links are included in the attached PDF.Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Blum Hall Featuring: LEO CRONAN-COUNTERTENOR GARRICK NEUNER- BASS/BARITONE LEXI LANNI-SOPRANO RYAN MICHKI- TENOR ERIKA SWITZER- PIANOSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Senior Projects in Dance and Multidisciplinary Studies
Friday, May 13, 2022 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Leslie Morales Jude Markey-Smith Rose Xu
Senior Projects in Dance and Multidisciplinary Studies
Friday, May 13, 2022 7:30–8:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Leslie Morales Jude Markey-Smith Rose Xu
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday in February by Appointment Wed- 12-2pm Friday 10-12pm Saturday 1-3pm
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Stevenson Athletic Center We are happy to provide this essential service to Bard students who need support with snacks, staple food items, and/or toiletries. Appointments are available on a weekly basis. Email [email protected] for the form.
Pantry Location: Stevenson Gymnasium. Ask the front desk for directions. Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Senior Projects in Dance and Multidisciplinary Studies
Saturday, May 14, 2022 2–3 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Leslie Morales Jude Markey-Smith Rose Xu
Four Corners Community Farm, 324 Budds Corners Rd, Red Hook Come out to Four Corners Community Farm on Saturday, May 14 to celebrate springtime with food, local live music, crafts, workshops, gardening demos, a plant sale and more! All events are free and open to the public. Proceeds from the plant sale go to support the Mill Road Elementary School (Red Hook) garden program. Rain date Sunday, May 15. Let's get growing!Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard Farm; Bard Office of Sustainability.
Ludlow Lawn Cetiliztli Nauhcampa is a cultural, spiritual, artistic, political, and educational circle made up of community and family members who carry on the ancient traditions of the Native peoples of this continent.
Join us for an outdoor ceremonial performance on May 14 at 3 pm on the Ludlow Lawn.
For more information, please email Professor Yebel Gallegos at [email protected].Sponsored by: Dance Program; Office of Equity and Inclusion.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Senior Projects in Dance and Multidisciplinary Studies
Saturday, May 14, 2022 7:30–8:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Leslie Morales Jude Markey-Smith Rose Xu
Senior Projects in Dance and Multidisciplinary Studies
Saturday, May 14, 2022 7:30–8:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Leslie Morales Jude Markey-Smith Rose Xu
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra, Leon Botstein, music director, presents their final concert of the academic year. All proceeds benefit the Bard College Conservatory of Music Scholarship Fund.
Franz LisztMazeppa – Symphonic Tone Poem No. 6, with Andres Rivas, conductor
Maurice RavelSchéhérezade with James Bagwell, conductor, Hailey McAvoy, mezzo soprano (VAP Concerto Competition winner)
Mykola Lysenko Overture to Taras Bulba with Leon Botstein, conductor
Brahms Symphony No. 2 with Leon Botstein, conductor
This performance is given in support of the Ulster Immigrant Defense Network and all of the work that they do for immigrants in our community.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space The Bard Chinese Ensemble presents a selection of traditional and new music for Chinese and Western instruments, with original compositions and arrangements by Chinese Ensemble director Chen Tao.
PROGRAM
The Long Tune (Mongolian Suite No. 1) Chen Tao
Mongolian (Mongolian Suite No. 2) Tengger Arr. Chen Tao
Toast Song & Chopstick Dance (Mongolian Suite No. 3) Chen Tao
Moon Reflecting in the Er-Quan Pond A Bing Arr. by Pen Xiu-Wen Re-arr. by Chen Tao
Melody of Raiment of Rainbows Jiang-Nan Silk & Bamboo music Arr. by Chen Tao
Arkansas Traveler Arr. by Chen Tao
At the Frontier Classical music Arr. by Zhang Da-Sen Re-arr. by Chen Tao
Bard Conservatory events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community. All visitors must demonstrate proof of vaccination to attend in person. ABOUT THE ENSEMBLE
The Bard Chinese Ensemble is composed of the Conservatory’s Chinese instrument majors and various students of Western instruments joining each semester, depending on the repertoire. Chinese Ensemble is an essential component of the double-degree program in Chinese instruments offered through the US-China Music Institute at Bard, in partnership with the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.
The director and conductor of the Chinese Ensemble is Chen Tao, a dizi (bamboo flute) master and the artistic director of Melody of Dragon, an educational and performing arts organization in New York City focusing on traditional Chinese music. Chen Tao studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and has been teaching and performing in the New York area for nearly 30 years.
Face to Face with the Sky: a program of vocal chamber music exploring themes of fragmentation and unity, distance and closeness, and the unknown both within and outside of ourselves.
Sunday, May 15, 2022 4:30–6 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Program featuring works by Leaha Maria Villarreal, Maurice Ravel, Luke Haaksma (premiere), Flannery Cunningham, Caroline Shaw, Ernest Chausson, Peter Lieberson, Erich Korngold, and Alexander von Zemlinsky. Performed by Micah Gleason, mezzo-soprano, in collaboration with: Sabrina Parry, violin Zongheng Zhang, violin Leonardo Vásquez, viola Sara Page, cello Monika Dziubelski, flute Jillian Paige, flute Olivia Hamilton, clarinet Colin Roshak, clarinet Frank Tao, clarinet Petra Elek, percussion
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We've re-inaugurated the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially, students) of all religious backgrounds, and are now meeting weekly on Mondays at 5:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new (and exquisite) translation. Snacks will be provided! With Shai Secunda and Joshua Boettiger. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Join at any time, for any length of time! Monday: Guided meditation Thursday: Silent meditation
Monday, May 16, 2022 6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Monday 6:00-6:15 pm Meditation instruction & dharma teaching 6:15-6:45 pm Meditation for half an hour 6:45-7:00 pm Walking meditation & chanting Followed by sangha community time with tea and popcorn
Thursday 6:00-7:00 pm Meditation in stillness Followed by sangha community time with a simple bowl of riceSponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Composers from three centuries include: Florence Price, Dvořák-influencer Harry Burleigh, Robert Owens, Undine Smith Moore, George Walker, Margaret Bonds, Valerie Capers, Carlos Gomes, Lena McLin, Adolphus Hailstork, Leslie Adams, Camille Nickerson, and Rosephanye Powell.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesdays starting Feb. 22 with Licensed Massage Therapist, Christine Welker
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A 1 & 1/2 hour sessions available Bard students ($70), staff & faculty ($85) You can schedule with her by texting/calling 845-702-6751.
See poster for more details, including acupuncture. Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Webinar on using new publication, “A Community Guide for Opposing Hate,” jointly written and published by the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, Western States Center, and the Montana Human Rights Network.
Read NowSponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Hate.
Online Event The Bard Center for the Study of Hate (BCSH) and partners at Western States Center and the Montana Human Rights Network welcome network members to attend the launch of a co-written and co-published toolkit called A Community Guide for Opposing Hate.
The purpose of the manual is to provide those who want to “do something” about hate with the steps to improve their communities, not only for the immediate aftermath of a hateful act, but for years to come. It details best practices for how to start a local group opposing hate and to improve the work of organizations already engaged in this effort.
Written by people with decades of experience in the field, the guide notes that “hate may be manifested by different means (rallies, posters, social media postings, crimes, etc.) and may have a variety of targets (people of different ethnicity or religion, gender or sexual identity, even different politics). It underscores that it is a mistake to ignore hateful acts, as hate "imbedded as a noble idea can inspire individuals to acts of violence.”
The guide has detailed sections on messaging, traditional media and social media strategies, working with politicians and schools and academics, hate crimes, security, and research. Importantly, it also has a section on the importance of protecting free speech rights, and how, while doing so, to make the hater’s free speech exercise backfire.
Study Abroad Tips/Tricks (Student of Color Edition)
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 6–7 pm
Gilson Place Come learn about what it’s like to study and live abroad as a student of color! Pick up a fact sheet for tips and tricks for how to pay for your semester or year abroad and how to find your community wherever you are in the world! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline Commons Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 1:30–3 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Albee Come to Albee Basement (Chaplaincy) to knit or to learn how to knit. Everyone is welcome and materials are provided. We hope to knit Compassion Shawls to give out to those in our community who need comfort and support.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center Our wellness team will have a variety of activities on a weekly basis for you, so stop by the Campus Center for snacks, fun, and a relaxing time. Co-sponsored by Peer Health, the Wellness Club, Brave OISSS, Council for Inclusive Excellence, Student Resouce Coordinators, and Gender Equity.Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline Commons Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline Commons Please note: Now inside Kline faculty dining area.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Join at any time, for any length of time! Monday: Guided meditation Thursday: Silent meditation
Thursday, May 19, 2022 6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Monday 6:00-6:15 pm Meditation instruction & dharma teaching 6:15-6:45 pm Meditation for half an hour 6:45-7:00 pm Walking meditation & chanting Followed by sangha community time with tea and popcorn
Thursday 6:00-7:00 pm Meditation in stillness Followed by sangha community time with a simple bowl of riceSponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, May 19, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Singers of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and the Conservatory Piano Fellows present self-staged arias from the iconic Italian operas of Handel and Mozart.Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; Bard Conservatory Post-Graduate Piano Fellowship.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center Please join a walk in memory of the fallen in the Russian war with Ukraine and in solidary with Ukraine. Participants will mark from the Campus Center to the Fisher Center.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Friday, May 20, 2022 12–1 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
Fridays, 12pm-1pm at the Bito ConservatorySponsored by: Health, Counseling, and Wellness.
Online Event Bard College’s Case Manager Amy Tirado will host regular office hours on Fridays from 12-2 pm via Zoom.
Amy works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can join the Zoom anytime between 12-2 pm.
Leveraging Higher Education Networks to Respond to Displacement: OSUN Case Studies
Friday, May 20, 2022 8–9:30 am
Online Event 8 am New York l 2 pm Vienna
Over the past two years, the world has witnessed a number of crises that have resulted in forced displacement resulting in interrupted education for youth across educational levels. Networks of higher education institutions are well-positioned to support these youth in returning to formal learning, providing stability and hope in the face of profound trauma.
This panel of experts from across OSUN is part of UNESCO's World Higher Education Conference. It highlights the collaborative response to support youth displaced by the crises in Myanmar, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, as well as protracted crises which continue to need attention.
Panelists will grapple with three key questions: How can higher education institutions forge productive partnerships to address the post-secondary needs of youth affected by crises? What are the barriers and challenges of bringing youth affected by crises (back) into a higher education experience? Who are the key stakeholders with which higher education networks must liaise in order to open access to these youth?
Moderator Jonathan Becker, Vice Chancellor of the Open Society University Network
Panelists Ian Bickford, President of the American University of Afghanistan Rebecca Granato, Director of the OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives Oleksandr Shtokvych, OSUN Secretariat Kyaw Moe Tun, President of Parami Institute, Myanmar
Degree Recital: Keyan Ivy Wu, piano "Watercolor" Works by Beethoven, Debussy, Schumann, and Ray Lin
Friday, May 20, 2022 3–4:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space This event will also be live-streamed - https://youtu.be/aKocNtFSfzw
Keyan (Ivy) Wu began her studies at the music middle school of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Currently a fifth-year student in the double degree program at the Bard College Conservatory, she studies with Shai Wosner. Ivy was also a pupil in Peter Serkin’s studio. Her second major is psychology. She has often participated in piano master classes and piano seminars in China, Germany, and the United States. In January 2017, she won first prize in the Spainish Husca International Piano Competition in group B.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Students and codirectors of the Bard Conservatory Percussion Program join Juliana Maitenaz ’22 for a final recital.
Please bring proof of vaccination and a mask to attend in person.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Degree Recital: Jonathan Eng, viola Works by Schumann, Walton, Dale, Vaughn Williams, Brahms, Shostakovich
With pianists Diana Borshcheva and Francis Huang, violinists Shaunessy Renker and Yiran Yao, cellist Verity Scheel
Saturday, May 21, 2022 3–4:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space This event will also be live-streamed - https://youtu.be/DV7qF4-999YSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Hall This is an opportunity for different “currents” in the music department to share an informal concert and hear each other. Jazz groups, chamber groups, violinists, oboists, flutists, pianists, and more—all are welcome, on a first come, first served basis.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center Our wellness team will have a variety of activities on a weekly basis for you, so stop by the Campus Center for snacks, fun, and a relaxing time. Co-sponsored by Peer Health, the Wellness Club, Brave OISSS, Council for Inclusive Excellence, Student Resouce Coordinators, and Gender Equity.Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline Commons Please note: Now inside Kline faculty dining area.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
OSUN members are invited to attend as seniors from across the Open Society University Network discuss their capstone/senior projects. Viewers will hear about what was at stake in their work, how their educational experiences helped them prepare for it, and what lessons they learned along the way. Student presentations to be followed by Q&A.
Moderated by OSUN Vice-Chancellor Jonathan Becker.
Confirmed panelists include (additional speakers TBA):
Ahmad Denno, Bard College Berlin "Immigrants in Germany Historically, from Citizenship Rights to Obstacles to Social and Political Integration in Germany"
Yana Taratun, European Humanities University "Psychology of migration among students: trauma relief perspective"
Hephzibah Ugochinyere Emereole, Ashesi University "An Intelligent and Inclusive E-Learning System for Deaf Students in a Ghanaian University"
Dana Abu-Koash, Al-Quds Bard College Command Responsibility in International Criminal Law: A Case Study on Benjamin Netanyahu
Hazel Carson, Bard Annandale "French Bilateral Aid to Mali: Examining the Donor-Recipient Relationship's Effect on Development"
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard College Campus If your class year ends in a 2 or a 7, it's your reunion! And ... all classes that missed their in-person reunion over the past two years are also invited back to celebrate. That means it’s you if your class year ends in a 0, 1, 5, or 6.
Join us for the Bard College Awards, Annandale Roadhouse, Commencement under the big top, barbecue, dancing and fireworks at Blithewood, and much more! For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/reunion/.
Bard College Campus Rugby alums: kick off Reunion Weekend with the alum rugby fest! There will be men’s and women’s games where alumni/ae and current students will face off—we hope to see you there! Email [email protected] with any questions. Registration for Reunion Weekend is required to attend.
Register NowSponsored by: Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater The president of the College, trustees, and the president of the Bard College Alumni/ae Association, with the assistance of members of the faculty, will confer five awards and recognize the retirements of two members of the faculty. We anticipate all awardees to be present, and each will deliver remarks. This event will be livestreamed.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Bard soloists and composers in concert with The Orchestra Now (TŌN). Leon Botstein, conductor. This event will be livestreamed.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard College Campus If your class year ends in a 2 or a 7, it's your reunion! And ... all classes that missed their in-person reunion over the past two years are also invited back to celebrate. That means it’s you if your class year ends in a 0, 1, 5, or 6.
Join us for the Bard College Awards, Annandale Roadhouse, Commencement under the big top, barbecue, dancing and fireworks at Blithewood, and much more! For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/reunion/.
Reem-Kayden Center Tech alumni/ae: Meet the newest generation of Bard Tech graduates, and connect with other alumni/ae in your field! Join professor Keith O’Hara at the RKC for some intergenerational Bardian Tech connections. Light refreshments will be served. Registration for Reunion Weekend is required to attend: https://www.bard.edu/reunion/Sponsored by: Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
Open house and belated Senior Project celebration for the Class of 2020!
Saturday, May 28, 2022 10 am – 2 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library All graduates, alumni/ae, and their families are invited, especially the Class of 2020 whose bound Senior Projects will be on display on the first floor. At noon we will be unveiling two newly conserved portraits of Samuel and Mary Bard, grandparents of College founder John Bard. Also on display will be an exhibition of the work of Mimi Gross ’61. Cookies will be served, of course! For more information, call 845-758-7281, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/library/index.php.
Campus Center, Lawn Bardian Writers: Come find the BardWrites Affinity Group table at the Reunion Social! We will have books by Bardian authors, and will be celebrating reunion weekend in true writers style. Email [email protected] with any questions. Registration for reunion weekend is required to attend: https://www.bard.edu/reunion/Sponsored by: Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
Seth Goldfine Memorial Rugby Field Bard College will hold its 162nd commencement on Saturday, May 28, 2022. Bard President Leon Botstein will confer 425 undergraduate degrees on the Class of 2022 and 161 graduate degrees. The Commencement address will be given by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. Honorary degrees will be awarded to Haaland, Fordham University President Joseph M. McShane S.J., composer Zeena Parkins ’79, computer scientist Jennifer Tour Chayes, writer Alaa Al Aswany, scholar Jerome Kohn, musician Marcus Roberts, and Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Art Eric Motley.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard College Campus If your class year ends in a 2 or a 7, it's your reunion! And ... all classes that missed their in-person reunion over the past two years are also invited back to celebrate. That means it’s you if your class year ends in a 0, 1, 5, or 6.
Join us for the Bard College Awards, Annandale Roadhouse, Commencement under the big top, barbecue, dancing and fireworks at Blithewood, and much more! For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/reunion/.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents This is an Anglican service, hosted by our Anglican chaplain, Mary Grace Williams. The president of the College will read the names of all those alumni/ae, friends, and colleagues who have died since the Bard Commencement in 2021.
Creating Inclusive Learning Environments: Working With Difficult Material--A Conversation
Tuesday, May 31, 2022 9:30–11 am
Online Event 9:30 AM New York l 4:30 PM Vienna
This workshop series organized by OLIve and OSUN’s Working Group on Education for Refugees IDPs and Host Community Members draws on the collective experience of OSUN teachers and administrators. It is not only for those teachers and administrators who work with students who have experienced displacement, but for all university teachers and administrators who want to think through what it means to teach and learn from students who are marginalized by their ethnicity, class, gender, legal status etc. The aim of the series is to help OSUN teachers and administrators develop in ways that foster inclusive learning environments.
In this workshop we plan to think together with the attendees about working with difficult material, especially as it applies to vulnerable students, such as those who have experienced displacement. Some texts or ideas can be triggering because they contain ideas that can be alienating or even offensive, using language that is at a remove from people’s life experiences or is directly dismissive of their social and political realities. As teachers and as learners we face a number of issues which we propose to think about through a series of keywords: language & vocabulary, a culture of learning, devalued knowledge, sensitivity & offense, and power dynamics.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Graduate Degree Recital: Joanne Evans, mezzo soprano, with collaborative pianist Chewon Park
Sunday, May 1, 2022 1–2:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Hailed as “a singer to watch” (Classical Voice America), London-born mezzo soprano Joanne Evans prides herself on her versatility in spanning various musical genres - and on her comedic timing. Of Joanne’s performance as Meg Page in Verdi’s Falstaf at Berkshire Opera Festival, Opera News wrote that her “striking personal timbre and refined artistry... made [for] a memorable Meg—not always an easy feat.” Joanne is excited to make her role debut as Olga in Eugene Onegin with Music Academy of the West this Summer, after which she will perform the roles of Maddalena in Rigoletto, and on tour as Stéphano in Romeo et Juliette as part of her role as Resident Artist with Opera Colorado. Joanne was recently named a winner of the Met Opera Competition Boston District, and was a finalist in the 2019 Harlem Opera Theatre competition. Elsewhere Joanne is credited as co-writer and vocalist of the theme song for the BBC show Pitch Battle (2017). www.joanne-evans.com
This event will also be live-streamed HERESponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Senior project writers are invited to drop in to the library from 2-4 for help with citations and formatting. Can't make it? Request an appointment with a librarian or stop by the Research Help Desk during posted hours. For more information, call 845-758-7064, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/library.
Refugee Access to Higher Education: Ethical Considerations, Barriers and Challenges
Monday, May 2, 2022 9–10:30 am
Online Event 9 am New York l 3 pm Vienna
We are seeing an increasing number of migrants and refugees globally. Institutions are grappling with how best to support and mitigate the situation. Join us for a discussion sponsored by Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and the Open Society University Network to learn how higher education institutions might overcome these challenges and provide equity for refugees who seek access to a college education.
Panelists:
Mark James Wood Research Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs working on the MIMC Project, MPA Candidate at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.
Oleksandr Shtokvych Head of OSUN Secretariat, Central European university and Co-Director, OSUN Threatened Scholars Integration Initiative
Rebecca Granato Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives, Bard College, Director of the Open Society University Network Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives.
Shahariar Sadat Director, Academic and Legal Empowerment, Centre for Peace and Justice, BRAC University
Janine Prantl Legal Fellow for the Global Strategic Litigation Council for Refugee Rights
Study Abroad 101: The Nuts and Bolts of Study Abroad at Bard
Monday, May 2, 2022 12–1 pm
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge ATTENTION SOPHOMORES: Want to study abroad for Spring 2023? Attend an Info Session, then schedule a 1:1 meeting with Study Abroad Adviser Trish Fleming at [email protected]. Deadlines for Spring programs arrive early in the Fall term, so start planning now.
WILL DISCUSS: - The Petition for Study Abroad process - Bard Abroad programs - Tuition Exchanges - New OSUN opportunities - Non-Bard programs - Summer programs - Financial Aid/Scholarships - Deadlines/timelines
COME SEE WHAT’S POSSIBLE!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
402; Stevenson Library Please join us in Stevenson Library 402 to work quietly in the supportive company of other Senior Project writers. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We've re-inaugurated the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially, students) of all religious backgrounds, and are now meeting weekly on Mondays at 5:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new (and exquisite) translation. Snacks will be provided! With Shai Secunda and Joshua Boettiger. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Join at any time, for any length of time! Monday: Guided meditation Thursday: Silent meditation
Monday, May 2, 2022 6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Monday 6:00-6:15 pm Meditation instruction & dharma teaching 6:15-6:45 pm Meditation for half an hour 6:45-7:00 pm Walking meditation & chanting Followed by sangha community time with tea and popcorn
Thursday 6:00-7:00 pm Meditation in stillness Followed by sangha community time with a simple bowl of riceSponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Anna Jones Memorial Garden This vigil will be hosted by the Afghan Club Hub to remember and honor the victims of recent events in Afghanistan and throughout the world. It will be an open space for all students grieving recent world events to join together in solidarity and support of each other. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesdays starting Feb. 22 with Licensed Massage Therapist, Christine Welker
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A 1 & 1/2 hour sessions available Bard students ($70), staff & faculty ($85) You can schedule with her by texting/calling 845-702-6751.
See poster for more details, including acupuncture. Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 9–10:30 am
Online Event 9 am New York l 3 pm Vienna
This discussion organized by the OSUN project on Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice, focuses on Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women by Kristen R. Ghodsee, University of Pennsylvania. Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism in Eastern Europe. By examining the revolutionary careers of five prominent socialist women active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—the aristocratic Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai; the radical pedagogue Nadezhda Krupskaya; the polyamorous firebrand Inessa Armand; the deadly sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko; and the partisan turned scientist turned global women’s activist Elena Lagadinova—Kristen Ghodsee tells the story of the personal challenges faced by earlier generations of socialist and communist women.
None of these women was a ‘perfect’ leftist. Their lives were filled with inner conflicts, contradictions, and sometimes outrageous privilege, but they still managed to move forward their own political projects through perseverance and dedication to their cause. Always walking a fine line between the need for class solidarity and the desire to force their sometimes callous male colleagues to take women’s issues seriously, these five women pursued novel solutions with lessons for today’s activists.
Kristen R. Ghodsee is an award-winning Professor of Russian and East European Studies and a member of the Graduate Group in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her articles and essays have also been translated into over twenty languages and have appeared in publications such as Dissent, Foreign Affairs, Jacobin, The Baffler, The New Republic, Quartz, NBC Think, The Lancet, Project Syndicate, Le Monde Diplomatique, Die Tageszeitung, The Washington Post, and the New York Times. She is also the author of eleven books, including: Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War (Duke University Press, 2019) and Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence (Bold Type Books, 2018 and 2020), which has already had fourteen international editions. Her most recent book is Taking Stock of the Shock: Social Impacts of the 1989 Revolutions, co-authored with Mitchell A. Orenstein and with Oxford University Press in 2021. She is also the host of the podcast, A.K. 47 - Forty-seven Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai.
This lecture series is jointly curated by faculty involved in Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice, an OSUN project that offers a sustainable platform for students and professors from network institutions to engage in rigorous academic work, express themselves freely, inspire each other through art, and work closely with local and international initiatives to further the feminist agenda for social justice.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 2–3 pm
Kappa House Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
Tuesdays at Kappa House, 2pm-3pmSponsored by: Health, Counseling, and Wellness.
Study Abroad 101: The Nuts and Bolts of Study Abroad at Bard
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 5–6 pm
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge ATTENTION SOPHOMORES: Want to study abroad for Spring 2023? Attend an Info Session, then schedule a 1:1 meeting with Study Abroad Adviser Trish Fleming at [email protected] Deadlines for Spring programs arrive early in the Fall term, so start planning now.
WILL DISCUSS: - The Petition for Study Abroad process - Bard Abroad programs - Tuition Exchanges - New OSUN opportunities - Non-Bard programs - Summer programs - Financial Aid/Scholarships - Deadlines/timelines
COME SEE WHAT’S POSSIBLE!Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday in February by Appointment Wed- 12-2pm Friday 10-12pm Saturday 1-3pm
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Stevenson Athletic Center We are happy to provide this essential service to Bard students who need support with snacks, staple food items, and/or toiletries. Appointments are available on a weekly basis. Email [email protected] for the form.
Pantry Location: Stevenson Gymnasium. Ask the front desk for directions. Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Naked Agency / Protest: Between the Occult and the Internet
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 9–10:30 am
Online Event 9 am New York l 3 pm Vienna
The last two decades have registered an outstanding wave of naked protests globally. In Africa, the proliferation and hypervisibility of what is erroneously called "genital cursing" can be explained by multiple factors, including the power of the digital sphere and the intensification and multiplication of negative biopolitical conditions.
In this lecture, organized by the OSUN project on Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice, Naminata Diabate, Cornell University, traces the historical trajectory of mature women’s insurrectionary disrobing and examines its recent deployment during moments of socio-political duress. Diabate meditates on the impact of internet media to reframe the terms of the debate around women’s agency. As news and images of the gesture travel outside of their original site of performance, the women’s agency takes on new forms. Diverging, thus, from the longstanding logic that frames the women as endlessly empowered and empowering, Diabate proposes that we think of women's agency as naked, in the keys of instability and openness.
Naminata Diabate is an associate professor of comparative literature at Cornell University. A scholar of gender, sexuality, and race, drawing on archives of literary fiction, cinema, visual arts, and digital media, her most recent work has appeared in a monograph, peer-reviewed journals, and collections of essays, including Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (2020), Routledge Handbook of African Literature (2019), African Literature Today ALT 36 (2018), Critical Interventions (2017), Research in African Literatures (2016), and Fieldwork in the Humanities (2016). Her book, Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa was published by Duke University Press in 2020 and awarded the African Studies Association 2021 Best Book Prize. This year, she holds the Ali Mazrui Senior Research Fellowship at the Africa Institute of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, working on two monographs, “The Problem of Pleasure in Global Africa” and “Digital Insurgencies and Bodily Domains.”
This lecture series is jointly curated by faculty involved in Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice, an OSUN project that offers a sustainable platform for students and professors from network institutions to engage in rigorous academic work, express themselves freely, inspire each other through art, and work closely with local and international initiatives to further the feminist agenda for social justice.
A special session of Adhaar Desai’s Spring 2022 course at Bard College, “LIT 263: What is a Character?,” this open lecture will discuss the introduction to John Cheney-Lippold’s We Are Data (NYU, 2017) and relate it to conceptualizations of fictional character in contemporary fiction and cinema. As part of the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network’s “Reclaiming the Narrative Symposium,” the class will consider questions of agency, representation, and identity.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline Commons Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 1:30–3 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
A conversation with Nat Castañeda and Nariman El-Mofty from the Associated Press as a part of the EHCN Symposium “Reclaiming the Narrative.”
Nat Castañeda, Visual Storytelling Producer for the Enterprise and Investigations team for the Associated Press Nat Castañeda is a visual artist and journalist based in Denmark. Common issues in Castañeda’s work are the role of technology within narratives and the permanence of the historical record. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts and has shown at venues such as The High Line, El Museo del Barrio and Electronic Arts Intermix. Castañeda works at the Associated Press where she is a Visual Storytelling Producer for the Enterprise and Investigations team. She has contributed to projects on global migration and the civil war in Yemen, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2018. Castañeda’s photography has appeared in the New York Times, U.S. News & World Report and USA Today.
Nariman El-Mofty, photojournalist for the Associated Press based in Cairo, Egypt After five years photo editing in addition to photographing for the Associated Press Middle East photo desk, Nariman became a staff photojournalist. She tells compelling visual stories in the region – on subjects ranging from the antiquities of Egypt, Arab Spring protests, the annual Hajj in 2016, migration, and the horrors of wars. El-Mofty has covered Yemen, with a sensitive eye for portraiture that highlights the humanity of people struggling to survive amid a society in collapse. In 2019, she was part of an Associated Press team that won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for work uncovering the effects of Yemen's devastating war. She also received the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award for her Yemen photo reportage. She was awarded the Robert Capa citation for excellence for “Disembarking in Hell” on the dangerous journey of Ethiopian migrants – crossing the sea to Yemen and then making their way to Saudi Arabia. In 2020 she travelled to the Sudanese-Ethiopian border to document the Tigray people who take shelter by the thousands within sight of the homeland they fled in northern Ethiopia and was awarded the citation in the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for “Fleeing War.” The work was also exhibited in the International Festival of Photojournalism 2021 in Perpignan ‘Visa pour l'image.’
A conversation with Nat Castañeda and Nariman El-Mofty from the Associated Press as a part of the EHCN Symposium “Reclaiming the Narrative.”
Nat Castañeda, Visual Storytelling Producer for the Enterprise and Investigations team for the Associated Press Nat Castañeda is a visual artist and journalist based in Denmark. Common issues in Castañeda’s work are the role of technology within narratives and the permanence of the historical record. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts and has shown at venues such as The High Line, El Museo del Barrio and Electronic Arts Intermix. Castañeda works at the Associated Press where she is a Visual Storytelling Producer for the Enterprise and Investigations team. She has contributed to projects on global migration and the civil war in Yemen, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2018. Castañeda’s photography has appeared in the New York Times, U.S. News & World Report and USA Today.
Nariman El-Mofty, photojournalist for the Associated Press based in Cairo, Egypt After five years photo editing in addition to photographing for the Associated Press Middle East photo desk, Nariman became a staff photojournalist. She tells compelling visual stories in the region – on subjects ranging from the antiquities of Egypt, Arab Spring protests, the annual Hajj in 2016, migration, and the horrors of wars. El-Mofty has covered Yemen, with a sensitive eye for portraiture that highlights the humanity of people struggling to survive amid a society in collapse. In 2019, she was part of an Associated Press team that won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for work uncovering the effects of Yemen's devastating war. She also received the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award for her Yemen photo reportage. She was awarded the Robert Capa citation for excellence for “Disembarking in Hell” on the dangerous journey of Ethiopian migrants – crossing the sea to Yemen and then making their way to Saudi Arabia. In 2020 she travelled to the Sudanese-Ethiopian border to document the Tigray people who take shelter by the thousands within sight of the homeland they fled in northern Ethiopia and was awarded the citation in the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for “Fleeing War.” The work was also exhibited in the International Festival of Photojournalism 2021 in Perpignan ‘Visa pour l'image.’
The Keith Haring Lecture in Art and Activism: Constantina Zavistanos
Introduced by Evan Calder Williams, Associate Professor, CCS Bard This event will have ASL and open captions. In order to receive a Zoom link, registration is required in advance on Eventbrite here.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 5–7 pm
Online Event Constantina Zavitsanos (Keith Haring Fellow 2021-22) is a conceptual artist who works in sculpture, performance, text, and sound. Zavitsanos’s work elaborates what is invaluable in the re/production of debt, dependency, and other shared resources.
Their work questions how incapacity and the seemingly inconsequential performances of social life might exceed the threshold of measure. Zavitsanos’s practice celebrates disability and debt as difference beyond separability and works to reveal the false opposition of dependency and autonomy––a myth often used to reinforce scarcity (for the many) amid abundance (for the few). Yet, distribution itself has many forms: from the art historical takeaway, to the ubiquitously popular giveaway, from the solution of making a way, to the dissolution of making no way and living in means without ends. Zavitsanos’s work stays with this means beyond measure to deny measurement its claims on life at large (and small).
L&D Motel, their solo show at PARTICIPANT INC, New York, NY (2019), formally experimented with the holographic principle of quantum gravity through an installation that was built into the architecture of the gallery and which sculpted low frequency laser waves and infrasonic sound waves by feel. The exhibition foregrounded non-visual knowledge through participants’ experiences of touch and vibration. Zavitsanos has exhibited and performed in New York at the New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, The Kitchen, Artists Space, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA PS1, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Essex Street, and elsewhere in the U.S. at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH and Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT. They have exhibited and performed internationally at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin, Germany; Tramway in Glasgow, Scotland; Artspeak in Vancouver, Canada; Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg in Fribourg and the Gebert Stiftung für Kultur in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland; and the Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
With Park McArthur, they co-authored texts for Women and Performance: The Journal of Feminist Theory (Routledge, 2013), and Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (MIT Press, 2017). Zavitsanos was a New Museum Research and Development Season: SPECULATION Artist-in-Residence (2015) and was awarded the Wynn Newhouse Award (2015). They were a visiting artist at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2017).
With others in New York’s disability community, Zavitsanos co-organized the cross-disability arts festival, I wanna be with you everywhere, at Performance Space New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Zavitsanos holds an M.F.A. from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia and a B.F.A. from Millersville University and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program.
Zavitsanos was the 2021 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Art’s Roy Lichtenstein Award.
Learn MoreSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Albee Come to Albee Basement (Chaplaincy) to knit or to learn how to knit. Everyone is welcome and materials are provided. We hope to knit Compassion Shawls to give out to those in our community who need comfort and support.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center Our wellness team will have a variety of activities on a weekly basis for you, so stop by the Campus Center for snacks, fun, and a relaxing time. Co-sponsored by Peer Health, the Wellness Club, Brave OISSS, Council for Inclusive Excellence, Student Resouce Coordinators, and Gender Equity.Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Professor Robert Alter Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 5:30–7 pm
Olin, Room 102 and How to Read Biblical Narrative 2:30pm, May 1, 2022 Sixth Street Community Synagogue, New York City
Professor Robert Alter has written widely on the European novel from the eighteenth century to the present, on American fiction, and on modern Hebrew literature. He has also written extensively on literary aspects of the Bible. His twenty-eight published books include two prize-winning volumes on biblical narrative and poetry and award-winning translations of Genesis and of the Five Books of Moses. Among his publications over the past thirty years are Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem (1991), Canon and Creativity (2000), The Five Book of Moses: A Translation with Commentary (2004), Imagined Cities (2005), The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (2007), Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible (2010),The Wisdom Books: A Translation with Commentary (2010), The Art of Bible Translation (2019), and Nabokov and the Real World 2021). His completed translation of the Hebrew Bible with a commentary was published in 2018 in a three-volume set. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, and is past president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. He has twice been a Guggenheim Fellow, has been a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, and Old Dominion Fellow at Princeton University. Professor Alter is Professor of the Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967.
Sponsored by: Neusner Memorial Lecture Fund, Hebrew, Jewish Studies, and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline Commons Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline Commons Please note: Now inside Kline faculty dining area.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 – Thursday, May 5, 2022 6–8 pm
New Annandale House An exhibition of work curated and created by Bard students Kimbrielle Boult, Sahar Carter, Dana Debro, Emma Deutsch, Valentina Flores, Rasheeda Graham, Diana McCready, Sydney Oshuna, Lowell Thomas, and Immanuel Williams in collaboration with artist Natasha Marin.
May 4–9 at Campus Center Gallery Photography by Lowell Thomas and Rasheeda Graham Blacktivations Catalogue by Emma Deutsch
May 4 at New Annandale House Opening Ritual, 6-8 pm Performance by Kimbrielle Boult Installation by Dana Debro and Sydney Oshuna
May 5 at New Annandale House Closing Ritual 6-8 pm Installation by Dana Debro and Sydney Oshuna Interactive Performance by Diana McCready, Valentina Flores, Sahar Carter, and Immanuel WilliamsSponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network; Experimental Humanities Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Join at any time, for any length of time! Monday: Guided meditation Thursday: Silent meditation
Thursday, May 5, 2022 6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Monday 6:00-6:15 pm Meditation instruction & dharma teaching 6:15-6:45 pm Meditation for half an hour 6:45-7:00 pm Walking meditation & chanting Followed by sangha community time with tea and popcorn
Thursday 6:00-7:00 pm Meditation in stillness Followed by sangha community time with a simple bowl of riceSponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 – Thursday, May 5, 2022 6–8 pm
New Annandale House An exhibition of work curated and created by Bard students Kimbrielle Boult, Sahar Carter, Dana Debro, Emma Deutsch, Valentina Flores, Rasheeda Graham, Diana McCready, Sydney Oshuna, Lowell Thomas, and Immanuel Williams in collaboration with artist Natasha Marin.
May 4–9 at Campus Center Gallery Photography by Lowell Thomas and Rasheeda Graham Blacktivations Catalogue by Emma Deutsch
May 4 at New Annandale House Opening Ritual, 6-8 pm Performance by Kimbrielle Boult Installation by Dana Debro and Sydney Oshuna
May 5 at New Annandale House Closing Ritual 6-8 pm Installation by Dana Debro and Sydney Oshuna Interactive Performance by Diana McCready, Valentina Flores, Sahar Carter, and Immanuel WilliamsSponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network; Experimental Humanities Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, May 5, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center To make an appointment or for more information, contact Andrew Reid at 845-704-7729 or email [email protected].
• You must make an appointment • Pre-screening and counseling will be done prior to the appointment by phone • You must answer a COVID-19 health survey before your appointment (given by HVCS tester)Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
The Politics of Language and Translation: Reflections from the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Ahmad Ayyad (Al-Quds Bard College, Occupied Palestine)
Thursday, May 5, 2022 5–6:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium This event is part of the BTTI Symposium. Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7391, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, students meet with Joshua Boettiger (Bard's rabbi) to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat) they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Hall Come hear the students of the Jazz Vocal Workshop perform their annual spring selection of jazz standards and new jazz sounds.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday in February by Appointment Wed- 12-2pm Friday 10-12pm Saturday 1-3pm
Friday, May 6, 2022
Stevenson Athletic Center We are happy to provide this essential service to Bard students who need support with snacks, staple food items, and/or toiletries. Appointments are available on a weekly basis. Email [email protected] for the form.
Pantry Location: Stevenson Gymnasium. Ask the front desk for directions. Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Please join us for a full day of events all centered around translation—from student panels, to guest speakers, to the keynote address by Wyatt Mason, Seasons and Castles: Rimbaud Retranslated (5 pm, RKC 103).
All events will take place in RKC 103, 200, and 102.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-7391, or e-mail [email protected].
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Friday, May 6, 2022 12–1 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
Fridays, 12pm-1pm at the Bito ConservatorySponsored by: Health, Counseling, and Wellness.
Measuring Waves of Gravity from Across the Universe with Laser Interferometery
Joshua Smith, California State University-Fullerton
Friday, May 6, 2022 12–1 pm
Hegeman 107 Albert Einstein predicted gravitational waves in 1916, as a consequence of his general relativity theory. A century later, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) began observing these waves from merging systems of black holes and neutron stars. These observations cemented relativity theory and inaugurated an era of gravitational-wave multi-messenger astronomy.
LIGO and its partners are just sensitive enough to measure the strongest gravitational waves. Cosmic Explorer (CE) is a next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave observatory envisioned to begin operations in the 2030s. With its spectacular sensitivity, CE will peer deeply into the universe’s dark side — observing gravitational waves from remnants of the first stars — and open a wide discovery aperture to the novel and unknown. Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Bard College’s Case Manager Amy Tirado will host regular office hours on Fridays from 12-2 pm via Zoom.
Amy works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can join the Zoom anytime between 12-2 pm.
Putting the Cooker on Low: A Digital Commission by Ama Josephine Budge
Friday, May 6, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Online Event Join us for the launch of Putting the Cooker on Low, a new Digital Commission by Ama Josephine Budge. Ama was the 2020/21 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism at Bard, and we are honored to welcome her back to premiere her new video. Ama is a British-Ghanaian speculative writer, artist, researcher and pleasure activist whose intradisciplinary praxis works to hold together Blackness, pleasure, art and ecology towards queerly climate changing futures.
Putting the Cooker on Low explores the daily rituals that allow Black women, femmes, and nonbinary folk to keep creating in the midst of spiritual, emotional, familial, societal, and ecological crises. Putting the Cooker on Low intimates that which happens in the simmer and bubble, on the back burner and the top oven, in the side eye and the hot pot. Thinking with an ancestry of Black feminist petitions for self-preservation, this visual essay works to make visible and then unsettle the ways in which Black womxn artists internalize value-(as)-labor-(as)-capital. The cracks, crevasses, and slippages these antierotic modes of survival engender—as felt by both human and nonhuman ecologies—remain forced from view until they become black holes, into which we are swallowed and disappear. Often without a trace. It is with the cooker on low, that resistance might reduce into potency. It is with the cooker on low that we never run out of gas.
New York's Pathbreaking Climate Law: Learn and Send in Comments to Law Makers!
Friday, May 6, 2022 12:15–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Room 102 New York has some of the most ambitious climate goals in the world: 70% renewable electricity by 2030, 85% reduction in global warming pollution by 2050. The details are now out and open for public comment. So come comment! We'll talk about the law and explore a public comment tool built by Bardians to make it very easy to support climate action. Lots of people will be commenting in opposition, so if you want climate action, come learn how to express yourself.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space This event will also be live-streamed - https://youtu.be/nniunQNP3Fk Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, and then a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space This event will also be live-streamed - https://youtu.be/-XocKe4f6XMSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday in February by Appointment Wed- 12-2pm Friday 10-12pm Saturday 1-3pm
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Stevenson Athletic Center We are happy to provide this essential service to Bard students who need support with snacks, staple food items, and/or toiletries. Appointments are available on a weekly basis. Email [email protected] for the form.
Pantry Location: Stevenson Gymnasium. Ask the front desk for directions. Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Athletic Center, Soccer Field Calling all Men's Soccer alumni/ae: Join coach TJ Kostecky for an alumni/ae game on campus! We hope to see you back in Annandale. If you did not receive the email invitation with full details, please email [email protected] and we will share it.Sponsored by: Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
Website Children, youth, adults, and seniors will certainly find something fun with live music, children’s games, unique vendors, and delicious local food.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Honey Field The baseball team hosts Rochester Institute of Technology in a crucial best-of-three series to determine who will go to the Liberty League playoffs. If a third game is necessary to determine the winner of the series, it will be played on Sunday at noon.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, or e-mail [email protected].
Graduate Degree Recital: Samantha Martin, soprano with Collaborative Pianist Elias Dagher
with Elias Dagher, piano
Saturday, May 7, 2022 3–4:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Samantha Martin is a second year in Bard College Conservatory’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program, where she studies with Edith Bers and Lucy Fitz Gibbon. An avid supporter of new music, Samantha has premiered and performed works by numerous contemporary composers, including Sheila Silver, Clarice Assad, Michael Csányi-Wills, Daron Hagen, Julianna Hall, John Musto, Györgi Kurtág, Libby Larsen, James Mobberly, and George Crumb. She has also work-shopped and performed in the world premiere of Tom Cipullo’s opera, Mayo, as Miss Goodrich and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. She will be performing works by Lanie Fefferman and Daniel Schlosberg in the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Festival Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today. This summer, Samantha will be interning with the chorus of Bard Summerscape’s 2022 Die Schweigsame Frau. Additional opera credits include Lauretta in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Buoso’s Ghost by Michael Ching and Laurie in Copland’s The Tender Land. She was also a featured recitalist at the 2021 Bard Music Festival’s Nadia Boulanger and her World. Named a winner in the Bard Conservatory’s 2020 Concerto Competition, she will appear with The Orchestra Now in September 2022 performing George Walker’s Lilacs. During her time at Bard, she also appeared in the Bard Vocal Arts Program’s production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium as Monica and Leoš Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen as Kohout. Samantha received her Bachelor of Music majoring in Voice Performance and Music Business from the State University of New York at Potsdam. In her downtime, Samantha enjoys playing the viola and trying new pescatarian recipes with all of the fresh vegetables that the Hudson Valley has to offer.
This event will also be live-streamed HERESponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Graduate Degree Recital: Melanie Dubil, mezzo-soprano, with Collaborative Pianist Chewon Park
Saturday, May 7, 2022 7–8:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space This event will also be live-streamed -https://youtu.be/DaZOKADGrywSponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Leon Botstein unearths more rarely-heard masterpieces in this concert spotlighting works from the late 1930s, including William Grant Still’s evocative portrait of enslaved people taking refuge while seeking freedom, and Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s commentary on conditions under the Nazi regime. These works are performed alongside Carlos Chávez’s virtuosic Piano Concerto and Witold Lutosławski’s adventurous Symphonic Variations.
Leon Botsteinconductor Gilles Vonsattelpiano Deborah Nansteel mezzo-soprano Frank Corliss piano
William Grant StillDismal Swamp Carlos Chávez Piano Concerto Witold Lutosławski Symphonic Variations Karl Amadeus Hartmann Symphony No. 1, Essay for a Requiem
Join us on the portico outside the Fisher Center starting at 1 PM on Sunday, May 8 for a celebratory end-of-season reception! Open to all ticket holders.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Leon Botstein unearths more rarely-heard masterpieces in this concert spotlighting works from the late 1930s, including William Grant Still’s evocative portrait of enslaved people taking refuge while seeking freedom, and Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s commentary on conditions under the Nazi regime. These works are performed alongside Carlos Chávez’s virtuosic Piano Concerto and Witold Lutosławski’s adventurous Symphonic Variations.
Leon Botsteinconductor Gilles Vonsattelpiano Deborah Nansteel mezzo-soprano Frank Corliss piano
William Grant StillDismal Swamp Carlos Chávez Piano Concerto Witold Lutosławski Symphonic Variations Karl Amadeus Hartmann Symphony No. 1, Essay for a Requiem
Join us on the portico outside the Fisher Center starting at 1 PM on Sunday, May 8 for a celebratory end-of-season reception! Open to all ticket holders.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space “God should have made girls lethal when he made monsters of men.” - Elisabeth Hewer
A femme fatale (literally "fatal woman"), sometimes called a man-eater or vamp, is a mystic character that is a beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms trap her lovers, often leading them into compromising, deadly circumstances. An archetype of literature and art. Her ability to enchant, entice and hypnotize her victim with a spell was in the earliest stories seen as verging on supernatural; hence, the femme fatale today is still often described as having a power akin to an enchantress, seductress, witch, having power over men. Femmes fatales are typically villainous, or at least morally ambiguous, and always associated with a sense of mystification, and unease. This projects tracks the course of the making of a femme fatale through a non-linear fashion: Innocence, Growing Up, Vulnerability, Betrayal, Revenge and the process of Healing.
Soprano Alexis Seminario is a second year student in the Graduate VAP. Operatic roles include Forester’s Wife (The Cunning Little Vixen), Monica (The Medium), Atalanta (Xerxes), Lusya (Moscow Cheryomushki), Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). In 2021, Alexis was an Apprentice at Bard SummerScape and was a featured soloist in the Bard Music Festival. In summer 2022, Alexis will be an Apprentice Artist with Des Moines Metro Opera covering the role of Rose in the premiere of A Thousand Acres. Alexis is an alum of Houston Grand Opera: YAVA. In April, Alexis appeared as the Soprano Soloist in Brahms Requiem with The Orchestra Now (TŌN.)
This event will also be live-streamed HERESponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Graduate Degree Recital: Sarah Rauch, mezzo-soprano, with Collaborative Pianist Elias Dagher
“A Box Full of Darkness”
Sunday, May 8, 2022 7–8:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
“A Box Full of Darkness” is a program exploring the experience of loss, and its transformation into the beauty of hope and connection. Taking inspiration from Mary Oliver’s poem “The Uses of Sorrow”, mezzo-soprano Sarah Rauch and pianist Elias Dagher curated this musical journey for the audience to reflect on their own emotional experiences amidst a world suffering profound losses and grief. The program includes music by composers Jake Heggie, Viktor Ullman, Enrique Truán, Joaquin Rodrigo, and Ruth Schonthal, among others; and features cellist Lily Moerschel and harpist Taylor Fleshman.
Mezzo-soprano Sarah Rauch (she/they) is a wholehearted and versatile performer whose musical explorations center on creating meaningfully connective performances. Sarah is a strong advocate for contemporary and under-performed repertoire, as well as the re-examination of narratives found within the traditional canon. Recent projects have included the curation and performance of the digital-release concert “I Bear Your Colors” - a program celebrating the unique relationships between queer women though American art song and chamber music - as well as performance of excerpts from György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragmente in collaboration with musicians from The Orchestra Now. Sarah was a featured recitalist in 2021 with ENY-NATS as the winner of their collegiate division art song competition, and is currently engaged as a teaching artist with ROK (Reimagining Opera for Kids), bringing opera to schools and community spaces. Other operatic credits include the Frog and Woodpecker in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts; Anna 1 in Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins and Toby in Giancarlo Menotti’s The Medium with Bard’s Vocal Arts Program; Zweite Dame in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Bloomington Chamber Opera; and Isolier in Rossini’s Le Comte Ory with Chicago Summer Opera. A native of southeastern Ohio, Sarah holds a Bachelor’s degree in voice from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and is completing her second year in Bard’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program. For more information, please visit sarahcrauch.com.
This event will also be live-streamed HERE Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We've re-inaugurated the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially, students) of all religious backgrounds, and are now meeting weekly on Mondays at 5:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new (and exquisite) translation. Snacks will be provided! With Shai Secunda and Joshua Boettiger. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Join at any time, for any length of time! Monday: Guided meditation Thursday: Silent meditation
Monday, May 9, 2022 6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Monday 6:00-6:15 pm Meditation instruction & dharma teaching 6:15-6:45 pm Meditation for half an hour 6:45-7:00 pm Walking meditation & chanting Followed by sangha community time with tea and popcorn
Thursday 6:00-7:00 pm Meditation in stillness Followed by sangha community time with a simple bowl of riceSponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Please join us for events on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday that reflect on the cultural politics of naming. All event information and zoom links are included in the attached PDF.Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hegeman 204A Then first you'll have to construct the table, which game regulations insist must pass through five given points. When you're done with that I’ll pick N<10, and to beat me you have to shoot the ball (from wherever I put it) so it returns in exactly N steps to where it started.
If you're not put off by a vector space of polynomials, you can make the elliptic table; and if you know how to spot a complex torus, then (with practice and foci) you can win. This is how I trap unsuspecting students into learning a bit of algebraic geometry.
Because the real title of this talk is: two theorems on conics in the plane!Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: An Analysis of the Origins and Potential Outcomes of Putin’s Barbaric Military Campaign
Monday, May 9, 2022 4:30–6 pm
Henderson 106 In February 2022, Russia launched an unprovoked, genocidal attack against the Ukrainian people. This lecture will review the origins of the conflict, how the United States and our NATO allies are likely to respond and what possible outcomes are on the horizon.
Scott Licamele ’91 is a Russia expert with over 20 years of experience dealing in the former Soviet Union. He has worked in various Russia-related capacities, including capital markets (at Sberbank CIB, Troika Dialog, and Alfa Bank) and government-related activities (at an NGO in Russia which was funded by the United States Information Agency in the 1990s). Licamele has lived and worked in Russia and Ukraine for seven years and is fluent in Russian. He is a graduate of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he studied Russian political economy. He received his BA in European History at Bard College. Licamele is currently unaffiliated with any Russia-related business or political entities.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program; Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-7084, or e-mail [email protected].
Reem-Kayden Center Come see what students in Experimental Humanities classes have been working on this semester!Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesdays starting Feb. 22 with Licensed Massage Therapist, Christine Welker
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A 1 & 1/2 hour sessions available Bard students ($70), staff & faculty ($85) You can schedule with her by texting/calling 845-702-6751.
See poster for more details, including acupuncture. Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 2–3 pm
Kappa House Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
Tuesdays at Kappa House, 2pm-3pmSponsored by: Health, Counseling, and Wellness.
Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Please join us for events on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday that reflect on the cultural politics of naming. All event information and zoom links are included in the attached PDF.Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium A screening of a series of short films narrating stories of Mexican oral tradition from 68 different Indigenous languages, traditions, and hearts. The series seeks to represent the richness of Indigenous communities and to promote their languages.Sponsored by: Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability - May 2022 Online Info Session
**$65 application fee waiver available to webinar participants!** Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
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.
Learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session.
WHAT WE COVER:
Overview of graduate program offerings
Alumni success and career outcomes
Admissions information
Prerequisite course information
Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
Financial aid and scholarships
Tips for a standout application
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday in February by Appointment Wed- 12-2pm Friday 10-12pm Saturday 1-3pm
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Stevenson Athletic Center We are happy to provide this essential service to Bard students who need support with snacks, staple food items, and/or toiletries. Appointments are available on a weekly basis. Email [email protected] for the form.
Pantry Location: Stevenson Gymnasium. Ask the front desk for directions. Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline Commons Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 1:30–3 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Albee Come to Albee Basement (Chaplaincy) to knit or to learn how to knit. Everyone is welcome and materials are provided. We hope to knit Compassion Shawls to give out to those in our community who need comfort and support.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center Our wellness team will have a variety of activities on a weekly basis for you, so stop by the Campus Center for snacks, fun, and a relaxing time. Co-sponsored by Peer Health, the Wellness Club, Brave OISSS, Council for Inclusive Excellence, Student Resouce Coordinators, and Gender Equity.Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline Commons Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline Commons Please note: Now inside Kline faculty dining area.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Please join us for events on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday that reflect on the cultural politics of naming. All event information and zoom links are included in the attached PDF.Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
OSUN Student Conference on Public Service Employment Programs
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 9:30–11:30 am
Online Event
9:30 am New York l 3:30 pm Vienna
Students from the OSUN network will present and discuss real-world public service employment programs that have aspired to answer the call of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 23, stating that all people have “the right to work, to free choice of employment, and to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.”
Join OSUN students from Al-Quds Bard College (Palestine), American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan), and Bard College (USA) in this important conversation.
The Cultural Politics of Naming Symposium Virtual Forum
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 10–11:30 am
Online Event The Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network invites students from across OSUN to attend a virtual forum where students from American University of Central Asia, University of Thessaly, Bard College Annandale, and Bard College Berlin share the stories of their names. Readings are followed by small group discussions and finally an open forum in which students share their reflections with the group.
A Polynomial Generalization of Binomial Coefficients
Andrew Schultz, Wellesley College
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 12–1 pm
Hegeman 204A Binomial coefficients are a staple in the world of combinatorics. Their usefulness in enumeration is nearly unparalleled, but their humble beginnings belie intricate structure and surprising depth. In the pursuit of understanding binomial coefficients more completely, one can encode them in a family of polynomials called Gaussian coefficients. Do these Gaussian coefficients have their own structure and depth? In this talk we'll introduce the Gaussian coefficients and see some surprising ways in which they are (almost!) as nice as their more famous brethren (and maybe a way or two in which they are even nicer).Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
With pianists Elias Dagher and Sindy Yang, and Juan Diego Mora, cuatro and pian
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 4–5:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Works by Bach, Guastavino, Price, Bor, Valderrama, and Lopez To attend in person, bring proof of vaccination and a mask!
Mutual Benefit: The Secret Sauce of Reciprocal Partnerships
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 6–8 pm
Online Event 5/11, 6:00 pm New York | 5/12 12:00 am Vienna
CommUniversity presents “Mutual Benefit: The Secret Sauce of Reciprocal Partnerships.”
CommUniversity welcomes the University of Technology Sydney Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion as they share insights about key approaches to developing long-term partnerships that have real impact across multiple contexts. Their approach has proven vital through the disrupted COVID period and has allowed the Centre to be quick to adapt and to take meaningful community engaged action in response to a crisis. Join us to learn about their approach to creating long-term sustainable positive change.
The CommUniversity 2022 workshop series, organized by OSUN and the Talloires Network, showcases community-university engaged research and learning to support engaged scholars seeking to address the following questions:
How do engaged scholars collaborate with communities to co-design and implement engagement programs?
In what ways do community members contribute to the engaged scholarship?
In what ways does engaged scholarship contribute to building civic values and skills for students?
How might engaged scholarship impact students’ choices about career path or future involvement in their community?
To what extend has the engagement program positively affected the community?
How does one assess engaged scholarship?
How do engaged scholars present their achievements at the time of promotion or career transition?
In what ways are universities adapting internal review processes to reward engaged scholarship?
What are the key elements for a successful long-term university-community partnership?
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Join at any time, for any length of time! Monday: Guided meditation Thursday: Silent meditation
Thursday, May 12, 2022 6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Monday 6:00-6:15 pm Meditation instruction & dharma teaching 6:15-6:45 pm Meditation for half an hour 6:45-7:00 pm Walking meditation & chanting Followed by sangha community time with tea and popcorn
Thursday 6:00-7:00 pm Meditation in stillness Followed by sangha community time with a simple bowl of riceSponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, May 12, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, students meet with Joshua Boettiger (Bard's rabbi) to bake challah and prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose (preparing food for Shabbat) they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another in the kitchen. All are welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Please join us for events on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday that reflect on the cultural politics of naming. All event information and zoom links are included in the attached PDF.Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room At this evening event attendees can speak with students about the civic engagement projects they have developed during the semester.
Projects in include: War Poetry Slam, Musical Mentorship Initiative, The Earth's Tomorrow Foundation, Engaged Liberal Arts and Science classes, OSUN courses, TLS projects and STEAM Student Teams, among many others.
There will also be a spotlight on certain projects, featuring video clips and even a tango performance! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Songs, Arias, and Ensembles "Songs for the Unbeaten Path"
Thursday, May 12, 2022 7–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Singers and Pianists of the Graduate Conservatory Programs present songs, arias, and ensembles in support of Unbeaten Path, an organization based in Lviv that has been operating in the field of culture, education and inclusion since 2001.
Nepoptana Stezhyna (Unbeaten Path) is an aid organization in Lviv in Western Ukraine. They are an umbrella organization that runs the annual Lviv Bandurfest bandura festival and an arts service organization. Their space has been transformed to now also shelter and assist refugees from the eastern oblasts. English language site detailing their work since war broke out: HOME | Unbeaten Path (stezhyna.org.ua) Ukrainian language site that reflects pre-war programming, and some of what has continued since Feb 24th: Unbeaten Path (stezhyna.com)
To donate to our efforts to support them, please venmo @Teryn-Kuzma This event will also be live-streamed - https://youtu.be/6NMWfdoChWA Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Senior Projects in Dance and Multidisciplinary Studies
Thursday, May 12, 2022 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Leslie Morales Jude Markey-Smith Rose Xu
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday in February by Appointment Wed- 12-2pm Friday 10-12pm Saturday 1-3pm
Friday, May 13, 2022
Stevenson Athletic Center We are happy to provide this essential service to Bard students who need support with snacks, staple food items, and/or toiletries. Appointments are available on a weekly basis. Email [email protected] for the form.
Pantry Location: Stevenson Gymnasium. Ask the front desk for directions. Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Friday, May 13, 2022 12–1 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
Fridays, 12pm-1pm at the Bito ConservatorySponsored by: Health, Counseling, and Wellness.
Online Event Bard College’s Case Manager Amy Tirado will host regular office hours on Fridays from 12-2 pm via Zoom.
Amy works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can join the Zoom anytime between 12-2 pm.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, and then a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Please join us for events on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday that reflect on the cultural politics of naming. All event information and zoom links are included in the attached PDF.Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Blum Hall Featuring: LEO CRONAN-COUNTERTENOR GARRICK NEUNER- BASS/BARITONE LEXI LANNI-SOPRANO RYAN MICHKI- TENOR ERIKA SWITZER- PIANOSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Senior Projects in Dance and Multidisciplinary Studies
Friday, May 13, 2022 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Leslie Morales Jude Markey-Smith Rose Xu
Senior Projects in Dance and Multidisciplinary Studies
Friday, May 13, 2022 7:30–8:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Leslie Morales Jude Markey-Smith Rose Xu
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday in February by Appointment Wed- 12-2pm Friday 10-12pm Saturday 1-3pm
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Stevenson Athletic Center We are happy to provide this essential service to Bard students who need support with snacks, staple food items, and/or toiletries. Appointments are available on a weekly basis. Email [email protected] for the form.
Pantry Location: Stevenson Gymnasium. Ask the front desk for directions. Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Senior Projects in Dance and Multidisciplinary Studies
Saturday, May 14, 2022 2–3 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Leslie Morales Jude Markey-Smith Rose Xu
Four Corners Community Farm, 324 Budds Corners Rd, Red Hook Come out to Four Corners Community Farm on Saturday, May 14 to celebrate springtime with food, local live music, crafts, workshops, gardening demos, a plant sale and more! All events are free and open to the public. Proceeds from the plant sale go to support the Mill Road Elementary School (Red Hook) garden program. Rain date Sunday, May 15. Let's get growing!Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard Farm; Bard Office of Sustainability.
Ludlow Lawn Cetiliztli Nauhcampa is a cultural, spiritual, artistic, political, and educational circle made up of community and family members who carry on the ancient traditions of the Native peoples of this continent.
Join us for an outdoor ceremonial performance on May 14 at 3 pm on the Ludlow Lawn.
For more information, please email Professor Yebel Gallegos at [email protected].Sponsored by: Dance Program; Office of Equity and Inclusion.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Senior Projects in Dance and Multidisciplinary Studies
Saturday, May 14, 2022 7:30–8:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Leslie Morales Jude Markey-Smith Rose Xu
Senior Projects in Dance and Multidisciplinary Studies
Saturday, May 14, 2022 7:30–8:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Choreographed by rising artists in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry and research. Their concepts have been realized with the support of a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by Leslie Morales Jude Markey-Smith Rose Xu
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra, Leon Botstein, music director, presents their final concert of the academic year. All proceeds benefit the Bard College Conservatory of Music Scholarship Fund.
Franz LisztMazeppa – Symphonic Tone Poem No. 6, with Andres Rivas, conductor
Maurice RavelSchéhérezade with James Bagwell, conductor, Hailey McAvoy, mezzo soprano (VAP Concerto Competition winner)
Mykola Lysenko Overture to Taras Bulba with Leon Botstein, conductor
Brahms Symphony No. 2 with Leon Botstein, conductor
This performance is given in support of the Ulster Immigrant Defense Network and all of the work that they do for immigrants in our community.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space The Bard Chinese Ensemble presents a selection of traditional and new music for Chinese and Western instruments, with original compositions and arrangements by Chinese Ensemble director Chen Tao.
PROGRAM
The Long Tune (Mongolian Suite No. 1) Chen Tao
Mongolian (Mongolian Suite No. 2) Tengger Arr. Chen Tao
Toast Song & Chopstick Dance (Mongolian Suite No. 3) Chen Tao
Moon Reflecting in the Er-Quan Pond A Bing Arr. by Pen Xiu-Wen Re-arr. by Chen Tao
Melody of Raiment of Rainbows Jiang-Nan Silk & Bamboo music Arr. by Chen Tao
Arkansas Traveler Arr. by Chen Tao
At the Frontier Classical music Arr. by Zhang Da-Sen Re-arr. by Chen Tao
Bard Conservatory events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community. All visitors must demonstrate proof of vaccination to attend in person. ABOUT THE ENSEMBLE
The Bard Chinese Ensemble is composed of the Conservatory’s Chinese instrument majors and various students of Western instruments joining each semester, depending on the repertoire. Chinese Ensemble is an essential component of the double-degree program in Chinese instruments offered through the US-China Music Institute at Bard, in partnership with the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.
The director and conductor of the Chinese Ensemble is Chen Tao, a dizi (bamboo flute) master and the artistic director of Melody of Dragon, an educational and performing arts organization in New York City focusing on traditional Chinese music. Chen Tao studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and has been teaching and performing in the New York area for nearly 30 years.
Face to Face with the Sky: a program of vocal chamber music exploring themes of fragmentation and unity, distance and closeness, and the unknown both within and outside of ourselves.
Sunday, May 15, 2022 4:30–6 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Program featuring works by Leaha Maria Villarreal, Maurice Ravel, Luke Haaksma (premiere), Flannery Cunningham, Caroline Shaw, Ernest Chausson, Peter Lieberson, Erich Korngold, and Alexander von Zemlinsky. Performed by Micah Gleason, mezzo-soprano, in collaboration with: Sabrina Parry, violin Zongheng Zhang, violin Leonardo Vásquez, viola Sara Page, cello Monika Dziubelski, flute Jillian Paige, flute Olivia Hamilton, clarinet Colin Roshak, clarinet Frank Tao, clarinet Petra Elek, percussion
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We've re-inaugurated the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially, students) of all religious backgrounds, and are now meeting weekly on Mondays at 5:00 pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new (and exquisite) translation. Snacks will be provided! With Shai Secunda and Joshua Boettiger. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail [email protected].
Join at any time, for any length of time! Monday: Guided meditation Thursday: Silent meditation
Monday, May 16, 2022 6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Monday 6:00-6:15 pm Meditation instruction & dharma teaching 6:15-6:45 pm Meditation for half an hour 6:45-7:00 pm Walking meditation & chanting Followed by sangha community time with tea and popcorn
Thursday 6:00-7:00 pm Meditation in stillness Followed by sangha community time with a simple bowl of riceSponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Composers from three centuries include: Florence Price, Dvořák-influencer Harry Burleigh, Robert Owens, Undine Smith Moore, George Walker, Margaret Bonds, Valerie Capers, Carlos Gomes, Lena McLin, Adolphus Hailstork, Leslie Adams, Camille Nickerson, and Rosephanye Powell.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesdays starting Feb. 22 with Licensed Massage Therapist, Christine Welker
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A 1 & 1/2 hour sessions available Bard students ($70), staff & faculty ($85) You can schedule with her by texting/calling 845-702-6751.
See poster for more details, including acupuncture. Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Webinar on using new publication, “A Community Guide for Opposing Hate,” jointly written and published by the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, Western States Center, and the Montana Human Rights Network.
Read NowSponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Hate.
Online Event The Bard Center for the Study of Hate (BCSH) and partners at Western States Center and the Montana Human Rights Network welcome network members to attend the launch of a co-written and co-published toolkit called A Community Guide for Opposing Hate.
The purpose of the manual is to provide those who want to “do something” about hate with the steps to improve their communities, not only for the immediate aftermath of a hateful act, but for years to come. It details best practices for how to start a local group opposing hate and to improve the work of organizations already engaged in this effort.
Written by people with decades of experience in the field, the guide notes that “hate may be manifested by different means (rallies, posters, social media postings, crimes, etc.) and may have a variety of targets (people of different ethnicity or religion, gender or sexual identity, even different politics). It underscores that it is a mistake to ignore hateful acts, as hate "imbedded as a noble idea can inspire individuals to acts of violence.”
The guide has detailed sections on messaging, traditional media and social media strategies, working with politicians and schools and academics, hate crimes, security, and research. Importantly, it also has a section on the importance of protecting free speech rights, and how, while doing so, to make the hater’s free speech exercise backfire.
Study Abroad Tips/Tricks (Student of Color Edition)
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 6–7 pm
Gilson Place Come learn about what it’s like to study and live abroad as a student of color! Pick up a fact sheet for tips and tricks for how to pay for your semester or year abroad and how to find your community wherever you are in the world! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline Commons Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 1:30–3 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Albee Come to Albee Basement (Chaplaincy) to knit or to learn how to knit. Everyone is welcome and materials are provided. We hope to knit Compassion Shawls to give out to those in our community who need comfort and support.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center Our wellness team will have a variety of activities on a weekly basis for you, so stop by the Campus Center for snacks, fun, and a relaxing time. Co-sponsored by Peer Health, the Wellness Club, Brave OISSS, Council for Inclusive Excellence, Student Resouce Coordinators, and Gender Equity.Sponsored by: Wellness.
For more information, call 845-752-2096, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline Commons Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline Commons Please note: Now inside Kline faculty dining area.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Join at any time, for any length of time! Monday: Guided meditation Thursday: Silent meditation
Thursday, May 19, 2022 6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Monday 6:00-6:15 pm Meditation instruction & dharma teaching 6:15-6:45 pm Meditation for half an hour 6:45-7:00 pm Walking meditation & chanting Followed by sangha community time with tea and popcorn
Thursday 6:00-7:00 pm Meditation in stillness Followed by sangha community time with a simple bowl of riceSponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, May 19, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Singers of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and the Conservatory Piano Fellows present self-staged arias from the iconic Italian operas of Handel and Mozart.Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; Bard Conservatory Post-Graduate Piano Fellowship.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center Please join a walk in memory of the fallen in the Russian war with Ukraine and in solidary with Ukraine. Participants will mark from the Campus Center to the Fisher Center.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Just stop by! No appointment or paperwork necessary.
Friday, May 20, 2022 12–1 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Whether you are having a rough day, in need of talking through a problem big or small, or would just like to meet with one of our counselors, this is the space for support.
Fridays, 12pm-1pm at the Bito ConservatorySponsored by: Health, Counseling, and Wellness.
Online Event Bard College’s Case Manager Amy Tirado will host regular office hours on Fridays from 12-2 pm via Zoom.
Amy works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can join the Zoom anytime between 12-2 pm.
Leveraging Higher Education Networks to Respond to Displacement: OSUN Case Studies
Friday, May 20, 2022 8–9:30 am
Online Event 8 am New York l 2 pm Vienna
Over the past two years, the world has witnessed a number of crises that have resulted in forced displacement resulting in interrupted education for youth across educational levels. Networks of higher education institutions are well-positioned to support these youth in returning to formal learning, providing stability and hope in the face of profound trauma.
This panel of experts from across OSUN is part of UNESCO's World Higher Education Conference. It highlights the collaborative response to support youth displaced by the crises in Myanmar, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, as well as protracted crises which continue to need attention.
Panelists will grapple with three key questions: How can higher education institutions forge productive partnerships to address the post-secondary needs of youth affected by crises? What are the barriers and challenges of bringing youth affected by crises (back) into a higher education experience? Who are the key stakeholders with which higher education networks must liaise in order to open access to these youth?
Moderator Jonathan Becker, Vice Chancellor of the Open Society University Network
Panelists Ian Bickford, President of the American University of Afghanistan Rebecca Granato, Director of the OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives Oleksandr Shtokvych, OSUN Secretariat Kyaw Moe Tun, President of Parami Institute, Myanmar
Degree Recital: Keyan Ivy Wu, piano "Watercolor" Works by Beethoven, Debussy, Schumann, and Ray Lin
Friday, May 20, 2022 3–4:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space This event will also be live-streamed - https://youtu.be/aKocNtFSfzw
Keyan (Ivy) Wu began her studies at the music middle school of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Currently a fifth-year student in the double degree program at the Bard College Conservatory, she studies with Shai Wosner. Ivy was also a pupil in Peter Serkin’s studio. Her second major is psychology. She has often participated in piano master classes and piano seminars in China, Germany, and the United States. In January 2017, she won first prize in the Spainish Husca International Piano Competition in group B.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Students and codirectors of the Bard Conservatory Percussion Program join Juliana Maitenaz ’22 for a final recital.
Please bring proof of vaccination and a mask to attend in person.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Degree Recital: Jonathan Eng, viola Works by Schumann, Walton, Dale, Vaughn Williams, Brahms, Shostakovich
With pianists Diana Borshcheva and Francis Huang, violinists Shaunessy Renker and Yiran Yao, cellist Verity Scheel
Saturday, May 21, 2022 3–4:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space This event will also be live-streamed - https://youtu.be/DV7qF4-999YSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Hall This is an opportunity for different “currents” in the music department to share an informal concert and hear each other. Jazz groups, chamber groups, violinists, oboists, flutists, pianists, and more—all are welcome, on a first come, first served basis.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Interference presents 14 graduate exhibitions curated by the MA candidates of the class of 2022 at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard). Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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