Bard College Holds One Hundred Sixty-Third Commencement on Saturday, May 27, 2023
Bard College will hold its one hundred sixty-third commencement on Saturday, May 27, 2023. The Commencement address will be given by U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock, of Georgia. Bard President Leon Botstein will confer 384 undergraduate degrees on the Class of 2023 and 182 graduate degrees, during the program which begins at 2:30 p.m. in the commencement tent on the Seth Goldfine Memorial Rugby Field.
Hua Hsu’s Stay True: A Memoir Wins 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) has announced the recipients of its book awards for 2022. Bard Professor of Literature Hua Hsu’s Stay True: A Memoir won the award for autobiography. NBCC Committee Chair Heather Scott Partington called Hsu’s account of a college-age friendship a “clear-eyed and vulnerable exploration of platonic friendship and lifelong loss” that “demonstrates how earnest teens seek to define themselves in dichotomies, and how it’s our routines that create our identities.” Read More >>Valentina A. Grasso Joins Bard College as Assistant Professor of Medieval History in the Division of Social Studies
Bard College’s Division of Social Studies is pleased to announce the appointment of Valentina A. Grasso as Assistant Professor of Medieval History. Her tenure-track appointment will begin in the fall of the 2023–24 academic year. Grasso is currently an assistant professor of Semitics at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She was previously visiting assistant professor at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, an affiliate member of the European Research Council (ERC) project “The Qur'an as a Source for Late Antiquity,” and of the Cambridge Silk Road Program, which focuses on the study of the history and culture of the Silk Road countries. Read More >>More Bard News
- The Gagarin Center at Bard College Hosts International Conference at Columbia University on April 13–14
- Robert Storr Gives 25,000 Volumes, the Core of His Library, and Papers From His Professional Archive to Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
- Bard Alumna Juliana Maitenaz ’22 Wins Fulbright Scholarship to Brazil
- Climate Despair to Climate Repair: Global Teach-in on Climate Change, Led by Bard College, to Be Held March 29, 2023
- Bard Reading Initiative Hosts “The Way We Read Now” Conference on April 21
- The Fisher Center at Bard Presents the World Premiere of Beth Gill’s Nail Biter, the Second Fisher Center LAB Commission from the Acclaimed Contemporary Choreographer, March 31 – April 2
Upcoming Events
- 3/31Friday
Beth Gill: Nail Biter
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Fisher Center, LUMA Theater - 4/01Saturday
Beth Gill: Nail Biter
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Fisher Center, LUMA Theater - 4/01Saturday
Beethoven’s Missa solemnis
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater