Keep the Conversation Going with the Hannah Arendt Center
Friday, February 28, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2027
Hannah Arendt Center
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The Virtual Reading Group. Join Founder and Academic Director Roger Berkowitz and Acting Assistant Director Samantha Hill on select Fridays as they lead a live, online group discussion in a thoughtful and spirited exploration of the works of Hannah Arendt. Learn more about the VRG >>
Tuesday, September 15, 2020 – Wednesday, June 30, 2021
UPSTREAMING
Inspired by the writing of James Baldwin Created by Meshell Ndegeocello In collaboration with Charlotte Brathwaite Featuring the contributions of Staceyann Chin, Suné Woods, Nicholas Galanin, Paul Thompson '93, Justin Hicks, and more.
A Co-Production of Bismillah, LLC and Fisher Center at Bard Co-Commissioned by Live Arts Bard, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre, and Festival de Marseille.
“No label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and no religion is more important than the human being.”—James Baldwin
A project inspired by James Baldwin’s truth-telling treatise on justice in the United States, The Fire Next Time, and our endlessly changing world. Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin is a 21st-century ritual tool kit for justice. A call for revolution. A gift during turbulent times.
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy—but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” —James Baldwin
Each month, September–December 2020, we offered gifts—music, thoughts, meditations, and visual testimonies of resilience—inspired by James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time.
“This is my offering to you. This is a different experience so I hope you have an open mind or at least an open heart. I see James Baldwin as an Orisha, his writing as the living word. I wanted to pay homage to him and to the time and effort it took to sit, to physically and emotionally fill the page with a truth that made my own sorrow feel less lonely. He put me on a path of empathy and humility towards my parents. It humbled me towards my mother born in 1944 and my father born in 1939—a time I can’t imagine living in while black.” —Meshell
Thursday, January 21, 2021 – Friday, December 31, 2021
Various “We projected ourselves into a future in which we are loved absolutely and we rehearsed our lives there.”
The Future Is Present is a process and a practice, it’s a model for building community in a very small and incredibly powerful way. Led by artists Charlotte Brathwaite, Justin Hicks, Janani Balasubramanian, Sunder Ganglani, June Cross, and Alyssa Simmons, the project built a small community of Black and Indigenous young people* and a small community of young artists from Bard College** to spend seven weeks cultivating intimacy and discourse.
The youth cohort created demands on our collective future. The Bard community members listened, deeply.
Now, a process of amplifying those demands is underway. The artists at Bard have made a series of short films for the youth cohort, available to view here.
This is an invitation to you to participate, somehow, on terms that make sense in your community. We would love to talk about what that might mean for you. Reach out to coordinator@thefutureispresent.xyz.
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 – Tuesday, May 25, 2021 1–2 pm
Online Event
On Tuesdays and Thursdays during the Spring Semester, the Bard College Remote Student Ambassador Program will be hosting weekly Conversational English Groups; all interested students are welcome to attend.
Please help spread the word!
Join our Remote Student Ambassadors Wandi Liang, Yuchen Zhou, Ethan Gutman, Lizi Tabliashvili and practice your conversational English!
Earth Month Drawdown Ecochallenge: Bard + Community
A one-month team climate competition
Thursday, April 1, 2021 – Friday, April 30, 2021
Online Event Bardians engaging with climate solutions through this online competition will have a greater understanding of how we can reverse global warming. Log in to sign up for Bard + Community Team via the URL provided or find the competition at earthmonth.ecochallenge.org.Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement.
Online Event The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Cassils, the third speaker in the Artists and Activists lecture series.
In a time of lockdown and quarantines, of fascism and propaganda, we need reason and action to be supported by visions of change. Cassils discusses artistic and performative tactics uniquely suited for our time. Reflecting on ten years of practice where they carve out strategies for trans representation, they discuss tactics to educate, engage and agitate while attempting to balance and center love, community and relevant action.
Cassils is a transgender artist who makes their own body the material and protagonist of their performances. Cassils’s art contemplates the history(s) of LGBTQI+ violence, representation, struggle and survival. For Cassils, performance is a form of social sculpture: drawing from the idea that bodies are formed in relation to forces of power and social expectations, Cassils’ work investigates historical contexts to examine the present moment.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Degree Recital: Gabrielle Hartman, bassoon with Gwyyon Sin, piano
Saturday, April 3, 2021 7–8:30 pm
Online Event Works by Michel Corrette, Launy Grøndahl, Adolphus Hailstork, and Camille Saint-Saëns
Gabrielle Hartman studies with Marc Goldberg at the Bard Conservatory, where she is completing a double degree in bassoon performance and biology with a concentration in global public health. She holds both the Conservatory’s Alexander Borodin Scholarship and Bard College’s John W. Boylan Scholarship in Medicine and Science. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Workshop: Practical Introduction to Facilitating Classroom Debates
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 8–11 am
Online Event IWT CLASP and the Global Debate Network invite faculty from across the network to join us for a 3-hour hands-on, interactive workshop on facilitating classroom debates.
We will walk through the various steps of organizing classroom debates - setting a debate topic, choosing a debate format, assigning the debate, preparing students, and grading the debate - as well as the various pedagogical functions of debate - public speaking, critical thinking, research, close reading, argument construction, and analytic writing. We will also discuss specific strategies for hosting virtual/online debates.
Green Recovery / Climate Solutions / Just Transition
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 – Thursday, April 15, 2021 9 am – 11 pm
Online Event On Tuesday, April 6, OSUN's Solve Climate by 2030 project and the Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College are organizing simultaneous “global dialog” webinars to focus the world on regional and local solutions–in fifty different countries and in every US state.
The webinars will present climate solutions from experts in Hungary, South Africa, and Kyrgyzstan, as well as Florida, New Mexico and Minnesota–100 sites worldwide–about ambitious but feasible actions that could spur a just, Green Recovery and get the world on track to solving climate by 2030. Colleges and universities and local faith, civic and business groups will host viewings of the webinars and in-person discussions of how to get involved in climate solutions.
Faculty at all levels are being asked to assign viewing the webinars as homework, and then spend the following class discussing climate solutions. This opportunity is not just for environmental studies classes. The challenges posed by solving climate change range across history, science, business, culture, economics, psychology, religion, government, media, journalism and the arts. Solve Climate has disciplinary guides for follow-up discussions about the state-level, solutions-focused webinars.
The project will engage 300+ climate experts around the world as panel speakers, such as state and national political leaders, including members of the US Congress, a US Senator, a US governor, and two ambassadors from Kazakhstan.
What Does Psychology Tell Us about the Human Capacity for Hate?
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 3–4 pm
Online Event What does psychology tell us about the human capacity for hate?
Please join the Bard Center for the Study of Hate on Tuesday, April 6 at 3 pm New York Time in welcoming Samantha Moore-Berg, Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab. She will speak about her work studying conflict across the globe. The lab “aims to understand how the human mind drives intergroup conflict and to put research into action to heal those divisions.”
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
ABOUT Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information.
Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team.
WHAT WILL BE COVERED?
Overview of graduate program offerings
Alumni success and career outcomes
Admissions information
Prerequisite course requirements
Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
Financial aid availability
Tips for a standout application
DEGREE OPTIONS Degree Options Include: MS in Environmental Policy MS in Climate Science and Policy MBA in Sustainability
Dual Degree Options Include: MS/JD with Pace Law School MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability
Peace Corps Programs Include: Master's International (before you serve) Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar. Email Margo Bogossian at mbogossian@bard.edu for further details.
RSVP HERESponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
The Evolving Understanding of Gender in International Law and "Gender Ideology" Pushback
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 8–10 am
Online Event The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade welcomes all OSUN members to attend a virtual talk with Marija Antić and Ivana Radačić, who will discuss the use of the term "gender" in international human rights law, with particular attention paid to the social constructionist definition of gender in the Istanbul Convention. It will be argued that anti-gender discourse has a strong potential to undermine the developments in the domain of gender equality, only 25 years after the Beijing Conference on Women.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event World premiere of the first in the OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts' annual digital commissions, featuring a Q&A with artist Leil Zahra and Nubian Geographic hosted by Dr. Hanan Toukan (Bard College Berlin). في بيتنا بابا
Parting from a personal narrative, and using references from both popular culture and key political events, artist Leil Zahra Mortada uses the performative aspect of nationalism, and its propaganda, to contribute to a much-needed debate around Pan-Arabism and its consequences, history and present.
In this political coming-of-age, the video highlights the blurred lines between the Father figure as both the patriarch of the family and the leader of the nation. The author holds their father’s bias accountable despite the latter’s unquestionable commitment to social justice.
Leil Zahra Mortada is a transfeminist queer activist, researcher, and artist born in Beirut. Their film work includes the archival project “Words of Women from the Egyptian Revolution” and the awarded experimental short Breakup in 9 Scenes. Leil is behind the collaborative project Sound Frontier, a music research project focusing on marginalized music and sound art from a decolonial and feminist perspectives. They are a researcher and trainer on digital security, online privacy and open-source investigations. Recently they concluded a fellowship at Mozilla Foundation on the impacts of content policing on social media platforms. Their work focuses on queer and feminist politics, archiving, migration, anti-racism and decolonialism.
Nubian Geographic was founded in 2015 to document Nubia and its geography, history, language, wildlife and more. As a Nubian initiative, it works to counter the systemic erosion of the Nubian culture through research, documentation, producing resources and raising awareness. Nubian Geographic aims to become the origin of a Nubian Scientific Society that would help to preserve and revive Nubia's rich culture and history.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
AN ONLINE CONFERENCE AND PERFORMANCE SERIES, APRIL 8-10, 2021 Day One
Thursday, April 8, 2021 5:30–9 pm
Online Event This year’s annual conference of the US-China Music Institute will explore forms of Buddhist musical practice through online discussions, performances, and demonstrations. Speakers will provide historical, sociological, and musicological context for musical rituals in Buddhist traditions. Performances will draw from different regions and styles of traditional chanting, ceremonial music, and contemporary composition.
All events are free and open to the public. Learn more and register to receive links prior to each event at barduschinamusic.org/harmony2021
CONFERENCE EVENT SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, APRIL 8
BUDDHISM, MUSIC, AND SOCIETY
Panel Discussion (Zoom) 5:30-7pm EST
Speakers
Andrew Quintman, Professor of Religious Studies, Wesleyan University
Mingmei Yip, Visiting Professor of Chinese Music History, Bard College
Chen Tao, Professor of Chinese Music, Bard College; Artistic Director, Melody of Dragon, Inc.
Zhai Fengjian, Associate Researcher, China National Academy of Fine Arts
Performance (Streaming) 8-9pm EST
Featuring ceremonial chanting from
Daxiangguo Temple, Kaifang, Henan Province
Zhihua Temple, Beijing
Mount Wutai Buddhist Monk Ensemble, Shanxi Province
Jade Buddha Temple, Shanghai
Huafan University, Department of Buddhist Studies, Taipei
International Buddhist Progress Society (IBPS), North America (multiple locations)
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
by Suzan-Lori Parks Vocal Arrangements by Faith Amrapali Williams ‘22 Directed by Morgan Barnes-Whitehead ‘21 Produced by Taty Rozetta ‘21, Immanuel Williams ‘22, POC Theatre Ensemble
Featuring Skye Carter ‘22, Ogechi Egonu ‘22, Maya Lavender ‘23, Sophia Lawder ‘23, Isis Pinheiro ‘21, Taty Rozetta ‘21, Morgan Barnes-Whitehead ‘21, Faith Amrapali Williams ‘22, and Immanuel Williams ‘22
Hester, a reviled and revered abortionist, sets out on a quest to buy her son’s freedom. Branded with the letter “A” on her chest, riffing from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, her journey of vengeance, sacrifice, and the pursuit of justice in a system that has failed her leads the audience on a poetic exploration of social and political injustice.
This staged reading of one of Suzan-Lori Parks’s seldom-staged early works is led by Bard’s POC Theatre Ensemble, a student-run organization created by Jadyn Gray-Hough ‘20 and Immanuel Williams ‘22 which aims to facilitate an environment of inclusion within the Bard theatre community- particularly for people of color. POC Theatre Ensemble is primarily focused on theater written for and by people of color. Sponsored by: Bard Theater & Performance Program presents.
As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.
Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.
Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.
Open to everyone. Free training is available.
If interested, please contact: Lindsey Drew Bard Water Lab Manager ldrew@bard.eduSponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
The Buddha’s Shadow and God’s Flesh: Image and Anti-image in Huiyuan and Julian of Norwich
Yun Ni, Assistant Professor of English Literature, Peking University
Friday, April 9, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event In this talk the speaker will compare how medieval Chinese Buddhism and medieval English Christian mysticism deal with the relationship between the transcendent and the immanent. Specifically, the comparison centers on the ideology of visualization of the late fourth-century Chinese Buddhist monk Huiyuan 慧遠 (334–417) and the late fourteenth-century English Christian mystic Julian of Norwich (1342–1430). A thousand years apart, their articulations of the imagistic representation of the transcendent still reveal synchronic connections between Buddhist and Christian ideas about the absolute presence and necessary absence of the divine. Both religious thinkers use details related to the skin and to textiles when they address the representation of the “ineffable.” The ways they treat the boundaries between skin and textiles expose fundamental differences between the Trinity of the Christian God and the Buddha’s three bodies (the Trikāya), but the two religious writers reflect on a similar oscillation between the active generation and passive reception of mental images.
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Emily Johnson: Land and An Architecture of the Overflow
Friday, April 9, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Emily Johnson, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series. Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. She is a land and water protector and an activist for justice, sovereignty and well-being.
A Bessie Award-winning choreographer, Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, she is based in Lenapehoking / New York City. Emily is of the Yup’ik Nation, and since 1998 has created work that considers the experience of sensing and seeing performance. Her dances function as portals and care processions, engaging audiences within and through space, time, and environment–interacting with a place's architecture, peoples, history and role in building futures.
Emily is trying to make a world where performance is part of life; where performance is an integral connection to each other, our environment, our stories, our past, present and future.
Emily hosts monthly ceremonial fires on Mannahatta in partnership with Abrons Arts Center and Karyn Recollet. She was a co-compiler of the document, Creating New Futures: Guidelines for Ethics and Equity in the Performing Arts, and is part of an advisory group, with Reuben Roqueni, Lori Pourier, Ronee Penoi, and Vallejo Gantner - developing a First Nations Performing Arts Network.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom Link. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Research to Action Lecture Series: Making Ideas Into Law
Friday, April 9, 2021 12:15–1:30 pm
Online Event OSUN's Economic Democracy Initiative Research-to-Action series brings scholars, policy makers, and activists into conversation with OSUN students to discuss pathways for meaningful social change. The sessions highlight the practical ways in which guests have helped to actively change how we approach social and economic problems. From direct action and organizing, to public writing and speaking, to drafting legislation and other policy documents, the discussions will showcase how small steps and bottom-up efforts could potentially lead to big changes.
On Friday, April 9, Rohan Grey, Founder and President, Modern Money Network and Assistant Professor, Willamette Law and Pavlina Tcherneva, Founding Director of the Economic Democracy Initiative and Associate Professor, Bard College will discuss their respective experiences working with legislators on various policy documents, including the Job Guarantee Resolution, the ABC Act, and the WPA Act.
AN ONLINE CONFERENCE AND PERFORMANCE SERIES, APRIL 8-10, 2021 Day Two
Friday, April 9, 2021 5:30–9 pm
Online Event This year’s annual conference of the US-China Music Institute will explore forms of Buddhist musical practice through online discussions, performances, and demonstrations. Speakers will provide historical, sociological, and musicological context for musical rituals in Buddhist traditions. Performances will draw from different regions and styles of traditional chanting, ceremonial music, and contemporary composition.
All events are free and open to the public. Learn more and register to receive links prior to each event at barduschinamusic.org/harmony2021
CONFERENCE EVENT SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, APRIL 8
BUDDHISM, MUSIC, AND SOCIETY
Panel Discussion (Zoom) 5:30-7pm EST
Speakers
Andrew Quintman, Professor of Religious Studies, Wesleyan University
Mingmei Yip, Visiting Professor of Chinese Music History, Bard College
Chen Tao, Professor of Chinese Music, Bard College; Artistic Director, Melody of Dragon, Inc.
Zhai Fengjian, Associate Researcher, China National Academy of Fine Arts
Performance (Streaming) 8-9pm EST
Featuring ceremonial chanting from
Daxiangguo Temple, Kaifang, Henan Province
Zhihua Temple, Beijing
Mount Wutai Buddhist Monk Ensemble, Shanxi Province
Jade Buddha Temple, Shanghai
Huafan University, Department of Buddhist Studies, Taipei
International Buddhist Progress Society (IBPS), North America (multiple locations)
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
by Suzan-Lori Parks Vocal Arrangements by Faith Amrapali Williams ‘22 Directed by Morgan Barnes-Whitehead ‘21 Produced by Taty Rozetta ‘21, Immanuel Williams ‘22, POC Theatre Ensemble
Featuring Skye Carter ‘22, Ogechi Egonu ‘22, Maya Lavender ‘23, Sophia Lawder ‘23, Isis Pinheiro ‘21, Taty Rozetta ‘21, Morgan Barnes-Whitehead ‘21, Faith Amrapali Williams ‘22, and Immanuel Williams ‘22
Hester, a reviled and revered abortionist, sets out on a quest to buy her son’s freedom. Branded with the letter “A” on her chest, riffing from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, her journey of vengeance, sacrifice, and the pursuit of justice in a system that has failed her leads the audience on a poetic exploration of social and political injustice.
This staged reading of one of Suzan-Lori Parks’s seldom-staged early works is led by Bard’s POC Theatre Ensemble, a student-run organization created by Jadyn Gray-Hough ‘20 and Immanuel Williams ‘22 which aims to facilitate an environment of inclusion within the Bard theatre community- particularly for people of color. POC Theatre Ensemble is primarily focused on theater written for and by people of color. Sponsored by: Bard Theater & Performance Program presents.
AN ONLINE CONFERENCE AND PERFORMANCE SERIES, APRIL 8-10, 2021 Day Three
Saturday, April 10, 2021 7:30–9:30 pm
Online Event This year’s annual conference of the US-China Music Institute will explore forms of Buddhist musical practice through online discussions, performances, and demonstrations. Speakers will provide historical, sociological, and musicological context for musical rituals in Buddhist traditions. Performances will draw from different regions and styles of traditional chanting, ceremonial music, and contemporary composition.
All events are free and open to the public. Learn more and register to receive links prior to each event at barduschinamusic.org/harmony2021
CONFERENCE EVENT SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, APRIL 8
BUDDHISM, MUSIC, AND SOCIETY
Panel Discussion (Zoom) 5:30-7pm EST
Speakers
Andrew Quintman, Professor of Religious Studies, Wesleyan University
Mingmei Yip, Visiting Professor of Chinese Music History, Bard College
Chen Tao, Professor of Chinese Music, Bard College; Artistic Director, Melody of Dragon, Inc.
Zhai Fengjian, Associate Researcher, China National Academy of Fine Arts
Performance (Streaming) 8-9pm EST
Featuring ceremonial chanting from
Daxiangguo Temple, Kaifang, Henan Province
Zhihua Temple, Beijing
Mount Wutai Buddhist Monk Ensemble, Shanxi Province
Jade Buddha Temple, Shanghai
Huafan University, Department of Buddhist Studies, Taipei
International Buddhist Progress Society (IBPS), North America (multiple locations)
TŌN music director Leon Botstein leads the orchestra in Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony and Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium), featuring violin soloist Zongheng Zhang, a winner of the 2020 Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition. Also on the program is the 2008 work Ácana from Cuban-born composer Tania León, and Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, performed with pianist Blair McMillen.
Leon Botsteinconductor Zongheng Zhang ’21violin Blair McMillenpiano
Tania LeónÁcana Bernstein Serenade (after Plato's Symposium) Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3, Scottish
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Bilingualism vs. No-lingualism: Speechlessness as a Tool
Monday, April 12, 2021 9:30–11 am
Online Event OSUN, along with European Humanities University and Bard Translation and Translatability initiative invite OSUN members to an online event with Tatsiana Zamirouskaya, a writer and journalist from Minsk, Belarus, currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Her recent collection of metaphysical sci-fi stories, The Land of Random Numbers (2019), was longlisted for the Russian Bestseller Award and NOS Literary Award. Her novel about digital immortality and memory, The Deadnet, will be published in April 2021 by the AST/Elena Shubina Imprint. She has an MFA from Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and is a recipient of fellowships from the Macdowell Colony and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom link. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Attendees will hear from a panel of current students and alumni of Bard's MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy. Our panel of student/alum experts will discuss topics such as:
career outcomes -- how the MS degrees at CEP and MBA in Sustainability have led to impactful sustainability careers
the program experience -- highlights on courses and key features at Bard (including the NYCLab course and the CEP internship)
how to get the most of your graduate school journey -- career development + student engagement opportunities at Bard
how to make your application stand out -- tips on perfecting your application materials, advice on getting through the graduate school admissions process
In addition: Program Director Eban Goodstein will provide an overview of the program offerings at Bard CEP and the MBA in Sustainability.
Our Admissions staff will also be on hand to provide information on the application process and answer questions regarding:
financial aid opportunities
successfully completing program prerequisites
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar. Email Margo Bogossian at mbogossian@bard.edu for further details.
RSVP HERE Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
In Conversation with Author Nikkya Hargrove ’05: On Writing Memoir and Equity in Publishing
A BardWrites Event
Monday, April 12, 2021 7–8 pm
Online Event The Office of Alumni/ae Affairs and Career Development Office presents a special BardWrites event, featuring author and Bardian Nikkya Hargrove ‘05, for a discussion about personal essay, memoir, and equity in publishing. Nikkya’s work has been published by outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. Her much-anticipated debut memoir, Mama:A Black, Queer Woman’s Journey to Motherhood (Algonquin), is due for publication in fall 2022. Nikkya is also a member of Bard’s Board of Governors and is chair of the alumni/ae Diversity Committee. The event will be hosted by author Maya Gottfried ‘95 and is free to members of the Bard community. Registration is required.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Career Development Office.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
A lecture with Vladimir Orlov (Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Smolny) of St. Petersburg University)
Thursday, April 15, 2021 12–1 pm
Online Event It is well-known that Joseph Stalin, leader of the USSR, left the performance of Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District in great outrage in 1936, which was followed with the first serious attack against Shostakovich. But underneath this, what was the real perception of the communist ideology by the composer? Did he actually stay aloof (like Andrei Volkonsky), comply cynically (like Sergei Prokofiev) or genuinely believe in it (like Alexander Davidenko)?
The lecture will discuss Shostakovich's examples of Soviet music, namely his ballets (The Bolt, The Golden Age), operas and other compositions and their up-and-down reception by the Soviet public and officialdom.
Join via ZoomSponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Open Networking Session on Defining Civic Engagement
Friday, April 16, 2021 9–10 am
Online Event This Open Networking Session on Defining Civic Engagement is sponsored by the Civic Engagement Working Group and is open to all OSUN members. This session will pose the question of how to define civic engagement on your campus.
Please share this networking opportunity with interested colleagues at your institution.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Kenny Fries, Author and Professor at Goddard College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program
"Disability Can Save Your Life"
Friday, April 16, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event When disability is placed at the center of events, where it belongs, it provides the lens through which many of our society's ills can be clearly seen and, thus, changed.
On Friday, April 16, the Bard College Speaker Series on Disability welcomes you to join a presentation by writer Kenny Fries, who will read and talk about how societal views of disability, most importantly eugenics, have come to the surface once again as the COVID pandemic confronts us. Fries makes connections between his research on Aktion T4, the Nazi program that mass-murdered disabled people, and how it resonates today, as well as the importance of understanding how disability representation affects all of us, disabled and nondisabled alike.
For over two decades, Kenny Fries has looked at how disability provides an understanding of the interconnectedness between individuals and also between different cultures, using the prism of his life as a writer who lives with a congenital physical disability to forge a new understanding of a wide range of values and ideas, from systems of interdependence to intersectionality to Darwinian evolution to disability and the Holocaust.
Fries’s works include The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory, which received the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights; In the Province of the Gods, recipient of the Creative Capital literature award; and his forthcoming Stumbling Over History: Disability and the Holocaust, for which he received a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Arts and Literary Arts Fellowship.
Bard is committed to making every effort to provide reasonable accommodations for accessibility needs. There will be live captioning as well as an ASL interpreter and transcription services offered for this webinar. For other accessibility needs or for more information about this event please contact Disability Speaker Series Coordinator Jaime Alves at alves@bard.edu or 845-758-7112. Sponsored by the Dean of the College and Disability Services.Sponsored by: Bard College Speaker Series on Disability ; Dean of the College.
Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani: Border Forensics
Friday, April 16, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series
In this presentation, Heller and Pezzani will discuss the nature of contemporary borders and the ever-shifting modalities of border violence. Drawing on their work within the Forensic Oceanography project since 2011, which has focused on the Mediterranean frontier, they will discuss the strategies they have used to document traces of violent events and seek accountability for them. Reflecting on the effectiveness, but also the ambivalences, limits and blindspots of this practice, they will point to the directions they are beginning to explore within their new project, Border Forensics.
Working together since 2011, Heller and Pezzani co-founded Forensic Oceanography, a collaborative project that critically investigates the militarised border regime and the politics of migration in the Mediterranean Sea. Their collaborative work has been used as evidence in courts of law, published across different media and academic outlets, as well as exhibited and screened internationally.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Trauma Informed Teaching Lecture Series: An Introduction with Ariane Simard
Saturday, April 17, 2021 4–6 am
Online Event 10 AM Vienna l 4 AM New York
The OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives are pleased to invite OSUN members to the "Trauma Informed Educators Workshop and Lecture Series," developed by Ariane Simard from Bard College Berlin.
Trauma Informed Education is an approach that recognizes the influence and impact of trauma on students and educators in the classroom and takes into account how factors including racism, sexism, poverty, community violence, migrant and refugee status, mental health issues, addiction, abuse and neglect can hinder academic achievement as well as personal growth and functioning.
If we recognize education, as bell hooks does, as “part of our real world experience, our real life,” (Democratic Education) then can we understand that trauma, in all its forms, is in the classroom and in the corporate university? As we begin to expand our teaching to include admittedly traumatized populations–be it war veterans, refugees or people who are incarcerated–we need a set of skills that can both address their trauma as well as the trauma we ourselves carry into the classroom.
Drawing on studies on education, brain development and the lasting effects of trauma, as well as some nonviolent communication techniques, this workshop series aims to provide educators with a new understanding on how trauma can affect a student’s ability to function as well as offer up some tools for creating a more trauma informed classroom where educators can begin to model the kind of techniques that will help create new pathways of learning.
In the first session with Ariane Simard of Bard College Berlin, we will introduce ourselves and discuss how we understand definitions of trauma in the classroom as well as explore definitions of cultural trauma, intergenerational trauma and institutional trauma. Because these topics get heavy at times, we will use the methods of the workshop, practice, and humor to sketch out a better understanding of how trauma affects our work in blended learning classrooms. Participants should read the bell hooks essay “Democratic Education” in her book Teaching Community, before attending the workshop.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
THE CONDO CONCERTS: Fred Sherry String Quartet performs Schubert's String Quartet No. 15 in G Major and selections from German Dances
Free, live-streamed concert with with violinists Leila Josefowicz and Jesse Mills; violist Hsin-Yun Huang; and cellist Fred Sherry.
Sunday, April 18, 2021 7–9 pm
Online Event
Reserve your free tickets for this performance of Schubert's String Quartet No. 15 in G Major and Four Canons here: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/bard-college-conservatory-of-music-32430490385
THE CONDO CONCERTS is a series of concerts streamed from the Bard Conservatory with the generous support of artist George Condo. Featured musicians for the next concert on May 2 are clarinetist Anthony McGill and pianist Anna Polonsky.
Donations from the live-stream audience will benefit the Conservatory Scholarship Fund, including a new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarships. Donate online at www.bard.edu/conservatory/givingSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability are pleased to host a webinar series providing aspiring change-makers access to sustainability experts to gain tips on launching their own careers in sustainability.
Leaders in sustainable supply chain management create sourcing relationships with environmentally sound and socially just upstream producers worldwide, with the goal of creating organizations in service to a sustainable and equitable future. Join this conversation to hear from thought leaders who have been at the forefront of building sustainable supply chains to learn how they launched and grew their career, what tips they have for high impact careers in the industry, and what they look for in their new hires. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of panelists.
RSVP HERESponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Seeing Countries From Afar: A Conversation with Suzy Hansen & Kamila Shamsie
Thursday, April 22, 2021 12–1 pm
Online Event Donald Trump and Brexit shook up the liberal world order and the notion of global cooperation. The Covid-19 crisis further diminished the leadership role that the US and UK have long held. How does the rest of the world see these two countries? BGIA professor and award winning journalist Suzy Hansen and award winning novelist Kamila Shamsie have both written extensively about the US and UK from abroad. Join us for a conversation about seeing countries from afar on Thursday, April 22 at 12pm EST/6pm Vienna. RSVP required. Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
Closing Opportunity Gaps For Young Men of Color: The State of Mentorship and Youth Development Post-2020
Thursday, April 22, 2021 5:30–6:45 pm
Online Event In the midst of the 2020 global pandemic, waves of nation-wide protests prompting urgent and frank conversations about race and social justice in this country. As COVID-19 exacerbated systemic inequalities, the opportunity gaps faced by young people across the country widened at an alarming rate—and yet, 2020 also gave rise to creative problem solving and nimble decision making like never before. Join us for a conversation that explores the unique position of youth development and mentorship in communities of color in a post-COVID world; and how the growing movement in defense of Black lives is affecting inclusion amongst young people trying to successfully navigate and thrive in predominantly white institutions and spaces.
Panelists: Michael Blake Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee
Brandon Micheal Hall Activist, star of God Friended Me and HBO's Search Party
Wes Moore Chief Executive Officer of Robin Hood Foundation
Angel Obergh Brothers@ Mentor & Campus Leader, Bard College '23
Moderators: Shawn Dove CEO, Campaign for Black Male Achievement
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Trauma Informed Teaching Lecture Series: Nonviolent Communication with Ariane Simard
Friday, April 23, 2021 7–8:30 am
Online Event 12 PM Vienna l 7 AM New York
The OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives are pleased to invite OSUN members to the "Trauma Informed Educators Workshop and Lecture Series," developed by Ariane Simard from Bard College Berlin.
Trauma Informed Education is an approach that recognizes the influence and impact of trauma on students and educators in the classroom and takes into account how factors including racism, sexism, poverty, community violence, migrant and refugee status, mental health issues, addiction, abuse and neglect can hinder academic achievement as well as personal growth and functioning.
Drawing on studies on education, brain development and the lasting effects of trauma, as well as some nonviolent communication techniques, this workshop series aims to provide educators with a new understanding on how trauma can affect a student’s ability to function as well as offer up some tools for creating a more trauma informed classroom where educators can begin to model the kind of techniques that will help create new pathways of learning.
In the second session with Kristin Masters of Nonviolent Communication Santa Cruz, the group discussed how the way we listen to our students and to ourselves is a key component of nonviolent communication, what some would call the first step in becoming trauma informed.
Using the key components and tools of nonviolent communication, we will workshop ways to turn these tools into lesson plans and learning objectives. Instructors should be prepared to discuss an assignment they regularly teach and should have either attended or viewed the recording of Kristin Masters’ April 20th workshop on Nonviolent Communication.
Please register to receive the Zoom link to attend. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
April Conference: “Reading the Word and the World”
Writing to Read for Today’s Classrooms - Online
Friday, April 23, 2021 9 am – 4 pm
Online Event IWT’s 2020 April Conference planned to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed in English, exploring why Freire’s ideas are still important for us to consider today. We hoped to investigate ways for students to become “critical co-investigators,” empowered to think of their readerly and writerly pursuits beyond the walls of the classroom. Like many events across the nation and the world, last year’s IWT conference was cancelled in order to prioritize the health and safety of all participants.
We are excited to revisit our intended focus on Friere and his lasting impact on schooling in IWT’s 2021 April Conference, but our focus has shifted. The emergency move to remote instruction necessitated by COVID-19 brought to the forefront a number of questions and challenges related to how students approach reading and writing and to the habits of mind necessary for these literacy practices to generate student agency. In his foreword to the 2010 Carnegie Corporation Report Writing to Read, Vartan Gregorian suggests, “the ability to read, comprehend, and write—in other words, to organize information into knowledge—can be viewed as tantamount to a survival skill.” Almost thirty years earlier, in “The Importance of the Act of Reading” (1983), Freire placed similar weight on the critical link between reading, writing, and action beyond the walls of the classroom. Freire proposes that, “the word is not merely preceded by reading the world, but by a certain form of writing it or rewriting it, that is, of transforming it by means of conscious, practical work.”
Freire’s crucial insight is that reading and writing are necessary avenues to student agency. However, sometimes the reality of the classroom is that at least a few students have not read, come to class unprepared, or are disengaged. These challenges point to larger questions around access and engagement. How do we share with our students the idea that literacy is empowering? How do we inspire students to love reading and to seek out texts to respond to? How can we use writing to read strategies to generate student engagement with meaningful questions and problems? How do we nurture authentic learning communities—whether online or in person—by creating collaborative reading sequences, shared language, and shared practices? How can writing to read practices democratize the comprehension process, modeling for students how inclusive discussion happens?
These are large questions that get to the core of IWT’s mission: to transform classrooms across disciplines through writing-rich practices that help students discover and interpret meaning, engage in productive dialogue, and learn critical thinking skills that support academic learning. By focusing on reading and writing-to-read practices, this year’s conference provides an opportunity for faculty to think together about how we can approach texts as critical co-investigators alongside our students. As always, the day will involve experiential workshop sessions and a plenary. We will highlight a range of strategies that consider how students read and how writing supports the habits of mind necessary for deeper, critical reading.Sponsored by: Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Online Event The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Ashmina Ranjit, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series.
Just because we’re born with a vagina, why accept that our family, society, and state continue treating us as unequal "beings?" Why do sexual violence, unequal rights, and inequities persist? Why do we need to rethink and reimagine intersections of gender, caste, class and religion?
I plan to reflect on insights from my journey of resisting and interrogating complex politics of Hindu patriarchy, especially the role of the nation-state in sustaining structures of dominance and exploitation. Using art as a tool for investigating and reclaiming my own position as a "Being," I am exploring my multiple identities as a human, citizen, Asian, artist amongst others.
Ashmina is Nepal’s leading conceptual artist and activist. She is at the forefront of artivism (art+activism) in South Asia. Her artworks challenge and confront the status quo. Subversion of stereotypes, politics of gender and human rights are critical to her process. During insurgency, Ashmina's performances brought together armed forces, Maoists, civilians and students to raise voices against violence, and for democracy. Ashmina performs, leads workshops, and connects communities. She creates an environment of collaboration and innovation for artists at her art hub LASANAA / NexUs. The Kathmandu Post featured her as one of 25 individuals who shaped Nepal.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
“I was strong and tireless and full of passion and loved dancing as deeply as one could ever love anything.”— Aileen Passloff
For over 40 years, Aileen Passloff was the L. May Hawver and Wallace Benjamin Flint Professor of Dance at Bard, in addition to her numerous contributions to the field of dance.
In celebration of Aileen’s life and work, her former students (who became life-long collaborators) Arthur Aviles '87, Charlotte Hendrickson '07, and EmmaGrace Skove-Epes '08 will give tribute performances during this live-streamed event. Special guest speakers, as well as pre-recorded messages and video archives of Aileen’s work, will also be featured.
Presented in collaboration with the Fisher Center, the President’s Office, the Dean’s Office, and the Office of Development and Alumni/ae AffairsSponsored by: Dance Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Vote for Sonita Alizada for the 2021 Freedom Prize
Sunday, April 25, 2021 9 am – 10 pm
Online Event International rapper, human rights activist and Bard law student Sonita Alizada has been nominated for the 2021 Freedom Prize, an educational initiative in which young people from around the world honor an inspiring person or organisation who is committed to an exemplary fight for freedom.
OSUN and Bard College are pleased to support Alizada in her human rights work advocating against the practice of forced child marriage and urge OSUN members to consider submitting an online vote for her by April 25.
A native of Herat, Alizada fled with her family to Iran to escape the Taliban regime. She lived as an undocumented refugee street child in Teheran but was eventually able to secure a basic education through an NGO. Twice, at the ages of 9 and 16, she escaped being forced into marriages by her family.
Inspired by her plight and the shared experiences of friends, she wrote the moving rap song "Daughters for Sale," which garnered worldwide attention and led to a collaboration with an Iranian filmmaker on a music video. Rohksareh Ghaemmaghemi also made an award-winning documentary about Alizada called "Sonita."
After moving to the United States, Alizada secured a high school and college education and she is now studying to become a lawyer so she can return to her country to defend Afghan women and children. She has been named one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s Global Thinkers of 2015, BBC’s 100 Women of 2015, an Asia Societies Game Changer of 2017, a 2018 MTV Generation Change Award recipient, Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2019 and featured by CNN, NPR, BBC, Buzzfeed News and over 150 publications in 20 countries.
More than 12 million girls are forced to marry as children every year. OSUN encourages members to consider voting for Alizada for the Freedom Prize and to help uplift an important voice in the next generation of global human rights activists. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Trauma Informed Teaching: Brain Science and the Trauma Informed Classroom with Louise Godbold
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 2–10 am
Online Event 8 AM Vienna l 2 AM New York
The OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives are pleased to invite OSUN members to the "Trauma Informed Educators Workshop and Lecture Series," developed by Ariane Simard from Bard College Berlin.
Trauma Informed Education is an approach that recognizes the influence and impact of trauma on students and educators in the classroom and takes into account how factors including racism, sexism, poverty, community violence, migrant and refugee status, mental health issues, addiction, abuse and neglect can hinder academic achievement as well as personal growth and functioning.
If we recognize education, as bell hooks does, as “part of our real world experience, our real life,” (Democratic Education) then can we understand that trauma, in all its forms, is in the classroom and in the corporate university? As we begin to expand our teaching to include admittedly traumatized populations–be it war veterans, refugees or people who are incarcerated–we need a set of skills that can both address their trauma as well as the trauma we ourselves carry into the classroom.
Drawing on studies on education, brain development and the lasting effects of trauma, as well as some nonviolent communication techniques, this workshop series aims to provide educators with a new understanding on how trauma can affect a student’s ability to function as well as offer up some tools for creating a more trauma informed classroom where educators can begin to model the kind of techniques that will help create new pathways of learning.
The third session will be led by Louise Godblod of Echo. Part of becoming trauma informed means understanding how biochemistry and the traumatized brain functions and how fight/flight/freeze response translates into less than ideal student behavior. We will discuss what can we do as educators to make our classrooms places where students not only learn the subjects we are teaching, but actually learn resilience.
As the executive director of the Los Angeles based nonprofit Echo Training, Louise Godbold has been working with community activists and educators for over 30 years on finding methods to educate about trauma and resilience in order to promote survivor empowerment. In this workshop we will learn how trauma affects the brain and develop some methods to provide support for traumatized students in blended learning classrooms. This workshop will be recorded.
Please register to receive the Zoom link to attend. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Spring Workshops with SOAS: Introduction to Engaged Research Methods – Freire’s Listening Survey and Participatory Visualisation
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 9 am – 12 pm
Online Event The OSUN Engaged Research Fund is pleased to announce a spring online training series on Engaged Research being held in conjunction with SOAS. This workshop series, open to faculty and graduate students across OSUN, is an introduction to the basic tools of Training for Transformation and Participatory Methods for Engaged Research. Faculty and graduate students interested in applying to the Engaged Research Fund are invited and encouraged to sign up to participate.
Session 4 – Introduction to Engaged Research Methods: Freire’s Listening Survey and Participatory Visualisation will be facilitated by Andrea Cornwall
This workshop is part of Phase 2 (April 26th - May 4th), which is open to current applicants of the 2021 Engaged Research Fund’s Engaged Scholar Award (for graduate students) and Engaged Faculty Scholar Award (for faculty members).
Inaugural Economic Democracy Keynote: Economic Rights and Racial Justice
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 12:15–1:30 pm
Online Event The OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative (EDI) is pleased to launch the Economic Democracy Keynote Series. It features scholars, public intellectuals, and activists whose work on economic, social, and environmental justice is shaping the tenor of our time.
Professor Darrick Hamilton, Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy and Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification and Political Economy at the New School for Social Research, will deliver the inaugural address titled "Economic Rights and Racial Justice" on Tuesday, April 27th at 12:15 PM (EST) via zoom.
Also sponsored by the Bard College Racial Justice Initiative and Economics Program.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Spring Workshops with SOAS: Freire in Practice – Engaged Research as Transformation
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 9 am – 12 pm
Online Event The OSUN Engaged Research Fund is pleased to announce a spring online training series on Engaged Research being held in conjunction with SOAS. This workshop series, open to faculty and graduate students across OSUN, is an introduction to the basic tools of Training for Transformation and Participatory Methods for Engaged Research. Faculty and graduate students interested in applying to the Engaged Research Fund are invited and encouraged to sign up to participate.
Session 5 - Wednesday, April 28th, 9 am-12 pm EST — Freire in Practice: Engaged Research as Transformation. Facilitated by Maria Lahumatina
This workshop is part of Phase 2 (April 26th - May 4th), which is open to current applicants of the 2021 Engaged Research Fund’s Engaged Scholar Award (for graduate students) and Engaged Faculty Scholar Award (for faculty members).
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event Choreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry. Their ideas are supported by a professional staff of designers.
War and Peace: International Conflicts at the Time of Pandemics
A lecture with Daria Pushkina (Academic Director of Bard-Smolny Program, Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Smolny) of St. Petersburg University)
Thursday, April 29, 2021 12–1 pm
Online Event What is international security? How did the international community's understanding of a security threat change (or did not) during the current pandemic? What are the major conflicts in the world at present and how do current international organizations manage (or fail) to deal with them?
Join via ZoomSponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Michael Sadowski, MEN I'VE NEVER BEEN: A MEMOIR, in conversation with Domenica Ruta
Thursday, April 29, 2021 7–8:30 pm
Hosted by Oblong Books
Award-winning author Michael Sadowski will talk with Domenica Ruta about his new memoir, Men I’ve Never Been, in which he recounts his odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity—and, ultimately, his sexual orientation—in order to become who he thinks he’s supposed to be.
Each chapter of Men I've Never Been highlights a different image of manhood that Sadowski saw at home, at school, or on television—from sports heroes, hunters, and game show hosts to his charismatic but hard-drinking father. As he learns not to talk, laugh, cry, or love, he retreats further behind a stoic mask of silence—outwardly well-functioning but emotionally isolated, sinking under the weight of the past.
Michael Sadowski is the author of the acclaimed books In a Queer Voice, Safe Is Not Enough, and Adolescents at School. He is an administrator and professor at Bard College.
Domenica Ruta is the author of the celebrated New York Times bestselling memoir With or Without You and the novel Last Day. Her short fiction has appeared in the Boston Review, the Indiana Review, and Epoch. She lives in New York City.
This online event is free. Your purchase of a book helps support the author and our independent bookstore and is greatly appreciated. Shipping or contactless curbside pickup available.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event Choreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry. Their ideas are supported by a professional staff of designers.
Trauma Informed Teaching: Brain Science and the Trauma Informed Classroom with Ariane Simard
Friday, April 30, 2021 7–8:30 am
Online Event 12 PM Vienna l 7 AM New York
The OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives are pleased to invite OSUN members to the "Trauma Informed Educators Workshop and Lecture Series," developed by Ariane Simard from Bard College Berlin.
Trauma Informed Education is an approach that recognizes the influence and impact of trauma on students and educators in the classroom and takes into account how factors including racism, sexism, poverty, community violence, migrant and refugee status, mental health issues, addiction, abuse and neglect can hinder academic achievement as well as personal growth and functioning.
Drawing on studies on education, brain development and the lasting effects of trauma, as well as some nonviolent communication techniques, this workshop series aims to provide educators with a new understanding on how trauma can affect a student’s ability to function as well as offer up some tools for creating a more trauma informed classroom where educators can begin to model the kind of techniques that will help create new pathways of learning.
In the third session, led by Louise Godblod of Echo, it was discussed that part of becoming trauma-informed means understanding how biochemistry and the traumatized brain functions and how fight/flight/freeze response translates into less than ideal student behavior. We discussed what can we do as educators to make our classrooms places where students not only learn the subjects we are teaching, but actually learn resilience.
Reviewing the information we learned about the brain, how trauma affects brain chemistry and the methods we learned about dealing with these effects, at this event we will workshop ways to turn these tools into lesson plans and learning objectives. Instructors should be prepared to discuss an assignment they regularly teach and should have either attended or viewed the recording of Louse Godbold’s April 27th workshop on Brain Science and the Trauma Informed Classroom. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Mark Sealy: Photography, Race, Rights, and Representation
Friday, April 30, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Mark Sealy, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series.
Dr Mark Sealy MBE is interested in the relationships between photography and social change, identity politics, race, and human rights. He has been director of London-based photographic arts institution Autograph ABP since 1991. He has produced numerous artist publications, curated exhibitions, and commissioned photographers and filmmakers worldwide, including the critically acclaimed exhibition Human Rights Human Wrongs at Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto in 2013 and at The Photographers’ Gallery, London in 2015.
Sealy has written for many international photography publications, including Foam Magazine, Aperture and the Independent Newspaper in London. He has written numerous essays for theoretical publications and artist monographs. In 2002, Sealy and professor Stuart Hall co-authored Different, which focused on photography and identity politics. His notable projects include the exhibition Self Evident Ikon Gallery Birmingham, The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding / Decoding for the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto and seminal and celebrated projects on the works of James Van Der Zee, Gordon Parks, Carrie Mae Weems, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Mahtab Hussain, Maud Sulter and Sunil Gupta are just a few of the many artists exhibitions he has curated. He was also the guest curator for Houston Fotofest 2020 working under the title of African Cosmologies Photography Time and the Other.
His recent book, Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time, was published in 2019 by Lawrence and Wishart. His PhD was awarded by Durham University England and focused on Photography and Cultural Violence. Sealy is also currently Principal Fellow Decolonising Photography at University of the Arts London.
Keep the Conversation Going with the Hannah Arendt Center
Friday, February 28, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2027
Hannah Arendt Center
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The Virtual Reading Group. Join Founder and Academic Director Roger Berkowitz and Acting Assistant Director Samantha Hill on select Fridays as they lead a live, online group discussion in a thoughtful and spirited exploration of the works of Hannah Arendt. Learn more about the VRG >>
Tuesday, September 15, 2020 – Wednesday, June 30, 2021
UPSTREAMING
Inspired by the writing of James Baldwin Created by Meshell Ndegeocello In collaboration with Charlotte Brathwaite Featuring the contributions of Staceyann Chin, Suné Woods, Nicholas Galanin, Paul Thompson '93, Justin Hicks, and more.
A Co-Production of Bismillah, LLC and Fisher Center at Bard Co-Commissioned by Live Arts Bard, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre, and Festival de Marseille.
“No label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and no religion is more important than the human being.”—James Baldwin
A project inspired by James Baldwin’s truth-telling treatise on justice in the United States, The Fire Next Time, and our endlessly changing world. Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin is a 21st-century ritual tool kit for justice. A call for revolution. A gift during turbulent times.
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy—but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” —James Baldwin
Each month, September–December 2020, we offered gifts—music, thoughts, meditations, and visual testimonies of resilience—inspired by James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time.
“This is my offering to you. This is a different experience so I hope you have an open mind or at least an open heart. I see James Baldwin as an Orisha, his writing as the living word. I wanted to pay homage to him and to the time and effort it took to sit, to physically and emotionally fill the page with a truth that made my own sorrow feel less lonely. He put me on a path of empathy and humility towards my parents. It humbled me towards my mother born in 1944 and my father born in 1939—a time I can’t imagine living in while black.” —Meshell
Thursday, January 21, 2021 – Friday, December 31, 2021
Various “We projected ourselves into a future in which we are loved absolutely and we rehearsed our lives there.”
The Future Is Present is a process and a practice, it’s a model for building community in a very small and incredibly powerful way. Led by artists Charlotte Brathwaite, Justin Hicks, Janani Balasubramanian, Sunder Ganglani, June Cross, and Alyssa Simmons, the project built a small community of Black and Indigenous young people* and a small community of young artists from Bard College** to spend seven weeks cultivating intimacy and discourse.
The youth cohort created demands on our collective future. The Bard community members listened, deeply.
Now, a process of amplifying those demands is underway. The artists at Bard have made a series of short films for the youth cohort, available to view here.
This is an invitation to you to participate, somehow, on terms that make sense in your community. We would love to talk about what that might mean for you. Reach out to coordinator@thefutureispresent.xyz.
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 – Tuesday, May 25, 2021 1–2 pm
Online Event
On Tuesdays and Thursdays during the Spring Semester, the Bard College Remote Student Ambassador Program will be hosting weekly Conversational English Groups; all interested students are welcome to attend.
Please help spread the word!
Join our Remote Student Ambassadors Wandi Liang, Yuchen Zhou, Ethan Gutman, Lizi Tabliashvili and practice your conversational English!
Earth Month Drawdown Ecochallenge: Bard + Community
A one-month team climate competition
Thursday, April 1, 2021 – Friday, April 30, 2021
Online Event Bardians engaging with climate solutions through this online competition will have a greater understanding of how we can reverse global warming. Log in to sign up for Bard + Community Team via the URL provided or find the competition at earthmonth.ecochallenge.org.Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement.
Online Event The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Cassils, the third speaker in the Artists and Activists lecture series.
In a time of lockdown and quarantines, of fascism and propaganda, we need reason and action to be supported by visions of change. Cassils discusses artistic and performative tactics uniquely suited for our time. Reflecting on ten years of practice where they carve out strategies for trans representation, they discuss tactics to educate, engage and agitate while attempting to balance and center love, community and relevant action.
Cassils is a transgender artist who makes their own body the material and protagonist of their performances. Cassils’s art contemplates the history(s) of LGBTQI+ violence, representation, struggle and survival. For Cassils, performance is a form of social sculpture: drawing from the idea that bodies are formed in relation to forces of power and social expectations, Cassils’ work investigates historical contexts to examine the present moment.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Degree Recital: Gabrielle Hartman, bassoon with Gwyyon Sin, piano
Saturday, April 3, 2021 7–8:30 pm
Online Event Works by Michel Corrette, Launy Grøndahl, Adolphus Hailstork, and Camille Saint-Saëns
Gabrielle Hartman studies with Marc Goldberg at the Bard Conservatory, where she is completing a double degree in bassoon performance and biology with a concentration in global public health. She holds both the Conservatory’s Alexander Borodin Scholarship and Bard College’s John W. Boylan Scholarship in Medicine and Science. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Workshop: Practical Introduction to Facilitating Classroom Debates
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 8–11 am
Online Event IWT CLASP and the Global Debate Network invite faculty from across the network to join us for a 3-hour hands-on, interactive workshop on facilitating classroom debates.
We will walk through the various steps of organizing classroom debates - setting a debate topic, choosing a debate format, assigning the debate, preparing students, and grading the debate - as well as the various pedagogical functions of debate - public speaking, critical thinking, research, close reading, argument construction, and analytic writing. We will also discuss specific strategies for hosting virtual/online debates.
Green Recovery / Climate Solutions / Just Transition
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 – Thursday, April 15, 2021 9 am – 11 pm
Online Event On Tuesday, April 6, OSUN's Solve Climate by 2030 project and the Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College are organizing simultaneous “global dialog” webinars to focus the world on regional and local solutions–in fifty different countries and in every US state.
The webinars will present climate solutions from experts in Hungary, South Africa, and Kyrgyzstan, as well as Florida, New Mexico and Minnesota–100 sites worldwide–about ambitious but feasible actions that could spur a just, Green Recovery and get the world on track to solving climate by 2030. Colleges and universities and local faith, civic and business groups will host viewings of the webinars and in-person discussions of how to get involved in climate solutions.
Faculty at all levels are being asked to assign viewing the webinars as homework, and then spend the following class discussing climate solutions. This opportunity is not just for environmental studies classes. The challenges posed by solving climate change range across history, science, business, culture, economics, psychology, religion, government, media, journalism and the arts. Solve Climate has disciplinary guides for follow-up discussions about the state-level, solutions-focused webinars.
The project will engage 300+ climate experts around the world as panel speakers, such as state and national political leaders, including members of the US Congress, a US Senator, a US governor, and two ambassadors from Kazakhstan.
What Does Psychology Tell Us about the Human Capacity for Hate?
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 3–4 pm
Online Event What does psychology tell us about the human capacity for hate?
Please join the Bard Center for the Study of Hate on Tuesday, April 6 at 3 pm New York Time in welcoming Samantha Moore-Berg, Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab. She will speak about her work studying conflict across the globe. The lab “aims to understand how the human mind drives intergroup conflict and to put research into action to heal those divisions.”
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
ABOUT Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information.
Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team.
WHAT WILL BE COVERED?
Overview of graduate program offerings
Alumni success and career outcomes
Admissions information
Prerequisite course requirements
Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
Financial aid availability
Tips for a standout application
DEGREE OPTIONS Degree Options Include: MS in Environmental Policy MS in Climate Science and Policy MBA in Sustainability
Dual Degree Options Include: MS/JD with Pace Law School MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability
Peace Corps Programs Include: Master's International (before you serve) Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar. Email Margo Bogossian at mbogossian@bard.edu for further details.
RSVP HERESponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
The Evolving Understanding of Gender in International Law and "Gender Ideology" Pushback
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 8–10 am
Online Event The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade welcomes all OSUN members to attend a virtual talk with Marija Antić and Ivana Radačić, who will discuss the use of the term "gender" in international human rights law, with particular attention paid to the social constructionist definition of gender in the Istanbul Convention. It will be argued that anti-gender discourse has a strong potential to undermine the developments in the domain of gender equality, only 25 years after the Beijing Conference on Women.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event World premiere of the first in the OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts' annual digital commissions, featuring a Q&A with artist Leil Zahra and Nubian Geographic hosted by Dr. Hanan Toukan (Bard College Berlin). في بيتنا بابا
Parting from a personal narrative, and using references from both popular culture and key political events, artist Leil Zahra Mortada uses the performative aspect of nationalism, and its propaganda, to contribute to a much-needed debate around Pan-Arabism and its consequences, history and present.
In this political coming-of-age, the video highlights the blurred lines between the Father figure as both the patriarch of the family and the leader of the nation. The author holds their father’s bias accountable despite the latter’s unquestionable commitment to social justice.
Leil Zahra Mortada is a transfeminist queer activist, researcher, and artist born in Beirut. Their film work includes the archival project “Words of Women from the Egyptian Revolution” and the awarded experimental short Breakup in 9 Scenes. Leil is behind the collaborative project Sound Frontier, a music research project focusing on marginalized music and sound art from a decolonial and feminist perspectives. They are a researcher and trainer on digital security, online privacy and open-source investigations. Recently they concluded a fellowship at Mozilla Foundation on the impacts of content policing on social media platforms. Their work focuses on queer and feminist politics, archiving, migration, anti-racism and decolonialism.
Nubian Geographic was founded in 2015 to document Nubia and its geography, history, language, wildlife and more. As a Nubian initiative, it works to counter the systemic erosion of the Nubian culture through research, documentation, producing resources and raising awareness. Nubian Geographic aims to become the origin of a Nubian Scientific Society that would help to preserve and revive Nubia's rich culture and history.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
AN ONLINE CONFERENCE AND PERFORMANCE SERIES, APRIL 8-10, 2021 Day One
Thursday, April 8, 2021 5:30–9 pm
Online Event This year’s annual conference of the US-China Music Institute will explore forms of Buddhist musical practice through online discussions, performances, and demonstrations. Speakers will provide historical, sociological, and musicological context for musical rituals in Buddhist traditions. Performances will draw from different regions and styles of traditional chanting, ceremonial music, and contemporary composition.
All events are free and open to the public. Learn more and register to receive links prior to each event at barduschinamusic.org/harmony2021
CONFERENCE EVENT SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, APRIL 8
BUDDHISM, MUSIC, AND SOCIETY
Panel Discussion (Zoom) 5:30-7pm EST
Speakers
Andrew Quintman, Professor of Religious Studies, Wesleyan University
Mingmei Yip, Visiting Professor of Chinese Music History, Bard College
Chen Tao, Professor of Chinese Music, Bard College; Artistic Director, Melody of Dragon, Inc.
Zhai Fengjian, Associate Researcher, China National Academy of Fine Arts
Performance (Streaming) 8-9pm EST
Featuring ceremonial chanting from
Daxiangguo Temple, Kaifang, Henan Province
Zhihua Temple, Beijing
Mount Wutai Buddhist Monk Ensemble, Shanxi Province
Jade Buddha Temple, Shanghai
Huafan University, Department of Buddhist Studies, Taipei
International Buddhist Progress Society (IBPS), North America (multiple locations)
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
by Suzan-Lori Parks Vocal Arrangements by Faith Amrapali Williams ‘22 Directed by Morgan Barnes-Whitehead ‘21 Produced by Taty Rozetta ‘21, Immanuel Williams ‘22, POC Theatre Ensemble
Featuring Skye Carter ‘22, Ogechi Egonu ‘22, Maya Lavender ‘23, Sophia Lawder ‘23, Isis Pinheiro ‘21, Taty Rozetta ‘21, Morgan Barnes-Whitehead ‘21, Faith Amrapali Williams ‘22, and Immanuel Williams ‘22
Hester, a reviled and revered abortionist, sets out on a quest to buy her son’s freedom. Branded with the letter “A” on her chest, riffing from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, her journey of vengeance, sacrifice, and the pursuit of justice in a system that has failed her leads the audience on a poetic exploration of social and political injustice.
This staged reading of one of Suzan-Lori Parks’s seldom-staged early works is led by Bard’s POC Theatre Ensemble, a student-run organization created by Jadyn Gray-Hough ‘20 and Immanuel Williams ‘22 which aims to facilitate an environment of inclusion within the Bard theatre community- particularly for people of color. POC Theatre Ensemble is primarily focused on theater written for and by people of color. Sponsored by: Bard Theater & Performance Program presents.
As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.
Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.
Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.
Open to everyone. Free training is available.
If interested, please contact: Lindsey Drew Bard Water Lab Manager ldrew@bard.eduSponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
The Buddha’s Shadow and God’s Flesh: Image and Anti-image in Huiyuan and Julian of Norwich
Yun Ni, Assistant Professor of English Literature, Peking University
Friday, April 9, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event In this talk the speaker will compare how medieval Chinese Buddhism and medieval English Christian mysticism deal with the relationship between the transcendent and the immanent. Specifically, the comparison centers on the ideology of visualization of the late fourth-century Chinese Buddhist monk Huiyuan 慧遠 (334–417) and the late fourteenth-century English Christian mystic Julian of Norwich (1342–1430). A thousand years apart, their articulations of the imagistic representation of the transcendent still reveal synchronic connections between Buddhist and Christian ideas about the absolute presence and necessary absence of the divine. Both religious thinkers use details related to the skin and to textiles when they address the representation of the “ineffable.” The ways they treat the boundaries between skin and textiles expose fundamental differences between the Trinity of the Christian God and the Buddha’s three bodies (the Trikāya), but the two religious writers reflect on a similar oscillation between the active generation and passive reception of mental images.
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Emily Johnson: Land and An Architecture of the Overflow
Friday, April 9, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Emily Johnson, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series. Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. She is a land and water protector and an activist for justice, sovereignty and well-being.
A Bessie Award-winning choreographer, Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, she is based in Lenapehoking / New York City. Emily is of the Yup’ik Nation, and since 1998 has created work that considers the experience of sensing and seeing performance. Her dances function as portals and care processions, engaging audiences within and through space, time, and environment–interacting with a place's architecture, peoples, history and role in building futures.
Emily is trying to make a world where performance is part of life; where performance is an integral connection to each other, our environment, our stories, our past, present and future.
Emily hosts monthly ceremonial fires on Mannahatta in partnership with Abrons Arts Center and Karyn Recollet. She was a co-compiler of the document, Creating New Futures: Guidelines for Ethics and Equity in the Performing Arts, and is part of an advisory group, with Reuben Roqueni, Lori Pourier, Ronee Penoi, and Vallejo Gantner - developing a First Nations Performing Arts Network.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom Link. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Research to Action Lecture Series: Making Ideas Into Law
Friday, April 9, 2021 12:15–1:30 pm
Online Event OSUN's Economic Democracy Initiative Research-to-Action series brings scholars, policy makers, and activists into conversation with OSUN students to discuss pathways for meaningful social change. The sessions highlight the practical ways in which guests have helped to actively change how we approach social and economic problems. From direct action and organizing, to public writing and speaking, to drafting legislation and other policy documents, the discussions will showcase how small steps and bottom-up efforts could potentially lead to big changes.
On Friday, April 9, Rohan Grey, Founder and President, Modern Money Network and Assistant Professor, Willamette Law and Pavlina Tcherneva, Founding Director of the Economic Democracy Initiative and Associate Professor, Bard College will discuss their respective experiences working with legislators on various policy documents, including the Job Guarantee Resolution, the ABC Act, and the WPA Act.
AN ONLINE CONFERENCE AND PERFORMANCE SERIES, APRIL 8-10, 2021 Day Two
Friday, April 9, 2021 5:30–9 pm
Online Event This year’s annual conference of the US-China Music Institute will explore forms of Buddhist musical practice through online discussions, performances, and demonstrations. Speakers will provide historical, sociological, and musicological context for musical rituals in Buddhist traditions. Performances will draw from different regions and styles of traditional chanting, ceremonial music, and contemporary composition.
All events are free and open to the public. Learn more and register to receive links prior to each event at barduschinamusic.org/harmony2021
CONFERENCE EVENT SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, APRIL 8
BUDDHISM, MUSIC, AND SOCIETY
Panel Discussion (Zoom) 5:30-7pm EST
Speakers
Andrew Quintman, Professor of Religious Studies, Wesleyan University
Mingmei Yip, Visiting Professor of Chinese Music History, Bard College
Chen Tao, Professor of Chinese Music, Bard College; Artistic Director, Melody of Dragon, Inc.
Zhai Fengjian, Associate Researcher, China National Academy of Fine Arts
Performance (Streaming) 8-9pm EST
Featuring ceremonial chanting from
Daxiangguo Temple, Kaifang, Henan Province
Zhihua Temple, Beijing
Mount Wutai Buddhist Monk Ensemble, Shanxi Province
Jade Buddha Temple, Shanghai
Huafan University, Department of Buddhist Studies, Taipei
International Buddhist Progress Society (IBPS), North America (multiple locations)
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
by Suzan-Lori Parks Vocal Arrangements by Faith Amrapali Williams ‘22 Directed by Morgan Barnes-Whitehead ‘21 Produced by Taty Rozetta ‘21, Immanuel Williams ‘22, POC Theatre Ensemble
Featuring Skye Carter ‘22, Ogechi Egonu ‘22, Maya Lavender ‘23, Sophia Lawder ‘23, Isis Pinheiro ‘21, Taty Rozetta ‘21, Morgan Barnes-Whitehead ‘21, Faith Amrapali Williams ‘22, and Immanuel Williams ‘22
Hester, a reviled and revered abortionist, sets out on a quest to buy her son’s freedom. Branded with the letter “A” on her chest, riffing from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, her journey of vengeance, sacrifice, and the pursuit of justice in a system that has failed her leads the audience on a poetic exploration of social and political injustice.
This staged reading of one of Suzan-Lori Parks’s seldom-staged early works is led by Bard’s POC Theatre Ensemble, a student-run organization created by Jadyn Gray-Hough ‘20 and Immanuel Williams ‘22 which aims to facilitate an environment of inclusion within the Bard theatre community- particularly for people of color. POC Theatre Ensemble is primarily focused on theater written for and by people of color. Sponsored by: Bard Theater & Performance Program presents.
AN ONLINE CONFERENCE AND PERFORMANCE SERIES, APRIL 8-10, 2021 Day Three
Saturday, April 10, 2021 7:30–9:30 pm
Online Event This year’s annual conference of the US-China Music Institute will explore forms of Buddhist musical practice through online discussions, performances, and demonstrations. Speakers will provide historical, sociological, and musicological context for musical rituals in Buddhist traditions. Performances will draw from different regions and styles of traditional chanting, ceremonial music, and contemporary composition.
All events are free and open to the public. Learn more and register to receive links prior to each event at barduschinamusic.org/harmony2021
CONFERENCE EVENT SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, APRIL 8
BUDDHISM, MUSIC, AND SOCIETY
Panel Discussion (Zoom) 5:30-7pm EST
Speakers
Andrew Quintman, Professor of Religious Studies, Wesleyan University
Mingmei Yip, Visiting Professor of Chinese Music History, Bard College
Chen Tao, Professor of Chinese Music, Bard College; Artistic Director, Melody of Dragon, Inc.
Zhai Fengjian, Associate Researcher, China National Academy of Fine Arts
Performance (Streaming) 8-9pm EST
Featuring ceremonial chanting from
Daxiangguo Temple, Kaifang, Henan Province
Zhihua Temple, Beijing
Mount Wutai Buddhist Monk Ensemble, Shanxi Province
Jade Buddha Temple, Shanghai
Huafan University, Department of Buddhist Studies, Taipei
International Buddhist Progress Society (IBPS), North America (multiple locations)
TŌN music director Leon Botstein leads the orchestra in Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony and Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium), featuring violin soloist Zongheng Zhang, a winner of the 2020 Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition. Also on the program is the 2008 work Ácana from Cuban-born composer Tania León, and Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, performed with pianist Blair McMillen.
Leon Botsteinconductor Zongheng Zhang ’21violin Blair McMillenpiano
Tania LeónÁcana Bernstein Serenade (after Plato's Symposium) Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3, Scottish
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Bilingualism vs. No-lingualism: Speechlessness as a Tool
Monday, April 12, 2021 9:30–11 am
Online Event OSUN, along with European Humanities University and Bard Translation and Translatability initiative invite OSUN members to an online event with Tatsiana Zamirouskaya, a writer and journalist from Minsk, Belarus, currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Her recent collection of metaphysical sci-fi stories, The Land of Random Numbers (2019), was longlisted for the Russian Bestseller Award and NOS Literary Award. Her novel about digital immortality and memory, The Deadnet, will be published in April 2021 by the AST/Elena Shubina Imprint. She has an MFA from Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and is a recipient of fellowships from the Macdowell Colony and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom link. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Attendees will hear from a panel of current students and alumni of Bard's MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy. Our panel of student/alum experts will discuss topics such as:
career outcomes -- how the MS degrees at CEP and MBA in Sustainability have led to impactful sustainability careers
the program experience -- highlights on courses and key features at Bard (including the NYCLab course and the CEP internship)
how to get the most of your graduate school journey -- career development + student engagement opportunities at Bard
how to make your application stand out -- tips on perfecting your application materials, advice on getting through the graduate school admissions process
In addition: Program Director Eban Goodstein will provide an overview of the program offerings at Bard CEP and the MBA in Sustainability.
Our Admissions staff will also be on hand to provide information on the application process and answer questions regarding:
financial aid opportunities
successfully completing program prerequisites
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar. Email Margo Bogossian at mbogossian@bard.edu for further details.
RSVP HERE Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
In Conversation with Author Nikkya Hargrove ’05: On Writing Memoir and Equity in Publishing
A BardWrites Event
Monday, April 12, 2021 7–8 pm
Online Event The Office of Alumni/ae Affairs and Career Development Office presents a special BardWrites event, featuring author and Bardian Nikkya Hargrove ‘05, for a discussion about personal essay, memoir, and equity in publishing. Nikkya’s work has been published by outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. Her much-anticipated debut memoir, Mama:A Black, Queer Woman’s Journey to Motherhood (Algonquin), is due for publication in fall 2022. Nikkya is also a member of Bard’s Board of Governors and is chair of the alumni/ae Diversity Committee. The event will be hosted by author Maya Gottfried ‘95 and is free to members of the Bard community. Registration is required.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Career Development Office.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
A lecture with Vladimir Orlov (Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Smolny) of St. Petersburg University)
Thursday, April 15, 2021 12–1 pm
Online Event It is well-known that Joseph Stalin, leader of the USSR, left the performance of Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District in great outrage in 1936, which was followed with the first serious attack against Shostakovich. But underneath this, what was the real perception of the communist ideology by the composer? Did he actually stay aloof (like Andrei Volkonsky), comply cynically (like Sergei Prokofiev) or genuinely believe in it (like Alexander Davidenko)?
The lecture will discuss Shostakovich's examples of Soviet music, namely his ballets (The Bolt, The Golden Age), operas and other compositions and their up-and-down reception by the Soviet public and officialdom.
Join via ZoomSponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Open Networking Session on Defining Civic Engagement
Friday, April 16, 2021 9–10 am
Online Event This Open Networking Session on Defining Civic Engagement is sponsored by the Civic Engagement Working Group and is open to all OSUN members. This session will pose the question of how to define civic engagement on your campus.
Please share this networking opportunity with interested colleagues at your institution.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Kenny Fries, Author and Professor at Goddard College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program
"Disability Can Save Your Life"
Friday, April 16, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event When disability is placed at the center of events, where it belongs, it provides the lens through which many of our society's ills can be clearly seen and, thus, changed.
On Friday, April 16, the Bard College Speaker Series on Disability welcomes you to join a presentation by writer Kenny Fries, who will read and talk about how societal views of disability, most importantly eugenics, have come to the surface once again as the COVID pandemic confronts us. Fries makes connections between his research on Aktion T4, the Nazi program that mass-murdered disabled people, and how it resonates today, as well as the importance of understanding how disability representation affects all of us, disabled and nondisabled alike.
For over two decades, Kenny Fries has looked at how disability provides an understanding of the interconnectedness between individuals and also between different cultures, using the prism of his life as a writer who lives with a congenital physical disability to forge a new understanding of a wide range of values and ideas, from systems of interdependence to intersectionality to Darwinian evolution to disability and the Holocaust.
Fries’s works include The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory, which received the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights; In the Province of the Gods, recipient of the Creative Capital literature award; and his forthcoming Stumbling Over History: Disability and the Holocaust, for which he received a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Arts and Literary Arts Fellowship.
Bard is committed to making every effort to provide reasonable accommodations for accessibility needs. There will be live captioning as well as an ASL interpreter and transcription services offered for this webinar. For other accessibility needs or for more information about this event please contact Disability Speaker Series Coordinator Jaime Alves at alves@bard.edu or 845-758-7112. Sponsored by the Dean of the College and Disability Services.Sponsored by: Bard College Speaker Series on Disability ; Dean of the College.
Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani: Border Forensics
Friday, April 16, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series
In this presentation, Heller and Pezzani will discuss the nature of contemporary borders and the ever-shifting modalities of border violence. Drawing on their work within the Forensic Oceanography project since 2011, which has focused on the Mediterranean frontier, they will discuss the strategies they have used to document traces of violent events and seek accountability for them. Reflecting on the effectiveness, but also the ambivalences, limits and blindspots of this practice, they will point to the directions they are beginning to explore within their new project, Border Forensics.
Working together since 2011, Heller and Pezzani co-founded Forensic Oceanography, a collaborative project that critically investigates the militarised border regime and the politics of migration in the Mediterranean Sea. Their collaborative work has been used as evidence in courts of law, published across different media and academic outlets, as well as exhibited and screened internationally.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Trauma Informed Teaching Lecture Series: An Introduction with Ariane Simard
Saturday, April 17, 2021 4–6 am
Online Event 10 AM Vienna l 4 AM New York
The OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives are pleased to invite OSUN members to the "Trauma Informed Educators Workshop and Lecture Series," developed by Ariane Simard from Bard College Berlin.
Trauma Informed Education is an approach that recognizes the influence and impact of trauma on students and educators in the classroom and takes into account how factors including racism, sexism, poverty, community violence, migrant and refugee status, mental health issues, addiction, abuse and neglect can hinder academic achievement as well as personal growth and functioning.
If we recognize education, as bell hooks does, as “part of our real world experience, our real life,” (Democratic Education) then can we understand that trauma, in all its forms, is in the classroom and in the corporate university? As we begin to expand our teaching to include admittedly traumatized populations–be it war veterans, refugees or people who are incarcerated–we need a set of skills that can both address their trauma as well as the trauma we ourselves carry into the classroom.
Drawing on studies on education, brain development and the lasting effects of trauma, as well as some nonviolent communication techniques, this workshop series aims to provide educators with a new understanding on how trauma can affect a student’s ability to function as well as offer up some tools for creating a more trauma informed classroom where educators can begin to model the kind of techniques that will help create new pathways of learning.
In the first session with Ariane Simard of Bard College Berlin, we will introduce ourselves and discuss how we understand definitions of trauma in the classroom as well as explore definitions of cultural trauma, intergenerational trauma and institutional trauma. Because these topics get heavy at times, we will use the methods of the workshop, practice, and humor to sketch out a better understanding of how trauma affects our work in blended learning classrooms. Participants should read the bell hooks essay “Democratic Education” in her book Teaching Community, before attending the workshop.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
THE CONDO CONCERTS: Fred Sherry String Quartet performs Schubert's String Quartet No. 15 in G Major and selections from German Dances
Free, live-streamed concert with with violinists Leila Josefowicz and Jesse Mills; violist Hsin-Yun Huang; and cellist Fred Sherry.
Sunday, April 18, 2021 7–9 pm
Online Event
Reserve your free tickets for this performance of Schubert's String Quartet No. 15 in G Major and Four Canons here: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/bard-college-conservatory-of-music-32430490385
THE CONDO CONCERTS is a series of concerts streamed from the Bard Conservatory with the generous support of artist George Condo. Featured musicians for the next concert on May 2 are clarinetist Anthony McGill and pianist Anna Polonsky.
Donations from the live-stream audience will benefit the Conservatory Scholarship Fund, including a new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarships. Donate online at www.bard.edu/conservatory/givingSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability are pleased to host a webinar series providing aspiring change-makers access to sustainability experts to gain tips on launching their own careers in sustainability.
Leaders in sustainable supply chain management create sourcing relationships with environmentally sound and socially just upstream producers worldwide, with the goal of creating organizations in service to a sustainable and equitable future. Join this conversation to hear from thought leaders who have been at the forefront of building sustainable supply chains to learn how they launched and grew their career, what tips they have for high impact careers in the industry, and what they look for in their new hires. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of panelists.
RSVP HERESponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Seeing Countries From Afar: A Conversation with Suzy Hansen & Kamila Shamsie
Thursday, April 22, 2021 12–1 pm
Online Event Donald Trump and Brexit shook up the liberal world order and the notion of global cooperation. The Covid-19 crisis further diminished the leadership role that the US and UK have long held. How does the rest of the world see these two countries? BGIA professor and award winning journalist Suzy Hansen and award winning novelist Kamila Shamsie have both written extensively about the US and UK from abroad. Join us for a conversation about seeing countries from afar on Thursday, April 22 at 12pm EST/6pm Vienna. RSVP required. Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
Closing Opportunity Gaps For Young Men of Color: The State of Mentorship and Youth Development Post-2020
Thursday, April 22, 2021 5:30–6:45 pm
Online Event In the midst of the 2020 global pandemic, waves of nation-wide protests prompting urgent and frank conversations about race and social justice in this country. As COVID-19 exacerbated systemic inequalities, the opportunity gaps faced by young people across the country widened at an alarming rate—and yet, 2020 also gave rise to creative problem solving and nimble decision making like never before. Join us for a conversation that explores the unique position of youth development and mentorship in communities of color in a post-COVID world; and how the growing movement in defense of Black lives is affecting inclusion amongst young people trying to successfully navigate and thrive in predominantly white institutions and spaces.
Panelists: Michael Blake Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee
Brandon Micheal Hall Activist, star of God Friended Me and HBO's Search Party
Wes Moore Chief Executive Officer of Robin Hood Foundation
Angel Obergh Brothers@ Mentor & Campus Leader, Bard College '23
Moderators: Shawn Dove CEO, Campaign for Black Male Achievement
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Trauma Informed Teaching Lecture Series: Nonviolent Communication with Ariane Simard
Friday, April 23, 2021 7–8:30 am
Online Event 12 PM Vienna l 7 AM New York
The OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives are pleased to invite OSUN members to the "Trauma Informed Educators Workshop and Lecture Series," developed by Ariane Simard from Bard College Berlin.
Trauma Informed Education is an approach that recognizes the influence and impact of trauma on students and educators in the classroom and takes into account how factors including racism, sexism, poverty, community violence, migrant and refugee status, mental health issues, addiction, abuse and neglect can hinder academic achievement as well as personal growth and functioning.
Drawing on studies on education, brain development and the lasting effects of trauma, as well as some nonviolent communication techniques, this workshop series aims to provide educators with a new understanding on how trauma can affect a student’s ability to function as well as offer up some tools for creating a more trauma informed classroom where educators can begin to model the kind of techniques that will help create new pathways of learning.
In the second session with Kristin Masters of Nonviolent Communication Santa Cruz, the group discussed how the way we listen to our students and to ourselves is a key component of nonviolent communication, what some would call the first step in becoming trauma informed.
Using the key components and tools of nonviolent communication, we will workshop ways to turn these tools into lesson plans and learning objectives. Instructors should be prepared to discuss an assignment they regularly teach and should have either attended or viewed the recording of Kristin Masters’ April 20th workshop on Nonviolent Communication.
Please register to receive the Zoom link to attend. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
April Conference: “Reading the Word and the World”
Writing to Read for Today’s Classrooms - Online
Friday, April 23, 2021 9 am – 4 pm
Online Event IWT’s 2020 April Conference planned to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed in English, exploring why Freire’s ideas are still important for us to consider today. We hoped to investigate ways for students to become “critical co-investigators,” empowered to think of their readerly and writerly pursuits beyond the walls of the classroom. Like many events across the nation and the world, last year’s IWT conference was cancelled in order to prioritize the health and safety of all participants.
We are excited to revisit our intended focus on Friere and his lasting impact on schooling in IWT’s 2021 April Conference, but our focus has shifted. The emergency move to remote instruction necessitated by COVID-19 brought to the forefront a number of questions and challenges related to how students approach reading and writing and to the habits of mind necessary for these literacy practices to generate student agency. In his foreword to the 2010 Carnegie Corporation Report Writing to Read, Vartan Gregorian suggests, “the ability to read, comprehend, and write—in other words, to organize information into knowledge—can be viewed as tantamount to a survival skill.” Almost thirty years earlier, in “The Importance of the Act of Reading” (1983), Freire placed similar weight on the critical link between reading, writing, and action beyond the walls of the classroom. Freire proposes that, “the word is not merely preceded by reading the world, but by a certain form of writing it or rewriting it, that is, of transforming it by means of conscious, practical work.”
Freire’s crucial insight is that reading and writing are necessary avenues to student agency. However, sometimes the reality of the classroom is that at least a few students have not read, come to class unprepared, or are disengaged. These challenges point to larger questions around access and engagement. How do we share with our students the idea that literacy is empowering? How do we inspire students to love reading and to seek out texts to respond to? How can we use writing to read strategies to generate student engagement with meaningful questions and problems? How do we nurture authentic learning communities—whether online or in person—by creating collaborative reading sequences, shared language, and shared practices? How can writing to read practices democratize the comprehension process, modeling for students how inclusive discussion happens?
These are large questions that get to the core of IWT’s mission: to transform classrooms across disciplines through writing-rich practices that help students discover and interpret meaning, engage in productive dialogue, and learn critical thinking skills that support academic learning. By focusing on reading and writing-to-read practices, this year’s conference provides an opportunity for faculty to think together about how we can approach texts as critical co-investigators alongside our students. As always, the day will involve experiential workshop sessions and a plenary. We will highlight a range of strategies that consider how students read and how writing supports the habits of mind necessary for deeper, critical reading.Sponsored by: Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Online Event The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Ashmina Ranjit, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series.
Just because we’re born with a vagina, why accept that our family, society, and state continue treating us as unequal "beings?" Why do sexual violence, unequal rights, and inequities persist? Why do we need to rethink and reimagine intersections of gender, caste, class and religion?
I plan to reflect on insights from my journey of resisting and interrogating complex politics of Hindu patriarchy, especially the role of the nation-state in sustaining structures of dominance and exploitation. Using art as a tool for investigating and reclaiming my own position as a "Being," I am exploring my multiple identities as a human, citizen, Asian, artist amongst others.
Ashmina is Nepal’s leading conceptual artist and activist. She is at the forefront of artivism (art+activism) in South Asia. Her artworks challenge and confront the status quo. Subversion of stereotypes, politics of gender and human rights are critical to her process. During insurgency, Ashmina's performances brought together armed forces, Maoists, civilians and students to raise voices against violence, and for democracy. Ashmina performs, leads workshops, and connects communities. She creates an environment of collaboration and innovation for artists at her art hub LASANAA / NexUs. The Kathmandu Post featured her as one of 25 individuals who shaped Nepal.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
“I was strong and tireless and full of passion and loved dancing as deeply as one could ever love anything.”— Aileen Passloff
For over 40 years, Aileen Passloff was the L. May Hawver and Wallace Benjamin Flint Professor of Dance at Bard, in addition to her numerous contributions to the field of dance.
In celebration of Aileen’s life and work, her former students (who became life-long collaborators) Arthur Aviles '87, Charlotte Hendrickson '07, and EmmaGrace Skove-Epes '08 will give tribute performances during this live-streamed event. Special guest speakers, as well as pre-recorded messages and video archives of Aileen’s work, will also be featured.
Presented in collaboration with the Fisher Center, the President’s Office, the Dean’s Office, and the Office of Development and Alumni/ae AffairsSponsored by: Dance Program.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Vote for Sonita Alizada for the 2021 Freedom Prize
Sunday, April 25, 2021 9 am – 10 pm
Online Event International rapper, human rights activist and Bard law student Sonita Alizada has been nominated for the 2021 Freedom Prize, an educational initiative in which young people from around the world honor an inspiring person or organisation who is committed to an exemplary fight for freedom.
OSUN and Bard College are pleased to support Alizada in her human rights work advocating against the practice of forced child marriage and urge OSUN members to consider submitting an online vote for her by April 25.
A native of Herat, Alizada fled with her family to Iran to escape the Taliban regime. She lived as an undocumented refugee street child in Teheran but was eventually able to secure a basic education through an NGO. Twice, at the ages of 9 and 16, she escaped being forced into marriages by her family.
Inspired by her plight and the shared experiences of friends, she wrote the moving rap song "Daughters for Sale," which garnered worldwide attention and led to a collaboration with an Iranian filmmaker on a music video. Rohksareh Ghaemmaghemi also made an award-winning documentary about Alizada called "Sonita."
After moving to the United States, Alizada secured a high school and college education and she is now studying to become a lawyer so she can return to her country to defend Afghan women and children. She has been named one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s Global Thinkers of 2015, BBC’s 100 Women of 2015, an Asia Societies Game Changer of 2017, a 2018 MTV Generation Change Award recipient, Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2019 and featured by CNN, NPR, BBC, Buzzfeed News and over 150 publications in 20 countries.
More than 12 million girls are forced to marry as children every year. OSUN encourages members to consider voting for Alizada for the Freedom Prize and to help uplift an important voice in the next generation of global human rights activists. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Trauma Informed Teaching: Brain Science and the Trauma Informed Classroom with Louise Godbold
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 2–10 am
Online Event 8 AM Vienna l 2 AM New York
The OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives are pleased to invite OSUN members to the "Trauma Informed Educators Workshop and Lecture Series," developed by Ariane Simard from Bard College Berlin.
Trauma Informed Education is an approach that recognizes the influence and impact of trauma on students and educators in the classroom and takes into account how factors including racism, sexism, poverty, community violence, migrant and refugee status, mental health issues, addiction, abuse and neglect can hinder academic achievement as well as personal growth and functioning.
If we recognize education, as bell hooks does, as “part of our real world experience, our real life,” (Democratic Education) then can we understand that trauma, in all its forms, is in the classroom and in the corporate university? As we begin to expand our teaching to include admittedly traumatized populations–be it war veterans, refugees or people who are incarcerated–we need a set of skills that can both address their trauma as well as the trauma we ourselves carry into the classroom.
Drawing on studies on education, brain development and the lasting effects of trauma, as well as some nonviolent communication techniques, this workshop series aims to provide educators with a new understanding on how trauma can affect a student’s ability to function as well as offer up some tools for creating a more trauma informed classroom where educators can begin to model the kind of techniques that will help create new pathways of learning.
The third session will be led by Louise Godblod of Echo. Part of becoming trauma informed means understanding how biochemistry and the traumatized brain functions and how fight/flight/freeze response translates into less than ideal student behavior. We will discuss what can we do as educators to make our classrooms places where students not only learn the subjects we are teaching, but actually learn resilience.
As the executive director of the Los Angeles based nonprofit Echo Training, Louise Godbold has been working with community activists and educators for over 30 years on finding methods to educate about trauma and resilience in order to promote survivor empowerment. In this workshop we will learn how trauma affects the brain and develop some methods to provide support for traumatized students in blended learning classrooms. This workshop will be recorded.
Please register to receive the Zoom link to attend. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Spring Workshops with SOAS: Introduction to Engaged Research Methods – Freire’s Listening Survey and Participatory Visualisation
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 9 am – 12 pm
Online Event The OSUN Engaged Research Fund is pleased to announce a spring online training series on Engaged Research being held in conjunction with SOAS. This workshop series, open to faculty and graduate students across OSUN, is an introduction to the basic tools of Training for Transformation and Participatory Methods for Engaged Research. Faculty and graduate students interested in applying to the Engaged Research Fund are invited and encouraged to sign up to participate.
Session 4 – Introduction to Engaged Research Methods: Freire’s Listening Survey and Participatory Visualisation will be facilitated by Andrea Cornwall
This workshop is part of Phase 2 (April 26th - May 4th), which is open to current applicants of the 2021 Engaged Research Fund’s Engaged Scholar Award (for graduate students) and Engaged Faculty Scholar Award (for faculty members).
Inaugural Economic Democracy Keynote: Economic Rights and Racial Justice
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 12:15–1:30 pm
Online Event The OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative (EDI) is pleased to launch the Economic Democracy Keynote Series. It features scholars, public intellectuals, and activists whose work on economic, social, and environmental justice is shaping the tenor of our time.
Professor Darrick Hamilton, Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy and Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification and Political Economy at the New School for Social Research, will deliver the inaugural address titled "Economic Rights and Racial Justice" on Tuesday, April 27th at 12:15 PM (EST) via zoom.
Also sponsored by the Bard College Racial Justice Initiative and Economics Program.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Spring Workshops with SOAS: Freire in Practice – Engaged Research as Transformation
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 9 am – 12 pm
Online Event The OSUN Engaged Research Fund is pleased to announce a spring online training series on Engaged Research being held in conjunction with SOAS. This workshop series, open to faculty and graduate students across OSUN, is an introduction to the basic tools of Training for Transformation and Participatory Methods for Engaged Research. Faculty and graduate students interested in applying to the Engaged Research Fund are invited and encouraged to sign up to participate.
Session 5 - Wednesday, April 28th, 9 am-12 pm EST — Freire in Practice: Engaged Research as Transformation. Facilitated by Maria Lahumatina
This workshop is part of Phase 2 (April 26th - May 4th), which is open to current applicants of the 2021 Engaged Research Fund’s Engaged Scholar Award (for graduate students) and Engaged Faculty Scholar Award (for faculty members).
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event Choreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry. Their ideas are supported by a professional staff of designers.
War and Peace: International Conflicts at the Time of Pandemics
A lecture with Daria Pushkina (Academic Director of Bard-Smolny Program, Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Smolny) of St. Petersburg University)
Thursday, April 29, 2021 12–1 pm
Online Event What is international security? How did the international community's understanding of a security threat change (or did not) during the current pandemic? What are the major conflicts in the world at present and how do current international organizations manage (or fail) to deal with them?
Join via ZoomSponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
Michael Sadowski, MEN I'VE NEVER BEEN: A MEMOIR, in conversation with Domenica Ruta
Thursday, April 29, 2021 7–8:30 pm
Hosted by Oblong Books
Award-winning author Michael Sadowski will talk with Domenica Ruta about his new memoir, Men I’ve Never Been, in which he recounts his odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity—and, ultimately, his sexual orientation—in order to become who he thinks he’s supposed to be.
Each chapter of Men I've Never Been highlights a different image of manhood that Sadowski saw at home, at school, or on television—from sports heroes, hunters, and game show hosts to his charismatic but hard-drinking father. As he learns not to talk, laugh, cry, or love, he retreats further behind a stoic mask of silence—outwardly well-functioning but emotionally isolated, sinking under the weight of the past.
Michael Sadowski is the author of the acclaimed books In a Queer Voice, Safe Is Not Enough, and Adolescents at School. He is an administrator and professor at Bard College.
Domenica Ruta is the author of the celebrated New York Times bestselling memoir With or Without You and the novel Last Day. Her short fiction has appeared in the Boston Review, the Indiana Review, and Epoch. She lives in New York City.
This online event is free. Your purchase of a book helps support the author and our independent bookstore and is greatly appreciated. Shipping or contactless curbside pickup available.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Thirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event Choreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry. Their ideas are supported by a professional staff of designers.
Trauma Informed Teaching: Brain Science and the Trauma Informed Classroom with Ariane Simard
Friday, April 30, 2021 7–8:30 am
Online Event 12 PM Vienna l 7 AM New York
The OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives are pleased to invite OSUN members to the "Trauma Informed Educators Workshop and Lecture Series," developed by Ariane Simard from Bard College Berlin.
Trauma Informed Education is an approach that recognizes the influence and impact of trauma on students and educators in the classroom and takes into account how factors including racism, sexism, poverty, community violence, migrant and refugee status, mental health issues, addiction, abuse and neglect can hinder academic achievement as well as personal growth and functioning.
Drawing on studies on education, brain development and the lasting effects of trauma, as well as some nonviolent communication techniques, this workshop series aims to provide educators with a new understanding on how trauma can affect a student’s ability to function as well as offer up some tools for creating a more trauma informed classroom where educators can begin to model the kind of techniques that will help create new pathways of learning.
In the third session, led by Louise Godblod of Echo, it was discussed that part of becoming trauma-informed means understanding how biochemistry and the traumatized brain functions and how fight/flight/freeze response translates into less than ideal student behavior. We discussed what can we do as educators to make our classrooms places where students not only learn the subjects we are teaching, but actually learn resilience.
Reviewing the information we learned about the brain, how trauma affects brain chemistry and the methods we learned about dealing with these effects, at this event we will workshop ways to turn these tools into lesson plans and learning objectives. Instructors should be prepared to discuss an assignment they regularly teach and should have either attended or viewed the recording of Louse Godbold’s April 27th workshop on Brain Science and the Trauma Informed Classroom. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Mark Sealy: Photography, Race, Rights, and Representation
Friday, April 30, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Mark Sealy, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series.
Dr Mark Sealy MBE is interested in the relationships between photography and social change, identity politics, race, and human rights. He has been director of London-based photographic arts institution Autograph ABP since 1991. He has produced numerous artist publications, curated exhibitions, and commissioned photographers and filmmakers worldwide, including the critically acclaimed exhibition Human Rights Human Wrongs at Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto in 2013 and at The Photographers’ Gallery, London in 2015.
Sealy has written for many international photography publications, including Foam Magazine, Aperture and the Independent Newspaper in London. He has written numerous essays for theoretical publications and artist monographs. In 2002, Sealy and professor Stuart Hall co-authored Different, which focused on photography and identity politics. His notable projects include the exhibition Self Evident Ikon Gallery Birmingham, The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding / Decoding for the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto and seminal and celebrated projects on the works of James Van Der Zee, Gordon Parks, Carrie Mae Weems, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Mahtab Hussain, Maud Sulter and Sunil Gupta are just a few of the many artists exhibitions he has curated. He was also the guest curator for Houston Fotofest 2020 working under the title of African Cosmologies Photography Time and the Other.
His recent book, Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time, was published in 2019 by Lawrence and Wishart. His PhD was awarded by Durham University England and focused on Photography and Cultural Violence. Sealy is also currently Principal Fellow Decolonising Photography at University of the Arts London.
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