Stevenson Library at Bard College. Photo by Chris Kendall '82
Virtual Open House for Accepted Students
Saturday, April 4, 2020
9:00 am – 5:00 pm EDT
9:00 am – 5:00 pm EDT
Virtual Open House includes opening remarks by Bard President Leon Botstein, virtual tours, panel discussions on academic and cocurricular life, and numerous opportunities to explore everything that Bard has to offer. Enjoy Open House right from your home! Join us!
For more information, call 845-758-7472, e-mail admission@bard.edu, or:
Photo by Studio Incendo
Current Events
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Webinar: How to Get a Job in Sustainability Tuesday, March 31, 2020 , 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Open House in New York City - VIRTUAL Thursday, April 2, 2020 , 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
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Virtual Open House for Accepted Students Saturday, April 4, 2020 , 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
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Passover Seder Workshop Sunday, April 5, 2020 , 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Virtual Teach-in on Climate Solutions and Justice (NYS) Tuesday, April 7, 2020 , 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
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Mad Forest Friday, April 10, 2020
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Advising Days Monday, April 27, 2020 – Tuesday, April 28, 2020
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Senior Projects Due by 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, 2020 , 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
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Registration for Fall Classes Opens at 8 a.m. Thursday, May 7, 2020
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Completion Days —Regular Classes and Final Exams Wednesday, May 13, 2020 – Tuesday, May 19, 2020
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Last Day of Classes Tuesday, May 19, 2020
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Baccalaureate and Senior Dinner Thursday, May 21, 2020
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Commencement Saturday, May 23, 2020
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Arrival Day, Check-in, and Financial Clearance for All First-Year Students Friday, August 7, 2020
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Language and Thinking Program Monday, August 10, 2020 – Wednesday, August 26, 2020
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Arrival Day, Check-in, and Financial Clearance for Transfer Students Tuesday, August 25, 2020
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Academic Orientation for Transfer Students Tuesday, August 25, 2020 – Wednesday, August 26, 2020
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Matriculation Days
Advising and Registration for New First-Year and Transfer Students Thursday, August 27, 2020 – Friday, August 28, 2020 -
Arrival Day for All Returning Students
Check-in and Financial Clearance for All Returning Students Saturday, August 29, 2020 -
First Day of Classes Monday, August 31, 2020
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Fall Break Monday, October 12, 2020 – Tuesday, October 13, 2020
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Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom Thursday, October 15, 2020 – Friday, October 16, 2020 , 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
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Moderation Papers Due Friday, October 23, 2020
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Family & Alumni/ae Weekend Friday, October 23, 2020 – Sunday, October 25, 2020
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Thanksgiving Recess (classes end at 5 p.m. on Wednesday) Thursday, November 26, 2020 – Friday, November 27, 2020
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Senior Projects Due Monday, December 7, 2020
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Advising Day Wednesday, December 9, 2020
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Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams Monday, December 14, 2020 – Friday, December 18, 2020
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Last Day of Classes Friday, December 18, 2020
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Open House in New York City - VIRTUAL
Thursday, April 2, 2020***DUE TO COVID-19 PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES - THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE VIRTUALLY. DETAILS WILL BE SENT TO REGISTRANTS PRIOR TO THE EVENT***
LMHQ NYC
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Attendees receive a $65 application fee waiver! RSVP: HERE
Join us in New York City for an Open House hosted by the Bard MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy.
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 processIn 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 REGISTER HERE
Event Location: This event will be held at LMHQ, 150 Broadway NY, NY Floor 20
Email Caitlin O'Donnell with any additional questions.
https://gps.bard.edu/open-house-4-8-20
Photo by Hannah Fassett '17
Virtual Open House for Accepted Students
Saturday, April 4, 20209:00 am – 5:00 pm
We are shifting Open House for Accepted Students from an on-campus event to a virtual event on Saturday, April 4. The day begins at 9:00 a.m. and you can enjoy Open House right from your home!
All admitted students, including those who have already registered for the on-campus Open House event, will be automatically registered for the virtual event. Information about the virtual Open House will be posted on the Bard Admission website in the coming weeks, and admitted students will receive a reminder by email.
Our virtual Open House includes opening remarks by Bard President Leon Botstein, virtual tours, panel discussions on academic and cocurricular life, and numerous opportunities to explore everything that Bard has to offer. Join us!
https://www.bard.edu/admission/accepted/
Virtual Teach-in on Climate Solutions and Justice (NYS)
Tuesday, April 7, 2020NY coordinate conversation to Solve Climate by 2030, a three part virtual session
online
5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
5:30 - 6:00 pm Welcome to Power Dialog- Solve Climate by 2030
National video and introduction to NYS’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA)
6:00 - 7:00 pm Climate Solutions Panel webinar
What are the most effective yet feasible climate solutions we can enact in our state? What can students do to help “move the needle” on climate change? How is climate justice being addressed?
Our panelists will include: Assemblymember Patricia Fahy, Director of the NYS Office of Climate Change Maureen Leddy and Executive Director of the Alliance for Clean Energy New York Anne Reynolds.
7:00 - 8:00 pm Localized Conversation
Each participating campus and/or organization can tailor a discussion on topics and actions specific to their locale.
http://www.solveclimateby2030.org/
Photo by Studio Incendo
Mad Forest
Friday, April 10, 2020A Play from Romania
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by Ashley Tata
Romania. December 25th, 1989.
A dictator is executed. A totalitarian regime topples. What happens next?
Caryl Churchill’s 1990 play, Mad Forest, created with the help of drama students interviewing citizens in Bucharest in the months after the overthrow of Nicolae Ceaușescu, depicts life in a repressive dictatorship, during a bloody uprising, and in days and weeks after freedom is declared, through snap-shot exposures of moments, descriptions and silences. Less a documentary-play and more a sly, funny, brutal, and surrealist landscape, this 30-year old work approached from a 2020 point of view powerfully resonates with our global state of innumerable protests and the potential descent into totalitarianism. It’s like a study-guide (or warning) for Revolution, with an archangel, a dog and a vampire.
Visit the blog for dramaturgical resources and inspiration, curated by the students, creatives, and crew of Mad Forest.
Questions? Our Box Office is available by email and phone only at this time: boxoffice@bard.edu or 845-758-7900.
http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-mainstage-2020/
Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom
Thursday, October 15, 2020 – Friday, October 16, 2020Hannah Arendt Center 13th Annual Fall Conference
Olin Hall
8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Hannah Arendt knew that democracy is tenuous. In 1970 she famously wrote:“Representative government is in crisis today, partly because it has lost, in the course of time, all institutions that permitted the citizens’ actual participation, and partly because it is now gravely affected by the disease from which the party system suffers: bureaucratization and the two parties’ tendency to represent nobody except the party machines.”
Democracy is weakened when citizens are encouraged to hand over the time-consuming work of self-government to professional politicians. Arendt was continuously critical of representative models of democracy that rely upon experts in place of participation, which is why she rooted the crisis of democracy in the dissipation of public power.
Arendt’s response to the disempowerment of the people in our modern world of bureaucratized politics was decentralization and the council system. At all times, when the people are mobilized to engage politically to found freedom they form citizens councils, as happened in New England town meetings, the revolutionary clubs in France, the soviets in Russia, and the municipal councils in Hungary. In every case, these public forums provided spaces for the experience of public and political freedom. The life of the free man needs “a place where people could come together—the agora, the market-place, or the polis, the political space proper.”
The crisis facing democratic regimes today is cause for serious concern; it is also an opportunity for deep reflection on questions and assumptions concerning liberal representative democracy. Instead of assuming a defensive posture and taking up arms to defend the status quo, our conference asks: how can we revitalize our democracy?
“Sortition” is one answer increasingly forwarded by citizen activists. Sortition means a government of representatives chosen by lottery instead of by election. By bringing nonexpert citizens into political institutions, sortition both breathes energy into representative democracy and nurtures virtue amongst citizens. It is one way to address the deficit of democratic participation that plagues modern democracy.
At the Arendt Center we recently launched the Bard Institute for the Revival of Democracy through Sortition (BIRDS), a critical platform for diverse research and resources that are emerging around deliberative democracy and sortition. Sortition is not simply an abstract idea. Around the world, citizen assemblies of randomly selected participants are meeting to discuss and decide upon important political controversies. Our 2020 conference will bring leading experts on democracy and on the use of citizen assemblies to Bard to ask how elements of lottery and citizen governance can help reenergize our democracy. Questions to be asked at our conference include:
• Can elements of lottery revitalize democracy today?
• How can we make our representative democracies more participatory?
• Should we be afraid of democratic populism?
• How can we reinvigorate institutions of deliberative democracy?
• What new institutions and practices can energize our politics?
Above all, we ask, how can we revitalize democracy in the 21st century?
Registration will open in late spring / early summer 2020. Subscribe to our newsletter, AMOR MUNDI, to stay informed!