Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are welcome to the Weis Cinema for the monthly Spirit Film at 6:30 pm. This month, we will be showing Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew. Pier Paolo Pasolini is the most controversial and revered linguist, journalist, painter, novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist, art historian, and internationally renowned film director, whose work embodies the length and breadth of earthly experience. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
“Jazz is a uniquely American art form. The Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band… takes that one step further.” —Olympian
Celebrate the start of Native American Heritage Month with the Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band—a powerhouse ensemble of Native and Indigenous jazz musicians from across Indian Country.
Performing pieces from their under-appreciated predecessors in jazz, alongside works by contemporary Indigenous composers, the band spotlights a vibrant, long-standing tradition of Indigenous improvised music today.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown
Sunday, November 2, 2025 9:45 am – 12:30 pm
St. John the Evangelist Church, 114 River Road, Barrytown, NY Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist, at 1114 River Road in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome! 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.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass is offered each Sunday at 11:30 in the Bard Chapel of the Holy Innocents, beginning on September 7, and every Sunday that Bard is in session. All are welcome to meditate on the Scripture and experience beautiful church music and the sacramental community of faith. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Jesse Mills, violin, Ole Akahoshi, cello, and Rieko Aizawa, piano
Sunday, November 2, 2025 2 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Giving performances that are “lithe, persuasive” (The New York Times), “eloquent and enthralling” (The Boston Globe), and described as “the most compelling American group to come on the scene” (The New Yorker), the Horszowski Trio has quickly become a vital force in the international chamber music world since their formation in 2011. Join them for a performance. Free and open to the public.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel here. Recital program available here. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Hegeman 204 Come to Hegeman 204A to knit or learn how to knit! Crocheters and needleworkers are also invited. Materials including yarn and knitting needles are provided. Everyone is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Arendt Center Irene’s research explores the ethical reflection that Hannah Arendt began to develop after the Eichmann trial and that culminates in Arendt’s last unfinished masterpiece, The Life of the Mind.
Of particular interest to her is the first chapter of the section dedicated to the activity of thinking. In that context, Arendt focuses on several key concepts—such as that of appearance—drawing on new authors, including figures from the realm of biological studies. Among these, the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the zoologist Adolf Portmann are especially significant.
In this presentation, Irene seeks to connect Arendt’s conception of thinking as an activity inextricably rooted in the sensible world with several key questions—also emerging from earlier passages in Arendt’s works—concerning the possibility of inhabiting the world in a truly human and ethical way.
Public Skills to Private Markets: Translating Sustainability Across Sectors
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 6:30–8:30 pm
Pyxera Global Join Bard College’s #1–ranked MBA in Sustainabilityprogram and Pyxera Global for a conversation on how mission-driven professionals are translating public-sector experience into private-sector impact. This discussion will explore the skills, mindsets, and opportunities that drive sustainability leadership across sectors.
This roundtable conversation will feature leaders who have successfully made the transition from the public to private sector:
Dr. Eban Goodstein - Director of the Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability
John Holm - Senior Vice President, Partnership Development at Pyxera Global; and Bard MBA faculty member in Circular Value Chain Management
Reagan Richmond - Senior Manager, Climate Change and Sustainability at EY
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Sativa Torres* and Nyx Hernandez* (submitting work in partial fulfilment for moderation into the Dance Program), Zoe Guzin, Alice Crotty, and Elizabeth Mickens. Special Guests Stephanie Saywell ‘14, Hannah Golden, and Dahyun Kim. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://dance.bard.edu.
Kline, College Room ¿Te interesa el periodismo, el activismo o los problemas de los inmigrantes latinos? La revista La Voz, con sede en Bard y un estimado de 40,000 lectores, es una plataforma para expresar tus intereses. En La Voz, nos esforzamos por empoderar a las comunidades hispanohablantes de las regiones del Valle Medio del Hudson y Catskill con información práctica, que abarca desde temas como salud y educación hasta preocupaciones ambientales y políticas.
Invitamos a artistas, escritores y voluntarios a ser reporteros para La Voz o a ayudar a coordinar nuestros eventos, como mesas redondas sobre inmigración, conciertos y proyecciones de películas.
Invitamos a estudiantes de todos los niveles a la reunión semanal de La Voz en Kline, Salón College.
Traigan sus tazas, nosotros ponemos el té.
*** Are you interested in journalism, activism, Latino immigrant issues? La Voz magazine is a publication based at Bard with an estimated readership of 40,000 that can give you an outlet for these interests. At La Voz we strive to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues.
We welcome artists, writers and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and/or help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts and film screenings. We invite students of all skills and talents to come by the La Voz weekly meetings, Kline College Room. For more information, call 845-752-4739, or e-mail [email protected].
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor It is a truth universally acknowledged that the novels of Jane Austen continue to entertain and delight us, on page and on screen. Please join us to hear a lively conversation about her life, works, and lasting appeal. Speakers (devoted Austen fans all) are Deirdre d’Albertis, dean of the college and professor of English; Marisa Libbon, associate professor of literature; Joseph Luzzi, Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature; and Daniel Williams, assistant professor of literature. Location: first floor of Stevenson Library. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Keith Haring Lecture in Art and Activism: Valentina Rozas-Krause
Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism, 2024–25
Thursday, November 6, 2025 5–7 pm
CCS Bard, Classroom 102 Feminimonuments: Feminist Transformations of ‘Difficult Monuments’ during the recent Chilean Social Upheaval
Only 4.7% of Santiago’s monuments represent women, a grim statistic that is echoed in cities around the world. Yet in the heat of the chilean social upheaval (2019-20), protesters and women’s groups took the problem of female representation into their own hands. Guided by an intersectional lens, this presentation analyzes monuments of ‘difficult heritage’ in two Chilean cities, Santiago and Valparaíso, to understand how they were transformed physically and symbolically into sites of feminist solidarity. The stakes are high, together these monuments speak about European colonization, the nation-state, the ongoing conflict with indigenous populations, past and present violence against women, as well as the oversight of feminine historical agency. Each case represents a typology of monument-appropriation, and its analysis will help to unravel a counter-archive of possibilities for female representation in public space.
The Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism is made possible through a grant from the Keith Haring Foundation. The Keith Haring Chair is a cross-disciplinary, annual, visiting faculty appointment for a scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research at both the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project at Bard College. The Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism was established to allow a distinguished leader in the field to investigate the role of art as a catalyst for social change, linking the two programs and presenting original research in an annual lecture.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies; Human Rights Program.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Sativa Torres* and Nyx Hernandez* (submitting work in partial fulfilment for moderation into the Dance Program), Zoe Guzin, Alice Crotty, and Elizabeth Mickens. Special Guests Stephanie Saywell ‘14, Hannah Golden, and Dahyun Kim. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://dance.bard.edu.
Online Event We're reading On Revolution. Hannah Arendt’s penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic exploration of a phenomenon that has reshaped the globe. From the eighteenth-century rebellions in America and France to the explosive changes of the twentieth century, Arendt traces the changing face of revolution and its relationship to war while underscoring the crucial role such events will play in the future. Illuminating and prescient, this timeless work will fascinate anyone who seeks to decipher the forces that shape our tumultuous age.
Free to Bard students, staff, and faculty and to HAC members! Email [email protected] for the Zoom link.
Don't worry if you miss a VRG meeting! We post them all on our YouTube channel the week after they're recorded. Or tune in to an edited version of the chapter readings plus bonus episodes on our podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
If your audio or music track is sounding the wrong kind of funky, you should take our Adobe Audition workshop TOMORROW, 11/7 from 2-4PM at New Annandale House (1399 Annandale Rd.)!
All Bard community members (faculty, staff, and grad/undergrad students) have free temporary access to Adobe Audition via the college's Creative Cloud licensing program. All requests for Creative Cloud access must be submitted via THIS LINK. Please make sure you have Adobe Audition downloaded on your laptop and ready to go before the beginning of the workshop!
Please also email [email protected] for all other inquiries and RSVPs.
PLEASE NOTE: This event has limited capacity. RSVPs are required!
Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Albert Join Tia Landau '84 and Garbriel Wardell '93 at the upcoming Atlanta Cities Party! This is a time for alumni/ae to connect and reconnect with fellow Bardians in the Atlanta-area, at The Albert.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Office of Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space The music of Robert Carl, performed by Bard faculty and students, including Andrew Altrock, Steve Bonacci, Elizabeth Brown, Robert Carl, Nick Franceschi, Michael Jones, Tony Kirk, and Matt Sargent. Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Sativa Torres* and Nyx Hernandez* (submitting work in partial fulfilment for moderation into the Dance Program), Zoe Guzin, Alice Crotty, and Elizabeth Mickens. Special Guests Stephanie Saywell ‘14, Hannah Golden, and Dahyun Kim. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://dance.bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown
Sunday, November 9, 2025 9:45 am – 12:30 pm
St. John the Evangelist Church, 114 River Road, Barrytown, NY Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist, at 1114 River Road in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome! 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.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass is offered each Sunday at 11:30 in the Bard Chapel of the Holy Innocents, beginning on September 7, and every Sunday that Bard is in session. All are welcome to meditate on the Scripture and experience beautiful church music and the sacramental community of faith. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY Join Mohonk Consultations for a day of uplifting stories and insightful discussions about how we can work together to inspire new leaders and help them succeed. The historical moment we are now living in urgently requires the emergence of new leadership, capable of overcoming obsolete models based on personal power, divisiveness and greed, while enhancing inclusiveness, reconciliation, and support of the common good. Speakers include Jana Mader, Director of Academic Programs, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics & Humanities and Deirdre d’Albertis, Vice President and Dean of the College, Bard College.
Bard Conservatory finalists compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra and The Orchestra Now (TŌN).
Please note that this is a competition, and at times, pieces will not be performed in full.
Pictured: Mohammad AbdNikfarjam, clarinet, one of the winners of the 2024 Conservatory Concerto Competition with Bard Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Tan Dun, photo by Matt Dine
Hegeman 204 Come to Hegeman 204A to knit or learn how to knit! Crocheters and needleworkers are also invited. Materials including yarn and knitting needles are provided. Everyone is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Antijudaism and Antisemitism in European Philosophy
with Joseph Cohen
Monday, November 10, 2025 6–8 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 205 From Kant to Heidegger, many of Europe’s most influential philosophers have engaged—sometimes critically, sometimes prejudicially—with the figure of “the Jew” and the central ideas of Judaism. This seminar explores how concepts such as election, messianism, revelation, and the Law have been interpreted, and often distorted, in the philosophical tradition. We will examine the distinction between antijudaism (opposition to Jewish religion or thought) and antisemitism (hostility toward Jews as a people), while also tracing their deep historical and conceptual connections. Through close readings of key thinkers (including Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, and Heidegger), we will see how these ideas were not mere products of prejudice, but at times formed a structural part of philosophical systems—casting “the Jew” as a necessary counterpoint to philosophy itself. We will ask: In what sense has the trope of the Jew as a “counter-essential enemy” to philosophical thinking been seen as necessary for the very unfolding of European philosophical history?
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JOSEPH COHEN is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin (Ireland) since 2007. He has held numerous visiting professorships of philosophy at various European universities in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Belgium. He has authored Le spectre juif de Hegel (Paris, Galilée, 2005), Le sacrifice de Hegel (Paris, Galilée, 2007 ; Italian transl. : Il Sacrificio di Hegel, Milan, Mimesis, 2025), Alternances de la métaphysique. Essais sur E. Levinas (Paris, Galilée, 2009) and co-authored, with D. Moran, The Husserl Dictionary (London, Bloomsbury-Continuum, 2012). He has also co-authored, with R. Zagury-Orly, L’adversaire privilégié. Heidegger, les Juifs et nous, (Paris, Galilée, 2021). He has co-edited, with R. Zagury-Orly, Heidegger et « les juifs » (Paris, Grasset, 2015), Heidegger. Qu’appelle-t-on le lieu? (Paris, Gallimard, 2008), Derrida. L’événement déconstruction (Paris, Gallimard, 2012) and Judéités – questions pour Jacques Derrida (Paris, Galilée, 2003; also Fordham University Press, 2009). He is the Founder and Lead Project Investigator of “Jewish Thought and Contemporary Philosophy” housed at the Newman Centre for the Study of Religions, University College Dublin and co-founding member of the Irish Phenomenological Circle. Joseph Cohen has also published extensively on German Idealism (Kant, Hegel, Schelling), Judaism and Antijudaism/Antisemitism in the history of philosophy and literature, phenomenology and deconstruction. His philosophical research is focused on contemporary continental philosophy and the questions of sacrifice and history, Judaism and Antijudaism/Antisemitism, forgiveness and alterity, truth and justice.
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This event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program, Philosophy Program, Jewish Studies Program, and the student-run "It's Complicated" Project of the Hannah Arendt Center.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Program; Jewish Studies Program; Philosophy Program.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Monday, November 10, at 6pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), writer Susan Fox Rogers will read from her essay, Guivi: What We Keep, What We Burn, winner of the 2025 Harvard Review Chapbook Prize, as part of the Written Arts Senior Colloquium series. This reading is free and open to the public.
Susan Fox Rogers is a birder, rock climber, kayaker, teacher, and writer who has authored and/or edited numerous works focused on the natural world and outdoor adventure. She was Visiting Associate Professor of Writing at Bard College from 2001 - 2022. Her books include Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure, When Birds Are Near: Literary Bird Tales, and My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir. She was selected by the National Science Foundation to participate in a US Antarctic Artists and Writers Program during the 2004 and 2005 austral summer. Her forthcoming chapbook, Guivi: What We Keep, What We Burn won the 2025 Harvard Review Chapbook Prize. Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
How to Find a Job in Sustainability: Build Connections That Matter
Monday, November 10, 2025 7–8:30 pm
Online Event Are you ready to transform your passion for sustainability into a thriving, purpose-driven career? In today’s evolving job market, your network is your most powerful tool. Join us for a free webinar focused on how to build meaningful connections that open doors to sustainability careers. Learn how to identify the right people, start authentic conversations, and turn those relationships into real opportunities.
Led by Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of the Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability, this session will give you practical strategies to expand your network and translate it into career success. You’ll also have a chance to ask questions during a live Q&A.
What You’ll Gain:
Inspiration and Direction: Discover pathways to impactful sustainability careers
Expert Guidance: Learn effective networking techniques from a leading sustainability educator
Actionable Strategies: Leave with a clear plan to strengthen your connections and advance your job search
This webinar is ideal for professionals eager to pivot or grow, recent graduates entering the workforce, and students planning their next move in sustainability.
Don’t miss this opportunity to build the connections that drive change!Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Public Dialogue about Stan Douglas with Casey Robertson (Bard Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art
This is a special collaboration with the Center for Curatorial Studies and their Stan Douglas exhibition. Please visit the exhibition before the discussion.
The full schedule is at https://www.bard.edu/cmia.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
Jordan Nassar Studio Art Visiting Artist Fall 2025
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 5:30–7 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Please join us for our second Visiting Artist Lecturer of the Fall 2025 semester. Jordan Nassar’s multivalent art practice engages the material variety of craft to execute ideas centered on heritage and homeland. Through hand-embroidery, wood inlay, glass and expansive installations, he examines issues of identity, diaspora and cultural participation. Nassar often employs “the landscape” as a thread throughout these different mediums, carefully mapping out patterns and repeatedly intercepting them, using fields of color to define rolling hills and expanses of water. Nassar has adapted the matrilineally-learned tradition of Palestinian tatreez, or cross stitch—most often found on pillows, clothing, and other domestic arts—to mirror his hybridized upbringing. His childhood home in the U.S. was decorated with such objects, which his father brought back from visits to his ancestral homeland. Each hand-embroidered work is stretched and framed, bringing Nassar’s embroidery practice into a dialogue with painting.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
Online Event Select talks and student interviews from the Hannah Arendt Center's 17th annual conference on JOY: Loving the World in Dark Times will be broadcast live on WXBC, Bard College's student-run radio station. Hear from writers, poets, musicians, performers, and scholars on finding meaning and connection amidst today's fractured world, and joy as a powerful force, and a vital conversation around fostering resilience.Sponsored by: WXBC.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Featuring voice, piano, and conducting students and faculty of the Bard College and the Bard Conservatory of Music.
Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Lobby Meet and speak with an admissions representative from Bard College's Graduate Programs. Learn about the many academic programs and gain insight into fields of study, application timelines, and options for Bard students. Bard Graduate Programs MA | MS | MM | MEd | MAT | MFA | MBA | MPhil | PhD Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts Master of Arts in Teaching Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Environmental Policy Environmental Science MBA in Sustainability Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture Graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Bard Conservatory Graduate Conducting Programs at the Bard Conservatory Chinese Music and Culture - The Chinese Music Institute The Orchestra Now Longy School of Music of Bard College Master of Music Program Center for Human Rights and The Arts M.A. in Global Studies
Rachel’s mother, the late Margot Stern Strom was the founder of Facing History and Ourselves, a Holocaust-based anti-bias educational program (for which she received an honorary degree from Bard College in 2001). Nina and Amy’s father, the lateRobert Rifkind, was a lawyer, and president of the American Jewish Committee, working to combat antisemitism and hatred. Their children also oppose hate, but through something more basic and essential: protecting due process and the integrity of the legal system. BCSH director Kenneth Stern, who knew the parents and the children, will moderate a discussion between them. Rachel Strom was on a team that drafted an amicus brief for Jewish organizations on behalf of Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts student whisked away supposedly for co-authoring an op-ed. Amy Rifkind and Nina Rifkind wrote a letter to the law firm Paul, Weiss, after it capitulated to threats from the Trump administration, powerfully stating how this action violated the vision of the firm set down by its founder, their grandfather, Judge Simon Rifkind.Sponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Hate.
Steeplejack Brewing Company Join Tereza Bottman ’95, Ben Lackey ’91 and Phoebe McDowell '96 at the upcoming Portland Cities Party on Wednesday, November 12 at the Steeplejack Brewing Company.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Office of Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Join us to explore tutoring and volunteer programs on campus and beyond. Try out activities, meet student leaders, and discover ways to get involved in teaching and mentorship.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Master of Arts in Teaching Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Kline, College Room ¿Te interesa el periodismo, el activismo o los problemas de los inmigrantes latinos? La revista La Voz, con sede en Bard y un estimado de 40,000 lectores, es una plataforma para expresar tus intereses. En La Voz, nos esforzamos por empoderar a las comunidades hispanohablantes de las regiones del Valle Medio del Hudson y Catskill con información práctica, que abarca desde temas como salud y educación hasta preocupaciones ambientales y políticas.
Invitamos a artistas, escritores y voluntarios a ser reporteros para La Voz o a ayudar a coordinar nuestros eventos, como mesas redondas sobre inmigración, conciertos y proyecciones de películas.
Invitamos a estudiantes de todos los niveles a la reunión semanal de La Voz en Kline, Salón College.
Traigan sus tazas, nosotros ponemos el té.
*** Are you interested in journalism, activism, Latino immigrant issues? La Voz magazine is a publication based at Bard with an estimated readership of 40,000 that can give you an outlet for these interests. At La Voz we strive to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues.
We welcome artists, writers and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and/or help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts and film screenings. We invite students of all skills and talents to come by the La Voz weekly meetings, Kline College Room. For more information, call 845-752-4739, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard GPS - Online International Applicant Information Session
Thursday, November 13, 2025 12–1 pm
Online Event Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability (GPS) holds online informational webinars specifically for prospective international students to learn more about graduate program options. Join us on Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 12:00pm ET to learn about our programs and the admissions process directly from the admissions team. There will be time for questions at the end of the session.
WHAT WE COVER: - Overview of graduate program offerings available to international students - Admissions information, specifically for international students - Prerequisite course information - Funding opportunities and scholarships - Tips for a standout application
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.
RSVP HERE!Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor Join multimedia artists Victor Morales and Ben Williams in conversation with Alex Geller, Director of the Red Hook Public Library about their recent installation, MODEL HISTORIES. Created with open-source AI software, this interactive game takes you through the archives of Historic Red Hook and creates a platform for discussing the future of AI, storytelling and the archival record.Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program; Libraries at Bard College.
Speaker Series: Tina Campt and Saidiya Hartman In Conversation
Thursday, November 13, 2025 5–7 pm
CCS Bard, Classroom 102 Esteemed writers and scholars Campt and Hartman discuss Stan Douglas’s Birth of a Nation (2025), featured in the artist’s career survey at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures are free and open, and are documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives and online here.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bard Health Services will be hosting Village Apothecary for our LAST vaccine clinic of the semester next Friday, November 14th from 11am-4pm at the new Campus Center North (25 Robbins Road). We will have Covid and flu vaccines available for all, as well as shingles, pneumococcal and TdAP vaccines available for faculty and staff. By appointment only. Schedule Now
re/presentarereflects on the practice of working from the commons, in its frictions and possibilities. Reframing Evidence from the Commons means acknowledging the challenging reality of true communal work in which different interests and visions of justice co-exist. It also seeks to question what constitutes evidence and how, for communities outside of the juridical Western frame, it opens up other possibilities once it is mobilized through the mediation of investigative arts. re/presentare is curating a project in Mexico City as part of Evidence, an international festival by the Fisher Center LAB, in association with CHRA. This talk is moderated by Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco, Assistant Professor of Architectural Studies at Bard.
This talk is co-hosted with Bard Architecture and the Fisher Center at Bard. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Learn more about applying to Levy with Thomas Masterson, graduate program director, and Tyler Emerson, outreach and recruitment liaison.
Friday, November 14, 2025 12–1 pm
Online Event This information session with Graduate Program Director Thomas Masterson and Graduate Outreach and Recruitment Liaison Tyler Emerson provides an overview of the Levy academic programs, student life, admission requirements, enrollment steps, new scholarships, financial aid procedures, and immigration requirements for international students. Applicants who attend a virtual information session will have their application fees waived.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space András Szalai was born in 1985 in Budapest. He graduated in classical cimbalom performance and composition from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. He is a prizewinner of several national and international cimbalom competitions.
His artistic focus lies in performing early music arrangements, 20th-century music, and contemporary solo and chamber works. Over the past twenty years, he has premiered or performed several pieces by Hungarian and international contemporary composers. He frequently performs works by György Kurtág, who has also composed a solo piece for him. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has appeared at major festivals, including the Budapest Spring Festival, the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and the Haydn Festival in Fertőd.
He has performed with the Slovenian, Warsaw, Kraków, Łódź, Valencia, Moscow, and Stavanger Philharmonic Orchestras, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Helsinki Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, the Lapland Chamber Orchestra, the Plural Ensemble in Madrid, the Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra in Beijing, the Ars Nova Ensemble, and the Ensemble C Barré in France. In Hungary, he has played with the Budapest Strings, the Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra, and nearly every symphonic orchestra in the country. He has worked with conductors such as Péter Eötvös, Iván Fischer, Michail Jurowski, Zoltán Kocsis, Ingo Metzmacher, Fabian Panisello, Michael Schønwandt, Walter Weller, Antoni Wit, and Simone Young, as well as performers like Claire Chase, Evelyn Glennie, and Helena Winkelmann. He is a member of the UMZE Contemporary Ensemble.
He teaches composition and music theory at the King St. Stephen Conservatory and cimbalom and chamber music at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. His recordings can be found at Hungarian Radio and Hungaroton. He is a recipient of the Artisjus Prize.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
New Annandale House Are you interested in learning the basics of Premiere to edit your film, music video, or other piece of media, but feel frustrated and confused by all the video tutorials out there and are seeking hands-on instruction? A first-year film student wanting to get a jump-start on your video editing skills before taking Electronic Media Workshop? Wanting to add an edited video component to your final project for a class?
Then you should come take our Beginner's Guide to Premiere Pro workshop on Friday, 11/14 from 2-4PM at the Center for Experimental Humanities (1399 Annandale Rd.)! This 2 hour workshop/crash course will provide you with a solid foundational understanding of Premiere, as well as best practices for footage handling and storage, giving you the confidence to explore and build off this knowledge in the future!
Please note that RSVPs are required for this event, and should be submitted by end of day Thursday 11/13. Email [email protected] with all RSVPs and questions.
If you are bringing your own laptop, make sure you have Premiere Pro 2025 downloaded in advance. All Bard students, faculty and staff can request a temporary Adobe CC license to download Premiere viathis link. If you cannot bring your own laptop, or are outside the Bard network, please contact [email protected] for further instruction.Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
A Reading with James Hannahamin commemoration of Trans Awareness Week
Friday, November 14, 2025 3 pm
Olin Hall Join us for a reading from James Hannaham of the novel Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta. In this “dangerously hilarious” novel (Los Angeles Times), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men’s prison, over one consequential Fourth of July weekend. From the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award winner Delicious Foods.
Reception with light refreshments to follow.Sponsored by: The Written Arts Program, QPOC, TransMission, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Offices of Inclusive Excellence and the Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Pianist Yoheved Kaplinsky was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. She was a prizewinner at the J.S. Bach International Competition in Washington, D.C. She has made numerous appearances in recitals, playing chamber music, and with orchestras, as well as on radio and television in Israel and the U.S. She has given frequent lectures and master classes throughout the U.S., Israel, and Korea. Festivals she has played and taught at include Bowdoin Summer Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Pianofest in Long Island, N.Y., the Cliburn-T.C.U. Institute, and Tel Hai Master Classes in Israel. She has served as an adjudicator for international competitions, including the Van Cliburn, Cleveland, Arthur Rubinstein, Dublin, and Tchaikovsky competitions. She received the Presidential Scholars Teacher Recognition Award in 2003. She was a former faculty member at Philadelphia University of the Arts, Manhattan School of Music, and Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore from 1989-97.
Kaplinsky studied with Ilona Vincze at the Tel Aviv Music Academy. She received her bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Juilliard, where she studied with Irwin Freundlich. She also studied with Dorothy Taubman.
Kaplinsky has been a faculty member at the Juilliard School since 1993, chair of the piano department since 1997, and Susan W. Rose Chair since 2000. She has been a Juilliard Pre-College faculty member since 1993 and artistic advisor of the division since 2020. She served as artistic director of the division from 2007-2020.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel here. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Citizens' Climate Lobby Fall Conference Virtual Watch Party and Potluck
Sharper Than Ever: CCL's Next Chapter
Saturday, November 15, 2025 1–5 pm
Barringer House; Global Classroom Grounded in our values and guided by a new strategy, CCL is pushing climate action forward. What to expect: Equip yourself to be an effective climate advocate in the current political landscape. Learn the policy details of permitting reform, a critical component of America’s clean energy future. Reconnect with CCL’s values and unique culture, so you’re ready to carry our new strategy forward.Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-464-8025, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Limited seating available. Any seats that become available will be sold in person at the box office when the Sosnoff Theater lobby opens one hour before each performance. To check availability, contact the box office at 845-758-7900 or [email protected].
James Bagwellconductor
WilliamsJurassic Park
The action-packed adventure pits man against prehistoric predators in the ultimate battle for survival. Featuring visually stunning imagery and groundbreaking special effects, this epic film is sheer movie magic 65 million years in the making. Now audiences can experience Jurassic Park as never before: projected in HD with The Orchestra Now performing John Williams’ iconic score live to picture. Welcome… to Jurassic Park!
Jurassic Park is a trademark and copyright of Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment, Inc. Licensed by Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown
Sunday, November 16, 2025 9:45 am – 12:30 pm
St. John the Evangelist Church, 114 River Road, Barrytown, NY Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist, at 1114 River Road in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome! 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.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass is offered each Sunday at 11:30 in the Bard Chapel of the Holy Innocents, beginning on September 7, and every Sunday that Bard is in session. All are welcome to meditate on the Scripture and experience beautiful church music and the sacramental community of faith. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
POSTPONED: Faculty Spotlight Series: Marka Gustavsson, viola, and Frank Corliss, piano, with guest artist Mark Gallagher, clarinet
Sunday, November 16, 2025 2 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space The concert scheduled for 11/16/25 has been canceled and will be postponed. A new date is pending and will be announced as soon as it is confirmed. Thank you for your understanding.
Works by Robert Schumann, Rebecca Clarke, Malcolm Arnold, Thomas Adès, Edward Elgar, and W. A. Mozart.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Limited seating available. Any seats that become available will be sold in person at the box office when the Sosnoff Theater lobby opens one hour before each performance. To check availability, contact the box office at 845-758-7900 or [email protected].
James Bagwellconductor
WilliamsJurassic Park
The action-packed adventure pits man against prehistoric predators in the ultimate battle for survival. Featuring visually stunning imagery and groundbreaking special effects, this epic film is sheer movie magic 65 million years in the making. Now audiences can experience Jurassic Park as never before: projected in HD with The Orchestra Now performing John Williams’ iconic score live to picture. Welcome… to Jurassic Park!
Jurassic Park is a trademark and copyright of Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment, Inc. Licensed by Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Ben Monder, guitar; Theo Bleckmann, voice; Joseph Branciforte, electronics
Sunday, November 16, 2025 8–9 pm
N211 Blum
Jazz at Bard and the Bard Conservatory of Music Present the Richard Gordon Jazz Series Featuring: The Ben Monder Trio: Ben Monder, guitar; Theo Bleckmann, voice; Joseph Branciforte, electronics. This special concert is dedicated to the memory of Richard Gordon, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Bard College and a consummate jazz pianist. His enduring contributions to both academia and the arts will be honored through this musical tribute. The series is generously supported by Bard Jazz Studies, the Bitó Conservatory of Music, and private donations in his memory. For more information, call 201-577-1092, or e-mail [email protected].
Hegeman 204 Come to Hegeman 204A to knit or learn how to knit! Crocheters and needleworkers are also invited. Materials including yarn and knitting needles are provided. Everyone is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Blum N119 Students of the Electronic Music Program at Bard share new music and collaborative works. There will be free pizza!Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Celebrate the holiday with colorful poinsettias, available in red, pink, white, marble and Christmas mouse (mini red blooms). All 6 1/2" plants have 5-7 blooms, with foil wrapped pot covers. All orders must be picked up at Bard's Winter MakerArt + Craft Fair on Friday, December 5, 1-6pm at the Bertelsmann Campus Center.
CCS Bard, Classroom 102 In a show-and-tell presentation style, Sofía unpacks a curatorial toolkit that is in the making. In that process, she references collaborations with a number of artists, curators, and designers, including Goda Budvytytė, Alejandro Cesarco, Sarah Demeuse, Bernardo de Souza, Mario García Torres, Inés Katzenstein, Iris Kensmil, Jessy Koeiman, Irene Kopelman, Raimundas Malasauskas, Manuel Raeder, and Team Thursday, among others. People attending this program are encouraged to bring a tool; to briefly speak about it; to share it with the group. Take note that tools, as much as retooling, are used here to link art with public engagement. Consider tools that were newly acquired. Shared tools. Borrowed ones. Basic tools. Tools to replace; to forget about; to invent.
Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures are free and open, and are documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives and online here.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
American Artist Studio Art Visiting Artist Fall 2025
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 5:30–7 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Please join us for the third Visiting Artist in our Fall 2025 series. American Artist makes thought experiments that mine the history of technology, race, and knowledge production, beginning with their legal name change in 2013. Their artwork primarily takes the form of sculpture, software, and video. Artist is a recipient of the 2024 New York Artadia Award and a Trellis Art Fund grantee. They are a former resident of Smack Mellon, Red Bull Arts Detroit, Abrons Art Center, Recess, EYEBEAM, Pioneer Works, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. They have exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, and Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul. Their work has been featured in The New York Times, Cultured, Artforum, and Art in America. Artist is a former co-director of the School for Poetic Computation and a faculty at Yale University. For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational sessions for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs. Join us to learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be time for questions at the end of the session.
WHAT WE COVER: - Overview of graduate program offerings - Alumni success and career outcomes - Admissions information - Financial aid and scholarships - Prerequisite course information - Tips for a standout application
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.
RSVP HERE!Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Vocal Arts Residency: Mélodies Masterclass with Pierre Vallet
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 7:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Praised for the elegance and intensity of his interpretations, Vallet is a frequent guest conductor with the world’s great opera companies.
Performance highlights include Roméo et Juliette, Madama Butterfly and Faust at the Metropolitan Opera; Tannhäuser, Carmen and Tales of Hoffmann at L’Opéra National de Paris; Samson et Dalila and Carmen at The Dallas Opera; Orfeo at Opera Theater Saint Louis; Don Carlo at the Lithuanian National Opera Theater; La Juive at the Göteborg Opera, Sweden and Faust at the Gran Teatro del Liceu, Barcelona.
With the Royal Philharmonic and Elizabeth Sombart, he has recorded all Beethoven piano concertos, the Chopin piano concertos, and 4 concertos by Mozart.
His recording of Beethoven's piano concertos was nominated one of the ten best recordings released for the Beethoven’s 250th anniversary by Classical Music Magazine
He enjoyed a twenty-year musical partnership with Seiji Ozawa, with whom he worked closely on some forty operatic productions.
For the past 22 years, he has been associated with the Metropolitan Opera, first as pianist and coach and now as staff conductor.
He is a graduate of L’Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
Pierre is on faculty at the Juilliard School. www.pierrevallet.net
Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Celebrate the holiday with colorful poinsettias, available in red, pink, white, marble and Christmas mouse (mini red blooms). All 6 1/2" plants have 5-7 blooms, with foil wrapped pot covers. All orders must be picked up at Bard's Winter MakerArt + Craft Fair on Friday, December 5, 1-6pm at the Bertelsmann Campus Center.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Come join us for a screening of So Surreal: Behind the Masks at 7pm in Weis Cinema. Directed by Neil Diamond (Cree), “So Surreal: Behind the Masks unveils the fascinating connection between the work of famed Surrealist artists and Yupʼik and Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw ceremonial masks, and the quest to bring some of the masks back home.”Sponsored by: Center for Indigenous Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Presented by the Hannah Arendt Center's Democracy Innovation Hub
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 7–9 pm
Powerhouse Arts 322 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215 Experience the deliberative democracy wave! Join us for an immersive evening by stepping into the role of a participant in a civic assembly!
Working together, Bard College's Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, People’s Creative Institute , Columbia World Projects, and The Civic Engagement Commission in collaboration with Powerhouse Arts are excited to present “You Are Democracy: A Series on Collective Power," a three-part event series focused on democracy beyond elections. This series will include a film screening, model civic assembly, and a celebratory reimagining of a public meeting.
Part 2 at Powerhouse Arts, 322 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Join the movement for deliberative democracy and learn how New Yorkers can have their voice heard. Join us for the second event in our series, “Democracy in Practice: A Model Assembly”. An immersive evening where New Yorkers step into the role of participants in a civic assembly. Civic assemblies are a growing practice where residents of a municipality come together to discuss issues in their community and arrive at practical solutions. Learn, listen, deliberate, and practice deliberation as a practical tool for democratic decision-making.
The topic of this model assembly will be flooding and climate resilience. About 400,000 NYC residents live in high-risk flood zones - Gowanus being one of them. Climate change is driving heavier downpours and rising sea levels, leading to more frequent floods that strain infrastructure and put lives at risk. What should we prioritize in the face of these changes? How can we think more deeply and strategically together as a city? Don’t miss this model assembly.
The evening's model assembly will be facilitated by Philip Lindsay of Bard College and Forrest Sparks of The Assembly Project, with special guests. REGISTERSponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Kline, College Room ¿Te interesa el periodismo, el activismo o los problemas de los inmigrantes latinos? La revista La Voz, con sede en Bard y un estimado de 40,000 lectores, es una plataforma para expresar tus intereses. En La Voz, nos esforzamos por empoderar a las comunidades hispanohablantes de las regiones del Valle Medio del Hudson y Catskill con información práctica, que abarca desde temas como salud y educación hasta preocupaciones ambientales y políticas.
Invitamos a artistas, escritores y voluntarios a ser reporteros para La Voz o a ayudar a coordinar nuestros eventos, como mesas redondas sobre inmigración, conciertos y proyecciones de películas.
Invitamos a estudiantes de todos los niveles a la reunión semanal de La Voz en Kline, Salón College.
Traigan sus tazas, nosotros ponemos el té.
*** Are you interested in journalism, activism, Latino immigrant issues? La Voz magazine is a publication based at Bard with an estimated readership of 40,000 that can give you an outlet for these interests. At La Voz we strive to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues.
We welcome artists, writers and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and/or help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts and film screenings. We invite students of all skills and talents to come by the La Voz weekly meetings, Kline College Room. For more information, call 845-752-4739, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Celebrate the holiday with colorful poinsettias, available in red, pink, white, marble and Christmas mouse (mini red blooms). All 6 1/2" plants have 5-7 blooms, with foil wrapped pot covers. All orders must be picked up at Bard's Winter MakerArt + Craft Fair on Friday, December 5, 1-6pm at the Bertelsmann Campus Center.
Join us to celebrate the launch of An Image of Colonial Violence Pulled from the Air, a new digital publication documenting ten years of research and advocacy from the forensic investigation agency INTERPRT, based out of Trondheim, Norway. INTERPRT in concerned with the unique evidentiary challenges of representing environmental destruction, and produces evidence for legal actions, including briefings and petitions to the International Criminal Court. They often work with (and on) legal terms that situate the crime of ecocide and the standing of the environment within international criminal law and political theory.
Nabil Ahmed is on the faculty of architecture and design at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). With Olga Lucko, he leads the research agency INTERPRT, which utilizes architectural research, 3D reconstructions, remote sensing and publicly available datasets to investigate environmental destruction and human rights violations. INTERPRT undertakes long-term investigations on behalf of diverse groups, and pursues self-initiated research projects for which they produce advocacy videos, interactive maps and evidence files. INTERPRT collaborates with Climate Counsel, an initiative of former UN lawyers to address the climate emergency, and is a member of Investigative Commons, an initiative ofForensic Architecture. They support the global campaign to make ecocide a fifth international crime.
Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Human Rights Project.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
A drop-in session with the Hudson Valley Lace Guild
Thursday, November 20, 2025 5:30–7:30 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor Join your hosts the Hudson Valley Lace Guild and Bard Stevenson Library for a drop-in information session where you can learn about lace and how it's made! Talk with the Guild about the types of lace and view examples made by members! There will also be a pop-up exhibit of lace from the Montgomery Place Collection. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Inside Sustainability with Bard MBA: The Future for Sustainable Fashion
Thursday, November 20, 2025 6:30–8:30 pm
BPCM/Bard MBA in Sustainability Explore how leaders are redefining sustainable fashion in our live podcast + real talk—followed by networking with Bard MBA Net Impact.
Join Bard College’s #1–ranked MBA in Sustainability program for a live recording of our popular podcast, Lead the Change. The Inside Sustainability live podcast series brings you into candid, unfiltered conversations with our faculty, alumni and students about what it takes to drive real change in today’s polarized climate.
This month, Sarah Bergman, MBA ’25, Senior Designer for Reebok Womens, will sit down with Carrie Ellen Phillips, Partner & Owner at BPCM, and Erin Beatty, Founder & Creative Director of Rentrayage. Together, they’ll explore how fashion is evolving to meet the demands of a sustainable future—from design and materials to storytelling and brand accountability.
Following the 30-minute live podcast recording, join us for a salon-style discussion on the future of sustainable fashion—then stay for networking with Bard MBA’s Net Impact chapter, connecting with sustainability professionals, students, and alumni driving change across industries.
Light refreshments and small bites provided.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Vocal Arts Residency: Arias Masterclass with Pierre Vallet
Thursday, November 20, 2025 7:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Praised for the elegance and intensity of his interpretations, Vallet is a frequent guest conductor with the world’s great opera companies.
Performance highlights include Roméo et Juliette, Madama Butterfly and Faust at the Metropolitan Opera; Tannhäuser, Carmen and Tales of Hoffmann at L’Opéra National de Paris; Samson et Dalila and Carmen at The Dallas Opera; Orfeo at Opera Theater Saint Louis; Don Carlo at the Lithuanian National Opera Theater; La Juive at the Göteborg Opera, Sweden and Faust at the Gran Teatro del Liceu, Barcelona.
With the Royal Philharmonic and Elizabeth Sombart, he has recorded all Beethoven piano concertos, the Chopin piano concertos, and 4 concertos by Mozart.
His recording of Beethoven's piano concertos was nominated one of the ten best recordings released for the Beethoven’s 250th anniversary by Classical Music Magazine
He enjoyed a twenty-year musical partnership with Seiji Ozawa, with whom he worked closely on some forty operatic productions.
For the past 22 years, he has been associated with the Metropolitan Opera, first as pianist and coach and now as staff conductor.
He is a graduate of L’Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
Pierre is on faculty at the Juilliard School. www.pierrevallet.net
Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Celebrate the holiday with colorful poinsettias, available in red, pink, white, marble and Christmas mouse (mini red blooms). All 6 1/2" plants have 5-7 blooms, with foil wrapped pot covers. All orders must be picked up at Bard's Winter MakerArt + Craft Fair on Friday, December 5, 1-6pm at the Bertelsmann Campus Center.
Advancing the Landscape of Research, Methodology, and Data on the Care Economy
A Feminist Economics Lens
Friday, November 21, 2025 10–11:30 am
Online Event We are pleased to announce that the Online Events Committee of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) and the Levy Economics institute are co-hosting a 90-minute, moderated panel which will explore the evolving global research and data landscape on care work from a feminist economics perspective, with a goal of highlighting resources for researchers and advocates. Though care work has advanced markedly in research, national policymaking, and multilateral agendas, the feminist economic theoretical and methodological roots of this work continue to be essential for ensuring technical rigor to support the greatest impact. This event will aim to advance the dialogue on where there has been progress in terms of research, methodology, and data, from a feminist economic perspective, as well as discuss where our collective efforts could be best utilized moving forward.
Blithewood On Friday, November 21 at 12 PM, Professor and Chair of Economics at Skidmore College Joerg Bibow will be presenting his recent Levy Working Paper, "Banking on Payments?" ABSTRACT For the past hundred years or more, payments have been primarily associated with banking, and banking as we know it today—being the result of many centuries of evolution—features a bundling of (at least) three main lines of business: lending, deposit-taking, and payment services. In the past 15 years or so, banks have come under severe competition as providers of payment services. Will “banking on payments” become outmoded and payments untethered from banking, or will payments still have a place in the future of banking?
Professor Joerg Bibow grew up in Hamburg, northern Germany, and has studied and worked in six countries, including South Africa, Italy, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Before and during his studies of economics at three different universities he gathered a number of years of work experience in the financial services industry (insurance, pension fund, and banking). He has also worked, as researcher and consultant, with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva, Switzerland, is a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, and is a fellow at the Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM). For more information, call 845-700-7700, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event We're reading On Revolution. Hannah Arendt’s penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic exploration of a phenomenon that has reshaped the globe. From the eighteenth-century rebellions in America and France to the explosive changes of the twentieth century, Arendt traces the changing face of revolution and its relationship to war while underscoring the crucial role such events will play in the future. Illuminating and prescient, this timeless work will fascinate anyone who seeks to decipher the forces that shape our tumultuous age.
Free to Bard students, staff, and faculty and to HAC members! Email [email protected] for the Zoom link.
Don't worry if you miss a VRG meeting! We post them all on our YouTube channel the week after they're recorded. Or tune in to an edited version of the chapter readings plus bonus episodes on our podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
This concert is a part of the Conservatory’s Chamber Music Program, which all instrumental and studio faculty support through their generous coaching and mentorship.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Magenta Plains Please join Barbara's friends, colleagues and family at Magenta Plains to celebrate the artist and view never before seen works. Remarks at 6:30 pm. Refreshments will be served. This event is sponsored by the Bard College Alumni/ae Association. All former students and Bard alumni/ae are welcome.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Office of Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
For more information, call 845-758-7089, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents MADNESS! Music exploring themes of folly from the Renaissance, Baroque, and 21st century
Including John Eccles’ The Mad Lover, Antonio Vivaldi’s La Follia (arranged for string orchestra and continuo by Jeannette Sorrell), excerpts from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Peasant Cantata, the U.S. premiere of la folia by Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvits performed by harpsichordist Sophia Cornicello, and works by Juan del Encina, Alonso Mudarra, Diego Ortiz, Johann Christian Schickhardt, and Andrea Falconieri.
Free and open to the public
For further information, please visit: https://www.bard.edu/conservatory/undergraduate/baroque-ensemble/
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Celebrate the holiday with colorful poinsettias, available in red, pink, white, marble and Christmas mouse (mini red blooms). All 6 1/2" plants have 5-7 blooms, with foil wrapped pot covers. All orders must be picked up at Bard's Winter MakerArt + Craft Fair on Friday, December 5, 1-6pm at the Bertelsmann Campus Center.
This concert is a part of the Conservatory’s Chamber Music Program, which all instrumental and studio faculty support through their generous coaching and mentorship.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
To cap their third year of study, all masters of music candidates are required to create their own thesis project. This performance is the Capstone Project of TŌN clarinetist Dávid Kéringer.
Mr. Kéringer is a versatile clarinet, saxophone, and recorder player, member of TŌN, and a Fulbright Alumnus. His Capstone Concert is centered around wind instruments and their capabilities in both traditional and contemporary classical music. The show includes works from the Baroque period to the 21st century, and features pieces for clarinet, saxophone, recorder, and wind ensemble.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown
Sunday, November 23, 2025 9:45 am – 12:30 pm
St. John the Evangelist Church, 114 River Road, Barrytown, NY Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist, at 1114 River Road in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome! 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.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass is offered each Sunday at 11:30 in the Bard Chapel of the Holy Innocents, beginning on September 7, and every Sunday that Bard is in session. All are welcome to meditate on the Scripture and experience beautiful church music and the sacramental community of faith. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Celebrate the holiday with colorful poinsettias, available in red, pink, white, marble and Christmas mouse (mini red blooms). All 6 1/2" plants have 5-7 blooms, with foil wrapped pot covers. All orders must be picked up at Bard's Winter MakerArt + Craft Fair on Friday, December 5, 1-6pm at the Bertelsmann Campus Center.
TEMPO ARTS - 29 WURTS STREET, KINGSTON, NY Renée Anne Louprette, director, presents:
MADNESS!: Music exploring themes of folly from the Renaissance, Baroque, and 21st century
Including John Eccles’ The Mad Lover, Antonio Vivaldi’s La Follia (arranged for string orchestra and continuo by Jeannette Sorrell), excerpts from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Peasant Cantata, the U.S. premiere of la folia by Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvits performed by harpsichordist Sophia Cornicello, and works by Juan del Encina, Alonso Mudarra, Diego Ortiz, Johann Christian Schickhardt, and Andrea Falconieri
Presented by The Orchestra Now (TŌN) at Symphony Space in NYC
Sunday, November 23, 2025 4–5:50 pm
Symphony Space in NYC R. StraussDon Juan Vaughan WilliamsOn Wenlock Edge Purcell (arr. Steven Stucky) Funeral Music for Queen Mary Barber Symphony No. 1
Zachary Schwartzmanconductor Ryan Michki ’26tenor
TŌN Resident Conductor Zachary Schwartzman returns with the orchestra to Symphony Space for another free concert. The concert opens with Strauss’s beloved tone poem Don Juan. Then tenor Ryan Michki, a winner of the 2024 Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition, performs Vaughan Williams’ emotional English song cycle On Wenlock Edge, written after the composer had spent three months studying with Maurice Ravel in Paris. Also on the program are Steven Stucky’s arrangement of Purcell’s Funeral Music for Queen Mary, originally composed 330 years ago in 1695, and Samuel Barber’s epic and expansive Symphony No. 1 in One Movement.Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Join Bard students and the International Student Organization (ISO) for a celebration of cultural diversity through music, singing, and dancing. Here’s your ticket to a two-hour worldwide adventure, featuring performances by eleven different groups!
Sponsored by: International Students Organization.
Hegeman 204 Come to Hegeman 204A to knit or learn how to knit! Crocheters and needleworkers are also invited. Materials including yarn and knitting needles are provided. Everyone is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Celebrate the holiday with colorful poinsettias, available in red, pink, white, marble and Christmas mouse (mini red blooms). All 6 1/2" plants have 5-7 blooms, with foil wrapped pot covers. All orders must be picked up at Bard's Winter MakerArt + Craft Fair on Friday, December 5, 1-6pm at the Bertelsmann Campus Center.
The Bard College Community Orchestra is a diverse group of players, including Bard College students, faculty and staff, local high school players, and community members of level 5 NYSSMA standard and higher. The orchestra is a full symphony orchestra and plays a variety of repertoire.
Online Event This month's guests are Irene Quiliconi and Felix Bielefeld - two of the scholars from our fall 2025 Visiting Scholar program. The Hannah Arendt Center encourages scholars from around the world to apply for non-stipendiary Visiting Scholar Fellowships. We accept up to six scholars each year whose work would benefit from direct access to The Hannah Arendt Personal Library (HAPL), housed in the Stevenson Library at Bard College; we also accept scholars whose interests align with faculty and fellows at the Arendt Center.
Irene Quiliconi obtained her master’s degree in philosophy at the University of Pisa, with a thesis on Socrates and the figure of the two-in-one in Hannah Arendt’s work. She obtained a degree in Bioethics with a Postgraduate Course at the University of Padova (academic year 2023-2024), where she's discussed her essay on the importance of the matter of abitability within palliative care pathways. She's currently a Ph.D student in Philosophy in the Joint PhD between the University of Ferrara and PUCPR. Her doctoral project is focused on tracing the ethical implications of Arendt’s conception of thinking as developed in The Life of the Mind. She's a staff member of FTF|Lab (Laboratory of Transcendental Philosophy and Phenomenology), and member of the Philosophical Association Persona al Centro.
Felix Bielefeld is a PhD candidate at the University of Leipzig, researching Heinrich Blücher’s teaching practice at Bard College and the New School for Social Research in New York. Drawing on the (partly still unpublished) transcripts of Blücher’s lectures, he explores his unique approach to philosophical education. Felix studied Political Science, Hispanic Studies, and Cultural Studies in Halle, Buenos Aires, Seville, and Leipzig. He works as a political and media educator, independent curator of interdisciplinary exhibitions, and occasional lecturer at the University of Leipzig. His academic teaching focuses on cultural practice and its intersection with philosophy and theory.
For Love of the World, every fourth Tuesday from 6-6:30 pm on Radio Kingston, is your portal to the bold ideas and respectful, deep conversations about contemporary issues that we’re having regularly at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Join host Roger Berkowitz each month as we delve into the work of one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, Hannah Arendt, with renowned scholars and public intellectuals, and exemplify what it means to have a conversation of patient humility, in the Arendtian tradition.
1490 AM | 107.9 FM | or stream online and anytime at radiokingston.orgSponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Kline, College Room ¿Te interesa el periodismo, el activismo o los problemas de los inmigrantes latinos? La revista La Voz, con sede en Bard y un estimado de 40,000 lectores, es una plataforma para expresar tus intereses. En La Voz, nos esforzamos por empoderar a las comunidades hispanohablantes de las regiones del Valle Medio del Hudson y Catskill con información práctica, que abarca desde temas como salud y educación hasta preocupaciones ambientales y políticas.
Invitamos a artistas, escritores y voluntarios a ser reporteros para La Voz o a ayudar a coordinar nuestros eventos, como mesas redondas sobre inmigración, conciertos y proyecciones de películas.
Invitamos a estudiantes de todos los niveles a la reunión semanal de La Voz en Kline, Salón College.
Traigan sus tazas, nosotros ponemos el té.
*** Are you interested in journalism, activism, Latino immigrant issues? La Voz magazine is a publication based at Bard with an estimated readership of 40,000 that can give you an outlet for these interests. At La Voz we strive to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues.
We welcome artists, writers and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and/or help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts and film screenings. We invite students of all skills and talents to come by the La Voz weekly meetings, Kline College Room. For more information, call 845-752-4739, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown
Sunday, November 30, 2025 9:45 am – 12:30 pm
St. John the Evangelist Church, 114 River Road, Barrytown, NY Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist, at 1114 River Road in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome! 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.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass is offered each Sunday at 11:30 in the Bard Chapel of the Holy Innocents, beginning on September 7, and every Sunday that Bard is in session. All are welcome to meditate on the Scripture and experience beautiful church music and the sacramental community of faith. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are welcome to the Weis Cinema for the monthly Spirit Film at 6:30 pm. This month, we will be showing Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew. Pier Paolo Pasolini is the most controversial and revered linguist, journalist, painter, novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist, art historian, and internationally renowned film director, whose work embodies the length and breadth of earthly experience. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
“Jazz is a uniquely American art form. The Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band… takes that one step further.” —Olympian
Celebrate the start of Native American Heritage Month with the Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band—a powerhouse ensemble of Native and Indigenous jazz musicians from across Indian Country.
Performing pieces from their under-appreciated predecessors in jazz, alongside works by contemporary Indigenous composers, the band spotlights a vibrant, long-standing tradition of Indigenous improvised music today.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown
Sunday, November 2, 2025 9:45 am – 12:30 pm
St. John the Evangelist Church, 114 River Road, Barrytown, NY Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist, at 1114 River Road in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome! 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.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass is offered each Sunday at 11:30 in the Bard Chapel of the Holy Innocents, beginning on September 7, and every Sunday that Bard is in session. All are welcome to meditate on the Scripture and experience beautiful church music and the sacramental community of faith. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Jesse Mills, violin, Ole Akahoshi, cello, and Rieko Aizawa, piano
Sunday, November 2, 2025 2 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Giving performances that are “lithe, persuasive” (The New York Times), “eloquent and enthralling” (The Boston Globe), and described as “the most compelling American group to come on the scene” (The New Yorker), the Horszowski Trio has quickly become a vital force in the international chamber music world since their formation in 2011. Join them for a performance. Free and open to the public.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel here. Recital program available here. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Hegeman 204 Come to Hegeman 204A to knit or learn how to knit! Crocheters and needleworkers are also invited. Materials including yarn and knitting needles are provided. Everyone is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Arendt Center Irene’s research explores the ethical reflection that Hannah Arendt began to develop after the Eichmann trial and that culminates in Arendt’s last unfinished masterpiece, The Life of the Mind.
Of particular interest to her is the first chapter of the section dedicated to the activity of thinking. In that context, Arendt focuses on several key concepts—such as that of appearance—drawing on new authors, including figures from the realm of biological studies. Among these, the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the zoologist Adolf Portmann are especially significant.
In this presentation, Irene seeks to connect Arendt’s conception of thinking as an activity inextricably rooted in the sensible world with several key questions—also emerging from earlier passages in Arendt’s works—concerning the possibility of inhabiting the world in a truly human and ethical way.
Public Skills to Private Markets: Translating Sustainability Across Sectors
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 6:30–8:30 pm
Pyxera Global Join Bard College’s #1–ranked MBA in Sustainabilityprogram and Pyxera Global for a conversation on how mission-driven professionals are translating public-sector experience into private-sector impact. This discussion will explore the skills, mindsets, and opportunities that drive sustainability leadership across sectors.
This roundtable conversation will feature leaders who have successfully made the transition from the public to private sector:
Dr. Eban Goodstein - Director of the Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability
John Holm - Senior Vice President, Partnership Development at Pyxera Global; and Bard MBA faculty member in Circular Value Chain Management
Reagan Richmond - Senior Manager, Climate Change and Sustainability at EY
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Sativa Torres* and Nyx Hernandez* (submitting work in partial fulfilment for moderation into the Dance Program), Zoe Guzin, Alice Crotty, and Elizabeth Mickens. Special Guests Stephanie Saywell ‘14, Hannah Golden, and Dahyun Kim. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://dance.bard.edu.
Kline, College Room ¿Te interesa el periodismo, el activismo o los problemas de los inmigrantes latinos? La revista La Voz, con sede en Bard y un estimado de 40,000 lectores, es una plataforma para expresar tus intereses. En La Voz, nos esforzamos por empoderar a las comunidades hispanohablantes de las regiones del Valle Medio del Hudson y Catskill con información práctica, que abarca desde temas como salud y educación hasta preocupaciones ambientales y políticas.
Invitamos a artistas, escritores y voluntarios a ser reporteros para La Voz o a ayudar a coordinar nuestros eventos, como mesas redondas sobre inmigración, conciertos y proyecciones de películas.
Invitamos a estudiantes de todos los niveles a la reunión semanal de La Voz en Kline, Salón College.
Traigan sus tazas, nosotros ponemos el té.
*** Are you interested in journalism, activism, Latino immigrant issues? La Voz magazine is a publication based at Bard with an estimated readership of 40,000 that can give you an outlet for these interests. At La Voz we strive to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues.
We welcome artists, writers and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and/or help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts and film screenings. We invite students of all skills and talents to come by the La Voz weekly meetings, Kline College Room. For more information, call 845-752-4739, or e-mail [email protected].
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor It is a truth universally acknowledged that the novels of Jane Austen continue to entertain and delight us, on page and on screen. Please join us to hear a lively conversation about her life, works, and lasting appeal. Speakers (devoted Austen fans all) are Deirdre d’Albertis, dean of the college and professor of English; Marisa Libbon, associate professor of literature; Joseph Luzzi, Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature; and Daniel Williams, assistant professor of literature. Location: first floor of Stevenson Library. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Keith Haring Lecture in Art and Activism: Valentina Rozas-Krause
Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism, 2024–25
Thursday, November 6, 2025 5–7 pm
CCS Bard, Classroom 102 Feminimonuments: Feminist Transformations of ‘Difficult Monuments’ during the recent Chilean Social Upheaval
Only 4.7% of Santiago’s monuments represent women, a grim statistic that is echoed in cities around the world. Yet in the heat of the chilean social upheaval (2019-20), protesters and women’s groups took the problem of female representation into their own hands. Guided by an intersectional lens, this presentation analyzes monuments of ‘difficult heritage’ in two Chilean cities, Santiago and Valparaíso, to understand how they were transformed physically and symbolically into sites of feminist solidarity. The stakes are high, together these monuments speak about European colonization, the nation-state, the ongoing conflict with indigenous populations, past and present violence against women, as well as the oversight of feminine historical agency. Each case represents a typology of monument-appropriation, and its analysis will help to unravel a counter-archive of possibilities for female representation in public space.
The Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism is made possible through a grant from the Keith Haring Foundation. The Keith Haring Chair is a cross-disciplinary, annual, visiting faculty appointment for a scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research at both the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project at Bard College. The Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism was established to allow a distinguished leader in the field to investigate the role of art as a catalyst for social change, linking the two programs and presenting original research in an annual lecture.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies; Human Rights Program.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Sativa Torres* and Nyx Hernandez* (submitting work in partial fulfilment for moderation into the Dance Program), Zoe Guzin, Alice Crotty, and Elizabeth Mickens. Special Guests Stephanie Saywell ‘14, Hannah Golden, and Dahyun Kim. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://dance.bard.edu.
Online Event We're reading On Revolution. Hannah Arendt’s penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic exploration of a phenomenon that has reshaped the globe. From the eighteenth-century rebellions in America and France to the explosive changes of the twentieth century, Arendt traces the changing face of revolution and its relationship to war while underscoring the crucial role such events will play in the future. Illuminating and prescient, this timeless work will fascinate anyone who seeks to decipher the forces that shape our tumultuous age.
Free to Bard students, staff, and faculty and to HAC members! Email [email protected] for the Zoom link.
Don't worry if you miss a VRG meeting! We post them all on our YouTube channel the week after they're recorded. Or tune in to an edited version of the chapter readings plus bonus episodes on our podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
If your audio or music track is sounding the wrong kind of funky, you should take our Adobe Audition workshop TOMORROW, 11/7 from 2-4PM at New Annandale House (1399 Annandale Rd.)!
All Bard community members (faculty, staff, and grad/undergrad students) have free temporary access to Adobe Audition via the college's Creative Cloud licensing program. All requests for Creative Cloud access must be submitted via THIS LINK. Please make sure you have Adobe Audition downloaded on your laptop and ready to go before the beginning of the workshop!
Please also email [email protected] for all other inquiries and RSVPs.
PLEASE NOTE: This event has limited capacity. RSVPs are required!
Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Albert Join Tia Landau '84 and Garbriel Wardell '93 at the upcoming Atlanta Cities Party! This is a time for alumni/ae to connect and reconnect with fellow Bardians in the Atlanta-area, at The Albert.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Office of Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space The music of Robert Carl, performed by Bard faculty and students, including Andrew Altrock, Steve Bonacci, Elizabeth Brown, Robert Carl, Nick Franceschi, Michael Jones, Tony Kirk, and Matt Sargent. Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Sativa Torres* and Nyx Hernandez* (submitting work in partial fulfilment for moderation into the Dance Program), Zoe Guzin, Alice Crotty, and Elizabeth Mickens. Special Guests Stephanie Saywell ‘14, Hannah Golden, and Dahyun Kim. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://dance.bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown
Sunday, November 9, 2025 9:45 am – 12:30 pm
St. John the Evangelist Church, 114 River Road, Barrytown, NY Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist, at 1114 River Road in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome! 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.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass is offered each Sunday at 11:30 in the Bard Chapel of the Holy Innocents, beginning on September 7, and every Sunday that Bard is in session. All are welcome to meditate on the Scripture and experience beautiful church music and the sacramental community of faith. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY Join Mohonk Consultations for a day of uplifting stories and insightful discussions about how we can work together to inspire new leaders and help them succeed. The historical moment we are now living in urgently requires the emergence of new leadership, capable of overcoming obsolete models based on personal power, divisiveness and greed, while enhancing inclusiveness, reconciliation, and support of the common good. Speakers include Jana Mader, Director of Academic Programs, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics & Humanities and Deirdre d’Albertis, Vice President and Dean of the College, Bard College.
Bard Conservatory finalists compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra and The Orchestra Now (TŌN).
Please note that this is a competition, and at times, pieces will not be performed in full.
Pictured: Mohammad AbdNikfarjam, clarinet, one of the winners of the 2024 Conservatory Concerto Competition with Bard Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Tan Dun, photo by Matt Dine
Hegeman 204 Come to Hegeman 204A to knit or learn how to knit! Crocheters and needleworkers are also invited. Materials including yarn and knitting needles are provided. Everyone is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Antijudaism and Antisemitism in European Philosophy
with Joseph Cohen
Monday, November 10, 2025 6–8 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 205 From Kant to Heidegger, many of Europe’s most influential philosophers have engaged—sometimes critically, sometimes prejudicially—with the figure of “the Jew” and the central ideas of Judaism. This seminar explores how concepts such as election, messianism, revelation, and the Law have been interpreted, and often distorted, in the philosophical tradition. We will examine the distinction between antijudaism (opposition to Jewish religion or thought) and antisemitism (hostility toward Jews as a people), while also tracing their deep historical and conceptual connections. Through close readings of key thinkers (including Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, and Heidegger), we will see how these ideas were not mere products of prejudice, but at times formed a structural part of philosophical systems—casting “the Jew” as a necessary counterpoint to philosophy itself. We will ask: In what sense has the trope of the Jew as a “counter-essential enemy” to philosophical thinking been seen as necessary for the very unfolding of European philosophical history?
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JOSEPH COHEN is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin (Ireland) since 2007. He has held numerous visiting professorships of philosophy at various European universities in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Belgium. He has authored Le spectre juif de Hegel (Paris, Galilée, 2005), Le sacrifice de Hegel (Paris, Galilée, 2007 ; Italian transl. : Il Sacrificio di Hegel, Milan, Mimesis, 2025), Alternances de la métaphysique. Essais sur E. Levinas (Paris, Galilée, 2009) and co-authored, with D. Moran, The Husserl Dictionary (London, Bloomsbury-Continuum, 2012). He has also co-authored, with R. Zagury-Orly, L’adversaire privilégié. Heidegger, les Juifs et nous, (Paris, Galilée, 2021). He has co-edited, with R. Zagury-Orly, Heidegger et « les juifs » (Paris, Grasset, 2015), Heidegger. Qu’appelle-t-on le lieu? (Paris, Gallimard, 2008), Derrida. L’événement déconstruction (Paris, Gallimard, 2012) and Judéités – questions pour Jacques Derrida (Paris, Galilée, 2003; also Fordham University Press, 2009). He is the Founder and Lead Project Investigator of “Jewish Thought and Contemporary Philosophy” housed at the Newman Centre for the Study of Religions, University College Dublin and co-founding member of the Irish Phenomenological Circle. Joseph Cohen has also published extensively on German Idealism (Kant, Hegel, Schelling), Judaism and Antijudaism/Antisemitism in the history of philosophy and literature, phenomenology and deconstruction. His philosophical research is focused on contemporary continental philosophy and the questions of sacrifice and history, Judaism and Antijudaism/Antisemitism, forgiveness and alterity, truth and justice.
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This event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program, Philosophy Program, Jewish Studies Program, and the student-run "It's Complicated" Project of the Hannah Arendt Center.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Program; Jewish Studies Program; Philosophy Program.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Monday, November 10, at 6pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), writer Susan Fox Rogers will read from her essay, Guivi: What We Keep, What We Burn, winner of the 2025 Harvard Review Chapbook Prize, as part of the Written Arts Senior Colloquium series. This reading is free and open to the public.
Susan Fox Rogers is a birder, rock climber, kayaker, teacher, and writer who has authored and/or edited numerous works focused on the natural world and outdoor adventure. She was Visiting Associate Professor of Writing at Bard College from 2001 - 2022. Her books include Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure, When Birds Are Near: Literary Bird Tales, and My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir. She was selected by the National Science Foundation to participate in a US Antarctic Artists and Writers Program during the 2004 and 2005 austral summer. Her forthcoming chapbook, Guivi: What We Keep, What We Burn won the 2025 Harvard Review Chapbook Prize. Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
How to Find a Job in Sustainability: Build Connections That Matter
Monday, November 10, 2025 7–8:30 pm
Online Event Are you ready to transform your passion for sustainability into a thriving, purpose-driven career? In today’s evolving job market, your network is your most powerful tool. Join us for a free webinar focused on how to build meaningful connections that open doors to sustainability careers. Learn how to identify the right people, start authentic conversations, and turn those relationships into real opportunities.
Led by Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of the Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability, this session will give you practical strategies to expand your network and translate it into career success. You’ll also have a chance to ask questions during a live Q&A.
What You’ll Gain:
Inspiration and Direction: Discover pathways to impactful sustainability careers
Expert Guidance: Learn effective networking techniques from a leading sustainability educator
Actionable Strategies: Leave with a clear plan to strengthen your connections and advance your job search
This webinar is ideal for professionals eager to pivot or grow, recent graduates entering the workforce, and students planning their next move in sustainability.
Don’t miss this opportunity to build the connections that drive change!Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Public Dialogue about Stan Douglas with Casey Robertson (Bard Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art
This is a special collaboration with the Center for Curatorial Studies and their Stan Douglas exhibition. Please visit the exhibition before the discussion.
The full schedule is at https://www.bard.edu/cmia.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
Jordan Nassar Studio Art Visiting Artist Fall 2025
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 5:30–7 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Please join us for our second Visiting Artist Lecturer of the Fall 2025 semester. Jordan Nassar’s multivalent art practice engages the material variety of craft to execute ideas centered on heritage and homeland. Through hand-embroidery, wood inlay, glass and expansive installations, he examines issues of identity, diaspora and cultural participation. Nassar often employs “the landscape” as a thread throughout these different mediums, carefully mapping out patterns and repeatedly intercepting them, using fields of color to define rolling hills and expanses of water. Nassar has adapted the matrilineally-learned tradition of Palestinian tatreez, or cross stitch—most often found on pillows, clothing, and other domestic arts—to mirror his hybridized upbringing. His childhood home in the U.S. was decorated with such objects, which his father brought back from visits to his ancestral homeland. Each hand-embroidered work is stretched and framed, bringing Nassar’s embroidery practice into a dialogue with painting.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
Online Event Select talks and student interviews from the Hannah Arendt Center's 17th annual conference on JOY: Loving the World in Dark Times will be broadcast live on WXBC, Bard College's student-run radio station. Hear from writers, poets, musicians, performers, and scholars on finding meaning and connection amidst today's fractured world, and joy as a powerful force, and a vital conversation around fostering resilience.Sponsored by: WXBC.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Featuring voice, piano, and conducting students and faculty of the Bard College and the Bard Conservatory of Music.
Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Lobby Meet and speak with an admissions representative from Bard College's Graduate Programs. Learn about the many academic programs and gain insight into fields of study, application timelines, and options for Bard students. Bard Graduate Programs MA | MS | MM | MEd | MAT | MFA | MBA | MPhil | PhD Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts Master of Arts in Teaching Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Environmental Policy Environmental Science MBA in Sustainability Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture Graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Bard Conservatory Graduate Conducting Programs at the Bard Conservatory Chinese Music and Culture - The Chinese Music Institute The Orchestra Now Longy School of Music of Bard College Master of Music Program Center for Human Rights and The Arts M.A. in Global Studies
Rachel’s mother, the late Margot Stern Strom was the founder of Facing History and Ourselves, a Holocaust-based anti-bias educational program (for which she received an honorary degree from Bard College in 2001). Nina and Amy’s father, the lateRobert Rifkind, was a lawyer, and president of the American Jewish Committee, working to combat antisemitism and hatred. Their children also oppose hate, but through something more basic and essential: protecting due process and the integrity of the legal system. BCSH director Kenneth Stern, who knew the parents and the children, will moderate a discussion between them. Rachel Strom was on a team that drafted an amicus brief for Jewish organizations on behalf of Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts student whisked away supposedly for co-authoring an op-ed. Amy Rifkind and Nina Rifkind wrote a letter to the law firm Paul, Weiss, after it capitulated to threats from the Trump administration, powerfully stating how this action violated the vision of the firm set down by its founder, their grandfather, Judge Simon Rifkind.Sponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Hate.
Steeplejack Brewing Company Join Tereza Bottman ’95, Ben Lackey ’91 and Phoebe McDowell '96 at the upcoming Portland Cities Party on Wednesday, November 12 at the Steeplejack Brewing Company.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Office of Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Join us to explore tutoring and volunteer programs on campus and beyond. Try out activities, meet student leaders, and discover ways to get involved in teaching and mentorship.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Master of Arts in Teaching Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Kline, College Room ¿Te interesa el periodismo, el activismo o los problemas de los inmigrantes latinos? La revista La Voz, con sede en Bard y un estimado de 40,000 lectores, es una plataforma para expresar tus intereses. En La Voz, nos esforzamos por empoderar a las comunidades hispanohablantes de las regiones del Valle Medio del Hudson y Catskill con información práctica, que abarca desde temas como salud y educación hasta preocupaciones ambientales y políticas.
Invitamos a artistas, escritores y voluntarios a ser reporteros para La Voz o a ayudar a coordinar nuestros eventos, como mesas redondas sobre inmigración, conciertos y proyecciones de películas.
Invitamos a estudiantes de todos los niveles a la reunión semanal de La Voz en Kline, Salón College.
Traigan sus tazas, nosotros ponemos el té.
*** Are you interested in journalism, activism, Latino immigrant issues? La Voz magazine is a publication based at Bard with an estimated readership of 40,000 that can give you an outlet for these interests. At La Voz we strive to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues.
We welcome artists, writers and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and/or help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts and film screenings. We invite students of all skills and talents to come by the La Voz weekly meetings, Kline College Room. For more information, call 845-752-4739, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard GPS - Online International Applicant Information Session
Thursday, November 13, 2025 12–1 pm
Online Event Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability (GPS) holds online informational webinars specifically for prospective international students to learn more about graduate program options. Join us on Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 12:00pm ET to learn about our programs and the admissions process directly from the admissions team. There will be time for questions at the end of the session.
WHAT WE COVER: - Overview of graduate program offerings available to international students - Admissions information, specifically for international students - Prerequisite course information - Funding opportunities and scholarships - Tips for a standout application
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.
RSVP HERE!Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor Join multimedia artists Victor Morales and Ben Williams in conversation with Alex Geller, Director of the Red Hook Public Library about their recent installation, MODEL HISTORIES. Created with open-source AI software, this interactive game takes you through the archives of Historic Red Hook and creates a platform for discussing the future of AI, storytelling and the archival record.Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program; Libraries at Bard College.
Speaker Series: Tina Campt and Saidiya Hartman In Conversation
Thursday, November 13, 2025 5–7 pm
CCS Bard, Classroom 102 Esteemed writers and scholars Campt and Hartman discuss Stan Douglas’s Birth of a Nation (2025), featured in the artist’s career survey at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures are free and open, and are documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives and online here.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bard Health Services will be hosting Village Apothecary for our LAST vaccine clinic of the semester next Friday, November 14th from 11am-4pm at the new Campus Center North (25 Robbins Road). We will have Covid and flu vaccines available for all, as well as shingles, pneumococcal and TdAP vaccines available for faculty and staff. By appointment only. Schedule Now
re/presentarereflects on the practice of working from the commons, in its frictions and possibilities. Reframing Evidence from the Commons means acknowledging the challenging reality of true communal work in which different interests and visions of justice co-exist. It also seeks to question what constitutes evidence and how, for communities outside of the juridical Western frame, it opens up other possibilities once it is mobilized through the mediation of investigative arts. re/presentare is curating a project in Mexico City as part of Evidence, an international festival by the Fisher Center LAB, in association with CHRA. This talk is moderated by Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco, Assistant Professor of Architectural Studies at Bard.
This talk is co-hosted with Bard Architecture and the Fisher Center at Bard. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Learn more about applying to Levy with Thomas Masterson, graduate program director, and Tyler Emerson, outreach and recruitment liaison.
Friday, November 14, 2025 12–1 pm
Online Event This information session with Graduate Program Director Thomas Masterson and Graduate Outreach and Recruitment Liaison Tyler Emerson provides an overview of the Levy academic programs, student life, admission requirements, enrollment steps, new scholarships, financial aid procedures, and immigration requirements for international students. Applicants who attend a virtual information session will have their application fees waived.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space András Szalai was born in 1985 in Budapest. He graduated in classical cimbalom performance and composition from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. He is a prizewinner of several national and international cimbalom competitions.
His artistic focus lies in performing early music arrangements, 20th-century music, and contemporary solo and chamber works. Over the past twenty years, he has premiered or performed several pieces by Hungarian and international contemporary composers. He frequently performs works by György Kurtág, who has also composed a solo piece for him. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has appeared at major festivals, including the Budapest Spring Festival, the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and the Haydn Festival in Fertőd.
He has performed with the Slovenian, Warsaw, Kraków, Łódź, Valencia, Moscow, and Stavanger Philharmonic Orchestras, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Helsinki Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, the Lapland Chamber Orchestra, the Plural Ensemble in Madrid, the Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra in Beijing, the Ars Nova Ensemble, and the Ensemble C Barré in France. In Hungary, he has played with the Budapest Strings, the Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra, and nearly every symphonic orchestra in the country. He has worked with conductors such as Péter Eötvös, Iván Fischer, Michail Jurowski, Zoltán Kocsis, Ingo Metzmacher, Fabian Panisello, Michael Schønwandt, Walter Weller, Antoni Wit, and Simone Young, as well as performers like Claire Chase, Evelyn Glennie, and Helena Winkelmann. He is a member of the UMZE Contemporary Ensemble.
He teaches composition and music theory at the King St. Stephen Conservatory and cimbalom and chamber music at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. His recordings can be found at Hungarian Radio and Hungaroton. He is a recipient of the Artisjus Prize.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
New Annandale House Are you interested in learning the basics of Premiere to edit your film, music video, or other piece of media, but feel frustrated and confused by all the video tutorials out there and are seeking hands-on instruction? A first-year film student wanting to get a jump-start on your video editing skills before taking Electronic Media Workshop? Wanting to add an edited video component to your final project for a class?
Then you should come take our Beginner's Guide to Premiere Pro workshop on Friday, 11/14 from 2-4PM at the Center for Experimental Humanities (1399 Annandale Rd.)! This 2 hour workshop/crash course will provide you with a solid foundational understanding of Premiere, as well as best practices for footage handling and storage, giving you the confidence to explore and build off this knowledge in the future!
Please note that RSVPs are required for this event, and should be submitted by end of day Thursday 11/13. Email [email protected] with all RSVPs and questions.
If you are bringing your own laptop, make sure you have Premiere Pro 2025 downloaded in advance. All Bard students, faculty and staff can request a temporary Adobe CC license to download Premiere viathis link. If you cannot bring your own laptop, or are outside the Bard network, please contact [email protected] for further instruction.Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
A Reading with James Hannahamin commemoration of Trans Awareness Week
Friday, November 14, 2025 3 pm
Olin Hall Join us for a reading from James Hannaham of the novel Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta. In this “dangerously hilarious” novel (Los Angeles Times), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men’s prison, over one consequential Fourth of July weekend. From the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award winner Delicious Foods.
Reception with light refreshments to follow.Sponsored by: The Written Arts Program, QPOC, TransMission, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Offices of Inclusive Excellence and the Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Pianist Yoheved Kaplinsky was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. She was a prizewinner at the J.S. Bach International Competition in Washington, D.C. She has made numerous appearances in recitals, playing chamber music, and with orchestras, as well as on radio and television in Israel and the U.S. She has given frequent lectures and master classes throughout the U.S., Israel, and Korea. Festivals she has played and taught at include Bowdoin Summer Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Pianofest in Long Island, N.Y., the Cliburn-T.C.U. Institute, and Tel Hai Master Classes in Israel. She has served as an adjudicator for international competitions, including the Van Cliburn, Cleveland, Arthur Rubinstein, Dublin, and Tchaikovsky competitions. She received the Presidential Scholars Teacher Recognition Award in 2003. She was a former faculty member at Philadelphia University of the Arts, Manhattan School of Music, and Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore from 1989-97.
Kaplinsky studied with Ilona Vincze at the Tel Aviv Music Academy. She received her bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Juilliard, where she studied with Irwin Freundlich. She also studied with Dorothy Taubman.
Kaplinsky has been a faculty member at the Juilliard School since 1993, chair of the piano department since 1997, and Susan W. Rose Chair since 2000. She has been a Juilliard Pre-College faculty member since 1993 and artistic advisor of the division since 2020. She served as artistic director of the division from 2007-2020.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel here. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Citizens' Climate Lobby Fall Conference Virtual Watch Party and Potluck
Sharper Than Ever: CCL's Next Chapter
Saturday, November 15, 2025 1–5 pm
Barringer House; Global Classroom Grounded in our values and guided by a new strategy, CCL is pushing climate action forward. What to expect: Equip yourself to be an effective climate advocate in the current political landscape. Learn the policy details of permitting reform, a critical component of America’s clean energy future. Reconnect with CCL’s values and unique culture, so you’re ready to carry our new strategy forward.Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-464-8025, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Limited seating available. Any seats that become available will be sold in person at the box office when the Sosnoff Theater lobby opens one hour before each performance. To check availability, contact the box office at 845-758-7900 or [email protected].
James Bagwellconductor
WilliamsJurassic Park
The action-packed adventure pits man against prehistoric predators in the ultimate battle for survival. Featuring visually stunning imagery and groundbreaking special effects, this epic film is sheer movie magic 65 million years in the making. Now audiences can experience Jurassic Park as never before: projected in HD with The Orchestra Now performing John Williams’ iconic score live to picture. Welcome… to Jurassic Park!
Jurassic Park is a trademark and copyright of Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment, Inc. Licensed by Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown
Sunday, November 16, 2025 9:45 am – 12:30 pm
St. John the Evangelist Church, 114 River Road, Barrytown, NY Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist, at 1114 River Road in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome! 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.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass is offered each Sunday at 11:30 in the Bard Chapel of the Holy Innocents, beginning on September 7, and every Sunday that Bard is in session. All are welcome to meditate on the Scripture and experience beautiful church music and the sacramental community of faith. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
POSTPONED: Faculty Spotlight Series: Marka Gustavsson, viola, and Frank Corliss, piano, with guest artist Mark Gallagher, clarinet
Sunday, November 16, 2025 2 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space The concert scheduled for 11/16/25 has been canceled and will be postponed. A new date is pending and will be announced as soon as it is confirmed. Thank you for your understanding.
Works by Robert Schumann, Rebecca Clarke, Malcolm Arnold, Thomas Adès, Edward Elgar, and W. A. Mozart.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Limited seating available. Any seats that become available will be sold in person at the box office when the Sosnoff Theater lobby opens one hour before each performance. To check availability, contact the box office at 845-758-7900 or [email protected].
James Bagwellconductor
WilliamsJurassic Park
The action-packed adventure pits man against prehistoric predators in the ultimate battle for survival. Featuring visually stunning imagery and groundbreaking special effects, this epic film is sheer movie magic 65 million years in the making. Now audiences can experience Jurassic Park as never before: projected in HD with The Orchestra Now performing John Williams’ iconic score live to picture. Welcome… to Jurassic Park!
Jurassic Park is a trademark and copyright of Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment, Inc. Licensed by Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Ben Monder, guitar; Theo Bleckmann, voice; Joseph Branciforte, electronics
Sunday, November 16, 2025 8–9 pm
N211 Blum
Jazz at Bard and the Bard Conservatory of Music Present the Richard Gordon Jazz Series Featuring: The Ben Monder Trio: Ben Monder, guitar; Theo Bleckmann, voice; Joseph Branciforte, electronics. This special concert is dedicated to the memory of Richard Gordon, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Bard College and a consummate jazz pianist. His enduring contributions to both academia and the arts will be honored through this musical tribute. The series is generously supported by Bard Jazz Studies, the Bitó Conservatory of Music, and private donations in his memory. For more information, call 201-577-1092, or e-mail [email protected].
Hegeman 204 Come to Hegeman 204A to knit or learn how to knit! Crocheters and needleworkers are also invited. Materials including yarn and knitting needles are provided. Everyone is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Blum N119 Students of the Electronic Music Program at Bard share new music and collaborative works. There will be free pizza!Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Celebrate the holiday with colorful poinsettias, available in red, pink, white, marble and Christmas mouse (mini red blooms). All 6 1/2" plants have 5-7 blooms, with foil wrapped pot covers. All orders must be picked up at Bard's Winter MakerArt + Craft Fair on Friday, December 5, 1-6pm at the Bertelsmann Campus Center.
CCS Bard, Classroom 102 In a show-and-tell presentation style, Sofía unpacks a curatorial toolkit that is in the making. In that process, she references collaborations with a number of artists, curators, and designers, including Goda Budvytytė, Alejandro Cesarco, Sarah Demeuse, Bernardo de Souza, Mario García Torres, Inés Katzenstein, Iris Kensmil, Jessy Koeiman, Irene Kopelman, Raimundas Malasauskas, Manuel Raeder, and Team Thursday, among others. People attending this program are encouraged to bring a tool; to briefly speak about it; to share it with the group. Take note that tools, as much as retooling, are used here to link art with public engagement. Consider tools that were newly acquired. Shared tools. Borrowed ones. Basic tools. Tools to replace; to forget about; to invent.
Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures are free and open, and are documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives and online here.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
American Artist Studio Art Visiting Artist Fall 2025
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 5:30–7 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Please join us for the third Visiting Artist in our Fall 2025 series. American Artist makes thought experiments that mine the history of technology, race, and knowledge production, beginning with their legal name change in 2013. Their artwork primarily takes the form of sculpture, software, and video. Artist is a recipient of the 2024 New York Artadia Award and a Trellis Art Fund grantee. They are a former resident of Smack Mellon, Red Bull Arts Detroit, Abrons Art Center, Recess, EYEBEAM, Pioneer Works, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. They have exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, and Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul. Their work has been featured in The New York Times, Cultured, Artforum, and Art in America. Artist is a former co-director of the School for Poetic Computation and a faculty at Yale University. For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational sessions for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs. Join us to learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be time for questions at the end of the session.
WHAT WE COVER: - Overview of graduate program offerings - Alumni success and career outcomes - Admissions information - Financial aid and scholarships - Prerequisite course information - Tips for a standout application
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.
RSVP HERE!Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Vocal Arts Residency: Mélodies Masterclass with Pierre Vallet
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 7:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Praised for the elegance and intensity of his interpretations, Vallet is a frequent guest conductor with the world’s great opera companies.
Performance highlights include Roméo et Juliette, Madama Butterfly and Faust at the Metropolitan Opera; Tannhäuser, Carmen and Tales of Hoffmann at L’Opéra National de Paris; Samson et Dalila and Carmen at The Dallas Opera; Orfeo at Opera Theater Saint Louis; Don Carlo at the Lithuanian National Opera Theater; La Juive at the Göteborg Opera, Sweden and Faust at the Gran Teatro del Liceu, Barcelona.
With the Royal Philharmonic and Elizabeth Sombart, he has recorded all Beethoven piano concertos, the Chopin piano concertos, and 4 concertos by Mozart.
His recording of Beethoven's piano concertos was nominated one of the ten best recordings released for the Beethoven’s 250th anniversary by Classical Music Magazine
He enjoyed a twenty-year musical partnership with Seiji Ozawa, with whom he worked closely on some forty operatic productions.
For the past 22 years, he has been associated with the Metropolitan Opera, first as pianist and coach and now as staff conductor.
He is a graduate of L’Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
Pierre is on faculty at the Juilliard School. www.pierrevallet.net
Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Celebrate the holiday with colorful poinsettias, available in red, pink, white, marble and Christmas mouse (mini red blooms). All 6 1/2" plants have 5-7 blooms, with foil wrapped pot covers. All orders must be picked up at Bard's Winter MakerArt + Craft Fair on Friday, December 5, 1-6pm at the Bertelsmann Campus Center.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Come join us for a screening of So Surreal: Behind the Masks at 7pm in Weis Cinema. Directed by Neil Diamond (Cree), “So Surreal: Behind the Masks unveils the fascinating connection between the work of famed Surrealist artists and Yupʼik and Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw ceremonial masks, and the quest to bring some of the masks back home.”Sponsored by: Center for Indigenous Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Presented by the Hannah Arendt Center's Democracy Innovation Hub
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 7–9 pm
Powerhouse Arts 322 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215 Experience the deliberative democracy wave! Join us for an immersive evening by stepping into the role of a participant in a civic assembly!
Working together, Bard College's Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, People’s Creative Institute , Columbia World Projects, and The Civic Engagement Commission in collaboration with Powerhouse Arts are excited to present “You Are Democracy: A Series on Collective Power," a three-part event series focused on democracy beyond elections. This series will include a film screening, model civic assembly, and a celebratory reimagining of a public meeting.
Part 2 at Powerhouse Arts, 322 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Join the movement for deliberative democracy and learn how New Yorkers can have their voice heard. Join us for the second event in our series, “Democracy in Practice: A Model Assembly”. An immersive evening where New Yorkers step into the role of participants in a civic assembly. Civic assemblies are a growing practice where residents of a municipality come together to discuss issues in their community and arrive at practical solutions. Learn, listen, deliberate, and practice deliberation as a practical tool for democratic decision-making.
The topic of this model assembly will be flooding and climate resilience. About 400,000 NYC residents live in high-risk flood zones - Gowanus being one of them. Climate change is driving heavier downpours and rising sea levels, leading to more frequent floods that strain infrastructure and put lives at risk. What should we prioritize in the face of these changes? How can we think more deeply and strategically together as a city? Don’t miss this model assembly.
The evening's model assembly will be facilitated by Philip Lindsay of Bard College and Forrest Sparks of The Assembly Project, with special guests. REGISTERSponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Kline, College Room ¿Te interesa el periodismo, el activismo o los problemas de los inmigrantes latinos? La revista La Voz, con sede en Bard y un estimado de 40,000 lectores, es una plataforma para expresar tus intereses. En La Voz, nos esforzamos por empoderar a las comunidades hispanohablantes de las regiones del Valle Medio del Hudson y Catskill con información práctica, que abarca desde temas como salud y educación hasta preocupaciones ambientales y políticas.
Invitamos a artistas, escritores y voluntarios a ser reporteros para La Voz o a ayudar a coordinar nuestros eventos, como mesas redondas sobre inmigración, conciertos y proyecciones de películas.
Invitamos a estudiantes de todos los niveles a la reunión semanal de La Voz en Kline, Salón College.
Traigan sus tazas, nosotros ponemos el té.
*** Are you interested in journalism, activism, Latino immigrant issues? La Voz magazine is a publication based at Bard with an estimated readership of 40,000 that can give you an outlet for these interests. At La Voz we strive to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues.
We welcome artists, writers and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and/or help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts and film screenings. We invite students of all skills and talents to come by the La Voz weekly meetings, Kline College Room. For more information, call 845-752-4739, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Celebrate the holiday with colorful poinsettias, available in red, pink, white, marble and Christmas mouse (mini red blooms). All 6 1/2" plants have 5-7 blooms, with foil wrapped pot covers. All orders must be picked up at Bard's Winter MakerArt + Craft Fair on Friday, December 5, 1-6pm at the Bertelsmann Campus Center.
Join us to celebrate the launch of An Image of Colonial Violence Pulled from the Air, a new digital publication documenting ten years of research and advocacy from the forensic investigation agency INTERPRT, based out of Trondheim, Norway. INTERPRT in concerned with the unique evidentiary challenges of representing environmental destruction, and produces evidence for legal actions, including briefings and petitions to the International Criminal Court. They often work with (and on) legal terms that situate the crime of ecocide and the standing of the environment within international criminal law and political theory.
Nabil Ahmed is on the faculty of architecture and design at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). With Olga Lucko, he leads the research agency INTERPRT, which utilizes architectural research, 3D reconstructions, remote sensing and publicly available datasets to investigate environmental destruction and human rights violations. INTERPRT undertakes long-term investigations on behalf of diverse groups, and pursues self-initiated research projects for which they produce advocacy videos, interactive maps and evidence files. INTERPRT collaborates with Climate Counsel, an initiative of former UN lawyers to address the climate emergency, and is a member of Investigative Commons, an initiative ofForensic Architecture. They support the global campaign to make ecocide a fifth international crime.
Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Human Rights Project.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
A drop-in session with the Hudson Valley Lace Guild
Thursday, November 20, 2025 5:30–7:30 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor Join your hosts the Hudson Valley Lace Guild and Bard Stevenson Library for a drop-in information session where you can learn about lace and how it's made! Talk with the Guild about the types of lace and view examples made by members! There will also be a pop-up exhibit of lace from the Montgomery Place Collection. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Inside Sustainability with Bard MBA: The Future for Sustainable Fashion
Thursday, November 20, 2025 6:30–8:30 pm
BPCM/Bard MBA in Sustainability Explore how leaders are redefining sustainable fashion in our live podcast + real talk—followed by networking with Bard MBA Net Impact.
Join Bard College’s #1–ranked MBA in Sustainability program for a live recording of our popular podcast, Lead the Change. The Inside Sustainability live podcast series brings you into candid, unfiltered conversations with our faculty, alumni and students about what it takes to drive real change in today’s polarized climate.
This month, Sarah Bergman, MBA ’25, Senior Designer for Reebok Womens, will sit down with Carrie Ellen Phillips, Partner & Owner at BPCM, and Erin Beatty, Founder & Creative Director of Rentrayage. Together, they’ll explore how fashion is evolving to meet the demands of a sustainable future—from design and materials to storytelling and brand accountability.
Following the 30-minute live podcast recording, join us for a salon-style discussion on the future of sustainable fashion—then stay for networking with Bard MBA’s Net Impact chapter, connecting with sustainability professionals, students, and alumni driving change across industries.
Light refreshments and small bites provided.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Vocal Arts Residency: Arias Masterclass with Pierre Vallet
Thursday, November 20, 2025 7:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Praised for the elegance and intensity of his interpretations, Vallet is a frequent guest conductor with the world’s great opera companies.
Performance highlights include Roméo et Juliette, Madama Butterfly and Faust at the Metropolitan Opera; Tannhäuser, Carmen and Tales of Hoffmann at L’Opéra National de Paris; Samson et Dalila and Carmen at The Dallas Opera; Orfeo at Opera Theater Saint Louis; Don Carlo at the Lithuanian National Opera Theater; La Juive at the Göteborg Opera, Sweden and Faust at the Gran Teatro del Liceu, Barcelona.
With the Royal Philharmonic and Elizabeth Sombart, he has recorded all Beethoven piano concertos, the Chopin piano concertos, and 4 concertos by Mozart.
His recording of Beethoven's piano concertos was nominated one of the ten best recordings released for the Beethoven’s 250th anniversary by Classical Music Magazine
He enjoyed a twenty-year musical partnership with Seiji Ozawa, with whom he worked closely on some forty operatic productions.
For the past 22 years, he has been associated with the Metropolitan Opera, first as pianist and coach and now as staff conductor.
He is a graduate of L’Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
Pierre is on faculty at the Juilliard School. www.pierrevallet.net
Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Celebrate the holiday with colorful poinsettias, available in red, pink, white, marble and Christmas mouse (mini red blooms). All 6 1/2" plants have 5-7 blooms, with foil wrapped pot covers. All orders must be picked up at Bard's Winter MakerArt + Craft Fair on Friday, December 5, 1-6pm at the Bertelsmann Campus Center.
Advancing the Landscape of Research, Methodology, and Data on the Care Economy
A Feminist Economics Lens
Friday, November 21, 2025 10–11:30 am
Online Event We are pleased to announce that the Online Events Committee of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) and the Levy Economics institute are co-hosting a 90-minute, moderated panel which will explore the evolving global research and data landscape on care work from a feminist economics perspective, with a goal of highlighting resources for researchers and advocates. Though care work has advanced markedly in research, national policymaking, and multilateral agendas, the feminist economic theoretical and methodological roots of this work continue to be essential for ensuring technical rigor to support the greatest impact. This event will aim to advance the dialogue on where there has been progress in terms of research, methodology, and data, from a feminist economic perspective, as well as discuss where our collective efforts could be best utilized moving forward.
Blithewood On Friday, November 21 at 12 PM, Professor and Chair of Economics at Skidmore College Joerg Bibow will be presenting his recent Levy Working Paper, "Banking on Payments?" ABSTRACT For the past hundred years or more, payments have been primarily associated with banking, and banking as we know it today—being the result of many centuries of evolution—features a bundling of (at least) three main lines of business: lending, deposit-taking, and payment services. In the past 15 years or so, banks have come under severe competition as providers of payment services. Will “banking on payments” become outmoded and payments untethered from banking, or will payments still have a place in the future of banking?
Professor Joerg Bibow grew up in Hamburg, northern Germany, and has studied and worked in six countries, including South Africa, Italy, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Before and during his studies of economics at three different universities he gathered a number of years of work experience in the financial services industry (insurance, pension fund, and banking). He has also worked, as researcher and consultant, with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva, Switzerland, is a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, and is a fellow at the Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM). For more information, call 845-700-7700, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event We're reading On Revolution. Hannah Arendt’s penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic exploration of a phenomenon that has reshaped the globe. From the eighteenth-century rebellions in America and France to the explosive changes of the twentieth century, Arendt traces the changing face of revolution and its relationship to war while underscoring the crucial role such events will play in the future. Illuminating and prescient, this timeless work will fascinate anyone who seeks to decipher the forces that shape our tumultuous age.
Free to Bard students, staff, and faculty and to HAC members! Email [email protected] for the Zoom link.
Don't worry if you miss a VRG meeting! We post them all on our YouTube channel the week after they're recorded. Or tune in to an edited version of the chapter readings plus bonus episodes on our podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
This concert is a part of the Conservatory’s Chamber Music Program, which all instrumental and studio faculty support through their generous coaching and mentorship.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Magenta Plains Please join Barbara's friends, colleagues and family at Magenta Plains to celebrate the artist and view never before seen works. Remarks at 6:30 pm. Refreshments will be served. This event is sponsored by the Bard College Alumni/ae Association. All former students and Bard alumni/ae are welcome.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Office of Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
For more information, call 845-758-7089, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents MADNESS! Music exploring themes of folly from the Renaissance, Baroque, and 21st century
Including John Eccles’ The Mad Lover, Antonio Vivaldi’s La Follia (arranged for string orchestra and continuo by Jeannette Sorrell), excerpts from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Peasant Cantata, the U.S. premiere of la folia by Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvits performed by harpsichordist Sophia Cornicello, and works by Juan del Encina, Alonso Mudarra, Diego Ortiz, Johann Christian Schickhardt, and Andrea Falconieri.
Free and open to the public
For further information, please visit: https://www.bard.edu/conservatory/undergraduate/baroque-ensemble/
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Celebrate the holiday with colorful poinsettias, available in red, pink, white, marble and Christmas mouse (mini red blooms). All 6 1/2" plants have 5-7 blooms, with foil wrapped pot covers. All orders must be picked up at Bard's Winter MakerArt + Craft Fair on Friday, December 5, 1-6pm at the Bertelsmann Campus Center.
This concert is a part of the Conservatory’s Chamber Music Program, which all instrumental and studio faculty support through their generous coaching and mentorship.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
To cap their third year of study, all masters of music candidates are required to create their own thesis project. This performance is the Capstone Project of TŌN clarinetist Dávid Kéringer.
Mr. Kéringer is a versatile clarinet, saxophone, and recorder player, member of TŌN, and a Fulbright Alumnus. His Capstone Concert is centered around wind instruments and their capabilities in both traditional and contemporary classical music. The show includes works from the Baroque period to the 21st century, and features pieces for clarinet, saxophone, recorder, and wind ensemble.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown
Sunday, November 23, 2025 9:45 am – 12:30 pm
St. John the Evangelist Church, 114 River Road, Barrytown, NY Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist, at 1114 River Road in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome! 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.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass is offered each Sunday at 11:30 in the Bard Chapel of the Holy Innocents, beginning on September 7, and every Sunday that Bard is in session. All are welcome to meditate on the Scripture and experience beautiful church music and the sacramental community of faith. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Celebrate the holiday with colorful poinsettias, available in red, pink, white, marble and Christmas mouse (mini red blooms). All 6 1/2" plants have 5-7 blooms, with foil wrapped pot covers. All orders must be picked up at Bard's Winter MakerArt + Craft Fair on Friday, December 5, 1-6pm at the Bertelsmann Campus Center.
TEMPO ARTS - 29 WURTS STREET, KINGSTON, NY Renée Anne Louprette, director, presents:
MADNESS!: Music exploring themes of folly from the Renaissance, Baroque, and 21st century
Including John Eccles’ The Mad Lover, Antonio Vivaldi’s La Follia (arranged for string orchestra and continuo by Jeannette Sorrell), excerpts from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Peasant Cantata, the U.S. premiere of la folia by Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvits performed by harpsichordist Sophia Cornicello, and works by Juan del Encina, Alonso Mudarra, Diego Ortiz, Johann Christian Schickhardt, and Andrea Falconieri
Presented by The Orchestra Now (TŌN) at Symphony Space in NYC
Sunday, November 23, 2025 4–5:50 pm
Symphony Space in NYC R. StraussDon Juan Vaughan WilliamsOn Wenlock Edge Purcell (arr. Steven Stucky) Funeral Music for Queen Mary Barber Symphony No. 1
Zachary Schwartzmanconductor Ryan Michki ’26tenor
TŌN Resident Conductor Zachary Schwartzman returns with the orchestra to Symphony Space for another free concert. The concert opens with Strauss’s beloved tone poem Don Juan. Then tenor Ryan Michki, a winner of the 2024 Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition, performs Vaughan Williams’ emotional English song cycle On Wenlock Edge, written after the composer had spent three months studying with Maurice Ravel in Paris. Also on the program are Steven Stucky’s arrangement of Purcell’s Funeral Music for Queen Mary, originally composed 330 years ago in 1695, and Samuel Barber’s epic and expansive Symphony No. 1 in One Movement.Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Join Bard students and the International Student Organization (ISO) for a celebration of cultural diversity through music, singing, and dancing. Here’s your ticket to a two-hour worldwide adventure, featuring performances by eleven different groups!
Sponsored by: International Students Organization.
Hegeman 204 Come to Hegeman 204A to knit or learn how to knit! Crocheters and needleworkers are also invited. Materials including yarn and knitting needles are provided. Everyone is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Celebrate the holiday with colorful poinsettias, available in red, pink, white, marble and Christmas mouse (mini red blooms). All 6 1/2" plants have 5-7 blooms, with foil wrapped pot covers. All orders must be picked up at Bard's Winter MakerArt + Craft Fair on Friday, December 5, 1-6pm at the Bertelsmann Campus Center.
The Bard College Community Orchestra is a diverse group of players, including Bard College students, faculty and staff, local high school players, and community members of level 5 NYSSMA standard and higher. The orchestra is a full symphony orchestra and plays a variety of repertoire.
Online Event This month's guests are Irene Quiliconi and Felix Bielefeld - two of the scholars from our fall 2025 Visiting Scholar program. The Hannah Arendt Center encourages scholars from around the world to apply for non-stipendiary Visiting Scholar Fellowships. We accept up to six scholars each year whose work would benefit from direct access to The Hannah Arendt Personal Library (HAPL), housed in the Stevenson Library at Bard College; we also accept scholars whose interests align with faculty and fellows at the Arendt Center.
Irene Quiliconi obtained her master’s degree in philosophy at the University of Pisa, with a thesis on Socrates and the figure of the two-in-one in Hannah Arendt’s work. She obtained a degree in Bioethics with a Postgraduate Course at the University of Padova (academic year 2023-2024), where she's discussed her essay on the importance of the matter of abitability within palliative care pathways. She's currently a Ph.D student in Philosophy in the Joint PhD between the University of Ferrara and PUCPR. Her doctoral project is focused on tracing the ethical implications of Arendt’s conception of thinking as developed in The Life of the Mind. She's a staff member of FTF|Lab (Laboratory of Transcendental Philosophy and Phenomenology), and member of the Philosophical Association Persona al Centro.
Felix Bielefeld is a PhD candidate at the University of Leipzig, researching Heinrich Blücher’s teaching practice at Bard College and the New School for Social Research in New York. Drawing on the (partly still unpublished) transcripts of Blücher’s lectures, he explores his unique approach to philosophical education. Felix studied Political Science, Hispanic Studies, and Cultural Studies in Halle, Buenos Aires, Seville, and Leipzig. He works as a political and media educator, independent curator of interdisciplinary exhibitions, and occasional lecturer at the University of Leipzig. His academic teaching focuses on cultural practice and its intersection with philosophy and theory.
For Love of the World, every fourth Tuesday from 6-6:30 pm on Radio Kingston, is your portal to the bold ideas and respectful, deep conversations about contemporary issues that we’re having regularly at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Join host Roger Berkowitz each month as we delve into the work of one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, Hannah Arendt, with renowned scholars and public intellectuals, and exemplify what it means to have a conversation of patient humility, in the Arendtian tradition.
1490 AM | 107.9 FM | or stream online and anytime at radiokingston.orgSponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Kline, College Room ¿Te interesa el periodismo, el activismo o los problemas de los inmigrantes latinos? La revista La Voz, con sede en Bard y un estimado de 40,000 lectores, es una plataforma para expresar tus intereses. En La Voz, nos esforzamos por empoderar a las comunidades hispanohablantes de las regiones del Valle Medio del Hudson y Catskill con información práctica, que abarca desde temas como salud y educación hasta preocupaciones ambientales y políticas.
Invitamos a artistas, escritores y voluntarios a ser reporteros para La Voz o a ayudar a coordinar nuestros eventos, como mesas redondas sobre inmigración, conciertos y proyecciones de películas.
Invitamos a estudiantes de todos los niveles a la reunión semanal de La Voz en Kline, Salón College.
Traigan sus tazas, nosotros ponemos el té.
*** Are you interested in journalism, activism, Latino immigrant issues? La Voz magazine is a publication based at Bard with an estimated readership of 40,000 that can give you an outlet for these interests. At La Voz we strive to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues.
We welcome artists, writers and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and/or help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts and film screenings. We invite students of all skills and talents to come by the La Voz weekly meetings, Kline College Room. For more information, call 845-752-4739, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Stan Douglas: Ghostlight will be the artist’s first survey in the U.S. in over 20 years and will chart his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition will present the North American premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’ deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown
Sunday, November 30, 2025 9:45 am – 12:30 pm
St. John the Evangelist Church, 114 River Road, Barrytown, NY Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist, at 1114 River Road in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome! 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.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass is offered each Sunday at 11:30 in the Bard Chapel of the Holy Innocents, beginning on September 7, and every Sunday that Bard is in session. All are welcome to meditate on the Scripture and experience beautiful church music and the sacramental community of faith. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Celebrate the holiday with colorful poinsettias, available in red, pink, white, marble and Christmas mouse (mini red blooms). All 6 1/2" plants have 5-7 blooms, with foil wrapped pot covers. All orders must be picked up at Bard's Winter MakerArt + Craft Fair on Friday, December 5, 1-6pm at the Bertelsmann Campus Center.
Payment is cash or check only. A small selection of plants will be available the day of the event for walk-in purchase. All proceeds benefit the Blithewood Garden Rehabilitation Project. Pre-orders are due on Monday, November 24th. Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
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