Runs through Friday, March 7, 2025 10 am – 2:30 pm
Online Event The New Kinds of Attention online workshop series offers short, accessible introductions to the Institute for Writing and Teaching's writing-based teaching practices. It is designed for educators who are curious about IWT workshops or looking to expand their writing-based teaching toolkit, including those unable to attend IWT’s on-campus workshops at Bard. The workshops in this series provide an immersive, online introduction to IWT pedagogy and a taste of the experience of our popular July Weeklong Workshops.
In 2025, the series will be held on February 7, February 28, and March 7, from 10 am to 2:30 pm, with a 30 minute break. For more information, call 845-752-4516, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://iwt.bard.edu/nkoa/.
Win big at compost and learn more! Take our weekly quiz!
Sunday, February 23, 2025 – Saturday, March 1, 2025
Achebe House Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion! Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the 8-week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability.
Our event this week is the Mason Jar Soup Making at The O Zone on March 1st. Please join us and reserve your spot! There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram. This nationwide competition is more than just a race, it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship. For more information, call 914-606-0437, or e-mail [email protected].
SIGNS, GAMES, AND MESSAGES 2025: A KURTÁG FESTIVAL Program Two: Piano Marathon, Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos (Book 4, 5 and 6)
Saturday, March 1, 2025 2 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Program Two: Piano Marathon
BARTÓK’S MIKROKOSMOS (BOOKS 4, 5, and 6) PERFORMED BY STUDENTS AND FACULTY OF THE CONSERVATORY
Béla Bartok (1881-1945) Selections from Mikrokosmos (Books 4, 5, and 6)
Book 4
Notturno Honor Doran
Thumb Under Hasti Safaei
Crossed Hands Tianxiang (Tessa) Ni
In the Style of a Folk Song Hongfan Su
Diminished Fifth Francis Huang
Harmonics Sophia Cornicello
Minor and Major Linus Ramakrishnan
Through the Keys Playsong Ivy Chen
Children's Song Evie Tourtelot
Melody in the Mist Marcos Castilla
Wrestling Juliette Benveniste
From the Island of Bali Alexandra Balog
Clashing Sounds Oskar Baron
Intermezzo Andrew Altrock
Variations on a Folk Tune Chelsea Yang
Bulgarian Rhythm (1) Xinri Zhang
Theme and Inversion Yujia Yang
Bulgarian Rhythm (2) Ivy Chen
Song Bourrée Triplets in 9/8 Time Marcos Castilla
Dance in 3/4 Time Fifth Chords Two-Part Study Francis Huang
Book 5
Chords Together and Opposed Staccato and Legato Staccato Juliette Benveniste
Boating Fiona Boak-Kelly
Change of Time Hasti Safaei
New Hungarian Folk Song Hasti Safaei Maggie Yang
Peasant Dance Hasti Safaei
Alternating Thirds Village Joke Fourths Andrew Altrock
Major Seconds Broken and Together Syncopation Tianxiang (Tessa) Ni
Studies in Double Notes Perpetuum Mobile Whole-tone Scale Sophia Cornicello
Unison Bagpipe Merry Andrew Ivy Chen
Book 6
Free Variations Xinri Zhang
Subject and Reflection Chelsea Yang
From the Diary of a Fly Alexandra Balog
Divided Arpeggios Frank Corliss
Minor Seconds, Major Sevenths Francis Huang
Chromatic Invention Yujia Yang
Ostinato Saoirse Doran
March Hongfan Su
Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm Terrence Wilson
(Timing: Approximately 70-75 minutes, no intermission).
This annual three-day festival celebrates the music of Hungarian composer György Kurtág (b. 1926) alongside works by those who shaped or were shaped by his artistry, fostering a timeless, open-ended dialogue between composers, musicians and styles.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Live stream this event on the Conservatory YouTube channel HERE
This festival has been permanently endowed through the generous support of László Z. Bitó '60 and Olivia Cariño. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
SIGNS, GAMES, AND MESSAGES 2025: A KURTÁG FESTIVAL Program Three: Literary Inspirations I: Lichtenberg, Joyce and Kurtág
Saturday, March 1, 2025 7 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Program Three: Literary Inspirations I: Lichtenberg, Joyce and Kurtág
J. S. Bach (1685–1750) Trio Sonata No. 1 in E-flat Major, BWV 525 arr. Mordechai Rechtman Chloe Brill, bassoon Liliána Szokol, flute Jalen Mims, clarinet
Gubaidulina (b. 1931) Quasi Hoquetus for Viola, Bassoon, and Piano Luosha Fang, viola Blair McMillen, piano Philip McNaughton, bassoon
György Kurtág (b. 1926) Einige Sätze aus den Sudelbüchern Georg Christoph Lichtenbergs, Op. 37a Lucy Fitz Gibbons, soprano Will Langlie-Miletich, double bass
INTERMISSION
Henry Purcell (1659–95) If Music Be the Food of Love, Z. 379C arr. Benjamin Britten Tim Widner, baritone
O Solitude, Z. 306 Man Is for the Woman Made, Z. 605 Imani Oluoch, mezzo-soprano Nomin Samdan, piano
What Can We Poor Females Do? Z. 518 Imani Oluoch, mezzo-soprano Tim Widner, baritone Nomin Samdan, piano
Amy Beth Kirsten (b. 1972) yes I said yes I will Yes. Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano Will Langlie-Miletich, double bass
Péter Eötvös (1944–2024) Joyce for Solo Clarinet Mohammad AbdNikfarjam, clarinet
John Cage (1912–92) The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs Nowth upon Nacht Madelin Morales, mezzo-soprano Yi-Hsuan Hsia, piano
Luciano Berio (1925–2003) Thema: Omaggio a Joyce (1958–59) Electronics
Benjamin Britten (1913–76) Moore’s Irish Melodies
Sail on, sail on Dear Harp of my Country! Sam Warshauer, tenor Kayo Iwama, piano
Oft in the stilly night The last rose of summer Benjamin Truncale, tenor Kayo Iwama, piano
This annual three-day festival celebrates the music of Hungarian composer György Kurtág (b. 1926) alongside works by those who shaped or were shaped by his artistry, fostering a timeless, open-ended dialogue between composers, musicians and styles.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This evening’s program is only available to in-person audience members.
This festival has been permanently endowed through the generous support of László Z. Bitó '60 and Olivia Cariño.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Charles Barkerconductor American Ballet Theatre Studio Company
Two of New York’s finest artistic training programs join forces as the talented graduate musicians of TŌN welcome the exceptional dancers of American Ballet Theatre Studio Company to the Fisher Center at Bard. Enjoy works by George Balanchine, Kevin McKenzie, Gerald Arpino, and others set to music by Verdi, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and more performed live by a full symphony orchestra.
All proceeds support TŌN’s innovative graduate program that is training the next generation of music professionals to become creative ambassadors for classical music, offering students a full-tuition fellowship and stipend.
Runs through Friday, March 7, 2025 10 am – 2:30 pm
Online Event The New Kinds of Attention online workshop series offers short, accessible introductions to the Institute for Writing and Teaching's writing-based teaching practices. It is designed for educators who are curious about IWT workshops or looking to expand their writing-based teaching toolkit, including those unable to attend IWT’s on-campus workshops at Bard. The workshops in this series provide an immersive, online introduction to IWT pedagogy and a taste of the experience of our popular July Weeklong Workshops.
In 2025, the series will be held on February 7, February 28, and March 7, from 10 am to 2:30 pm, with a 30 minute break. For more information, call 845-752-4516, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://iwt.bard.edu/nkoa/.
Campus Center Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
Check us out this week in the Campus Center Thursday from 1 to 3 pm for a game on recycling and giveaways! There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 914-606-0437, or e-mail [email protected].
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (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—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at noon in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
SIGNS, GAMES, AND MESSAGES 2025: A KURTÁG FESTIVAL Program Four: Literary Inspirations II: Beckett and Kurtág
Sunday, March 2, 2025 4 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Program Four: Literary Inspirations II: Beckett and Kurtág Works by Kurtág, Schubert and Beethoven.
György Kurtág (b. 1926) Hommage à Schubert (Book 3) Lovely Greetings to Grete Spinnrad (Book 5) Ryan McCullough, piano
Franz Schubert(1797–1828) Gretchen am Spinnrade, D. 118 Nacht und Träume, D. 827 Georgia Perdikoulias, soprano Lara Saldanha, piano
György Kurtág(b. 1926) Samuel Beckett Sends Word through Ildikó Monyók in the Translation of István Siklós (“Samuel Beckett: What is the word”), Op. 30a Sydney Cornett, mezzo-soprano Ryan McCullough, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven(1770–1827) Piano Trio, Op. 70, No. 1 (“Ghost”) Luosha Fang, violin Benjamin Hochman, piano Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
INTERMISSION
Franz Schubert(1797–1828) String Quartet in A Minor, D. 804 (“Rosamunde”) Daniel Phillips, violin Carmit Zori, violin Melissa Reardon, viola Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
This annual three-day festival celebrates the music of Hungarian composer György Kurtág (b. 1926) alongside works by those who shaped or were shaped by his artistry, fostering a timeless, open-ended dialogue between composers, musicians and styles.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Live stream this event on the Conservatory YouTube channel HERE
This festival has been permanently endowed through the generous support of László Z. Bitó '60 and Olivia Cariño.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Runs through Friday, March 7, 2025 10 am – 2:30 pm
Online Event The New Kinds of Attention online workshop series offers short, accessible introductions to the Institute for Writing and Teaching's writing-based teaching practices. It is designed for educators who are curious about IWT workshops or looking to expand their writing-based teaching toolkit, including those unable to attend IWT’s on-campus workshops at Bard. The workshops in this series provide an immersive, online introduction to IWT pedagogy and a taste of the experience of our popular July Weeklong Workshops.
In 2025, the series will be held on February 7, February 28, and March 7, from 10 am to 2:30 pm, with a 30 minute break. For more information, call 845-752-4516, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://iwt.bard.edu/nkoa/.
Campus Center Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
Check us out this week in the Campus Center Thursday from 1 to 3 pm for a game on recycling and giveaways! There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 914-606-0437, or e-mail [email protected].
The award-winning writers will read from new work.
Monday, March 3, 2025 4–5 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Award-winning writers Kelly Link and Jedediah Berry will give a reading on March 3 at 4 pm in Weis Cinema, followed by a Q&A. The event, which is presented as part of Bradford Morrow's Bard course on innovative contemporary fiction and is cosponsored by the literary magazine Conjunctions, is free and open to the public. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy Offices) Come by the Chaplaincy office (Albee Basement) 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].
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Runs through Friday, March 7, 2025 10 am – 2:30 pm
Online Event The New Kinds of Attention online workshop series offers short, accessible introductions to the Institute for Writing and Teaching's writing-based teaching practices. It is designed for educators who are curious about IWT workshops or looking to expand their writing-based teaching toolkit, including those unable to attend IWT’s on-campus workshops at Bard. The workshops in this series provide an immersive, online introduction to IWT pedagogy and a taste of the experience of our popular July Weeklong Workshops.
In 2025, the series will be held on February 7, February 28, and March 7, from 10 am to 2:30 pm, with a 30 minute break. For more information, call 845-752-4516, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://iwt.bard.edu/nkoa/.
Campus Center Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
Check us out this week in the Campus Center Thursday from 1 to 3 pm for a game on recycling and giveaways! There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 914-606-0437, or e-mail [email protected].
Featuring Stephanie Kyuyong Lee’s Hard Labor, Soft Space
Runs through Friday, March 14, 2025
Stevenson Library Food and Memory, curated by Olivia Tencer, Mayss Al Alami, and Melina Roise, is an exhibition to accompany the third and final Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuk annual conference. This exhibition showcases 10 works by artist and architect Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee. As part of Lee’s project Hard Labor, Soft Space: The Making of Radical Farms, these maps “examine the rural future in the context of climate disasters and political upheavals by exploring the intersections of race, labor, and land in agriculture-based collective living projects, particularly in the Northeastern United States.”
Through a research-based investigation with collective farms and food systems changemakers in the Hudson Valley, Lee “reframes rurality as a site of radical reclamation.” Displayed alongside dried food ingredients representing the building blocks of recipes from Indigenous cookbooks, Food & Memory attempts to reveal both the textural and ecological micro– and social and political macro– of our dinner plates.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Macroeconomic Policies and Care: Exploring Intersections
Featuring Raquel Coello Cremades, UN Women Policy Advisor
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 5–6 pm
Blithewood Join the Levy Institute Research Program of Gender Equality and the Economy for a lecture and discussion with Raquel Coello Cremades, UN Women Policy Advisor. Cremades will discuss how care work requires a new conceptualization of the economic system to appropriately integrate its scope and quality. Its relationship with fiscal policy is reciprocal, as the strengthening and expansion of fiscal space are crucial for adequately financing policies and systems.
Dr. Coello Cremades's presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members.
Lazard often repurposes ready-made objects, such as a HEPA air purifier, a noise machine, and a power-lifter recliner chair, calling attention to the dependencies and infrastructures of care that sustain social life. CRIP TIME (2018) is a video-based meditation on the time Lazard devotes to organizing a week’s worth of different medications into brightly colored, plastic pill containers. Through documenting this care-based task, Lazard makes visible the often-obscured care and labor of staying alive. In much of their practice, access is both a theme and a material of their work.
All are welcome! Bard is committed to making every effort to provide reasonable accommodations for accessibility needs. For accommodation requests or for more information about this event, please contact Paige Mead, Studio Art Department Administrator at [email protected].
Runs through Friday, March 7, 2025 10 am – 2:30 pm
Online Event The New Kinds of Attention online workshop series offers short, accessible introductions to the Institute for Writing and Teaching's writing-based teaching practices. It is designed for educators who are curious about IWT workshops or looking to expand their writing-based teaching toolkit, including those unable to attend IWT’s on-campus workshops at Bard. The workshops in this series provide an immersive, online introduction to IWT pedagogy and a taste of the experience of our popular July Weeklong Workshops.
In 2025, the series will be held on February 7, February 28, and March 7, from 10 am to 2:30 pm, with a 30 minute break. For more information, call 845-752-4516, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://iwt.bard.edu/nkoa/.
Campus Center Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
Check us out this week in the Campus Center Thursday from 1 to 3 pm for a game on recycling and giveaways! There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 914-606-0437, or e-mail [email protected].
Featuring Stephanie Kyuyong Lee’s Hard Labor, Soft Space
Runs through Friday, March 14, 2025
Stevenson Library Food and Memory, curated by Olivia Tencer, Mayss Al Alami, and Melina Roise, is an exhibition to accompany the third and final Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuk annual conference. This exhibition showcases 10 works by artist and architect Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee. As part of Lee’s project Hard Labor, Soft Space: The Making of Radical Farms, these maps “examine the rural future in the context of climate disasters and political upheavals by exploring the intersections of race, labor, and land in agriculture-based collective living projects, particularly in the Northeastern United States.”
Through a research-based investigation with collective farms and food systems changemakers in the Hudson Valley, Lee “reframes rurality as a site of radical reclamation.” Displayed alongside dried food ingredients representing the building blocks of recipes from Indigenous cookbooks, Food & Memory attempts to reveal both the textural and ecological micro– and social and political macro– of our dinner plates.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Learn more about applying to Levy with Thomas Masterson, graduate program director, and Tyler Emerson, outreach and recruitment liaison.
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 9–10 am
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.
Ash Wednesday Prayer Service and Imposition of Ashes
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are welcome to gather in the Chapel of the Holy Innocents for Ash Wednesday prayers and to receive ashes as we begin the holy season of Lent. Ashes will be available in the Chapel until 1:30 pm.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Runs through Friday, March 7, 2025 10 am – 2:30 pm
Online Event The New Kinds of Attention online workshop series offers short, accessible introductions to the Institute for Writing and Teaching's writing-based teaching practices. It is designed for educators who are curious about IWT workshops or looking to expand their writing-based teaching toolkit, including those unable to attend IWT’s on-campus workshops at Bard. The workshops in this series provide an immersive, online introduction to IWT pedagogy and a taste of the experience of our popular July Weeklong Workshops.
In 2025, the series will be held on February 7, February 28, and March 7, from 10 am to 2:30 pm, with a 30 minute break. For more information, call 845-752-4516, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://iwt.bard.edu/nkoa/.
Campus Center Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
Check us out this week in the Campus Center Thursday from 1 to 3 pm for a game on recycling and giveaways! There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 914-606-0437, or e-mail [email protected].
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Featuring Stephanie Kyuyong Lee’s Hard Labor, Soft Space
Runs through Friday, March 14, 2025
Stevenson Library Food and Memory, curated by Olivia Tencer, Mayss Al Alami, and Melina Roise, is an exhibition to accompany the third and final Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuk annual conference. This exhibition showcases 10 works by artist and architect Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee. As part of Lee’s project Hard Labor, Soft Space: The Making of Radical Farms, these maps “examine the rural future in the context of climate disasters and political upheavals by exploring the intersections of race, labor, and land in agriculture-based collective living projects, particularly in the Northeastern United States.”
Through a research-based investigation with collective farms and food systems changemakers in the Hudson Valley, Lee “reframes rurality as a site of radical reclamation.” Displayed alongside dried food ingredients representing the building blocks of recipes from Indigenous cookbooks, Food & Memory attempts to reveal both the textural and ecological micro– and social and political macro– of our dinner plates.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/food-memory-a-conference-by-rethinking-place-3994933 More information: https://storymaps.com/stories/6227b9fd186e41ef9a182b375ddd30ad
Food & Memory is the third and final conference hosted by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck. It aims to explore food systems, agricultural practices, and culinary histories as a point of entry into place-making, past, present, and future. The conference brings together agricultural workers, chefs, food systems scholars, and artists to create fertile ground for interdisciplinary discussion. Situated on the banks of the Mahicantuck (Hudson River) at a time when current food systems, planetary health, and political and environmental instability pose existential threats to the sovereignty and wellbeing of human and non-human kin alike, Rethinking Place aims to center a diverse range of voices and histories that have touched and formed the current agricultural region in which Bard College is located. The two prior Rethinking Place conferences, focused on emergent and disruptive archives and on Indigenous research methods, engaged themes that continue to apply to Food & Memory. Our complex food systems and their many human and non-human players – recipes and seeds, plants and care - can be seen as living archives, locations of research, and sites of knowledge production. Rethinking Place now hosts a multidisciplinary gathering to directly interrogate questions of food and memory, building on twenty-four months of work in adjacent areas. We are pleased to join our efforts in place-based inquiry with other entities on the Bard campus. For their support over the life of the Rethinking Place project, we thank the Bard Farm, the Center for Environmental Science and Humanities, the Center for Human Rights, and the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Runs through Friday, March 7, 2025 10 am – 2:30 pm
Online Event The New Kinds of Attention online workshop series offers short, accessible introductions to the Institute for Writing and Teaching's writing-based teaching practices. It is designed for educators who are curious about IWT workshops or looking to expand their writing-based teaching toolkit, including those unable to attend IWT’s on-campus workshops at Bard. The workshops in this series provide an immersive, online introduction to IWT pedagogy and a taste of the experience of our popular July Weeklong Workshops.
In 2025, the series will be held on February 7, February 28, and March 7, from 10 am to 2:30 pm, with a 30 minute break. For more information, call 845-752-4516, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://iwt.bard.edu/nkoa/.
Campus Center Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
Check us out this week in the Campus Center Thursday from 1 to 3 pm for a game on recycling and giveaways! There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 914-606-0437, or e-mail [email protected].
Featuring Stephanie Kyuyong Lee’s Hard Labor, Soft Space
Runs through Friday, March 14, 2025
Stevenson Library Food and Memory, curated by Olivia Tencer, Mayss Al Alami, and Melina Roise, is an exhibition to accompany the third and final Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuk annual conference. This exhibition showcases 10 works by artist and architect Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee. As part of Lee’s project Hard Labor, Soft Space: The Making of Radical Farms, these maps “examine the rural future in the context of climate disasters and political upheavals by exploring the intersections of race, labor, and land in agriculture-based collective living projects, particularly in the Northeastern United States.”
Through a research-based investigation with collective farms and food systems changemakers in the Hudson Valley, Lee “reframes rurality as a site of radical reclamation.” Displayed alongside dried food ingredients representing the building blocks of recipes from Indigenous cookbooks, Food & Memory attempts to reveal both the textural and ecological micro– and social and political macro– of our dinner plates.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/food-memory-a-conference-by-rethinking-place-3994933 More information: https://storymaps.com/stories/6227b9fd186e41ef9a182b375ddd30ad
Food & Memory is the third and final conference hosted by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck. It aims to explore food systems, agricultural practices, and culinary histories as a point of entry into place-making, past, present, and future. The conference brings together agricultural workers, chefs, food systems scholars, and artists to create fertile ground for interdisciplinary discussion. Situated on the banks of the Mahicantuck (Hudson River) at a time when current food systems, planetary health, and political and environmental instability pose existential threats to the sovereignty and wellbeing of human and non-human kin alike, Rethinking Place aims to center a diverse range of voices and histories that have touched and formed the current agricultural region in which Bard College is located. The two prior Rethinking Place conferences, focused on emergent and disruptive archives and on Indigenous research methods, engaged themes that continue to apply to Food & Memory. Our complex food systems and their many human and non-human players – recipes and seeds, plants and care - can be seen as living archives, locations of research, and sites of knowledge production. Rethinking Place now hosts a multidisciplinary gathering to directly interrogate questions of food and memory, building on twenty-four months of work in adjacent areas. We are pleased to join our efforts in place-based inquiry with other entities on the Bard campus. For their support over the life of the Rethinking Place project, we thank the Bard Farm, the Center for Environmental Science and Humanities, the Center for Human Rights, and the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Imagine the morning newspaper, headlines in couplets, black and white but in verse. Imagine that constellation of words. Truth as told by the stars and birds. Translated by bread and transcribed by daughters. Imagine the formal presentation of poetry as news of the day. Imagine the formal presentation of poetry as evidence in a future war crimes tribunal. Join us for a presentation by Amar Kanwar.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Online Event We begin a new book: The Life of the Mind was Hannah Arendt’s unfinished final work. In it, she focuses on three basic mental activities—thinking, willing, and judging—and their relation to the world of appearances and to the human capacity for moral and political action. The new critical edition makes available in print, for the first time, the text of the typescripts as Arendt left them, complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished material, detailed annotations, and extensive scholarly commentary. We will also be referring to Mary McCarthy's edition for increased accessibility.
Free to HAC members and to Bard students, staff, and faculty! Email [email protected] for the Zoom link.
Find the full Virtural Reading Group schedule: hac.bard.edu/programs/vrg/ Get the new critical edition of The Life of the Mindhere.
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.
Campus Center Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
Check us out this week in the Campus Center Thursday from 1 to 3 pm for a game on recycling and giveaways! There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 914-606-0437, or e-mail [email protected].
Featuring Stephanie Kyuyong Lee’s Hard Labor, Soft Space
Runs through Friday, March 14, 2025
Stevenson Library Food and Memory, curated by Olivia Tencer, Mayss Al Alami, and Melina Roise, is an exhibition to accompany the third and final Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuk annual conference. This exhibition showcases 10 works by artist and architect Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee. As part of Lee’s project Hard Labor, Soft Space: The Making of Radical Farms, these maps “examine the rural future in the context of climate disasters and political upheavals by exploring the intersections of race, labor, and land in agriculture-based collective living projects, particularly in the Northeastern United States.”
Through a research-based investigation with collective farms and food systems changemakers in the Hudson Valley, Lee “reframes rurality as a site of radical reclamation.” Displayed alongside dried food ingredients representing the building blocks of recipes from Indigenous cookbooks, Food & Memory attempts to reveal both the textural and ecological micro– and social and political macro– of our dinner plates.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/food-memory-a-conference-by-rethinking-place-3994933 More information: https://storymaps.com/stories/6227b9fd186e41ef9a182b375ddd30ad
Food & Memory is the third and final conference hosted by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck. It aims to explore food systems, agricultural practices, and culinary histories as a point of entry into place-making, past, present, and future. The conference brings together agricultural workers, chefs, food systems scholars, and artists to create fertile ground for interdisciplinary discussion. Situated on the banks of the Mahicantuck (Hudson River) at a time when current food systems, planetary health, and political and environmental instability pose existential threats to the sovereignty and wellbeing of human and non-human kin alike, Rethinking Place aims to center a diverse range of voices and histories that have touched and formed the current agricultural region in which Bard College is located. The two prior Rethinking Place conferences, focused on emergent and disruptive archives and on Indigenous research methods, engaged themes that continue to apply to Food & Memory. Our complex food systems and their many human and non-human players – recipes and seeds, plants and care - can be seen as living archives, locations of research, and sites of knowledge production. Rethinking Place now hosts a multidisciplinary gathering to directly interrogate questions of food and memory, building on twenty-four months of work in adjacent areas. We are pleased to join our efforts in place-based inquiry with other entities on the Bard campus. For their support over the life of the Rethinking Place project, we thank the Bard Farm, the Center for Environmental Science and Humanities, the Center for Human Rights, and the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (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—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at noon in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Featuring Stephanie Kyuyong Lee’s Hard Labor, Soft Space
Runs through Friday, March 14, 2025
Stevenson Library Food and Memory, curated by Olivia Tencer, Mayss Al Alami, and Melina Roise, is an exhibition to accompany the third and final Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuk annual conference. This exhibition showcases 10 works by artist and architect Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee. As part of Lee’s project Hard Labor, Soft Space: The Making of Radical Farms, these maps “examine the rural future in the context of climate disasters and political upheavals by exploring the intersections of race, labor, and land in agriculture-based collective living projects, particularly in the Northeastern United States.”
Through a research-based investigation with collective farms and food systems changemakers in the Hudson Valley, Lee “reframes rurality as a site of radical reclamation.” Displayed alongside dried food ingredients representing the building blocks of recipes from Indigenous cookbooks, Food & Memory attempts to reveal both the textural and ecological micro– and social and political macro– of our dinner plates.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Sunday, March 9, 2025 – Saturday, March 15, 2025
Achebe House Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space The Spring concert of the Bard Chinese Ensemble's 24-25 season features a new selection of captivating works for our large ensemble comprised of Bard Conservatory's Chinese instrument students along with Western instrument players eager to explore this distinctive repertoire. Join us to experience four unique pieces arranged by conductor Shutong Li especially for this concert:
A stunning double concerto for dizi and flute, seamlessly blending Eastern and Western musical traditions with a deeply moving narrative.
Two movements from the sheng concerto Peacock, evoking the elegance of Baroque music.
The Blasting of Master Handan with explosive, dramatic passages reminiscent of The Rite of Spring.
The Four Seasons Garden by the esteemed composer Wang Danhong, delivering emotional depth that goes straight to the heart.
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy Offices) Come by the Chaplaincy office (Albee Basement) 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].
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Featuring Stephanie Kyuyong Lee’s Hard Labor, Soft Space
Runs through Friday, March 14, 2025
Stevenson Library Food and Memory, curated by Olivia Tencer, Mayss Al Alami, and Melina Roise, is an exhibition to accompany the third and final Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuk annual conference. This exhibition showcases 10 works by artist and architect Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee. As part of Lee’s project Hard Labor, Soft Space: The Making of Radical Farms, these maps “examine the rural future in the context of climate disasters and political upheavals by exploring the intersections of race, labor, and land in agriculture-based collective living projects, particularly in the Northeastern United States.”
Through a research-based investigation with collective farms and food systems changemakers in the Hudson Valley, Lee “reframes rurality as a site of radical reclamation.” Displayed alongside dried food ingredients representing the building blocks of recipes from Indigenous cookbooks, Food & Memory attempts to reveal both the textural and ecological micro– and social and political macro– of our dinner plates.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Sunday, March 9, 2025 – Saturday, March 15, 2025
Achebe House Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
An hour-long program of short performances by Bard Conservatory students.
Monday, March 10, 2025 12 pm
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].
Photography Mentorship Program: Artist Lecture with Johan Orellana
Monday, March 10, 2025 5–8 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Come and listen to Johan Orellana, a Bard alumni, speak about his work! This event is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Featuring Stephanie Kyuyong Lee’s Hard Labor, Soft Space
Runs through Friday, March 14, 2025
Stevenson Library Food and Memory, curated by Olivia Tencer, Mayss Al Alami, and Melina Roise, is an exhibition to accompany the third and final Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuk annual conference. This exhibition showcases 10 works by artist and architect Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee. As part of Lee’s project Hard Labor, Soft Space: The Making of Radical Farms, these maps “examine the rural future in the context of climate disasters and political upheavals by exploring the intersections of race, labor, and land in agriculture-based collective living projects, particularly in the Northeastern United States.”
Through a research-based investigation with collective farms and food systems changemakers in the Hudson Valley, Lee “reframes rurality as a site of radical reclamation.” Displayed alongside dried food ingredients representing the building blocks of recipes from Indigenous cookbooks, Food & Memory attempts to reveal both the textural and ecological micro– and social and political macro– of our dinner plates.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Sunday, March 9, 2025 – Saturday, March 15, 2025
Achebe House Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Weis Cinema In the 21st century, fueled by technology, data, and algorithms, math determines who has the power to shape our world. The math documentary COUNTED OUT explains how, “…whether we know it or not, our numeric literacy—whether we can speak the language of math—is a critical determinant of social and economic power.”
Please reserve your ticket as space is limited.Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability -- Online Info Session
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational sessions for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 7–8 pm
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 on Tuesday, March 11, 2024 at 7:00pm ET to learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session. Register here!
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.
REGISTER HERESponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard Graduate Programs; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Featuring Stephanie Kyuyong Lee’s Hard Labor, Soft Space
Runs through Friday, March 14, 2025
Stevenson Library Food and Memory, curated by Olivia Tencer, Mayss Al Alami, and Melina Roise, is an exhibition to accompany the third and final Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuk annual conference. This exhibition showcases 10 works by artist and architect Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee. As part of Lee’s project Hard Labor, Soft Space: The Making of Radical Farms, these maps “examine the rural future in the context of climate disasters and political upheavals by exploring the intersections of race, labor, and land in agriculture-based collective living projects, particularly in the Northeastern United States.”
Through a research-based investigation with collective farms and food systems changemakers in the Hudson Valley, Lee “reframes rurality as a site of radical reclamation.” Displayed alongside dried food ingredients representing the building blocks of recipes from Indigenous cookbooks, Food & Memory attempts to reveal both the textural and ecological micro– and social and political macro– of our dinner plates.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Sunday, March 9, 2025 – Saturday, March 15, 2025
Achebe House Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center Meet and speak with Admission reps from Bard College 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 StudiesSponsored by: Bard Graduate Programs; Career Development Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Featuring Stephanie Kyuyong Lee’s Hard Labor, Soft Space
Runs through Friday, March 14, 2025
Stevenson Library Food and Memory, curated by Olivia Tencer, Mayss Al Alami, and Melina Roise, is an exhibition to accompany the third and final Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuk annual conference. This exhibition showcases 10 works by artist and architect Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee. As part of Lee’s project Hard Labor, Soft Space: The Making of Radical Farms, these maps “examine the rural future in the context of climate disasters and political upheavals by exploring the intersections of race, labor, and land in agriculture-based collective living projects, particularly in the Northeastern United States.”
Through a research-based investigation with collective farms and food systems changemakers in the Hudson Valley, Lee “reframes rurality as a site of radical reclamation.” Displayed alongside dried food ingredients representing the building blocks of recipes from Indigenous cookbooks, Food & Memory attempts to reveal both the textural and ecological micro– and social and political macro– of our dinner plates.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Sunday, March 9, 2025 – Saturday, March 15, 2025
Achebe House Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
This is a special student-intiated screening organized in conjunction with the World Cinema Club. All are welcome. Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
Featuring Stephanie Kyuyong Lee’s Hard Labor, Soft Space
Runs through Friday, March 14, 2025
Stevenson Library Food and Memory, curated by Olivia Tencer, Mayss Al Alami, and Melina Roise, is an exhibition to accompany the third and final Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuk annual conference. This exhibition showcases 10 works by artist and architect Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee. As part of Lee’s project Hard Labor, Soft Space: The Making of Radical Farms, these maps “examine the rural future in the context of climate disasters and political upheavals by exploring the intersections of race, labor, and land in agriculture-based collective living projects, particularly in the Northeastern United States.”
Through a research-based investigation with collective farms and food systems changemakers in the Hudson Valley, Lee “reframes rurality as a site of radical reclamation.” Displayed alongside dried food ingredients representing the building blocks of recipes from Indigenous cookbooks, Food & Memory attempts to reveal both the textural and ecological micro– and social and political macro– of our dinner plates.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event We begin a new book: The Life of the Mind was Hannah Arendt’s unfinished final work. In it, she focuses on three basic mental activities—thinking, willing, and judging—and their relation to the world of appearances and to the human capacity for moral and political action. The new critical edition makes available in print, for the first time, the text of the typescripts as Arendt left them, complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished material, detailed annotations, and extensive scholarly commentary. We will also be referring to Mary McCarthy's edition for increased accessibility.
Free to HAC members and to Bard students, staff, and faculty! Email [email protected] for the Zoom link.
Find the full Virtural Reading Group schedule: hac.bard.edu/programs/vrg/ Get the new critical edition of The Life of the Mindhere.
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.
Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Sunday, March 9, 2025 – Saturday, March 15, 2025
Achebe House Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event We're reading The Life of the Mind, Hannah Arendt’s unfinished final work. In it, she focuses on three basic mental activities—thinking, willing, and judging—and their relation to the world of appearances and to the human capacity for moral and political action. The new critical edition makes available in print, for the first time, the text of the typescripts as Arendt left them, complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished material, detailed annotations, and extensive scholarly commentary. We will also be referring to Mary McCarthy's edition for increased accessibility.
Free to HAC members and to Bard students, staff, and faculty! Email [email protected] for the Zoom link.
Find the full Virtural Reading Group schedule: hac.bard.edu/programs/vrg/ Get the new critical edition of The Life of the Mindhere.
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.
Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Sunday, March 9, 2025 – Saturday, March 15, 2025
Achebe House Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
A concert by the Bard Conservatory Orchestra with maestro Leon Botstein, featuring works by Brahms, Franck, Perle, and pianist Tianxiang (Tessa) Ni, performing Mozart’s Concerto No. 24.
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra Leon Botstein, Music Director
Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 Tianxiang (Tessa) Ni, piano
George Perle Six Bagatelles
César Franck Symphony in D minor
Artwork: Hilma af Klint, Primordial Chaos, No. 16, The WU/ROSEN Series. Grupp 1, 1906-07
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (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—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at noon in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy Offices) Come by the Chaplaincy office (Albee Basement) 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].
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Building a Career in Sustainability: Ask the Waste Management Experts
Tackle the waste crisis and build a sustainable career with insights from experts in waste management and circularity.
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 7–8:30 pm
Online Event RSVP HERE for this free virtual panel
ABOUT THE EVENT: Floating islands of plastic in our oceans, the dumping of fast fashion waste in developing countries, and the volatile market for recycled materials all signal that we’ve reached a crisis point in managing waste for an ever-growing, over-consuming population.
Sustainability leaders working in waste management and circularity play a critical roll in creating a sustainable and just future. Join the Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainabilityfor this conversation to hear from waste management and circularity experts who work, often unseen, to manage waste streams and redesign supply chains to tackle these challenges. Learn how they launched and grew their careers, what tips they have for high impact careers in the industry, and what they look for in new hires.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (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—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at noon in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Peter Norton Symphony Space in NYC TŌN Resident Conductor Zachary Schwartzman returns with the orchestra to Symphony Space for another free concert. The program opens with the colorful Fanfare for Samuel Barber by David Serkin Ludwig, nephew of the late Peter Serkin, a Bard Conservatory faculty member. Cellist Raman Ramakrishnan, a founding member of the Daedalus Quartet and a Bard Conservatory faculty member, joins TŌN for A New Day, a recent composition by another Bard Conservatory faculty member, the renowned Joan Tower. The concert concludes with Tchaikovsky’s emotional Symphony no.5.
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy Offices) Come by the Chaplaincy office (Albee Basement) 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].
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Institute of Advanced Theology Spring Lecture Series
Monday, March 24, 2025 12:30–2 pm
Bard Hall A lecture series from Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology The Bible does not mean only what Christianity says it means, or only what Judaism says it means, or only what Islam says it means. Biblical meaning also cannot be reduced to the caricatures produced by a small but strident coterie of atheist Fundamentalists in recent years.
The Bible unfolded over the course of a millennium of development. During that process social forces in each phase shaped the texts as they stand today, and in some cases the texts can be seen to push back against their contexts. The formation of the Bible resulted in the evolution of a social message, what the Aramaic, and Hebrew, and Greek languages of composition call a “gospel.” Our series is designed to uncover the grounding principles of this gospel as it unfolded over time and was articulated by the Bible in its own terms, before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam emerged.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Book Presentation: The Last Soviet Artist and Workshop Portrait-Interview
With artist Victoria Lomasko
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 5 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Please join us for an evening with Victoria Lomasko, who will present her new book, The Last Soviet Artist, and conduct a hands-on workshop (Portrait-Interview) in graphic reportage.
Victoria Lomasko’s (b. 1978) practice of graphic reportage synthesizes image and text, taking the form of novels, journalism, comics, paintings and monumental murals. A renowned dissident voice in the highly censored environment of contemporary Russia, Lomasko’s seminal graphic novels, including Other Russias and Forbidden Art, have an honest style exposing the country’s inequalities and injustices whilst amplifying and defending the plight of Russia’s many voiceless and unseen communities. Travelling across Russia and neighboring countries, often at huge personal risk, her work often embraces a magical realist sensibility as a method of processing subjective and visceral experiences. Lomasko’s most recent novel, The Last Soviet Artist, finished three weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is a timely work anticipating the region’s seismic political changes that won the 2022 Free Voice award from PEN Catalan and Prix Couilles au Cul pour le Courage Artistique, Festival de BD d’Angoulême.Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture, Human Rights, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Studio Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event This month's special guests are Thomas Wild and Thomas Bartscherer in conversation about Hannah Arendt's Complete Works - Critical Edition and the new edition of The Life of the Mind with host Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center.
Thomas Wild is Research Director at the Hannah Arendt Center and Professor of German Studies and Literature at Bard College, and works on modern European and German literature and culture. In his research as well as in his teaching he’s particularly interested in the intersections between literature and history, politics, and philosophy. A current focus of his work addresses the poetics and ethics of multilingualism. Wild has published an introductory book on Hannah Arendt’s life, work, and reception and a monograph on Hannah Arendt’s intellectual relationships with post-war writers. His most recent book on the distinguished poet Ilse Aichinger discusses a contemporary poetics of hospitality. Several editions of letters emerged from Thomas Wild’s ongoing intrigue for correspondences and intellectual networks, including prominent writers such as Uwe Johnson, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, and Joachim Fest. Poetry is an interlocutor in most of his courses and in many of his publications, among the latter are a collection of poems by Thomas Brasch and translations of contemporary American poets. Thomas Wild serves as general editor on the distinguished international team preparing the first scholarly edition of Hannah Arendt’s Complete Works, which appears in print and digitally, presenting all published and unpublished writings of this eminent thinker in the original English and in the original German – a project providing the foundation for future research on Hannah Arendt, digital humanities, and what it means to think in a plurality of languages.
Thomas Bartscherer works in the humanities and the arts and on the study of politics and liberal education. Recent publications include the critical edition of Hannah Arendt’s final work, The Life of the Mind, which he co-edited for the Complete Works series, and When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice, co-edited for Cambridge University Press. His six-hour opera, Stranger Love, created with composer Dylan Mattingly, was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where it premiered in 2023. His work has also been performed at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Prototype Festival, and the First Take West Coast Opera Workshop. Bartscherer also writes on technology, new media, performance, and contemporary art, and has published translations from German and French. He is co-editor of Erotikon: Essays on Eros Ancient and Modern and Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts, both from the University of Chicago Press. He has held research fellowships at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the Universities of Heidelberg, and the University of Munich. He has held visiting positions as Associate Research Professor at Vanderbilt University and as Senior Fellow in residence at the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the Freie Universität in Berlin. He was Director of Bard’s Language and Thinking Program from 2010-2015. Bartscherer is a research associate on the Équipe Nietzsche at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes and is a Senior Fellow that the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College. He holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago.
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.
Comedy for Organizers: Cliff Notes from an Anti-Zionist Jew
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 6–7:30 pm
Fisher Center, Studio North How do artists, comedians, and performers respond to crises? What tools and opportunities do comedy and laughter offer political and social movements in their confrontations with fascism and supremacy? Comedian and performance artist Morgan Bassichis, a longtime member of Jewish Voice for Peace, shares their experience at the intersection of comedy and political organizing.
Morgan Bassichis is a comedic performer who has been described as “fiercely hilarious” by the New Yorker. They are touring their current show, Can I Be Frank?, about the queer performance artist Frank Maya. Recent shows include A Crowded Field, which explored the use and abuse of Jewish holidays. Morgan is co-editor with Jay Saper and Rachel Valinsky of Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah, published by Wendy’s Subway.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program; Center for Human Rights and the Arts; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
Tree of Violence Film Screening and Q&A with Victoria Lomasko
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 7 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Over the past decade, the artist Victoria Lomasko has dedicated herself to meticulously chronicling Putin's Russia, immersing herself in the heart of rallies and pivotal political moments. Fueled by a palpable sense of impending catastrophe, just a year before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, she embarks on a profound exploration of the intricate connections between domestic and state-sponsored violence. Crafting a historical narrative that spans from the protest-filled winter of 2021 to the tragic winter of 2022, she distills her discoveries into what would become her most ambitious mural to date. As Putin launches a 'military operation' in Ukraine, branding Russian dissidents as "traitors, to be spat out like flies", Lomasko confronts the harsh reality that she can no longer continue her work in Russia. With this realization, she makes the courageous decision to leave everything behind and forge a new path.Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture, Human Rights, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Studio Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability -- Virtual Open House
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 7–8:30 pm
Online Event Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
During these open houses, prospective students have the opportunity to meet with alumni and faculty from their program of interest. It's the perfect way to connect with the Bard GPS community, and get any questions answered about the student experience directly from those who know it best - the faculty and alumni of the programs.
WHAT WE COVER:
Overview of graduate program offerings
Student experience
Alumni career outcomes
General admissions and financial aid information
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.
REGISTER HERESponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard Graduate Programs; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
De Gruyter-Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking
Neil Roberts to Keynote the 2025 Spring Conference on Hannah Arendt and Black Revolutionary Thought
Thursday, March 27, 2025 5:30–7:15 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Neil Roberts of Williams College will keynote on the topic of The Revolutionary Spirit: Hannah Arendt and Black Political Thought. Free and open to the public, the lecture will also be live streamed on the Arendt Center's YouTube channel.
Neil Roberts is associate dean of the faculty and the John B. McCoy and John T. McCoy professor of Africana studies, political theory, and the philosophy of religion at Williams College. Roberts was President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association from 2016-19, and he served for several years on the Executive Editorial Board of the journal Political Theory. His publications include the books Creolizing Hannah Arendt (2024, with Marilyn Nissim-Sabat), A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass (2018), the collaborative volume Journeys in Caribbean Thought (2016), and the award-winning text Freedom as Marronage (2015) as well as numerous articles, book forewords (such as the 2024 foreword to Teodros Kiros's Zara Yacob's Inauguration of Modernity and Cardiocentrism), and chapters on creolizing the canon, Black radicalism, totalitarianism and modern politics, and the bounds of political theory. His work has appeared in periodicals such as Black Perspectives, Caribbean Studies, The C.L.R. James Journal, Contemporary Political Theory, HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, Perspectives on Politics, Small Axe, and Theory & Event. How to Live Free in an Age of Pessimism is his next monograph, and he's at work both on a study of Haile Selassie I and the Oxford Handbook of Sylvia Wynter.
The De Gruyter-Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking series aims to promote and foster the legacy of Hannah Arendt’s thought. A partnership between the Hannah Arendt Center (HAC) at Bard College and De Gruyter publishing, the lecture will be delivered annually by a prominent scholar. De Gruyter explicitly intends for the lecture series to be open to a broad approach to Arendt across the disciplines of not only philosophy and political theory but the humanities and social sciences more generally. The Lecturer is selected by the HAC in consultation with previous Lecturers and De Gruyter. Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Online Event We're reading The Life of the Mind, Hannah Arendt’s unfinished final work. In it, she focuses on three basic mental activities—thinking, willing, and judging—and their relation to the world of appearances and to the human capacity for moral and political action. The new critical edition makes available in print, for the first time, the text of the typescripts as Arendt left them, complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished material, detailed annotations, and extensive scholarly commentary. We will also be referring to Mary McCarthy's edition for increased accessibility.
Free to HAC members and to Bard students, staff, and faculty! Email [email protected] for the Zoom link.
Find the full Virtural Reading Group schedule: hac.bard.edu/programs/vrg/ Get the new critical edition of The Life of the Mindhere.
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.
Non-Required Recital: Ethan Young, cello, with Neilson Chen, piano
Featuring works by Beethoven, Barber, and Myaskovsky.
Friday, March 28, 2025 7 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space 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].
Comprised of graduates from America’s finest music schools, this versatile ensemble entertains and inspires audiences through innovative programming and world-class performances in concert and ceremonial settings.
Non-Required Recital: Jing Yi Sutherland, cello, with Pei-Hsuan Shen, piano
Featuring works by Schumann and Beethoven.
Saturday, March 29, 2025 7 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space 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].
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (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—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at noon in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
A renowned performer and teacher, Joseph Lin appears regularly throughout the U.S., Asia, and Europe. He was first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet from 2011 to 2018, and he continues to teach violin and chamber music at the Juilliard School. Lin’s recent projects include a collaboration with Robert Levin featuring Beethoven and Schubert on period instruments, performances of Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto, Beethoven’s late string quartets, and the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas with Helen Huang at Juilliard. Marking the 300th year of Bach’s Violin Sonatas and Partitas in 2020, Lin presented complete cycles in Boston and Philadelphia. Recent seasons have included baroque and classical period instrument performances on both viola and violin. In 2025, Joseph Lin presents a special Beethoven program (Op. 95 “Serioso” Quartet, Op. 96 Sonata, and Op. 97 “Archduke” Trio) in numerous cities around the U.S.
From 2007 to 2011, Lin was a professor at Cornell University, where his projects included the inaugural Chinese Musicians Residency, as well as a collaboration with Cornell composers to study Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas and create new works inspired by Bach.
Lin was a founding member of the Formosa Quartet, which won the 2006 London String Quartet Competition. In 1996, he won first prize at the Concert Artists Guild Competition and was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. In 1999, he was selected for the Pro Musicis Award and, in 2001, he won first prize at the inaugural Michael Hill Violin Competition in New Zealand. His recordings include the music of Korngold and Busoni with pianist Benjamin Loeb; an album of Debussy, Franck, and Milhaud with pianist Orion Weiss; and the complete unaccompanied works of Bach and Ysaÿe. His recording of Mozart’s A Major Violin Concerto with original cadenzas was released in 2017. With the Juilliard Quartet, he recorded Schubert’s Death and the Maiden and Elliot Carter’s Fifth Quartet, as well as the Quartet’s recent album of Beethoven, Davidovsky, and Bartók. During the summer season, he is a regular artist at the Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Marlboro festivals.
Joseph Lin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 2000. In 2002, he began an extended exploration of China, where he studied Chinese music, including the guqin, as a Fulbright scholar.
This masterclass is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy Offices) Come by the Chaplaincy office (Albee Basement) 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].
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Institute of Advanced Theology Spring Lecture Series
Monday, March 31, 2025 12:30–2 pm
Bard Hall A lecture series from Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology The Bible does not mean only what Christianity says it means, or only what Judaism says it means, or only what Islam says it means. Biblical meaning also cannot be reduced to the caricatures produced by a small but strident coterie of atheist Fundamentalists in recent years.
The Bible unfolded over the course of a millennium of development. During that process social forces in each phase shaped the texts as they stand today, and in some cases the texts can be seen to push back against their contexts. The formation of the Bible resulted in the evolution of a social message, what the Aramaic, and Hebrew, and Greek languages of composition call a “gospel.” Our series is designed to uncover the grounding principles of this gospel as it unfolded over time and was articulated by the Bible in its own terms, before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam emerged.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Award-winning author Rick Moody will give a reading on Monday, March 31, at 4 pm in Weis Cinema at Bard College. This event, which is cosponsored by the literary magazine Conjunctions, will be the final event in Bradford Morrow’s Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series and is free and open to the public. A Q&A will follow the talk. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Runs through Friday, March 7, 2025 10 am – 2:30 pm
Online Event The New Kinds of Attention online workshop series offers short, accessible introductions to the Institute for Writing and Teaching's writing-based teaching practices. It is designed for educators who are curious about IWT workshops or looking to expand their writing-based teaching toolkit, including those unable to attend IWT’s on-campus workshops at Bard. The workshops in this series provide an immersive, online introduction to IWT pedagogy and a taste of the experience of our popular July Weeklong Workshops.
In 2025, the series will be held on February 7, February 28, and March 7, from 10 am to 2:30 pm, with a 30 minute break. For more information, call 845-752-4516, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://iwt.bard.edu/nkoa/.
Win big at compost and learn more! Take our weekly quiz!
Sunday, February 23, 2025 – Saturday, March 1, 2025
Achebe House Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion! Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the 8-week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability.
Our event this week is the Mason Jar Soup Making at The O Zone on March 1st. Please join us and reserve your spot! There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram. This nationwide competition is more than just a race, it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship. For more information, call 914-606-0437, or e-mail [email protected].
SIGNS, GAMES, AND MESSAGES 2025: A KURTÁG FESTIVAL Program Two: Piano Marathon, Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos (Book 4, 5 and 6)
Saturday, March 1, 2025 2 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Program Two: Piano Marathon
BARTÓK’S MIKROKOSMOS (BOOKS 4, 5, and 6) PERFORMED BY STUDENTS AND FACULTY OF THE CONSERVATORY
Béla Bartok (1881-1945) Selections from Mikrokosmos (Books 4, 5, and 6)
Book 4
Notturno Honor Doran
Thumb Under Hasti Safaei
Crossed Hands Tianxiang (Tessa) Ni
In the Style of a Folk Song Hongfan Su
Diminished Fifth Francis Huang
Harmonics Sophia Cornicello
Minor and Major Linus Ramakrishnan
Through the Keys Playsong Ivy Chen
Children's Song Evie Tourtelot
Melody in the Mist Marcos Castilla
Wrestling Juliette Benveniste
From the Island of Bali Alexandra Balog
Clashing Sounds Oskar Baron
Intermezzo Andrew Altrock
Variations on a Folk Tune Chelsea Yang
Bulgarian Rhythm (1) Xinri Zhang
Theme and Inversion Yujia Yang
Bulgarian Rhythm (2) Ivy Chen
Song Bourrée Triplets in 9/8 Time Marcos Castilla
Dance in 3/4 Time Fifth Chords Two-Part Study Francis Huang
Book 5
Chords Together and Opposed Staccato and Legato Staccato Juliette Benveniste
Boating Fiona Boak-Kelly
Change of Time Hasti Safaei
New Hungarian Folk Song Hasti Safaei Maggie Yang
Peasant Dance Hasti Safaei
Alternating Thirds Village Joke Fourths Andrew Altrock
Major Seconds Broken and Together Syncopation Tianxiang (Tessa) Ni
Studies in Double Notes Perpetuum Mobile Whole-tone Scale Sophia Cornicello
Unison Bagpipe Merry Andrew Ivy Chen
Book 6
Free Variations Xinri Zhang
Subject and Reflection Chelsea Yang
From the Diary of a Fly Alexandra Balog
Divided Arpeggios Frank Corliss
Minor Seconds, Major Sevenths Francis Huang
Chromatic Invention Yujia Yang
Ostinato Saoirse Doran
March Hongfan Su
Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm Terrence Wilson
(Timing: Approximately 70-75 minutes, no intermission).
This annual three-day festival celebrates the music of Hungarian composer György Kurtág (b. 1926) alongside works by those who shaped or were shaped by his artistry, fostering a timeless, open-ended dialogue between composers, musicians and styles.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Live stream this event on the Conservatory YouTube channel HERE
This festival has been permanently endowed through the generous support of László Z. Bitó '60 and Olivia Cariño. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
SIGNS, GAMES, AND MESSAGES 2025: A KURTÁG FESTIVAL Program Three: Literary Inspirations I: Lichtenberg, Joyce and Kurtág
Saturday, March 1, 2025 7 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Program Three: Literary Inspirations I: Lichtenberg, Joyce and Kurtág
J. S. Bach (1685–1750) Trio Sonata No. 1 in E-flat Major, BWV 525 arr. Mordechai Rechtman Chloe Brill, bassoon Liliána Szokol, flute Jalen Mims, clarinet
Gubaidulina (b. 1931) Quasi Hoquetus for Viola, Bassoon, and Piano Luosha Fang, viola Blair McMillen, piano Philip McNaughton, bassoon
György Kurtág (b. 1926) Einige Sätze aus den Sudelbüchern Georg Christoph Lichtenbergs, Op. 37a Lucy Fitz Gibbons, soprano Will Langlie-Miletich, double bass
INTERMISSION
Henry Purcell (1659–95) If Music Be the Food of Love, Z. 379C arr. Benjamin Britten Tim Widner, baritone
O Solitude, Z. 306 Man Is for the Woman Made, Z. 605 Imani Oluoch, mezzo-soprano Nomin Samdan, piano
What Can We Poor Females Do? Z. 518 Imani Oluoch, mezzo-soprano Tim Widner, baritone Nomin Samdan, piano
Amy Beth Kirsten (b. 1972) yes I said yes I will Yes. Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano Will Langlie-Miletich, double bass
Péter Eötvös (1944–2024) Joyce for Solo Clarinet Mohammad AbdNikfarjam, clarinet
John Cage (1912–92) The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs Nowth upon Nacht Madelin Morales, mezzo-soprano Yi-Hsuan Hsia, piano
Luciano Berio (1925–2003) Thema: Omaggio a Joyce (1958–59) Electronics
Benjamin Britten (1913–76) Moore’s Irish Melodies
Sail on, sail on Dear Harp of my Country! Sam Warshauer, tenor Kayo Iwama, piano
Oft in the stilly night The last rose of summer Benjamin Truncale, tenor Kayo Iwama, piano
This annual three-day festival celebrates the music of Hungarian composer György Kurtág (b. 1926) alongside works by those who shaped or were shaped by his artistry, fostering a timeless, open-ended dialogue between composers, musicians and styles.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This evening’s program is only available to in-person audience members.
This festival has been permanently endowed through the generous support of László Z. Bitó '60 and Olivia Cariño.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Charles Barkerconductor American Ballet Theatre Studio Company
Two of New York’s finest artistic training programs join forces as the talented graduate musicians of TŌN welcome the exceptional dancers of American Ballet Theatre Studio Company to the Fisher Center at Bard. Enjoy works by George Balanchine, Kevin McKenzie, Gerald Arpino, and others set to music by Verdi, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and more performed live by a full symphony orchestra.
All proceeds support TŌN’s innovative graduate program that is training the next generation of music professionals to become creative ambassadors for classical music, offering students a full-tuition fellowship and stipend.
Campus Center Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
Check us out this week in the Campus Center Thursday from 1 to 3 pm for a game on recycling and giveaways! There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 914-606-0437, or e-mail [email protected].
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (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—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at noon in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
SIGNS, GAMES, AND MESSAGES 2025: A KURTÁG FESTIVAL Program Four: Literary Inspirations II: Beckett and Kurtág
Sunday, March 2, 2025 4 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Program Four: Literary Inspirations II: Beckett and Kurtág Works by Kurtág, Schubert and Beethoven.
György Kurtág (b. 1926) Hommage à Schubert (Book 3) Lovely Greetings to Grete Spinnrad (Book 5) Ryan McCullough, piano
Franz Schubert(1797–1828) Gretchen am Spinnrade, D. 118 Nacht und Träume, D. 827 Georgia Perdikoulias, soprano Lara Saldanha, piano
György Kurtág(b. 1926) Samuel Beckett Sends Word through Ildikó Monyók in the Translation of István Siklós (“Samuel Beckett: What is the word”), Op. 30a Sydney Cornett, mezzo-soprano Ryan McCullough, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven(1770–1827) Piano Trio, Op. 70, No. 1 (“Ghost”) Luosha Fang, violin Benjamin Hochman, piano Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
INTERMISSION
Franz Schubert(1797–1828) String Quartet in A Minor, D. 804 (“Rosamunde”) Daniel Phillips, violin Carmit Zori, violin Melissa Reardon, viola Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
This annual three-day festival celebrates the music of Hungarian composer György Kurtág (b. 1926) alongside works by those who shaped or were shaped by his artistry, fostering a timeless, open-ended dialogue between composers, musicians and styles.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Live stream this event on the Conservatory YouTube channel HERE
This festival has been permanently endowed through the generous support of László Z. Bitó '60 and Olivia Cariño.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
Check us out this week in the Campus Center Thursday from 1 to 3 pm for a game on recycling and giveaways! There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 914-606-0437, or e-mail [email protected].
The award-winning writers will read from new work.
Monday, March 3, 2025 4–5 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Award-winning writers Kelly Link and Jedediah Berry will give a reading on March 3 at 4 pm in Weis Cinema, followed by a Q&A. The event, which is presented as part of Bradford Morrow's Bard course on innovative contemporary fiction and is cosponsored by the literary magazine Conjunctions, is free and open to the public. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy Offices) Come by the Chaplaincy office (Albee Basement) 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].
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
Check us out this week in the Campus Center Thursday from 1 to 3 pm for a game on recycling and giveaways! There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 914-606-0437, or e-mail [email protected].
Featuring Stephanie Kyuyong Lee’s Hard Labor, Soft Space
Runs through Friday, March 14, 2025
Stevenson Library Food and Memory, curated by Olivia Tencer, Mayss Al Alami, and Melina Roise, is an exhibition to accompany the third and final Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuk annual conference. This exhibition showcases 10 works by artist and architect Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee. As part of Lee’s project Hard Labor, Soft Space: The Making of Radical Farms, these maps “examine the rural future in the context of climate disasters and political upheavals by exploring the intersections of race, labor, and land in agriculture-based collective living projects, particularly in the Northeastern United States.”
Through a research-based investigation with collective farms and food systems changemakers in the Hudson Valley, Lee “reframes rurality as a site of radical reclamation.” Displayed alongside dried food ingredients representing the building blocks of recipes from Indigenous cookbooks, Food & Memory attempts to reveal both the textural and ecological micro– and social and political macro– of our dinner plates.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Macroeconomic Policies and Care: Exploring Intersections
Featuring Raquel Coello Cremades, UN Women Policy Advisor
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 5–6 pm
Blithewood Join the Levy Institute Research Program of Gender Equality and the Economy for a lecture and discussion with Raquel Coello Cremades, UN Women Policy Advisor. Cremades will discuss how care work requires a new conceptualization of the economic system to appropriately integrate its scope and quality. Its relationship with fiscal policy is reciprocal, as the strengthening and expansion of fiscal space are crucial for adequately financing policies and systems.
Dr. Coello Cremades's presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members.
Lazard often repurposes ready-made objects, such as a HEPA air purifier, a noise machine, and a power-lifter recliner chair, calling attention to the dependencies and infrastructures of care that sustain social life. CRIP TIME (2018) is a video-based meditation on the time Lazard devotes to organizing a week’s worth of different medications into brightly colored, plastic pill containers. Through documenting this care-based task, Lazard makes visible the often-obscured care and labor of staying alive. In much of their practice, access is both a theme and a material of their work.
All are welcome! Bard is committed to making every effort to provide reasonable accommodations for accessibility needs. For accommodation requests or for more information about this event, please contact Paige Mead, Studio Art Department Administrator at [email protected].
Campus Center Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
Check us out this week in the Campus Center Thursday from 1 to 3 pm for a game on recycling and giveaways! There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 914-606-0437, or e-mail [email protected].
Learn more about applying to Levy with Thomas Masterson, graduate program director, and Tyler Emerson, outreach and recruitment liaison.
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 9–10 am
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.
Ash Wednesday Prayer Service and Imposition of Ashes
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are welcome to gather in the Chapel of the Holy Innocents for Ash Wednesday prayers and to receive ashes as we begin the holy season of Lent. Ashes will be available in the Chapel until 1:30 pm.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
Check us out this week in the Campus Center Thursday from 1 to 3 pm for a game on recycling and giveaways! There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 914-606-0437, or e-mail [email protected].
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/food-memory-a-conference-by-rethinking-place-3994933 More information: https://storymaps.com/stories/6227b9fd186e41ef9a182b375ddd30ad
Food & Memory is the third and final conference hosted by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck. It aims to explore food systems, agricultural practices, and culinary histories as a point of entry into place-making, past, present, and future. The conference brings together agricultural workers, chefs, food systems scholars, and artists to create fertile ground for interdisciplinary discussion. Situated on the banks of the Mahicantuck (Hudson River) at a time when current food systems, planetary health, and political and environmental instability pose existential threats to the sovereignty and wellbeing of human and non-human kin alike, Rethinking Place aims to center a diverse range of voices and histories that have touched and formed the current agricultural region in which Bard College is located. The two prior Rethinking Place conferences, focused on emergent and disruptive archives and on Indigenous research methods, engaged themes that continue to apply to Food & Memory. Our complex food systems and their many human and non-human players – recipes and seeds, plants and care - can be seen as living archives, locations of research, and sites of knowledge production. Rethinking Place now hosts a multidisciplinary gathering to directly interrogate questions of food and memory, building on twenty-four months of work in adjacent areas. We are pleased to join our efforts in place-based inquiry with other entities on the Bard campus. For their support over the life of the Rethinking Place project, we thank the Bard Farm, the Center for Environmental Science and Humanities, the Center for Human Rights, and the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
Check us out this week in the Campus Center Thursday from 1 to 3 pm for a game on recycling and giveaways! There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 914-606-0437, or e-mail [email protected].
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/food-memory-a-conference-by-rethinking-place-3994933 More information: https://storymaps.com/stories/6227b9fd186e41ef9a182b375ddd30ad
Food & Memory is the third and final conference hosted by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck. It aims to explore food systems, agricultural practices, and culinary histories as a point of entry into place-making, past, present, and future. The conference brings together agricultural workers, chefs, food systems scholars, and artists to create fertile ground for interdisciplinary discussion. Situated on the banks of the Mahicantuck (Hudson River) at a time when current food systems, planetary health, and political and environmental instability pose existential threats to the sovereignty and wellbeing of human and non-human kin alike, Rethinking Place aims to center a diverse range of voices and histories that have touched and formed the current agricultural region in which Bard College is located. The two prior Rethinking Place conferences, focused on emergent and disruptive archives and on Indigenous research methods, engaged themes that continue to apply to Food & Memory. Our complex food systems and their many human and non-human players – recipes and seeds, plants and care - can be seen as living archives, locations of research, and sites of knowledge production. Rethinking Place now hosts a multidisciplinary gathering to directly interrogate questions of food and memory, building on twenty-four months of work in adjacent areas. We are pleased to join our efforts in place-based inquiry with other entities on the Bard campus. For their support over the life of the Rethinking Place project, we thank the Bard Farm, the Center for Environmental Science and Humanities, the Center for Human Rights, and the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Imagine the morning newspaper, headlines in couplets, black and white but in verse. Imagine that constellation of words. Truth as told by the stars and birds. Translated by bread and transcribed by daughters. Imagine the formal presentation of poetry as news of the day. Imagine the formal presentation of poetry as evidence in a future war crimes tribunal. Join us for a presentation by Amar Kanwar.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Online Event We begin a new book: The Life of the Mind was Hannah Arendt’s unfinished final work. In it, she focuses on three basic mental activities—thinking, willing, and judging—and their relation to the world of appearances and to the human capacity for moral and political action. The new critical edition makes available in print, for the first time, the text of the typescripts as Arendt left them, complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished material, detailed annotations, and extensive scholarly commentary. We will also be referring to Mary McCarthy's edition for increased accessibility.
Free to HAC members and to Bard students, staff, and faculty! Email [email protected] for the Zoom link.
Find the full Virtural Reading Group schedule: hac.bard.edu/programs/vrg/ Get the new critical edition of The Life of the Mindhere.
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.
Campus Center Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
Check us out this week in the Campus Center Thursday from 1 to 3 pm for a game on recycling and giveaways! There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 914-606-0437, or e-mail [email protected].
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/food-memory-a-conference-by-rethinking-place-3994933 More information: https://storymaps.com/stories/6227b9fd186e41ef9a182b375ddd30ad
Food & Memory is the third and final conference hosted by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck. It aims to explore food systems, agricultural practices, and culinary histories as a point of entry into place-making, past, present, and future. The conference brings together agricultural workers, chefs, food systems scholars, and artists to create fertile ground for interdisciplinary discussion. Situated on the banks of the Mahicantuck (Hudson River) at a time when current food systems, planetary health, and political and environmental instability pose existential threats to the sovereignty and wellbeing of human and non-human kin alike, Rethinking Place aims to center a diverse range of voices and histories that have touched and formed the current agricultural region in which Bard College is located. The two prior Rethinking Place conferences, focused on emergent and disruptive archives and on Indigenous research methods, engaged themes that continue to apply to Food & Memory. Our complex food systems and their many human and non-human players – recipes and seeds, plants and care - can be seen as living archives, locations of research, and sites of knowledge production. Rethinking Place now hosts a multidisciplinary gathering to directly interrogate questions of food and memory, building on twenty-four months of work in adjacent areas. We are pleased to join our efforts in place-based inquiry with other entities on the Bard campus. For their support over the life of the Rethinking Place project, we thank the Bard Farm, the Center for Environmental Science and Humanities, the Center for Human Rights, and the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (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—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at noon in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Sunday, March 9, 2025 – Saturday, March 15, 2025
Achebe House Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space The Spring concert of the Bard Chinese Ensemble's 24-25 season features a new selection of captivating works for our large ensemble comprised of Bard Conservatory's Chinese instrument students along with Western instrument players eager to explore this distinctive repertoire. Join us to experience four unique pieces arranged by conductor Shutong Li especially for this concert:
A stunning double concerto for dizi and flute, seamlessly blending Eastern and Western musical traditions with a deeply moving narrative.
Two movements from the sheng concerto Peacock, evoking the elegance of Baroque music.
The Blasting of Master Handan with explosive, dramatic passages reminiscent of The Rite of Spring.
The Four Seasons Garden by the esteemed composer Wang Danhong, delivering emotional depth that goes straight to the heart.
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy Offices) Come by the Chaplaincy office (Albee Basement) 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].
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Sunday, March 9, 2025 – Saturday, March 15, 2025
Achebe House Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
An hour-long program of short performances by Bard Conservatory students.
Monday, March 10, 2025 12 pm
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].
Photography Mentorship Program: Artist Lecture with Johan Orellana
Monday, March 10, 2025 5–8 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Come and listen to Johan Orellana, a Bard alumni, speak about his work! This event is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Sunday, March 9, 2025 – Saturday, March 15, 2025
Achebe House Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Weis Cinema In the 21st century, fueled by technology, data, and algorithms, math determines who has the power to shape our world. The math documentary COUNTED OUT explains how, “…whether we know it or not, our numeric literacy—whether we can speak the language of math—is a critical determinant of social and economic power.”
Please reserve your ticket as space is limited.Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability -- Online Info Session
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational sessions for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 7–8 pm
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 on Tuesday, March 11, 2024 at 7:00pm ET to learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session. Register here!
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.
REGISTER HERESponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard Graduate Programs; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Sunday, March 9, 2025 – Saturday, March 15, 2025
Achebe House Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center Meet and speak with Admission reps from Bard College 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 StudiesSponsored by: Bard Graduate Programs; Career Development Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Sunday, March 9, 2025 – Saturday, March 15, 2025
Achebe House Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
This is a special student-intiated screening organized in conjunction with the World Cinema Club. All are welcome. Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
Online Event We begin a new book: The Life of the Mind was Hannah Arendt’s unfinished final work. In it, she focuses on three basic mental activities—thinking, willing, and judging—and their relation to the world of appearances and to the human capacity for moral and political action. The new critical edition makes available in print, for the first time, the text of the typescripts as Arendt left them, complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished material, detailed annotations, and extensive scholarly commentary. We will also be referring to Mary McCarthy's edition for increased accessibility.
Free to HAC members and to Bard students, staff, and faculty! Email [email protected] for the Zoom link.
Find the full Virtural Reading Group schedule: hac.bard.edu/programs/vrg/ Get the new critical edition of The Life of the Mindhere.
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.
Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Sunday, March 9, 2025 – Saturday, March 15, 2025
Achebe House Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event We're reading The Life of the Mind, Hannah Arendt’s unfinished final work. In it, she focuses on three basic mental activities—thinking, willing, and judging—and their relation to the world of appearances and to the human capacity for moral and political action. The new critical edition makes available in print, for the first time, the text of the typescripts as Arendt left them, complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished material, detailed annotations, and extensive scholarly commentary. We will also be referring to Mary McCarthy's edition for increased accessibility.
Free to HAC members and to Bard students, staff, and faculty! Email [email protected] for the Zoom link.
Find the full Virtural Reading Group schedule: hac.bard.edu/programs/vrg/ Get the new critical edition of The Life of the Mindhere.
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.
Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Sunday, March 9, 2025 – Saturday, March 15, 2025
Achebe House Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
A concert by the Bard Conservatory Orchestra with maestro Leon Botstein, featuring works by Brahms, Franck, Perle, and pianist Tianxiang (Tessa) Ni, performing Mozart’s Concerto No. 24.
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra Leon Botstein, Music Director
Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 Tianxiang (Tessa) Ni, piano
George Perle Six Bagatelles
César Franck Symphony in D minor
Artwork: Hilma af Klint, Primordial Chaos, No. 16, The WU/ROSEN Series. Grupp 1, 1906-07
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (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—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at noon in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy Offices) Come by the Chaplaincy office (Albee Basement) 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].
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Building a Career in Sustainability: Ask the Waste Management Experts
Tackle the waste crisis and build a sustainable career with insights from experts in waste management and circularity.
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 7–8:30 pm
Online Event RSVP HERE for this free virtual panel
ABOUT THE EVENT: Floating islands of plastic in our oceans, the dumping of fast fashion waste in developing countries, and the volatile market for recycled materials all signal that we’ve reached a crisis point in managing waste for an ever-growing, over-consuming population.
Sustainability leaders working in waste management and circularity play a critical roll in creating a sustainable and just future. Join the Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainabilityfor this conversation to hear from waste management and circularity experts who work, often unseen, to manage waste streams and redesign supply chains to tackle these challenges. Learn how they launched and grew their careers, what tips they have for high impact careers in the industry, and what they look for in new hires.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (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—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at noon in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Peter Norton Symphony Space in NYC TŌN Resident Conductor Zachary Schwartzman returns with the orchestra to Symphony Space for another free concert. The program opens with the colorful Fanfare for Samuel Barber by David Serkin Ludwig, nephew of the late Peter Serkin, a Bard Conservatory faculty member. Cellist Raman Ramakrishnan, a founding member of the Daedalus Quartet and a Bard Conservatory faculty member, joins TŌN for A New Day, a recent composition by another Bard Conservatory faculty member, the renowned Joan Tower. The concert concludes with Tchaikovsky’s emotional Symphony no.5.
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy Offices) Come by the Chaplaincy office (Albee Basement) 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].
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Institute of Advanced Theology Spring Lecture Series
Monday, March 24, 2025 12:30–2 pm
Bard Hall A lecture series from Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology The Bible does not mean only what Christianity says it means, or only what Judaism says it means, or only what Islam says it means. Biblical meaning also cannot be reduced to the caricatures produced by a small but strident coterie of atheist Fundamentalists in recent years.
The Bible unfolded over the course of a millennium of development. During that process social forces in each phase shaped the texts as they stand today, and in some cases the texts can be seen to push back against their contexts. The formation of the Bible resulted in the evolution of a social message, what the Aramaic, and Hebrew, and Greek languages of composition call a “gospel.” Our series is designed to uncover the grounding principles of this gospel as it unfolded over time and was articulated by the Bible in its own terms, before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam emerged.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Book Presentation: The Last Soviet Artist and Workshop Portrait-Interview
With artist Victoria Lomasko
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 5 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Please join us for an evening with Victoria Lomasko, who will present her new book, The Last Soviet Artist, and conduct a hands-on workshop (Portrait-Interview) in graphic reportage.
Victoria Lomasko’s (b. 1978) practice of graphic reportage synthesizes image and text, taking the form of novels, journalism, comics, paintings and monumental murals. A renowned dissident voice in the highly censored environment of contemporary Russia, Lomasko’s seminal graphic novels, including Other Russias and Forbidden Art, have an honest style exposing the country’s inequalities and injustices whilst amplifying and defending the plight of Russia’s many voiceless and unseen communities. Travelling across Russia and neighboring countries, often at huge personal risk, her work often embraces a magical realist sensibility as a method of processing subjective and visceral experiences. Lomasko’s most recent novel, The Last Soviet Artist, finished three weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is a timely work anticipating the region’s seismic political changes that won the 2022 Free Voice award from PEN Catalan and Prix Couilles au Cul pour le Courage Artistique, Festival de BD d’Angoulême.Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture, Human Rights, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Studio Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event This month's special guests are Thomas Wild and Thomas Bartscherer in conversation about Hannah Arendt's Complete Works - Critical Edition and the new edition of The Life of the Mind with host Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center.
Thomas Wild is Research Director at the Hannah Arendt Center and Professor of German Studies and Literature at Bard College, and works on modern European and German literature and culture. In his research as well as in his teaching he’s particularly interested in the intersections between literature and history, politics, and philosophy. A current focus of his work addresses the poetics and ethics of multilingualism. Wild has published an introductory book on Hannah Arendt’s life, work, and reception and a monograph on Hannah Arendt’s intellectual relationships with post-war writers. His most recent book on the distinguished poet Ilse Aichinger discusses a contemporary poetics of hospitality. Several editions of letters emerged from Thomas Wild’s ongoing intrigue for correspondences and intellectual networks, including prominent writers such as Uwe Johnson, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, and Joachim Fest. Poetry is an interlocutor in most of his courses and in many of his publications, among the latter are a collection of poems by Thomas Brasch and translations of contemporary American poets. Thomas Wild serves as general editor on the distinguished international team preparing the first scholarly edition of Hannah Arendt’s Complete Works, which appears in print and digitally, presenting all published and unpublished writings of this eminent thinker in the original English and in the original German – a project providing the foundation for future research on Hannah Arendt, digital humanities, and what it means to think in a plurality of languages.
Thomas Bartscherer works in the humanities and the arts and on the study of politics and liberal education. Recent publications include the critical edition of Hannah Arendt’s final work, The Life of the Mind, which he co-edited for the Complete Works series, and When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice, co-edited for Cambridge University Press. His six-hour opera, Stranger Love, created with composer Dylan Mattingly, was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where it premiered in 2023. His work has also been performed at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Prototype Festival, and the First Take West Coast Opera Workshop. Bartscherer also writes on technology, new media, performance, and contemporary art, and has published translations from German and French. He is co-editor of Erotikon: Essays on Eros Ancient and Modern and Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts, both from the University of Chicago Press. He has held research fellowships at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the Universities of Heidelberg, and the University of Munich. He has held visiting positions as Associate Research Professor at Vanderbilt University and as Senior Fellow in residence at the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the Freie Universität in Berlin. He was Director of Bard’s Language and Thinking Program from 2010-2015. Bartscherer is a research associate on the Équipe Nietzsche at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes and is a Senior Fellow that the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College. He holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago.
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.
Comedy for Organizers: Cliff Notes from an Anti-Zionist Jew
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 6–7:30 pm
Fisher Center, Studio North How do artists, comedians, and performers respond to crises? What tools and opportunities do comedy and laughter offer political and social movements in their confrontations with fascism and supremacy? Comedian and performance artist Morgan Bassichis, a longtime member of Jewish Voice for Peace, shares their experience at the intersection of comedy and political organizing.
Morgan Bassichis is a comedic performer who has been described as “fiercely hilarious” by the New Yorker. They are touring their current show, Can I Be Frank?, about the queer performance artist Frank Maya. Recent shows include A Crowded Field, which explored the use and abuse of Jewish holidays. Morgan is co-editor with Jay Saper and Rachel Valinsky of Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah, published by Wendy’s Subway.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program; Center for Human Rights and the Arts; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 518-495-9694, or e-mail [email protected].
Tree of Violence Film Screening and Q&A with Victoria Lomasko
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 7 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Over the past decade, the artist Victoria Lomasko has dedicated herself to meticulously chronicling Putin's Russia, immersing herself in the heart of rallies and pivotal political moments. Fueled by a palpable sense of impending catastrophe, just a year before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, she embarks on a profound exploration of the intricate connections between domestic and state-sponsored violence. Crafting a historical narrative that spans from the protest-filled winter of 2021 to the tragic winter of 2022, she distills her discoveries into what would become her most ambitious mural to date. As Putin launches a 'military operation' in Ukraine, branding Russian dissidents as "traitors, to be spat out like flies", Lomasko confronts the harsh reality that she can no longer continue her work in Russia. With this realization, she makes the courageous decision to leave everything behind and forge a new path.Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture, Human Rights, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Studio Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability -- Virtual Open House
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 7–8:30 pm
Online Event Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
During these open houses, prospective students have the opportunity to meet with alumni and faculty from their program of interest. It's the perfect way to connect with the Bard GPS community, and get any questions answered about the student experience directly from those who know it best - the faculty and alumni of the programs.
WHAT WE COVER:
Overview of graduate program offerings
Student experience
Alumni career outcomes
General admissions and financial aid information
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.
REGISTER HERESponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard Graduate Programs; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
De Gruyter-Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking
Neil Roberts to Keynote the 2025 Spring Conference on Hannah Arendt and Black Revolutionary Thought
Thursday, March 27, 2025 5:30–7:15 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Neil Roberts of Williams College will keynote on the topic of The Revolutionary Spirit: Hannah Arendt and Black Political Thought. Free and open to the public, the lecture will also be live streamed on the Arendt Center's YouTube channel.
Neil Roberts is associate dean of the faculty and the John B. McCoy and John T. McCoy professor of Africana studies, political theory, and the philosophy of religion at Williams College. Roberts was President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association from 2016-19, and he served for several years on the Executive Editorial Board of the journal Political Theory. His publications include the books Creolizing Hannah Arendt (2024, with Marilyn Nissim-Sabat), A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass (2018), the collaborative volume Journeys in Caribbean Thought (2016), and the award-winning text Freedom as Marronage (2015) as well as numerous articles, book forewords (such as the 2024 foreword to Teodros Kiros's Zara Yacob's Inauguration of Modernity and Cardiocentrism), and chapters on creolizing the canon, Black radicalism, totalitarianism and modern politics, and the bounds of political theory. His work has appeared in periodicals such as Black Perspectives, Caribbean Studies, The C.L.R. James Journal, Contemporary Political Theory, HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, Perspectives on Politics, Small Axe, and Theory & Event. How to Live Free in an Age of Pessimism is his next monograph, and he's at work both on a study of Haile Selassie I and the Oxford Handbook of Sylvia Wynter.
The De Gruyter-Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking series aims to promote and foster the legacy of Hannah Arendt’s thought. A partnership between the Hannah Arendt Center (HAC) at Bard College and De Gruyter publishing, the lecture will be delivered annually by a prominent scholar. De Gruyter explicitly intends for the lecture series to be open to a broad approach to Arendt across the disciplines of not only philosophy and political theory but the humanities and social sciences more generally. The Lecturer is selected by the HAC in consultation with previous Lecturers and De Gruyter. Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Online Event We're reading The Life of the Mind, Hannah Arendt’s unfinished final work. In it, she focuses on three basic mental activities—thinking, willing, and judging—and their relation to the world of appearances and to the human capacity for moral and political action. The new critical edition makes available in print, for the first time, the text of the typescripts as Arendt left them, complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished material, detailed annotations, and extensive scholarly commentary. We will also be referring to Mary McCarthy's edition for increased accessibility.
Free to HAC members and to Bard students, staff, and faculty! Email [email protected] for the Zoom link.
Find the full Virtural Reading Group schedule: hac.bard.edu/programs/vrg/ Get the new critical edition of The Life of the Mindhere.
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.
Non-Required Recital: Ethan Young, cello, with Neilson Chen, piano
Featuring works by Beethoven, Barber, and Myaskovsky.
Friday, March 28, 2025 7 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space 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].
Comprised of graduates from America’s finest music schools, this versatile ensemble entertains and inspires audiences through innovative programming and world-class performances in concert and ceremonial settings.
Non-Required Recital: Jing Yi Sutherland, cello, with Pei-Hsuan Shen, piano
Featuring works by Schumann and Beethoven.
Saturday, March 29, 2025 7 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space 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].
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (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—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at noon in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
A renowned performer and teacher, Joseph Lin appears regularly throughout the U.S., Asia, and Europe. He was first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet from 2011 to 2018, and he continues to teach violin and chamber music at the Juilliard School. Lin’s recent projects include a collaboration with Robert Levin featuring Beethoven and Schubert on period instruments, performances of Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto, Beethoven’s late string quartets, and the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas with Helen Huang at Juilliard. Marking the 300th year of Bach’s Violin Sonatas and Partitas in 2020, Lin presented complete cycles in Boston and Philadelphia. Recent seasons have included baroque and classical period instrument performances on both viola and violin. In 2025, Joseph Lin presents a special Beethoven program (Op. 95 “Serioso” Quartet, Op. 96 Sonata, and Op. 97 “Archduke” Trio) in numerous cities around the U.S.
From 2007 to 2011, Lin was a professor at Cornell University, where his projects included the inaugural Chinese Musicians Residency, as well as a collaboration with Cornell composers to study Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas and create new works inspired by Bach.
Lin was a founding member of the Formosa Quartet, which won the 2006 London String Quartet Competition. In 1996, he won first prize at the Concert Artists Guild Competition and was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. In 1999, he was selected for the Pro Musicis Award and, in 2001, he won first prize at the inaugural Michael Hill Violin Competition in New Zealand. His recordings include the music of Korngold and Busoni with pianist Benjamin Loeb; an album of Debussy, Franck, and Milhaud with pianist Orion Weiss; and the complete unaccompanied works of Bach and Ysaÿe. His recording of Mozart’s A Major Violin Concerto with original cadenzas was released in 2017. With the Juilliard Quartet, he recorded Schubert’s Death and the Maiden and Elliot Carter’s Fifth Quartet, as well as the Quartet’s recent album of Beethoven, Davidovsky, and Bartók. During the summer season, he is a regular artist at the Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Marlboro festivals.
Joseph Lin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 2000. In 2002, he began an extended exploration of China, where he studied Chinese music, including the guqin, as a Fulbright scholar.
This masterclass is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy Offices) Come by the Chaplaincy office (Albee Basement) 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].
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Institute of Advanced Theology Spring Lecture Series
Monday, March 31, 2025 12:30–2 pm
Bard Hall A lecture series from Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology The Bible does not mean only what Christianity says it means, or only what Judaism says it means, or only what Islam says it means. Biblical meaning also cannot be reduced to the caricatures produced by a small but strident coterie of atheist Fundamentalists in recent years.
The Bible unfolded over the course of a millennium of development. During that process social forces in each phase shaped the texts as they stand today, and in some cases the texts can be seen to push back against their contexts. The formation of the Bible resulted in the evolution of a social message, what the Aramaic, and Hebrew, and Greek languages of composition call a “gospel.” Our series is designed to uncover the grounding principles of this gospel as it unfolded over time and was articulated by the Bible in its own terms, before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam emerged.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Award-winning author Rick Moody will give a reading on Monday, March 31, at 4 pm in Weis Cinema at Bard College. This event, which is cosponsored by the literary magazine Conjunctions, will be the final event in Bradford Morrow’s Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series and is free and open to the public. A Q&A will follow the talk. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Sunday, February 23, 2025 – Saturday, March 1, 2025
Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion! Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the 8-week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability.
Our event this week is the Mason Jar Soup Making at The O Zone on March 1st. Please join us and reserve your spot! There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram. This nationwide competition is more than just a race, it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship. Achebe House
For more information, call 914-606-0437, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
Check us out this week in the Campus Center Thursday from 1 to 3 pm for a game on recycling and giveaways! There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! Campus Center
For more information, call 914-606-0437, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Race to Zero Waste: Help Bard Reach #1 in Food Waste Diversion!
Sunday, March 9, 2025 – Saturday, March 15, 2025
Bard College is currently ranked #2 nationally in food scrap diversion, and we're aiming for the top spot! Join us for the eight week Campus Race to Zero Waste competition, where our collective actions can make a tremendous impact on campus sustainability. This nationwide competition is more than just a race—it's our opportunity to build lasting sustainable habits and strengthen Bard's commitment to environmental stewardship.
There will be more events and giveaways, stay up to date by following @bardsustainability on Instagram for more! Achebe House
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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