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A panel discussion, followed by a reception, will take place in Weis Cinema on Thursday, February 28, 5:00–6:30 p.m.Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Art History Program; Bard Center for the Study of Hate; Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Global and International Studies Program; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Program; LAIS Program; Office of Inclusive Excellence; Photography Program; Political Studies Program; Sociology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7218, or e-mail pklein@bard.edu.
Chris Suh
Friday, February 1, 2019
Olin, Room 102
This talk will examine the history of race, empire, and inequality during the Progressive Era in the transpacific context by focusing on the life of an American-educated Korean reformer named Yun Ch’i-ho (1865–1945), best known today as a “collaborator” during Korea’s colonial period under Japan. Drawing on archival sources from South Korea and the United States, this talk will explain the process through which the United States came to include Japan in the “family of civilized nations,” and the ways in which American ideas about racial “progress”—often articulated with reference to African Americans in the South—both contributed to and challenged the imperial order in the Pacific, precisely at the moment when the United States began to emerge as a Pacific power.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Historical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7395, or e-mail culp@bard.edu.
Friday, February 1, 2019
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
The basketball teams are hosting rival Vassar, with the women's game starting at 5, and the men's game to follow at 7. During halftime of both games we will have giveaways of Bard gear - to anyone wearing BLACK - and we'll also hand out a few pizzas to a lucky few. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Friday, February 1, 2019
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
Join us for Shabbat candle-lighting, a brief and relaxed service, and a great home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner. Whether you're a Shabbat regular, an occasional participant, or a curious first-timer, come check us out! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, or e-mail nelson@bard.edu.
Saturday, February 2, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Scenes from opera's history are reimagined in 360 degrees as students of the college's Opera Workshop embark on the program's first in-the-round production. The performance weaves together narrative threads in excerpts of operas by Lully, Mozart, Bernstein, and others for a unique musical and theatrical experience.
Approximate running time is 100 minutes including a 15-minute intermission.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/opera-workshop-2019/.
Saturday, February 2, 2019
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
The basketball teams host Skidmore. The women's game starts at 2, and the men's game follows at 4. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Saturday, February 2, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail buchmezzo@hotmail.com.
Sunday, February 3, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Scenes from opera's history are reimagined in 360 degrees as students of the college's Opera Workshop embark on the program's first in-the-round production. The performance weaves together narrative threads in excerpts of operas by Lully, Mozart, Bernstein, and others for a unique musical and theatrical experience.
Approximate running time is 100 minutes including a 15-minute intermission.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/opera-workshop-2019/.
Sunday, February 3, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail buchmezzo@hotmail.com.
Sunday, February 3, 2019
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu.
Sunday, February 3, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/conservatory.
Sunday, February 3, 2019
Hegeman 308
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Monday, February 4, 2019
Hegeman 308
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Williams College
Monday, February 4, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Drawn from Kolb’s first book,Terror Epidemics: Islam, Insurgency, Colonialism, Disease, “The Plague of Nations” considers political consequences of naturalizing and organicizing discourses, particularly the figure of epidemic, through the “failed state” paradigm of a putatively postcolonial era. The author will discuss the case of Kashmir in Salman Rushdie’s post-9/11 terrorism novel, Shalimar the Clown, as well as the legacies of the postwar international order in both Rushdie’s novel and in the incomplete decolonization of the Indian subcontinent. Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7203, or e-mail heinowit@bard.edu.
Monday, February 4, 2019
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail jlemmens@bard.edu.
Monday, February 4, 2019
Olin, Room 102
What am I? Am I only the sum of my physical parts, or is there an intangible, essential aspect of myself that survives the death of my body? If there is a soul, then what is its relation to my body, and what can it experience when disembodied after death? The question of the nature of the human being, and thus her relation to the divine, was at the center of philosophical and theological discussions of the medieval Islamic world. With the Muslim theologians al-Ghazālī (d. 1111) and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210), we witness what has been termed the “Avicennian turn” in Ashʿarite theology. These thinkers, who have often been wrongly censured as the very theologians who stifled the Islamic philosophical movement (al-falsafa), engaged with the falsafa tradition so deeply that their own theology was fundamentally transformed by it.
This talk will begin with a discussion of the understanding of the human being as developed in mainstream Islamic theology, then turn to al-Ghazālī and particularly Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s engagement with the philosophy of Avicenna (d. 1037) and the fundamental shift that they introduced into Islamic theology with their acceptance of the existence of a noncorporeal soul (al-nafs). With an examination of the development of the concept of the soul in Islamic philosophy and theology, we also find ourselves challenging the very paradigm that held that orthodox theologians dealt a death blow to the falsafa movement in the 12th century. Instead, we witness that Islamic philosophy continued to thrive not only through a rich commentary tradition but also as it was absorbed and transformed in Islamic theological and mystical trends.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Religion Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7364, or e-mail rdavis@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Hegeman 308
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Blum Hall
András Hodorog is the last living virtuoso among native Hungarian flute players in the Carpathian region. The “peasant flute” was once a widespread instrument in the villages of Hungary; during the 20th century, a number of collected field recordings immortalized thousands of flute melodies, including those that inspired the great Hungarian composers of the last century among them, Bartók and Kodály. A member of Moldva Region’s Hungarian minority, Hodorog has a performance style based on his extraordinarily wide palette of motivic fragments and melodic ornamentations, as well as his skill in combining these patterns in constantly changing ways.
Hodorog will be accompanied by:
Soma Salamon, folk flute player
Réka Annus, voice
Krisztián Kiss, koboz
Benke Ágoston Félix, drum, tiling, doromb
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wslaten@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
A. E. Stallings is an American poet who studied classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford. She has published three collections of poetry—Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives—and a verse translation (in rhyming fourteeners!) of Lucretius, The Nature of Things. She has received a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and fellowships from United States Artists, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Stallings speaks and lectures widely on a variety of topics, and has been a regular faculty member at the West Chester Poetry Conference and the Sewanee Summer Writers’ Conference. Having studied in Athens, Georgia, she now lives in Athens, Greece, with her husband, the journalist John Psaropoulos, and their two argonauts, Jason and Atalanta.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7283, or e-mail romm@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
The women's basketball team hosts SUNY Canton. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Olin, Room 102
Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Hegeman 308
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
The Literature of World Hunger:
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
RKC 103
In the 1960s and 1970s, “world hunger” emerged as one of the concepts governing the relationship between rich and poor countries. In the same years, the contemporary system of world literature began to take shape. This lecture suggests that it is profitable to read these two formations together, and that doing so can yield new understandings about how the “world” emerges as a contested category in the latter half of the 20th century. Taking as its primary example the prize-winning 1978 novella House of Hunger, by Zimbabwean enfant terrible Dambudzo Marechera, it argues that the insistence of Third World writers on their and their nation’s hunger shapes and disrupts circuits of world literary exchange.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7203, or e-mail heinowit@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail jlemmens@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2349, or e-mail ccollins@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Olin, Room 102
In dialogue with oceanic history and the “blue humanities,” this talk considers the role of language (languages) and translatability in the politics of migration, settler colonialism, and political resistance, drawing on archives and case studies from the colonial American mid-Atlantic region. The area was known as the “Babel of the Atlantic” in a variety of European languages, and the textual archives of the mid-Atlantic’s manuscript and print cultures continue to offer rich sites to explore the role of language and colonial as well as anti-colonial politics. Individual cultural brokers, including translators, have been the subject of rich recent historical scholarship while often subject to their contemporaries’ curiosity and sometimes their suspicion. How might we build on these accounts of individual translators to explore the multilingualism of the archives more broadly? What research methods and collaborations might we need to make their polyglot and heterodox voices audible today? And, how might a historically rich account of Atlantic multilingualism resound today under widespread pressure on humanistic ways of knowing? Sponsored by: Translation and Translatability Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-7600, or e-mail ovoronin@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 7, 2019
RKC 103
As computational methods become more widespread in the arts and humanities today, thinking experimentally has an increasingly important role to play. In the social and natural sciences, to experiment means to control, isolate, and distance oneself from an observation. To experiment in this sense means putting our believes to the test. But there is an equally vibrant tradition in the arts where experimentation is seen as a form of play, creativity, and transformation. To experiment in this sense means distancing ourselves from the norms and status quo of the present, to break open the possible.
In my talk, I will explore these two traditions of experimental thinking and how they might be more productively brought together. How can computational methods allow us to think more experimentally about the literature of the past and present in the broadest possible sense? How can the testing, challenging, and rethinking of experimentation give us new views of literature’s future?
Andrew Piper is Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University. His work explores computational approaches to the study of literature and culture. He is the director of .txtLAB, a laboratory for cultural analytics at McGill, as well as author of Enumerations: Data and Literature Study (University of Chicago Press, 2018).Sponsored by: Bard Reading Initiative; Dean of the College; Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ccape@bard.edu.
Friday, February 8, 2019
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
Join us for Shabbat candle-lighting, a brief and relaxed service, and a great home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner. Whether you're a Shabbat regular, an occasional participant, or a curious first-timer, come check us out! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, or e-mail nelson@bard.edu.
Friday, February 8, 2019
Saw Kill
As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.
Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.
Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.
Open to everyone. Free training is available.
If interested, please contact:
Lindsey Drew
Bard Water Lab Manager
ldrew@bard.eduSponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Jeannette Alden Estruth
Friday, February 8, 2019
Olin, Room 102
The late 20th century saw the meteoric rise of the high-technology industry in the United States. Synonymous with this growth was the region that came to be known as California’s Silicon Valley. The Silicon Valley, however, did not just represent a place or an industry. It also encompassed a new set of ideas about American prosperity and the country’s future. Jeannette Estruth’s research traces the genesis of these ideas, and finds them in the early community movements that fought the material challenges presented by the technology industry’s rapid economic expansion. She shows that the industry’s encounters with dissenting voices produced new visions about what work meant, how economies functioned, and what democracy should look like. In doing so, Estruth argues that the local technology sector revolutionized American political thought in the late 20th century, creating a new economic era by the turn of the 21st.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Historical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7395, or e-mail culp@bard.edu.
Friday, February 8, 2019
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
The Raptors host Nazareth. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Saturday, February 9, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Conducted by Leon Botstein
Music Director of The Orchestra Now and the American Symphony Orchestra
Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail boxoffice@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/The-Romantic-Hero/.
SOUND THE TRUMPET!
Saturday, February 9, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Sponsored by: Jazz at the Fisher Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/birth-of-hip-hop.
Sunday, February 10, 2019
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu.
Sunday, February 10, 2019
Hegeman 308
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Sunday, February 10, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Conducted by Leon Botstein
Music Director of The Orchestra Now and the American Symphony Orchestra
Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail boxoffice@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/The-Romantic-Hero/.
Sunday, February 10, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/conservatory.
Monday, February 11, 2019
Hegeman 308
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Monday, February 11, 2019
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail jlemmens@bard.edu.
Tejasvi Nagaraja
Monday, February 11, 2019
Olin, Room 102
In examining the intersecting ties across foreign and domestic realms, scholars have considered how warfare infrastructures interact with social diversities, opportunities, and inequalities in each country. Americanist scholarship has evaluated the complex relationship between the “hard” power of national security, with “soft” realms such as the welfare state and civil rights. Yet historians have yet to adequately interpret the ties across the two spheres of “hard” power, foreign policy and criminal justice. How does our story of U.S. global power and security statecraft change when we attend to contestations over policing and incarceration, particularly as they affected service members?
From the Second World War into the early Cold War—the signal era of mass citizen-soldiering—diverse GIs and their loved ones grappled with experiences of military policing, courts-martial, incarceration, and execution as well as the civilian justice system’s treatment of service members. This talk considers popular concerns about crime and punishment, as they made a fundamental mark on American experiences of military service and foreign policy. These cases and causes took place across the U.S. South, U.S. North, and overseas, affected individuals from all three spheres, and inspired popular advocacy across all three too. This talk situates this carceral through line in the context of a larger book project—about labor, race, and international relations within the process of midcentury U.S. global militarization. This book presents U.S. service members and their loved ones as protagonists within American and transnational debates about economic, criminal justice, and geopolitical affairs. It argues that U.S. foreign policy’s statecraft was deeply entangled and embattled in relation to intersecting “domestic” social movements.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Historical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7395, or e-mail culp@bard.edu.
Monday, February 11, 2019
RKC pods
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Hegeman 308
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Olin, Room 102
Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
RKC pods
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/conservatory.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Olin, Room 102
Charlene Teters was a graduate art student at the University of Illinois when she started a campaign to retire the school’s racist team mascot and was met with death threats. Emmy and Peabody Award–winning filmmaker Jay Rosenstein—professor of media and cinema studies at the University of Illinois—made In Whose Honor? to chronicle the controversy. It was aired in 1997 on PBS. Rosenstein is still receiving threats over the film.
The screening of In Whose Honor? (48 minutes) will be followed by a conversation with Teters and Rosenstein moderated by Kenneth Stern, director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate.
Free and Open to the Public
Questions: Danielle Riou at riou@bard.edu
Trailer: Watch Now
Sponsored by the Bard Center for the Study of Hate. Cosponsored by the American Studies Program, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, Difference and Media Project, Human Rights Program, and Human Rights Project.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Hate.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail riou@bard.edu.
Join and receive a $65 application fee waiver!
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
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Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
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Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information.
Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team.
WHAT WILL BE COVERED?
Degree Options Include:
MS in Environmental Policy
MS in Climate Science and Policy
MBA in Sustainability
Dual Degree Options Include:
MS/JD with Pace Law School
MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching
MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability
Peace Corps Programs Include:
Master's International (before you serve)
Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Caitlin O'Donnell for further details.
For more information, call 845-758-7073.
<<<< REGISTER HERE FOR LINK >>>>Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit https://gps.bard.edu/informational-webinar-01/09/18.
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Hegeman 308
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
RKC pods
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center
The AMC 10/12 is a 25-question, 75-minute, multiple choice examination in high school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem-solving skills.
The contest is paired with an engaging math talk at the high school level, presented by a Bard mathematician.
The Bard Math Circle hosts this annual event to promote a culture of mathematical problem solving and math enrichment in the mid-Hudson Valley.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-544-4369, e-mail jwood@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardmathcircle.org.
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Chamber music by Charles Martin Loeffler, Frank Bridge, Stephen Coxe, Richard Strauss, Joseph Marx and Johannes Brahms.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail gustavss@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail jlemmens@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 14, 2019
RKC pods
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2349, or e-mail ccollins@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 14, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Students in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program audition for the final round of the 2019 Concerto Competition.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/conservatory.
Friday, February 15, 2019
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
Join us for Shabbat candle-lighting, a brief and relaxed service, and a great home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner. Whether you're a Shabbat regular, an occasional participant, or a curious first-timer, come check us out! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, or e-mail nelson@bard.edu.
Friday, February 15, 2019
RKC 102
Required for all lab use (with the exception of lab courses).Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
For more information, call 845-752-2419, or e-mail mnorman@bard.edu.
Friday, February 15, 2019
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
The basketball teams host Ithaca. The women's game starts at 5, and the men's game follows at 7. Both Bard teams will accessorize in pink, and donations, a raffle and a bake sale will raise money for Miles of Hope, an organization which helps local families who've been impacted by cancer. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Saturday, February 16, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/conservatory.
Saturday, February 16, 2019
LMHQ 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10038
During the Saturday of each Residency Weekend we invite visiting prospective MBA students to:
Location: LMHQ 150 Broadway NY, NY 10038Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/mba/.
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
The basketball teams host Rochester Institute of Technology. The women's game starts at 2, and the men's game follows at 4. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Franz Schubert Die Winterreise (The Winter Journey)
Rufus Müller, tenor
Kayo Iwama, piano
Days before his death from syphilis in November 1828, Franz Schubert was putting the finishing touches on this, the most famous of all song cycles. The journey of the title takes the protagonist from anger to pain, with startling detours into remembered joy and hope, then finally from despair to death.
Approximate running time is 75 minutes.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/schubert-winterreise/.
Sunday, February 17, 2019
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu.
Sunday, February 17, 2019
Hegeman 308
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Sunday, February 17, 2019
RKC pods
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Sunday, February 17, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Finalists from the Bard Conservatory compete for the opportunity to perform with the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, and the American Symphony Orchestra.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/BCOM-concerto-competition/.
Monday, February 18, 2019
Hegeman 308
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Monday, February 18, 2019
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail jlemmens@bard.edu.
Monday, February 18, 2019
RKC pods
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Ittai Weinryb
Monday, February 18, 2019
Olin, Room 202
Throughout time and across cultures people have made objects and offered them as acts of faith. Known as votives, these objects are expressions of fundamental human needs and concerns. They may be offered as tokens of desire or gratitude, to make a pledge or fulfill a vow, to preserve a memory or commemorate a miracle. The lecture will explore varieties of votive giving in order to unpack the spiritual concerns and material solutions votives have to offer.Sponsored by: Art History Program, and Asian Studies Program; Religion Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7364, or e-mail rdavis@bard.edu.
Monday, February 18, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Greg Jackson, Bard Fiction Prize recipient and writer in residence at Bard College, will read from recent work. The reading is free and open to the public.
Jackson received the Bard Fiction Prize for his debut collection of short stories, Prodigals (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016). In his lyrical and unflinching stories, Jackson maps the degradations of contemporary life with insight and grace and takes the reader from a drug-addled weekend in Palm Springs to the remote provincial compound of a reclusive French tennis champion and places in between. The New York Times has called the collection a book “so bold and perceptive that it delivers a contact high.”
Jackson’s fiction and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, Vice, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of Virginia and has received fellowships and residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center and MacDowell Colony. A finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction, he was chosen by Granta in 2017 for their decennial list of Best Young American Novelists. In 2016 he received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award for Prodigals. Before turning to fiction, Jackson worked as an investigative journalist in Washington, D.C.
For more information, call 845-758-7412, or e-mail primoff@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Hegeman 308
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Olin, Room 102
Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
RKC pods
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Fisher Studio Arts Building, Seminar Room
Wilmer Wilson IV (b. 1989) is critically recognized for performative investigations into the marginalization of, and the care for, Black bodies in everyday social relation. He is the recipient of the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage Fellowship and the American Academy in Rome Fellowship. Wilson’s work has been presented at the New Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; American University Museum, Washington, DC; Birmingham (AL) Museum of Art; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; and Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper, Belgium. Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail mconway@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Olin, Room 203
Bard alumnus (Class of 2014) and current U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer Eric Benjamin Gordon will speak about his current work and experiences in Paraguay. One of the lesser-known and poorer countries of South America, Paraguay also boasts the unique cultural and lingual distinction of having over 90 percent of its population speak an indigenous language. This talk will cover some important factors in the history, language, and culture of Paraguay, all of which contribute to its ranking as the “happiest country” in the world by the Gallup Poll and Peace Corps Worldwide. There will also be a Peace Corps recruiter present to provide materials and answer questions about the organization. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; LAIS Program; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7382, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
LMHQ NYC
Join us in New York City for an Open House hosted by the Bard MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy.
Attendees will hear from a panel of current students and alumni of Bard's MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy. Our Panel of student/alum experts will discuss topics such as:
Our Admissions staff will also be on hand to provide information on the application process and answer questions regarding:
Event Location: This event will be held at LMHQ, 150 Broadway NY, NY Floor 20
Email Caitlin O'Donnell with any additional questions.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/gps/.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Hegeman 308
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
RKC pods
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
CCS Bard, Classroom 102
Through the Speaker Series, CCS Bard brings distinguished artists, scholars, and curators to campus to present on their work. Speaker Series talks are held in Classroom 102 at CCS Bard unless otherwise noted. All talks are free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/events/372-julia-bryan-wilson-and-jeannine-tang-in-conversation-with-sharon-hayes.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between conflict and abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. Her work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning. Rooting the problem of escalation in negative group relationships, Schulman illuminates the ways in which cliques, communities, families, and religious, racial, and national groups bond through the refusal to change their self-concept. She illustrates how supremacy behavior and traumatized behavior resemble each other, through a shared inability to tolerate difference.
Sarah Schulman is a novelist, nonfiction writer, playwright, screenwriter, and AIDS historian. Her most recent book is the novel Maggie Terry, a tale of murder and intrigue.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
The Raptors host CCNY. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail jlemmens@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 21, 2019
RKC pods
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
An evening of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater and Performance Program.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/SPROJ-festival-2019/.
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2349, or e-mail ccollins@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Olin, Room 101
Jamil Dakwar (@jdakwar) is the director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Human Rights Program (HRP), which is dedicated to holding the U.S. government accountable to its international human rights obligations and commitments. He leads a team of lawyers and advocates who use a human rights framework to complement existing ACLU legal and legislative advocacy primarily in the areas of counterterrorism, racial justice, immigrants’ rights, women’s rights, and criminal and juvenile justice. HRP conducts human rights research, documentation, and public education, as well as engages in litigation and advocacy before U.S. courts and international human rights bodies.Sponsored by: Human Rights Project.
For more information, call 854-857-5518, or e-mail riou@bard.edu.
Kari Weil
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Olin, Room 102
The terms “creature” and “creaturely” have newly received attention in the field of animal studies, bringing awareness to the shared status of human and non-human animals as vulnerable beings whose lives may be shed of historical agency and abandoned, in Eric Santner’s words, to the “mute thingness” of matter. But is the creaturely necessarily mute? In this paper I turn to recent collaborations between the taxidermy artist, Berlinde de Bruyckere and the writer, J.M. Coetzee, to consider how and whether creaturely memory and history might speak otherwise and what it might mean, in the words of Walter Benjamin, “to pick up the forgotten” from animals.Sponsored by: Philosophy Program; the Thinking Animals Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-7280, or e-mail jelliott@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Scott Silverstone of West Point – The U.S. Military Academy will discuss his new book, From Hitler’s Germany to Saddam's Iraq: The Enduring False Promise of Preventive War, in conversation with Malia Du Mont of Bard College. This event, which is part of BGIA’s James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series, is cosponsored and hosted by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and supported by Foreign Affairs magazine. The event is free and open to the public by RSVP.
This book boldly challenges conventional wisdom about the value of preventive war. Beginning with the rise of German power and the French and British response to the Rhineland crisis leading to World War II, Silverstone overturns the common impulse to point an accusing finger at British leadership for its alleged naïveté, willful blindness, or outright cowardice. Arguing against the belief that Britain could have contained Germany and avoided war if it had used force when Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland, the author uses this dramatic event to wrestle with a general strategic problem that has broad relevance for our current foreign policy dilemmas. Silverstone argues that the Rhineland crisis is a critical case for studying a central dynamic of world history—power shifts among states—and the preventive war temptation that power shifts frequently produce. There has been surging interest in the idea of preventive war, an interest stimulated by the Bush administration’s articulation of the “preemption doctrine” in 2002 and the disastrous invasion of Iraq in 2003, and by frustration over the difficulty of preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons by such states as North Korea and Iran. Clarifying the way we think about preventive war, the author analyzes the enduring strategic flaws in preventive war that must inform how political leaders and the public think about this option as a means of dealing with shifting threats in the modern world. Offering a radically conservative argument for when to wage war, this persuasive book will be essential reading for policy makers and concerned citizens alike.
Scott A. Silverstone is an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America and a professor of international relations at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Malia Du Mont is chief of staff to the president of Bard College, where she teaches grand strategy. She is an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve.Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jtinneny@bard.edu.
Friday, February 22, 2019
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
Join us for Shabbat candle-lighting, a brief and relaxed service, and a great home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner. Whether you're a Shabbat regular, an occasional participant, or a curious first-timer, come check us out! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, or e-mail nelson@bard.edu.
Friday, February 22, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
An evening of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater and Performance Program.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/SPROJ-festival-2019/.
Friday, February 22, 2019
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
The Raptors host MIT. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
An evening of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater and Performance Program.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/SPROJ-festival-2019/.
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
An evening of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater and Performance Program.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/SPROJ-festival-2019/.
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
The Raptors host MIT and Colby-Sawyer. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu.
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Hegeman 308
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Sunday, February 24, 2019
RKC pods
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
An evening of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater and Performance Program.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/SPROJ-festival-2019/.
Monday, February 25, 2019
Hegeman 308
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Monday, February 25, 2019
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail jlemmens@bard.edu.
Monday, February 25, 2019
RKC pods
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Monday, February 25, 2019
RKC 103
The narrative of the “end of empire” has conditioned the ways we think about British imperialism and its legacy. But how did colonial subjects comprehend the demise of an empire that did not belong to them? In this talk, I contend that the British Empire has left behind not only an abundance of material relics but also an inventory of feelings and attachments that could not be easily relinquished. For many peripheral writers whose subjectivities were shaped by imperial cultures and institutions, empire deferred its proper ending even after British rule had officially ended. Their works exhibit what I call “lateness,” a nonchronological, retrogressive experience of time specific to the imperial periphery. Lateness arrests the linear progression from colonial to postcolonial, from empire to nation, and from subject to citizen. To illustrate lateness as a historical experience and an aesthetic form, I carry out a comparative reading of the “Ithaca” episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) and V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas (1961). Published on the eve of decolonization, both novels look back to the imperial past as the site of a tense interplay of attachment and exclusion. By approaching the British Empire as a structure of desire that outlived its political lifespan, this talk gives greater precision to the temporal dimension of imperialism, and offers a new framework for the periodization of 20th-century anglophone literature.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7203, or e-mail heinowit@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Hegeman 308
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Olin, Room 102
Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
RKC pods
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/conservatory.
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Hegeman 308
Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
RKC pods
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex
The Raptors open the 2019 season against SUNY Oneonta. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Conjunctions celebrates its current issue, Conjunctions:71, A Cabinet of Curiosity, with readings by contributors Martine Bellen, Greg Jackson, Lynn Schmeidler, and Dave King, introduced by Conjunctions senior editor Michael Sarinsky, at Unnameable Books (600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn). Copies of the issue will be available for sale and signing.
Longtime contributor Martine Bellen will read from “An Anatomy of Curiosity.” Writers new to Conjunctions include 2019 Bard Fiction Prize winner Greg Jackson (“A Curiosity of Spies”), Lynn Schmeidler (“The Wanting Beach”) and Dave King (“Once More to the Beach”).
The literary journal Conjunctions, edited by novelist Bradford Morrow and published by Bard College, has been a living notebook for provocative, risk-taking, rigorously composed fiction, poetry, and narrative nonfiction since 1981. As PEN America has it: “Conjunctions is one of our most distinctive and valuable literary magazines: innovative, daring, indispensable, and beautiful.”
In addition to work by the readers, the Curiosity issue includes contributions by Joyce Carol Oates, Lauren Green, Ann Beattie, Greg Bossert, Can Xue, Stephen O'Connor, Gerard Malanga, Brandon Hobson, Jeffrey Ford, Maud Casey, Catherine Imbriglio, Kelsey Peterson, Madeline Kearin, Eleni Sikelianos, A. D. Jameson, Bin Ramke, Samuel R. Delany, Laura van den Berg, Nathaniel Mackey, Matt Bell, Diane Ackerman, Joanna Scott, Jeffrey Ford, Can Xue, Quintan Ana Wikswo, Elizabeth Hand, Gregory Norman Bossert, Julianna Baggott, William Lychack, and Sarah Blackman.
Greg Jackson is the author of Prodigals (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), for which he received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, the 2019 Bard Fiction Prize, and was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, VQR, Tin House, and Vice, among other places. In 2014, he was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction.
Lynn Schmeidler is a prose writer and poet. Her work has appeared in such publications as The Awl, Barrow Street, Boston Review, Fence, The Georgia Review and The Southern Review, as well as numerous anthologies. Schmeidler has published one poetry book, History of Gone (Veliz Books, shortlisted for the 2016 Sexton Poetry Prize) and two chapbooks, Curiouser & Curiouser (winner of the 2013 Grayson Books Chapbook Contest) and Wrack Lines (Grayson Books). She received a Tennessee Williams scholarship in fiction from The Sewanee Writers’ Conference, is a Pushcart Prize nominee in fiction, a Best of the Net nominee in poetry, and has had work listed under Other Distinguished Stories in Best American Short Stories. She is currently completing a novella and short story collection.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, e-mail conjunctions@bard.edu, or visit http://www.conjunctions.com.
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail jlemmens@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 28, 2019
RKC pods
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2349, or e-mail ccollins@bard.edu.
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
A panel discussion will be held in connection with the Maré de Dentro exhibition Life in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas, currently on view in the Campus Center. A reception follows.Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Art History Program; Bard Center for the Study of Hate; Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Global and International Studies Program; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Program; LAIS Program; Photography Program; Political Studies Program; Sociology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7218, or e-mail pklein@bard.edu.
The Novel Before the Nation-State: Robinson Crusoe and Early Global Fiction
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Olin, Room 102
Between 1685 and 1710, over 60,000 migrants from France and Germany fled to England in search of settlement. This wave of migration produced some of the first legislation to grant national rights to foreigners in England. I argue that this migration was also crucial to the development of the novel. Early novelists were attentive to the rights of foreigners and developed new narrative techniques and generic conventions to offer more expansive—what I call “paranational”—conceptions of national community.
In this talk I tell a new and more transnational story about the novel as a genre, a story that makes the 18th century pivotal for debates about global fiction. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) is an important example because it has long been thought to be quintessentially English; to exemplify both the English novel and the English subject. Yet this reading contains crucial oversights. Defoe uses Crusoe’s uncertain status as the son of a foreigner to explore intercolonial migration among the English, Spanish, and Portuguese empires, thereby rendering England peripheral to larger and more global investments. Defoe, I argue, developed the novel as a way to explore structures of mobility and capitalism in an emergent global age.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7203, or e-mail heinowit@bard.edu.
Maré de Dentro: Life in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas
A Photo and Film Exhibit
Friday, February 1, 2019 – Friday, March 1, 2019
Campus Center, GalleryA panel discussion, followed by a reception, will take place in Weis Cinema on Thursday, February 28, 5:00–6:30 p.m.Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Art History Program; Bard Center for the Study of Hate; Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Global and International Studies Program; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Program; LAIS Program; Office of Inclusive Excellence; Photography Program; Political Studies Program; Sociology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7218, or e-mail pklein@bard.edu.
Save this event: Beyond the “White Man’s Burden” and the “Yellow Peril”: Rethinking U.S.–Pacific Relations in the Progressive Era
Chris Suh
PhD Candidate, Department of History, Stanford University
Friday, February 1, 2019
1:30–3 pm
Olin, Room 102This talk will examine the history of race, empire, and inequality during the Progressive Era in the transpacific context by focusing on the life of an American-educated Korean reformer named Yun Ch’i-ho (1865–1945), best known today as a “collaborator” during Korea’s colonial period under Japan. Drawing on archival sources from South Korea and the United States, this talk will explain the process through which the United States came to include Japan in the “family of civilized nations,” and the ways in which American ideas about racial “progress”—often articulated with reference to African Americans in the South—both contributed to and challenged the imperial order in the Pacific, precisely at the moment when the United States began to emerge as a Pacific power.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Historical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7395, or e-mail culp@bard.edu.
Black Out! Basketball Doubleheader! Get free stuff!
Friday, February 1, 2019
5–9 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe basketball teams are hosting rival Vassar, with the women's game starting at 5, and the men's game to follow at 7. During halftime of both games we will have giveaways of Bard gear - to anyone wearing BLACK - and we'll also hand out a few pizzas to a lucky few. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Shabbat
Friday, February 1, 2019
6:30–8:30 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm AJoin us for Shabbat candle-lighting, a brief and relaxed service, and a great home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner. Whether you're a Shabbat regular, an occasional participant, or a curious first-timer, come check us out! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, or e-mail nelson@bard.edu.
Pastiche
Opera Workshop 2019
Saturday, February 2, 2019
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterScenes from opera's history are reimagined in 360 degrees as students of the college's Opera Workshop embark on the program's first in-the-round production. The performance weaves together narrative threads in excerpts of operas by Lully, Mozart, Bernstein, and others for a unique musical and theatrical experience.
Approximate running time is 100 minutes including a 15-minute intermission.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/opera-workshop-2019/.
Women's and Men's Basketball Doubleheader
Saturday, February 2, 2019
2–6 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe basketball teams host Skidmore. The women's game starts at 2, and the men's game follows at 4. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Opera Workshop
Saturday, February 2, 2019
7:30–9:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail buchmezzo@hotmail.com.
Pastiche
Opera Workshop 2019
Sunday, February 3, 2019
3 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterScenes from opera's history are reimagined in 360 degrees as students of the college's Opera Workshop embark on the program's first in-the-round production. The performance weaves together narrative threads in excerpts of operas by Lully, Mozart, Bernstein, and others for a unique musical and theatrical experience.
Approximate running time is 100 minutes including a 15-minute intermission.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/opera-workshop-2019/.
Opera Wokshop
Sunday, February 3, 2019
3–5 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail buchmezzo@hotmail.com.
Christian Services
Sunday, February 3, 2019
3–5 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsYou are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu.
Conservatory Faculty Recital: Benjamin Hochman, piano
Benjamin Hochman continues his five-concert cycle of the complete Mozart Piano Sonatas.
Sunday, February 3, 2019
7–9 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/conservatory.
Math Study Room
A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
Sunday, February 3, 2019
7–10 pm
Hegeman 308Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Math Study Room
A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
Monday, February 4, 2019
7–10 pm
Hegeman 308Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
The Plague of Nations
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Williams College
*Please Note: Lecture moved to Weis Cinema
Monday, February 4, 2019
4:30–5:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaDrawn from Kolb’s first book,Terror Epidemics: Islam, Insurgency, Colonialism, Disease, “The Plague of Nations” considers political consequences of naturalizing and organicizing discourses, particularly the figure of epidemic, through the “failed state” paradigm of a putatively postcolonial era. The author will discuss the case of Kashmir in Salman Rushdie’s post-9/11 terrorism novel, Shalimar the Clown, as well as the legacies of the postwar international order in both Rushdie’s novel and in the incomplete decolonization of the Indian subcontinent. Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7203, or e-mail heinowit@bard.edu.
Meditation Group
Monday, February 4, 2019
5–6:30 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm ATo study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail jlemmens@bard.edu.
Soulful Contentions: Debates on the Soul in Post-Avicennian Islamic Thought
Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed, Lecturer in Philosophy, Purchase College, State University of New York
Monday, February 4, 2019
5:30–7 pm
Olin, Room 102What am I? Am I only the sum of my physical parts, or is there an intangible, essential aspect of myself that survives the death of my body? If there is a soul, then what is its relation to my body, and what can it experience when disembodied after death? The question of the nature of the human being, and thus her relation to the divine, was at the center of philosophical and theological discussions of the medieval Islamic world. With the Muslim theologians al-Ghazālī (d. 1111) and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210), we witness what has been termed the “Avicennian turn” in Ashʿarite theology. These thinkers, who have often been wrongly censured as the very theologians who stifled the Islamic philosophical movement (al-falsafa), engaged with the falsafa tradition so deeply that their own theology was fundamentally transformed by it.
This talk will begin with a discussion of the understanding of the human being as developed in mainstream Islamic theology, then turn to al-Ghazālī and particularly Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s engagement with the philosophy of Avicenna (d. 1037) and the fundamental shift that they introduced into Islamic theology with their acceptance of the existence of a noncorporeal soul (al-nafs). With an examination of the development of the concept of the soul in Islamic philosophy and theology, we also find ourselves challenging the very paradigm that held that orthodox theologians dealt a death blow to the falsafa movement in the 12th century. Instead, we witness that Islamic philosophy continued to thrive not only through a rich commentary tradition but also as it was absorbed and transformed in Islamic theological and mystical trends.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Religion Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7364, or e-mail rdavis@bard.edu.
Math Study Room
A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
7–10 pm
Hegeman 308Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
András Hodorog and His Hungarian Folk Music Band
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
2–4 pm
Blum HallAndrás Hodorog is the last living virtuoso among native Hungarian flute players in the Carpathian region. The “peasant flute” was once a widespread instrument in the villages of Hungary; during the 20th century, a number of collected field recordings immortalized thousands of flute melodies, including those that inspired the great Hungarian composers of the last century among them, Bartók and Kodály. A member of Moldva Region’s Hungarian minority, Hodorog has a performance style based on his extraordinarily wide palette of motivic fragments and melodic ornamentations, as well as his skill in combining these patterns in constantly changing ways.
Hodorog will be accompanied by:
Soma Salamon, folk flute player
Réka Annus, voice
Krisztián Kiss, koboz
Benke Ágoston Félix, drum, tiling, doromb
Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wslaten@bard.edu.
Poetry and Classical Myth: A Reading and Discussion
by Poet/Translator A. E. Stallings
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
5–6:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaA. E. Stallings is an American poet who studied classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford. She has published three collections of poetry—Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives—and a verse translation (in rhyming fourteeners!) of Lucretius, The Nature of Things. She has received a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and fellowships from United States Artists, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Stallings speaks and lectures widely on a variety of topics, and has been a regular faculty member at the West Chester Poetry Conference and the Sewanee Summer Writers’ Conference. Having studied in Athens, Georgia, she now lives in Athens, Greece, with her husband, the journalist John Psaropoulos, and their two argonauts, Jason and Atalanta.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7283, or e-mail romm@bard.edu.
Women's Basketball Game
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
7–9 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe women's basketball team hosts SUNY Canton. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
French Film Series
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
7:30–9:30 pm
Olin, Room 102Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Math Study Room
A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
7–10 pm
Hegeman 308Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
The Literature of World Hunger:
Dambudzo Marechera’s Anti-Colonial Starving Artist
Dr. Alys Moody, Senior Lecturer in English, Macquarie University
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
5–6 pm
RKC 103In the 1960s and 1970s, “world hunger” emerged as one of the concepts governing the relationship between rich and poor countries. In the same years, the contemporary system of world literature began to take shape. This lecture suggests that it is profitable to read these two formations together, and that doing so can yield new understandings about how the “world” emerges as a contested category in the latter half of the 20th century. Taking as its primary example the prize-winning 1978 novella House of Hunger, by Zimbabwean enfant terrible Dambudzo Marechera, it argues that the insistence of Third World writers on their and their nation’s hunger shapes and disrupts circuits of world literary exchange.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7203, or e-mail heinowit@bard.edu.
Meditation Group
Thursday, February 7, 2019
5–6:30 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm ATo study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail jlemmens@bard.edu.
Prioritizing Invasive Species Efforts: Working Smarter with NYS Tools and Data
Jennifer Dean, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
Thursday, February 7, 2019
12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2349, or e-mail ccollins@bard.edu.
Babel of the Atlantic: Language and Translatability in the Politics of Migration, Settler Colonialism, and Political Resistance
Dr. Bethany Wiggin, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, February 7, 2019
4:45–6 pm
Olin, Room 102In dialogue with oceanic history and the “blue humanities,” this talk considers the role of language (languages) and translatability in the politics of migration, settler colonialism, and political resistance, drawing on archives and case studies from the colonial American mid-Atlantic region. The area was known as the “Babel of the Atlantic” in a variety of European languages, and the textual archives of the mid-Atlantic’s manuscript and print cultures continue to offer rich sites to explore the role of language and colonial as well as anti-colonial politics. Individual cultural brokers, including translators, have been the subject of rich recent historical scholarship while often subject to their contemporaries’ curiosity and sometimes their suspicion. How might we build on these accounts of individual translators to explore the multilingualism of the archives more broadly? What research methods and collaborations might we need to make their polyglot and heterodox voices audible today? And, how might a historically rich account of Atlantic multilingualism resound today under widespread pressure on humanistic ways of knowing? Sponsored by: Translation and Translatability Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-7600, or e-mail ovoronin@bard.edu.
Experimental Thinking: Data, Reading, and Literature
A Talk by Andrew Piper
Thursday, February 7, 2019
6–7:30 pm
RKC 103As computational methods become more widespread in the arts and humanities today, thinking experimentally has an increasingly important role to play. In the social and natural sciences, to experiment means to control, isolate, and distance oneself from an observation. To experiment in this sense means putting our believes to the test. But there is an equally vibrant tradition in the arts where experimentation is seen as a form of play, creativity, and transformation. To experiment in this sense means distancing ourselves from the norms and status quo of the present, to break open the possible.
In my talk, I will explore these two traditions of experimental thinking and how they might be more productively brought together. How can computational methods allow us to think more experimentally about the literature of the past and present in the broadest possible sense? How can the testing, challenging, and rethinking of experimentation give us new views of literature’s future?
Andrew Piper is Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University. His work explores computational approaches to the study of literature and culture. He is the director of .txtLAB, a laboratory for cultural analytics at McGill, as well as author of Enumerations: Data and Literature Study (University of Chicago Press, 2018).Sponsored by: Bard Reading Initiative; Dean of the College; Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ccape@bard.edu.
Shabbat
Friday, February 8, 2019
6:30–8:30 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm AJoin us for Shabbat candle-lighting, a brief and relaxed service, and a great home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner. Whether you're a Shabbat regular, an occasional participant, or a curious first-timer, come check us out! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, or e-mail nelson@bard.edu.
Saw Kill Water Sampling
Friday, February 8, 2019
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Saw KillAs a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.
Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.
Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.
Open to everyone. Free training is available.
If interested, please contact:
Lindsey Drew
Bard Water Lab Manager
ldrew@bard.eduSponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
“Think Different”: The Silicon Valley and the Grassroots Transformation of Work and Democracy in the 20th Century
Jeannette Alden Estruth
Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Harvard University Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society
Friday, February 8, 2019
2–3:30 pm
Olin, Room 102The late 20th century saw the meteoric rise of the high-technology industry in the United States. Synonymous with this growth was the region that came to be known as California’s Silicon Valley. The Silicon Valley, however, did not just represent a place or an industry. It also encompassed a new set of ideas about American prosperity and the country’s future. Jeannette Estruth’s research traces the genesis of these ideas, and finds them in the early community movements that fought the material challenges presented by the technology industry’s rapid economic expansion. She shows that the industry’s encounters with dissenting voices produced new visions about what work meant, how economies functioned, and what democracy should look like. In doing so, Estruth argues that the local technology sector revolutionized American political thought in the late 20th century, creating a new economic era by the turn of the 21st.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Historical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7395, or e-mail culp@bard.edu.
Men's Volleyball Match
Friday, February 8, 2019
7–9 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe Raptors host Nazareth. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
The Romantic Hero
Saturday, February 9, 2019
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterConducted by Leon Botstein
Music Director of The Orchestra Now and the American Symphony Orchestra
Richard Wagner “Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung” (arr. Humperdinck)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini
Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life)
Approximate running time is 2 hours and 5 minutes.
Approximate running time is 2 hours and 5 minutes.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail boxoffice@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/The-Romantic-Hero/.
SOUND THE TRUMPET!
Jazz and the Birth of Hip-Hop
Led by Keyon Harrold
Saturday, February 9, 2019
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterGrammy Award–winning trumpeter Keyon Harrold, named “the future of the trumpet” by Wynton Marsalis, paints a picture of today’s hip-hop within the history of jazz. Featuring original compositions, classic songs from the evolution of hip-hop, and new works from Harrold’s recent album release The Mugician.
Featuring
Special guest vocalist Maimouna Youssef and guest DJ Raydar Ellis
With
Keyon Harrold - Trumpet and Vocals
Shedrick Mitchell - Keys
Nir Felder - Guitar
Charles Haynes - Drums
Burniss Travis - Bass
Sponsored by: Jazz at the Fisher Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/birth-of-hip-hop.
Christian Services
Sunday, February 10, 2019
3–5 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsYou are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu.
Math Study Room
A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
Sunday, February 10, 2019
7–10 pm
Hegeman 308Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
The Romantic Hero
Sunday, February 10, 2019
2 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterConducted by Leon Botstein
Music Director of The Orchestra Now and the American Symphony Orchestra
Richard Wagner “Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung” (arr. Humperdinck)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini
Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life)
Approximate running time is 2 hours and 5 minutes.
Approximate running time is 2 hours and 5 minutes.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail boxoffice@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/The-Romantic-Hero/.
Visiting Faculty Recital: Lera Auerbach, piano, performs Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and her 2018 composition, Labyrinth
Sunday, February 10, 2019
7–9 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/conservatory.
Math Study Room
A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
Monday, February 11, 2019
7–10 pm
Hegeman 308Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Meditation Group
Monday, February 11, 2019
5–6:30 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm ATo study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail jlemmens@bard.edu.
Policing the Greatest Generation: Carceral Controversies and Service-Member Activism, from World War to Cold War
Tejasvi Nagaraja
Postdoctoral Fellow in Global American Studies
Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University
Monday, February 11, 2019
5–6:30 pm
Olin, Room 102In examining the intersecting ties across foreign and domestic realms, scholars have considered how warfare infrastructures interact with social diversities, opportunities, and inequalities in each country. Americanist scholarship has evaluated the complex relationship between the “hard” power of national security, with “soft” realms such as the welfare state and civil rights. Yet historians have yet to adequately interpret the ties across the two spheres of “hard” power, foreign policy and criminal justice. How does our story of U.S. global power and security statecraft change when we attend to contestations over policing and incarceration, particularly as they affected service members?
From the Second World War into the early Cold War—the signal era of mass citizen-soldiering—diverse GIs and their loved ones grappled with experiences of military policing, courts-martial, incarceration, and execution as well as the civilian justice system’s treatment of service members. This talk considers popular concerns about crime and punishment, as they made a fundamental mark on American experiences of military service and foreign policy. These cases and causes took place across the U.S. South, U.S. North, and overseas, affected individuals from all three spheres, and inspired popular advocacy across all three too. This talk situates this carceral through line in the context of a larger book project—about labor, race, and international relations within the process of midcentury U.S. global militarization. This book presents U.S. service members and their loved ones as protagonists within American and transnational debates about economic, criminal justice, and geopolitical affairs. It argues that U.S. foreign policy’s statecraft was deeply entangled and embattled in relation to intersecting “domestic” social movements.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Historical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7395, or e-mail culp@bard.edu.
Biology Drop-in Tutoring
for 100- and 200-level classes
Monday, February 11, 2019
7–9 pm
RKC podsSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Math Study Room
A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
7–10 pm
Hegeman 308Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
French Film Series
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
7:30–9:30 pm
Olin, Room 102Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Biology Drop-in Tutoring
for 100- and 200-level classes
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
7–9 pm
RKC podsSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Noon Concert
Bard College Conservatory of Music students perform an hour-long program.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
12–1 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/conservatory.
Film Screening: In Whose Honor?
Film and discussion with Charlene Teters and Jay Rosenstein
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
5:30–8:30 pm
Olin, Room 102Charlene Teters was a graduate art student at the University of Illinois when she started a campaign to retire the school’s racist team mascot and was met with death threats. Emmy and Peabody Award–winning filmmaker Jay Rosenstein—professor of media and cinema studies at the University of Illinois—made In Whose Honor? to chronicle the controversy. It was aired in 1997 on PBS. Rosenstein is still receiving threats over the film.
The screening of In Whose Honor? (48 minutes) will be followed by a conversation with Teters and Rosenstein moderated by Kenneth Stern, director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate.
Free and Open to the Public
Questions: Danielle Riou at riou@bard.edu
Trailer: Watch Now
Sponsored by the Bard Center for the Study of Hate. Cosponsored by the American Studies Program, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, Difference and Media Project, Human Rights Program, and Human Rights Project.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Hate.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail riou@bard.edu.
Informational Webinar: Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability
Join and receive a $65 application fee waiver!
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
7–8 pm
Online<<<< REGISTER HERE FOR LINK >>>>
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
ABOUT
Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information.
Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team.
WHAT WILL BE COVERED?
- Overview of graduate program offerings
- Alumni success and career outcomes
- Admissions information
- Prerequisite course requirements
- Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
- Financial aid availability
- Tips for a standout application
Degree Options Include:
MS in Environmental Policy
MS in Climate Science and Policy
MBA in Sustainability
Dual Degree Options Include:
MS/JD with Pace Law School
MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching
MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability
Peace Corps Programs Include:
Master's International (before you serve)
Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Caitlin O'Donnell for further details.
For more information, call 845-758-7073.
<<<< REGISTER HERE FOR LINK >>>>Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit https://gps.bard.edu/informational-webinar-01/09/18.
Math Study Room
A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
7–10 pm
Hegeman 308Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Biology Drop-in Tutoring
for 100- and 200-level classes
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
7–9 pm
RKC podsSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
AMC 10/12B with the Bard Math Circle
A national math contest for high school students
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
4–7 pm
Reem-Kayden CenterThe AMC 10/12 is a 25-question, 75-minute, multiple choice examination in high school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem-solving skills.
The contest is paired with an engaging math talk at the high school level, presented by a Bard mathematician.
The Bard Math Circle hosts this annual event to promote a culture of mathematical problem solving and math enrichment in the mid-Hudson Valley.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-544-4369, e-mail jwood@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardmathcircle.org.
The Blithewood Ensemble: Teresa Buchholz, voice, Erika Switzer, piano, and Marka Gustavsson, viola
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
7–9 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingChamber music by Charles Martin Loeffler, Frank Bridge, Stephen Coxe, Richard Strauss, Joseph Marx and Johannes Brahms.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail gustavss@bard.edu.
Meditation Group
Thursday, February 14, 2019
5–6:30 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm ATo study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail jlemmens@bard.edu.
Biology Drop-in Tutoring
for 100- and 200-level classes
Thursday, February 14, 2019
7–9 pm
RKC podsSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Water and Climate in Social-Ecological Systems: Collaborations in Research, Art, and Science Communication
Zion Klos, Marist College
Thursday, February 14, 2019
12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2349, or e-mail ccollins@bard.edu.
Bard College Conservatory Concerto Competition: Vocal Arts Preliminary Round
Thursday, February 14, 2019
7–10 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingStudents in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program audition for the final round of the 2019 Concerto Competition.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/conservatory.
Shabbat
Friday, February 15, 2019
6:30–8:30 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm AJoin us for Shabbat candle-lighting, a brief and relaxed service, and a great home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner. Whether you're a Shabbat regular, an occasional participant, or a curious first-timer, come check us out! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, or e-mail nelson@bard.edu.
Lab Safety Training
Friday, February 15, 2019
2–3 pm
RKC 102Required for all lab use (with the exception of lab courses).Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.
For more information, call 845-752-2419, or e-mail mnorman@bard.edu.
Pink Basketball Doubleheader - Breast Cancer Awareness Day
Friday, February 15, 2019
5–9 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe basketball teams host Ithaca. The women's game starts at 5, and the men's game follows at 7. Both Bard teams will accessorize in pink, and donations, a raffle and a bake sale will raise money for Miles of Hope, an organization which helps local families who've been impacted by cancer. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Conservatory Concerto Competition: Undergraduate Preliminary Round
Conservatory undergraduates compete for a place in the Concerto Competition Finals on February 17.
Saturday, February 16, 2019
10 am – 3 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/conservatory.
Bard MBA in Sustainability: February Residency Visit
Join Us to experience the Bard MBA program in action!
Saturday, February 16, 2019
12–6 pm
LMHQ 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10038Bard MBA February Residency Visit: RSVP HERE
During the Saturday of each Residency Weekend we invite visiting prospective MBA students to:
- sit in on a first or second year MBA class
- meet with Program Director Eban Goodstein + admissions staff
- have lunch with current MBA students
- participate in the Bard MBA Community Meeting
Location: LMHQ 150 Broadway NY, NY 10038Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/mba/.
Women's and Men's Basketball Doubleheader
Saturday, February 16, 2019
2–6 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe basketball teams host Rochester Institute of Technology. The women's game starts at 2, and the men's game follows at 4. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Schubert’s Winterreise
Saturday, February 16, 2019
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterFranz Schubert Die Winterreise (The Winter Journey)
Rufus Müller, tenor
Kayo Iwama, piano
Days before his death from syphilis in November 1828, Franz Schubert was putting the finishing touches on this, the most famous of all song cycles. The journey of the title takes the protagonist from anger to pain, with startling detours into remembered joy and hope, then finally from despair to death.
Approximate running time is 75 minutes.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/schubert-winterreise/.
Christian Services
Sunday, February 17, 2019
3–5 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsYou are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu.
Math Study Room
A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
Sunday, February 17, 2019
7–10 pm
Hegeman 308Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Biology Drop-in Tutoring
for 100- and 200-level classes
Sunday, February 17, 2019
7–9 pm
RKC podsSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition
Final Round
Sunday, February 17, 2019
5:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterFinalists from the Bard Conservatory compete for the opportunity to perform with the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, and the American Symphony Orchestra.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/BCOM-concerto-competition/.
Math Study Room
A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
Monday, February 18, 2019
7–10 pm
Hegeman 308Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Meditation Group
Monday, February 18, 2019
5–6:30 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm ATo study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail jlemmens@bard.edu.
Biology Drop-in Tutoring
for 100- and 200-level classes
Monday, February 18, 2019
7–9 pm
RKC podsSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Agents of Faith: Ex Votos, Votive Offerings, and Beyond
Ittai Weinryb
Associate Professor, Bard Graduate Center
Monday, February 18, 2019
5:30–7 pm
Olin, Room 202Throughout time and across cultures people have made objects and offered them as acts of faith. Known as votives, these objects are expressions of fundamental human needs and concerns. They may be offered as tokens of desire or gratitude, to make a pledge or fulfill a vow, to preserve a memory or commemorate a miracle. The lecture will explore varieties of votive giving in order to unpack the spiritual concerns and material solutions votives have to offer.Sponsored by: Art History Program, and Asian Studies Program; Religion Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7364, or e-mail rdavis@bard.edu.
A Reading by Bard Fiction Prize Winner Greg Jackson
Monday, February 18, 2019
7–9 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumGreg Jackson, Bard Fiction Prize recipient and writer in residence at Bard College, will read from recent work. The reading is free and open to the public.
Jackson received the Bard Fiction Prize for his debut collection of short stories, Prodigals (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016). In his lyrical and unflinching stories, Jackson maps the degradations of contemporary life with insight and grace and takes the reader from a drug-addled weekend in Palm Springs to the remote provincial compound of a reclusive French tennis champion and places in between. The New York Times has called the collection a book “so bold and perceptive that it delivers a contact high.”
Jackson’s fiction and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, Vice, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of Virginia and has received fellowships and residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center and MacDowell Colony. A finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction, he was chosen by Granta in 2017 for their decennial list of Best Young American Novelists. In 2016 he received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award for Prodigals. Before turning to fiction, Jackson worked as an investigative journalist in Washington, D.C.
For more information, call 845-758-7412, or e-mail primoff@bard.edu.
Math Study Room
A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
7–10 pm
Hegeman 308Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
French Film Series
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
7:30–9:30 pm
Olin, Room 102Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Biology Drop-in Tutoring
for 100- and 200-level classes
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
7–9 pm
RKC podsSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Wilmer Wilson IV
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
5–6 pm
Fisher Studio Arts Building, Seminar RoomWilmer Wilson IV (b. 1989) is critically recognized for performative investigations into the marginalization of, and the care for, Black bodies in everyday social relation. He is the recipient of the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage Fellowship and the American Academy in Rome Fellowship. Wilson’s work has been presented at the New Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; American University Museum, Washington, DC; Birmingham (AL) Museum of Art; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; and Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper, Belgium. Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail mconway@bard.edu.
Paraguay through the Lens of the Peace Corps
With Eric Benjamin Gordon
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
6–7:30 pm
Olin, Room 203Bard alumnus (Class of 2014) and current U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer Eric Benjamin Gordon will speak about his current work and experiences in Paraguay. One of the lesser-known and poorer countries of South America, Paraguay also boasts the unique cultural and lingual distinction of having over 90 percent of its population speak an indigenous language. This talk will cover some important factors in the history, language, and culture of Paraguay, all of which contribute to its ranking as the “happiest country” in the world by the Gallup Poll and Peace Corps Worldwide. There will also be a Peace Corps recruiter present to provide materials and answer questions about the organization. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; LAIS Program; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7382, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Open House in New York City
Attendees receive a $65 application fee waiver! RSVP: HERE
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
6:30–8:30 pm
LMHQ NYCJoin us in New York City for an Open House hosted by the Bard MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy.
Attendees will hear from a panel of current students and alumni of Bard's MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy. Our Panel of student/alum experts will discuss topics such as:
- career outcomes -- how the MS degrees at CEP and MBA in Sustainability have led to impactful sustainability careers
- the program experience -- highlights on courses and key features at Bard (including the NYCLab course and the CEP internship)
- how to get the most of your graduate school journey -- career development + student engagement opportunities at Bard
- how to make your application stand out -- tips on perfecting your application materials, advice on getting through the graduate school admissions process
Our Admissions staff will also be on hand to provide information on the application process and answer questions regarding:
- how to complete and submit your application
- financial aid opportunities
- successfully completing program prerequisites
Event Location: This event will be held at LMHQ, 150 Broadway NY, NY Floor 20
Email Caitlin O'Donnell with any additional questions.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail codonnel@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/gps/.
Math Study Room
A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
7–10 pm
Hegeman 308Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Biology Drop-in Tutoring
for 100- and 200-level classes
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
7–9 pm
RKC podsSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Speaker Series: Julia Bryan-Wilson and Jeannine Tang, in Conversation with Sharon Hayes
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
5–7 pm
CCS Bard, Classroom 102Through the Speaker Series, CCS Bard brings distinguished artists, scholars, and curators to campus to present on their work. Speaker Series talks are held in Classroom 102 at CCS Bard unless otherwise noted. All talks are free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/events/372-julia-bryan-wilson-and-jeannine-tang-in-conversation-with-sharon-hayes.
Tough Talk: Sarah Schulman
Conflict Is Not Abuse
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
6–8 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumOverstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between conflict and abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. Her work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning. Rooting the problem of escalation in negative group relationships, Schulman illuminates the ways in which cliques, communities, families, and religious, racial, and national groups bond through the refusal to change their self-concept. She illustrates how supremacy behavior and traumatized behavior resemble each other, through a shared inability to tolerate difference.
Sarah Schulman is a novelist, nonfiction writer, playwright, screenwriter, and AIDS historian. Her most recent book is the novel Maggie Terry, a tale of murder and intrigue.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Men's Volleyball Match
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
7–9 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe Raptors host CCNY. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Meditation Group
Thursday, February 21, 2019
5–6:30 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm ATo study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail jlemmens@bard.edu.
Biology Drop-in Tutoring
for 100- and 200-level classes
Thursday, February 21, 2019
7–9 pm
RKC podsSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Senior Project Festival
Thursday, February 21, 2019
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterAn evening of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater and Performance Program.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/SPROJ-festival-2019/.
Energetic Mechanisms for Coping with Environmental Change
Sonya Auer, Williams College
Thursday, February 21, 2019
12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2349, or e-mail ccollins@bard.edu.
American Exceptionalism on Steroids: Violating Human Rights at Home, from Obama to Trump
A Talk with Jamil Dakwar, ACLU Human Rights Program Director
Thursday, February 21, 2019
12:30–1:30 pm
Olin, Room 101Jamil Dakwar (@jdakwar) is the director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Human Rights Program (HRP), which is dedicated to holding the U.S. government accountable to its international human rights obligations and commitments. He leads a team of lawyers and advocates who use a human rights framework to complement existing ACLU legal and legislative advocacy primarily in the areas of counterterrorism, racial justice, immigrants’ rights, women’s rights, and criminal and juvenile justice. HRP conducts human rights research, documentation, and public education, as well as engages in litigation and advocacy before U.S. courts and international human rights bodies.Sponsored by: Human Rights Project.
For more information, call 854-857-5518, or e-mail riou@bard.edu.
Flesh, Fur, Forgetting: Creaturely Remains in Coetzee and de Bruyckere
Kari Weil
University Professor of Letters, Wesleyan University
Thursday, February 21, 2019
4:45–6:15 pm
Olin, Room 102The terms “creature” and “creaturely” have newly received attention in the field of animal studies, bringing awareness to the shared status of human and non-human animals as vulnerable beings whose lives may be shed of historical agency and abandoned, in Eric Santner’s words, to the “mute thingness” of matter. But is the creaturely necessarily mute? In this paper I turn to recent collaborations between the taxidermy artist, Berlinde de Bruyckere and the writer, J.M. Coetzee, to consider how and whether creaturely memory and history might speak otherwise and what it might mean, in the words of Walter Benjamin, “to pick up the forgotten” from animals.Sponsored by: Philosophy Program; the Thinking Animals Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-7280, or e-mail jelliott@bard.edu.
The Enduring False Promise of Preventive War
A James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series Event
Thursday, February 21, 2019
6–7:30 pm
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International AffairsScott Silverstone of West Point – The U.S. Military Academy will discuss his new book, From Hitler’s Germany to Saddam's Iraq: The Enduring False Promise of Preventive War, in conversation with Malia Du Mont of Bard College. This event, which is part of BGIA’s James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series, is cosponsored and hosted by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and supported by Foreign Affairs magazine. The event is free and open to the public by RSVP.
This book boldly challenges conventional wisdom about the value of preventive war. Beginning with the rise of German power and the French and British response to the Rhineland crisis leading to World War II, Silverstone overturns the common impulse to point an accusing finger at British leadership for its alleged naïveté, willful blindness, or outright cowardice. Arguing against the belief that Britain could have contained Germany and avoided war if it had used force when Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland, the author uses this dramatic event to wrestle with a general strategic problem that has broad relevance for our current foreign policy dilemmas. Silverstone argues that the Rhineland crisis is a critical case for studying a central dynamic of world history—power shifts among states—and the preventive war temptation that power shifts frequently produce. There has been surging interest in the idea of preventive war, an interest stimulated by the Bush administration’s articulation of the “preemption doctrine” in 2002 and the disastrous invasion of Iraq in 2003, and by frustration over the difficulty of preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons by such states as North Korea and Iran. Clarifying the way we think about preventive war, the author analyzes the enduring strategic flaws in preventive war that must inform how political leaders and the public think about this option as a means of dealing with shifting threats in the modern world. Offering a radically conservative argument for when to wage war, this persuasive book will be essential reading for policy makers and concerned citizens alike.
Scott A. Silverstone is an ASU Future of War Fellow at New America and a professor of international relations at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Malia Du Mont is chief of staff to the president of Bard College, where she teaches grand strategy. She is an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve.Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jtinneny@bard.edu.
Shabbat
Friday, February 22, 2019
6:30–8:30 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm AJoin us for Shabbat candle-lighting, a brief and relaxed service, and a great home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner. Whether you're a Shabbat regular, an occasional participant, or a curious first-timer, come check us out! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, or e-mail nelson@bard.edu.
Senior Project Festival
Friday, February 22, 2019
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterAn evening of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater and Performance Program.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/SPROJ-festival-2019/.
Men's Volleyball Match
Friday, February 22, 2019
7–9 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe Raptors host MIT. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Senior Project Festival
Saturday, February 23, 2019
7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterAn evening of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater and Performance Program.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/SPROJ-festival-2019/.
Senior Project Festival
Saturday, February 23, 2019
2 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterAn evening of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater and Performance Program.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/SPROJ-festival-2019/.
Men's Volleyball Matches
Saturday, February 23, 2019
10 am – 4 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe Raptors host MIT and Colby-Sawyer. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
Christian Services
Sunday, February 24, 2019
3–5 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsYou are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu.
Math Study Room
A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
Sunday, February 24, 2019
7–10 pm
Hegeman 308Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Biology Drop-in Tutoring
for 100- and 200-level classes
Sunday, February 24, 2019
7–9 pm
RKC podsSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Senior Project Festival
Sunday, February 24, 2019
4 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterAn evening of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater and Performance Program.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/SPROJ-festival-2019/.
Math Study Room
A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
Monday, February 25, 2019
7–10 pm
Hegeman 308Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Meditation Group
Monday, February 25, 2019
5–6:30 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm ATo study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail jlemmens@bard.edu.
Biology Drop-in Tutoring
for 100- and 200-level classes
Monday, February 25, 2019
7–9 pm
RKC podsSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
A Home at the End of Empire: Tropes of Lateness in James Joyce and V. S. Naipaul
Philip Tai-Hang Tsang, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Cincinnati
Monday, February 25, 2019
5–6 pm
RKC 103The narrative of the “end of empire” has conditioned the ways we think about British imperialism and its legacy. But how did colonial subjects comprehend the demise of an empire that did not belong to them? In this talk, I contend that the British Empire has left behind not only an abundance of material relics but also an inventory of feelings and attachments that could not be easily relinquished. For many peripheral writers whose subjectivities were shaped by imperial cultures and institutions, empire deferred its proper ending even after British rule had officially ended. Their works exhibit what I call “lateness,” a nonchronological, retrogressive experience of time specific to the imperial periphery. Lateness arrests the linear progression from colonial to postcolonial, from empire to nation, and from subject to citizen. To illustrate lateness as a historical experience and an aesthetic form, I carry out a comparative reading of the “Ithaca” episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) and V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas (1961). Published on the eve of decolonization, both novels look back to the imperial past as the site of a tense interplay of attachment and exclusion. By approaching the British Empire as a structure of desire that outlived its political lifespan, this talk gives greater precision to the temporal dimension of imperialism, and offers a new framework for the periodization of 20th-century anglophone literature.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7203, or e-mail heinowit@bard.edu.
Math Study Room
A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
7–10 pm
Hegeman 308Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
French Film Series
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
7:30–9:30 pm
Olin, Room 102Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Biology Drop-in Tutoring
for 100- and 200-level classes
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
7–9 pm
RKC podsSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Noon Concert
Bard College Conservatory of Music students perform an hour-long program.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
12–1 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/conservatory.
Math Study Room
A place to work on math homework, study with classmates, or speak to a math tutor
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
7–10 pm
Hegeman 308Sponsored by: Learning Commons; Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7811, or e-mail dnewsome@bard.edu.
Biology Drop-in Tutoring
for 100- and 200-level classes
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
7–9 pm
RKC podsSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Men's Lacrosse Game
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
5–7 pm
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer ComplexThe Raptors open the 2019 season against SUNY Oneonta. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail jsheahan@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bardathletics.com.
A Conjunctions Reading with Martine Bellen, Greg Jackson, Lynn Schmeidler, & Dave King
Unnameable Books celebrates the Curiosity issue of Conjunctions
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
7–9 pm
Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238Conjunctions celebrates its current issue, Conjunctions:71, A Cabinet of Curiosity, with readings by contributors Martine Bellen, Greg Jackson, Lynn Schmeidler, and Dave King, introduced by Conjunctions senior editor Michael Sarinsky, at Unnameable Books (600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn). Copies of the issue will be available for sale and signing.
Longtime contributor Martine Bellen will read from “An Anatomy of Curiosity.” Writers new to Conjunctions include 2019 Bard Fiction Prize winner Greg Jackson (“A Curiosity of Spies”), Lynn Schmeidler (“The Wanting Beach”) and Dave King (“Once More to the Beach”).
The literary journal Conjunctions, edited by novelist Bradford Morrow and published by Bard College, has been a living notebook for provocative, risk-taking, rigorously composed fiction, poetry, and narrative nonfiction since 1981. As PEN America has it: “Conjunctions is one of our most distinctive and valuable literary magazines: innovative, daring, indispensable, and beautiful.”
In addition to work by the readers, the Curiosity issue includes contributions by Joyce Carol Oates, Lauren Green, Ann Beattie, Greg Bossert, Can Xue, Stephen O'Connor, Gerard Malanga, Brandon Hobson, Jeffrey Ford, Maud Casey, Catherine Imbriglio, Kelsey Peterson, Madeline Kearin, Eleni Sikelianos, A. D. Jameson, Bin Ramke, Samuel R. Delany, Laura van den Berg, Nathaniel Mackey, Matt Bell, Diane Ackerman, Joanna Scott, Jeffrey Ford, Can Xue, Quintan Ana Wikswo, Elizabeth Hand, Gregory Norman Bossert, Julianna Baggott, William Lychack, and Sarah Blackman.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Martine Bellen is the author of nine collections of poetry and three opera libretti. Her most recent poetry collection is This Amazing Cage of Light: New and Selected (Spuyten Duyvil).Greg Jackson is the author of Prodigals (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), for which he received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, the 2019 Bard Fiction Prize, and was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, VQR, Tin House, and Vice, among other places. In 2014, he was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction.
Lynn Schmeidler is a prose writer and poet. Her work has appeared in such publications as The Awl, Barrow Street, Boston Review, Fence, The Georgia Review and The Southern Review, as well as numerous anthologies. Schmeidler has published one poetry book, History of Gone (Veliz Books, shortlisted for the 2016 Sexton Poetry Prize) and two chapbooks, Curiouser & Curiouser (winner of the 2013 Grayson Books Chapbook Contest) and Wrack Lines (Grayson Books). She received a Tennessee Williams scholarship in fiction from The Sewanee Writers’ Conference, is a Pushcart Prize nominee in fiction, a Best of the Net nominee in poetry, and has had work listed under Other Distinguished Stories in Best American Short Stories. She is currently completing a novella and short story collection.
Dave King’s novel The Ha-Ha (Little, Brown) won the 2006 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His poems and stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Fence, and other venues; and his story “The Stamp Collector” is included in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018. A memoir about his 1974 travels is in the works.
Sponsored by: Conjunctions.For more information, call 845-758-7054, e-mail conjunctions@bard.edu, or visit http://www.conjunctions.com.
Meditation Group
Thursday, February 28, 2019
5–6:30 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm ATo study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail jlemmens@bard.edu.
Biology Drop-in Tutoring
for 100- and 200-level classes
Thursday, February 28, 2019
7–9 pm
RKC podsSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Unexpected Impacts of Land-based Solar Arrays: Novel Habitat Heterogeneity Formation and Its Influence on Plant–Soil Interactions
Seeta Sistla, Hampshire College
Thursday, February 28, 2019
12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2349, or e-mail ccollins@bard.edu.
Maré de Dentro: Life in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas
Panel and Reception
Thursday, February 28, 2019
5–6:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaA panel discussion will be held in connection with the Maré de Dentro exhibition Life in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas, currently on view in the Campus Center. A reception follows.Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Art History Program; Bard Center for the Study of Hate; Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Global and International Studies Program; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Program; LAIS Program; Photography Program; Political Studies Program; Sociology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7218, or e-mail pklein@bard.edu.
The Novel Before the Nation-State: Robinson Crusoe and Early Global Fiction
Stephanie DeGooyer, Assistant Professor of English, Williamette University
Thursday, February 28, 2019
5–6 pm
Olin, Room 102Between 1685 and 1710, over 60,000 migrants from France and Germany fled to England in search of settlement. This wave of migration produced some of the first legislation to grant national rights to foreigners in England. I argue that this migration was also crucial to the development of the novel. Early novelists were attentive to the rights of foreigners and developed new narrative techniques and generic conventions to offer more expansive—what I call “paranational”—conceptions of national community.
In this talk I tell a new and more transnational story about the novel as a genre, a story that makes the 18th century pivotal for debates about global fiction. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) is an important example because it has long been thought to be quintessentially English; to exemplify both the English novel and the English subject. Yet this reading contains crucial oversights. Defoe uses Crusoe’s uncertain status as the son of a foreigner to explore intercolonial migration among the English, Spanish, and Portuguese empires, thereby rendering England peripheral to larger and more global investments. Defoe, I argue, developed the novel as a way to explore structures of mobility and capitalism in an emergent global age.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7203, or e-mail heinowit@bard.edu.