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The gardens at Montgomery Place once featured decorative garden ornaments and furniture, displaying a wide mix of styles, alongside the plants. Examples of statuary, furniture, potted plants, and hanging baskets that have been documented in early photographs of Montgomery Place will be presented in the exhibition.
Exhibition produced in partnership with and curated by Barbara Israel and her staff from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Funding provided by the A. C. Israel Foundation and Plymouth Hill Foundation.
For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail montgomeryplace@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/montgomeryplace.
Visit the Montgomery Place website to learn more about special tours, events, and upcoming exhibitions.
Please note: On June 8, the mansion will be closed for private tours at 1:30 and 2:30.
For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail montgomeryplace@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/montgomeryplace/.
Saturday, June 22, 2019 – Sunday, October 13, 2019
Hessel Museum of Art
Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/528-leidy-churchman-crocodile.
Saturday, June 22, 2019 – Sunday, October 13, 2019
Hessel Museum of Art
Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/529-nil-yalter-exile-is-a-hard-job.
Saturday, June 22, 2019 – Sunday, October 13, 2019
CCS Bard Galleries
Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/530-acting-out-works-from-the-marieluise-hessel-collection.
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Bard High School Early College Manhattan, 525 E. Houston St., New York, NY 10002
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdG8AQzvjGpJJ2L33dWDsbvWKbh-WkqgJfFJYsSo5Hn2frE8g/viewform.
Saturday, September 7, 2019
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts
The women's tennis team hosts Hartwick in its home opener. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Saturday, September 7, 2019
The men's soccer 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Bread and Puppet Theater
Saturday, September 7, 2019
Montgomery Place, Front Lawn
Grounds open at 2 pm
Performance begins at 3 pm
Estimated run time: 60 minutes, no intermission
Peter Schumann’s celebrated Bread and Puppet Theater brings the 2019 edition of its legendary activist circus pageant to the fields of Montgomery Place. Featuring more than 20 live puppeteers, musicians, and performers, the event concludes with sharing of the company’s famous home-baked rye bread.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bread-and-puppet-theater/.
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
in Conversation with Joe Donahue of WAMC
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/salman-rushdie/.
Wednesday, September 11, 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 within Classroom 102 at CCS Bard unless otherwise noted. All talks are free and open to the public.
Lucy will chart the field of Exhibition Histories, in relation to the practice of Curatorial Studies and the discipline of Art History. She will address parameters and possibilities, while asking: How have we got here? And where might we go?
Lucy Steeds is Reader in Art Theory and Exhibition Histories at University of the Arts London (UAL). As Senior Research Fellow for Afterall at Central Saint Martins (CSM), she leads on the Exhibition Histories book series – published in collaboration with CCS Bard and Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong – and associated projects. She is core to the teaching team for the research-based masters in Art: Exhibition Studies at CSM and, as Convenor of the Research Network at UAL, she leads on doctoral training across the university. Lucy’s publications include a trilogy of anthologies with CCS Bard and the LUMA Foundation (co-editor, Curating after the Global, 2019; How Institutions Think, 2017; and The Curatorial Conundrum, 2016) and, in the Documents of Contemporary Art series, Exhibition (editor, 2014) – all with The MIT Press. Her curatorial projects include ‘Exhibition Histories and Afrofictions’ (2017), as part of Nkule Mabaso’s ‘Decolonisation and the Scopic Regime’ programme at the Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town.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/425-lucy-steeds-curatorial-studies-and-exhibition-histories.
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
The women's volleyball team has returned from California, and the first home match of the season is against Lehman College. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm A
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation (please arrive 10 minutes early). Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions (over cookies and tea).Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-657-1934, or e-mail jlemmens@bard.edu.
Friday, September 13, 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.
Friday, September 13, 2019
Montgomery Place, Mansion
A group of young misfits who call themselves The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on a quest to find a legendary pirate's long-lost treasure. This classic favorite is a delight for all ages.
Grounds open at 6 pm
Film screening begins at 7:30 pm
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/the-goonies/.
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
The Orchestra Now's 2019–20 season opens with Copland’s “Great American Symphony,” along with Strauss’s romantic set of songs, which he gave to his wife on their wedding day.
Leon Botstein, conductor
Paulina Swierczek ’19, soprano
Galina Ustvolskaya Symphonic Poem No. 1
R. Strauss Four Songs, Op. 27
Copland Symphony No. 3
Estimated run time: 2 hoursSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail boxoffice@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/copland-and-strauss/.
Saturday, September 14, 2019
The women's volleyball team hosts a tri-match. The schedule is as follows:
Farmingdale State vs. Bard, 12 p.m.
Farmingdale State vs. Mitchell, 2 p.m.
Mitchell vs. Bard, 4 p.m.
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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Saturday, September 14, 2019
The men's soccer team hosts Hartwick College. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Music of the Americas
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Montgomery Place, Mansion
The modern-day torchbearers of the golden age of Latin music, Los Hacheros, bring their Bamba from Brooklyn to kick off a day of music and communion on the river bank. Headlining the event is the magnificent Martha Redbone, one of today’s most vital voices in American Roots music. From Brooklyn via the hills of Kentucky, with African-American and Cherokee heritage, Redbone broadens the boundaries of Americana with “a brilliant collision of cultures” (The New Yorker).
Curated by Isabel Soffer/Livesounds.org
Sponsored by: Fisher Center at Montgomery Place.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/music-of-the-americas/.
Sunday, September 15, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
The Orchestra Now's 2019–20 season opens with Copland’s “Great American Symphony,” along with Strauss’s romantic set of songs, which he gave to his wife on their wedding day.
Leon Botstein, conductor
Paulina Swierczek ’19, soprano
Galina Ustvolskaya Symphonic Poem No. 1
R. Strauss Four Songs, Op. 27
Copland Symphony No. 3
Estimated run time: 2 hoursSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail boxoffice@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/copland-and-strauss/.
Monday, September 16, 2019
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-7453, e-mail civic@bard.edu, or visit https://donate.nybc.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/264550.
Monday, September 16, 2019
Olin, Room 205
Professor Kathryn Lofton (Yale University) will lead a panel discussion with Profs. Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed, Bruce Chilton, and Shai Secunda on “From Om to Oprah, Talmud to Trump: Reflections on the Scope and Significance of Academic Religious Studies.”
Pizza will be served.Sponsored by: Religion Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7389, or e-mail ssecunda@bard.edu.
Monday, September 16, 2019
Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
Join Africana Studies for its new year kick off. The evening festivities will feature a performance by three South African Jazz greats, vocalists Nonhlanhla Kheswa and Melanie Scholtz and pianist Hilton Schilder. Their visit to Bard College is made possible through a longstanding partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center, which is hosting "The South African Songbook" in celebration of 25 years of democracy in South Africa.
No tickets are required. Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; Global and International Studies Program; Historical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail dthompso@bard.edu.
Monday, September 16, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
The Photography Program and the Human Rights Project are pleased to announce that Alec Soth will be giving a lecture at Weis Cinema on Monday, September 16. The lecture will begin at 6pm and is free and open to the public.
Alec Soth is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2008, Soth created Little Brown Mushroom, a multimedia enterprise focused on visual storytelling. Soth is represented by Sean Kelly in New York, Weinstein Hammons Gallery in Minneapolis, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, and Loock Galerie in Berlin, and is a member of Magnum Photos.Sponsored by: Human Rights Project; Photography Program.
For more information, call 410-952-1135, or e-mail bfalk@bard.edu.
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Campus Center, Lawn
Looking for ways to get involved on campus? Come to the Fall Club Fair to see a sampling of Student Clubs, learn what they do, and sign-up to be a member on the spot!
Join us on Wednesday, September 18, from 5-7pm. Weather permitting, clubs will be outside of the Campus Center, on the North Lawn (near the Red Circle structure). The rain location will be inside the Campus Center.
After joining some clubs, continue the tradition at BUDGET FORUM - 7 pm in the Campus Center MPR. Support your new clubs and others you might be interested in. Your vote could help determine their budget!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
The women's soccer team hosts SUNY New Paltz. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, the Bard Farm, Bard EATS, Bard Center for Civic Engagement, Bard Food Lab part of the Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water, Bard Office of Sustainability, The Green Fund, and Heermance Farm.
For more information, call 845-758-7878, or e-mail arendt@bard.edu.
The Evergreen Archipelago:
Jeremy Kirchman, NYS Education Department
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Booth Ferris Foundation Terrace Pod 222
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Thursday, September 19, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
THURMAN BARKER and TIME FACTOR, PRESENTS "SOUTH SIDE SUITE" 2017. Two movements from his orchestra piece played by his quintet Time Factor which was formed specifically for this music. James Emery on guitar, Noah Barker on piano, Paavo Carey on woodwinds, Dean Torrey on bass and Thurman Barker on drums, xylophone and percussion. The music was inspired by Thurman's musical experience growing up in Chicago.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail tbarker@bard.edu.
Sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, the Bard Farm, Bard EATS, Bard Center for Civic Engagement, Bard Food Lab part of the Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water, Bard Office of Sustainability, The Green Fund, and Heermance Farm.
For more information, call 845-758-7878, or e-mail arendt@bard.edu.
Felicia Keesing
Friday, September 20, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Friday, September 20, 2019
Montgomery Place, Mansion
In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Woodstock Festival of 1969, see the (mostly) true story behind the legendary event across the river from where it all happened. In Ang Lee’s film, with a screenplay by Hudson Valley resident James Schamus, A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.
Grounds open at 6 pm
Film screening begins at 7:30 pm
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/taking-woodstock/.
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Olin Hall
An inter-collegiate debate tournament featuring participants from colleges and universities all over the Northeastern United States, as well as from Bard’s national and international networks. Debate rounds will run all day Saturday and Sunday in Olin. The final round – featuring the top 4 teams of the tournament – will be open to the public: Sunday, Sept 22, 5:00p, in the Olin Auditorium. For more information, please visit the tournament event page on Facebook.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-752-4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit https://debate.bard.edu.
Saturday, September 21, 2019
The women's volleyball team hosts a tri-match. The schedule is as follows:
Mount St. Mary vs. Bard, 11 a.m.
Mount St. Mary vs. Hartwick, 1 p.m.
Hartwick vs. Bard, 3 p.m.
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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Saturday, September 21, 2019
The men's and women's cross country teams hosts the Second Annual Fred Pavlich Invitational. More than 20 teams will participate. The men's 8K event starts at 11 a.m., and the women's 6K event follows at noon. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts
The men's tennis team hosts Vassar. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Sunday, September 22, 2019
Olin Hall
An inter-collegiate debate tournament featuring participants from colleges and universities all over the Northeastern United States, as well as from Bard’s national and international networks. Debate rounds will run all day Saturday and Sunday in Olin. The final round – featuring the top 4 teams of the tournament – will be open to the public: Sunday, Sept 22, 5:00p, in the Olin Auditorium. For more information, please visit the tournament event page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/347962635914296/Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-752-4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit https://debate.bard.edu.
Sunday, September 22, 2019
LMHQ 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10038
During the Saturday or Sunday 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 https://gps.bard.edu/residency-visit-9-22-19.
Sunday, September 22, 2019
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts
The women's tennis team hosts SUNY Delhi. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Sunday, September 22, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C# minor, WTC I, No. 4
Copland: Variations (1930)
Beethoven: Sonata No 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110
Schubert: "Wanderer" Fantasie, Op. 15, D.760
Chopin: Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
In a career spanning more than five decades, Robert Silverman performed in concert halls throughout North America, Europe, the Far East and Australia. Under the batons of renowned conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, John Eliot Gardiner, and Kiril Kondrashin, he appeared with orchestras worldwide, including the Chicago Symphony, the Sydney Symphony, the BBC Symphony, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestras, as well as every major orchestra in Canada. He was a faculty member at the University of British Columbia for thirty years, including a 5-year term as Director of the School of Music. A long-standing Steinway artist, he is frequently heard on the CBC and has recorded for EMI, Stereophile, Marquis Classics, OrpheumMasters and Isomike.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Master Class: Robert Silverman, piano
Monday, September 23, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
In a career spanning more than five decades, Robert Silverman performed in concert halls throughout North America, Europe, the Far East and Australia. Under the batons of renowned conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, John Eliot Gardiner, and Kiril Kondrashin, he appeared with orchestras worldwide, including the Chicago Symphony, the Sydney Symphony, the BBC Symphony, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestras, as well as every major orchestra in Canada. He was a faculty member at the University of British Columbia for thirty years, including a 5-year term as Director of the School of Music. A long-standing Steinway artist, he is frequently heard on the CBC and has recorded for EMI, Stereophile, Marquis Classics, OrpheumMasters and Isomike.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Demetra Kasimis
Monday, September 23, 2019
Olin, Room 102
Does Plato’s Republic enact a conspiracy? Ostensibly, the impetus for imagining a political regime radically different from the democracy of the discussion is a desire to illustrate a concept (justice), not to overthrow a real political order. On second glance, the Republic takes place during the Peloponnesian War, when conspiratorial zeal consumed Athens. Fears of secret power and political instability erupt into and shape the stylistics of the narrative, provoking doubt about what the dialogue claims it is doing and proposing. Whether we are made privy to a conversation about a political world that may never exist or exposed to a strategy for discussing revolution undetected remains unresolved. The Republic invites a hermeneutics of suspicion, drawing us into a democratic culture of mistrust and the seductions of conspiratorial thinking. As it tropes conspiracy, the Republic provides a searching, immanent, and still-relevant critique of a democracy undergoing what we might today call authoritarian drift. Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7280, or e-mail jelliott@bard.edu.
Monday, September 23, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
On Monday, September 23, at 6:00 p.m. in the Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito ’60 Auditorium, Dinaw Mengestu reads from his work. Presented by the Written Arts Program and introduced by Richard B. Fisher Family Professor in Literature and Writing Mary Caponegro, the reading is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Books will be available for sale, courtesy of Oblong Books & Music.
Dinaw Mengestu came to the United States with his family from Ethiopia at the age of two. Since earning his MFA at Columbia University in 2005, he has published three novels, all of them New York Times Notable Books, including How to Read the Air (Riverhead, 2010), The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Riverhead, 2007), and his most recent, All Our Names (Knopf, 2014). A 2012 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Mengestu also earned a 2007 National Book Foundation Under 35 Award and was included on the New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” list in 2010. He is the recipient of a Lannan Fiction Fellowship, Guardian First Book Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among numerous other awards. His work has been translated into more than 15 languages. Mengestu is also a freelance journalist who has reported from sub-Saharan Africa about life in Darfur, northern Uganda, and eastern Congo, and has had his work published in Harper’s, Granta, Rolling Stone, the New Yorker, and the New York Times. He has taught writing at Brooklyn College and Georgetown University and is currently the director of Bard’s Written Arts Program.
PRAISE FOR DINAW MENGESTU
“You can’t turn the pages fast enough, and when you’re done, your first impulse is to go back to the beginning and start over. . . . While questions of race, ethnicity, and point of origin do crop up repeatedly in Mengestu’s fiction, they are merely his raw materials, the fuel with which he so artfully—but never didactically—kindles disruptive, disturbing stories exploring the puzzles of identity, place, and human connection.” —Malcolm Jones, The New York Times
“Mengestu portrays the intersection of cultures experienced by the immigrant with unsettling perception. . . . [He] evokes contrasting landscapes but focuses on his characters . . . who are all caught in a cycle of connection and disruption, engagement and abandonment, hope and disillusion.” —Publishers Weekly
“Subtly powerful . . . Sharp . . . We need globe-straddlers like Mengestu to show us that love, like hate, respects no borders.” —Boris Kachka
Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, e-mail writtenarts@bard.edu, or visit http://writtenarts.bard.edu/.
Tuesday, September 24, 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 https://bard.edu.
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
The women's soccer team hosts 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
The women's volleyball team hosts Baruch College. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
RKC 111
Come to this interactive presentation about the history of the Rubik’s cube, some of the mathematics involved in analyzing the cube, and a demonstration of solving techniques.
No prior knowledge of the Rubik’s cube is assumed.
Sydney Weaver, 21, is a nine-time gold medalist professional Speedcuber. She loves sharing mathematics with people of all ages typically using the Rubik’s Cube as an interesting medium.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7362, or e-mail rose@bard.edu.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
RKC 103
"In a single decade Russia changes a lot, but in two centuries — not at all." Maxim Osipov
For more information, call 845-758-7391, or e-mail ovoronin@bard.edu.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
The men's soccer team hosts Purchase College. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/BCOM-Tan-Dun-Lecture/.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
Please check http://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Wyatt Shell ’10
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Saturday, September 28, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
Beethoven in Beijing is an upcoming documentary film chronicling the historic journey of the Philadelphia Orchestra to China in 1973. Meet the film producers and members of the orchestra at a preview screening with discussions concerning the history and future of classical music as a bridge connecting China with the United States. Presented by the US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of MusicSponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7026, e-mail kwright@bard.edu, or visit https://barduschinamusic.org/china-now-music-festival.
Saturday, September 28, 2019
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
Film preview of the upcoming documentary Counter Point followed by a discussion on the Philadelphia Orchestra’s history-making tour of China in 1973, marking the beginning of an explosion of interest in Western classical music that continues there to this day. With filmmaker Jennifer Lin, US-China Music Institute Director Jindong Cai, and special guests. A receptions follows. Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7026, e-mail kwright@bard.edu, or visit https://barduschinamusic.org/china-now-music-festival.
Saturday, September 28, 2019
The women's soccer team hosts Ithaca College in a Liberty League game. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Saturday, September 28, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Tan Dun, Dean of the Bard College Conservatory of Music, conducts the Conservatory Orchestra in a film with live orchestra performance featuring excerpts from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, and The Banquet.
Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Tan Dun, composer, conductor
Daniel Phillips, violin
Peter Wiley, cello
Blair McMillen, piano
Benjamin Hochman, pianoSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/BCOM-Tan-Dun/.
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Blithewood, Levy Institute
Come paint, color, and tour Blithewood Garden. Watch a plein-air painter in action. Coloring books will be provided. Meet residents goats. Enjoy free refreshments. Garden Tours at 2pm and 4pm. Rain or shine.Sponsored by: Bard Arboretum.
For more information, call 845-758-7179, e-mail aparrell@bard.edu, or visit https://http://www.bard.edu/arboretum/gardens/blithewood/.
Sunday, September 29, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
An open dress rehearsal with The Orchestra Now, conducted by Jindong Cai, for the world premiere of a new symphonic oratorio by Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Zhou Long to commemorate the Chinese railroad workers of the American West, on the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad across the United States. With the China Now Festival Chorus and soloists. Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7026, e-mail kwright@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/middle-kingdom-to-the-wild-west/.
Sunday, September 29, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Susan Chan performs piano music inspired by Chinese musical traditions, including works by Tan Dun, Chen Yi, Zhou Long, Alexander Tcherepnin, Doming Lam, Alexina Louie, and Zhang Zhao. Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7026, e-mail kwright@bard.edu, or visit https://barduschinamusic.org/china-now-music-festival.
Monday, September 30, 2019
New Annandale House
The Center for Experimental Humanities and the Office of Sustainability will be hosting an iPhone Screen Repair Cafe/Workshop where we will teach a limited number of students to repair their broken iPhone screens (fix it, don’t replace it!). Students must sign up for a seat—first come, first serve.
PLEASE NOTE: iPhones we can support include the following: 6, 6s, 6 Plus, 7, 8. Once seat is reserved, a student must purchase a screen repair kit (about $40) ahead of the event.
RSVPSponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability; Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://eh.bard.edu/events/event/iphone-screen-repair-cafe/.
Monday, September 30, 2019
Olin, Room 102
A talk with Dr. Christina Yi, Univ. British Columbia
With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894, Japan officially embarked on an enterprise of territorial expansion. Acquisition of Taiwan occurred in 1895, soon followed by the annexation of Korea in 1910.The unconditional surrender of Japan to the Allied Powers in 1945 signaled not only the end of the Asia-Pacific War but also the end of the Japanese empire, as one of the conditions of surrender was the redrawing of national borders. In the years following Japan's war defeat, critics and scholars came to retrospectively schematize the literary texts produced during the colonial period within new paradigms of national literature. Meanwhile, the term zainichi(lit: “residing in Japan”) came to be applied to the Korean diasporic community in Japan, and zainichiliterature roughly defined as texts written in Japanese by ethnically Korean writers living in Japan. This talk will illuminate the effect of these postwar changes – as well as some prewar continuities – by looking at the Japanese-language writings of zainichiKorean writers, focusing in particular on Yi Yangji (1955–1992) and Kim Sŏkpŏm (b. 1925). It will also consider the interactions that took place between those writers and their Japanese peers in order to provide a more complex picture of the politics and literatures of postwar Japan.
Christina Yi is Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature at the University of British Columbia. Her first monograph, Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea, was published by Columbia University Press in 2018.
Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Historical Studies Program; Japanese Studies Program; Translation and Translatability Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wsuzuki@bard.edu.
Monday, September 30, 2019
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on American citizens
Eyes in the Sky is the authoritative account of how the Pentagon secretly developed a godlike surveillance system for monitoring America’s enemies overseas, and how it is now being used to watch us in our own backyards. Whereas a regular aerial camera can only capture a small patch of ground at any given time, this system—and its most powerful iteration, Gorgon Stare—allows operators to track thousands of moving targets at once, both forward and backward in time, across whole city-size areas. When fused with big-data analysis techniques, this network can be used to watch everything simultaneously, and perhaps even predict attacks before they happen.
dronecenter.bard.edu/staff-book-eyes-in-the-sky/Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Dean of the College; Global and International Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; Science, Technology, and Society Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7127, or e-mail riou@bard.edu.
Master Class: Susan Chan, piano
Monday, September 30, 2019
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
A master class with pianist Susan Chan for undergraduates who will perform works by Beethoven, Haydn, Messiaen, and Prokofiev..
Ms. Chan is also giving a recital of contemporary Chinese piano music on Sunday, September 29, at 7:00 pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building as part of the China Now Music Festival: China and America—Unity in Music. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7250, e-mail mcmillen@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/music.
The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
An exhibit of decorative garden ornaments from the extensive Montgomery Place collection
Friday, May 24, 2019 – Saturday, October 12, 2019
Montgomery Place GroundsThe gardens at Montgomery Place once featured decorative garden ornaments and furniture, displaying a wide mix of styles, alongside the plants. Examples of statuary, furniture, potted plants, and hanging baskets that have been documented in early photographs of Montgomery Place will be presented in the exhibition.
Exhibition produced in partnership with and curated by Barbara Israel and her staff from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Funding provided by the A. C. Israel Foundation and Plymouth Hill Foundation.
For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail montgomeryplace@bard.edu, or visit http://bard.edu/montgomeryplace.
Save this event: Montgomery Place Mansion Tours
Saturday, June 1, 2019 – Saturday, October 12, 2019
Bard College: The Montgomery Place Campus offers regular mansion tours on Saturdays from June 1 through October 12, with tours at 10:30, 11:30, 1:30, and 2:30. The cost is $10 per person and no reservations are required. Depending on availability, private tours will be offered for groups of five or more at $20 per person.Visit the Montgomery Place website to learn more about special tours, events, and upcoming exhibitions.
Please note: On June 8, the mansion will be closed for private tours at 1:30 and 2:30.
For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail montgomeryplace@bard.edu, or visit https://www.bard.edu/montgomeryplace/.
CCS Exhibition: Leidy Churchman: Crocodile
Saturday, June 22, 2019 – Sunday, October 13, 2019
12–6 pm
Hessel Museum of ArtCrocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/528-leidy-churchman-crocodile.
CCS Exhibition: Nil Yalter: Exile Is a Hard Job
Saturday, June 22, 2019 – Sunday, October 13, 2019
12–6 pm
Hessel Museum of ArtExile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/529-nil-yalter-exile-is-a-hard-job.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Saturday, June 22, 2019 – Sunday, October 13, 2019
12–6 pm
CCS Bard GalleriesActing Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/530-acting-out-works-from-the-marieluise-hessel-collection.
First Day of Classes
Monday, September 2, 2019
Bard College CampusSponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CMIA – Masterworks of Japanese Cinema
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
7–10 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Woman of Tokyo
(Yasujiro Ozu, 1933, Japan, 47 minutes, 35mm) - Dragnet Girl
(Yasujiro Ozu, 1933, Japan, 100 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
CMIA - Early Cinema Program
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
7–8 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Arrival of a Train
(Auguste and Louis Lumière, 1895, France, 1 minute) - Avenue de l’Opéra
(Alice Guy, 1900, France, 1 minute) - Grandma’s Reading Glass
(G.A. Smith, 1900, UK, 2 minutes) - The Countryman and the Cinematograph
(R.W. Paul, 1901, UK, 1 minute) - Coney Island at Night
(Edwin S. Porter, 1905, USA, 5 minutes) - Films of the San Francisco Earthquake
(Robert K. Bonine, 1906, USA, 2 minutes) - The Life of an American Fireman
(Edwin S. Porter, 1903, USA, 6 minutes) - The Great Train Robbery
(Edwin S. Porter, 1903, USA, 11 minutes) - A Trip to the Moon
(Georges Méliès, 1902, France, 14 minutes) - The Red Spectre
(Segundo de Chomón, 1907, Spain/France, 8 minutes)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
CMIA - Vertigo
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
8:30–10:55 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Vertigo
(Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, USA, 129 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
A Place for Democracy: America and the 2020 Election
Thursday, September 5, 2019
6–8 pm
Bard High School Early College Manhattan, 525 E. Houston St., New York, NY 10002Featuring
Lukas Alpert ’99 – The Wall Street Journal, Pulitzer Prize winner
Dylan Byers ’08 – NBC News and MSNBC
Rana Foroohar – Financial Times, author of Makers and Takers and Don’t Be Evil
Moderated by Malia Du Mont ’95, Vice President for Policy and Strategy, Bard College
Thursday, September 5
6:00 pm
Bard High School Early College Manhattan
525 E. Houston St., New York, NY 10002
Please RSVP by clicking here.
The event will be live-streamed via the Bard College Alumni/ae Association Facebook page.
This event is sponsored by the Bard Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs, Bard Center for Civic Engagement, Bard Early Colleges, Hannah Arendt Center, and the Office of the President.
Lukas Alpert ’99
Lukas I. Alpert covers newspapers and digital media for the Wall Street Journal. He previously was a correspondent in the Moscow bureau. Lukas has worked for the New York Daily News, the New York Post, and the Associated Press.
Dylan Byers ’08
Dylan Byers is NBC’s senior media reporter and the author of Byers Market, a daily newsletter that goes behind the scenes in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, New York, and Washington, and inside the minds of the titans and power brokers who wield increasing influence over our lives, our politics, and our culture. He previously covered media and politics at CNN, Politico, and Adweek.
Rana Foroohar (Parent of Darya, BHSEC Manhattan ’20)
Rana Foroohar is global business columnist and an associate editor at the Financial Times. She is also CNN’s global economic analyst. Her forthcoming book, Don’t Be Evil, is an indictment of how today’s biggest tech companies are hijacking our data.
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of the President.Lukas Alpert ’99 – The Wall Street Journal, Pulitzer Prize winner
Dylan Byers ’08 – NBC News and MSNBC
Rana Foroohar – Financial Times, author of Makers and Takers and Don’t Be Evil
Moderated by Malia Du Mont ’95, Vice President for Policy and Strategy, Bard College
Thursday, September 5
6:00 pm
Bard High School Early College Manhattan
525 E. Houston St., New York, NY 10002
Please RSVP by clicking here.
The event will be live-streamed via the Bard College Alumni/ae Association Facebook page.
This event is sponsored by the Bard Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs, Bard Center for Civic Engagement, Bard Early Colleges, Hannah Arendt Center, and the Office of the President.
Lukas Alpert ’99
Lukas I. Alpert covers newspapers and digital media for the Wall Street Journal. He previously was a correspondent in the Moscow bureau. Lukas has worked for the New York Daily News, the New York Post, and the Associated Press.
Dylan Byers ’08
Dylan Byers is NBC’s senior media reporter and the author of Byers Market, a daily newsletter that goes behind the scenes in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, New York, and Washington, and inside the minds of the titans and power brokers who wield increasing influence over our lives, our politics, and our culture. He previously covered media and politics at CNN, Politico, and Adweek.
Rana Foroohar (Parent of Darya, BHSEC Manhattan ’20)
Rana Foroohar is global business columnist and an associate editor at the Financial Times. She is also CNN’s global economic analyst. Her forthcoming book, Don’t Be Evil, is an indictment of how today’s biggest tech companies are hijacking our data.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdG8AQzvjGpJJ2L33dWDsbvWKbh-WkqgJfFJYsSo5Hn2frE8g/viewform.
Women's Tennis Match
Saturday, September 7, 2019
1–4 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis CourtsThe women's tennis team hosts Hartwick in its home opener. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Men's Soccer Match
Saturday, September 7, 2019
3–5 pm
The men's soccer 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Bread and Puppet Theater
Diagonal Life Circus
Fisher Center at Montgomery Place
Saturday, September 7, 2019
3 pm
Montgomery Place, Front LawnGrounds open at 2 pm
Performance begins at 3 pm
Estimated run time: 60 minutes, no intermission
Peter Schumann’s celebrated Bread and Puppet Theater brings the 2019 edition of its legendary activist circus pageant to the fields of Montgomery Place. Featuring more than 20 live puppeteers, musicians, and performers, the event concludes with sharing of the company’s famous home-baked rye bread.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bread-and-puppet-theater/.
CMIA – Masterworks of Japanese Cinema
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
7–11:55 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Late Spring
(Yasujiro Ozu, 1949, Japan, 110 minutes, 35mm) - Sansho the Bailiff
(Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954, Japan, 126 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Salman Rushdie
in Conversation with Joe Donahue of WAMC
Presented in association with Oblong Books & Music
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
7 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater“A brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder.” —Time
Called a “dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age,” the internationally bestselling author masterfully uses a classic text to shed light on modern trials in his just-released Quichotte, now a finalist for the 2019 Booker Prize.
Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen.” Meanwhile, his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own.
Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of his work, the fully realized lives of Duchamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction.
Called a “dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age,” the internationally bestselling author masterfully uses a classic text to shed light on modern trials in his just-released Quichotte, now a finalist for the 2019 Booker Prize.
Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen.” Meanwhile, his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own.
Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of his work, the fully realized lives of Duchamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/salman-rushdie/.
CCS Bard Speaker Series: Lucy Steeds - Curatorial Studies and Exhibition Histories
Wednesday, September 11, 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 within Classroom 102 at CCS Bard unless otherwise noted. All talks are free and open to the public.
Lucy will chart the field of Exhibition Histories, in relation to the practice of Curatorial Studies and the discipline of Art History. She will address parameters and possibilities, while asking: How have we got here? And where might we go?
Lucy Steeds is Reader in Art Theory and Exhibition Histories at University of the Arts London (UAL). As Senior Research Fellow for Afterall at Central Saint Martins (CSM), she leads on the Exhibition Histories book series – published in collaboration with CCS Bard and Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong – and associated projects. She is core to the teaching team for the research-based masters in Art: Exhibition Studies at CSM and, as Convenor of the Research Network at UAL, she leads on doctoral training across the university. Lucy’s publications include a trilogy of anthologies with CCS Bard and the LUMA Foundation (co-editor, Curating after the Global, 2019; How Institutions Think, 2017; and The Curatorial Conundrum, 2016) and, in the Documents of Contemporary Art series, Exhibition (editor, 2014) – all with The MIT Press. Her curatorial projects include ‘Exhibition Histories and Afrofictions’ (2017), as part of Nkule Mabaso’s ‘Decolonisation and the Scopic Regime’ programme at the Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town.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/425-lucy-steeds-curatorial-studies-and-exhibition-histories.
Women's Volleyball Home Opener
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
7–9 pm
The women's volleyball team has returned from California, and the first home match of the season is against Lehman College. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
CMIA - Intolerance
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
7–11 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Intolerance
(D.W. Griffith, 1916, USA, 196 minutes)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
In The Interim: Navigating the Field Post- Graduation
Quanita Kendrick, class of 2017
Thursday, September 12, 2019
12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Meditation Group
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.
Thursday, September 12, 2019
5–6:30 pm
Center for Spiritual Life, Basement of Resnick Commons Dorm ANewcomers receive an introduction to meditation (please arrive 10 minutes early). Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions (over cookies and tea).Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-657-1934, or e-mail jlemmens@bard.edu.
Saw Kill Water Sampling
Friday, September 13, 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.
Outdoor Film Screening: The Goonies
Fisher Center at Montgomery Place
Friday, September 13, 2019
7:30 pm
Montgomery Place, MansionA group of young misfits who call themselves The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on a quest to find a legendary pirate's long-lost treasure. This classic favorite is a delight for all ages.
Grounds open at 6 pm
Film screening begins at 7:30 pm
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/the-goonies/.
Copland and Strauss
Saturday, September 14, 2019
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterThe Orchestra Now's 2019–20 season opens with Copland’s “Great American Symphony,” along with Strauss’s romantic set of songs, which he gave to his wife on their wedding day.
Leon Botstein, conductor
Paulina Swierczek ’19, soprano
Galina Ustvolskaya Symphonic Poem No. 1
R. Strauss Four Songs, Op. 27
Copland Symphony No. 3
Estimated run time: 2 hoursSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail boxoffice@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/copland-and-strauss/.
Women's Volleyball Matches
Saturday, September 14, 2019
12–6 pm
The women's volleyball team hosts a tri-match. The schedule is as follows:Farmingdale State vs. Bard, 12 p.m.
Farmingdale State vs. Mitchell, 2 p.m.
Mitchell vs. Bard, 4 p.m.
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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Men's Soccer Match
Saturday, September 14, 2019
2–4 pm
The men's soccer team hosts Hartwick College. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Music of the Americas
The Golden Age of Latin America
with Los Hacheros and
Roots, Funk, and Soul with Martha Redbone
Saturday, September 14, 2019
3 pm
Montgomery Place, MansionToday’s concert at Montgomery Place is ON! Grounds open at 2pm, concert starts at 3pm. We hope to see you there!
The modern-day torchbearers of the golden age of Latin music, Los Hacheros, bring their Bamba from Brooklyn to kick off a day of music and communion on the river bank. Headlining the event is the magnificent Martha Redbone, one of today’s most vital voices in American Roots music. From Brooklyn via the hills of Kentucky, with African-American and Cherokee heritage, Redbone broadens the boundaries of Americana with “a brilliant collision of cultures” (The New Yorker).
Curated by Isabel Soffer/Livesounds.org
Sponsored by: Fisher Center at Montgomery Place.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/music-of-the-americas/.
Copland and Strauss
Sunday, September 15, 2019
2 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterThe Orchestra Now's 2019–20 season opens with Copland’s “Great American Symphony,” along with Strauss’s romantic set of songs, which he gave to his wife on their wedding day.
Leon Botstein, conductor
Paulina Swierczek ’19, soprano
Galina Ustvolskaya Symphonic Poem No. 1
R. Strauss Four Songs, Op. 27
Copland Symphony No. 3
Estimated run time: 2 hoursSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail boxoffice@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/copland-and-strauss/.
Blood Drive
Monday, September 16, 2019
12–6 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose RoomSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-7453, e-mail civic@bard.edu, or visit https://donate.nybc.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/264550.
Get to Know the Religion Program
From Om to Oprah, Talmud to Trump: Reflections on the Scope and Significance of Academic Religious Studies
Monday, September 16, 2019
5:30–6:30 pm
Olin, Room 205Professor Kathryn Lofton (Yale University) will lead a panel discussion with Profs. Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed, Bruce Chilton, and Shai Secunda on “From Om to Oprah, Talmud to Trump: Reflections on the Scope and Significance of Academic Religious Studies.”
Pizza will be served.Sponsored by: Religion Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7389, or e-mail ssecunda@bard.edu.
An Evening with Three South African Jazz Greats
Monday, September 16, 2019
6–7:30 pm
Bard Hall, Bard College CampusJoin Africana Studies for its new year kick off. The evening festivities will feature a performance by three South African Jazz greats, vocalists Nonhlanhla Kheswa and Melanie Scholtz and pianist Hilton Schilder. Their visit to Bard College is made possible through a longstanding partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center, which is hosting "The South African Songbook" in celebration of 25 years of democracy in South Africa.
No tickets are required. Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; Global and International Studies Program; Historical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail dthompso@bard.edu.
Lecture: Alec Soth
Monday, September 16, 2019
6–8 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaThe Photography Program and the Human Rights Project are pleased to announce that Alec Soth will be giving a lecture at Weis Cinema on Monday, September 16. The lecture will begin at 6pm and is free and open to the public.
Alec Soth is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2008, Soth created Little Brown Mushroom, a multimedia enterprise focused on visual storytelling. Soth is represented by Sean Kelly in New York, Weinstein Hammons Gallery in Minneapolis, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, and Loock Galerie in Berlin, and is a member of Magnum Photos.Sponsored by: Human Rights Project; Photography Program.
For more information, call 410-952-1135, or e-mail bfalk@bard.edu.
Club Fair
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
5–7 pm
Campus Center, LawnLooking for ways to get involved on campus? Come to the Fall Club Fair to see a sampling of Student Clubs, learn what they do, and sign-up to be a member on the spot!
Join us on Wednesday, September 18, from 5-7pm. Weather permitting, clubs will be outside of the Campus Center, on the North Lawn (near the Red Circle structure). The rain location will be inside the Campus Center.
After joining some clubs, continue the tradition at BUDGET FORUM - 7 pm in the Campus Center MPR. Support your new clubs and others you might be interested in. Your vote could help determine their budget!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Women's Soccer Match
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
7–9 pm
The women's soccer team hosts SUNY New Paltz. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
A Symposium: Reimagining Human Health: The Microbiome, Farming, and Medicine.
Thursday, September 19, 2019 – Friday, September 20, 2019
Blithewood, Levy InstituteSponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, the Bard Farm, Bard EATS, Bard Center for Civic Engagement, Bard Food Lab part of the Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water, Bard Office of Sustainability, The Green Fund, and Heermance Farm.
For more information, call 845-758-7878, or e-mail arendt@bard.edu.
The Evergreen Archipelago:
Ecology and Evolution of Birds at the Edge of the Boreal Forest
Jeremy Kirchman, NYS Education Department
Thursday, September 19, 2019
12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Booth Ferris Foundation Terrace Pod 222Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Thurman Barker’s Quintet, Time Factor
Thursday, September 19, 2019
8–10 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingTHURMAN BARKER and TIME FACTOR, PRESENTS "SOUTH SIDE SUITE" 2017. Two movements from his orchestra piece played by his quintet Time Factor which was formed specifically for this music. James Emery on guitar, Noah Barker on piano, Paavo Carey on woodwinds, Dean Torrey on bass and Thurman Barker on drums, xylophone and percussion. The music was inspired by Thurman's musical experience growing up in Chicago.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail tbarker@bard.edu.
A Symposium: Reimagining Human Health: The Microbiome, Farming, and Medicine.
Thursday, September 19, 2019 – Friday, September 20, 2019
Blithewood, Levy InstituteSponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, the Bard Farm, Bard EATS, Bard Center for Civic Engagement, Bard Food Lab part of the Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water, Bard Office of Sustainability, The Green Fund, and Heermance Farm.
For more information, call 845-758-7878, or e-mail arendt@bard.edu.
Science and Politics: Science Literacy for Activists
Felicia Keesing
David & Rosalie Rose Distinguished Professor of the Sciences, Mathematics, and Computing
Friday, September 20, 2019
10–11:30 am
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.
Outdoor Film Screening: Taking Woodstock
Fisher Center at Montgomery Place
Friday, September 20, 2019
7:30 pm
Montgomery Place, MansionIn celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Woodstock Festival of 1969, see the (mostly) true story behind the legendary event across the river from where it all happened. In Ang Lee’s film, with a screenplay by Hudson Valley resident James Schamus, A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.
Grounds open at 6 pm
Film screening begins at 7:30 pm
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/taking-woodstock/.
Bard IV Debate Tournament
Saturday, September 21, 2019
9 am – 7 pm
Olin HallAn inter-collegiate debate tournament featuring participants from colleges and universities all over the Northeastern United States, as well as from Bard’s national and international networks. Debate rounds will run all day Saturday and Sunday in Olin. The final round – featuring the top 4 teams of the tournament – will be open to the public: Sunday, Sept 22, 5:00p, in the Olin Auditorium. For more information, please visit the tournament event page on Facebook.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-752-4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit https://debate.bard.edu.
Women's Volleyball Matches
Saturday, September 21, 2019
11 am – 5 pm
The women's volleyball team hosts a tri-match. The schedule is as follows:Mount St. Mary vs. Bard, 11 a.m.
Mount St. Mary vs. Hartwick, 1 p.m.
Hartwick vs. Bard, 3 p.m.
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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Men's & Women's Cross Country Invitational
Saturday, September 21, 2019
11 am – 2 pm
The men's and women's cross country teams hosts the Second Annual Fred Pavlich Invitational. More than 20 teams will participate. The men's 8K event starts at 11 a.m., and the women's 6K event follows at noon. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Men's Tennis Match
Saturday, September 21, 2019
1–4 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis CourtsThe men's tennis team hosts Vassar. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Bard IV Debate Tournament
Sunday, September 22, 2019
9 am – 7 pm
Olin HallAn inter-collegiate debate tournament featuring participants from colleges and universities all over the Northeastern United States, as well as from Bard’s national and international networks. Debate rounds will run all day Saturday and Sunday in Olin. The final round – featuring the top 4 teams of the tournament – will be open to the public: Sunday, Sept 22, 5:00p, in the Olin Auditorium. For more information, please visit the tournament event page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/347962635914296/Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-752-4512, e-mail zisman@bard.edu, or visit https://debate.bard.edu.
Bard MBA in Sustainability: September Residency Visit
Join Us to experience the Bard MBA program in action!
Sunday, September 22, 2019
12–6 pm
LMHQ 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10038Bard MBA September Residency Visit: RSVP HERE
During the Saturday or Sunday 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 https://gps.bard.edu/residency-visit-9-22-19.
Women's Tennis Match
Sunday, September 22, 2019
1–4 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis CourtsThe women's tennis team hosts SUNY Delhi. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Visiting Artist: Robert Silverman, piano
Works by Beethoven, Chopin, Copland, and Schubert for piano.
Sunday, September 22, 2019
3–5 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingBach: Prelude and Fugue in C# minor, WTC I, No. 4
Copland: Variations (1930)
Beethoven: Sonata No 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110
Schubert: "Wanderer" Fantasie, Op. 15, D.760
Chopin: Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
In a career spanning more than five decades, Robert Silverman performed in concert halls throughout North America, Europe, the Far East and Australia. Under the batons of renowned conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, John Eliot Gardiner, and Kiril Kondrashin, he appeared with orchestras worldwide, including the Chicago Symphony, the Sydney Symphony, the BBC Symphony, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestras, as well as every major orchestra in Canada. He was a faculty member at the University of British Columbia for thirty years, including a 5-year term as Director of the School of Music. A long-standing Steinway artist, he is frequently heard on the CBC and has recorded for EMI, Stereophile, Marquis Classics, OrpheumMasters and Isomike.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Master Class: Robert Silverman, piano
Conservatory pianists perform works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Chopin.
Monday, September 23, 2019
2:30–4 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingIn a career spanning more than five decades, Robert Silverman performed in concert halls throughout North America, Europe, the Far East and Australia. Under the batons of renowned conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, John Eliot Gardiner, and Kiril Kondrashin, he appeared with orchestras worldwide, including the Chicago Symphony, the Sydney Symphony, the BBC Symphony, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestras, as well as every major orchestra in Canada. He was a faculty member at the University of British Columbia for thirty years, including a 5-year term as Director of the School of Music. A long-standing Steinway artist, he is frequently heard on the CBC and has recorded for EMI, Stereophile, Marquis Classics, OrpheumMasters and Isomike.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
The Play of Conspiracy in Plato’s Republic
Demetra Kasimis
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Monday, September 23, 2019
4:45–6:30 pm
Olin, Room 102Does Plato’s Republic enact a conspiracy? Ostensibly, the impetus for imagining a political regime radically different from the democracy of the discussion is a desire to illustrate a concept (justice), not to overthrow a real political order. On second glance, the Republic takes place during the Peloponnesian War, when conspiratorial zeal consumed Athens. Fears of secret power and political instability erupt into and shape the stylistics of the narrative, provoking doubt about what the dialogue claims it is doing and proposing. Whether we are made privy to a conversation about a political world that may never exist or exposed to a strategy for discussing revolution undetected remains unresolved. The Republic invites a hermeneutics of suspicion, drawing us into a democratic culture of mistrust and the seductions of conspiratorial thinking. As it tropes conspiracy, the Republic provides a searching, immanent, and still-relevant critique of a democracy undergoing what we might today call authoritarian drift. Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7280, or e-mail jelliott@bard.edu.
A Reading by Dinaw Mengestu
Monday, September 23, 2019
6–7:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumOn Monday, September 23, at 6:00 p.m. in the Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito ’60 Auditorium, Dinaw Mengestu reads from his work. Presented by the Written Arts Program and introduced by Richard B. Fisher Family Professor in Literature and Writing Mary Caponegro, the reading is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Books will be available for sale, courtesy of Oblong Books & Music.
Dinaw Mengestu came to the United States with his family from Ethiopia at the age of two. Since earning his MFA at Columbia University in 2005, he has published three novels, all of them New York Times Notable Books, including How to Read the Air (Riverhead, 2010), The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Riverhead, 2007), and his most recent, All Our Names (Knopf, 2014). A 2012 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Mengestu also earned a 2007 National Book Foundation Under 35 Award and was included on the New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” list in 2010. He is the recipient of a Lannan Fiction Fellowship, Guardian First Book Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among numerous other awards. His work has been translated into more than 15 languages. Mengestu is also a freelance journalist who has reported from sub-Saharan Africa about life in Darfur, northern Uganda, and eastern Congo, and has had his work published in Harper’s, Granta, Rolling Stone, the New Yorker, and the New York Times. He has taught writing at Brooklyn College and Georgetown University and is currently the director of Bard’s Written Arts Program.
PRAISE FOR DINAW MENGESTU
“Mengestu portrays the intersection of cultures experienced by the immigrant with unsettling perception. . . . [He] evokes contrasting landscapes but focuses on his characters . . . who are all caught in a cycle of connection and disruption, engagement and abandonment, hope and disillusion.” —Publishers Weekly
“Subtly powerful . . . Sharp . . . We need globe-straddlers like Mengestu to show us that love, like hate, respects no borders.” —Boris Kachka
Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, e-mail writtenarts@bard.edu, or visit http://writtenarts.bard.edu/.
Noon Concert
Conservatory students perform an hour-long program.
Tuesday, September 24, 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 https://bard.edu.
Women's Soccer Match
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
7–9 pm
The women's soccer team hosts 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Women's Volleyball Match
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
7–9 pm
The women's volleyball team hosts Baruch College. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
CMIA – Between East and West
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
7–11:55 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- The Toll of the Sea
(Chester M. Franklin, 1923, USA, 53 minutes, 16mm)*
*UCLA Flim and Television Archive Restoration - The Last Emperor
(Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987, China/Italy/UK/France, 163 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
The Rubik’s Cube: What’s Math Got to Do with It?
Sydney Weaver
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
4:45–6 pm
RKC 111Come to this interactive presentation about the history of the Rubik’s cube, some of the mathematics involved in analyzing the cube, and a demonstration of solving techniques.
No prior knowledge of the Rubik’s cube is assumed.
Sydney Weaver, 21, is a nine-time gold medalist professional Speedcuber. She loves sharing mathematics with people of all ages typically using the Rubik’s Cube as an interesting medium.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7362, or e-mail rose@bard.edu.
A Reading and Conversation With Maxim Osipov
Author of Rock, Paper, Scissors and Other Stories (NYRB)
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
6–7:30 pm
RKC 103A reading and conversation, with book signing after the talk.
"In a single decade Russia changes a lot, but in two centuries — not at all." Maxim Osipov
"...an accurate, unforgiving diagnosis of Russian life.” Svetlana Alexievich
"...extraordinary short stories of provincial life shine with a dark Chekhovian comedy." The Guardian
Sponsored by: Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.For more information, call 845-758-7391, or e-mail ovoronin@bard.edu.
Men's Soccer Match
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
7–9 pm
The men's soccer team hosts Purchase College. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
Lecture: Conservatory Dean and Composer Tan Dun speaking on Music and Film
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
7 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/BCOM-Tan-Dun-Lecture/.
CMIA - Hollywood Masterworks with Piano Accompaniment by Ben Model
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
7–11:55 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- The Cameraman
(Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton, 1928, USA, 78 minutes, 35mm) - The Crowd
(King Vidor, 1928, USA, 104 minutes, 35mm)*
Please check http://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail cmia@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Opportunities Beyond Undergrad: The Evolution of Research Potential
Wyatt Shell ’10
University of New Hampshire
Thursday, September 26, 2019
12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumSponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Beethoven in Beijing: Film Preview and Discussion
Part of the 2nd Annual China Now Music Festival: China and America—United in Music
Saturday, September 28, 2019
12–1:30 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterBeethoven in Beijing is an upcoming documentary film chronicling the historic journey of the Philadelphia Orchestra to China in 1973. Meet the film producers and members of the orchestra at a preview screening with discussions concerning the history and future of classical music as a bridge connecting China with the United States. Presented by the US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of MusicSponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7026, e-mail kwright@bard.edu, or visit https://barduschinamusic.org/china-now-music-festival.
Beethoven in Beijing: China and the Philadelphia Orchestra
China Now Music Festival 2019: China and America—Unity in Music
Saturday, September 28, 2019
12–1:30 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterFilm preview of the upcoming documentary Counter Point followed by a discussion on the Philadelphia Orchestra’s history-making tour of China in 1973, marking the beginning of an explosion of interest in Western classical music that continues there to this day. With filmmaker Jennifer Lin, US-China Music Institute Director Jindong Cai, and special guests. A receptions follows. Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7026, e-mail kwright@bard.edu, or visit https://barduschinamusic.org/china-now-music-festival.
Women's Soccer Match
Saturday, September 28, 2019
2–4 pm
The women's soccer team hosts Ithaca College in a Liberty League game. 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 https://www.bardathletics.com.
A Martial Arts Trilogy
Saturday, September 28, 2019
8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterTan Dun, Dean of the Bard College Conservatory of Music, conducts the Conservatory Orchestra in a film with live orchestra performance featuring excerpts from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, and The Banquet.
Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Tan Dun, composer, conductor
Daniel Phillips, violin
Peter Wiley, cello
Blair McMillen, piano
Benjamin Hochman, pianoSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/BCOM-Tan-Dun/.
Garden Open House & Paint Out
A Hudson River Ramble Event
Sunday, September 29, 2019
12–5 pm
Blithewood, Levy InstituteCome paint, color, and tour Blithewood Garden. Watch a plein-air painter in action. Coloring books will be provided. Meet residents goats. Enjoy free refreshments. Garden Tours at 2pm and 4pm. Rain or shine.Sponsored by: Bard Arboretum.
For more information, call 845-758-7179, e-mail aparrell@bard.edu, or visit https://http://www.bard.edu/arboretum/gardens/blithewood/.
From the Middle Kingdom to the Wild West
China Now Music Festival: China and America—Unity in Music
Sunday, September 29, 2019
3 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterAn open dress rehearsal with The Orchestra Now, conducted by Jindong Cai, for the world premiere of a new symphonic oratorio by Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Zhou Long to commemorate the Chinese railroad workers of the American West, on the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad across the United States. With the China Now Festival Chorus and soloists. Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7026, e-mail kwright@bard.edu, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/middle-kingdom-to-the-wild-west/.
Echoes of China: Contemporary Piano Music with Susan Chan
China Now Music Festival 2019: China and America—Unity in Music
Sunday, September 29, 2019
7–8:30 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingSusan Chan performs piano music inspired by Chinese musical traditions, including works by Tan Dun, Chen Yi, Zhou Long, Alexander Tcherepnin, Doming Lam, Alexina Louie, and Zhang Zhao. Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7026, e-mail kwright@bard.edu, or visit https://barduschinamusic.org/china-now-music-festival.
Experimental Humanities iPhone Screen Repair Cafe
Join the Center for Experimental Humanities and the Office of Sustainability for a hands-on screen repair cafe as part of the Patagonia Worn Wear tour!
Monday, September 30, 2019
4–6 pm
New Annandale HouseThe Center for Experimental Humanities and the Office of Sustainability will be hosting an iPhone Screen Repair Cafe/Workshop where we will teach a limited number of students to repair their broken iPhone screens (fix it, don’t replace it!). Students must sign up for a seat—first come, first serve.
PLEASE NOTE: iPhones we can support include the following: 6, 6s, 6 Plus, 7, 8. Once seat is reserved, a student must purchase a screen repair kit (about $40) ahead of the event.
RSVPSponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability; Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://eh.bard.edu/events/event/iphone-screen-repair-cafe/.
In Japan but Not of Japan: Zainichi Korean Communities and Literatures
Monday, September 30, 2019
5–7 pm
Olin, Room 102A talk with Dr. Christina Yi, Univ. British Columbia
With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894, Japan officially embarked on an enterprise of territorial expansion. Acquisition of Taiwan occurred in 1895, soon followed by the annexation of Korea in 1910.The unconditional surrender of Japan to the Allied Powers in 1945 signaled not only the end of the Asia-Pacific War but also the end of the Japanese empire, as one of the conditions of surrender was the redrawing of national borders. In the years following Japan's war defeat, critics and scholars came to retrospectively schematize the literary texts produced during the colonial period within new paradigms of national literature. Meanwhile, the term zainichi(lit: “residing in Japan”) came to be applied to the Korean diasporic community in Japan, and zainichiliterature roughly defined as texts written in Japanese by ethnically Korean writers living in Japan. This talk will illuminate the effect of these postwar changes – as well as some prewar continuities – by looking at the Japanese-language writings of zainichiKorean writers, focusing in particular on Yi Yangji (1955–1992) and Kim Sŏkpŏm (b. 1925). It will also consider the interactions that took place between those writers and their Japanese peers in order to provide a more complex picture of the politics and literatures of postwar Japan.
Christina Yi is Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature at the University of British Columbia. Her first monograph, Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea, was published by Columbia University Press in 2018.
Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Historical Studies Program; Japanese Studies Program; Translation and Translatability Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wsuzuki@bard.edu.
HRP Events: Arthur Holland Michel ’13 reads from his new book Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All (2019)
Monday, September 30, 2019
6:30–8 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaThe fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on American citizens
Eyes in the Sky is the authoritative account of how the Pentagon secretly developed a godlike surveillance system for monitoring America’s enemies overseas, and how it is now being used to watch us in our own backyards. Whereas a regular aerial camera can only capture a small patch of ground at any given time, this system—and its most powerful iteration, Gorgon Stare—allows operators to track thousands of moving targets at once, both forward and backward in time, across whole city-size areas. When fused with big-data analysis techniques, this network can be used to watch everything simultaneously, and perhaps even predict attacks before they happen.
dronecenter.bard.edu/staff-book-eyes-in-the-sky/Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Dean of the College; Global and International Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; Science, Technology, and Society Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7127, or e-mail riou@bard.edu.
Master Class: Susan Chan, piano
Students will perform works by Beethoven, Haydn, Messiaen, and Prokofiev.
Monday, September 30, 2019
7:30–9 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingA master class with pianist Susan Chan for undergraduates who will perform works by Beethoven, Haydn, Messiaen, and Prokofiev..
Ms. Chan is also giving a recital of contemporary Chinese piano music on Sunday, September 29, at 7:00 pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building as part of the China Now Music Festival: China and America—Unity in Music. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7250, e-mail mcmillen@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.edu/music.
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Sunday, September 22, 2019
- 9 am – 7 pm Bard IV Debate Tournament
- 12–6 pm CCS Exhibition: Leidy Churchman: Crocodile
- 12–6 pm CCS Exhibition: Nil Yalter: Exile Is a Hard Job
- 12–6 pm CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
- 12–6 pm Bard MBA in Sustainability: September Residency Visit
- 1–4 pm Women's Tennis Match
- 3–5 pm Visiting Artist: Robert Silverman, piano
- Montgomery Place Mansion Tours
- The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
Monday, September 23, 2019
- 12–6 pm CCS Exhibition: Leidy Churchman: Crocodile
- 12–6 pm CCS Exhibition: Nil Yalter: Exile Is a Hard Job
- 12–6 pm CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
- 2:30–4 pm Master Class: Robert Silverman, piano
Conservatory pianists perform works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Chopin. - 4:45–6:30 pm The Play of Conspiracy in Plato’s Republic
- 6–7:30 pm A Reading by Dinaw Mengestu
- Montgomery Place Mansion Tours
- The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
- 4:45–6 pm The Rubik’s Cube: What’s Math Got to Do with It?
- 6–7:30 pm A Reading and Conversation With Maxim Osipov
- 7–9 pm Men's Soccer Match
- 7 pm Lecture: Conservatory Dean and Composer Tan Dun speaking on Music and Film
- 7–11:55 pm CMIA - Hollywood Masterworks with Piano Accompaniment by Ben Model
- Montgomery Place Mansion Tours
- The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
Thursday, September 26, 2019
- 12–6 pm CCS Exhibition: Leidy Churchman: Crocodile
- 12–6 pm CCS Exhibition: Nil Yalter: Exile Is a Hard Job
- 12–6 pm CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
- 12–1 pm Opportunities Beyond Undergrad: The Evolution of Research Potential
- Montgomery Place Mansion Tours
- The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
Saturday, September 28, 2019
- 12–6 pm CCS Exhibition: Leidy Churchman: Crocodile
- 12–6 pm CCS Exhibition: Nil Yalter: Exile Is a Hard Job
- 12–6 pm CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
- 12–1:30 pm Beethoven in Beijing: Film Preview and Discussion
- 12–1:30 pm Beethoven in Beijing: China and the Philadelphia Orchestra
- 2–4 pm Women's Soccer Match
- 8 pm A Martial Arts Trilogy
- Montgomery Place Mansion Tours
- The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
Sunday, September 29, 2019
- 12–6 pm CCS Exhibition: Leidy Churchman: Crocodile
- 12–6 pm CCS Exhibition: Nil Yalter: Exile Is a Hard Job
- 12–6 pm CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
- 12–5 pm Garden Open House & Paint Out
- 3 pm From the Middle Kingdom to the Wild West
- 7–8:30 pm Echoes of China: Contemporary Piano Music with Susan Chan
- Montgomery Place Mansion Tours
- The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
Monday, September 30, 2019
- 12–6 pm CCS Exhibition: Leidy Churchman: Crocodile
- 12–6 pm CCS Exhibition: Nil Yalter: Exile Is a Hard Job
- 12–6 pm CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
- 4–6 pm Experimental Humanities iPhone Screen Repair Cafe
- 5–7 pm In Japan but Not of Japan: Zainichi Korean Communities and Literatures
- 6:30–8 pm HRP Events: Arthur Holland Michel ’13 reads from his new book Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All (2019)
- 7:30–9 pm Master Class: Susan Chan, piano
Students will perform works by Beethoven, Haydn, Messiaen, and Prokofiev. - Montgomery Place Mansion Tours
- The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place