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Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability — Online Information Session for International Applicants

Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability (GPS) holds online informational webinars specifically for prospective international students.

Wednesday, March 1, 2023
12–1 pm

Online Event
RSVP HERE 

Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability (GPS) holds online informational webinars specifically for prospective international students. Learn about Bard GPS programs and the admissions process directly from the Bard GPS team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session.

WHAT WE COVER:
  • Overview of graduate program offerings available to international students
  • The international student admissions information
  • Prerequisite course information
  • Funding opportunities and scholarships for international students
  • Tips for a standout application
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.

For more information, call 845-663-4197, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/489009359157.
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Women's Lacrosse Season Opener

Wednesday, March 1, 2023
6 pm

Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex
The women's lacrosse team opens the season against Mount St. Mary College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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Bard Brass: Works by Hovhaness, Sibelius, McKee, Bernstein, and Fauré

Edward Carroll's Brass Studio Ensembles with collaborative piano fellow Bat-erdene Batbileg

Wednesday, March 1, 2023
7–8 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Conjunctions:79, Onword Launch Reading

Featuring Jai Chakrabarti, Peter Gizzi, Carole Maso, and Shane McCrae, introduced by Colin Channer

Wednesday, March 1, 2023
7 pm

McNally Jackson Seaport
Join us to celebrate the launch of Conjunctions:79, Onword! The evening will feature readings by contributors Jai Chakrabarti, Peter Gizzi, Carole Maso, and Shane McCrae, introduced by Colin Channer. 

The literary journal Conjunctions, edited by novelist Bradford Morrow and published by Bard College, has been a living notebook for provocative, risk-taking, rigorously composed fiction, poetry, and narrative nonfiction since 1981. As PEN America has it: “Conjunctions is one of our most distinctive and valuable literary magazines: innovative, daring, indispensable, and beautiful.”

Our Fall 2022 issue is a celebration of continuing both onward and Onword—on with Conjunctions, on with the words.

While this issue has no theme, what we’ve collected here could simply be described as “great writing by great writers.” And themes do, of course, emerge: Inside, you’ll find explorations of survival, migration, loss and renewal, as well as meditations on how to live with disappointment, how to reimagine and rebuild, and how to move onward through difficult existential terrains.

Conjunctions 79, Onword features new work from Fred Moten, Can Xue, John Crowley, Nathaniel Mackey, Sofia Samatar, Yxta Maya Murray, Russell Banks, Deb Olin Unferth, Rae Armantrout, G. C. Waldrep, Bonnie Nadzam, Vi Khi Nao, Carole Maso, Julia Alvarez, Fred D’Aguiar, and more, as well as three previously unpublished poems by C. D. Wright.

RSVP required at https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/conjunctions79-onword-launch-reading-Rsvp.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/conjunctions79-onword-launch-reading.
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CMIA - The Films of Orson Welles

Wednesday, March 1, 2023
7:30–11:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • Mr. Arkadin
    (Confidential Report, Orson Welles, 1955, France/Spain/Switzerland, 99 minutes, 35mm)
  • Shadows
    (John Cassavetes, 1959, USA, 87 minutes, 35mm)
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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  • 12–1 pm Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability — Online Information Session for International ApplicantsWednesday, March 1, 2023, 12–1 pm
  • 6 pm Women's Lacrosse Season OpenerWednesday, March 1, 2023, 6 pm
  • 7–8 pm Bard Brass: Works by Hovhaness, Sibelius, McKee, Bernstein, and FauréWednesday, March 1, 2023, 7–8 pm
  • 7 pm Conjunctions:79, Onword Launch ReadingWednesday, March 1, 2023, 7 pm
  • 7:30–11:55 pm CMIA - The Films of Orson WellesWednesday, March 1, 2023, 7:30–11:55 pm

Judgment, Pluralism, and Democracy

On the Desirability of Speaking with Others

Thursday, March 2, 2023 – Friday, March 3, 2023

Multiple Locations (See below)
Free and Open to the Public!

Register Here


**See full program below**

Keynote by Linda Zerilli (The University of Chicago): “Arendt and the Problem of Democratic Persuasion”
Stream the Keynote Lecture on YouTube


Organized by Nicholas Dunn (Bard College) and Nirvana Tanoukhi (Dartmouth College)

One of the latest features of the crisis of democratic culture is the problematization of free speech. The dysfunction of public discourse in democratic societies has sparked skepticism about the validity of the principle itself and concerns about its evident impracticability. This line of interrogation has targeted the grounds and scope of this putatively desirable freedom. For example, does Louis Brandeis’s idea that with “more speech…the truth will out” have any actual empirical validity? Or does the weaponizability of free speech in the age of the internet not call for modifying or restricting its legal protection?

This conference aims to expand the parameters of the current conversation by taking a step back from the desirability of unrestricted ‘freedom’ of expression and shifting critical attention to the desirability of ‘talking to others.’ For any case to be made in support or against free speech is, more fundamentally, a statement about whether the good of talking to others demands the protections that make it possible, be that demand conceived in moral, instrumental, or prudential terms. Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project; Philosophy Program; Politics Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://hac.bard.edu/events/pluralism.
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Linda Zerilli: “Arendt and the Problem of Political Persuasion”

The Inaugural De Gruyter Lecture

Thursday, March 2, 2023
5:15–7 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
The keynote lecture for Judgment, Pluralism, and Democracy: On the Desirability of Speaking with Others—a two-day interdisciplinary humanities conference. 

Stream the Keynote Lecture on YouTube

Sponsored by: German Studies Program; Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project; Philosophy Program; Politics Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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The Institute of Advanced Theology Spring 2023 Lecture Series

"In Search of the Once and Future Eden" with Bruce Chilton

Thursday, March 2, 2023
5:30–6:30 pm

Bard Hall
This lecture series is in conjunction with the book launch of Eden Revisited: A Novel by László Z. Bitó ’60. You can find the recordings of past lectures on the IAT website. These lectures and their recordings are made possible by the generosity of a loyal donor.

Eden is both a place in the mythic past and the prospect for a balanced, ecological, and human civilization in the future. Gnostic writers in particular have portrayed how the idyllic garden could have been lost, and why regaining its richness has proven elusive. Laszlo Bito, a Bard alumnus from the class of 1960 investigated these issues in his book Eden Revisited. The series is designed to join in that quest, in order to press the issue of Eden’s deep promise.

All lectures will take place on Thursdays at 5:30 pm in Bard Hall. 

Thursday, February 23 - Cain: the first murder, the first city
Thursday, March 2 - The Serpent: Language unravels Eden
Thursday, March 9 - YHWH
Thursday, March 16 - Eden, the garden that exists over our horizonSponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.

For more information, call 845-758-6822 x7667, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/iat/.
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  • 5:15–7 pm Linda Zerilli: “Arendt and the Problem of Political Persuasion”Thursday, March 2, 2023, 5:15–7 pm
  • 5:30–6:30 pm The Institute of Advanced Theology Spring 2023 Lecture SeriesThursday, March 2, 2023, 5:30–6:30 pm
  • Judgment, Pluralism, and DemocracyThursday, March 2, 2023 – Friday, March 3, 2023

Judgment, Pluralism, and Democracy

On the Desirability of Speaking with Others

Thursday, March 2, 2023 – Friday, March 3, 2023

Multiple Locations (See below)
Free and Open to the Public!

Register Here


**See full program below**

Keynote by Linda Zerilli (The University of Chicago): “Arendt and the Problem of Democratic Persuasion”
Stream the Keynote Lecture on YouTube


Organized by Nicholas Dunn (Bard College) and Nirvana Tanoukhi (Dartmouth College)

One of the latest features of the crisis of democratic culture is the problematization of free speech. The dysfunction of public discourse in democratic societies has sparked skepticism about the validity of the principle itself and concerns about its evident impracticability. This line of interrogation has targeted the grounds and scope of this putatively desirable freedom. For example, does Louis Brandeis’s idea that with “more speech…the truth will out” have any actual empirical validity? Or does the weaponizability of free speech in the age of the internet not call for modifying or restricting its legal protection?

This conference aims to expand the parameters of the current conversation by taking a step back from the desirability of unrestricted ‘freedom’ of expression and shifting critical attention to the desirability of ‘talking to others.’ For any case to be made in support or against free speech is, more fundamentally, a statement about whether the good of talking to others demands the protections that make it possible, be that demand conceived in moral, instrumental, or prudential terms. Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project; Philosophy Program; Politics Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://hac.bard.edu/events/pluralism.
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  • Judgment, Pluralism, and DemocracyThursday, March 2, 2023 – Friday, March 3, 2023

Baseball Doubleheader

Saturday, March 4, 2023
12 pm

Honey Field
The baseball team hosts Plattsburgh State for two games. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe

Saturday, March 4, 2023
7–8 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

TŌN Associate Conductor James Bagwell leads soloists from the Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program in a concert performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s fairyland fantasy, which The New York Times called “a madcap Victorian fairytale, rife with merriment!”

PROGRAM

Gilbert & Sullivan
Iolanthe

Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/gilbert-sullivans-iolanthe/.
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  • 12 pm Baseball DoubleheaderSaturday, March 4, 2023, 12 pm
  • 7–8 pm Gilbert & Sullivan’s IolantheSaturday, March 4, 2023, 7–8 pm

Baseball Game

Sunday, March 5, 2023
12 pm

Honey Field
The baseball team hosts Rutgers-Newark for a single game. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe

Sunday, March 5, 2023
3–4 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

TŌN Associate Conductor James Bagwell leads soloists from the Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program in a concert performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s fairyland fantasy, which The New York Times called “a madcap Victorian fairytale, rife with merriment!”

PROGRAM

Gilbert & Sullivan
Iolanthe

Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/gilbert-sullivans-iolanthe/.
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Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe

Sunday, March 5, 2023
3–4 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

TŌN Associate Conductor James Bagwell leads soloists from the Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program in a concert performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s fairyland fantasy, which The New York Times called “a madcap Victorian fairytale, rife with merriment!”

PROGRAM

Gilbert & Sullivan
Iolanthe

Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/gilbert-sullivans-iolanthe/.
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The Interview

Film Screening at Thrift 2 Fight

Sunday, March 5, 2023
6–8 pm

Thrift 2 Fight, 48 Broadway, Tivoli, NY
The Bard community is invited to Thrift 2 Fight at 6pm on Sunday, March 5th for a film screening and panel discussion, in collaboration with RAPP (Releasing Aging People from Prisons).The Interview asks viewers to confront their feelings about justice and mercy while revealing the heavy toll our current legal system takes on incarcerated people and their families. The panel discussion is not to be missed! 
 
Free and open to the public—invite your friends! Masks required.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-416-2938, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 12 pm Baseball GameSunday, March 5, 2023, 12 pm
  • 3–4 pm Gilbert & Sullivan’s IolantheSunday, March 5, 2023, 3–4 pm
  • 3–4 pm Gilbert & Sullivan’s IolantheSunday, March 5, 2023, 3–4 pm
  • 6–8 pm The InterviewSunday, March 5, 2023, 6–8 pm

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Documenting Trans Family Life

Featuring Krys Belc

Monday, March 6, 2023
5 pm

Olin Language Center, Room 115
An Autonomies Series Event

This lecture will focus on the nature of the family archive and its relation to queer and trans liberation and creativity. Parenting is, in the contemporary era, inherently documentary. Parents and other family members tell stories, take pictures, and, increasingly, tell their family story publicly. How can queer and trans artists reckon with archives their families have left behind, and what might ethical documentation of family life look like with queerness at the forefront of the documenter’s mind?

Krys Malcolm Belc is the author of the flash nonfiction chapbook In Transit and the memoir The Natural Mother of the Child, which was a New York Times New and Noteworthy title and an NPR Best Book of the Year. His essays have been published in Granta, Guernica, The Rumpus, Brevity, and elsewhere. Krys received his BA from Swarthmore College, his M.Ed in Special Education from Arcadia University, and his MFA in Creative Writing from Northern Michigan University. Krys is the memoir editor of Split Lip Magazine. He lives in Philadelphia with his partner and their four young children.

Read more about Autonomies hereSponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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A Reading with Jenny Xie

Monday, March 6, 2023
5–6:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
On Monday, March 6 at 5pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), poet and Bard faculty member Jenny Xie will read from her work. Introduced by Mary Caponegro, and followed by a Q&A, the reading is free and open to the student body. 

​Jenny Xie was born in Anhui province, China. She is the author of Eye Level, a finalist for the National Book Award and the recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University, and The Rupture Tense, a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been supported by fellowships and grants from Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Kundiman, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Vilcek Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Yale Review, American Poetry Review, New Republic, Tin House, and elsewhere. She has taught at Princeton and NYU, and is currently on faculty at Bard College. Jenny lives in New York City.

Mary Caponegro is the Richard B. Fisher Family Professor in Literature and Writing at Bard. She is the author of the short story collections The Star Café, Five Doubts, The Complexities of Intimacy, and All Fall Down, as well as selected works in translation. Professor Caponegro is a contributor to The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Tin House, Black Warrior Review, Salt Hill, Epoch, Fairy Tale Review, Sulfur, Gargoyle, and Iowa Review, and a contributing editor for Conjunctions. 

Read more about Jenny's work here.
 Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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CMIA - Jacques Demy and Michael Powell

Monday, March 6, 2023
7–9 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
    (Jacques Demy, 1964, France, 90 minutes, 35mm)
  • The Red Shoes
    (Michael Powell, 1948, UK, 133 minutes, 35mm)
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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BACH to the FUTURE: 
Faculty Recital with Melissa Reardon, viola, Raman Ramakrishnan, cello, and guests Dustin Carlson, guitar, and Siwoo Kim, violin

Bach's GOLDBERG VARIATIONS (arranged for string trio) and the world premiere of Dustin Carlson's ABSURD PRACTICES

Monday, March 6, 2023
7–9 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Free and open to vaccinated members of the public.
Faculty Recital 
with 
Melissa Reardon, viola
Raman Ramakrishnan, cello

 and guest musicians 
Dustin Carlson, guitar/composer
Siwoo Kim, violin
Program:

Absurd Practices for viola and cello (2022)                                                        Dustin Carlson (b. 1985)
              (world premiere - commissioned by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music)

Improvisations for Voice/Guitar (2022)                                                                                         Carlson
                                                                    
Goldberg Variations                                                                                                  J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
 (transcription for string trio by Dmitry Sitkovetsky) 

Livestreaming at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9owU3gvL0ASponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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  • 5 pm Looking Back, Looking Forward: Documenting Trans Family LifeMonday, March 6, 2023, 5 pm
  • 5–6:30 pm A Reading with Jenny XieMonday, March 6, 2023, 5–6:30 pm
  • 7–9 pm CMIA - Jacques Demy and Michael PowellMonday, March 6, 2023, 7–9 pm
  • 7–9 pm BACH to the FUTURE: Faculty Recital with Melissa Reardon, viola, Raman Ramakrishnan, cello, and guests Dustin Carlson, guitar, and Siwoo Kim, violinMonday, March 6, 2023, 7–9 pm

CMIA - Indian New Wave

Tuesday, March 7, 2023
7–11:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • Devi
    (Satyajit Ray, 1960, India, 93 minutes, 35mm)
  • Dhrupad
    (Mani Kaul, 1983, India, 72 minutes)
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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  • 7–11:55 pm CMIA - Indian New WaveTuesday, March 7, 2023, 7–11:55 pm

Stacey Vanek Smith: Women in the Workplace in the 21st Century

Wednesday, March 8, 2023
6–7:30 pm

Olin Language Center, Room 115
The Bard community is invited to join a discussion with Stacey Vanek Smith on women in the workplace in the 21st century, why in the age of #MeToo the glass ceiling is still holding women back, and how women can yield power.

Stacey Vanek Smith, host of Planet Money's Indicator podcast, is a long-time business and economic reporter for NPR. During her 15 years on the job, she noticed she was talking to more men than women. Why? More men occupied positions of authority and expertise. In Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace, Smith takes a look at the barriers blocking women’s advancement and offers advice to remove them – from 16th century Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli.

Smith will be in discussion with Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program Director Elmira Bayrasli.

Sponsored by the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program, the Center for Civic Engagement, Open Society University Network's Civic Engagement Initiative and Gender Equity Working Group

Stay tuned for more events related to International Women's Day on March 8.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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The Law of Existence

artist/curator Maha Maamoun in conversation with writer Haytham el-Wardany

Wednesday, March 8, 2023
6–8 pm

Olin, Room 102
How to find entry points in a brutal conversation? How to summon a community of voices to diffuse a deadlock? Maha Maamoun’s artistic practices often intertwine visual and literary images, both popular and obscure, in a process of reflection on the cultural and social fabric of present day Cairo. Her subtle intervention in image and text pick on redundancies, exhausted languages, recycled imagery - features that both reveal and calcify deep-rooted structures of meaning. In their conversation, artist Maha Maamoun and writer Haytham el-Wardany will elaborate on aspects of Maamoun’s artistic practice, bringing up common themes of conversationality, seriality, quotation and reading. 

Maamoun and el-Wardany are long-time collaborators. They have co-worked on different projects such as The Middle Ear (co-editors), How to Disappear (writer-publisher), and Dear Animal (writer-filmmaker).
Maha Maamoun is an Egyptian artist, curator, and publisher. She is a founding board member of the Contemporary Image Collective (CiC), an independent non-profit space for art and culture in Cairo (2004), and co-founder of Kayfa ta, an alternative publishing platform (2012).
Haytham el-Wardany lives and works in Berlin. He writes short stories and experimental prose. His most recent publication is Jackals And The Missing Letters: On Speaking Animals At Moments Of Danger (Dar Alkarma, 2023). He is the recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism (2022-23).
Sponsored by: Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Piano Master Class: Sébastien Cornut

Wednesday, March 8, 2023
7–9 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Sébastien Cornut holds a doctorate in musical arts in piano performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music – University of Rochester, a master’s degree in music and musicology from the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, and is a graduate of the Paris Conservatory.
He studied with Aldo Ciccolini and Barry Snyder, and has performed solo recitals, chamber music, and concerts with orchestras in France, the US, Lebanon, and Ukraine. He specializes in French repertoire and believes deeply in making classical music more accessible. He teaches piano and chamber music at New Jersey City University and privately in NYC. He also provides lecture recitals introducing musical works and their creators for a broader public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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CMIA - The Films of Orson Welles

Wednesday, March 8, 2023
7:30–11:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • Macbeth
    (Orson Welles, 1948, USA, 107 minutes)
  • Othello
    (Orson Welles, 1951, Italy/Morocco, 91 minutes)
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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  • 6–8 pm The Law of ExistenceWednesday, March 8, 2023, 6–8 pm
  • 6–7:30 pm Stacey Vanek Smith: Women in the Workplace in the 21st CenturyWednesday, March 8, 2023, 6–7:30 pm
  • 7–9 pm Piano Master Class: Sébastien CornutWednesday, March 8, 2023, 7–9 pm
  • 7:30–11:55 pm CMIA - The Films of Orson WellesWednesday, March 8, 2023, 7:30–11:55 pm

The Institute of Advanced Theology Spring 2023 Lecture Series

"In Search of the Once and Future Eden" with Bruce Chilton

Thursday, March 9, 2023
5:30–6:30 pm

Bard Hall
This lecture series is in conjunction with the book launch of Eden Revisited: A Novel by László Z. Bitó ’60. You can find the recordings of past lectures on the IAT website. These lectures and their recordings are made possible by the generosity of a loyal donor.

Eden is both a place in the mythic past and the prospect for a balanced, ecological, and human civilization in the future. Gnostic writers in particular have portrayed how the idyllic garden could have been lost, and why regaining its richness has proven elusive. Laszlo Bito, a Bard alumnus from the class of 1960 investigated these issues in his book Eden Revisited. The series is designed to join in that quest, in order to press the issue of Eden’s deep promise.

All lectures will take place on Thursdays at 5:30 pm in Bard Hall. 

Thursday, February 23 - Cain: the first murder, the first city
Thursday, March 2 - The Serpent: Language unravels Eden
Thursday, March 9 - YHWH
Thursday, March 16 - Eden, the garden that exists over our horizonSponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.

For more information, call 845-758-6822 x7667, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/iat/.
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Disorientation as Worship: A Different (Re)view of the Dura-Europos Synagogue

Karen Stern, Professor of History, Brooklyn College

Thursday, March 9, 2023
5:30 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
The synagogue discovered in Dura Europos in 1932/1933 shocked archaeologists, scholars of ancient Syria, and students of ancient Jewish history. The interior fac;ade of the assembly hall of the building was preserved to an unprecedented degree, projecting color- ful paintings of stories from the Hebrew Bible, including images of Pharoah's daughter rescuing a baby Moses from a basket in the Nile. Existence of these murals both advanced the efforts of excavators and historians who sought to understand ancient life in Dura and transformed studies of art history more generally, by challenging a longstanding allegation that Jews, historically, were a "people without art." Scholars of past decades have followed suit, continuing to emphasize the paintings from the assembly hall at the expense of other documented findings from the synagogue. This talk, however, takes a different approach. By drawing renewed attention to additional artifacts from the building, including burial deposits, amuletic ceiling tiles, and ancient graffiti, it suggests that there is more to the synagogue than that which initially meets the eye.Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Classical Studies Program; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7258, or e-mail [email protected].
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Song Composition Workshop, led by Missy Mazzoli

Vocal Arts Program singers and collaborative pianists present new works by Bard composers Manar Hashmi, Faisal Jones, Josh Krienke, Oga Li, Santiago Mieres, Zeke Morgan, and Artemy Mukhin

Thursday, March 9, 2023
7–8:30 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Free and open to vaccinated members of the public.

Program includes:
MANAR HASHMI
Sadie Spivey, soprano
Viktoria Sarkadi, piano


FAISAL JONES: 
Francesca Lionetta, soprano
Bat-Erdene (Baghi) Batbileg, piano

JOSH KRIENKE 
Jun Mo Yang, tenor
Neilson Chen, piano

OGA LI 
Jonathan Lawlor, baritone
Nomin Samdan, piano

ZEKE MORGAN
Katie Lerner Lee, soprano
Nomin Samdan, piano


ARTEMY MUKHIN
Montana Smith, soprano
Bat-Erdene (Baghi) Batbileg, piano


SANTIAGO MIERES RAUSSEO
Teryn Kuzma, soprano
Abbagael Greene, mezzo
Neilson Chen, pianoSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Spring Dance Performance

Thursday, March 9, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance-making. Dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.

Choreography by
Zara Boss
Justine Denamiel
Rose Maskati
Elsa Wood

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-dance-performance/.
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  • 5:30–6:30 pm The Institute of Advanced Theology Spring 2023 Lecture SeriesThursday, March 9, 2023, 5:30–6:30 pm
  • 5:30 pm Disorientation as Worship: A Different (Re)view of the Dura-Europos SynagogueThursday, March 9, 2023, 5:30 pm
  • 7–8:30 pm Song Composition Workshop, led by Missy MazzoliThursday, March 9, 2023, 7–8:30 pm
  • 7:30–8:30 pm Spring Dance PerformanceThursday, March 9, 2023, 7:30–8:30 pm

Finding an Authentic Voice for an Ancient Poet: Translating Eugenius of Toledo
 

Graham Barrett, University of Lincoln, UK 
David Ungvary, Bard College

Friday, March 10, 2023
2–3:30 pm

Olin, Room 102
“Be present to us, You Holy One, loosen the muscles of our throats,
fill our mouths with articulate phrases, fill our hearts with tears…”
 
“Blubbery fat on his neck chokes off his pudgy gullet
and his horribly raspy voice loses its dulcet tones.”
 
These starkly different couplets were composed during the so-called “Dark Ages” by the same Latin poet: Eugenius of Toledo (d. 657 CE). Maybe. In this workshop, Professors Graham Barrett (University of Lincoln, UK) and David Ungvary (Bard) will expose participants to the challenges of locating an authentic “voice” in Eugenius’s verse, which has never before been rendered into English, but which, in the Middle Ages, was popular enough to inspire a host of imitators and pseudo-Eugenian posers. Together, those in the workshop will explore—partly through experiments in re-writing Eugenius—how various modes of translation may help (or hinder) attempts to find and animate the “true Eugenius,” a poet whose tone can range wildly from pious and reverent to just plain mean. All students and faculty interested in translation are encouraged to attend; no knowledge of Latin is necessary.

 Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Medieval Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Academic Freedom in the Balance: Central European University and New College Florida 

Friday, March 10, 2023
3–4 pm

3 PM New York l 9 PM Vienna via Livestream

The OSUN Liberal Arts Collaborative, Bard College, Central European University's Democracy Institute (CEU), and Defending Educational Freedom for Youth (DEFY) are sponsoring a livestreamed conversation between Michael Ignatieff, former Rector and President of CEU, and student leaders from New College of Florida representing the activist group DEFY.

The discussion is an important opportunity for Ignatieff to discuss with New College student leaders the lessons learned from Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban’s assault on academic freedom in Hungary, including the expulsion of CEU. New College of Florida, a public liberal arts college, has recently been targeted by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis: half of its Board of Trustees has been replaced, its president dismissed, and new board members are threatening major changes to teaching and curricula, especially on issues pertaining to race and gender. In this context, New College can be seen as a microcosm of wider challenges to academic freedom taking place in Florida and across the US.

The talk will be moderated by Kyaw Moe Tun, head of the Open Society University Network’s Liberal Arts Collaborative based at Bard College and President of Parami University in Myanmar (now in exile).

Participants:
Michael Ignatieff, former President and Rector of CEU, 2016-2021, current Rector Emeritus and University Professor of History, CEU 
Student leaders from DEFY

Join the livestream via OSUN's YouTube channel
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Spring Dance Performance

Friday, March 10, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance-making. Dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.

Choreography by
Zara Boss
Justine Denamiel
Rose Maskati
Elsa Wood

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-dance-performance/.
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Spring Dance Performance

Friday, March 10, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance-making. Dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.

Choreography by
Zara Boss
Justine Denamiel
Rose Maskati
Elsa Wood

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-dance-performance/.
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  • 2–3:30 pm Finding an Authentic Voice for an Ancient Poet: Translating Eugenius of Toledo Friday, March 10, 2023, 2–3:30 pm
  • 3–4 pm Academic Freedom in the Balance: Central European University and New College Florida Friday, March 10, 2023, 3–4 pm
  • 7:30–8:30 pm Spring Dance PerformanceFriday, March 10, 2023, 7:30–8:30 pm
  • 7:30–8:30 pm Spring Dance PerformanceFriday, March 10, 2023, 7:30–8:30 pm

Baseball Doubleheader

Saturday, March 11, 2023
1 pm

Honey Field
The baseball team hosts Purchase College for two games. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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Spring Dance Performance

Saturday, March 11, 2023
2–3 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance-making. Dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.

Choreography by
Zara Boss
Justine Denamiel
Rose Maskati
Elsa Wood

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-dance-performance/.
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Spring Dance Performance

Saturday, March 11, 2023
2–3 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance-making. Dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.

Choreography by
Zara Boss
Justine Denamiel
Rose Maskati
Elsa Wood

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-dance-performance/.
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Women's Lacrosse Game

Saturday, March 11, 2023
2 pm

Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex
The women's lacrosse team hosts Albertus Magnus College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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Spring Dance Performance

Saturday, March 11, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance-making. Dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.

Choreography by
Zara Boss
Justine Denamiel
Rose Maskati
Elsa Wood

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-dance-performance/.
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Spring Dance Performance

Saturday, March 11, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance-making. Dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.

Choreography by
Zara Boss
Justine Denamiel
Rose Maskati
Elsa Wood

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-dance-performance/2023-03-11/2//events/spring-dance-performance/2/.
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Bard College Conservatory Orchestra

Saturday, March 11, 2023
8–9 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Leon Botstein, music director

Robert Schumann
Konzertstück for Four Horns and Orchestra
with Erik Ralske, Javier Gándara, Hugo Valverde, and Barbara Jöstlein Currie, horns

Richard Strauss
Death and Transfiguration

Ralph Vaughan Williams
A London Symphony

Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bcom-23/.
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  • 1 pm Baseball DoubleheaderSaturday, March 11, 2023, 1 pm
  • 2 pm Women's Lacrosse GameSaturday, March 11, 2023, 2 pm
  • 2–3 pm Spring Dance PerformanceSaturday, March 11, 2023, 2–3 pm
  • 2–3 pm Spring Dance PerformanceSaturday, March 11, 2023, 2–3 pm
  • 7:30–8:30 pm Spring Dance PerformanceSaturday, March 11, 2023, 7:30–8:30 pm
  • 7:30–8:30 pm Spring Dance PerformanceSaturday, March 11, 2023, 7:30–8:30 pm
  • 8–9 pm Bard College Conservatory OrchestraSaturday, March 11, 2023, 8–9 pm

Baseball Game

Sunday, March 12, 2023
11 am

Honey Field
The baseball team hosts Middlebury College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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Faculty Recital: Yi-Wen Jiang, violin, and Frank Corliss, piano

Performing works by Verracini, Brahms, Kriesler, Debussy, Ravel, and more

Sunday, March 12, 2023
3:30–5 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Program:
Francesco Maria Veracini (1690-1768)
Largo for Violin and Piano in F Sharp Minor                                     

Johannes Brahms (1822-1897)
Scherzo in C Minor, WoO 2
Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100

                    
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta

Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)
 from Spanish Dances, Op.26, No.1, Vito

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)        
 "Auf Flügeln des Gesanges" (transcribed by Joseph Achron)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
  "Clair de Lune" (transcribed by A. Roelens)

Frédéric Chopin 91810-1849)
Nocturne in E minor, Op.posth.72, No.1 (transcribed by Leopold Auer)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Lensky's Aria from Eugene Onegin (arr. by Leopold Auer)

Carl Engel (1883-1944)
The Sea-shell (arr. Efrem Zimbalist)

Marice Ravel (1875-1937)
Tzigane

Violinist Yi-Wen Jiang was born into a musical family in Beijing where both parents were professional musicians – his father a concertmaster for over 35 years and his mother a soprano soloist. After hearing Beethoven's violin concerto at the age of three, Jiang understood his life’s path: to become a professional violinist. He made his concerto debut at the age of 17 in Beijing and studied at the Central Conservatory of Music, before enrolling at the St. Louis Conservatory in 1985 to study with Taras Gabora and Michael Tree. Later he studied at Rugers University with Arnold Steinhardt. In 1994 Jiang joined the Shanghai Quartet, and over the next 26 years performed more than 3000 concerts in 37 countries. 
Jiang is Artist-in-Residence at the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University and a faculty member at The Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Frank Corliss is the director of the Bard College Conservatory of Music. For many years he was a staff pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and the director of music at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts. He frequently performed on the Boston Symphony Prelude Concert series and throughout the United States as a chamber musician and collaborative pianist. A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he received his MM from SUNY at Stony Brook, where he studied with Gilbert Kalish.  . 

Concert free and open to vaccinated members of the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Degree Recital: Michael Knox, double-bass, performing works by Bach, Koussevitsky, Marais, Chick Corea, and Vigilance Brandon

With collaborative pianists Nhi Huynh and Leonard Gurevich, violinist Laura Perez Rangel, percussionists Juan Mora and Rodney Clark, and Vigilance Brandon, trumpet.

Sunday, March 12, 2023
6–7 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Michael Knox is in his final year at the Bard College Conservatory of Music where he is studying double-bass performance with Jeremy McCoy. His other teachers include Leigh Mesh, Bradley Aikman, and Ira Coleman. Michael is currently writing his senior project for his second major in anthropology. Throughout his five years at Bard College, Michael has been a member of the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, Chinese Ensemble, Contemporary Jazz Composers Ensemble, The Latin Ensemble, and The Collective, a group of musicians from both the Conservatory and the College who perform both on and off campus.
 Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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  • 11 am Baseball GameSunday, March 12, 2023, 11 am
  • 3:30–5 pm Faculty Recital: Yi-Wen Jiang, violin, and Frank Corliss, pianoSunday, March 12, 2023, 3:30–5 pm
  • 6–7 pm Degree Recital: Michael Knox, double-bass, performing works by Bach, Koussevitsky, Marais, Chick Corea, and Vigilance BrandonSunday, March 12, 2023, 6–7 pm

Noon Concert: Works by Bach, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Erica Sá , and Wang Jianmin

Works for piano, violin, viola, guzheng, and percussion performed by students in an hour-long program

Monday, March 13, 2023
12–1 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-443-0521, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Women's Lacrosse Game

Monday, March 13, 2023
5–7 pm

Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex
The women's lacrosse team hosts College of Mount St. Vincent. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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Sarah Hennies Percussion Recital

Monday, March 13, 2023
8–9 pm

Blum Hall
This concert is the first installment of The Michael Ranta Project, an effort by Sarah Hennies to perform and document a collection of obscure, rarely heard works from the 1970s by American percussionist and composer Michael Ranta. Supported in part by the Bard Research Fund, the project will include many Bard students and faculty alongside outside musicians in documenting a unique and almost totally unknown body of work. This concert also includes performances by the Bard Conservatory Percussion Ensemble and students of Prof. Hennies’ “Percussion as Experimental Practice” class.Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 12–1 pm Noon Concert: Works by Bach, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Erica Sá , and Wang JianminMonday, March 13, 2023, 12–1 pm
  • 5–7 pm Women's Lacrosse GameMonday, March 13, 2023, 5–7 pm
  • 8–9 pm Sarah Hennies Percussion RecitalMonday, March 13, 2023, 8–9 pm

Speaker Series: Hynunjin Kim

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
1–3 pm

CCS Bard, Classroom 102
Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures will take place in Classroom 102 at CCS Bard, are free and open to the public, and are documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library & Archives. 

More information on that talk, along with the full schedule and bios can be found below as well as on the events page of our website.
 Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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A Reading & Conversation About a People's History of Menstruation

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
6–7:30 pm

Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio
Join us for a reading from Our Red Book, a global collection of personal histories about menstruation, bleeding, and not bleeding from voices of all ages and genders, gathered by the New York Times best-selling author Rachel Kauder Nalebuff. Rachel will be joined by contributers Somaah Haaland, Victoria Law, and Daaimah Mubashshir to read from and discuss the process of writing their own accounts, which span the subjects of gender, identity, bleeding behind bars, and how menstruation offers an immediate window into our lives. 

Rachel Kauder Nalebuff is a writer working at the intersection of oral history, performance, and public health. Her newest book is Our Red Book (Simon & Schuster, 2022). She is the author of Stages: on Dying, Working, and Feeling (Thick Press, 2020); coeditor of The Feminist Utopia Project (Feminist Press, 2015); and the editor of the New York Times bestselling My Little Red Book (Twelve Books, 2009). She teaches nonfiction writing at Yale University.

Somah Haaland is a queer Indigenous artist and community organizer from the Pueblos of Laguna and Jemez in New Mexico who currently resides in New York City.

Victoria Law is a freelance journalist and author focusing on Women’s Incarceration.

Daaimah Mubashshir is Bard’s Playwright-in-Residence. Her work has been commissioned by the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, and 3 Hole Press. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the 2021 PlayCo Residency for Black Women Theatre Makers; 2020–22 WP Theater Lab Fellowship; 2019-22 Core Writer Fellowship (Playwrights Center, Minnesota), an Audrey Residency (New Georges), MacDowell Fellowship, and Foundation of Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.Sponsored by: Theater & Performance Program, OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts, and the Written Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Men's Volleyball Match

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
6–8 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
The men's volleyball team hosts Endicott in a single match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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CMIA - The Fifth Generation

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
7–11:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • Yellow Earth
    (Chen Kaige, 1985, 90 minutes, China, 35mm)
  • Raise the Red Lantern
    (Zhang Yimou, 1994, 125 minutes, China/Hong Kong/Taiwan, 35mm)
     
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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Canceled: A Measurable Existence

Gibney Work-in-Progress showing

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

THIS PROGRAM has been canceled due to inclement weather.

A dynamic duet by commissioned choreographer Yue Yin, A Measurable Experience marks the third year of the Gibney Company’s partnership with the Bard College Dance Program and the culmination of its Spring residency in the LUMA Theater at Bard.

Please join us for a Q&A after the performance.

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/gibney-23/.
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  • 1–3 pm Speaker Series: Hynunjin KimTuesday, March 14, 2023, 1–3 pm
  • 6–8 pm Men's Volleyball MatchTuesday, March 14, 2023, 6–8 pm
  • 6–7:30 pm A Reading & Conversation About a People's History of MenstruationTuesday, March 14, 2023, 6–7:30 pm
  • 7–11:55 pm CMIA - The Fifth GenerationTuesday, March 14, 2023, 7–11:55 pm
  • 7:30–8:30 pm Canceled: A Measurable ExistenceTuesday, March 14, 2023, 7:30–8:30 pm

CMIA - The Films of Orson Welles

Wednesday, March 15, 2023
7:30–11:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • The Night of the Hunter
    (Charles Laughton, 1955, USA, 93 minutes)
  • Touch of Evil
    (Orson Welles, 1958, USA, 105 minutes)
     
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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  • 7:30–11:55 pm CMIA - The Films of Orson WellesWednesday, March 15, 2023, 7:30–11:55 pm

The Institute of Advanced Theology Spring 2023 Lecture Series

"In Search of the Once and Future Eden" with Bruce Chilton

Thursday, March 16, 2023
5:30–6:30 pm

Bard Hall
This lecture series is in conjunction with the book launch of Eden Revisited: A Novel by László Z. Bitó ’60. You can find the recordings of past lectures on the IAT website. These lectures and their recordings are made possible by the generosity of a loyal donor.

Eden is both a place in the mythic past and the prospect for a balanced, ecological, and human civilization in the future. Gnostic writers in particular have portrayed how the idyllic garden could have been lost, and why regaining its richness has proven elusive. Laszlo Bito, a Bard alumnus from the class of 1960 investigated these issues in his book Eden Revisited. The series is designed to join in that quest, in order to press the issue of Eden’s deep promise.

All lectures will take place on Thursdays at 5:30 pm in Bard Hall. 

Thursday, February 23 - Cain: the first murder, the first city
Thursday, March 2 - The Serpent: Language unravels Eden
Thursday, March 9 - YHWH
Thursday, March 16 - Eden, the garden that exists over our horizonSponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.

For more information, call 845-758-6822 x7667, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/iat/.
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  • 5:30–6:30 pm The Institute of Advanced Theology Spring 2023 Lecture SeriesThursday, March 16, 2023, 5:30–6:30 pm

Moderation Papers Due

Friday, March 17, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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  • Moderation Papers DueFriday, March 17, 2023

Spring Recess

Runs through Sunday, March 26, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Women's Lacrosse Game

Saturday, March 18, 2023
1 pm

The women's lacrosse team hosts Skidmore College in a Liberty League game. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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  • 1 pm Women's Lacrosse GameSaturday, March 18, 2023, 1 pm

Graduate Conducting Program: Degree Recital

WITH THE ORCHESTRA NOW

Sunday, March 19, 2023
3–4 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

The Degree Recital is the culminating project of the Graduate Conducting Program. Given during the second year of study, students have the opportunity to conduct the repertoire of their choice on this concert.

Led by Conducting Students
Gordon Cheung
Yu Liu
Andrés Peltier-Salazar
Brian Reynolds
Colin Roshak

Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Conducting Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/gcp-23/.
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  • 3–4 pm Graduate Conducting Program: Degree RecitalSunday, March 19, 2023, 3–4 pm
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Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability — March 2023 Online Open House

Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school. 

Wednesday, March 22, 2023
7–8:30 pm

Online Event
RSVP HERE

Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.

During these open houses, prospective students have the opportunity to meet with alumni and faculty from their program of interest. It's the perfect way to connect with the Bard GPS community, and get any questions answered about the student experience directly from those who know it best—the faculty and alumni of the programs.

WHAT WE COVER: 
  • Overview of graduate program offerings
  • Student experience
  • Alumni career outcomes
  • General admissions and financial aid information
A $65 application fee waiver is available at the end of the session to those who participate in the webinar.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.

For more information, call 845-663-4197, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/473633369157.
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  • 7–8:30 pm Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability — March 2023 Online Open HouseWednesday, March 22, 2023, 7–8:30 pm
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Baseball Doubleheader

Saturday, March 25, 2023
1 pm

Honey Field
The baseball team hosts Vassar College for two games. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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  • 1 pm Baseball DoubleheaderSaturday, March 25, 2023, 1 pm

Men's Volleyball Tri-Match

Sunday, March 26, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
The men's volleyball team hosts a tri-match.

Bard will play Potsdam State at 11 a.m.
Potsdam State will play John Jay at 1 p.m.
Bard will play John Jay at 3 p.m.

Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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  • 11 am – 5 pm Men's Volleyball Tri-MatchSunday, March 26, 2023, 11 am – 5 pm

The Lonely Trees by the Rojava Film Commune

Film screening, with introduction by Lara Fresko Madra and Thomas Keenan

Monday, March 27, 2023
5–6:30 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema
The Lonely Trees (2017, 43 min) is a documentary about the “dengbej,” who carry the heritage of music, poetry, and storytelling in the semi- autonomous region of Rojava.

This event is part of Archival Collective Counter–Imagination, a two-part series curated by art historian and current CHRA Fellow Lara Fresko Madra.

The series brings together two collective endeavors —the Rojava Film Commune and the Material Aesthetic Research Collective — to think through not only who archives belong to, but how they generate a sense of belonging. In engaging the moving image as a site of negotiation and building collectivity, these endeavors are concerned with how such media can create and re-create past and future community. Brushing the archive against the grain, is it possible to listen to its absences? This program explores the two group’s modes of social organization around the moving image that cross and, at times, defy the horizon of the nation-state. 

Komîna Fîlm a Rojava (The Rojava Film Commune) is a commune of filmmakers based in the eponymous autonomous region in northern Syria. Their work across the region builds and develops infrastructures for filmmaking, screening, and education, fostering new audiences and an awareness of filmmaking as a medium for empowerment and a tool for liberation. The commune’s creative output spans documentary and commercial films as well as public service announcements. 

Lara Fresko Madra is an art historian, writer, and curator with a PhD in Art History from Cornell University. Her research focuses on contemporary artistic practices from Turkey and the Middle East that challenge official history and offer alternative ways of relating to the past. She is currently a teaching and research fellow at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. Sponsored by: OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.

For more information, call 917-370-5279, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://chra.bard.edu/event/lonely-trees/.
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Piano Master Class: Mikhail Voskresensky

Formerly chair of the piano department at the Moscow Conservatory, now in exile in New York in protest of the invasion of Ukraine. 

Monday, March 27, 2023
6–8 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Mikhail Voskresensky has an international reputation as a pianist in the great Romantic tradition. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory where he studied under Ilia Klyachko, Boris Zemliansky, Yakob Milstein, Lev Oborin (piano) and Leonid Roizman (organ). He was prize-winner at the Schumann International Competition in Berlin, the International Competition in Rio de Janeiro, the George Enescu International Competition, and the Van Cliburn Competition. In 1957 he took part in the Prague Spring Festival where he performed European premiere of Shostakovich Second Piano concerto in the presence of Shostakovich himself. In 1966 he was honored with the Merited Artist of Russia award and in 1989 the People's Artist of Russia. Since then Mikhail Voskresensky has performed with more than 150 conductors in almost all countries of Europe, Japan, Korea, China, Australia, USA, Mexico, Cuba, Kenia, Zimbabwe and Peru.
He was a distinguished professor at the Moscow Conservatory, and the chair of the professorship of piano faculty, until he left Russia in 2022 in protest against the invasion of Ukraine.

An recent article in The Atlantic describes his current life in exile:   
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/defection-mikhail-voskresensky/671866/Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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  • 5–6:30 pm The Lonely Trees by the Rojava Film CommuneMonday, March 27, 2023, 5–6:30 pm
  • 6–8 pm Piano Master Class: Mikhail VoskresenskyMonday, March 27, 2023, 6–8 pm

Boycott

Julia Bacha, 2021

Tuesday, March 28, 2023
5:30–7:30 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Over the past six years, unbeknownst to most Americans, 34 states passed laws intending to silence boycott and other nonviolent measures aimed at pressuring Israel on its human rights record. These dangerous bills remove the legal protection that has been awarded to boycotts for generations, granting governments the power to condition jobs on political viewpoints. 

As this wave of anti-boycott legislation has swept through the country, so has a counter-wave in defense of freedom of speech. Everyday Americans are challenging these laws for their constitutionality in a nation-wide battle likely to go all the way to the Supreme Court. 

With full access to the plaintiffs and in revelatory moments with elected officials, Boycott chronicles one of the most consequential First Amendment battles of the past few decades and investigates the question – how did we get here?
 
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Julia Bacha, moderated by Peter Rosenblum, Professor of International Law and Human Rights.
 
This event is organized in conjunction with the OSUN Network Collaborative Course, Freedom of Expression.
Sponsored by: Global and International Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Rescheduled: Our Red Book

Tuesday, March 28, 2023
6:30–7:30 pm

Fisher Center, Stewart and Lynda Resnick Theater Studio

Bard Theater and Performance Department, Written Arts, and the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard present:

A reading of Our Red Book, a collection of essays, oral histories, and artworks about periods across all stages of life, gathered by the New York Times best-selling author Rachel Kauder Nalebuff.

“Powerful…. Bold and candid, these missives go a long way in breaking through what one contributor calls ‘the taboo of bleeding.’”—Publishers Weekly.

This event will include a panel discussion amongst Rachel Kauder Nalebuff and contributing writers Somah Haaland, Victoria Law, and Daaimah Mubashshir.

Copies of the book will be available for sale in the lobby from Oblong Books.

Sponsored by: Bard Theater & Performance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/our-red-book/.
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Men's Volleyball Match

Tuesday, March 28, 2023
7–9 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
The men's volleyball team hosts Russell Sage in a single match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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  • 5:30–7:30 pm BoycottTuesday, March 28, 2023, 5:30–7:30 pm
  • 6:30–7:30 pm Rescheduled: Our Red BookTuesday, March 28, 2023, 6:30–7:30 pm
  • 7–9 pm Men's Volleyball MatchTuesday, March 28, 2023, 7–9 pm

Climate Despair to Climate Repair

Free Mocktails+Dinner, Panel, Open Discussion: Bard’s Teach-in on Climate and Justice

Wednesday, March 29, 2023
5–8 pm

Campus Center, Multipurpose Room

Worried about Climate Change? The World Is Getting to Work on Climate Repair: Find Out How!

Join the 2023 Bard Teach-in on Climate and Justice.
  • Free Mocktails+Dinner with Hudson Valley Climate Leaders
  • Keynote Panel: People and Planet Working on Climate Repair, with Bard Professors Felicia Keesing and Eban Goodstein
  • Breakout Conversation: Scale of 1–10, Where Are You on Climate? Where is Everybody Else?
More Teach-in Events:
  • #MakeClimateAClass in 40 Bard Classes
  • Climate Game Night! March 30, Faculty Dining Room, Kline Commons
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard Farm; Bard MBA in Sustainability; Bard Office of Sustainability; OSUN; Office of Sustainability.

For more information, call 503-806-6370, or e-mail [email protected].
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Women's Lacrosse Game

Wednesday, March 29, 2023
6 pm

Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex
The women's lacrosse team hosts Russell Sage College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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CMIA - The Films of Orson Welles

Wednesday, March 29, 2023
7:30–11:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • Monsieur Verdoux
    (Charles Chaplin, 1947, USA, 124 minutes)
  • The Third Man
    (Carol Reed, 1949, UK, 93 minutes)
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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  • 5–8 pm Climate Despair to Climate RepairWednesday, March 29, 2023, 5–8 pm
  • 6 pm Women's Lacrosse GameWednesday, March 29, 2023, 6 pm
  • 7:30–11:55 pm CMIA - The Films of Orson WellesWednesday, March 29, 2023, 7:30–11:55 pm

Matt Sargent, Faculty Recital

Premiere of "The Fragility of Time" for solo electric guitar by James Romig

Thursday, March 30, 2023
7–8 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 7–8 pm Matt Sargent, Faculty RecitalThursday, March 30, 2023, 7–8 pm

Esteban Ganem Presents Identity Communication: A Percussion Recital

Friday, March 31, 2023
7:30–9 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Esteban Ganem is a percussionist from Houston, Texas with a passion for playing new music. He has premiered works by composers Annika Socolofsky and Andrea Mazzariello, and  collaborated with So Percussion, Third Coast Percussion, Da Capo Chamber Players, Michael Burritt, Christopher Cerrone and Amy Petrongelli. A graduate of Baylor University with a BA in music education, he was a finalist in Baylor’s 2019 Semper Pro Musica chamber music competition. He currently studies at the Bard College Conservatory of Music in the Graduate Instrumental Arts Program with teachers Jason Treuting, Eric Cha-Beach, and Jason Haaheim. While at Bard, Esteban performed as a soloist with the Bard Conservatory Orchestra in Tan Dun’s percussion concerto The Tears of Nature. Esteban performs with the Bard Percussion Ensemble, The Orchestra Now, and enjoys working with Bard’s composers.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Beth Gill: Nail Biter

New Commission/World Premiere

Friday, March 31, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

The second Fisher Center LAB commission from acclaimed contemporary choreographer Beth Gill, Nail Biter moves the viewer through portals of myth, memoir, psychodrama, and horror. Characters emerge as a collection of representations of our collective unconscious as the work pierces through the existential weight of our time and channels our contemporary angst and anxiety.

Sponsored by: Fisher Center LAB.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/beth-gill-nail-biter/.
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  • 7:30–8:30 pm Beth Gill: Nail BiterFriday, March 31, 2023, 7:30–8:30 pm
  • 7:30–9 pm Esteban Ganem Presents Identity Communication: A Percussion RecitalFriday, March 31, 2023, 7:30–9 pm
 

Ongoing Events

  • Runs through Sunday, March 26, 2023 Spring Recess

all events are subject to change

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Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability — Online Information Session for International Applicants

Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability (GPS) holds online informational webinars specifically for prospective international students.

Wednesday, March 1, 2023
12–1 pm

Online Event
RSVP HERE 

Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability (GPS) holds online informational webinars specifically for prospective international students. Learn about Bard GPS programs and the admissions process directly from the Bard GPS team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session.

WHAT WE COVER:
  • Overview of graduate program offerings available to international students
  • The international student admissions information
  • Prerequisite course information
  • Funding opportunities and scholarships for international students
  • Tips for a standout application
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.

For more information, call 845-663-4197, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/489009359157.
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Women's Lacrosse Season Opener

Wednesday, March 1, 2023
6 pm

Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex
The women's lacrosse team opens the season against Mount St. Mary College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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Bard Brass: Works by Hovhaness, Sibelius, McKee, Bernstein, and Fauré

Edward Carroll's Brass Studio Ensembles with collaborative piano fellow Bat-erdene Batbileg

Wednesday, March 1, 2023
7–8 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Conjunctions:79, Onword Launch Reading

Featuring Jai Chakrabarti, Peter Gizzi, Carole Maso, and Shane McCrae, introduced by Colin Channer

Wednesday, March 1, 2023
7 pm

McNally Jackson Seaport
Join us to celebrate the launch of Conjunctions:79, Onword! The evening will feature readings by contributors Jai Chakrabarti, Peter Gizzi, Carole Maso, and Shane McCrae, introduced by Colin Channer. 

The literary journal Conjunctions, edited by novelist Bradford Morrow and published by Bard College, has been a living notebook for provocative, risk-taking, rigorously composed fiction, poetry, and narrative nonfiction since 1981. As PEN America has it: “Conjunctions is one of our most distinctive and valuable literary magazines: innovative, daring, indispensable, and beautiful.”

Our Fall 2022 issue is a celebration of continuing both onward and Onword—on with Conjunctions, on with the words.

While this issue has no theme, what we’ve collected here could simply be described as “great writing by great writers.” And themes do, of course, emerge: Inside, you’ll find explorations of survival, migration, loss and renewal, as well as meditations on how to live with disappointment, how to reimagine and rebuild, and how to move onward through difficult existential terrains.

Conjunctions 79, Onword features new work from Fred Moten, Can Xue, John Crowley, Nathaniel Mackey, Sofia Samatar, Yxta Maya Murray, Russell Banks, Deb Olin Unferth, Rae Armantrout, G. C. Waldrep, Bonnie Nadzam, Vi Khi Nao, Carole Maso, Julia Alvarez, Fred D’Aguiar, and more, as well as three previously unpublished poems by C. D. Wright.

RSVP required at https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/conjunctions79-onword-launch-reading-Rsvp.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/conjunctions79-onword-launch-reading.
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CMIA - The Films of Orson Welles

Wednesday, March 1, 2023
7:30–11:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • Mr. Arkadin
    (Confidential Report, Orson Welles, 1955, France/Spain/Switzerland, 99 minutes, 35mm)
  • Shadows
    (John Cassavetes, 1959, USA, 87 minutes, 35mm)
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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Judgment, Pluralism, and Democracy

On the Desirability of Speaking with Others

Thursday, March 2, 2023 – Friday, March 3, 2023

Multiple Locations (See below)
Free and Open to the Public!

Register Here


**See full program below**

Keynote by Linda Zerilli (The University of Chicago): “Arendt and the Problem of Democratic Persuasion”
Stream the Keynote Lecture on YouTube


Organized by Nicholas Dunn (Bard College) and Nirvana Tanoukhi (Dartmouth College)

One of the latest features of the crisis of democratic culture is the problematization of free speech. The dysfunction of public discourse in democratic societies has sparked skepticism about the validity of the principle itself and concerns about its evident impracticability. This line of interrogation has targeted the grounds and scope of this putatively desirable freedom. For example, does Louis Brandeis’s idea that with “more speech…the truth will out” have any actual empirical validity? Or does the weaponizability of free speech in the age of the internet not call for modifying or restricting its legal protection?

This conference aims to expand the parameters of the current conversation by taking a step back from the desirability of unrestricted ‘freedom’ of expression and shifting critical attention to the desirability of ‘talking to others.’ For any case to be made in support or against free speech is, more fundamentally, a statement about whether the good of talking to others demands the protections that make it possible, be that demand conceived in moral, instrumental, or prudential terms. Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project; Philosophy Program; Politics Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://hac.bard.edu/events/pluralism.
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Linda Zerilli: “Arendt and the Problem of Political Persuasion”

The Inaugural De Gruyter Lecture

Thursday, March 2, 2023
5:15–7 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
The keynote lecture for Judgment, Pluralism, and Democracy: On the Desirability of Speaking with Others—a two-day interdisciplinary humanities conference. 

Stream the Keynote Lecture on YouTube

Sponsored by: German Studies Program; Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project; Philosophy Program; Politics Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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The Institute of Advanced Theology Spring 2023 Lecture Series

"In Search of the Once and Future Eden" with Bruce Chilton

Thursday, March 2, 2023
5:30–6:30 pm

Bard Hall
This lecture series is in conjunction with the book launch of Eden Revisited: A Novel by László Z. Bitó ’60. You can find the recordings of past lectures on the IAT website. These lectures and their recordings are made possible by the generosity of a loyal donor.

Eden is both a place in the mythic past and the prospect for a balanced, ecological, and human civilization in the future. Gnostic writers in particular have portrayed how the idyllic garden could have been lost, and why regaining its richness has proven elusive. Laszlo Bito, a Bard alumnus from the class of 1960 investigated these issues in his book Eden Revisited. The series is designed to join in that quest, in order to press the issue of Eden’s deep promise.

All lectures will take place on Thursdays at 5:30 pm in Bard Hall. 

Thursday, February 23 - Cain: the first murder, the first city
Thursday, March 2 - The Serpent: Language unravels Eden
Thursday, March 9 - YHWH
Thursday, March 16 - Eden, the garden that exists over our horizonSponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.

For more information, call 845-758-6822 x7667, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/iat/.
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Judgment, Pluralism, and Democracy

On the Desirability of Speaking with Others

Thursday, March 2, 2023 – Friday, March 3, 2023

Multiple Locations (See below)
Free and Open to the Public!

Register Here


**See full program below**

Keynote by Linda Zerilli (The University of Chicago): “Arendt and the Problem of Democratic Persuasion”
Stream the Keynote Lecture on YouTube


Organized by Nicholas Dunn (Bard College) and Nirvana Tanoukhi (Dartmouth College)

One of the latest features of the crisis of democratic culture is the problematization of free speech. The dysfunction of public discourse in democratic societies has sparked skepticism about the validity of the principle itself and concerns about its evident impracticability. This line of interrogation has targeted the grounds and scope of this putatively desirable freedom. For example, does Louis Brandeis’s idea that with “more speech…the truth will out” have any actual empirical validity? Or does the weaponizability of free speech in the age of the internet not call for modifying or restricting its legal protection?

This conference aims to expand the parameters of the current conversation by taking a step back from the desirability of unrestricted ‘freedom’ of expression and shifting critical attention to the desirability of ‘talking to others.’ For any case to be made in support or against free speech is, more fundamentally, a statement about whether the good of talking to others demands the protections that make it possible, be that demand conceived in moral, instrumental, or prudential terms. Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project; Philosophy Program; Politics Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://hac.bard.edu/events/pluralism.
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Baseball Doubleheader

Saturday, March 4, 2023
12 pm

Honey Field
The baseball team hosts Plattsburgh State for two games. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe

Saturday, March 4, 2023
7–8 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

TŌN Associate Conductor James Bagwell leads soloists from the Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program in a concert performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s fairyland fantasy, which The New York Times called “a madcap Victorian fairytale, rife with merriment!”

PROGRAM

Gilbert & Sullivan
Iolanthe

Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/gilbert-sullivans-iolanthe/.
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Baseball Game

Sunday, March 5, 2023
12 pm

Honey Field
The baseball team hosts Rutgers-Newark for a single game. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe

Sunday, March 5, 2023
3–4 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

TŌN Associate Conductor James Bagwell leads soloists from the Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program in a concert performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s fairyland fantasy, which The New York Times called “a madcap Victorian fairytale, rife with merriment!”

PROGRAM

Gilbert & Sullivan
Iolanthe

Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/gilbert-sullivans-iolanthe/.
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Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe

Sunday, March 5, 2023
3–4 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

TŌN Associate Conductor James Bagwell leads soloists from the Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program in a concert performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s fairyland fantasy, which The New York Times called “a madcap Victorian fairytale, rife with merriment!”

PROGRAM

Gilbert & Sullivan
Iolanthe

Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/gilbert-sullivans-iolanthe/.
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The Interview

Film Screening at Thrift 2 Fight

Sunday, March 5, 2023
6–8 pm

Thrift 2 Fight, 48 Broadway, Tivoli, NY
The Bard community is invited to Thrift 2 Fight at 6pm on Sunday, March 5th for a film screening and panel discussion, in collaboration with RAPP (Releasing Aging People from Prisons).The Interview asks viewers to confront their feelings about justice and mercy while revealing the heavy toll our current legal system takes on incarcerated people and their families. The panel discussion is not to be missed! 
 
Free and open to the public—invite your friends! Masks required.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-416-2938, or e-mail [email protected].
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: Documenting Trans Family Life

Featuring Krys Belc

Monday, March 6, 2023
5 pm

Olin Language Center, Room 115
An Autonomies Series Event

This lecture will focus on the nature of the family archive and its relation to queer and trans liberation and creativity. Parenting is, in the contemporary era, inherently documentary. Parents and other family members tell stories, take pictures, and, increasingly, tell their family story publicly. How can queer and trans artists reckon with archives their families have left behind, and what might ethical documentation of family life look like with queerness at the forefront of the documenter’s mind?

Krys Malcolm Belc is the author of the flash nonfiction chapbook In Transit and the memoir The Natural Mother of the Child, which was a New York Times New and Noteworthy title and an NPR Best Book of the Year. His essays have been published in Granta, Guernica, The Rumpus, Brevity, and elsewhere. Krys received his BA from Swarthmore College, his M.Ed in Special Education from Arcadia University, and his MFA in Creative Writing from Northern Michigan University. Krys is the memoir editor of Split Lip Magazine. He lives in Philadelphia with his partner and their four young children.

Read more about Autonomies hereSponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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A Reading with Jenny Xie

Monday, March 6, 2023
5–6:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
On Monday, March 6 at 5pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), poet and Bard faculty member Jenny Xie will read from her work. Introduced by Mary Caponegro, and followed by a Q&A, the reading is free and open to the student body. 

​Jenny Xie was born in Anhui province, China. She is the author of Eye Level, a finalist for the National Book Award and the recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University, and The Rupture Tense, a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been supported by fellowships and grants from Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Kundiman, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Vilcek Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Yale Review, American Poetry Review, New Republic, Tin House, and elsewhere. She has taught at Princeton and NYU, and is currently on faculty at Bard College. Jenny lives in New York City.

Mary Caponegro is the Richard B. Fisher Family Professor in Literature and Writing at Bard. She is the author of the short story collections The Star Café, Five Doubts, The Complexities of Intimacy, and All Fall Down, as well as selected works in translation. Professor Caponegro is a contributor to The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Tin House, Black Warrior Review, Salt Hill, Epoch, Fairy Tale Review, Sulfur, Gargoyle, and Iowa Review, and a contributing editor for Conjunctions. 

Read more about Jenny's work here.
 Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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CMIA - Jacques Demy and Michael Powell

Monday, March 6, 2023
7–9 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
    (Jacques Demy, 1964, France, 90 minutes, 35mm)
  • The Red Shoes
    (Michael Powell, 1948, UK, 133 minutes, 35mm)
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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BACH to the FUTURE: 
Faculty Recital with Melissa Reardon, viola, Raman Ramakrishnan, cello, and guests Dustin Carlson, guitar, and Siwoo Kim, violin

Bach's GOLDBERG VARIATIONS (arranged for string trio) and the world premiere of Dustin Carlson's ABSURD PRACTICES

Monday, March 6, 2023
7–9 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Free and open to vaccinated members of the public.
Faculty Recital 
with 
Melissa Reardon, viola
Raman Ramakrishnan, cello

 and guest musicians 
Dustin Carlson, guitar/composer
Siwoo Kim, violin
Program:

Absurd Practices for viola and cello (2022)                                                        Dustin Carlson (b. 1985)
              (world premiere - commissioned by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music)

Improvisations for Voice/Guitar (2022)                                                                                         Carlson
                                                                    
Goldberg Variations                                                                                                  J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
 (transcription for string trio by Dmitry Sitkovetsky) 

Livestreaming at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9owU3gvL0ASponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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CMIA - Indian New Wave

Tuesday, March 7, 2023
7–11:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • Devi
    (Satyajit Ray, 1960, India, 93 minutes, 35mm)
  • Dhrupad
    (Mani Kaul, 1983, India, 72 minutes)
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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Stacey Vanek Smith: Women in the Workplace in the 21st Century

Wednesday, March 8, 2023
6–7:30 pm

Olin Language Center, Room 115
The Bard community is invited to join a discussion with Stacey Vanek Smith on women in the workplace in the 21st century, why in the age of #MeToo the glass ceiling is still holding women back, and how women can yield power.

Stacey Vanek Smith, host of Planet Money's Indicator podcast, is a long-time business and economic reporter for NPR. During her 15 years on the job, she noticed she was talking to more men than women. Why? More men occupied positions of authority and expertise. In Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace, Smith takes a look at the barriers blocking women’s advancement and offers advice to remove them – from 16th century Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli.

Smith will be in discussion with Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program Director Elmira Bayrasli.

Sponsored by the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program, the Center for Civic Engagement, Open Society University Network's Civic Engagement Initiative and Gender Equity Working Group

Stay tuned for more events related to International Women's Day on March 8.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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The Law of Existence

artist/curator Maha Maamoun in conversation with writer Haytham el-Wardany

Wednesday, March 8, 2023
6–8 pm

Olin, Room 102
How to find entry points in a brutal conversation? How to summon a community of voices to diffuse a deadlock? Maha Maamoun’s artistic practices often intertwine visual and literary images, both popular and obscure, in a process of reflection on the cultural and social fabric of present day Cairo. Her subtle intervention in image and text pick on redundancies, exhausted languages, recycled imagery - features that both reveal and calcify deep-rooted structures of meaning. In their conversation, artist Maha Maamoun and writer Haytham el-Wardany will elaborate on aspects of Maamoun’s artistic practice, bringing up common themes of conversationality, seriality, quotation and reading. 

Maamoun and el-Wardany are long-time collaborators. They have co-worked on different projects such as The Middle Ear (co-editors), How to Disappear (writer-publisher), and Dear Animal (writer-filmmaker).
Maha Maamoun is an Egyptian artist, curator, and publisher. She is a founding board member of the Contemporary Image Collective (CiC), an independent non-profit space for art and culture in Cairo (2004), and co-founder of Kayfa ta, an alternative publishing platform (2012).
Haytham el-Wardany lives and works in Berlin. He writes short stories and experimental prose. His most recent publication is Jackals And The Missing Letters: On Speaking Animals At Moments Of Danger (Dar Alkarma, 2023). He is the recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism (2022-23).
Sponsored by: Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Piano Master Class: Sébastien Cornut

Wednesday, March 8, 2023
7–9 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Sébastien Cornut holds a doctorate in musical arts in piano performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music – University of Rochester, a master’s degree in music and musicology from the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, and is a graduate of the Paris Conservatory.
He studied with Aldo Ciccolini and Barry Snyder, and has performed solo recitals, chamber music, and concerts with orchestras in France, the US, Lebanon, and Ukraine. He specializes in French repertoire and believes deeply in making classical music more accessible. He teaches piano and chamber music at New Jersey City University and privately in NYC. He also provides lecture recitals introducing musical works and their creators for a broader public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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CMIA - The Films of Orson Welles

Wednesday, March 8, 2023
7:30–11:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • Macbeth
    (Orson Welles, 1948, USA, 107 minutes)
  • Othello
    (Orson Welles, 1951, Italy/Morocco, 91 minutes)
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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The Institute of Advanced Theology Spring 2023 Lecture Series

"In Search of the Once and Future Eden" with Bruce Chilton

Thursday, March 9, 2023
5:30–6:30 pm

Bard Hall
This lecture series is in conjunction with the book launch of Eden Revisited: A Novel by László Z. Bitó ’60. You can find the recordings of past lectures on the IAT website. These lectures and their recordings are made possible by the generosity of a loyal donor.

Eden is both a place in the mythic past and the prospect for a balanced, ecological, and human civilization in the future. Gnostic writers in particular have portrayed how the idyllic garden could have been lost, and why regaining its richness has proven elusive. Laszlo Bito, a Bard alumnus from the class of 1960 investigated these issues in his book Eden Revisited. The series is designed to join in that quest, in order to press the issue of Eden’s deep promise.

All lectures will take place on Thursdays at 5:30 pm in Bard Hall. 

Thursday, February 23 - Cain: the first murder, the first city
Thursday, March 2 - The Serpent: Language unravels Eden
Thursday, March 9 - YHWH
Thursday, March 16 - Eden, the garden that exists over our horizonSponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.

For more information, call 845-758-6822 x7667, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/iat/.
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Disorientation as Worship: A Different (Re)view of the Dura-Europos Synagogue

Karen Stern, Professor of History, Brooklyn College

Thursday, March 9, 2023
5:30 pm

Chapel of the Holy Innocents
The synagogue discovered in Dura Europos in 1932/1933 shocked archaeologists, scholars of ancient Syria, and students of ancient Jewish history. The interior fac;ade of the assembly hall of the building was preserved to an unprecedented degree, projecting color- ful paintings of stories from the Hebrew Bible, including images of Pharoah's daughter rescuing a baby Moses from a basket in the Nile. Existence of these murals both advanced the efforts of excavators and historians who sought to understand ancient life in Dura and transformed studies of art history more generally, by challenging a longstanding allegation that Jews, historically, were a "people without art." Scholars of past decades have followed suit, continuing to emphasize the paintings from the assembly hall at the expense of other documented findings from the synagogue. This talk, however, takes a different approach. By drawing renewed attention to additional artifacts from the building, including burial deposits, amuletic ceiling tiles, and ancient graffiti, it suggests that there is more to the synagogue than that which initially meets the eye.Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Classical Studies Program; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7258, or e-mail [email protected].
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Song Composition Workshop, led by Missy Mazzoli

Vocal Arts Program singers and collaborative pianists present new works by Bard composers Manar Hashmi, Faisal Jones, Josh Krienke, Oga Li, Santiago Mieres, Zeke Morgan, and Artemy Mukhin

Thursday, March 9, 2023
7–8:30 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Free and open to vaccinated members of the public.

Program includes:
MANAR HASHMI
Sadie Spivey, soprano
Viktoria Sarkadi, piano


FAISAL JONES: 
Francesca Lionetta, soprano
Bat-Erdene (Baghi) Batbileg, piano

JOSH KRIENKE 
Jun Mo Yang, tenor
Neilson Chen, piano

OGA LI 
Jonathan Lawlor, baritone
Nomin Samdan, piano

ZEKE MORGAN
Katie Lerner Lee, soprano
Nomin Samdan, piano


ARTEMY MUKHIN
Montana Smith, soprano
Bat-Erdene (Baghi) Batbileg, piano


SANTIAGO MIERES RAUSSEO
Teryn Kuzma, soprano
Abbagael Greene, mezzo
Neilson Chen, pianoSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Spring Dance Performance

Thursday, March 9, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance-making. Dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.

Choreography by
Zara Boss
Justine Denamiel
Rose Maskati
Elsa Wood

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-dance-performance/.
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Finding an Authentic Voice for an Ancient Poet: Translating Eugenius of Toledo
 

Graham Barrett, University of Lincoln, UK 
David Ungvary, Bard College

Friday, March 10, 2023
2–3:30 pm

Olin, Room 102
“Be present to us, You Holy One, loosen the muscles of our throats,
fill our mouths with articulate phrases, fill our hearts with tears…”
 
“Blubbery fat on his neck chokes off his pudgy gullet
and his horribly raspy voice loses its dulcet tones.”
 
These starkly different couplets were composed during the so-called “Dark Ages” by the same Latin poet: Eugenius of Toledo (d. 657 CE). Maybe. In this workshop, Professors Graham Barrett (University of Lincoln, UK) and David Ungvary (Bard) will expose participants to the challenges of locating an authentic “voice” in Eugenius’s verse, which has never before been rendered into English, but which, in the Middle Ages, was popular enough to inspire a host of imitators and pseudo-Eugenian posers. Together, those in the workshop will explore—partly through experiments in re-writing Eugenius—how various modes of translation may help (or hinder) attempts to find and animate the “true Eugenius,” a poet whose tone can range wildly from pious and reverent to just plain mean. All students and faculty interested in translation are encouraged to attend; no knowledge of Latin is necessary.

 Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Medieval Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Academic Freedom in the Balance: Central European University and New College Florida 

Friday, March 10, 2023
3–4 pm

3 PM New York l 9 PM Vienna via Livestream

The OSUN Liberal Arts Collaborative, Bard College, Central European University's Democracy Institute (CEU), and Defending Educational Freedom for Youth (DEFY) are sponsoring a livestreamed conversation between Michael Ignatieff, former Rector and President of CEU, and student leaders from New College of Florida representing the activist group DEFY.

The discussion is an important opportunity for Ignatieff to discuss with New College student leaders the lessons learned from Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban’s assault on academic freedom in Hungary, including the expulsion of CEU. New College of Florida, a public liberal arts college, has recently been targeted by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis: half of its Board of Trustees has been replaced, its president dismissed, and new board members are threatening major changes to teaching and curricula, especially on issues pertaining to race and gender. In this context, New College can be seen as a microcosm of wider challenges to academic freedom taking place in Florida and across the US.

The talk will be moderated by Kyaw Moe Tun, head of the Open Society University Network’s Liberal Arts Collaborative based at Bard College and President of Parami University in Myanmar (now in exile).

Participants:
Michael Ignatieff, former President and Rector of CEU, 2016-2021, current Rector Emeritus and University Professor of History, CEU 
Student leaders from DEFY

Join the livestream via OSUN's YouTube channel
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Spring Dance Performance

Friday, March 10, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance-making. Dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.

Choreography by
Zara Boss
Justine Denamiel
Rose Maskati
Elsa Wood

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-dance-performance/.
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Spring Dance Performance

Friday, March 10, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance-making. Dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.

Choreography by
Zara Boss
Justine Denamiel
Rose Maskati
Elsa Wood

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-dance-performance/.
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Baseball Doubleheader

Saturday, March 11, 2023
1 pm

Honey Field
The baseball team hosts Purchase College for two games. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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Spring Dance Performance

Saturday, March 11, 2023
2–3 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance-making. Dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.

Choreography by
Zara Boss
Justine Denamiel
Rose Maskati
Elsa Wood

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-dance-performance/.
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Spring Dance Performance

Saturday, March 11, 2023
2–3 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance-making. Dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.

Choreography by
Zara Boss
Justine Denamiel
Rose Maskati
Elsa Wood

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-dance-performance/.
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Women's Lacrosse Game

Saturday, March 11, 2023
2 pm

Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex
The women's lacrosse team hosts Albertus Magnus College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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Spring Dance Performance

Saturday, March 11, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance-making. Dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.

Choreography by
Zara Boss
Justine Denamiel
Rose Maskati
Elsa Wood

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-dance-performance/.
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Spring Dance Performance

Saturday, March 11, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance-making. Dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.

Choreography by
Zara Boss
Justine Denamiel
Rose Maskati
Elsa Wood

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-dance-performance/2023-03-11/2//events/spring-dance-performance/2/.
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Bard College Conservatory Orchestra

Saturday, March 11, 2023
8–9 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Leon Botstein, music director

Robert Schumann
Konzertstück for Four Horns and Orchestra
with Erik Ralske, Javier Gándara, Hugo Valverde, and Barbara Jöstlein Currie, horns

Richard Strauss
Death and Transfiguration

Ralph Vaughan Williams
A London Symphony

Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bcom-23/.
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Baseball Game

Sunday, March 12, 2023
11 am

Honey Field
The baseball team hosts Middlebury College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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Faculty Recital: Yi-Wen Jiang, violin, and Frank Corliss, piano

Performing works by Verracini, Brahms, Kriesler, Debussy, Ravel, and more

Sunday, March 12, 2023
3:30–5 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Program:
Francesco Maria Veracini (1690-1768)
Largo for Violin and Piano in F Sharp Minor                                     

Johannes Brahms (1822-1897)
Scherzo in C Minor, WoO 2
Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100

                    
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta

Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)
 from Spanish Dances, Op.26, No.1, Vito

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)        
 "Auf Flügeln des Gesanges" (transcribed by Joseph Achron)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
  "Clair de Lune" (transcribed by A. Roelens)

Frédéric Chopin 91810-1849)
Nocturne in E minor, Op.posth.72, No.1 (transcribed by Leopold Auer)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Lensky's Aria from Eugene Onegin (arr. by Leopold Auer)

Carl Engel (1883-1944)
The Sea-shell (arr. Efrem Zimbalist)

Marice Ravel (1875-1937)
Tzigane

Violinist Yi-Wen Jiang was born into a musical family in Beijing where both parents were professional musicians – his father a concertmaster for over 35 years and his mother a soprano soloist. After hearing Beethoven's violin concerto at the age of three, Jiang understood his life’s path: to become a professional violinist. He made his concerto debut at the age of 17 in Beijing and studied at the Central Conservatory of Music, before enrolling at the St. Louis Conservatory in 1985 to study with Taras Gabora and Michael Tree. Later he studied at Rugers University with Arnold Steinhardt. In 1994 Jiang joined the Shanghai Quartet, and over the next 26 years performed more than 3000 concerts in 37 countries. 
Jiang is Artist-in-Residence at the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University and a faculty member at The Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Frank Corliss is the director of the Bard College Conservatory of Music. For many years he was a staff pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and the director of music at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts. He frequently performed on the Boston Symphony Prelude Concert series and throughout the United States as a chamber musician and collaborative pianist. A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he received his MM from SUNY at Stony Brook, where he studied with Gilbert Kalish.  . 

Concert free and open to vaccinated members of the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Degree Recital: Michael Knox, double-bass, performing works by Bach, Koussevitsky, Marais, Chick Corea, and Vigilance Brandon

With collaborative pianists Nhi Huynh and Leonard Gurevich, violinist Laura Perez Rangel, percussionists Juan Mora and Rodney Clark, and Vigilance Brandon, trumpet.

Sunday, March 12, 2023
6–7 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Michael Knox is in his final year at the Bard College Conservatory of Music where he is studying double-bass performance with Jeremy McCoy. His other teachers include Leigh Mesh, Bradley Aikman, and Ira Coleman. Michael is currently writing his senior project for his second major in anthropology. Throughout his five years at Bard College, Michael has been a member of the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, Chinese Ensemble, Contemporary Jazz Composers Ensemble, The Latin Ensemble, and The Collective, a group of musicians from both the Conservatory and the College who perform both on and off campus.
 Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Noon Concert: Works by Bach, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Erica Sá , and Wang Jianmin

Works for piano, violin, viola, guzheng, and percussion performed by students in an hour-long program

Monday, March 13, 2023
12–1 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-443-0521, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Women's Lacrosse Game

Monday, March 13, 2023
5–7 pm

Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex
The women's lacrosse team hosts College of Mount St. Vincent. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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Sarah Hennies Percussion Recital

Monday, March 13, 2023
8–9 pm

Blum Hall
This concert is the first installment of The Michael Ranta Project, an effort by Sarah Hennies to perform and document a collection of obscure, rarely heard works from the 1970s by American percussionist and composer Michael Ranta. Supported in part by the Bard Research Fund, the project will include many Bard students and faculty alongside outside musicians in documenting a unique and almost totally unknown body of work. This concert also includes performances by the Bard Conservatory Percussion Ensemble and students of Prof. Hennies’ “Percussion as Experimental Practice” class.Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Speaker Series: Hynunjin Kim

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
1–3 pm

CCS Bard, Classroom 102
Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures will take place in Classroom 102 at CCS Bard, are free and open to the public, and are documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library & Archives. 

More information on that talk, along with the full schedule and bios can be found below as well as on the events page of our website.
 Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
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A Reading & Conversation About a People's History of Menstruation

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
6–7:30 pm

Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio
Join us for a reading from Our Red Book, a global collection of personal histories about menstruation, bleeding, and not bleeding from voices of all ages and genders, gathered by the New York Times best-selling author Rachel Kauder Nalebuff. Rachel will be joined by contributers Somaah Haaland, Victoria Law, and Daaimah Mubashshir to read from and discuss the process of writing their own accounts, which span the subjects of gender, identity, bleeding behind bars, and how menstruation offers an immediate window into our lives. 

Rachel Kauder Nalebuff is a writer working at the intersection of oral history, performance, and public health. Her newest book is Our Red Book (Simon & Schuster, 2022). She is the author of Stages: on Dying, Working, and Feeling (Thick Press, 2020); coeditor of The Feminist Utopia Project (Feminist Press, 2015); and the editor of the New York Times bestselling My Little Red Book (Twelve Books, 2009). She teaches nonfiction writing at Yale University.

Somah Haaland is a queer Indigenous artist and community organizer from the Pueblos of Laguna and Jemez in New Mexico who currently resides in New York City.

Victoria Law is a freelance journalist and author focusing on Women’s Incarceration.

Daaimah Mubashshir is Bard’s Playwright-in-Residence. Her work has been commissioned by the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, and 3 Hole Press. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the 2021 PlayCo Residency for Black Women Theatre Makers; 2020–22 WP Theater Lab Fellowship; 2019-22 Core Writer Fellowship (Playwrights Center, Minnesota), an Audrey Residency (New Georges), MacDowell Fellowship, and Foundation of Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.Sponsored by: Theater & Performance Program, OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts, and the Written Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Men's Volleyball Match

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
6–8 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
The men's volleyball team hosts Endicott in a single match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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CMIA - The Fifth Generation

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
7–11:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • Yellow Earth
    (Chen Kaige, 1985, 90 minutes, China, 35mm)
  • Raise the Red Lantern
    (Zhang Yimou, 1994, 125 minutes, China/Hong Kong/Taiwan, 35mm)
     
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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Canceled: A Measurable Existence

Gibney Work-in-Progress showing

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

THIS PROGRAM has been canceled due to inclement weather.

A dynamic duet by commissioned choreographer Yue Yin, A Measurable Experience marks the third year of the Gibney Company’s partnership with the Bard College Dance Program and the culmination of its Spring residency in the LUMA Theater at Bard.

Please join us for a Q&A after the performance.

Sponsored by: Dance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/gibney-23/.
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CMIA - The Films of Orson Welles

Wednesday, March 15, 2023
7:30–11:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • The Night of the Hunter
    (Charles Laughton, 1955, USA, 93 minutes)
  • Touch of Evil
    (Orson Welles, 1958, USA, 105 minutes)
     
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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The Institute of Advanced Theology Spring 2023 Lecture Series

"In Search of the Once and Future Eden" with Bruce Chilton

Thursday, March 16, 2023
5:30–6:30 pm

Bard Hall
This lecture series is in conjunction with the book launch of Eden Revisited: A Novel by László Z. Bitó ’60. You can find the recordings of past lectures on the IAT website. These lectures and their recordings are made possible by the generosity of a loyal donor.

Eden is both a place in the mythic past and the prospect for a balanced, ecological, and human civilization in the future. Gnostic writers in particular have portrayed how the idyllic garden could have been lost, and why regaining its richness has proven elusive. Laszlo Bito, a Bard alumnus from the class of 1960 investigated these issues in his book Eden Revisited. The series is designed to join in that quest, in order to press the issue of Eden’s deep promise.

All lectures will take place on Thursdays at 5:30 pm in Bard Hall. 

Thursday, February 23 - Cain: the first murder, the first city
Thursday, March 2 - The Serpent: Language unravels Eden
Thursday, March 9 - YHWH
Thursday, March 16 - Eden, the garden that exists over our horizonSponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.

For more information, call 845-758-6822 x7667, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/iat/.
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Moderation Papers Due

Friday, March 17, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Spring Recess

Runs through Sunday, March 26, 2023

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Women's Lacrosse Game

Saturday, March 18, 2023
1 pm

The women's lacrosse team hosts Skidmore College in a Liberty League game. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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Graduate Conducting Program: Degree Recital

WITH THE ORCHESTRA NOW

Sunday, March 19, 2023
3–4 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

The Degree Recital is the culminating project of the Graduate Conducting Program. Given during the second year of study, students have the opportunity to conduct the repertoire of their choice on this concert.

Led by Conducting Students
Gordon Cheung
Yu Liu
Andrés Peltier-Salazar
Brian Reynolds
Colin Roshak

Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Conducting Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/gcp-23/.
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Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability — March 2023 Online Open House

Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school. 

Wednesday, March 22, 2023
7–8:30 pm

Online Event
RSVP HERE

Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds virtual open houses for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.

During these open houses, prospective students have the opportunity to meet with alumni and faculty from their program of interest. It's the perfect way to connect with the Bard GPS community, and get any questions answered about the student experience directly from those who know it best—the faculty and alumni of the programs.

WHAT WE COVER: 
  • Overview of graduate program offerings
  • Student experience
  • Alumni career outcomes
  • General admissions and financial aid information
A $65 application fee waiver is available at the end of the session to those who participate in the webinar.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.

For more information, call 845-663-4197, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/473633369157.
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Baseball Doubleheader

Saturday, March 25, 2023
1 pm

Honey Field
The baseball team hosts Vassar College for two games. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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Men's Volleyball Tri-Match

Sunday, March 26, 2023
11 am – 5 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
The men's volleyball team hosts a tri-match.

Bard will play Potsdam State at 11 a.m.
Potsdam State will play John Jay at 1 p.m.
Bard will play John Jay at 3 p.m.

Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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The Lonely Trees by the Rojava Film Commune

Film screening, with introduction by Lara Fresko Madra and Thomas Keenan

Monday, March 27, 2023
5–6:30 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema
The Lonely Trees (2017, 43 min) is a documentary about the “dengbej,” who carry the heritage of music, poetry, and storytelling in the semi- autonomous region of Rojava.

This event is part of Archival Collective Counter–Imagination, a two-part series curated by art historian and current CHRA Fellow Lara Fresko Madra.

The series brings together two collective endeavors —the Rojava Film Commune and the Material Aesthetic Research Collective — to think through not only who archives belong to, but how they generate a sense of belonging. In engaging the moving image as a site of negotiation and building collectivity, these endeavors are concerned with how such media can create and re-create past and future community. Brushing the archive against the grain, is it possible to listen to its absences? This program explores the two group’s modes of social organization around the moving image that cross and, at times, defy the horizon of the nation-state. 

Komîna Fîlm a Rojava (The Rojava Film Commune) is a commune of filmmakers based in the eponymous autonomous region in northern Syria. Their work across the region builds and develops infrastructures for filmmaking, screening, and education, fostering new audiences and an awareness of filmmaking as a medium for empowerment and a tool for liberation. The commune’s creative output spans documentary and commercial films as well as public service announcements. 

Lara Fresko Madra is an art historian, writer, and curator with a PhD in Art History from Cornell University. Her research focuses on contemporary artistic practices from Turkey and the Middle East that challenge official history and offer alternative ways of relating to the past. She is currently a teaching and research fellow at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. Sponsored by: OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.

For more information, call 917-370-5279, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://chra.bard.edu/event/lonely-trees/.
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Piano Master Class: Mikhail Voskresensky

Formerly chair of the piano department at the Moscow Conservatory, now in exile in New York in protest of the invasion of Ukraine. 

Monday, March 27, 2023
6–8 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Mikhail Voskresensky has an international reputation as a pianist in the great Romantic tradition. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory where he studied under Ilia Klyachko, Boris Zemliansky, Yakob Milstein, Lev Oborin (piano) and Leonid Roizman (organ). He was prize-winner at the Schumann International Competition in Berlin, the International Competition in Rio de Janeiro, the George Enescu International Competition, and the Van Cliburn Competition. In 1957 he took part in the Prague Spring Festival where he performed European premiere of Shostakovich Second Piano concerto in the presence of Shostakovich himself. In 1966 he was honored with the Merited Artist of Russia award and in 1989 the People's Artist of Russia. Since then Mikhail Voskresensky has performed with more than 150 conductors in almost all countries of Europe, Japan, Korea, China, Australia, USA, Mexico, Cuba, Kenia, Zimbabwe and Peru.
He was a distinguished professor at the Moscow Conservatory, and the chair of the professorship of piano faculty, until he left Russia in 2022 in protest against the invasion of Ukraine.

An recent article in The Atlantic describes his current life in exile:   
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/defection-mikhail-voskresensky/671866/Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Boycott

Julia Bacha, 2021

Tuesday, March 28, 2023
5:30–7:30 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Over the past six years, unbeknownst to most Americans, 34 states passed laws intending to silence boycott and other nonviolent measures aimed at pressuring Israel on its human rights record. These dangerous bills remove the legal protection that has been awarded to boycotts for generations, granting governments the power to condition jobs on political viewpoints. 

As this wave of anti-boycott legislation has swept through the country, so has a counter-wave in defense of freedom of speech. Everyday Americans are challenging these laws for their constitutionality in a nation-wide battle likely to go all the way to the Supreme Court. 

With full access to the plaintiffs and in revelatory moments with elected officials, Boycott chronicles one of the most consequential First Amendment battles of the past few decades and investigates the question – how did we get here?
 
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Julia Bacha, moderated by Peter Rosenblum, Professor of International Law and Human Rights.
 
This event is organized in conjunction with the OSUN Network Collaborative Course, Freedom of Expression.
Sponsored by: Global and International Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Rescheduled: Our Red Book

Tuesday, March 28, 2023
6:30–7:30 pm

Fisher Center, Stewart and Lynda Resnick Theater Studio

Bard Theater and Performance Department, Written Arts, and the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard present:

A reading of Our Red Book, a collection of essays, oral histories, and artworks about periods across all stages of life, gathered by the New York Times best-selling author Rachel Kauder Nalebuff.

“Powerful…. Bold and candid, these missives go a long way in breaking through what one contributor calls ‘the taboo of bleeding.’”—Publishers Weekly.

This event will include a panel discussion amongst Rachel Kauder Nalebuff and contributing writers Somah Haaland, Victoria Law, and Daaimah Mubashshir.

Copies of the book will be available for sale in the lobby from Oblong Books.

Sponsored by: Bard Theater & Performance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/our-red-book/.
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Men's Volleyball Match

Tuesday, March 28, 2023
7–9 pm

Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym
The men's volleyball team hosts Russell Sage in a single match. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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Climate Despair to Climate Repair

Free Mocktails+Dinner, Panel, Open Discussion: Bard’s Teach-in on Climate and Justice

Wednesday, March 29, 2023
5–8 pm

Campus Center, Multipurpose Room

Worried about Climate Change? The World Is Getting to Work on Climate Repair: Find Out How!

Join the 2023 Bard Teach-in on Climate and Justice.
  • Free Mocktails+Dinner with Hudson Valley Climate Leaders
  • Keynote Panel: People and Planet Working on Climate Repair, with Bard Professors Felicia Keesing and Eban Goodstein
  • Breakout Conversation: Scale of 1–10, Where Are You on Climate? Where is Everybody Else?
More Teach-in Events:
  • #MakeClimateAClass in 40 Bard Classes
  • Climate Game Night! March 30, Faculty Dining Room, Kline Commons
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard Farm; Bard MBA in Sustainability; Bard Office of Sustainability; OSUN; Office of Sustainability.

For more information, call 503-806-6370, or e-mail [email protected].
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Women's Lacrosse Game

Wednesday, March 29, 2023
6 pm

Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex
The women's lacrosse team hosts Russell Sage College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.

For more information, call 845-752-4929, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bardathletics.com.
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CMIA - The Films of Orson Welles

Wednesday, March 29, 2023
7:30–11:55 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
  • Monsieur Verdoux
    (Charles Chaplin, 1947, USA, 124 minutes)
  • The Third Man
    (Carol Reed, 1949, UK, 93 minutes)
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
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Matt Sargent, Faculty Recital

Premiere of "The Fragility of Time" for solo electric guitar by James Romig

Thursday, March 30, 2023
7–8 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Sponsored by: Music Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Esteban Ganem Presents Identity Communication: A Percussion Recital

Friday, March 31, 2023
7:30–9 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Esteban Ganem is a percussionist from Houston, Texas with a passion for playing new music. He has premiered works by composers Annika Socolofsky and Andrea Mazzariello, and  collaborated with So Percussion, Third Coast Percussion, Da Capo Chamber Players, Michael Burritt, Christopher Cerrone and Amy Petrongelli. A graduate of Baylor University with a BA in music education, he was a finalist in Baylor’s 2019 Semper Pro Musica chamber music competition. He currently studies at the Bard College Conservatory of Music in the Graduate Instrumental Arts Program with teachers Jason Treuting, Eric Cha-Beach, and Jason Haaheim. While at Bard, Esteban performed as a soloist with the Bard Conservatory Orchestra in Tan Dun’s percussion concerto The Tears of Nature. Esteban performs with the Bard Percussion Ensemble, The Orchestra Now, and enjoys working with Bard’s composers.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
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Beth Gill: Nail Biter

New Commission/World Premiere

Friday, March 31, 2023
7:30–8:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

The second Fisher Center LAB commission from acclaimed contemporary choreographer Beth Gill, Nail Biter moves the viewer through portals of myth, memoir, psychodrama, and horror. Characters emerge as a collection of representations of our collective unconscious as the work pierces through the existential weight of our time and channels our contemporary angst and anxiety.

Sponsored by: Fisher Center LAB.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/beth-gill-nail-biter/.
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