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Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group

Keep the Conversation Going with the Hannah Arendt Center

Friday, February 28, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2027

Hannah Arendt Center


Amor Mundi is the weekly publication of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Subscribe now to receive the Amor Mundi email in your inbox up to two times a week. You'll get the first look at original articles, essays, and journal features from Roger Berkowitz and other Arendtian thinkers. Read Amor Mundi now >>

The Virtual Reading Group. Join Founder and Academic Director Roger Berkowitz and Acting Assistant Director Samantha Hill on select Fridays as they lead a live, online group discussion in a thoughtful and spirited exploration of the works of Hannah Arendt. Learn more about the VRG >>

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Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Meshell Ndegeocello
Chapter & Verse: 
The Gospel of James Baldwin

Tuesday, September 15, 2020 – Wednesday, June 30, 2021

UPSTREAMING

Inspired by the writing of James Baldwin
Created by Meshell Ndegeocello 
In collaboration with Charlotte Brathwaite
Featuring the contributions of Staceyann Chin, Suné Woods, Nicholas Galanin, Paul Thompson '93, Justin Hicks, and more.

A Co-Production of Bismillah, LLC and Fisher Center at Bard
Co-Commissioned by Live Arts Bard, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre, and Festival de Marseille.


“No label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and no religion is more important than the human being.”—James Baldwin

A project inspired by James Baldwin’s truth-telling treatise on justice in the United States, The Fire Next Time, and our endlessly changing world. Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin is a 21st-century ritual tool kit for justice. A call for revolution. A gift during turbulent times. 

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy—but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” —James Baldwin

Each month, September–December 2020, we offered gifts—music, thoughts, meditations, and visual testimonies of resilience—inspired by James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time. 

“This is my offering to you. This is a different experience so I hope you have an open mind or at least an open heart. I see James Baldwin as an Orisha, his writing as the living word. I wanted to pay homage to him and to the time and effort it took to sit, to physically and emotionally fill the page with a truth that made my own sorrow feel less lonely. He put me on a path of empathy and humility towards my parents. It humbled me towards my mother born in 1944 and my father born in 1939—a time I can’t imagine living in while black.” —Meshell

Check out "Songs of Protest & Healing: Meshell Ndegeocello on the Gospel of James Baldwin" on Tidal Magazine.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/chapter-and-verse/.
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The Future is Present

Thursday, January 21, 2021 – Friday, December 31, 2021

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“We projected ourselves into a future in which we are loved absolutely and we rehearsed our lives there.”
 

The Future Is Present is a process and a practice, it’s a model for building community in a very small and incredibly powerful way. Led by artists Charlotte Brathwaite, Justin Hicks, Janani Balasubramanian, Sunder Ganglani, June Cross, and Alyssa Simmons, the project built a small community of Black and Indigenous young people and small community of young artists from Bard College* to spend seven weeks cultivating intimacy and discourse. 

The youth cohort created demands on our collective future.
The Bard community members listened, deeply.

Now, a process of amplifying those demands is underway. The artists at Bard have made a film for the youth cohort and will be releasing it next month on this page. Stay tuned.

This is an invitation to you to participate, somehow, on terms that make sense in your community. We would love to talk about what that might mean for you. Reach out to coordinator@thefutureispresent.xyz.

* Adrian Costa, Megan Lacy, Cam Orr, Anya Petkovich, Taty Rozetta, Hakima SmithStone, Dani Wilder, and Mengchen Zhang

To read a transcript of the video, click here.Sponsored by: Bard Theater & Performance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/the-future-is-present.
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First Day of Spring Classes

Monday, February 1, 2021

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Belarus: Is There a Winner Six Months After the 2020 Elections?

Monday, February 1, 2021
8–9:30 am

Online Event
This Central European University Democracy Institute event is a roundtable exploring what kind of political stabilization or destabilization may be awaiting Belarus.

Please note this is an online event and registration is required. Registration link

PANELISTS

Kateryna Bornukova
, Academic Director, BEROC Economic Research Center
Anaïs Marin, Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House
Artyom Shraibman, Nonresident Scholar,Carnegie Moscow Center
Gábor Tóka, Senior Research Fellow, Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives, Central European University
Kenneth S. Yalowitz, Adjunct Lecturer, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies 


Addressing one of her last election rallies in the summer, independent presidential candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya prepared her followers for a patient wait until their apparent will to unseat their country’s long-serving and proudly authoritarian president Lukashenka will be honored. It will take more than just casting votes to get their will expressed in the outcome that matters, she suggested. But she will be there to fight for a fair acknowledgement of the true election results for many months if need be.

Nearly six months after the rigged August 9 elections, Tsikhanouskaya is in half-voluntary exile, and many of her supporters are in prison after a reported 30,000 were detained and often treated brutally by the security forces. Crucially, the latter remained, at least as an organization, loyal to the incumbent after he was (self-) declared the winner of the election while the massive, spirited and impressively enduring post-electoral protests of Tsikhanouskaya’s supporters slowly but inevitably diminished in size and determination. However, not only the pro-democracy movement and all foreign governments aspiring for influence in Belarus seem deprived of the outcome that they hoped for, but Lukashenka’s regime also remains severely deprived of domestic political authority and international respect.

Our roundtable shall explore what kind of political stabilization or destabilization may be awaiting Belarus, what the realistic options and constraints are for the regime, the opposition, Russia, and the international community concerned over the state of human rights in Belarus.

Please note this is an online event and registration is required. Registration linkSponsored by: Central European University.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Иосиф Бродский и Анна Ахматова: В глухонемой вселенной / Joseph Brodsky and Anna Akhmatova: Amidst a Deaf-Mute Universe

A book presentation by Denis Akhapkin (Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Smolny) of St. Petersburg University)

Monday, February 1, 2021
11 am – 12 pm

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Бродский и Ахматова - знаковые имена в истории русской поэзии. В нобелевской лекции Бродский назвал Ахматову одним из «источников света», которым он обязан своей поэтической судьбой. Встречи с Ахматовой и ее стихами связывали Бродского с поэтической традицией «серебряного века». Оба они были не только поэтами, но и чуткими читателями и отголоски их бесед о великих книгах звучат во многих стихах Бродского. 

Петербургский филолог Денис Ахапкин рассматривает в своей книге эпизоды жизни и творчества двух поэтов, показывая глубинную взаимосвязь между двумя поэтическими системами. Жизненные события причудливо преломляются сквозь призму поэтических строк, становясь фактами уже не просто биографии, а литературной биографии —и некоторые особенности ахматовского поэтического языка хорошо слышны в стихах Бродского. Книга сочетает разговор о судьбах поэтов с разговором о конкретных стихотворениях и их медленным чтением.

This event will be presented in Russian. 

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Brodsky and Akhmatova are significant names in the history of Russian poetry. In his Nobel lecture, Brodsky called Akhmatova one of the "sources of light," to whom his poetic fate is indebted. Meetings with Akhmatova and her poems connected Brodsky with the poetic traditions of the "Silver Age." They were both not only poets, but also keen readers. The results of their conversations about great books are present in Brodsky's poems. 

In his book, Petersburg philologist Denis Akhapkin examines the creative spirit and episodes from the poets' lives, showing the deep relationship between two poetic systems. Life events are bizarrely refracted through the prism of verse, becoming facts of not just a biography, but a literary biography. Some features of Akhmatova's poetic language  are present in Brodsky's poetry. The book combines a conversation about the poets' fate with a discussion about specific poems and reading them slowly. Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail caclark@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/81522149361.
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  • 8–9:30 am Belarus: Is There a Winner Six Months After the 2020 Elections?Monday, February 1, 2021, 8–9:30 am
  • 11 am – 12 pm Иосиф Бродский и Анна Ахматова: В глухонемой вселенной / Joseph Brodsky and Anna Akhmatova: Amidst a Deaf-Mute UniverseMonday, February 1, 2021, 11 am – 12 pm
  • First Day of Spring ClassesMonday, February 1, 2021
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Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere

Thursday, February 4, 2021
12–5 pm

CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture. 

Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020,  and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).

Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
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  • 12–5 pm Sky Hopinka: Centers of SomewhereThursday, February 4, 2021, 12–5 pm

Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere

Friday, February 5, 2021
12–5 pm

CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture. 

Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020,  and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).

Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
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  • 12–5 pm Sky Hopinka: Centers of SomewhereFriday, February 5, 2021, 12–5 pm

Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere

Saturday, February 6, 2021
12–5 pm

CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture. 

Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020,  and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).

Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
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  • 12–5 pm Sky Hopinka: Centers of SomewhereSaturday, February 6, 2021, 12–5 pm

Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere

Sunday, February 7, 2021
12–5 pm

CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture. 

Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020,  and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).

Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
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Schoenberg & Bach

Sunday, February 7, 2021
2 pm

UPSTREAMING


TŌN music director Leon Botstein kicks off the spring season with Bach’s third Brandenburg Concerto and Schoenberg’s romantic tone poem Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night). Also on the program are works for string orchestra by Polish composer Witold Lutosławski and Venezuelan composer, pianist, and singer Teresa Carreño, who played for Abraham Lincoln at the White House in 1863.

Leon Botstein conductor

Witold Lutosławski Funeral Music
Teresa Carreño Serenade for Strings
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)

Estimated run time: 1 hour and 45 minutes
 Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/schoenberg-bach.
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Bard Chapel Service

Sunday, February 7, 2021
3–4 pm

Online Event
You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1OHcyazdyQTZldz09.
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  • 12–5 pm Sky Hopinka: Centers of SomewhereSunday, February 7, 2021, 12–5 pm
  • 2 pm Schoenberg & BachSunday, February 7, 2021, 2 pm
  • 3–4 pm Bard Chapel ServiceSunday, February 7, 2021, 3–4 pm

Adapting to the New Reality – Civic Universities Engaging in The Arts

Monday, February 8, 2021
9–10 am


PANELISTS

Adnan Z. Morshed,
Professor, Catholic University of America and BRAC University
Judith Mossman, Pro Vice-Chancellor Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Coventry University
Kseniya Shtalenkova, MA in Sociology, PhD candidate at the joint doctoral programme of philosophy (EHU, VMU, LSRI); Assistant Lecturer in the Academic Department of Humanities and Arts, Academic Secretary to the Journal for Philosophy and Cultural Studies Topos, European Humanities University
Tania El Khoury, Distinguished Artist in Residence in Theater & Performance and the Director of the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College

MODERATOR

Lorlene Hoyt, 
Executive Director, Talloires Network of Engaged Universities, Research Professor, Tisch College of Civic Life, Research Professor, Department of Urban + Environmental Policy + Planning, Visiting Scholar, President’s Office, Albion College

The COV-AID webinar series Adapting to the New Reality: Civically Engaged Universities Offer Strategies and Hope collects and shares stories of institutions and individuals who are taking action to mitigate the crisis, and documents practical steps and strategies that may be of use elsewhere. The series is a collaboration between the Open Society University Network and the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities.

Join via Zoom
Passcode: 823030


Image of the Pankow ist immer schön video workshop at Bard College Berlin, February 2019, by Vera Yung (Bard College Berlin '20).

 
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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  • 9–10 am Adapting to the New Reality – Civic Universities Engaging in The ArtsMonday, February 8, 2021, 9–10 am

Informational Webinar: Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability

Join and receive a $65 application fee waiver!
        

Tuesday, February 9, 2021
7–8 pm

Online
RSVP HERE

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

ABOUT
Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information. 

Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team. 

WHAT WILL BE COVERED?  
  • Overview of graduate program offerings
  • Alumni success and career outcomes
  • Admissions information
  • Prerequisite course requirements
  • Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
  • Financial aid availability
  • Tips for a standout application 
DEGREE OPTIONS
Degree Options Include:
MS in Environmental Policy
MS in Climate Science and Policy
MBA in Sustainability
 
Dual Degree Options Include:
MS/JD with Pace Law School 
MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching 
MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability 

Peace Corps Programs Include:
Master's International (before you serve) 
Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)  

A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Margo Bogossian at mbogossian@bard.edu for further details.


RSVP HERESponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.

For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail mbogossian@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bard-graduate-programs-in-sustainability-feb-online-information-session-registration-125217.
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  • 7–8 pm Informational Webinar: Bard Graduate Programs in SustainabilityTuesday, February 9, 2021, 7–8 pm

On Hannah Arendt Virtual Reading Group: 'Tradition and the Modern Age' with Seyla Benhabib

Wednesday, February 10, 2021
1–2:30 pm

Online Event

A virtual reading group in collaboration between the Richard Saltoun Gallery and the Hannah Arendt Center to accompany the gallery's 12-month exhibition programme 'On Hannah Arendt'.


Led by Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Director of the Hannah Arendt Center, the second session will discuss the chapter 'Tradition and the Modern Age' from Arendt's 1968 publication 'Between Past and Future', around which the gallery's current exhibition 'The Modern Age' is based.

The event will feature an introduction by Seyla Benhabib, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University

 Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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  • 1–2:30 pm On Hannah Arendt Virtual Reading Group: 'Tradition and the Modern Age' with Seyla BenhabibWednesday, February 10, 2021, 1–2:30 pm

Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere

Thursday, February 11, 2021
12–5 pm

CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture. 

Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020,  and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).

Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
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Bard-Smolny Trivia

Thursday, February 11, 2021
12–1 pm

Online Event
Welcome to Bard-Smolny Trivia! Gather around your screens, and play solo or in a team of up to five people together with Smolny students. All questions are Russia-related, and you do not need to speak the language to participate. Your curiosity, intuition and a bit of luck will go a long way together with your knowledge of history, art, literature and music.

Join via ZoomSponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail caclark@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/87596892203.
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BGIA Chace Speaker Series: Ten Years After Tahrir

A discussion with Thanassis Cambanis, Michael Hanna and Aya Ibrahim

Thursday, February 11, 2021
12–1 pm

Online Event
A decade has passed since hundreds of thousands poured into Cairo's Tahrir Square, igniting the Arab Spring. What has happened since? Join us on Thursday, February 11 (exactly 10 years to the day that Hosni Mubarak stepped down) at 12 pm EST/6 pm Vienna. We'll be joined by Century Foundation's Thanassis Cambanis, author of Once Upon a Revolution: An Egyptian Story, and Michael Hanna, author of Arab Politics Beyond the Uprisings, and Deutsche Welle correspondent and BGIA alumnus Aya Ibrahim. 

Join via Zoom. RSVP Required.Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrc-6upjkrHtFPct7eYD_pShPLYhEybCXq.
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Race and Revolution: Jenna Wortham and Linda Villarosa

Thursday, February 11, 2021
6–7:30 pm

Online Event
The Race and Revolution series continues for one session featuring Jenna Wortham and Linda VillarosaSponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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  • 12–5 pm Sky Hopinka: Centers of SomewhereThursday, February 11, 2021, 12–5 pm
  • 12–1 pm Bard-Smolny TriviaThursday, February 11, 2021, 12–1 pm
  • 12–1 pm BGIA Chace Speaker Series: Ten Years After TahrirThursday, February 11, 2021, 12–1 pm
  • 6–7:30 pm Race and Revolution: Jenna Wortham and Linda VillarosaThursday, February 11, 2021, 6–7:30 pm

Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere

Friday, February 12, 2021
12–5 pm

CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture. 

Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020,  and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).

Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
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Get Engaged Conference Info Session

Friday, February 12, 2021
8–9 am

Online Event
Join us this Friday, February 12, 2021, 8am EST for an Info Session on the Get Engaged Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference.

See more details about the Get Engaged Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference, April 10–11, 2021.

Join via Zoom.
Register here.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/4395717800.
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Saw Kill Water Sampling

Friday, February 12, 2021
10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Saw Kill
As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.

Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.

Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.

Open to everyone. Free training is available.

If interested, please contact:
Lindsey Drew
Bard Water Lab Manager
ldrew@bard.eduSponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Spring 2021 Speaker Series: Adrienne Edwards, Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum

Friday, February 12, 2021
12–2 pm

Online Event
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 elected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives. This semester all talks will be held online - in order to receive the zoom link registration is required in advance on eventbrite here.

The series begins with Adrienne Edwards, Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum. Previously, she served as curator of Performa since 2010 and as Curator at Large for the Walker Art Center since 2016.

Edwards is co-curator of the 2022 Whitney Biennial with David Breslin. She curated Jason Moran, the artist’s first museum show, which originated at the Walker in 2018, and traveled to the ICA Boston, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Whitney. She organized the event and video commencing the construction of David Hammons’s Day’s End, featuring a commission by composer Henry Threadgill and a “water tango” on the Hudson River by the Fire Department of the City of New York’s Marine Company 9. Edwards also organized Moved by the Motion: Sudden Rise with WuTsang, boychild, and Fred Moten. She is currently curating Dave McKenzie’s first solo museum project in New York City and My Barbarian’s twenty-year survey, both to be presented in 2021.
 
While at the Walker, she co-led the institution-wide Mellon Foundation Interdisciplinary Initiative, an effort to expand ways of commissioning, studying, contextualizing, collecting, documenting, and conserving cross-disciplinary works. For Performa, Edwards realized new boundary-defying commissions, as well as pathfinding conferences and film programs with a wide range of over forty international artists. Edwards’s curatorial projects have included the critically acclaimed exhibition and catalogue Blackness in Abstraction, hosted by Pace Gallery in 2016, as well as Frieze’s Artist Award and the Live program ASSEMBLY in New York in 2018. Edwards is Visiting Critic at the University of Pennsylvania, and taught art history and visual studies at New York University and The New School. She is a contributor to numerous artist monographs, exhibition catalogues, and academic journals, including forthcoming publications for the National Gallery of Art’s Center for the Advanced Study in Visual Art and Phaidon.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/o/center-for-curatorial-studies-bard-college-31212958909.
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Bard-Smolny Peer Language Cafe

Friday, February 12, 2021
12:30–1:30 pm

Online Event
Join Smolny students every Friday to practice your Russian and discuss relevant topics in society! Weekly meetings resume February 12.

Join via ZoomSponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail caclark@bard.edu, or visit https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81448299743?pwd=YTRqdGpNWGxZQ09nMnpuMENIcUt4Zz09.
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  • 8–9 am Get Engaged Conference Info SessionFriday, February 12, 2021, 8–9 am
  • 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Saw Kill Water SamplingFriday, February 12, 2021, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
  • 12–5 pm Sky Hopinka: Centers of SomewhereFriday, February 12, 2021, 12–5 pm
  • 12–2 pm Spring 2021 Speaker Series: Adrienne Edwards, Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney MuseumFriday, February 12, 2021, 12–2 pm
  • 12:30–1:30 pm Bard-Smolny Peer Language CafeFriday, February 12, 2021, 12:30–1:30 pm

Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere

Saturday, February 13, 2021
12–5 pm

CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture. 

Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020,  and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).

Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
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The Sound of Spring

A Chinese New Year Concert with The Orchestra Now and Guests

Saturday, February 13, 2021
8 pm

UPSTREAMING


The US-China Music Institute presents the second annual production of The Sound of Spring, a concert of symphonic music to celebrate the Lunar New Year in collaboration with musicians both here and abroad. 

The Sound of Spring features a new performance by The Orchestra Now conducted by Jindong Cai, along with performances from special guests including the Central Conservatory of Music Chinese Ensemble, the China NCPA Orchestra and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. 

Hosted by acclaimed pipa performer Wu Man and conductor Jindong Cai, the program will feature works by Tan Dun, Bao Yuankai, Julian Yu, Li Shaosheng, and more. Musical selections will send a message of hope, renewal, and new beginnings, in the spirit of the Chinese New Year tradition of the Spring Festival.

For more information about The US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music, please visit their website. 
Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/the-sound-of-spring-2021/.
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  • 12–5 pm Sky Hopinka: Centers of SomewhereSaturday, February 13, 2021, 12–5 pm
  • 8 pm The Sound of SpringSaturday, February 13, 2021, 8 pm

Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere

Sunday, February 14, 2021
12–5 pm

CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture. 

Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020,  and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).

Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
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Bard Chapel Service

Sunday, February 14, 2021
3–4 pm

Online Event
You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1OHcyazdyQTZldz09.
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  • 12–5 pm Sky Hopinka: Centers of SomewhereSunday, February 14, 2021, 12–5 pm
  • 3–4 pm Bard Chapel ServiceSunday, February 14, 2021, 3–4 pm
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Get Engaged Conference Info Session

Tuesday, February 16, 2021
8–9 am

Online Event
Join us on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 8 am EST for an Info Session on the Get Engaged Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference.

See more details about the Get Engaged Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference, April 10–11, 2021.

Join via Zoom.
Register here.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/4395717800#success.
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Holocaust Scholarship on Trial: Jan Grabowski in Conversation with Masha Gessen 

Tuesday, February 16, 2021
12–1:30 pm

Online Event
The Jewish Studies Program and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research present an online event featuring Jan Grabowski, Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, who was convicted in a Polish court for his work documenting Polish collaboration during the Holocaust. Grabowski will be in conversation with Masha Gessen, Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.

In 2018 Jan Grabowksi and Barbara Engelking published Dalej jest noc: losy Żydów w wybranych powiatach okupowanej Polski [Night Without End: The Fate of the Jews in Selected Counties of Occupied Poland], which documents the range of Polish behavior towards Jews during the Holocaust in a series of local case studies.  

The Polish League against Defamation, which has close ties to the right-wing ruling Law and Justice Party, brought a lawsuit against Grabowski and Engelking on behalf of the niece of a figure discussed in the book. This action is widely viewed as a continuation of the government’s campaign to stifle free inquiry into Poland’s wartime history and to punish those who question the narrative of Poles as exclusively the victims of Nazi atrocities who rescued Jews on a massive scale.

On February 9, 2021 a Warsaw court found Grabowski and Engelking guilty, declining to fine the scholars but demanding that they issue an apology. In his first public remarks since the trial Prof. Grabowski, in conversation with journalist Masha Gessen, will discuss his response to the verdict as well as its political and scholarly implications. 

Jan Grabowski is Professor of History at the University of Ottawa. His books include Polacy, nic się nie stało! Polemiki z Zagładą w tle [Poles, Nothing Happened! Polemics with the Holocaust in the Background] (2021); Na posterunku: Udział polskiej policji granatowej i kryminalnej w zagładzie Żydów [On Duty: Participation of Blue and Criminal Police in the Destruction of the Jews], (2020); Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland (2013), which won the Yad Vashem International Book Prize; and "Ja Tego Żyda Znam!": Szantażowanie Żydów w Warszawie, 1939-1943 [“I Know that Jew!”: The Blackmailing of Jews in Warsaw, 1939-1943] (2004). He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and has held fellowships and guest professorships at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Munich), the University of Haifa, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Yad Vashem.

Masha Gessen is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of 11 books of nonfiction, most recently Surviving Autocracy (2020); as well as The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction; and The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). The Moscow-born Gessen is the recipient of Guggenheim, Andrew Carnegie, and Nieman Fellowships, Hitchens Prize, Overseas Press Club Award for Best Commentary, and an honorary doctorate from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.

For more information, contact Cecile Kuznitz at kuznitz@bard.edu.

Join this event via Zoom.

 
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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  • 8–9 am Get Engaged Conference Info SessionTuesday, February 16, 2021, 8–9 am
  • 12–1:30 pm Holocaust Scholarship on Trial: Jan Grabowski in Conversation with Masha Gessen Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 12–1:30 pm

The Magic of RNA: From CRISPR Gene Editing to mRNA Vaccines

Thomas R. Cech, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder

Wednesday, February 17, 2021
6:30–8 pm

Online Event
In the past, Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) was considered to be mostly an intermediary between the genetic code in DNA and the proteins that do most of the work in biology; DNA makes RNA makes protein. The discovery of catalytic RNA (Nobel Prize, 1989) opened our eyes to RNA having more exciting functions. But the thrill of RNA was just getting started. Gene editing now uses guide RNAs to recruit the CRISPR genome editing machinery to specific sites of action on chromosomes, with exciting medical potential (Nobel Prize, 2020). And the coronavirus pandemic is now a battle of RNA against RNA: an RNA virus being fought with messenger RNA vaccines.

Thomas R. Cech, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and director of the Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology PhD Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. After earning his PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Cech joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder in 1978.  In 1982 Dr. Cech and his research group discovered self-splicing RNA in Tetrahymena, providing the first exception to the long-held belief that biological reactions are always catalyzed by proteins. Because RNA can be both an information-carrying molecule and a catalyst, perhaps a primordial self-reproducing system consisted of RNA alone. Dr. Cech became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator in 1988 and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1990. From 2000 to 2009, he served as president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which is the largest private biomedical research organization in the U.S. In 2009, Dr. Cech returned to full-time research and teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Cech's work has been recognized by many national and international awards and prizes, including the Heineken Prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (1988), the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award (1988), the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1989), and the National Medal of Science (1995). In 1987 Dr. Cech was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and also awarded a lifetime professorship by the American Cancer Society.

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Feb 17, 2021 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: The Magic of RNA: from CRISPR Gene Editing to mRNA Vaccines

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://bard.zoom.us/j/89546778854?pwd=VXNIaXRZUUVYS293Z1FiZk9HMDFUQT09
Passcode: 340591
Or iPhone one-tap : 
    US: +16465588656,,89546778854#,,,,*340591#  or +13017158592,,89546778854#,,,,*340591# 
Or Telephone:
    Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
        US: +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782 
Webinar ID: 895 4677 8854
Passcode: 340591
    International numbers available: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kccdtBxiuF

 Sponsored by: Biology Program; Chemistry Program; Dean of the College; Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.

For more information, call 845-752-2354, e-mail sjain@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/89546778854?pwd=VXNIaXRZUUVYS293Z1FiZk9HMDFUQT09.
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Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Virtual Open House

Attendees receive a $65 application fee waiver!

Wednesday, February 17, 2021
7–8:30 pm

Online Event
RSVP HERE

Join us for an online Open House hosted by the Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability.

Attendees will hear from a panel of current students and alumni of Bard's MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy. Our panel of student/alum experts will discuss topics such as:
  • career outcomes -- how the MS and MEd degrees at CEP and the MBA in Sustainability have led to impactful sustainability careers
  • the program experience -- highlights on courses and key features at Bard (including the NYCLab course and the CEP internship)
  • how to get the most of your graduate school journey -- career development + student engagement opportunities at Bard
  • how to make your application stand out -- tips on perfecting your application materials, advice on getting through the graduate school admissions process
In addition: Program Director Eban Goodstein will provide an overview of the program offerings at Bard CEP and the MBA in Sustainability.

Our Admissions staff will also be on hand to provide information on the application process and answer questions regarding:
  • financial aid opportunities
  • successfully completing program prerequisites 

RSVP HERE

Event Location: This event will be held via Zoom. Access details will be shared with attendees upon event registration.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail mbogossian@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/125218125785.
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  • 6:30–8 pm The Magic of RNA: From CRISPR Gene Editing to mRNA VaccinesWednesday, February 17, 2021, 6:30–8 pm
  • 7–8:30 pm Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Virtual Open HouseWednesday, February 17, 2021, 7–8:30 pm

Shedding Some Light on the Dark Matter of the Genomic Universe

Thomas R. Cech, PhD

Thursday, February 18, 2021
12:20–1:30 pm

Online Event
Earlier in the 21st century, the human genome was thought to consist of islands of important genes, coding for proteins, surrounded by a vast sea of “junk DNA.” But we now know that much of the vast noncoding part of the genome is also transcribed into RNA – noncoding RNA. Many hundreds of research laboratories are now engaged in observing and interrogating this dark matter of the genomic universe. Dr. Cech will describe two examples, catalytic RNA and telomerase RNA.

Dr. Thomas R. Cech is Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and Director of the Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology PhD Program at the University of Colorado Boulder.

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: February 18, 2021, at 12:00 pm Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Shedding Some Light on the Dark Matter of the Genomic Universe

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://bard.zoom.us/j/87656848909?pwd=L1ZoTERnTnpzM0U3Y0pMak9WcmFiUT09
Passcode: 645895
Or iPhone one-tap : 
    US: +16465588656,,87656848909#  or +13126266799,,87656848909# 
Or Telephone:
    Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
        US: +1 646 558 8656  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799 
Webinar ID: 876 5684 8909
    International numbers available: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kdNzUccMMtSponsored by: Biology Program; Chemistry Program; Dean of the College; Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.

For more information, call 845-752-2354, e-mail sjain@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/87656848909?pwd=L1ZoTERnTnpzM0U3Y0pMak9WcmFiUT09.
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  • 12:20–1:30 pm Shedding Some Light on the Dark Matter of the Genomic UniverseThursday, February 18, 2021, 12:20–1:30 pm

Bard-Smolny Peer Language Cafe

Friday, February 19, 2021
12:30–1:30 pm

Online Event
Join Smolny students every Friday to practice your Russian and discuss relevant topics in society! Weekly meetings resume February 12.

Join via ZoomSponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail caclark@bard.edu, or visit https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81448299743?pwd=YTRqdGpNWGxZQ09nMnpuMENIcUt4Zz09.
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A Program of French Piano Music

Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger

Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021

UPSTREAMING

A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.

Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)

Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914) 

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895) 

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)

Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers
Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/driver-lane.
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Jo Shaw on "Horizons of Freedom: The Paradoxes of Citizenship in the Pandemic"

Friday, February 19, 2021
8–10 am

Online Event
The Open Society University Network and the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University in Belgrade invite all OSUN members to attend an online lecture by Jo Shaw on "Horizons of Freedom: The Paradoxes of Citizenship in the Pandemic." 

Shaw, who holds the Salvesen Chair of European Institutions at the University of Edinburgh, will explore how the meaning of certain social acts has been shifting under pandemic conditions, allowing us to gain new insights into the character of constitutional citizenship and its relationship with political ideas such as populism and fundamental principles such as equality and dignity. The focal points of the lecture are face-coverings and masks, alongside public protests against restrictions on liberties imposed in the name of combating the spread of the virus.

These shifts in social acts illustrate the changing meaning of what constitutes the “good citizen," playing on what Jean Cohen terms “the paradoxical dialectic inherent in modern constitutionalism,” which “drives republican or liberal democratic conceptions of citizenship into the arms of thicker, more communitarian understandings of identity.” This, then, raises the question of whether it is feasible and reasonable to place a brake upon such trends, and to ask which types of norms and institutions, at the national and international levels, are suitable for that task.

The annual seminar 2020/21 “Horizons of Freedom” events at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, examine the intrinsic connection between freedom and engagement in order to expand the conceptual and political horizons of freedom as a central principle guiding action in democratic politics, and initiates a more intensive dialogue among antagonistic traditions of academic perception of freedom in the face of urgent challenges and threats to freedom and democracy.

Join via Zoom.
Link to the IFDT site.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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THE CONDO CONCERTS: Leila Josefowicz, violin
Works by Matthias Pintscher and J.S. Bach

Conservatory Scholarship Fund Benefit Recital--Reservations Required for Free Tickets

Friday, February 19, 2021
8–9:30 pm

Online Event
Reserve your free tickets for this one-time streamed performance here.

Leila Josefowicz’s passionate advocacy of contemporary music for the violin is reflected in her diverse programs and enthusiasm to perform new works. Winner of the 2018 Avery Fisher Prize, she was also awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2008. Recent performances include concerts with the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the London, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, and Finnish Radio symphony orchestras. 

THE CONDO CONCERTS is a series of four concerts in spring 2021 streamed from the Bard Conservatory with the generous support of artist George Condo as a benefit for the Conservatory Scholarship Fund. 
 Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-condo-concerts-leila-josefowicz-violin-tickets-139539322871?utm-medium=discovery&utm-ca.
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  • 8–10 am Jo Shaw on "Horizons of Freedom: The Paradoxes of Citizenship in the Pandemic"Friday, February 19, 2021, 8–10 am
  • 12:30–1:30 pm Bard-Smolny Peer Language CafeFriday, February 19, 2021, 12:30–1:30 pm
  • 8–9:30 pm THE CONDO CONCERTS: Leila Josefowicz, violinWorks by Matthias Pintscher and J.S. BachFriday, February 19, 2021, 8–9:30 pm
  • A Program of French Piano MusicFriday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021

A Program of French Piano Music

Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger

Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021

UPSTREAMING

A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.

Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)

Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914) 

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895) 

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)

Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers
Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/driver-lane.
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  • A Program of French Piano MusicFriday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021

Bard Chapel Service

Sunday, February 21, 2021
3–4 pm

Online Event
You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1OHcyazdyQTZldz09.
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A Program of French Piano Music

Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger

Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021

UPSTREAMING

A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.

Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)

Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914) 

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895) 

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)

Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers
Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/driver-lane.
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New & Classic Works for Strings

Sunday, February 21, 2021
2 pm

UPSTREAMING

This concert features the world premiere of Falling Together by composer Sarah Hennies, who was recently profiled in The New York Times, and the 2005 piece Popcorn Superhet Receiver by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, which was used in the film There Will Be Blood. The program also includes Grieg’s classic Holberg Suite and a popular work by Vaughan Williams.

TŌNteaches: Conductor James Bagwell will dive into these works and share the stories behind the music in a special Zoom seminar on Thu, Feb 18 at 8 PM. Join the discussion at bard.zoom.us/j/81391418015. 

James Bagwell conductor

Sarah Hennies Falling Together (World Premiere)
Jonny Greenwood Popcorn Superhet Receiver
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Grieg Holberg Suite

Estimated run time: 1 hour and 45 minutesSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/new-classic-works-for-strings.
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  • 2 pm New & Classic Works for StringsSunday, February 21, 2021, 2 pm
  • 3–4 pm Bard Chapel ServiceSunday, February 21, 2021, 3–4 pm
  • A Program of French Piano MusicFriday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021

A Program of French Piano Music

Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger

Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021

UPSTREAMING

A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.

Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)

Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914) 

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895) 

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)

Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers
Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/driver-lane.
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APPLICATION CLOSES FRIDAY: 2021 Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference

Monday, February 22, 2021 – Friday, February 26, 2021

Online Event

The conference will take place online, April 10–11.

Applications now being accepted

The eighth annual Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference brings together undergraduate students to strengthen a global network of leaders and innovators who are working with community partners to develop solutions to local and global challenges. The conference exposes students to a wide range of ideas and experiences to help them lead community-based projects more effectively. The Get Engaged conference is a venue for sharing experiences, learning new skills, honing leadership styles, and networking with international peers.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://cce.bard.edu/events/get-engaged-conference-info-session.
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  • A Program of French Piano MusicFriday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021
  • APPLICATION CLOSES FRIDAY: 2021 Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership ConferenceMonday, February 22, 2021 – Friday, February 26, 2021

A Program of French Piano Music

Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger

Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021

UPSTREAMING

A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.

Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)

Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914) 

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895) 

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)

Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers
Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/driver-lane.
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APPLICATION CLOSES FRIDAY: 2021 Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference

Monday, February 22, 2021 – Friday, February 26, 2021

Online Event

The conference will take place online, April 10–11.

Applications now being accepted

The eighth annual Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference brings together undergraduate students to strengthen a global network of leaders and innovators who are working with community partners to develop solutions to local and global challenges. The conference exposes students to a wide range of ideas and experiences to help them lead community-based projects more effectively. The Get Engaged conference is a venue for sharing experiences, learning new skills, honing leadership styles, and networking with international peers.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://cce.bard.edu/events/get-engaged-conference-info-session.
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Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: The Color of Law

Tuesday, February 23, 2021
11 am – 12 pm

Online Event
This event takes place at 11 am EST/10 am CST

OSUN and network partner Tuskegee University invite you to attend an online discussion with Benjamin Crump, nationally recognized trial lawyer for justice, on "The Color of Law."

This event is part of the Tuskegee University 2021 Black History Month Lecture Series, "Embracing Our Heritage and Continuing the Struggle."

This and all events in the series are online, unless specified otherwise.
Join via Zoom.Sponsored by: Tuskegee University.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: COVID-19 and the African American Community

Tuesday, February 23, 2021
2–4 pm

Online Event
OSUN and network partner Tuskegee University invite you to attend an online discussion on COVID-19 and the African American Community with panelists: Deloris Alexander, Crystal James, Rueben Warren, and Frank Lee

This event is part of the Tuskegee University 2021 Black History Month Lecture Series, “Embracing Our Heritage and Continuing the Struggle.”

This and all events in the series are online, unless specified otherwise.
Join via Zoom.Sponsored by: Tuskegee University.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://tuskegee.zoom.us/j/9860516482?pwd=VjI5RUU1czNvZmduaFBDNjRCRFVQdz09.
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Webinar: Nadine Strossen and Richard Wilson on "Law and Hateful Speech: What Is to Be Done?"

Tuesday, February 23, 2021
3–4:30 pm

Online Event
Please join the Bard Center for the Study of Hate on Tuesday February 23, 2021 at 3:00pm Eastern Time as we welcome Nadine Strossen, a professor at New York Law School, past president of the American Civil Liberties Union, and author of HATE: Why We Should Resist it with Free Speech, Not Censorship, and Richard Wilson, professor of law and anthropology at the University of Connecticut and the author of Incitement on Trial: Prosecuting International Speech Crimes. They will speak on “Law and hateful speech—what is to be done?”
 
Join via Zoom. Register here.Sponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Hate.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mTu01cIvSUG4sMnIXOfWsw.
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  • 11 am – 12 pm Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: The Color of LawTuesday, February 23, 2021, 11 am – 12 pm
  • 2–4 pm Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: COVID-19 and the African American CommunityTuesday, February 23, 2021, 2–4 pm
  • 3–4:30 pm Webinar: Nadine Strossen and Richard Wilson on "Law and Hateful Speech: What Is to Be Done?"Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 3–4:30 pm
  • A Program of French Piano MusicFriday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021
  • APPLICATION CLOSES FRIDAY: 2021 Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership ConferenceMonday, February 22, 2021 – Friday, February 26, 2021

A Program of French Piano Music

Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger

Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021

UPSTREAMING

A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.

Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)

Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914) 

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895) 

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)

Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers
Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/driver-lane.
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APPLICATION CLOSES FRIDAY: 2021 Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference

Monday, February 22, 2021 – Friday, February 26, 2021

Online Event

The conference will take place online, April 10–11.

Applications now being accepted

The eighth annual Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference brings together undergraduate students to strengthen a global network of leaders and innovators who are working with community partners to develop solutions to local and global challenges. The conference exposes students to a wide range of ideas and experiences to help them lead community-based projects more effectively. The Get Engaged conference is a venue for sharing experiences, learning new skills, honing leadership styles, and networking with international peers.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://cce.bard.edu/events/get-engaged-conference-info-session.
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As Far As Isolation Goes (Online)

TANIA EL KHOURY AND BASEL ZARAA

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 – Sunday, March 21, 2021

UPSTREAMING
As Far As Isolation Goes (Online) is a collaboration between live artist Tania El Khoury and musician and street artist Basel Zaraa. Reimagined for an online context during coronavirus lockdown, the piece is built from their original collaboration entitled As Far As My Fingertips Take Me in which El Khoury commissioned Zaraa to record a rap song inspired by the journey his sisters made from Damascus to Sweden.
 
In As Far As Isolation Goes, Zaraa and El Khoury worked together to create another iteration of their previous piece focused on mental and physical health experiences of refugees in the United Kingdom. Zaraa created a song inspired by conversations with friends and colleagues who have recently claimed refuge in the UK.
 
In this online, interactive, 1-on-1 performance As Far As Isolation Goes (Online) uses touch, sound, and interactivity to bring audience members in contact with those faced with inhumane detention centers and a mental health system that disregard their political and emotional contexts.
​Sponsored by: Fisher Center.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/as-far-as-isolation-goes-online.
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Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: Unforgotten: Photography as Resistance

Wednesday, February 24, 2021
2–4 pm

Online Event
OSUN and network partner Tuskegee University invite you to attend an online discussion with Chester Higgins, staff photographer for the New York Times for more than four decades, on Unforgotten: Photography as Resistance.

This event is part of the Tuskegee University 2021 Black History Month Lecture Series, “Embracing Our Heritage and Continuing the Struggle.”

This and all events in the series are online, unless specified otherwise.
Join via Zoom.Sponsored by: Tuskegee University.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://tuskegee.zoom.us/j/9860516482?pwd=VjI5RUU1czNvZmduaFBDNjRCRFVQdz09.
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Written Arts Moderation Open House

Wednesday, February 24, 2021
5–6:30 pm

Online Event
The Written Arts program will be holding a moderation Q&A over Zoom. Students intending to moderate into the Written Arts will have the opportunity to speak with faculty about the Moderation process and specific Written Arts requirements. Students intending to moderate into Written Arts this semester are required to attend this event. Those who are unable to attend are asked to please notify the program coordinator (mbrien@bard.edu) in advance.

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 886 1007 6541
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Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/ks9GvKZmjSponsored by: Written Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail mbrien@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/88610076541?pwd=UnRWVWV0SnpPVXJpTStrMmJ3SnYzZz09.
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Bard College Gospel Explosion 2021

Bard College will host performances by faculty, staff, students, and special guests celebrating Black spirituality on campus.

Wednesday, February 24, 2021
6–9 pm

Online Event
No Black History Month would be complete without a celebration of Gospel Music. From Slavery times to present time, Gospel music has been a source of uplifting the Black community. The Bible says, in Philippians 4:4, “Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.” Please join us as we take this time to celebrate our faith and charismatic expression of Black Christianity at Bard College. Livestreaming on YouTubeSponsored by: Professionals of Color; Student Activities.

For more information, call 845-758-7097, e-mail jrosariocaliz@bard.edu, or visit https://youtu.be/vUNYN-ED33U.
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  • 2–4 pm Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: Unforgotten: Photography as ResistanceWednesday, February 24, 2021, 2–4 pm
  • 5–6:30 pm Written Arts Moderation Open HouseWednesday, February 24, 2021, 5–6:30 pm
  • 6–9 pm Bard College Gospel Explosion 2021Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 6–9 pm
  • A Program of French Piano MusicFriday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021
  • APPLICATION CLOSES FRIDAY: 2021 Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership ConferenceMonday, February 22, 2021 – Friday, February 26, 2021

A Program of French Piano Music

Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger

Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021

UPSTREAMING

A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.

Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)

Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914) 

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895) 

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)

Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers
Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/driver-lane.
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APPLICATION CLOSES FRIDAY: 2021 Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference

Monday, February 22, 2021 – Friday, February 26, 2021

Online Event

The conference will take place online, April 10–11.

Applications now being accepted

The eighth annual Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference brings together undergraduate students to strengthen a global network of leaders and innovators who are working with community partners to develop solutions to local and global challenges. The conference exposes students to a wide range of ideas and experiences to help them lead community-based projects more effectively. The Get Engaged conference is a venue for sharing experiences, learning new skills, honing leadership styles, and networking with international peers.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://cce.bard.edu/events/get-engaged-conference-info-session.
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Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: Retracing the Footsteps of History

Honoring Professor Emeritus of History Frank L. Toland

Thursday, February 25, 2021
2–4 pm

Online Event
Lula Joe Williams, Gladis Williams, Barbara Jean Williams Parker. Join via Zoom.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail histpols@tuskegee.edu, or visit https://tuskegee.zoom.us/j/9860516482?pwd=VjI5RUU1czNvZmduaFBDNjRCRFVQdz09.
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Book Launch for Uncooperative Contemporaries: Art Exhibitions in Shanghai in 2000, published by Afterall, in association with Asia Art Archive and CCS Bard

Thursday, February 25, 2021
5–7 pm

Online Event
The event will feature three conversations between Hou Hanru, Artistic Director of MAXXI in Rome, and Tom Eccles, Executive Director, CCS Bard; Anthony Yung, Senior Researcher at Asia Art Archive, and Yang Zhenzhong, artist; and Ken Lum, artist, and Pauline Yao, Lead Curator, Visual Art, at M+ in Hong Kong. Co-presented by Asia Art Archive in America and CCS Bard. Register hereSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5016123051716/WN_9BVMc7gYSja0duOecE40gA.
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Tony Cokes Artist Talk 

 

Thursday, February 25, 2021
6–7 pm

Online Event
Zoom link: https://bard.zoom.us/j/89247172924?pwd=VTh2VU5GRFp3elRORGd4b1hNdllSdz09

In a series of videotapes and installations produced since the mid-1980s, Tony Cokes engages in cogent investigations of identity and opposition. His works question how race influences the construction of subjectivities (personal, cultural and historical), and how race, gender and class are perceived through what he terms the "representational regimes of image and sound," as perpetuated by Hollywood, the media and popular culture.

Tony Cokes was born in 1956. He received a BA from Goddard College, Vermont, participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, and gained an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. He has received grants and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Getty Research Institute. Cokes's video and multimedia installation works have been included in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum Soho, The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Documenta X, Kassel, Germany, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Recent solo exhibitions and screenings have taken place at REDCAT, Los Angeles, the Gene Siskel Film Center at the University of Chicago, and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York. Cokes is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Center for Curatorial Studies; Film and Electronic Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-752-4658, or e-mail akitnick@bard.edu.
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  • 2–4 pm Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: Retracing the Footsteps of HistoryThursday, February 25, 2021, 2–4 pm
  • 5–7 pm Book Launch for Uncooperative Contemporaries: Art Exhibitions in Shanghai in 2000, published by Afterall, in association with Asia Art Archive and CCS BardThursday, February 25, 2021, 5–7 pm
  • 6–7 pm Tony Cokes Artist Talk  Thursday, February 25, 2021, 6–7 pm
  • A Program of French Piano MusicFriday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021
  • APPLICATION CLOSES FRIDAY: 2021 Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership ConferenceMonday, February 22, 2021 – Friday, February 26, 2021

Bard-Smolny Peer Language Cafe

Friday, February 26, 2021
12:30–1:30 pm

Online Event
Join Smolny students every Friday to practice your Russian and discuss relevant topics in society! Weekly meetings resume February 12.

Join via ZoomSponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail caclark@bard.edu, or visit https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81448299743?pwd=YTRqdGpNWGxZQ09nMnpuMENIcUt4Zz09.
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APPLICATION CLOSES FRIDAY: 2021 Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference

Monday, February 22, 2021 – Friday, February 26, 2021

Online Event

The conference will take place online, April 10–11.

Applications now being accepted

The eighth annual Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference brings together undergraduate students to strengthen a global network of leaders and innovators who are working with community partners to develop solutions to local and global challenges. The conference exposes students to a wide range of ideas and experiences to help them lead community-based projects more effectively. The Get Engaged conference is a venue for sharing experiences, learning new skills, honing leadership styles, and networking with international peers.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://cce.bard.edu/events/get-engaged-conference-info-session.
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Latin(x)Club Open Discussion Event on "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Argentine Writer Jorge Luis Borges

Friday, February 26, 2021
1–2 pm

Online Event
Latin(x)Club of Bard College Berlin welcomes OSUN members to an open discussion with Luis Miguel Isava, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Emory University, Atlanta, USA), on the enigmatic short story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, considered by many the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. In this conversation, we will explore the metaphysical complexities in the story with the help of Isava, whose fields of study are poetry and contemporary poetics, relationships between literature and philosophy, theory, aesthetics and film studies. 

The event will take place in Spanish, but all interested students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members throughout the Open Society University Network and Bard International Network Partners are welcomed to join. The conversation will stem from the principle that the attendants will already be familiar with the story, which means that reading it in advance is encouraged but feel free to join even if you haven’t had the time. 
 

About Latin(x)Club:

Latin(x)Club wants to create a safe and sustainable space for the Latin American community across the OSUN Network using Bard College Berlin as a basis. This collective originates from the need to bring together the growing Latin American student body. We want to create a safe space to share our passion for our cultures and our personal experience of relocation. To continue this conversation across geographies and disciplines, we will host events open to the entire network inviting guest speakers to help us broaden our understanding of the region using literature, performance art, politics, theater, mix-media, among other cultural manifestations. The following event is the first of our international events open to the entire OSUN community. 


Read the Borges story in Spanish
Read the Borges story in English   


Join via Zoom.

 
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: A Strategic Vision for Tuskegee University

Honoring Professor Emeritus of History Frank L. Toland

Friday, February 26, 2021
2–4 pm

Online Event
A Deans' Panel. Join via Zoom.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail histpols@tuskegee.edu, or visit https://tuskegee.zoom.us/j/9860516482?pwd=VjI5RUU1czNvZmduaFBDNjRCRFVQdz09.
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  • 12:30–1:30 pm Bard-Smolny Peer Language CafeFriday, February 26, 2021, 12:30–1:30 pm
  • 1–2 pm Latin(x)Club Open Discussion Event on "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Argentine Writer Jorge Luis BorgesFriday, February 26, 2021, 1–2 pm
  • 2–4 pm Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: A Strategic Vision for Tuskegee UniversityFriday, February 26, 2021, 2–4 pm
  • APPLICATION CLOSES FRIDAY: 2021 Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership ConferenceMonday, February 22, 2021 – Friday, February 26, 2021

Student Recital: The Sounds of China, with Yixin Wang, guzheng

Streamed student recital with guest musicians on guzheng, cello, flute, percussion, and piano.

Saturday, February 27, 2021
8:30–9:30 pm

Online Event
Streaming at https://youtu.be/CDJbyMIpTEs

 Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://youtu.be/CDJbyMIpTEs.
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  • 8:30–9:30 pm Student Recital: The Sounds of China, with Yixin Wang, guzhengSaturday, February 27, 2021, 8:30–9:30 pm

Bard Chapel Service

Sunday, February 28, 2021
3–4 pm

Online Event
You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1OHcyazdyQTZldz09.
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  • 3–4 pm Bard Chapel ServiceSunday, February 28, 2021, 3–4 pm
           

Ongoing Events

  • Friday, February 28, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2027 Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group
  • Tuesday, September 15, 2020 – Wednesday, June 30, 2021 Meshell NdegeocelloChapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin
  • Thursday, January 21, 2021 – Friday, December 31, 2021 The Future is Present
  • Wednesday, February 24, 2021 – Sunday, March 21, 2021 As Far As Isolation Goes (Online)

Announcements

  • APPLICATION CLOSES FRIDAY: 2021 Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference
    Monday, February 22, 2021 – Friday, February 26, 2021

all events are subject to change

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Amor Mundi and the Virtual Reading Group

Keep the Conversation Going with the Hannah Arendt Center

Friday, February 28, 2020 – Friday, December 31, 2027

Hannah Arendt Center


Amor Mundi is the weekly publication of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Subscribe now to receive the Amor Mundi email in your inbox up to two times a week. You'll get the first look at original articles, essays, and journal features from Roger Berkowitz and other Arendtian thinkers. Read Amor Mundi now >>

The Virtual Reading Group. Join Founder and Academic Director Roger Berkowitz and Acting Assistant Director Samantha Hill on select Fridays as they lead a live, online group discussion in a thoughtful and spirited exploration of the works of Hannah Arendt. Learn more about the VRG >>

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Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Meshell Ndegeocello
Chapter & Verse: 
The Gospel of James Baldwin

Tuesday, September 15, 2020 – Wednesday, June 30, 2021

UPSTREAMING

Inspired by the writing of James Baldwin
Created by Meshell Ndegeocello 
In collaboration with Charlotte Brathwaite
Featuring the contributions of Staceyann Chin, Suné Woods, Nicholas Galanin, Paul Thompson '93, Justin Hicks, and more.

A Co-Production of Bismillah, LLC and Fisher Center at Bard
Co-Commissioned by Live Arts Bard, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre, and Festival de Marseille.


“No label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and no religion is more important than the human being.”—James Baldwin

A project inspired by James Baldwin’s truth-telling treatise on justice in the United States, The Fire Next Time, and our endlessly changing world. Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin is a 21st-century ritual tool kit for justice. A call for revolution. A gift during turbulent times. 

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy—but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” —James Baldwin

Each month, September–December 2020, we offered gifts—music, thoughts, meditations, and visual testimonies of resilience—inspired by James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time. 

“This is my offering to you. This is a different experience so I hope you have an open mind or at least an open heart. I see James Baldwin as an Orisha, his writing as the living word. I wanted to pay homage to him and to the time and effort it took to sit, to physically and emotionally fill the page with a truth that made my own sorrow feel less lonely. He put me on a path of empathy and humility towards my parents. It humbled me towards my mother born in 1944 and my father born in 1939—a time I can’t imagine living in while black.” —Meshell

Check out "Songs of Protest & Healing: Meshell Ndegeocello on the Gospel of James Baldwin" on Tidal Magazine.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/chapter-and-verse/.
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The Future is Present

Thursday, January 21, 2021 – Friday, December 31, 2021

Various

“We projected ourselves into a future in which we are loved absolutely and we rehearsed our lives there.”
 

The Future Is Present is a process and a practice, it’s a model for building community in a very small and incredibly powerful way. Led by artists Charlotte Brathwaite, Justin Hicks, Janani Balasubramanian, Sunder Ganglani, June Cross, and Alyssa Simmons, the project built a small community of Black and Indigenous young people and small community of young artists from Bard College* to spend seven weeks cultivating intimacy and discourse. 

The youth cohort created demands on our collective future.
The Bard community members listened, deeply.

Now, a process of amplifying those demands is underway. The artists at Bard have made a film for the youth cohort and will be releasing it next month on this page. Stay tuned.

This is an invitation to you to participate, somehow, on terms that make sense in your community. We would love to talk about what that might mean for you. Reach out to coordinator@thefutureispresent.xyz.

* Adrian Costa, Megan Lacy, Cam Orr, Anya Petkovich, Taty Rozetta, Hakima SmithStone, Dani Wilder, and Mengchen Zhang

To read a transcript of the video, click here.Sponsored by: Bard Theater & Performance Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/the-future-is-present.
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First Day of Spring Classes

Monday, February 1, 2021

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Registrar's Office.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Belarus: Is There a Winner Six Months After the 2020 Elections?

Monday, February 1, 2021
8–9:30 am

Online Event
This Central European University Democracy Institute event is a roundtable exploring what kind of political stabilization or destabilization may be awaiting Belarus.

Please note this is an online event and registration is required. Registration link

PANELISTS

Kateryna Bornukova
, Academic Director, BEROC Economic Research Center
Anaïs Marin, Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House
Artyom Shraibman, Nonresident Scholar,Carnegie Moscow Center
Gábor Tóka, Senior Research Fellow, Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives, Central European University
Kenneth S. Yalowitz, Adjunct Lecturer, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies 


Addressing one of her last election rallies in the summer, independent presidential candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya prepared her followers for a patient wait until their apparent will to unseat their country’s long-serving and proudly authoritarian president Lukashenka will be honored. It will take more than just casting votes to get their will expressed in the outcome that matters, she suggested. But she will be there to fight for a fair acknowledgement of the true election results for many months if need be.

Nearly six months after the rigged August 9 elections, Tsikhanouskaya is in half-voluntary exile, and many of her supporters are in prison after a reported 30,000 were detained and often treated brutally by the security forces. Crucially, the latter remained, at least as an organization, loyal to the incumbent after he was (self-) declared the winner of the election while the massive, spirited and impressively enduring post-electoral protests of Tsikhanouskaya’s supporters slowly but inevitably diminished in size and determination. However, not only the pro-democracy movement and all foreign governments aspiring for influence in Belarus seem deprived of the outcome that they hoped for, but Lukashenka’s regime also remains severely deprived of domestic political authority and international respect.

Our roundtable shall explore what kind of political stabilization or destabilization may be awaiting Belarus, what the realistic options and constraints are for the regime, the opposition, Russia, and the international community concerned over the state of human rights in Belarus.

Please note this is an online event and registration is required. Registration linkSponsored by: Central European University.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Иосиф Бродский и Анна Ахматова: В глухонемой вселенной / Joseph Brodsky and Anna Akhmatova: Amidst a Deaf-Mute Universe

A book presentation by Denis Akhapkin (Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Smolny) of St. Petersburg University)

Monday, February 1, 2021
11 am – 12 pm

Online Event
Join via Zoom

Бродский и Ахматова - знаковые имена в истории русской поэзии. В нобелевской лекции Бродский назвал Ахматову одним из «источников света», которым он обязан своей поэтической судьбой. Встречи с Ахматовой и ее стихами связывали Бродского с поэтической традицией «серебряного века». Оба они были не только поэтами, но и чуткими читателями и отголоски их бесед о великих книгах звучат во многих стихах Бродского. 

Петербургский филолог Денис Ахапкин рассматривает в своей книге эпизоды жизни и творчества двух поэтов, показывая глубинную взаимосвязь между двумя поэтическими системами. Жизненные события причудливо преломляются сквозь призму поэтических строк, становясь фактами уже не просто биографии, а литературной биографии —и некоторые особенности ахматовского поэтического языка хорошо слышны в стихах Бродского. Книга сочетает разговор о судьбах поэтов с разговором о конкретных стихотворениях и их медленным чтением.

This event will be presented in Russian. 

English description:

Brodsky and Akhmatova are significant names in the history of Russian poetry. In his Nobel lecture, Brodsky called Akhmatova one of the "sources of light," to whom his poetic fate is indebted. Meetings with Akhmatova and her poems connected Brodsky with the poetic traditions of the "Silver Age." They were both not only poets, but also keen readers. The results of their conversations about great books are present in Brodsky's poems. 

In his book, Petersburg philologist Denis Akhapkin examines the creative spirit and episodes from the poets' lives, showing the deep relationship between two poetic systems. Life events are bizarrely refracted through the prism of verse, becoming facts of not just a biography, but a literary biography. Some features of Akhmatova's poetic language  are present in Brodsky's poetry. The book combines a conversation about the poets' fate with a discussion about specific poems and reading them slowly. Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail caclark@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/81522149361.
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Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere

Thursday, February 4, 2021
12–5 pm

CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture. 

Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020,  and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).

Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
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Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere

Friday, February 5, 2021
12–5 pm

CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture. 

Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020,  and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).

Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
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Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere

Saturday, February 6, 2021
12–5 pm

CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture. 

Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020,  and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).

Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
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Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere

Sunday, February 7, 2021
12–5 pm

CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture. 

Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020,  and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).

Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
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Schoenberg & Bach

Sunday, February 7, 2021
2 pm

UPSTREAMING


TŌN music director Leon Botstein kicks off the spring season with Bach’s third Brandenburg Concerto and Schoenberg’s romantic tone poem Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night). Also on the program are works for string orchestra by Polish composer Witold Lutosławski and Venezuelan composer, pianist, and singer Teresa Carreño, who played for Abraham Lincoln at the White House in 1863.

Leon Botstein conductor

Witold Lutosławski Funeral Music
Teresa Carreño Serenade for Strings
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)

Estimated run time: 1 hour and 45 minutes
 Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/schoenberg-bach.
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Bard Chapel Service

Sunday, February 7, 2021
3–4 pm

Online Event
You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1OHcyazdyQTZldz09.
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Adapting to the New Reality – Civic Universities Engaging in The Arts

Monday, February 8, 2021
9–10 am


PANELISTS

Adnan Z. Morshed,
Professor, Catholic University of America and BRAC University
Judith Mossman, Pro Vice-Chancellor Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Coventry University
Kseniya Shtalenkova, MA in Sociology, PhD candidate at the joint doctoral programme of philosophy (EHU, VMU, LSRI); Assistant Lecturer in the Academic Department of Humanities and Arts, Academic Secretary to the Journal for Philosophy and Cultural Studies Topos, European Humanities University
Tania El Khoury, Distinguished Artist in Residence in Theater & Performance and the Director of the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College

MODERATOR

Lorlene Hoyt, 
Executive Director, Talloires Network of Engaged Universities, Research Professor, Tisch College of Civic Life, Research Professor, Department of Urban + Environmental Policy + Planning, Visiting Scholar, President’s Office, Albion College

The COV-AID webinar series Adapting to the New Reality: Civically Engaged Universities Offer Strategies and Hope collects and shares stories of institutions and individuals who are taking action to mitigate the crisis, and documents practical steps and strategies that may be of use elsewhere. The series is a collaboration between the Open Society University Network and the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities.

Join via Zoom
Passcode: 823030


Image of the Pankow ist immer schön video workshop at Bard College Berlin, February 2019, by Vera Yung (Bard College Berlin '20).

 
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Informational Webinar: Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability

Join and receive a $65 application fee waiver!
        

Tuesday, February 9, 2021
7–8 pm

Online
RSVP HERE

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

ABOUT
Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information. 

Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team. 

WHAT WILL BE COVERED?  
  • Overview of graduate program offerings
  • Alumni success and career outcomes
  • Admissions information
  • Prerequisite course requirements
  • Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
  • Financial aid availability
  • Tips for a standout application 
DEGREE OPTIONS
Degree Options Include:
MS in Environmental Policy
MS in Climate Science and Policy
MBA in Sustainability
 
Dual Degree Options Include:
MS/JD with Pace Law School 
MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching 
MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability 

Peace Corps Programs Include:
Master's International (before you serve) 
Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)  

A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Margo Bogossian at mbogossian@bard.edu for further details.


RSVP HERESponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.

For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail mbogossian@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bard-graduate-programs-in-sustainability-feb-online-information-session-registration-125217.
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On Hannah Arendt Virtual Reading Group: 'Tradition and the Modern Age' with Seyla Benhabib

Wednesday, February 10, 2021
1–2:30 pm

Online Event

A virtual reading group in collaboration between the Richard Saltoun Gallery and the Hannah Arendt Center to accompany the gallery's 12-month exhibition programme 'On Hannah Arendt'.


Led by Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Director of the Hannah Arendt Center, the second session will discuss the chapter 'Tradition and the Modern Age' from Arendt's 1968 publication 'Between Past and Future', around which the gallery's current exhibition 'The Modern Age' is based.

The event will feature an introduction by Seyla Benhabib, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University

 Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere

Thursday, February 11, 2021
12–5 pm

CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture. 

Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020,  and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).

Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
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Bard-Smolny Trivia

Thursday, February 11, 2021
12–1 pm

Online Event
Welcome to Bard-Smolny Trivia! Gather around your screens, and play solo or in a team of up to five people together with Smolny students. All questions are Russia-related, and you do not need to speak the language to participate. Your curiosity, intuition and a bit of luck will go a long way together with your knowledge of history, art, literature and music.

Join via ZoomSponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail caclark@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/87596892203.
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BGIA Chace Speaker Series: Ten Years After Tahrir

A discussion with Thanassis Cambanis, Michael Hanna and Aya Ibrahim

Thursday, February 11, 2021
12–1 pm

Online Event
A decade has passed since hundreds of thousands poured into Cairo's Tahrir Square, igniting the Arab Spring. What has happened since? Join us on Thursday, February 11 (exactly 10 years to the day that Hosni Mubarak stepped down) at 12 pm EST/6 pm Vienna. We'll be joined by Century Foundation's Thanassis Cambanis, author of Once Upon a Revolution: An Egyptian Story, and Michael Hanna, author of Arab Politics Beyond the Uprisings, and Deutsche Welle correspondent and BGIA alumnus Aya Ibrahim. 

Join via Zoom. RSVP Required.Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrc-6upjkrHtFPct7eYD_pShPLYhEybCXq.
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Race and Revolution: Jenna Wortham and Linda Villarosa

Thursday, February 11, 2021
6–7:30 pm

Online Event
The Race and Revolution series continues for one session featuring Jenna Wortham and Linda VillarosaSponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere

Friday, February 12, 2021
12–5 pm

CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture. 

Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020,  and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).

Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
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Get Engaged Conference Info Session

Friday, February 12, 2021
8–9 am

Online Event
Join us this Friday, February 12, 2021, 8am EST for an Info Session on the Get Engaged Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference.

See more details about the Get Engaged Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference, April 10–11, 2021.

Join via Zoom.
Register here.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/4395717800.
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Saw Kill Water Sampling

Friday, February 12, 2021
10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Saw Kill
As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.

Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.

Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.

Open to everyone. Free training is available.

If interested, please contact:
Lindsey Drew
Bard Water Lab Manager
ldrew@bard.eduSponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Spring 2021 Speaker Series: Adrienne Edwards, Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum

Friday, February 12, 2021
12–2 pm

Online Event
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 elected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives. This semester all talks will be held online - in order to receive the zoom link registration is required in advance on eventbrite here.

The series begins with Adrienne Edwards, Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum. Previously, she served as curator of Performa since 2010 and as Curator at Large for the Walker Art Center since 2016.

Edwards is co-curator of the 2022 Whitney Biennial with David Breslin. She curated Jason Moran, the artist’s first museum show, which originated at the Walker in 2018, and traveled to the ICA Boston, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Whitney. She organized the event and video commencing the construction of David Hammons’s Day’s End, featuring a commission by composer Henry Threadgill and a “water tango” on the Hudson River by the Fire Department of the City of New York’s Marine Company 9. Edwards also organized Moved by the Motion: Sudden Rise with WuTsang, boychild, and Fred Moten. She is currently curating Dave McKenzie’s first solo museum project in New York City and My Barbarian’s twenty-year survey, both to be presented in 2021.
 
While at the Walker, she co-led the institution-wide Mellon Foundation Interdisciplinary Initiative, an effort to expand ways of commissioning, studying, contextualizing, collecting, documenting, and conserving cross-disciplinary works. For Performa, Edwards realized new boundary-defying commissions, as well as pathfinding conferences and film programs with a wide range of over forty international artists. Edwards’s curatorial projects have included the critically acclaimed exhibition and catalogue Blackness in Abstraction, hosted by Pace Gallery in 2016, as well as Frieze’s Artist Award and the Live program ASSEMBLY in New York in 2018. Edwards is Visiting Critic at the University of Pennsylvania, and taught art history and visual studies at New York University and The New School. She is a contributor to numerous artist monographs, exhibition catalogues, and academic journals, including forthcoming publications for the National Gallery of Art’s Center for the Advanced Study in Visual Art and Phaidon.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/o/center-for-curatorial-studies-bard-college-31212958909.
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Bard-Smolny Peer Language Cafe

Friday, February 12, 2021
12:30–1:30 pm

Online Event
Join Smolny students every Friday to practice your Russian and discuss relevant topics in society! Weekly meetings resume February 12.

Join via ZoomSponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail caclark@bard.edu, or visit https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81448299743?pwd=YTRqdGpNWGxZQ09nMnpuMENIcUt4Zz09.
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Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere

Saturday, February 13, 2021
12–5 pm

CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture. 

Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020,  and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).

Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
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The Sound of Spring

A Chinese New Year Concert with The Orchestra Now and Guests

Saturday, February 13, 2021
8 pm

UPSTREAMING


The US-China Music Institute presents the second annual production of The Sound of Spring, a concert of symphonic music to celebrate the Lunar New Year in collaboration with musicians both here and abroad. 

The Sound of Spring features a new performance by The Orchestra Now conducted by Jindong Cai, along with performances from special guests including the Central Conservatory of Music Chinese Ensemble, the China NCPA Orchestra and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. 

Hosted by acclaimed pipa performer Wu Man and conductor Jindong Cai, the program will feature works by Tan Dun, Bao Yuankai, Julian Yu, Li Shaosheng, and more. Musical selections will send a message of hope, renewal, and new beginnings, in the spirit of the Chinese New Year tradition of the Spring Festival.

For more information about The US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music, please visit their website. 
Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/the-sound-of-spring-2021/.
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Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere

Sunday, February 14, 2021
12–5 pm

CCS Galleries
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard), will present Sky Hopinka: Centers of Somewhere, opening October 17, 2020, a focused look at key ideas, preoccupations, and methods in the work of artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka. Hopinka (born 1984 in Ferndale, Washington) is recognized for video work that centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and that explores language as a container of culture. 

Centers of Somewhere will present a newly commissioned multichannel work, Here you are before the trees (2020), that will explore Indigenous histories of the Hudson Valley as they are connected to other regions in the United States. Centers of Somewhere will also present a selection of recent videos and photography, including a new series of 16 photographs entitled Breathings (2020) that were shot throughout the United States in 2020,  and several short video works by Hopinka, including Dislocation Blues (2017), Jáaji Approx (2015), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016).

Visitor information available here: https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservationsSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/560-sky-hopinka-centers-of-somewhere.
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Bard Chapel Service

Sunday, February 14, 2021
3–4 pm

Online Event
You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1OHcyazdyQTZldz09.
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Get Engaged Conference Info Session

Tuesday, February 16, 2021
8–9 am

Online Event
Join us on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 8 am EST for an Info Session on the Get Engaged Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference.

See more details about the Get Engaged Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference, April 10–11, 2021.

Join via Zoom.
Register here.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/4395717800#success.
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Holocaust Scholarship on Trial: Jan Grabowski in Conversation with Masha Gessen 

Tuesday, February 16, 2021
12–1:30 pm

Online Event
The Jewish Studies Program and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research present an online event featuring Jan Grabowski, Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, who was convicted in a Polish court for his work documenting Polish collaboration during the Holocaust. Grabowski will be in conversation with Masha Gessen, Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.

In 2018 Jan Grabowksi and Barbara Engelking published Dalej jest noc: losy Żydów w wybranych powiatach okupowanej Polski [Night Without End: The Fate of the Jews in Selected Counties of Occupied Poland], which documents the range of Polish behavior towards Jews during the Holocaust in a series of local case studies.  

The Polish League against Defamation, which has close ties to the right-wing ruling Law and Justice Party, brought a lawsuit against Grabowski and Engelking on behalf of the niece of a figure discussed in the book. This action is widely viewed as a continuation of the government’s campaign to stifle free inquiry into Poland’s wartime history and to punish those who question the narrative of Poles as exclusively the victims of Nazi atrocities who rescued Jews on a massive scale.

On February 9, 2021 a Warsaw court found Grabowski and Engelking guilty, declining to fine the scholars but demanding that they issue an apology. In his first public remarks since the trial Prof. Grabowski, in conversation with journalist Masha Gessen, will discuss his response to the verdict as well as its political and scholarly implications. 

Jan Grabowski is Professor of History at the University of Ottawa. His books include Polacy, nic się nie stało! Polemiki z Zagładą w tle [Poles, Nothing Happened! Polemics with the Holocaust in the Background] (2021); Na posterunku: Udział polskiej policji granatowej i kryminalnej w zagładzie Żydów [On Duty: Participation of Blue and Criminal Police in the Destruction of the Jews], (2020); Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland (2013), which won the Yad Vashem International Book Prize; and "Ja Tego Żyda Znam!": Szantażowanie Żydów w Warszawie, 1939-1943 [“I Know that Jew!”: The Blackmailing of Jews in Warsaw, 1939-1943] (2004). He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and has held fellowships and guest professorships at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Munich), the University of Haifa, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Yad Vashem.

Masha Gessen is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of 11 books of nonfiction, most recently Surviving Autocracy (2020); as well as The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction; and The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). The Moscow-born Gessen is the recipient of Guggenheim, Andrew Carnegie, and Nieman Fellowships, Hitchens Prize, Overseas Press Club Award for Best Commentary, and an honorary doctorate from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.

For more information, contact Cecile Kuznitz at kuznitz@bard.edu.

Join this event via Zoom.

 
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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The Magic of RNA: From CRISPR Gene Editing to mRNA Vaccines

Thomas R. Cech, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder

Wednesday, February 17, 2021
6:30–8 pm

Online Event
In the past, Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) was considered to be mostly an intermediary between the genetic code in DNA and the proteins that do most of the work in biology; DNA makes RNA makes protein. The discovery of catalytic RNA (Nobel Prize, 1989) opened our eyes to RNA having more exciting functions. But the thrill of RNA was just getting started. Gene editing now uses guide RNAs to recruit the CRISPR genome editing machinery to specific sites of action on chromosomes, with exciting medical potential (Nobel Prize, 2020). And the coronavirus pandemic is now a battle of RNA against RNA: an RNA virus being fought with messenger RNA vaccines.

Thomas R. Cech, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and director of the Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology PhD Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. After earning his PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Cech joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder in 1978.  In 1982 Dr. Cech and his research group discovered self-splicing RNA in Tetrahymena, providing the first exception to the long-held belief that biological reactions are always catalyzed by proteins. Because RNA can be both an information-carrying molecule and a catalyst, perhaps a primordial self-reproducing system consisted of RNA alone. Dr. Cech became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator in 1988 and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1990. From 2000 to 2009, he served as president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which is the largest private biomedical research organization in the U.S. In 2009, Dr. Cech returned to full-time research and teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Cech's work has been recognized by many national and international awards and prizes, including the Heineken Prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (1988), the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award (1988), the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1989), and the National Medal of Science (1995). In 1987 Dr. Cech was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and also awarded a lifetime professorship by the American Cancer Society.

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Feb 17, 2021 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: The Magic of RNA: from CRISPR Gene Editing to mRNA Vaccines

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://bard.zoom.us/j/89546778854?pwd=VXNIaXRZUUVYS293Z1FiZk9HMDFUQT09
Passcode: 340591
Or iPhone one-tap : 
    US: +16465588656,,89546778854#,,,,*340591#  or +13017158592,,89546778854#,,,,*340591# 
Or Telephone:
    Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
        US: +1 646 558 8656  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782 
Webinar ID: 895 4677 8854
Passcode: 340591
    International numbers available: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kccdtBxiuF

 Sponsored by: Biology Program; Chemistry Program; Dean of the College; Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.

For more information, call 845-752-2354, e-mail sjain@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/89546778854?pwd=VXNIaXRZUUVYS293Z1FiZk9HMDFUQT09.
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Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Virtual Open House

Attendees receive a $65 application fee waiver!

Wednesday, February 17, 2021
7–8:30 pm

Online Event
RSVP HERE

Join us for an online Open House hosted by the Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability.

Attendees will hear from a panel of current students and alumni of Bard's MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy. Our panel of student/alum experts will discuss topics such as:
  • career outcomes -- how the MS and MEd degrees at CEP and the MBA in Sustainability have led to impactful sustainability careers
  • the program experience -- highlights on courses and key features at Bard (including the NYCLab course and the CEP internship)
  • how to get the most of your graduate school journey -- career development + student engagement opportunities at Bard
  • how to make your application stand out -- tips on perfecting your application materials, advice on getting through the graduate school admissions process
In addition: Program Director Eban Goodstein will provide an overview of the program offerings at Bard CEP and the MBA in Sustainability.

Our Admissions staff will also be on hand to provide information on the application process and answer questions regarding:
  • financial aid opportunities
  • successfully completing program prerequisites 

RSVP HERE

Event Location: This event will be held via Zoom. Access details will be shared with attendees upon event registration.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail mbogossian@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/125218125785.
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Shedding Some Light on the Dark Matter of the Genomic Universe

Thomas R. Cech, PhD

Thursday, February 18, 2021
12:20–1:30 pm

Online Event
Earlier in the 21st century, the human genome was thought to consist of islands of important genes, coding for proteins, surrounded by a vast sea of “junk DNA.” But we now know that much of the vast noncoding part of the genome is also transcribed into RNA – noncoding RNA. Many hundreds of research laboratories are now engaged in observing and interrogating this dark matter of the genomic universe. Dr. Cech will describe two examples, catalytic RNA and telomerase RNA.

Dr. Thomas R. Cech is Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and Director of the Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology PhD Program at the University of Colorado Boulder.

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: February 18, 2021, at 12:00 pm Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Shedding Some Light on the Dark Matter of the Genomic Universe

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://bard.zoom.us/j/87656848909?pwd=L1ZoTERnTnpzM0U3Y0pMak9WcmFiUT09
Passcode: 645895
Or iPhone one-tap : 
    US: +16465588656,,87656848909#  or +13126266799,,87656848909# 
Or Telephone:
    Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
        US: +1 646 558 8656  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799 
Webinar ID: 876 5684 8909
    International numbers available: https://bard.zoom.us/u/kdNzUccMMtSponsored by: Biology Program; Chemistry Program; Dean of the College; Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.

For more information, call 845-752-2354, e-mail sjain@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/87656848909?pwd=L1ZoTERnTnpzM0U3Y0pMak9WcmFiUT09.
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Bard-Smolny Peer Language Cafe

Friday, February 19, 2021
12:30–1:30 pm

Online Event
Join Smolny students every Friday to practice your Russian and discuss relevant topics in society! Weekly meetings resume February 12.

Join via ZoomSponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail caclark@bard.edu, or visit https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81448299743?pwd=YTRqdGpNWGxZQ09nMnpuMENIcUt4Zz09.
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A Program of French Piano Music

Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger

Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021

UPSTREAMING

A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.

Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)

Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914) 

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895) 

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)

Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers
Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/driver-lane.
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Jo Shaw on "Horizons of Freedom: The Paradoxes of Citizenship in the Pandemic"

Friday, February 19, 2021
8–10 am

Online Event
The Open Society University Network and the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University in Belgrade invite all OSUN members to attend an online lecture by Jo Shaw on "Horizons of Freedom: The Paradoxes of Citizenship in the Pandemic." 

Shaw, who holds the Salvesen Chair of European Institutions at the University of Edinburgh, will explore how the meaning of certain social acts has been shifting under pandemic conditions, allowing us to gain new insights into the character of constitutional citizenship and its relationship with political ideas such as populism and fundamental principles such as equality and dignity. The focal points of the lecture are face-coverings and masks, alongside public protests against restrictions on liberties imposed in the name of combating the spread of the virus.

These shifts in social acts illustrate the changing meaning of what constitutes the “good citizen," playing on what Jean Cohen terms “the paradoxical dialectic inherent in modern constitutionalism,” which “drives republican or liberal democratic conceptions of citizenship into the arms of thicker, more communitarian understandings of identity.” This, then, raises the question of whether it is feasible and reasonable to place a brake upon such trends, and to ask which types of norms and institutions, at the national and international levels, are suitable for that task.

The annual seminar 2020/21 “Horizons of Freedom” events at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, examine the intrinsic connection between freedom and engagement in order to expand the conceptual and political horizons of freedom as a central principle guiding action in democratic politics, and initiates a more intensive dialogue among antagonistic traditions of academic perception of freedom in the face of urgent challenges and threats to freedom and democracy.

Join via Zoom.
Link to the IFDT site.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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THE CONDO CONCERTS: Leila Josefowicz, violin
Works by Matthias Pintscher and J.S. Bach

Conservatory Scholarship Fund Benefit Recital--Reservations Required for Free Tickets

Friday, February 19, 2021
8–9:30 pm

Online Event
Reserve your free tickets for this one-time streamed performance here.

Leila Josefowicz’s passionate advocacy of contemporary music for the violin is reflected in her diverse programs and enthusiasm to perform new works. Winner of the 2018 Avery Fisher Prize, she was also awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2008. Recent performances include concerts with the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the London, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, and Finnish Radio symphony orchestras. 

THE CONDO CONCERTS is a series of four concerts in spring 2021 streamed from the Bard Conservatory with the generous support of artist George Condo as a benefit for the Conservatory Scholarship Fund. 
 Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-condo-concerts-leila-josefowicz-violin-tickets-139539322871?utm-medium=discovery&utm-ca.
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A Program of French Piano Music

Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger

Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021

UPSTREAMING

A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.

Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)

Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914) 

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895) 

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)

Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers
Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/driver-lane.
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Bard Chapel Service

Sunday, February 21, 2021
3–4 pm

Online Event
You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1OHcyazdyQTZldz09.
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A Program of French Piano Music

Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger

Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021

UPSTREAMING

A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.

Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)

Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914) 

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895) 

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)

Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers
Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/driver-lane.
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New & Classic Works for Strings

Sunday, February 21, 2021
2 pm

UPSTREAMING

This concert features the world premiere of Falling Together by composer Sarah Hennies, who was recently profiled in The New York Times, and the 2005 piece Popcorn Superhet Receiver by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, which was used in the film There Will Be Blood. The program also includes Grieg’s classic Holberg Suite and a popular work by Vaughan Williams.

TŌNteaches: Conductor James Bagwell will dive into these works and share the stories behind the music in a special Zoom seminar on Thu, Feb 18 at 8 PM. Join the discussion at bard.zoom.us/j/81391418015. 

James Bagwell conductor

Sarah Hennies Falling Together (World Premiere)
Jonny Greenwood Popcorn Superhet Receiver
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Grieg Holberg Suite

Estimated run time: 1 hour and 45 minutesSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/new-classic-works-for-strings.
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A Program of French Piano Music

Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger

Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021

UPSTREAMING

A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.

Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)

Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914) 

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895) 

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)

Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers
Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/driver-lane.
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APPLICATION CLOSES FRIDAY: 2021 Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference

Monday, February 22, 2021 – Friday, February 26, 2021

Online Event

The conference will take place online, April 10–11.

Applications now being accepted

The eighth annual Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference brings together undergraduate students to strengthen a global network of leaders and innovators who are working with community partners to develop solutions to local and global challenges. The conference exposes students to a wide range of ideas and experiences to help them lead community-based projects more effectively. The Get Engaged conference is a venue for sharing experiences, learning new skills, honing leadership styles, and networking with international peers.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://cce.bard.edu/events/get-engaged-conference-info-session.
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A Program of French Piano Music

Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger

Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021

UPSTREAMING

A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.

Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)

Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914) 

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895) 

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)

Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers
Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/driver-lane.
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APPLICATION CLOSES FRIDAY: 2021 Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference

Monday, February 22, 2021 – Friday, February 26, 2021

Online Event

The conference will take place online, April 10–11.

Applications now being accepted

The eighth annual Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference brings together undergraduate students to strengthen a global network of leaders and innovators who are working with community partners to develop solutions to local and global challenges. The conference exposes students to a wide range of ideas and experiences to help them lead community-based projects more effectively. The Get Engaged conference is a venue for sharing experiences, learning new skills, honing leadership styles, and networking with international peers.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://cce.bard.edu/events/get-engaged-conference-info-session.
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Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: The Color of Law

Tuesday, February 23, 2021
11 am – 12 pm

Online Event
This event takes place at 11 am EST/10 am CST

OSUN and network partner Tuskegee University invite you to attend an online discussion with Benjamin Crump, nationally recognized trial lawyer for justice, on "The Color of Law."

This event is part of the Tuskegee University 2021 Black History Month Lecture Series, "Embracing Our Heritage and Continuing the Struggle."

This and all events in the series are online, unless specified otherwise.
Join via Zoom.Sponsored by: Tuskegee University.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: COVID-19 and the African American Community

Tuesday, February 23, 2021
2–4 pm

Online Event
OSUN and network partner Tuskegee University invite you to attend an online discussion on COVID-19 and the African American Community with panelists: Deloris Alexander, Crystal James, Rueben Warren, and Frank Lee

This event is part of the Tuskegee University 2021 Black History Month Lecture Series, “Embracing Our Heritage and Continuing the Struggle.”

This and all events in the series are online, unless specified otherwise.
Join via Zoom.Sponsored by: Tuskegee University.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://tuskegee.zoom.us/j/9860516482?pwd=VjI5RUU1czNvZmduaFBDNjRCRFVQdz09.
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Webinar: Nadine Strossen and Richard Wilson on "Law and Hateful Speech: What Is to Be Done?"

Tuesday, February 23, 2021
3–4:30 pm

Online Event
Please join the Bard Center for the Study of Hate on Tuesday February 23, 2021 at 3:00pm Eastern Time as we welcome Nadine Strossen, a professor at New York Law School, past president of the American Civil Liberties Union, and author of HATE: Why We Should Resist it with Free Speech, Not Censorship, and Richard Wilson, professor of law and anthropology at the University of Connecticut and the author of Incitement on Trial: Prosecuting International Speech Crimes. They will speak on “Law and hateful speech—what is to be done?”
 
Join via Zoom. Register here.Sponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Hate.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mTu01cIvSUG4sMnIXOfWsw.
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A Program of French Piano Music

Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger

Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021

UPSTREAMING

A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.

Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)

Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914) 

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895) 

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)

Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers
Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/driver-lane.
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APPLICATION CLOSES FRIDAY: 2021 Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference

Monday, February 22, 2021 – Friday, February 26, 2021

Online Event

The conference will take place online, April 10–11.

Applications now being accepted

The eighth annual Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference brings together undergraduate students to strengthen a global network of leaders and innovators who are working with community partners to develop solutions to local and global challenges. The conference exposes students to a wide range of ideas and experiences to help them lead community-based projects more effectively. The Get Engaged conference is a venue for sharing experiences, learning new skills, honing leadership styles, and networking with international peers.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://cce.bard.edu/events/get-engaged-conference-info-session.
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As Far As Isolation Goes (Online)

TANIA EL KHOURY AND BASEL ZARAA

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 – Sunday, March 21, 2021

UPSTREAMING
As Far As Isolation Goes (Online) is a collaboration between live artist Tania El Khoury and musician and street artist Basel Zaraa. Reimagined for an online context during coronavirus lockdown, the piece is built from their original collaboration entitled As Far As My Fingertips Take Me in which El Khoury commissioned Zaraa to record a rap song inspired by the journey his sisters made from Damascus to Sweden.
 
In As Far As Isolation Goes, Zaraa and El Khoury worked together to create another iteration of their previous piece focused on mental and physical health experiences of refugees in the United Kingdom. Zaraa created a song inspired by conversations with friends and colleagues who have recently claimed refuge in the UK.
 
In this online, interactive, 1-on-1 performance As Far As Isolation Goes (Online) uses touch, sound, and interactivity to bring audience members in contact with those faced with inhumane detention centers and a mental health system that disregard their political and emotional contexts.
​Sponsored by: Fisher Center.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/as-far-as-isolation-goes-online.
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Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: Unforgotten: Photography as Resistance

Wednesday, February 24, 2021
2–4 pm

Online Event
OSUN and network partner Tuskegee University invite you to attend an online discussion with Chester Higgins, staff photographer for the New York Times for more than four decades, on Unforgotten: Photography as Resistance.

This event is part of the Tuskegee University 2021 Black History Month Lecture Series, “Embracing Our Heritage and Continuing the Struggle.”

This and all events in the series are online, unless specified otherwise.
Join via Zoom.Sponsored by: Tuskegee University.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://tuskegee.zoom.us/j/9860516482?pwd=VjI5RUU1czNvZmduaFBDNjRCRFVQdz09.
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Written Arts Moderation Open House

Wednesday, February 24, 2021
5–6:30 pm

Online Event
The Written Arts program will be holding a moderation Q&A over Zoom. Students intending to moderate into the Written Arts will have the opportunity to speak with faculty about the Moderation process and specific Written Arts requirements. Students intending to moderate into Written Arts this semester are required to attend this event. Those who are unable to attend are asked to please notify the program coordinator (mbrien@bard.edu) in advance.

Join Zoom Meeting
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Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/ks9GvKZmjSponsored by: Written Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail mbrien@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/88610076541?pwd=UnRWVWV0SnpPVXJpTStrMmJ3SnYzZz09.
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Bard College Gospel Explosion 2021

Bard College will host performances by faculty, staff, students, and special guests celebrating Black spirituality on campus.

Wednesday, February 24, 2021
6–9 pm

Online Event
No Black History Month would be complete without a celebration of Gospel Music. From Slavery times to present time, Gospel music has been a source of uplifting the Black community. The Bible says, in Philippians 4:4, “Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.” Please join us as we take this time to celebrate our faith and charismatic expression of Black Christianity at Bard College. Livestreaming on YouTubeSponsored by: Professionals of Color; Student Activities.

For more information, call 845-758-7097, e-mail jrosariocaliz@bard.edu, or visit https://youtu.be/vUNYN-ED33U.
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A Program of French Piano Music

Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger

Friday, February 19, 2021 – Thursday, February 25, 2021

UPSTREAMING

A recital of French music featuring pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in November 2020.

Program
César Franck (1822–90) Organ Chorale No. 1, arranged for 2 pianos by Henri Duparc (1890)

Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) Theme and Variations (1914) 

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Theme and Variations in C-sharp minor, Op. 73 (1895) 

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Two Pianos, Op. 35 (1874)

Additional Content
An Introduction to Music by French Composers
Join renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis for an introduction to works by four composers who helped shape the history of French music—César Franck, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, and Lili Boulanger—and the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.Sponsored by: Bard Music Festival.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/driver-lane.
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APPLICATION CLOSES FRIDAY: 2021 Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference

Monday, February 22, 2021 – Friday, February 26, 2021

Online Event

The conference will take place online, April 10–11.

Applications now being accepted

The eighth annual Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference brings together undergraduate students to strengthen a global network of leaders and innovators who are working with community partners to develop solutions to local and global challenges. The conference exposes students to a wide range of ideas and experiences to help them lead community-based projects more effectively. The Get Engaged conference is a venue for sharing experiences, learning new skills, honing leadership styles, and networking with international peers.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://cce.bard.edu/events/get-engaged-conference-info-session.
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Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: Retracing the Footsteps of History

Honoring Professor Emeritus of History Frank L. Toland

Thursday, February 25, 2021
2–4 pm

Online Event
Lula Joe Williams, Gladis Williams, Barbara Jean Williams Parker. Join via Zoom.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail histpols@tuskegee.edu, or visit https://tuskegee.zoom.us/j/9860516482?pwd=VjI5RUU1czNvZmduaFBDNjRCRFVQdz09.
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Book Launch for Uncooperative Contemporaries: Art Exhibitions in Shanghai in 2000, published by Afterall, in association with Asia Art Archive and CCS Bard

Thursday, February 25, 2021
5–7 pm

Online Event
The event will feature three conversations between Hou Hanru, Artistic Director of MAXXI in Rome, and Tom Eccles, Executive Director, CCS Bard; Anthony Yung, Senior Researcher at Asia Art Archive, and Yang Zhenzhong, artist; and Ken Lum, artist, and Pauline Yao, Lead Curator, Visual Art, at M+ in Hong Kong. Co-presented by Asia Art Archive in America and CCS Bard. Register hereSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5016123051716/WN_9BVMc7gYSja0duOecE40gA.
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Tony Cokes Artist Talk 

 

Thursday, February 25, 2021
6–7 pm

Online Event
Zoom link: https://bard.zoom.us/j/89247172924?pwd=VTh2VU5GRFp3elRORGd4b1hNdllSdz09

In a series of videotapes and installations produced since the mid-1980s, Tony Cokes engages in cogent investigations of identity and opposition. His works question how race influences the construction of subjectivities (personal, cultural and historical), and how race, gender and class are perceived through what he terms the "representational regimes of image and sound," as perpetuated by Hollywood, the media and popular culture.

Tony Cokes was born in 1956. He received a BA from Goddard College, Vermont, participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, and gained an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. He has received grants and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Getty Research Institute. Cokes's video and multimedia installation works have been included in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum Soho, The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Documenta X, Kassel, Germany, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Recent solo exhibitions and screenings have taken place at REDCAT, Los Angeles, the Gene Siskel Film Center at the University of Chicago, and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York. Cokes is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Center for Curatorial Studies; Film and Electronic Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-752-4658, or e-mail akitnick@bard.edu.
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Bard-Smolny Peer Language Cafe

Friday, February 26, 2021
12:30–1:30 pm

Online Event
Join Smolny students every Friday to practice your Russian and discuss relevant topics in society! Weekly meetings resume February 12.

Join via ZoomSponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail caclark@bard.edu, or visit https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81448299743?pwd=YTRqdGpNWGxZQ09nMnpuMENIcUt4Zz09.
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APPLICATION CLOSES FRIDAY: 2021 Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference

Monday, February 22, 2021 – Friday, February 26, 2021

Online Event

The conference will take place online, April 10–11.

Applications now being accepted

The eighth annual Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference brings together undergraduate students to strengthen a global network of leaders and innovators who are working with community partners to develop solutions to local and global challenges. The conference exposes students to a wide range of ideas and experiences to help them lead community-based projects more effectively. The Get Engaged conference is a venue for sharing experiences, learning new skills, honing leadership styles, and networking with international peers.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://cce.bard.edu/events/get-engaged-conference-info-session.
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Latin(x)Club Open Discussion Event on "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Argentine Writer Jorge Luis Borges

Friday, February 26, 2021
1–2 pm

Online Event
Latin(x)Club of Bard College Berlin welcomes OSUN members to an open discussion with Luis Miguel Isava, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Emory University, Atlanta, USA), on the enigmatic short story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, considered by many the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. In this conversation, we will explore the metaphysical complexities in the story with the help of Isava, whose fields of study are poetry and contemporary poetics, relationships between literature and philosophy, theory, aesthetics and film studies. 

The event will take place in Spanish, but all interested students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members throughout the Open Society University Network and Bard International Network Partners are welcomed to join. The conversation will stem from the principle that the attendants will already be familiar with the story, which means that reading it in advance is encouraged but feel free to join even if you haven’t had the time. 
 

About Latin(x)Club:

Latin(x)Club wants to create a safe and sustainable space for the Latin American community across the OSUN Network using Bard College Berlin as a basis. This collective originates from the need to bring together the growing Latin American student body. We want to create a safe space to share our passion for our cultures and our personal experience of relocation. To continue this conversation across geographies and disciplines, we will host events open to the entire network inviting guest speakers to help us broaden our understanding of the region using literature, performance art, politics, theater, mix-media, among other cultural manifestations. The following event is the first of our international events open to the entire OSUN community. 


Read the Borges story in Spanish
Read the Borges story in English   


Join via Zoom.

 
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
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Tuskegee University Black History Month Lecture Series: A Strategic Vision for Tuskegee University

Honoring Professor Emeritus of History Frank L. Toland

Friday, February 26, 2021
2–4 pm

Online Event
A Deans' Panel. Join via Zoom.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail histpols@tuskegee.edu, or visit https://tuskegee.zoom.us/j/9860516482?pwd=VjI5RUU1czNvZmduaFBDNjRCRFVQdz09.
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Student Recital: The Sounds of China, with Yixin Wang, guzheng

Streamed student recital with guest musicians on guzheng, cello, flute, percussion, and piano.

Saturday, February 27, 2021
8:30–9:30 pm

Online Event
Streaming at https://youtu.be/CDJbyMIpTEs

 Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.

For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit https://youtu.be/CDJbyMIpTEs.
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Bard Chapel Service

Sunday, February 28, 2021
3–4 pm

Online Event
You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.

For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1OHcyazdyQTZldz09.
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APPLICATION CLOSES FRIDAY: 2021 Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference

Monday, February 22, 2021 – Friday, February 26, 2021


The conference will take place online, April 10–11.

Applications now being accepted

The eighth annual Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference brings together undergraduate students to strengthen a global network of leaders and innovators who are working with community partners to develop solutions to local and global challenges. The conference exposes students to a wide range of ideas and experiences to help them lead community-based projects more effectively. The Get Engaged conference is a venue for sharing experiences, learning new skills, honing leadership styles, and networking with international peers.
Online Event
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://cce.bard.edu/events/get-engaged-conference-info-session.
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