The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
An exhibit of decorative garden ornaments from the extensive Montgomery Place collection
Runs through Saturday, October 12, 2019
Montgomery Place Grounds The gardens at Montgomery Place once featured decorative garden ornaments and furniture, displaying a wide mix of styles, alongside the plants. Examples of statuary, furniture, potted plants, and hanging baskets that have been documented in early photographs of Montgomery Place will be presented in the exhibition.
Exhibition produced in partnership with and curated by Barbara Israel and her staff from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Funding provided by the A. C. Israel Foundation and Plymouth Hill Foundation. For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/montgomeryplace.
Sponsored by the Bard MBA in Sustainability | Co-sponsored by the Bard Office of Sustainability and Experimental Humanities Program
Monday, September 30, 2019 – Tuesday, October 1, 2019 1–6 pm
"Repair is a radical act" -Rose Marcario, Patagonia CEO
Bard's MBA in Sustainability program, Office of Sustainability, and Experimental Humanities Program will be hosting the Patagonia Worn Wear Repair Wagonfrom September 30th to October 1st on Bard's Annandale-on-Hudson campus. Students and community members are invited to bring one item of clothing to this event for repair. The Worn Wear team will repair any brand of clothing and repairs will be done on a first come, first served basis.
We will also be hosting student makers, local B Corps and food trucks on Monday 9/30 for a Community Sustainability Exhibition from 1-6 PM. Participating B Corps companies include:
Featured Bard student makers and community groups include:
Coco Ma - handmade jewelry
Iris Engel - reusable menstrual products
Quincy Ross - handmade tree sculptures
Bard College Bike Coop - providing "fix a flat" tutorials for attendees
Repair Cafe Hudson Valley - Woodworking experts will be onsite to provide repairs for chairs, small tables, picture frames, drawers (community members are invited to bring one item to this event for repair)
Event Schedule and Information: Location: Bard College Experimental Humanities Quad (directions can be found here)
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Mary Norris, American author, writer, and copy editor for the New Yorker
Tuesday, October 1, 2019 5–6:30 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema More than a dozen works about Greece and Greek, modern and ancient, by translators, memoirists, novelists, scholars, essayists, lecturers, dramatists, and actors from England, America, Australia, Greece, and Italy have been published in just the past two years, and there are more in the works. The author of Greek to Me will celebrate recent work inspired by the language, literature, and landscape of Greece and inquire into whatever it is in our current situation that sends us back to the Greeks.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7283, or e-mail [email protected].
A Way Forward in Syria? The Report of the Syria Study Group
Ambassador Frederic Hof
Tuesday, October 1, 2019 5:30–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In 2018 Congress created the Syria Study Group, a bipartisan panel of 12 experts charged with assessing the situation in Syria, defining the U.S. policy objective in that war-torn country, and devising a strategy to accomplish the objective. Bard’s diplomat in residence, Ambassador Frederic C. Hof, served as a member of the Group, whose report is being issued on September 26. Please join Ambassador Hof for a discussion of what is in the report and what may be next for U.S. policy in Syria. Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program; Global and International Studies Program; Politics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
An exhibit of decorative garden ornaments from the extensive Montgomery Place collection
Runs through Saturday, October 12, 2019
Montgomery Place Grounds The gardens at Montgomery Place once featured decorative garden ornaments and furniture, displaying a wide mix of styles, alongside the plants. Examples of statuary, furniture, potted plants, and hanging baskets that have been documented in early photographs of Montgomery Place will be presented in the exhibition.
Exhibition produced in partnership with and curated by Barbara Israel and her staff from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Funding provided by the A. C. Israel Foundation and Plymouth Hill Foundation. For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/montgomeryplace.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
CMIA - Austrian silent film with new score by Donald Sosin and Alicia Svigals
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 7–10 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
The City Without Jews (Hans Karl Breslauer, 1924, Austria, 91 minutes)*
*This new restoration from Filmarchiv Austria will be presented with the live performance of an original score by Donald Sosin and klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals. There will be a discussion about silent film music following the screening.
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
An exhibit of decorative garden ornaments from the extensive Montgomery Place collection
Runs through Saturday, October 12, 2019
Montgomery Place Grounds The gardens at Montgomery Place once featured decorative garden ornaments and furniture, displaying a wide mix of styles, alongside the plants. Examples of statuary, furniture, potted plants, and hanging baskets that have been documented in early photographs of Montgomery Place will be presented in the exhibition.
Exhibition produced in partnership with and curated by Barbara Israel and her staff from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Funding provided by the A. C. Israel Foundation and Plymouth Hill Foundation. For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/montgomeryplace.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Making the Buddha: The Origin and Development of the Buddha's Image
Robert DeCaroli, Director of the MA Program in Art History Professor, George Mason University
Thursday, October 3, 2019 11:50 am – 1 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Robert DeCaroli is a specialist in the early history of Buddhism and has conducted fieldwork in India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia. He received his Ph.D. in the South and Southeast Asian art history from UCLA. The majority of this work deals with early aspects of South Asian material culture and its interaction with forms of regional religious practice. He is the author of two books: Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism (Oxford UP 2004) , and Image Problems: The Origin and Development of the Buddha’s Image in Early South Asia (U Washington Press 2015). He is co-curator of the Encountering the Buddha exhibit at the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. He is currently an ACLS/Robert H. N. Ho Foundation Fellow, working on a project entitled “The Gods of Buddhism: Regional Deities and Spirits in Early South Asia.”Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Asian Studies Program; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Thursday, October 3, 2019 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Galleries Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The Cultural Politics of Translation and the Nahda in Egypt
Samah Selim, Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Rutgers University
Thursday, October 3, 2019 6–8 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This talk explores the cultural geography of Cairo in the first decade of the 20th century in order to unpack and critique nahdawi representations of modernity as simulacrum. I offer a brief reading of Muhammad Al-Muwaylihi’s iconic text Hadith ʿIsa Ibn Hisham that shows how the nahda discourse on cultural authenticity masked a deep social conservatism that banished the “errant trajectories” of everyday translation practices emerging in and through the modern. Against this discourse, the talk will conclude with a discussion of adaptation as the motor of social change and cultural creativity.
Samah Selim teaches at Rutgers University. She is a scholar and translator of modern Arabic literature. Her most recent book, Popular Fiction, Translation and the Nahda in Egypt, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. She is currently working on a translation of Jordanian author Ghalib Halasa’s final novel Sultana (1987) with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
This event is co-sponsored by the Division of Languages and Literatures, Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative, and Human Rights Project. Sponsored by: Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7506, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building Jerome Rothenberg has been a dominant presence in American poetry and poetics for half a century. His poetry has always sought in the deepest realms of human experience to bring a clear word. His poems are marvels of colloquial immediacy and prophetic intensity. His explorations of ethnopoetics resulted in such game-changing anthologies as Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, and America: A Prophecy, as well as studies and translations of Native American poetries. His commitment to exploring the world of Jewish experience produced his remarkable Holocaust-minded poems in the books Poland 1931 and Khurbn and other Poems, as well as A Big Jewish Book and Exiled in the Word; and he was the first translator of Paul Celan. Besides continuing his own work, he has edited (with Pierre Joris '69) the first volumes of that immense anthology of modern poetics, Poems for the Millenium.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
An exhibit of decorative garden ornaments from the extensive Montgomery Place collection
Runs through Saturday, October 12, 2019
Montgomery Place Grounds The gardens at Montgomery Place once featured decorative garden ornaments and furniture, displaying a wide mix of styles, alongside the plants. Examples of statuary, furniture, potted plants, and hanging baskets that have been documented in early photographs of Montgomery Place will be presented in the exhibition.
Exhibition produced in partnership with and curated by Barbara Israel and her staff from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Funding provided by the A. C. Israel Foundation and Plymouth Hill Foundation. For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/montgomeryplace.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Hessel Museum of Art Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Friday, October 4, 2019 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Galleries Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
The Cosmic Microwave Background: Physics and History
Bruce Partridge, Haverford College
Friday, October 4, 2019 12–1 pm
Hegeman 107 The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the heat left over from the hot Big Bang of the early universe. Careful studies of the CMB have greatly enriched our understanding of the history and properties of the universe—and what it was like very early on. In this talk, I will focus on the basic science of the CMB, and how this intertwined with the “discovery” of the CMB. I'll start with this proposition: the very early universe was dense, hot, and very, very simple.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail [email protected].
The Institute of Advanced Theology Pre-Advent Lecture Series with Bruce Chilton
Prophetic Thinking—Ancient Israel
Friday, October 4, 2019 12:30–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Five weekly lectures on the origins of prophecy deploy the earliest Hebrew Scriptures comparatively, in the context of studies of shamanism and related topics. The aim is to permit the texts to articulate how they envision events that run counter to the prevailing patterns of political and military power, and ultimately to intimate an alternative structure of reality itself.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7335, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
An exhibit of decorative garden ornaments from the extensive Montgomery Place collection
Runs through Saturday, October 12, 2019
Montgomery Place Grounds The gardens at Montgomery Place once featured decorative garden ornaments and furniture, displaying a wide mix of styles, alongside the plants. Examples of statuary, furniture, potted plants, and hanging baskets that have been documented in early photographs of Montgomery Place will be presented in the exhibition.
Exhibition produced in partnership with and curated by Barbara Israel and her staff from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Funding provided by the A. C. Israel Foundation and Plymouth Hill Foundation. For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/montgomeryplace.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Hessel Museum of Art Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Saturday, October 5, 2019 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Galleries Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bard College: The Montgomery Place Campus offers regular mansion tours on Saturdays from June 1 through October 12, with tours at 10:30, 11:30, 1:30, and 2:30. The cost is $10 per person and no reservations are required. Depending on availability, private tours will be offered for groups of five or more at $20 per person.
Visit the Montgomery Place website to learn more about special tours, events, and upcoming exhibitions.
The women's volleyball team hosts a tri-match. The schedule is as follows: Sarah Lawrence vs. Bard, 11 a.m. Sarah Lawrence vs. SUNY Maritime, 1 p.m. SUNY Maritime vs. Bard, 3 p.m.
The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
An exhibit of decorative garden ornaments from the extensive Montgomery Place collection
Runs through Saturday, October 12, 2019
Montgomery Place Grounds The gardens at Montgomery Place once featured decorative garden ornaments and furniture, displaying a wide mix of styles, alongside the plants. Examples of statuary, furniture, potted plants, and hanging baskets that have been documented in early photographs of Montgomery Place will be presented in the exhibition.
Exhibition produced in partnership with and curated by Barbara Israel and her staff from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Funding provided by the A. C. Israel Foundation and Plymouth Hill Foundation. For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/montgomeryplace.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Hessel Museum of Art Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Sunday, October 6, 2019 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Galleries Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents We will have the annual blessing of the animals on Sunday, October 6, at 2:00 p.m. on the lawn in front of the Chapel of the Holy Innocents. Please bring your pets (leashed or caged), stuffed animals, photos of beloved pets, etc. All are welcome! Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
An exhibit of decorative garden ornaments from the extensive Montgomery Place collection
Runs through Saturday, October 12, 2019
Montgomery Place Grounds The gardens at Montgomery Place once featured decorative garden ornaments and furniture, displaying a wide mix of styles, alongside the plants. Examples of statuary, furniture, potted plants, and hanging baskets that have been documented in early photographs of Montgomery Place will be presented in the exhibition.
Exhibition produced in partnership with and curated by Barbara Israel and her staff from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Funding provided by the A. C. Israel Foundation and Plymouth Hill Foundation. For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/montgomeryplace.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Hessel Museum of Art Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Monday, October 7, 2019 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Galleries Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Join Michelle Murray and BGIA alumni/ae for PIZZA and hear about their experiences with Bard's Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA), including:
Internships in NYC Courses taught by scholar-practitioners Dorms on Manhattan's Upper East Side Fun social events (Broadway shows, concerts, dance, improv comedy, baseball and more!) Monthly speaker series Costs and financial aid Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
For more information, call 646-839-9262, or e-mail [email protected].
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Geneva Zane ’18 will read from her new book, Stringbean and the Grace of Dog (Pink Narcissus Press, 2019). Happens on the first floor of the library.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature.
Public Debate - Should the US Prison System be Abolished or Reformed?
Monday, October 7, 2019 7–8 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Opening event for the Hannah Arendt Center Conference – “Racism and Antisemitism” (October 10-11, 2019). This debate will feature both the Bard and West Point debate teams. Co-sponsored by the Bard Debate Union, the Hannah Arendt Center, the Center for Civic Engagement, and the Bard-West Point exchange. For more information about this year’s Hannah Arendt Center Conference, visit: https://hac.bard.edu/conference2019; For more information about the Bard Debate Union, visit: https://debate.bard.edu/Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
An exhibit of decorative garden ornaments from the extensive Montgomery Place collection
Runs through Saturday, October 12, 2019
Montgomery Place Grounds The gardens at Montgomery Place once featured decorative garden ornaments and furniture, displaying a wide mix of styles, alongside the plants. Examples of statuary, furniture, potted plants, and hanging baskets that have been documented in early photographs of Montgomery Place will be presented in the exhibition.
Exhibition produced in partnership with and curated by Barbara Israel and her staff from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Funding provided by the A. C. Israel Foundation and Plymouth Hill Foundation. For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/montgomeryplace.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 – Wednesday, October 9, 2019 10 am – 8 pm
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Yom Kippur (the Jewish Day of Atonement) starts Tuesday Evening October 8 and ends at dark on Wednesday, October 9. All Bard community members are welcome to join us for any and all parts of the day. All events will be held in the Center for Spiritual Life
Yom Kippur Schedule Kol Nidrei – Tuesday at 6 PM sharp. Morning service – Wednesday at 10 AM. Memorial service (Yizkr) 5:30 PM Concluding service ( Ne'ilah) – 6:15 PM Break the fast (with bagels!) – 7:10 PM sharp.
Between the morning service and the memorial service we encourage everyone to remain with us the Center for Spiritual Life for informal conversation, reflection, napping, and being with friends.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Noon Concert: Works for Piano, Violin, and Voice by Chopin, J.S. Bach, Sibelius, and Charles Ives
An hour-long performance by Conservatory students featuring a violin concerto by Sibelius, songs by Charles Ives and J.S. Bach for countertenor, and Chopin's Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante for piano.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 12–1 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Flexible Bioelectronics on a Thread: Sensors, Microfluidics, Electronics and Drug Delivery
Dr. Sameer Sonkusale Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 4–6 pm
RKC 122 This talk will explore the new realm of using threads as an ultimate platform for flexible and stretchable bioelectronics. Threads offer unique advantages of universal availability, low cost, material diversity and simple textile-based processing. Interestingly, threads also provide an ideal platform for passive microfluidic sampling and delivery of analytes. In this talk, I will report reel-to-reel fabrication of functional smart threads for variety of sensing and electronics application. I will report on nanomaterial-infused smart threads for sensing strain and temperature. Nano-infused threads will be presented for sensing pH, glucose, lactate, ammonium and other chemical and biological biomarkers directly in biological fluids such as sweat or wound exudate. Beyond sensing and microfluidics, I will present our recent work on making super-thin transistors and electronics directly on threads. This new toolkit of highly flexible thread-based microfluidics, sensors, transistors and electronics makes it possible to realize smart surgical sutures and flexible smart bandages for chronic wounds. Our recent work on using threads for closed loop spatiotemporal dosage controlled drug delivery will also be presented. If there is time, I will present some related research activities on ingestible devices for studying the gut microbiome, and on flexible microneedles for transdermal drug delivery.Sponsored by: Chemistry Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2353, or e-mail [email protected].
From Human Sacrifices to Deism: Dismantling Myths of Prehispanic Mexico
A Lecture by Maestro Akaxe Yotzin
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In this lecture, Maestro Akaxe Yotzin, an expert of Prehispanic Mesoamerican semiotics and disciplines, will dismantle the popular myths of human sacrifices, cannibalism, imperialism, and deism in Prehispanic cultures. By analyzing the symbols and evidence through a cultural, philosophical, spiritual, and indigenous lens, he will bring to light missing pieces in the mainstream narrative.
Maestro Akaxe Yotzin traces his lineage to the ancient native traditions of Mesoamerica. He is a “Temachtiani” of the Toltekatl sciences, disciplines, rituals, and philosophies. He has taught across Europe, Latin America, and the United States, where he currently resides. Akaxe Yotzin is trilingual, Nahuatl, English, and Spanish.His lecture will be in English.Sponsored by: Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; LAIS Program; La Voz; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6050, or e-mail [email protected].
The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
An exhibit of decorative garden ornaments from the extensive Montgomery Place collection
Runs through Saturday, October 12, 2019
Montgomery Place Grounds The gardens at Montgomery Place once featured decorative garden ornaments and furniture, displaying a wide mix of styles, alongside the plants. Examples of statuary, furniture, potted plants, and hanging baskets that have been documented in early photographs of Montgomery Place will be presented in the exhibition.
Exhibition produced in partnership with and curated by Barbara Israel and her staff from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Funding provided by the A. C. Israel Foundation and Plymouth Hill Foundation. For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/montgomeryplace.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 – Wednesday, October 9, 2019 10 am – 8 pm
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Yom Kippur (the Jewish Day of Atonement) starts Tuesday Evening October 8 and ends at dark on Wednesday, October 9. All Bard community members are welcome to join us for any and all parts of the day. All events will be held in the Center for Spiritual Life
Yom Kippur Schedule Kol Nidrei – Tuesday at 6 PM sharp. Morning service – Wednesday at 10 AM. Memorial service (Yizkr) 5:30 PM Concluding service ( Ne'ilah) – 6:15 PM Break the fast (with bagels!) – 7:10 PM sharp.
Between the morning service and the memorial service we encourage everyone to remain with us the Center for Spiritual Life for informal conversation, reflection, napping, and being with friends.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The Ars Nova production of Underground Railroad Game
by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special Directed by Taibi Magar Produced by Octopus Theatricals
Wednesday, October 9, 2019 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Critics’ Pick “A lacerating comedy on race…in-all-ways sensational.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times
Critics’ Pick “Outrageously funny! Strikingly rendered by bold, smart performances.”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Explosive! Fearlessly, ferociously uninhibited . . . the show’s most subversive quality is also quintessentially American: it’s wildly entertaining.”—Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker
Good morning, America! Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of teachers are getting down and dirty with today’s lesson. The nimble duo goes round after round on the mat of our nation’s history, tackling race, sex, and power in this R-rated, kaleidoscopic, and fearless comedy. Lauded around the world and in the New York Times as “one of the best new American plays of the last 25 years,” Underground Railroad Game welcomes back Jennifer Kidwell, last seen in SummerScape 2016’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed.Sponsored by: Fisher Center and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
An exhibit of decorative garden ornaments from the extensive Montgomery Place collection
Runs through Saturday, October 12, 2019
Montgomery Place Grounds The gardens at Montgomery Place once featured decorative garden ornaments and furniture, displaying a wide mix of styles, alongside the plants. Examples of statuary, furniture, potted plants, and hanging baskets that have been documented in early photographs of Montgomery Place will be presented in the exhibition.
Exhibition produced in partnership with and curated by Barbara Israel and her staff from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Funding provided by the A. C. Israel Foundation and Plymouth Hill Foundation. For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/montgomeryplace.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Hessel Museum of Art Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Thursday, October 10, 2019 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Galleries Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The Ars Nova production of Underground Railroad Game
by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special Directed by Taibi Magar Produced by Octopus Theatricals
Thursday, October 10, 2019 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Critics’ Pick “A lacerating comedy on race…in-all-ways sensational.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times
Critics’ Pick “Outrageously funny! Strikingly rendered by bold, smart performances.”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Explosive! Fearlessly, ferociously uninhibited . . . the show’s most subversive quality is also quintessentially American: it’s wildly entertaining.”—Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker
Good morning, America! Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of teachers are getting down and dirty with today’s lesson. The nimble duo goes round after round on the mat of our nation’s history, tackling race, sex, and power in this R-rated, kaleidoscopic, and fearless comedy. Lauded around the world and in the New York Times as “one of the best new American plays of the last 25 years,” Underground Railroad Game welcomes back Jennifer Kidwell, last seen in SummerScape 2016’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed.Sponsored by: Fisher Center and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
Thursday, October 10, 2019 – Friday, October 11, 2019 10 am – 6 pm
Olin Humanities Building Racism and Antisemitism A Conference Sponsored by The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Thursday and Friday, Oct. 10-11, 2019
author of Wilding: The Return of Nature to Our Farm
winner of the 2019 Richard Jefferies Prize for Nature Writing and chosen by Smithsonian as a top ten science book for 2018
Thursday, October 10, 2019 5–7 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema
The author will be signing books after the presentation. Books will be available for purchase at this event courtesy of Oblong Books & Music
Wilding - returning nature to our farm charts the story of the pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex where the author lives with her husband Charlie Burrell. Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy Sussex clay was economically ruinous, they decided to step back and let nature take over. By introducing free-roaming herbivores—proxies of the large animals that once roamed Britain—the Burrells’ degraded agricultural land has become a functioning ecosystem again. In less than twenty years, wildlife has rocketed and numerous endangered species have made Knepp their home. The Knepp experience challenges conventional ideas about our past and present landscapes, and points the way to a wilder, richer future—one that benefits farming, nature and us.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Lifetime Learning Institute.
Sodomite, Gay, Queer, Trans: A 14th-Century Document and Its Afterlives
Carolyn Dinshaw, Dean for the Humanities, Silver Professor; Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and English, New York University
Thursday, October 10, 2019 5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102
In 1394 in London a person named John Rykener but calling themself Eleanor was arrested in the act of having paid sex with a man from out of town. In a deposition Rykener gave a detailed account of their life as sex worker. Scholars as well as artists (and some scholar-artists) have taken up, researched, imagined, written, danced, and performed with puppets the life of Rykener based on this document. In this talk Dinshaw goes back to the original record and forward to modern and contemporary interpretations of it in order to discern who Rykener was then, and how they are understood -- and indeed animated -- now.
Carolyn Dinshaw, Dean for the Humanities, is also Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and English. She is a medievalist whose research not only focuses on the late Middle Ages in England and beyond, but also explores the relationship of past to present. Her award-winning book, Chaucer's Sexual Poetics (U of Wisconsin P, 1989), was the first full-length feminist study of Chaucer. She followed this with two books that develop analyses of our desires for past times: Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (Duke UP, 1999) and How Soon is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time (Duke UP, 2012). With David Wallace, she edited The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women’s Writing (Cambridge UP, 2003). And with David M. Halperin she founded and edited (1993-2005) the flagship journal of LGBT Studies, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (Duke UP). Before moving to NYU, Dean Dinshaw taught for many years at the University of California at Berkeley, where she was instrumental in the early development of LGBT Studies. At NYU, she founded and directed the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (1999-2005) and chaired the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (2012-15). In the classroom, she regularly teaches materials past and present, in courses ranging from Medieval Misogyny to Queer New York City.
Co-sponsored by Literature Program, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Human Rights
Sponsored by: Medieval Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7211, or e-mail [email protected].
3rd floor of the Watts dePeyster Hall, Village of Tivoli In honor of the legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt, the Human Rights Project at Bard College and the Village of Tivoli invite you to join us for a roundtable discussion about the current state of human rights.
In connection with the commemoration of her childhood home in Tivoli, this public event revisits Eleanor Roosevelt's famous answer to the question “Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?” For Eleanor Roosevelt, it was clear that “Without concerted citizen action to uphold” human rights “close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.” In that spirit, the event connects the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the increasingly dire challenges to human rights faced in the United States. How has the political discourse around human rights changed in the United States, and what are its implications? What does the term human rights mean in public culture today and how does it strengthen or limit the struggles around climate change, criminal justice, immigration, and racial, social and economic inequality? This event will take the form of a public conversation involving global and local activists, introduced by Peter Rosenblum, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, and moderated by Larry Cox, former Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, in which we all grapple together with these questions (and others) "in small places, close to home."Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
An exhibit of decorative garden ornaments from the extensive Montgomery Place collection
Runs through Saturday, October 12, 2019
Montgomery Place Grounds The gardens at Montgomery Place once featured decorative garden ornaments and furniture, displaying a wide mix of styles, alongside the plants. Examples of statuary, furniture, potted plants, and hanging baskets that have been documented in early photographs of Montgomery Place will be presented in the exhibition.
Exhibition produced in partnership with and curated by Barbara Israel and her staff from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Funding provided by the A. C. Israel Foundation and Plymouth Hill Foundation. For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/montgomeryplace.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Hessel Museum of Art Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Friday, October 11, 2019 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Galleries Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
The Institute of Advanced Theology Pre-Advent Lecture Series with Bruce Chilton
Prophetic Thinking—Ancient Israel
Friday, October 11, 2019 12:30–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Five weekly lectures on the origins of prophecy deploy the earliest Hebrew Scriptures comparatively, in the context of studies of shamanism and related topics. The aim is to permit the texts to articulate how they envision events that run counter to the prevailing patterns of political and military power, and ultimately to intimate an alternative structure of reality itself.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7335, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Thursday, October 10, 2019 – Friday, October 11, 2019 10 am – 6 pm
Olin Humanities Building Racism and Antisemitism A Conference Sponsored by The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Thursday and Friday, Oct. 10-11, 2019
The Ars Nova production of Underground Railroad Game
by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special Directed by Taibi Magar Produced by Octopus Theatricals
Friday, October 11, 2019 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Critics’ Pick “A lacerating comedy on race…in-all-ways sensational.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times
Critics’ Pick “Outrageously funny! Strikingly rendered by bold, smart performances.”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Explosive! Fearlessly, ferociously uninhibited . . . the show’s most subversive quality is also quintessentially American: it’s wildly entertaining.”—Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker
Good morning, America! Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of teachers are getting down and dirty with today’s lesson. The nimble duo goes round after round on the mat of our nation’s history, tackling race, sex, and power in this R-rated, kaleidoscopic, and fearless comedy. Lauded around the world and in the New York Times as “one of the best new American plays of the last 25 years,” Underground Railroad Game welcomes back Jennifer Kidwell, last seen in SummerScape 2016’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed.Sponsored by: Fisher Center and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
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 [email protected]Sponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
New Horizons in Cosmology: The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics
Bard Physics Program Faculty
Friday, October 11, 2019 12–1 pm
Hegeman 107 The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to two separate discoveries that broadened our understanding of the Universe. One half of the prize was given to Jim Peebles “for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe” and the other half to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discover of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.” Both of these works fundamentally changed our view of our universe and our place in it. Faculty of the Physics Program will expand on the ideas behind the discoveries and emphasize their significance.
Pizza will be provided.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail [email protected].
The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
An exhibit of decorative garden ornaments from the extensive Montgomery Place collection
Runs through Saturday, October 12, 2019
Montgomery Place Grounds The gardens at Montgomery Place once featured decorative garden ornaments and furniture, displaying a wide mix of styles, alongside the plants. Examples of statuary, furniture, potted plants, and hanging baskets that have been documented in early photographs of Montgomery Place will be presented in the exhibition.
Exhibition produced in partnership with and curated by Barbara Israel and her staff from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Funding provided by the A. C. Israel Foundation and Plymouth Hill Foundation. For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/montgomeryplace.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Hessel Museum of Art Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Saturday, October 12, 2019 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Galleries Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bard College: The Montgomery Place Campus offers regular mansion tours on Saturdays from June 1 through October 12, with tours at 10:30, 11:30, 1:30, and 2:30. The cost is $10 per person and no reservations are required. Depending on availability, private tours will be offered for groups of five or more at $20 per person.
Visit the Montgomery Place website to learn more about special tours, events, and upcoming exhibitions.
The Ars Nova production of Underground Railroad Game
by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special Directed by Taibi Magar Produced by Octopus Theatricals
Saturday, October 12, 2019 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Critics’ Pick “A lacerating comedy on race…in-all-ways sensational.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times
Critics’ Pick “Outrageously funny! Strikingly rendered by bold, smart performances.”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Explosive! Fearlessly, ferociously uninhibited . . . the show’s most subversive quality is also quintessentially American: it’s wildly entertaining.”—Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker
Good morning, America! Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of teachers are getting down and dirty with today’s lesson. The nimble duo goes round after round on the mat of our nation’s history, tackling race, sex, and power in this R-rated, kaleidoscopic, and fearless comedy. Lauded around the world and in the New York Times as “one of the best new American plays of the last 25 years,” Underground Railroad Game welcomes back Jennifer Kidwell, last seen in SummerScape 2016’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed.Sponsored by: Fisher Center and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
2019 Fall Open House for Prospective Students and Their Families
Saturday, October 12, 2019 9 am – 4 pm
Reem-Kayden Center The day centers around activities that allow students and their families to explore the campus and experience the excitement of Bard College classes. Check-in is at the Reem-Kayden Center, where students will be directed to their classes in the Olin Humanities Building. All other visitors will attend a Q&A in Olin Auditorium with Leon Botstein, president of the College. Campus tours begin at Olin.
Lunch will be served from 1:00 to 2:00. Representatives from the Admission, Student Affairs, Career Development, Study Abroad, and Residence Life offices, as well as the Dean of the College, will be available to answer your questions.
The day ends with 20-minute facility drop-in tours, which are at 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, and 3:30 (Athletics and Recreation; Dance/Theater and Performance; Film and Electronic Arts; Music/Conservatory; Photography; Residence Halls; Science; Studio Arts).
In order to have dynamic class discussions, students are encouraged to complete short readings in advance. (These classes are modeled on Bard’s First-Year Seminar.) Please go to bard.edu/admission to download the short readings. For more information, call 845-758-7472, or visit https://bard.edu/admission .
Citizens' Climate Lobby with Students for Carbon Dividends
Monthly Meeting of the Citizens' Climate Lobby Mid Hudson Chapter
Saturday, October 12, 2019 12–2:30 pm
Olin Language Center A potluck lunch followed by a chapter meeting designed to build political will for a federal solution to the climate crisis. We will dial in to the national call 1pm-1:30pm where we will hear from Kiera O'Brien, Students for Carbon Dividends.
There’s been a shift among Republicans in Congress on climate change, due in no small part to polling that shows younger GOP voters are as concerned about climate change as their progressive counterparts. As vice president of Students for Carbon Dividends, Kiera O’Brien is working to harness that passion among young conservatives to generate political will for carbon dividends legislation, which places a fee on carbon and gives revenue to households (sound familiar?). Kiera, who is President Emeritus of the Harvard Republican Club, recently testified at a congressional hearing alongside Republican pollster Frank Luntz. Over the summer, she spoke about carbon dividends at the Teen Vogue Summit: “There are many climate-oriented groups rallying around the problem, but Students for Carbon Dividends is rallying around the solution.”
To connect by phone: If you have unlimited calling, please call 1-646-558-8656; otherwise you can call toll-free at 1-877-369-0926. Enter 2017-2017-17 as the meeting ID. For more information, call 845-464-8025, or e-mail [email protected].
Visiting Artists: Cong Quartet Francis Chik, violin; Sally Law, violin; Caleb Wong, viola; Yan-Ho Cheng, cello Performing works by Dvořák, J. Leifs, A. Wong, and Caroline Shaw
Saturday, October 12, 2019 6–8 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Hessel Museum of Art Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Sunday, October 13, 2019 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Galleries Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
National Climate Seminar: How Solar Inspires Business
Elysa Hammond | VP for Environmental Stewardship | Clif Bar
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 12–1 pm
Online
The 2030 date to achieve the Paris Climate Accords is forcing all of us to rethink “Business as Usual.” Join Elysa Hammond on Bard’s National Climate Seminarfor a conversation about how ecological thinking has shaped Clif Bar’s journey as a company, and how in the coming decade, Clif Bar sees its business success coming from solar inspiration.
This webinar is part of a yearlong project,Solve Climate by 2030, sponsored by The Bard Center for Environmental Policy. The project takes as its starting point a recent IPCC report that we have only 10 years to forestall catastrophic climate change. Combining a national speaker network with a call for One-Night Teach-ins, the project culminates on April 7, 2020, in a national Power Dialog: 52 simultaneous, university-hosted webinars, one in every state, DC, and Puerto Rico. In these webinars, local climate solutions experts will suggest the top three ambitious but feasible state, urban, utility, or business initiatives that need to occur in Tennessee and Idaho, Missouri and New Jersey, Florida and Minnesota, if we aim to forestall catastrophic climate change. Following these state webinars, classes and other groups tuning in will have 45 minutes for “solutions sprints” designed to identify civic action opportunities for participants.
BARD CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY The Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability offer master’s programs in Environmental Policy, Climate Science and Policy, and Sustainable Business. The Bard Center for Environmental Policy’s career-focused, science-based, interdisciplinary master of science programs are located in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. The rigorous first-year coursework, followed by a required four-to-six-month immersive internship, culminates with a master’s Capstone Project and a 93 percent job placement rate within six months of graduation. Graduates are currently pursuing careers in many fields, such as alternative energy, international development, advocacy/lobbying, conservation, research, and strategic consulting. For more information: bard.edu/cep/.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Are We All in this Together? Generalized Prejudice Theory and Stigma Experiences
Diana Sanchez ’00 Rutgers University
Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:45–6 pm
Preston Theater The contexts that give rise to identity threats and their pernicious consequences for minorities are well documented. Yet, until recently, stigma researchers have largely assumed the necessity of a direct correspondence between safety/threat cues and the target (e.g., sexist remarks impact women). In contrast, this work demonstrates stigma transfer, i.e., the tendency for stigmatized group members to be threatened by prejudice targeting other stigmatized groups. In addition, this presentation will explore lay conceptions of prejudice that facilitate stigma transfer. Lastly, studies explore parallel responses to identity safety cues across identity dimensions. This talk will challenge long-held notions about the boundaries of stigma and have important implications for minority health, organizational diversity, and intraminority relations.Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7223, or e-mail [email protected].
Words Forever Young: Russian Avant-Garde Poetry in Translation
Thursday, October 17, 2019 5:30–7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Sponsored by the Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative and Russian and Eurasian Studies, this panel explores the joys and challenges of translating Russian Avant-Garde and late Modernist poetry to English. Maria Khotimsky of MIT and Ainsley Morse of Dartmouth College address the question of translatability of Hylea and Cubo-Futurist poetry, with examples from Guro, Kruchenykh, Khlebnikov and Mayakovsky, and discuss the complexities of contemporary readers' perception and interpretation of late Mandelstam's poetry in translation.
Maria Khotimsky is a Senior Lecturer in Russian and Russian Language Coordinator in the Department of Global Studies and Languages at MIT. Her recent work includes articles and conference talks on the ideology of translation in the Soviet Union, and poetics of translation in the works of several leading twentieth-century Russian poets, as well as in the work of Russian-American translingual poets. She is a co-editor of a volume of scholarly essays on the poetry and philosophy of Olga Sedakova, published in Russia (Ol’ga Sedakova: stikhi, smysly, prochteniia, NLO, 2017), and in the US (The Poetry and Poetics of Olga Sedakova. Origins, Philosophies, Points of Contention, University of Wisconsin Press, 2019).
Ainsley Morse teaches in the Dartmouth College Russian department and translates Russian and former Yugoslav poetry and prose. Recent publications include Permanent Evolution, a collection of theoretical essays by the Formalist critic Yuri Tynianov (ASP; edited and translated with Philip Redko), Andrei Egunov-Nikolev's "Soviet pastoral" Beyond Tula (ASP), and, with Bela Shayevich, Kholin 66: Diaries and Poems by Igor Kholin (UDP) and Vsevolod Nekrasov’s I Live I See (UDP 2013). She is currently translating the late avant-garde novelist and poet Konstantin Vaginov and contributing to an anthology of contemporary feminist poetry. Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Electronic Music Concert, in collaboration with Experimental Humanities and Computer Science
Visiting Artists: Codie (Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo and Kate Sicchio)
Thursday, October 17, 2019 6–8 pm
Blum Hall Codie is a live coding duo, working with sounds and visuals. This event will include a talk on the development of live coding performance techniques, followed by an improvised audio/video performance. The performance will feature Bard music seniors Bird Cohen, Ezra Kahn, and Maeve Schallert.
Free and open to all.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Blum Hall This talk and performance will focus on the work of Codie, a live coding group working with visuals and sounds. The talk will give background to the live coding community as well as the development of our live coding practices. The performance will show a world of colors, shapes, beeps and boops all created through real-time computer programming.
Codie is a live coding a/v group based in Brooklyn NY and Richmond VA (USA). Codie is seen in New York, Philadelphia, Berlin, Madrid, Sheffield and beyond in clubs, in living rooms, and on roof tops. Codie makes live performance, films and installations with code. https://codie.live/
Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo is an artist, programmer, and erstwhile data designer. She has created data-obscured art sites, new computer languages, and hybrid nostalgia machines. Her current focus is livecode and digital abstraction. Sarah is an alumna of the School for Poetic Computation, Recurse Center, Brown University, and NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She has taken part in group shows at Sonar+D, Westbeth, Day for Night, and Flux Factory. http://sarahghp.com/
Dr. Kate Sicchio is a choreographer, , media artist and performer whose work explores the interface between choreography and technology with wearable technology, live coding, and video systems. Her work has been shown internationally in many countries including the US, Germany, Australia, Belgium, Sweden, and the UK at venues such as PS122 (NYC), Banff New Media Institute (Canada), V&A Digital Futures (London), and Artisan Gallery (Hong Kong). http://www.sicchio.com
6:15 p.m. talk / 7:00 p.m. performance with special Bard guests Bird Cohen, Ezra Kahn, and Maeve Schallert
Sponsored by: Computer Science Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2359, or e-mail [email protected].
While trust in our institutions is on the decline, business is being looked to for solutions to issues from climate change to immigration and criminal justice. Employees are also leading the charge, leading petitions, staging walkouts and introducing shareholder proposals, asking CEOs to take a public stance and lead the charge. This new wave of employee activism may be a tipping point to achieve a more sustainable future. Join Clinical Professor of Marketing, Jorge Fontanez, of the Bard MBA in Sustainability Program in conversation with Jennifer Brown, an award-winning diversity and inclusion consultant and author. Her bestselling book, Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace and The Will to Change creates the case for leaders to embrace change.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
The Institute of Advanced Theology Pre-Advent Lecture Series with Bruce Chilton
Prophetic Thinking—Ancient Israel
Friday, October 18, 2019 12:30–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Five weekly lectures on the origins of prophecy deploy the earliest Hebrew Scriptures comparatively, in the context of studies of shamanism and related topics. The aim is to permit the texts to articulate how they envision events that run counter to the prevailing patterns of political and military power, and ultimately to intimate an alternative structure of reality itself.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7335, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
A Model for Quantum Geometro-Dynamics: On the Road to Quantum Gravity
Aldo Riello • Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Friday, October 18, 2019 12–1 pm
Hegeman 107 General relativity and quantum mechanics are at the foundations of our understanding of space, time, gravity, and matter. Yet, it is not clear how they can fit into a consistent, encompassing framework, generically named a theory of “quantum gravity.” In this talk, I will paint in broad strokes the fundamental ideas underlying general relativity and quantum mechanics as well as some of the issues that arise when trying to combine their precepts. I will then present a possible way forward in the form of a theory of quantum geometro-dynamics, of which I will discuss the main characteristics. Curiously, we find that the way quantum space is supposed to evolve in a fictitious two-dimensional world (where the geometro-dynamics is well understood and solvable) is closely related to certain models of surface growth, known as solid-on-solid models (SoS).Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail [email protected].
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Xinran Li, a winner of Bard Conservatory’s concerto competition, takes on Sibelius’ touching violin concerto. Then, Shostakovich’s symphony—his first written after the death of Stalin—takes us from dark intensity to ecstatic joy.
Leon Botstein, conductor Xinran Li, violin
Sibelius Violin Concerto Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 Estimated run time: 2 hours and 5 minutesSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Where No Wall Remains An International Festival About Borders
Runs through Saturday, November 23, 2019
Bard College Campus
Special Events
Throughout the fall of 2019, partner programs across the Bard College campus will host a series of interdisciplinary events related to the the themes and discourse of Where No Wall Remains.
Film Screening of Jürgen Böttcher's Die Mauer (The Wall), 1990, 98 min. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, November 11 at 6 pm Preston Cinema
Festival Introduction with Co-curators Gideon Lester and Tania El Khoury, with Biennial artists. Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm LUMA Theater
Connect, learn, and help chart a path forward for solutions-based climate change education and action in your school or community.
Saturday, October 19, 2019 9 am – 5:30 pm
Preston
Conference Program 9:00–10:10 a.m. From Anxiety to Action: Psychology for Climate Work with Renee Lertzman, PhD. Overview & Updates on the Drawdown Research with Chad Frischmann
10:30–11:20 a.m.Unpacking the Green New Deal: The Critical Importance of Equity Description: The Green New Deal outlines the most ambitious and transformative national goals since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s original New Deal and the World War II economic mobilizations. A national mobilization of this size and scale presents an unprecedented opportunity not only to combat the climate crisis, but also to eliminate poverty in the United States and to make wealth, prosperity, and security available to every person who participates in the transition. In this session, discover how equity across all sectors must be at the center of, and integrated with, all our climate work. Gain a deep understanding of the strategies and tools that ensure climate solutions benefit all—because the only way forward is to leave no one behind.
Rhiana Gunn-Wright, policy lead, Green New Deal Andrew Revkin, journalist & founding director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute.
11:35 a.m. – 12:25 p.m. The Paris Agreement and You: The Critical Role of Education and Public Engagement Description: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) international environmental treaty of 1992 has the goal to "stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. A crucial part of the treaty includes the role of education and public engagement. The UNFCCC Charter and the 2015 Paris Agreement recognized six elements of this work, now collectively referred to as Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE). In this session, explore how ACE is and could further support the implementation of subnational, national, and global climate education strategy and strengthening of the Paris Agreement.
What does this mean for our work on a local level? What is a Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement, and why is it critical that we learn about this? What role can students and teachers play? This session is especially aimed at those working or interested in a field related to ACE, and to anyone who would like to incorporate Drawdown into climate change education, engagement, and/or outreach.
1:45–2:35 p.m. Cultivating Drawdown Scholars: An Overview of Penn State’s Landmark Program with Project Drawdown Description: Penn State partnered with Project Drawdown to hold the inaugural Drawdown Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and the first International Science Conference on Drawdown. During the eight-week REU program this summer, 55 undergraduate students from across the United States were mentored by Penn State faculty and Project Drawdown's research team to study the Drawdown models and examine the feasibility of scaling them down locally as well as communicating findings. The students also developed curricular models and teaching tools for drawdown under the mentorship of Penn State faculty and Drawdown Education Fellows of the National Council for Science and the Environment. Students, faculty, and staff created materials that they shared at the end of the experience and were featured at the first Drawdown Scientific Conference at Penn State University Park in mid-September. During the conference, "Research to Action: The Science of Drawdown," Project Drawdown's research team and scientific experts and researchers from around the world met and had critical discussions about advancing and communicating the science of Drawdown. A platform for community engagement was also created through a theatrical performance involving the arts and sciences. In this session, discover how the programs were put together, accomplishments, and implications and explore some of the teaching tools, curricula concepts, and other resources.
3:05–3:55 p.m. Climate Learning at Scale: Washington State’s Story Applied to Your Reality Description: Washington State is coherently building solutions-oriented climate science literacy across its preK–12 school system. It is doing so with a commitment to changing structures and partnering with tribal educators in a way that demonstrates climate literacy and action that is place-based and equitable. The ClimeTime initiative supports science teacher training linking Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and climate science. In addition to teacher professional development, the project supports the development of instructional materials, design-related assessment tasks and evaluation strategies, and facilitated student events. In one of these projects, educators from the Spokane and Karuk tribes and others set out to design “locally relevant, three-dimensional solutions oriented learning storylines (SOLS)” in order to strengthen teachers’ climate science education instruction. To date, 100 percent of teachers who have participated report they are more prepared to make learning experiences inclusive for Native American students and have increased their ability to implement research-based instructional practices. Session participants will learn from project leaders and researchers about what was learned in the program’s first year. Participants will have a chance to engage with speakers for application to their own work. Additionally, participants will be introduced to the resource portal for the entire ClimeTime initiative and have the opportunity to consider use of the open source materials for their own purposes, including teacher trainings, curriculum, formative assessment resources and STEM Teaching Tools.
4:25–5:15 p.m. Crowd-Sourced Learning and Action: How a GIS-Powered Tool Can Activate Community Climate Solutions Description: What would happen if a critical mass of people across the planet could learn and act on the range of truly impactful climate solutions and resiliency measures that they could take individually and/or together with others? Leaders of this session have conceptually designed the tool to support this outcome and have begun prototyping the first elements with students and educators in Olympia, Washington, and Toronto, Canada. Join this session to advance this crowd-sourced, digital, and social technology that builds awareness, appreciation, community building, and action at the local to planetary scales.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability; Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing; Division of Social Studies; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Office of Sustainability; Psychology Program; Science, Technology, and Society Program.
Bard Farm Join LAB Biennial artist, Emilio Rojas, as the harvest of indigenous crops from his live installation Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is reaped. Experience this interactive land art first-hand as you take a walk through the crop border and enjoy dishes prepared from the harvest.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is the first iteration of a multifaceted, interactive land art and community-based project, including a 72-foot long line of indigenous crops (corn, beans and squash, known as “the three sisters”) planted in the shape of the US/Mexican border line on the Bard Farm. Sponsored by: Fisher Center LAB.
Reception for "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage and Violetta White Delafield
Saturday, October 19, 2019 5:30–6:30 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
La Voz and iD Studio Theatre present a Spanish-language musical play with English subtitles.
Saturday, October 19, 2019 7:30–9 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Heriberto, dead these 50 years, refuses to go to heaven until he is reunited with his beloved wife, Maruca. However, Maruca does not respond. She is still disoriented by the severe Alzheimer’s that afflicted her in life, and does not recognize Heriberto. It thus becomes his job to awaken her to the eternality of their love. His method: the cumbias and porros from the ’40s and ’50s, the music they danced and delighted to back in Santa Marta on the Atlantic coast of Colombia. Will this strategy work? If so, are Heriberto and Maruca ready to face the real music?
General admission: $20 $5 at the door for high school and college students with valid student ID.
Friday, October 18, 7:30pm, The Beverly, 224 Foxhall Ave., Kingston, NY 12401
Saturday, October 19, 7:30pm, Chapel of the Holy Innocents, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504
Sunday, October 20, 3:30pm, Trolley Barn, 489 Main St., Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Tickets sold at the La Voz office in Albee Annex basement, office #2, or on our Facebook page HERE. Sponsored by: La Voz; iD Studio Theatre.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Where No Wall Remains An International Festival About Borders
Runs through Saturday, November 23, 2019
Bard College Campus
Special Events
Throughout the fall of 2019, partner programs across the Bard College campus will host a series of interdisciplinary events related to the the themes and discourse of Where No Wall Remains.
Film Screening of Jürgen Böttcher's Die Mauer (The Wall), 1990, 98 min. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, November 11 at 6 pm Preston Cinema
Festival Introduction with Co-curators Gideon Lester and Tania El Khoury, with Biennial artists. Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm LUMA Theater
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Xinran Li, a winner of Bard Conservatory’s concerto competition, takes on Sibelius’ touching violin concerto. Then, Shostakovich’s symphony—his first written after the death of Stalin—takes us from dark intensity to ecstatic joy.
Leon Botstein, conductor Xinran Li, violin
Sibelius Violin Concerto Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 Estimated run time: 2 hours and 5 minutesSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Where No Wall Remains An International Festival About Borders
Runs through Saturday, November 23, 2019
Bard College Campus
Special Events
Throughout the fall of 2019, partner programs across the Bard College campus will host a series of interdisciplinary events related to the the themes and discourse of Where No Wall Remains.
Film Screening of Jürgen Böttcher's Die Mauer (The Wall), 1990, 98 min. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, November 11 at 6 pm Preston Cinema
Festival Introduction with Co-curators Gideon Lester and Tania El Khoury, with Biennial artists. Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm LUMA Theater
Directed and produced by award-winning filmmaker Lynn Novick, produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns, College Behind Bars reveals the transformative power of higher education through the experiences of incarcerated men and women earning degrees in the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI), one of the country’s most rigorous college-in-prison programs.
This preview event will feature segments from the documentary followed by panel discussions with Lynn Novick, BPI Executive Director Max Kenner ’01, and BPI alumni featured in the film.Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Where No Wall Remains An International Festival About Borders
Runs through Saturday, November 23, 2019
Bard College Campus
Special Events
Throughout the fall of 2019, partner programs across the Bard College campus will host a series of interdisciplinary events related to the the themes and discourse of Where No Wall Remains.
Film Screening of Jürgen Böttcher's Die Mauer (The Wall), 1990, 98 min. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, November 11 at 6 pm Preston Cinema
Festival Introduction with Co-curators Gideon Lester and Tania El Khoury, with Biennial artists. Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm LUMA Theater
From Voter Suppression to the Census: A Decade of Fighting for Voting Rights
Dale Ho, ACLU Voting Rights Project Director
Tuesday, October 22, 2019 4:45–6:15 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 201 Since the 2010 midterm election, a wave of voter suppression laws has been unleashed around the country. The ACLU has been at the frontlines, successful challenging unnecessary voter registration requirements and barriers on Election Day in dozens of states. Attacks on voting rights have now grown to encompass not only registration and the ballot, but also the Decennial Census itself, which the Trump Administration sought to weaponize by attempting to add citizenship question to the census questionnaire. ACLU Voting Rights Project Director, Dale Ho, who argued the census citizenship question case in the Supreme Court, will address these issues and emerging threats to voting rights as we head towards the 2020 election.Sponsored by: Human Rights Program; Politics Program; Sociology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Where No Wall Remains An International Festival About Borders
Runs through Saturday, November 23, 2019
Bard College Campus
Special Events
Throughout the fall of 2019, partner programs across the Bard College campus will host a series of interdisciplinary events related to the the themes and discourse of Where No Wall Remains.
Film Screening of Jürgen Böttcher's Die Mauer (The Wall), 1990, 98 min. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, November 11 at 6 pm Preston Cinema
Festival Introduction with Co-curators Gideon Lester and Tania El Khoury, with Biennial artists. Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm LUMA Theater
Hessel Museum of Art, Gallery 3 Will Rawls is a New York–based choreographer, performer and writer. His work has appeared at the MoMA and MoMA PS1; MCA, Chicago; Danspace Project; New Museum of Contemporary Art; Issue Project Room; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; Walker Arts Center. At Danspace Project, he co-curated Lost and Found, comprised of performances and artist projects focused on the intergenerational impact of HIV/AIDS on dancers, women, and people of color. His writing has been published by Artforum International, the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Modern Art. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Robert Rauschenberg Residency and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant. He teaches and lectures widely in university, community and festival contexts.
Through the Speaker Series, CCS Bard brings distinguished artists, scholars, and curators to campus to present on their work. Speaker Series talks are held within Classroom 102 at CCS Bard unless otherwise noted. All talks are free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Where No Wall Remains An International Festival About Borders
Runs through Saturday, November 23, 2019
Bard College Campus
Special Events
Throughout the fall of 2019, partner programs across the Bard College campus will host a series of interdisciplinary events related to the the themes and discourse of Where No Wall Remains.
Film Screening of Jürgen Böttcher's Die Mauer (The Wall), 1990, 98 min. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, November 11 at 6 pm Preston Cinema
Festival Introduction with Co-curators Gideon Lester and Tania El Khoury, with Biennial artists. Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm LUMA Theater
Jacob Neusner Memorial Lecture in Jewish and Religious Studies
Professor Moshe Halbertal NYU & Hebrew University
Thursday, October 24, 2019
at 4:45pm in Olin 102 & Sunday, October 27th at 7PM at The Sixth Street Community Synagogue Thursday, October 24th at 4:45pm in Olin 102
"The Biblical Book of Samuel and the Birth of Politics: Two Faces of Political Violence" The Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book's anonymous author was more than an inspired storyteller. The author was also an uncannily astute observer of political life and the moral compromises and contradictions that the struggle for power inevitably entails. The lecture will explore the ways in which the book of Samuel understands political violence political violence unleashed by the sovereign on his own subjects as it is rooted in the paranoia of the isolated ruler and the deniability fostered by hierarchical action through proxies.
Sunday, October 27th at 7PM The Sixth Street Community Synagogue 325 E. Sixth Street New York, NY
"Confronting Loss: The Meaning and Experience of Mourning form the Talmud to Maimonides" The experience of loss and mourning is a painful and ultimately inescapable feature of human life. Jewish law established practices of mourning that prescribe a rather detailed structure of the mourner’s conduct as well as the response of the community to the mourner and its obligation to provide consolation. Maimonides codified this body of regulations in his great code of Jewish Law, the Mishneh Torah, in the section titled “The Laws of Mourning.” This lecture will focus on the attempt to understand the meaning and practice of mourning in the Talmudic tradition and in Maimonides’ thought. It will explore the relationship of the concept of mourning in the Jewish tradition to other understandings of the dynamics of mourning such as Freud’s seminal essay “Mourning and Melancholia.Sponsored by: Jacob Neusner Memorial Lecture Fund, Jewish Studies, Religion, and Political Studies program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Book and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés Music by Al Carmines Directed by Morgan Green '12
Choreography by Lisa Fagan '11 Music Director Nathan Repasz Scenic Design by Jian Jung Costume Design by Alice Tavener Lighting Design by Masha Tsimring Sound Design by Tei Blow Dramaturg Miriam Felton-Dansky Stage Manager Samantha McCann*
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
CCS - Collection Teaching Gallery Through the Speaker Series, CCS Bard brings distinguished artists, scholars, and curators to campus to present on their work. All talks are free and open to the public.
Earlier this year, CCS Bard acquired Prem Krishnamurthy’s professional papers from the late 1990s on. Parroting the title of his 2016 performance-lecture, Endless Archive (Part II) represents a partial unpacking of one specific past. Krishnamurthy’s talk at CCS circles around publishing, exhibition design, curating, and collecting through documents and archival materials from his wide-ranging work. At the same time, such remnants emerge as tomorrow’s seeds, potential prologues for yet-to-be-written futuresSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
The Institute of Advanced Theology Pre-Advent Lecture Series with Bruce Chilton
Prophetic Thinking—Ancient Israel
Friday, October 25, 2019 12:30–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Five weekly lectures on the origins of prophecy deploy the earliest Hebrew Scriptures comparatively, in the context of studies of shamanism and related topics. The aim is to permit the texts to articulate how they envision events that run counter to the prevailing patterns of political and military power, and ultimately to intimate an alternative structure of reality itself.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7335, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Where No Wall Remains An International Festival About Borders
Runs through Saturday, November 23, 2019
Bard College Campus
Special Events
Throughout the fall of 2019, partner programs across the Bard College campus will host a series of interdisciplinary events related to the the themes and discourse of Where No Wall Remains.
Film Screening of Jürgen Böttcher's Die Mauer (The Wall), 1990, 98 min. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, November 11 at 6 pm Preston Cinema
Festival Introduction with Co-curators Gideon Lester and Tania El Khoury, with Biennial artists. Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm LUMA Theater
Book and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés Music by Al Carmines Directed by Morgan Green '12
Choreography by Lisa Fagan '11 Music Director Nathan Repasz Scenic Design by Jian Jung Costume Design by Alice Tavener Lighting Design by Masha Tsimring Sound Design by Tei Blow Dramaturg Miriam Felton-Dansky Stage Manager Samantha McCann*
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Reem-Kayden Center Join faculty and students who participated in this year’s program in presenting their workSponsored by: Bard Summer Research Institute.
For more information, call 845-752-2355, or e-mail [email protected].
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Where No Wall Remains An International Festival About Borders
Runs through Saturday, November 23, 2019
Bard College Campus
Special Events
Throughout the fall of 2019, partner programs across the Bard College campus will host a series of interdisciplinary events related to the the themes and discourse of Where No Wall Remains.
Film Screening of Jürgen Böttcher's Die Mauer (The Wall), 1990, 98 min. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, November 11 at 6 pm Preston Cinema
Festival Introduction with Co-curators Gideon Lester and Tania El Khoury, with Biennial artists. Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm LUMA Theater
Book and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés Music by Al Carmines Directed by Morgan Green '12
Choreography by Lisa Fagan '11 Music Director Nathan Repasz Scenic Design by Jian Jung Costume Design by Alice Tavener Lighting Design by Masha Tsimring Sound Design by Tei Blow Dramaturg Miriam Felton-Dansky Stage Manager Samantha McCann*
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Book and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés Music by Al Carmines Directed by Morgan Green '12
Choreography by Lisa Fagan '11 Music Director Nathan Repasz Scenic Design by Jian Jung Costume Design by Alice Tavener Lighting Design by Masha Tsimring Sound Design by Tei Blow Dramaturg Miriam Felton-Dansky Stage Manager Samantha McCann*
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
The Montgomery Place Campus Bridget Maple ’05, formal gardener at Bard College, leads a garden tour at Montgomery Place and discusses the people, plants, and history of the site. Tour begins at the Visitors Center. Tours take place from 9:15 to 10:00 am and 10:15 to 11:00 am. For more information, call 845-752-5000, or e-mail [email protected].
The Montgomery Place Campus Henry Woods, Montgomery Place docent, will lead a walk through the trails, meadows, and fields of Montgomery Place and observe how the landscape was transformed from wilderness to working farm, to pleasure grounds, to the preserved historic site it is today. Total leisurely walking distance approximately 1 mile. Tour begins at the Visitor Center. For more information, call 845-752-5000, or e-mail [email protected].
Faculty-Student Roundtable: Trump and American Foreign Policy
Saturday, October 26, 2019 2–3 pm
Olin Hall Malia DuMont (Chief of Staff, Vice President for Strategy and Policy, and faculty member in the Political Studies program) and Chris McIntosh (Assistant Professor of Political Studies) join members of the Bard Debate Union for a Faculty-Student Roundtable discussion on Donald Trump and American foreign policy. Moderated by Ruth Zisman, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Co-Director of the Bard Debate Union. For more information about Family and Alumni weekend, visit: bard.edu/familyweekend; for more information about the Bard Debate Union, visit: debate.bard.edu.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Politics Program.
Bard Conservatory Orchestra Family Weekend Concert
Saturday, October 26, 2019 8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Leon Botstein, Music DirectorIves The Fourth of July from Holiday Symphony Sibelius Symphony No. 7 Honegger Symphony No. 3, Liturgique Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-OvertureSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Where No Wall Remains An International Festival About Borders
Runs through Saturday, November 23, 2019
Bard College Campus
Special Events
Throughout the fall of 2019, partner programs across the Bard College campus will host a series of interdisciplinary events related to the the themes and discourse of Where No Wall Remains.
Film Screening of Jürgen Böttcher's Die Mauer (The Wall), 1990, 98 min. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, November 11 at 6 pm Preston Cinema
Festival Introduction with Co-curators Gideon Lester and Tania El Khoury, with Biennial artists. Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm LUMA Theater
Book and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés Music by Al Carmines Directed by Morgan Green '12
Choreography by Lisa Fagan '11 Music Director Nathan Repasz Scenic Design by Jian Jung Costume Design by Alice Tavener Lighting Design by Masha Tsimring Sound Design by Tei Blow Dramaturg Miriam Felton-Dansky Stage Manager Samantha McCann*
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater A night of creative performances from around the world. Come and enjoy the diverse talents of Bard students.
This is a free (nonticketed) event for the College community and the community in the greater area. All are welcome to attend.Sponsored by: International Student Organization.
For more information, call 845-758-7328, or e-mail [email protected].
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Where No Wall Remains An International Festival About Borders
Runs through Saturday, November 23, 2019
Bard College Campus
Special Events
Throughout the fall of 2019, partner programs across the Bard College campus will host a series of interdisciplinary events related to the the themes and discourse of Where No Wall Remains.
Film Screening of Jürgen Böttcher's Die Mauer (The Wall), 1990, 98 min. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, November 11 at 6 pm Preston Cinema
Festival Introduction with Co-curators Gideon Lester and Tania El Khoury, with Biennial artists. Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm LUMA Theater
Laura Franklin-Hall Associate Professor of Philosophy, NYU
Monday, October 28, 2019 4:45–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This lecture explores why scientists sometimes classify entities in terms of their histories, and other times based exclusively on their non-historical or ‘synchronic’ properties. After reviewing examples of these two approaches, I formulate a principle designed to both describe and explain this aspect of our scientific classificatory practice. According to this proposal, a domain is apt for historical classifications just when the probability of the independent emergence of similar entities (PIES) in that domain is very low. In addition to rationalizing this principle and showing its ability to correctly account for classification practices across the natural and social sciences, I consider whether the kinds so circumscribed will be objective or real.Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7280, or e-mail [email protected].
Ending the Endless War: The Costs of War Project and Activist Scholarship
Stephanie Savell Co-Director, The Costs of War Project
Monday, October 28, 2019 5:30–7 pm
Hegeman 204A Americans are starting to say and hear more about the need to end this country’s “endless war,” the United States’ ongoing war on terrorism that began in 2001. Yet most people still don’t realize that this war’s costs – human, financial, environmental, social and political – are so far-reaching as to directly affect each and every American, as well as millions of people around the world. Nor do people recognize that this war is the latest excuse for American empire, and that in the name of counterterrorism, the U.S. government and military are acting in 80 countries, 40% of nations on the globe. Stephanie Savell, co-director of Brown University’s Costs of War project, will speak about bridging academic research and the public sphere to prompt Americans to ask big questions: Is our current approach making us any safer? Is it making others around the world any safer? If not, what could we be doing instead? Dr. Savell will address the project’s major findings and the essential work of translation in using academic research to make a difference in public debate.Sponsored by: Global and International Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7693, or e-mail [email protected].
Learning Politics with Art: Lessons from Curation under Occupation
Kirsten Scheid, American University of Beirut / Clark Art Institute
Monday, October 28, 2019 6–8 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202 Studying imagination shifts attention to the emergent and yet-possible. In 2018, I cocurated an exhibition that invited Jerusalem audiences to reimagine the city’s “possible” existence by building on ludic spatial-temporal moves that have distilled in contemporary Palestinian art. This paper explores the lessons artistic imaginings of a possible Jerusalem, one not confined to space-time coordinates we use to understand realpolitik, offer the exhibition’s participants and audiences.
Associate professor of anthropology at the American University of Beirut, Kirsten Scheid studies imagination technologies, artistic materialities, and social change specifically through cases of modern and contemporary Arab art. Her essays appear in Anthropology Now, ARTMargins, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Museum Anthropology and can be accessed at https://aub-lb.academia.edu/KirstenScheid. She has cocurated The Jerusalem Show (Jerusalem, 2018) and The Arab Nude (Beirut, 2016), exhibited at the New Museum (2011), and consulted for the Tate Modern (2014) and MoMA (2016–18). The 2019–20 Clark/Oakley Fellow at the Clark Art Institute, Scheid is currently completing an historically informed ethnography of aesthetic encounters that comprise contemporary Palestine and point to new political imaginings.
This event is cosponsored by the Africana Studies Program, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, the Art History and Visual Culture Program, and the Human Rights Project. Sponsored by: Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7506, or e-mail [email protected].
The Bard Fiction Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner reads from Maggie Brown & Others
Monday, October 28, 2019 6:30–7:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Monday, October 28, at 6:30 p.m., in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Peter Ornerreads from his new collection, Maggie Brown & Others. Presented by the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series and the Written Arts Program, and introduced by MacArthur Fellow Dinaw Mengestu, the reading is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Books by Peter Orner will be available for sale, courtesy of Oblong Books & Music.
An essential voice in American fiction, Peter Orner is the author of acclaimed books such as The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (2006), winner of the Bard Fiction Prize; Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge (2013);and the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Am I Alone Here? (2016), a memoir. Best known for his short fiction, Orner has been hailed as “a master of his form,” a writer who “doesn’t simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls” (New York Times).Now, in his sixth book, Maggie Brown & Others (2019), Orner gathers a novella and forty-four stories—many as short as a few paragraphs, none longer than twenty pages—into an orchestral, polyphonic collection, his most sustained achievement yet.
Peter Orner is the author of two novels, three story collections, and a memoir. His stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and twice received a Pushcart Prize. Orner has been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, as well as a Fulbright to Namibia. Currently, he is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and lives with his family in Norwich, Vermont.
PRAISE FOR PETER ORNER
“It’s been apparent since his first book, Esther Stories (2001), that Peter Orner was a major talent . . . You know from the second you pick him up that he’s the real deal. His sentences are lit from below, like a swimming pool, with a kind of resonant yearning that’s impossible to fake . . . Orner can do anything.” —New York Times
“Mr. Orner packs remarkable pathos into his condensed dramas.” ―Wall Street Journal
“Orner writes with a combination of sincerity and self-awareness. . . . Most vividly reminiscent of Raymond Carver.” ―San Francisco Chronicle
“Orner is incapable of dishonoring his characters. He treats all of them—even the minor figures—with a fierce humanity.” —Boston Globe
“Peter Orner is that rare find: a young writer who can inhabit any character, traverse any landscape, and yet never stray from the sound of the human heart.” —Washington Post
“[Orner] is one of our most empathetic writers today. . . His fiction has an intimate feel: we are in conversation with otherwise unknown and forgotten lives. This is what makes Orner’s characters live and breathe beyond the page . . . This is how his clean, simple sentences succeed far beyond the limited space he gives them . . . Let us be thankful for Peter Orner.” ―Los Angeles Review of Books
“Orner is secretly one of the best contemporary writers working today: his characters are indelible, his focus small and piercing, his insights moving . . . all with his special sense for truth, character, and wistful realism.” ―Literary HubSponsored by: Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series and the Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Where No Wall Remains An International Festival About Borders
Runs through Saturday, November 23, 2019
Bard College Campus
Special Events
Throughout the fall of 2019, partner programs across the Bard College campus will host a series of interdisciplinary events related to the the themes and discourse of Where No Wall Remains.
Film Screening of Jürgen Böttcher's Die Mauer (The Wall), 1990, 98 min. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, November 11 at 6 pm Preston Cinema
Festival Introduction with Co-curators Gideon Lester and Tania El Khoury, with Biennial artists. Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm LUMA Theater
The (R)evolution of Indigenous Food Systems of North America
Presented in association with Oblong Books & Music and Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability
Tuesday, October 29, 2019 5 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Sean Sherman, Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge reservation, and the founder of the company The Sioux Chef, is committed to revitalizing Native American cuisine. Through his research, he has uncovered and mapped out the foundations of the indigenous food systems through an indigenous perspective. Chef Sean has become renowned nationally and internationally in the culinary movement of indigenous foods and with an ever-growing team of indigenous minded peers, is leading a movement to completely redefine North American cuisine through the understanding and utilization of indigenous food knowledge. This is an evolution of Native American Foods, taking important educations of the past and applying them to the now.Run time is approximately 50 minutes, followed by a Q&A and book signing.Sponsored by: 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial.
Fisher Studio Arts Building Visiting Artist Baseera Khan had to postpone her visit to Bard. The talk will now be on December 3 in Fisher Seminar Room.
Baseera Khan is a New York–based artist who sublimates colonial histories through performance and sculpture in order to map geographies of the future. Her work navigates the political circumstances of her identity as a femme Muslim American who grew up in Texas. She received an MFA from Cornell University and a BFA from the University of North Texas.Presented in association with Live Arts Bard’s festival about borders, Where No Wall Remains.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Join us for a discussion with Ian Buruma and Richard Aldous on Brexit:
What is Brexit?
What is the European Union and why is the UK leaving?
Why hasn’t Brexit happened yet?
Why did Parliament reject Theresa May’s Brexit deal?
What is the new Brexit deal?
What happens next?
Ian Buruma is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism. Studies in Chinese literature and history at Leyden University; graduate studies in Japanese cinema at Nihon University, Tokyo. Documentary filmmaker and photographer in Tokyo (1977–80); cultural editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, Hong Kong (1983–86); foreign editor of The Spectator, London (1990–91). Fellowships: Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin (1991–92); Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. (1998–99); Alistair Horne Visiting Fellow, St. Antony’s College, Oxford (1999–2000). Regular contributor to New York Review of Books, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, New Yorker, and The Guardian. Books include Behind the Mask (1983); God’s Dust (1988); Playing the Game (1990); The Wages of Guilt (1995); The Missionary and the Libertine (1997); Anglomania: A European Love Affair (1999); Bad Elements (2001); Inventing Japan: 1853–1964 (2003); Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (2006). Coauthor, Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies (2004). At Bard since 2003.
Richard Aldous is the Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Literature. Ph.D., University of Cambridge. Fellow, Royal Historical Society. Author and editor of 11 books, including Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian; Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship; Macmillan, Eisenhower and the Cold War; The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli; and biographies of Malcolm Sargent and Tony Ryan. Taught for 15 years at University College Dublin, where he was chair of the History Department. Writes regularly for publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and The American Interest, where he is a contributing editor. Took up the Eugene Meyer Chair at Bard in 2010.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Where No Wall Remains An International Festival About Borders
Runs through Saturday, November 23, 2019
Bard College Campus
Special Events
Throughout the fall of 2019, partner programs across the Bard College campus will host a series of interdisciplinary events related to the the themes and discourse of Where No Wall Remains.
Film Screening of Jürgen Böttcher's Die Mauer (The Wall), 1990, 98 min. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, November 11 at 6 pm Preston Cinema
Festival Introduction with Co-curators Gideon Lester and Tania El Khoury, with Biennial artists. Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm LUMA Theater
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Where No Wall Remains An International Festival About Borders
Runs through Saturday, November 23, 2019
Bard College Campus
Special Events
Throughout the fall of 2019, partner programs across the Bard College campus will host a series of interdisciplinary events related to the the themes and discourse of Where No Wall Remains.
Film Screening of Jürgen Böttcher's Die Mauer (The Wall), 1990, 98 min. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, November 11 at 6 pm Preston Cinema
Festival Introduction with Co-curators Gideon Lester and Tania El Khoury, with Biennial artists. Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm LUMA Theater
The Gilded Garden: Historic Ornament in the Landscape at Montgomery Place
An exhibit of decorative garden ornaments from the extensive Montgomery Place collection
Runs through Saturday, October 12, 2019
Montgomery Place Grounds The gardens at Montgomery Place once featured decorative garden ornaments and furniture, displaying a wide mix of styles, alongside the plants. Examples of statuary, furniture, potted plants, and hanging baskets that have been documented in early photographs of Montgomery Place will be presented in the exhibition.
Exhibition produced in partnership with and curated by Barbara Israel and her staff from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Funding provided by the A. C. Israel Foundation and Plymouth Hill Foundation. For more information, call 845-752-5000, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/montgomeryplace.
Sponsored by the Bard MBA in Sustainability | Co-sponsored by the Bard Office of Sustainability and Experimental Humanities Program
Monday, September 30, 2019 – Tuesday, October 1, 2019 1–6 pm
"Repair is a radical act" -Rose Marcario, Patagonia CEO
Bard's MBA in Sustainability program, Office of Sustainability, and Experimental Humanities Program will be hosting the Patagonia Worn Wear Repair Wagonfrom September 30th to October 1st on Bard's Annandale-on-Hudson campus. Students and community members are invited to bring one item of clothing to this event for repair. The Worn Wear team will repair any brand of clothing and repairs will be done on a first come, first served basis.
We will also be hosting student makers, local B Corps and food trucks on Monday 9/30 for a Community Sustainability Exhibition from 1-6 PM. Participating B Corps companies include:
Featured Bard student makers and community groups include:
Coco Ma - handmade jewelry
Iris Engel - reusable menstrual products
Quincy Ross - handmade tree sculptures
Bard College Bike Coop - providing "fix a flat" tutorials for attendees
Repair Cafe Hudson Valley - Woodworking experts will be onsite to provide repairs for chairs, small tables, picture frames, drawers (community members are invited to bring one item to this event for repair)
Event Schedule and Information: Location: Bard College Experimental Humanities Quad (directions can be found here)
Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)
Runs through Sunday, December 1, 2019
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
Mary Norris, American author, writer, and copy editor for the New Yorker
Tuesday, October 1, 2019 5–6:30 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema More than a dozen works about Greece and Greek, modern and ancient, by translators, memoirists, novelists, scholars, essayists, lecturers, dramatists, and actors from England, America, Australia, Greece, and Italy have been published in just the past two years, and there are more in the works. The author of Greek to Me will celebrate recent work inspired by the language, literature, and landscape of Greece and inquire into whatever it is in our current situation that sends us back to the Greeks.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7283, or e-mail [email protected].
A Way Forward in Syria? The Report of the Syria Study Group
Ambassador Frederic Hof
Tuesday, October 1, 2019 5:30–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In 2018 Congress created the Syria Study Group, a bipartisan panel of 12 experts charged with assessing the situation in Syria, defining the U.S. policy objective in that war-torn country, and devising a strategy to accomplish the objective. Bard’s diplomat in residence, Ambassador Frederic C. Hof, served as a member of the Group, whose report is being issued on September 26. Please join Ambassador Hof for a discussion of what is in the report and what may be next for U.S. policy in Syria. Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program; Global and International Studies Program; Politics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
CMIA - Austrian silent film with new score by Donald Sosin and Alicia Svigals
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 7–10 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center
The City Without Jews (Hans Karl Breslauer, 1924, Austria, 91 minutes)*
*This new restoration from Filmarchiv Austria will be presented with the live performance of an original score by Donald Sosin and klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals. There will be a discussion about silent film music following the screening.
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
Making the Buddha: The Origin and Development of the Buddha's Image
Robert DeCaroli, Director of the MA Program in Art History Professor, George Mason University
Thursday, October 3, 2019 11:50 am – 1 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Robert DeCaroli is a specialist in the early history of Buddhism and has conducted fieldwork in India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia. He received his Ph.D. in the South and Southeast Asian art history from UCLA. The majority of this work deals with early aspects of South Asian material culture and its interaction with forms of regional religious practice. He is the author of two books: Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism (Oxford UP 2004) , and Image Problems: The Origin and Development of the Buddha’s Image in Early South Asia (U Washington Press 2015). He is co-curator of the Encountering the Buddha exhibit at the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. He is currently an ACLS/Robert H. N. Ho Foundation Fellow, working on a project entitled “The Gods of Buddhism: Regional Deities and Spirits in Early South Asia.”Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Asian Studies Program; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Thursday, October 3, 2019 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Galleries Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The Cultural Politics of Translation and the Nahda in Egypt
Samah Selim, Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Rutgers University
Thursday, October 3, 2019 6–8 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This talk explores the cultural geography of Cairo in the first decade of the 20th century in order to unpack and critique nahdawi representations of modernity as simulacrum. I offer a brief reading of Muhammad Al-Muwaylihi’s iconic text Hadith ʿIsa Ibn Hisham that shows how the nahda discourse on cultural authenticity masked a deep social conservatism that banished the “errant trajectories” of everyday translation practices emerging in and through the modern. Against this discourse, the talk will conclude with a discussion of adaptation as the motor of social change and cultural creativity.
Samah Selim teaches at Rutgers University. She is a scholar and translator of modern Arabic literature. Her most recent book, Popular Fiction, Translation and the Nahda in Egypt, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. She is currently working on a translation of Jordanian author Ghalib Halasa’s final novel Sultana (1987) with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
This event is co-sponsored by the Division of Languages and Literatures, Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative, and Human Rights Project. Sponsored by: Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7506, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building Jerome Rothenberg has been a dominant presence in American poetry and poetics for half a century. His poetry has always sought in the deepest realms of human experience to bring a clear word. His poems are marvels of colloquial immediacy and prophetic intensity. His explorations of ethnopoetics resulted in such game-changing anthologies as Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, and America: A Prophecy, as well as studies and translations of Native American poetries. His commitment to exploring the world of Jewish experience produced his remarkable Holocaust-minded poems in the books Poland 1931 and Khurbn and other Poems, as well as A Big Jewish Book and Exiled in the Word; and he was the first translator of Paul Celan. Besides continuing his own work, he has edited (with Pierre Joris '69) the first volumes of that immense anthology of modern poetics, Poems for the Millenium.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
Hessel Museum of Art Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Friday, October 4, 2019 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Galleries Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
The Cosmic Microwave Background: Physics and History
Bruce Partridge, Haverford College
Friday, October 4, 2019 12–1 pm
Hegeman 107 The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the heat left over from the hot Big Bang of the early universe. Careful studies of the CMB have greatly enriched our understanding of the history and properties of the universe—and what it was like very early on. In this talk, I will focus on the basic science of the CMB, and how this intertwined with the “discovery” of the CMB. I'll start with this proposition: the very early universe was dense, hot, and very, very simple.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail [email protected].
The Institute of Advanced Theology Pre-Advent Lecture Series with Bruce Chilton
Prophetic Thinking—Ancient Israel
Friday, October 4, 2019 12:30–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Five weekly lectures on the origins of prophecy deploy the earliest Hebrew Scriptures comparatively, in the context of studies of shamanism and related topics. The aim is to permit the texts to articulate how they envision events that run counter to the prevailing patterns of political and military power, and ultimately to intimate an alternative structure of reality itself.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7335, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Hessel Museum of Art Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Saturday, October 5, 2019 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Galleries Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bard College: The Montgomery Place Campus offers regular mansion tours on Saturdays from June 1 through October 12, with tours at 10:30, 11:30, 1:30, and 2:30. The cost is $10 per person and no reservations are required. Depending on availability, private tours will be offered for groups of five or more at $20 per person.
Visit the Montgomery Place website to learn more about special tours, events, and upcoming exhibitions.
The women's volleyball team hosts a tri-match. The schedule is as follows: Sarah Lawrence vs. Bard, 11 a.m. Sarah Lawrence vs. SUNY Maritime, 1 p.m. SUNY Maritime vs. Bard, 3 p.m.
Hessel Museum of Art Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Sunday, October 6, 2019 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Galleries Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents We will have the annual blessing of the animals on Sunday, October 6, at 2:00 p.m. on the lawn in front of the Chapel of the Holy Innocents. Please bring your pets (leashed or caged), stuffed animals, photos of beloved pets, etc. All are welcome! Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Hessel Museum of Art Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Monday, October 7, 2019 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Galleries Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Join Michelle Murray and BGIA alumni/ae for PIZZA and hear about their experiences with Bard's Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA), including:
Internships in NYC Courses taught by scholar-practitioners Dorms on Manhattan's Upper East Side Fun social events (Broadway shows, concerts, dance, improv comedy, baseball and more!) Monthly speaker series Costs and financial aid Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
For more information, call 646-839-9262, or e-mail [email protected].
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Geneva Zane ’18 will read from her new book, Stringbean and the Grace of Dog (Pink Narcissus Press, 2019). Happens on the first floor of the library.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature.
Public Debate - Should the US Prison System be Abolished or Reformed?
Monday, October 7, 2019 7–8 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Opening event for the Hannah Arendt Center Conference – “Racism and Antisemitism” (October 10-11, 2019). This debate will feature both the Bard and West Point debate teams. Co-sponsored by the Bard Debate Union, the Hannah Arendt Center, the Center for Civic Engagement, and the Bard-West Point exchange. For more information about this year’s Hannah Arendt Center Conference, visit: https://hac.bard.edu/conference2019; For more information about the Bard Debate Union, visit: https://debate.bard.edu/Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 – Wednesday, October 9, 2019 10 am – 8 pm
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Yom Kippur (the Jewish Day of Atonement) starts Tuesday Evening October 8 and ends at dark on Wednesday, October 9. All Bard community members are welcome to join us for any and all parts of the day. All events will be held in the Center for Spiritual Life
Yom Kippur Schedule Kol Nidrei – Tuesday at 6 PM sharp. Morning service – Wednesday at 10 AM. Memorial service (Yizkr) 5:30 PM Concluding service ( Ne'ilah) – 6:15 PM Break the fast (with bagels!) – 7:10 PM sharp.
Between the morning service and the memorial service we encourage everyone to remain with us the Center for Spiritual Life for informal conversation, reflection, napping, and being with friends.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Noon Concert: Works for Piano, Violin, and Voice by Chopin, J.S. Bach, Sibelius, and Charles Ives
An hour-long performance by Conservatory students featuring a violin concerto by Sibelius, songs by Charles Ives and J.S. Bach for countertenor, and Chopin's Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante for piano.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 12–1 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Flexible Bioelectronics on a Thread: Sensors, Microfluidics, Electronics and Drug Delivery
Dr. Sameer Sonkusale Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 4–6 pm
RKC 122 This talk will explore the new realm of using threads as an ultimate platform for flexible and stretchable bioelectronics. Threads offer unique advantages of universal availability, low cost, material diversity and simple textile-based processing. Interestingly, threads also provide an ideal platform for passive microfluidic sampling and delivery of analytes. In this talk, I will report reel-to-reel fabrication of functional smart threads for variety of sensing and electronics application. I will report on nanomaterial-infused smart threads for sensing strain and temperature. Nano-infused threads will be presented for sensing pH, glucose, lactate, ammonium and other chemical and biological biomarkers directly in biological fluids such as sweat or wound exudate. Beyond sensing and microfluidics, I will present our recent work on making super-thin transistors and electronics directly on threads. This new toolkit of highly flexible thread-based microfluidics, sensors, transistors and electronics makes it possible to realize smart surgical sutures and flexible smart bandages for chronic wounds. Our recent work on using threads for closed loop spatiotemporal dosage controlled drug delivery will also be presented. If there is time, I will present some related research activities on ingestible devices for studying the gut microbiome, and on flexible microneedles for transdermal drug delivery.Sponsored by: Chemistry Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2353, or e-mail [email protected].
From Human Sacrifices to Deism: Dismantling Myths of Prehispanic Mexico
A Lecture by Maestro Akaxe Yotzin
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In this lecture, Maestro Akaxe Yotzin, an expert of Prehispanic Mesoamerican semiotics and disciplines, will dismantle the popular myths of human sacrifices, cannibalism, imperialism, and deism in Prehispanic cultures. By analyzing the symbols and evidence through a cultural, philosophical, spiritual, and indigenous lens, he will bring to light missing pieces in the mainstream narrative.
Maestro Akaxe Yotzin traces his lineage to the ancient native traditions of Mesoamerica. He is a “Temachtiani” of the Toltekatl sciences, disciplines, rituals, and philosophies. He has taught across Europe, Latin America, and the United States, where he currently resides. Akaxe Yotzin is trilingual, Nahuatl, English, and Spanish.His lecture will be in English.Sponsored by: Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; LAIS Program; La Voz; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6050, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 – Wednesday, October 9, 2019 10 am – 8 pm
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Yom Kippur (the Jewish Day of Atonement) starts Tuesday Evening October 8 and ends at dark on Wednesday, October 9. All Bard community members are welcome to join us for any and all parts of the day. All events will be held in the Center for Spiritual Life
Yom Kippur Schedule Kol Nidrei – Tuesday at 6 PM sharp. Morning service – Wednesday at 10 AM. Memorial service (Yizkr) 5:30 PM Concluding service ( Ne'ilah) – 6:15 PM Break the fast (with bagels!) – 7:10 PM sharp.
Between the morning service and the memorial service we encourage everyone to remain with us the Center for Spiritual Life for informal conversation, reflection, napping, and being with friends.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The Ars Nova production of Underground Railroad Game
by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special Directed by Taibi Magar Produced by Octopus Theatricals
Wednesday, October 9, 2019 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Critics’ Pick “A lacerating comedy on race…in-all-ways sensational.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times
Critics’ Pick “Outrageously funny! Strikingly rendered by bold, smart performances.”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Explosive! Fearlessly, ferociously uninhibited . . . the show’s most subversive quality is also quintessentially American: it’s wildly entertaining.”—Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker
Good morning, America! Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of teachers are getting down and dirty with today’s lesson. The nimble duo goes round after round on the mat of our nation’s history, tackling race, sex, and power in this R-rated, kaleidoscopic, and fearless comedy. Lauded around the world and in the New York Times as “one of the best new American plays of the last 25 years,” Underground Railroad Game welcomes back Jennifer Kidwell, last seen in SummerScape 2016’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed.Sponsored by: Fisher Center and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
Hessel Museum of Art Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Thursday, October 10, 2019 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Galleries Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The Ars Nova production of Underground Railroad Game
by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special Directed by Taibi Magar Produced by Octopus Theatricals
Thursday, October 10, 2019 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Critics’ Pick “A lacerating comedy on race…in-all-ways sensational.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times
Critics’ Pick “Outrageously funny! Strikingly rendered by bold, smart performances.”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Explosive! Fearlessly, ferociously uninhibited . . . the show’s most subversive quality is also quintessentially American: it’s wildly entertaining.”—Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker
Good morning, America! Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of teachers are getting down and dirty with today’s lesson. The nimble duo goes round after round on the mat of our nation’s history, tackling race, sex, and power in this R-rated, kaleidoscopic, and fearless comedy. Lauded around the world and in the New York Times as “one of the best new American plays of the last 25 years,” Underground Railroad Game welcomes back Jennifer Kidwell, last seen in SummerScape 2016’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed.Sponsored by: Fisher Center and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
Thursday, October 10, 2019 – Friday, October 11, 2019 10 am – 6 pm
Olin Humanities Building Racism and Antisemitism A Conference Sponsored by The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Thursday and Friday, Oct. 10-11, 2019
author of Wilding: The Return of Nature to Our Farm
winner of the 2019 Richard Jefferies Prize for Nature Writing and chosen by Smithsonian as a top ten science book for 2018
Thursday, October 10, 2019 5–7 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema
The author will be signing books after the presentation. Books will be available for purchase at this event courtesy of Oblong Books & Music
Wilding - returning nature to our farm charts the story of the pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex where the author lives with her husband Charlie Burrell. Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy Sussex clay was economically ruinous, they decided to step back and let nature take over. By introducing free-roaming herbivores—proxies of the large animals that once roamed Britain—the Burrells’ degraded agricultural land has become a functioning ecosystem again. In less than twenty years, wildlife has rocketed and numerous endangered species have made Knepp their home. The Knepp experience challenges conventional ideas about our past and present landscapes, and points the way to a wilder, richer future—one that benefits farming, nature and us.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Lifetime Learning Institute.
Sodomite, Gay, Queer, Trans: A 14th-Century Document and Its Afterlives
Carolyn Dinshaw, Dean for the Humanities, Silver Professor; Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and English, New York University
Thursday, October 10, 2019 5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102
In 1394 in London a person named John Rykener but calling themself Eleanor was arrested in the act of having paid sex with a man from out of town. In a deposition Rykener gave a detailed account of their life as sex worker. Scholars as well as artists (and some scholar-artists) have taken up, researched, imagined, written, danced, and performed with puppets the life of Rykener based on this document. In this talk Dinshaw goes back to the original record and forward to modern and contemporary interpretations of it in order to discern who Rykener was then, and how they are understood -- and indeed animated -- now.
Carolyn Dinshaw, Dean for the Humanities, is also Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and English. She is a medievalist whose research not only focuses on the late Middle Ages in England and beyond, but also explores the relationship of past to present. Her award-winning book, Chaucer's Sexual Poetics (U of Wisconsin P, 1989), was the first full-length feminist study of Chaucer. She followed this with two books that develop analyses of our desires for past times: Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (Duke UP, 1999) and How Soon is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time (Duke UP, 2012). With David Wallace, she edited The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women’s Writing (Cambridge UP, 2003). And with David M. Halperin she founded and edited (1993-2005) the flagship journal of LGBT Studies, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (Duke UP). Before moving to NYU, Dean Dinshaw taught for many years at the University of California at Berkeley, where she was instrumental in the early development of LGBT Studies. At NYU, she founded and directed the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (1999-2005) and chaired the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (2012-15). In the classroom, she regularly teaches materials past and present, in courses ranging from Medieval Misogyny to Queer New York City.
Co-sponsored by Literature Program, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Human Rights
Sponsored by: Medieval Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7211, or e-mail [email protected].
3rd floor of the Watts dePeyster Hall, Village of Tivoli In honor of the legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt, the Human Rights Project at Bard College and the Village of Tivoli invite you to join us for a roundtable discussion about the current state of human rights.
In connection with the commemoration of her childhood home in Tivoli, this public event revisits Eleanor Roosevelt's famous answer to the question “Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?” For Eleanor Roosevelt, it was clear that “Without concerted citizen action to uphold” human rights “close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.” In that spirit, the event connects the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the increasingly dire challenges to human rights faced in the United States. How has the political discourse around human rights changed in the United States, and what are its implications? What does the term human rights mean in public culture today and how does it strengthen or limit the struggles around climate change, criminal justice, immigration, and racial, social and economic inequality? This event will take the form of a public conversation involving global and local activists, introduced by Peter Rosenblum, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, and moderated by Larry Cox, former Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, in which we all grapple together with these questions (and others) "in small places, close to home."Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Friday, October 11, 2019 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Galleries Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
The Institute of Advanced Theology Pre-Advent Lecture Series with Bruce Chilton
Prophetic Thinking—Ancient Israel
Friday, October 11, 2019 12:30–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Five weekly lectures on the origins of prophecy deploy the earliest Hebrew Scriptures comparatively, in the context of studies of shamanism and related topics. The aim is to permit the texts to articulate how they envision events that run counter to the prevailing patterns of political and military power, and ultimately to intimate an alternative structure of reality itself.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7335, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Thursday, October 10, 2019 – Friday, October 11, 2019 10 am – 6 pm
Olin Humanities Building Racism and Antisemitism A Conference Sponsored by The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Thursday and Friday, Oct. 10-11, 2019
The Ars Nova production of Underground Railroad Game
by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special Directed by Taibi Magar Produced by Octopus Theatricals
Friday, October 11, 2019 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Critics’ Pick “A lacerating comedy on race…in-all-ways sensational.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times
Critics’ Pick “Outrageously funny! Strikingly rendered by bold, smart performances.”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Explosive! Fearlessly, ferociously uninhibited . . . the show’s most subversive quality is also quintessentially American: it’s wildly entertaining.”—Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker
Good morning, America! Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of teachers are getting down and dirty with today’s lesson. The nimble duo goes round after round on the mat of our nation’s history, tackling race, sex, and power in this R-rated, kaleidoscopic, and fearless comedy. Lauded around the world and in the New York Times as “one of the best new American plays of the last 25 years,” Underground Railroad Game welcomes back Jennifer Kidwell, last seen in SummerScape 2016’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed.Sponsored by: Fisher Center and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
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 [email protected]Sponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
New Horizons in Cosmology: The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics
Bard Physics Program Faculty
Friday, October 11, 2019 12–1 pm
Hegeman 107 The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to two separate discoveries that broadened our understanding of the Universe. One half of the prize was given to Jim Peebles “for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe” and the other half to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discover of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.” Both of these works fundamentally changed our view of our universe and our place in it. Faculty of the Physics Program will expand on the ideas behind the discoveries and emphasize their significance.
Pizza will be provided.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Saturday, October 12, 2019 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Galleries Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bard College: The Montgomery Place Campus offers regular mansion tours on Saturdays from June 1 through October 12, with tours at 10:30, 11:30, 1:30, and 2:30. The cost is $10 per person and no reservations are required. Depending on availability, private tours will be offered for groups of five or more at $20 per person.
Visit the Montgomery Place website to learn more about special tours, events, and upcoming exhibitions.
The Ars Nova production of Underground Railroad Game
by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special Directed by Taibi Magar Produced by Octopus Theatricals
Saturday, October 12, 2019 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Critics’ Pick “A lacerating comedy on race…in-all-ways sensational.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times
Critics’ Pick “Outrageously funny! Strikingly rendered by bold, smart performances.”—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Explosive! Fearlessly, ferociously uninhibited . . . the show’s most subversive quality is also quintessentially American: it’s wildly entertaining.”—Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker
Good morning, America! Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of teachers are getting down and dirty with today’s lesson. The nimble duo goes round after round on the mat of our nation’s history, tackling race, sex, and power in this R-rated, kaleidoscopic, and fearless comedy. Lauded around the world and in the New York Times as “one of the best new American plays of the last 25 years,” Underground Railroad Game welcomes back Jennifer Kidwell, last seen in SummerScape 2016’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed.Sponsored by: Fisher Center and Hannah Arendt Center Present.
2019 Fall Open House for Prospective Students and Their Families
Saturday, October 12, 2019 9 am – 4 pm
Reem-Kayden Center The day centers around activities that allow students and their families to explore the campus and experience the excitement of Bard College classes. Check-in is at the Reem-Kayden Center, where students will be directed to their classes in the Olin Humanities Building. All other visitors will attend a Q&A in Olin Auditorium with Leon Botstein, president of the College. Campus tours begin at Olin.
Lunch will be served from 1:00 to 2:00. Representatives from the Admission, Student Affairs, Career Development, Study Abroad, and Residence Life offices, as well as the Dean of the College, will be available to answer your questions.
The day ends with 20-minute facility drop-in tours, which are at 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, and 3:30 (Athletics and Recreation; Dance/Theater and Performance; Film and Electronic Arts; Music/Conservatory; Photography; Residence Halls; Science; Studio Arts).
In order to have dynamic class discussions, students are encouraged to complete short readings in advance. (These classes are modeled on Bard’s First-Year Seminar.) Please go to bard.edu/admission to download the short readings. For more information, call 845-758-7472, or visit https://bard.edu/admission .
Citizens' Climate Lobby with Students for Carbon Dividends
Monthly Meeting of the Citizens' Climate Lobby Mid Hudson Chapter
Saturday, October 12, 2019 12–2:30 pm
Olin Language Center A potluck lunch followed by a chapter meeting designed to build political will for a federal solution to the climate crisis. We will dial in to the national call 1pm-1:30pm where we will hear from Kiera O'Brien, Students for Carbon Dividends.
There’s been a shift among Republicans in Congress on climate change, due in no small part to polling that shows younger GOP voters are as concerned about climate change as their progressive counterparts. As vice president of Students for Carbon Dividends, Kiera O’Brien is working to harness that passion among young conservatives to generate political will for carbon dividends legislation, which places a fee on carbon and gives revenue to households (sound familiar?). Kiera, who is President Emeritus of the Harvard Republican Club, recently testified at a congressional hearing alongside Republican pollster Frank Luntz. Over the summer, she spoke about carbon dividends at the Teen Vogue Summit: “There are many climate-oriented groups rallying around the problem, but Students for Carbon Dividends is rallying around the solution.”
To connect by phone: If you have unlimited calling, please call 1-646-558-8656; otherwise you can call toll-free at 1-877-369-0926. Enter 2017-2017-17 as the meeting ID. For more information, call 845-464-8025, or e-mail [email protected].
Visiting Artists: Cong Quartet Francis Chik, violin; Sally Law, violin; Caleb Wong, viola; Yan-Ho Cheng, cello Performing works by Dvořák, J. Leifs, A. Wong, and Caroline Shaw
Saturday, October 12, 2019 6–8 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art Crocodile, the first U.S. exhibition of work by Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, Villanova, Penn.), illustrates the ideas and drive toward reinvention and experimentation at play in this emerging artist’s work. Including over 60 paintings, it focuses on Churchman’s recent work while situating his practice within a longer trajectory through the presentation of projects such as Snakes (2011), a performance on video, and the “hardbacks” (2010), a series of intricately painted book covers. Crocodile also features a newly commissioned large-scale floor painting by Churchman.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Hessel Museum of Art Exile Is a Hard Job is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition of work by Nil Yalter (b. 1938), who has been a pioneer of socially engaged art since the 1970s. She was one of the first artists in France to use video, when it first emerged as a new artistic medium. Born in Cairo, the artist grew up in Istanbul and has been living in Paris since 1965. Exile Is a Hard Job presents the diversity of her work, from previously little-known paintings to her early videos and multimedia installations, in which she combines photography, video, drawings, and sculpture into collages. Exile Is a Hard Job originated at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as Yalter’s first major retrospective, opening March 8, 2019. The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art focuses on her prolific period from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, and includes more than 20 of her most significant projects from this time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Exhibition: Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection
Sunday, October 13, 2019 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Galleries Acting Out: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection takes its prompt from Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single-channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. In addition to directing the film crew, Ledare assembled the 28 participants and secured the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method. During a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group studies its own self-made social structure—an abstract “task” that allows participants to examine the identities, roles, desires, and biases individuals import into the group, as well as conscious and unconscious group dynamics. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics and discontents, the exhibition includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection at CCS Bard, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film and its participants. The exhibition also includes a selection of journals, diaries, and planners that the artist Lyle Ashton Harris kept between the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, displayed publicly for the first time.
Guided tours of the exhibition are available on July 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 4:00 pm, no reservation required.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
National Climate Seminar: How Solar Inspires Business
Elysa Hammond | VP for Environmental Stewardship | Clif Bar
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 12–1 pm
Online
The 2030 date to achieve the Paris Climate Accords is forcing all of us to rethink “Business as Usual.” Join Elysa Hammond on Bard’s National Climate Seminarfor a conversation about how ecological thinking has shaped Clif Bar’s journey as a company, and how in the coming decade, Clif Bar sees its business success coming from solar inspiration.
This webinar is part of a yearlong project,Solve Climate by 2030, sponsored by The Bard Center for Environmental Policy. The project takes as its starting point a recent IPCC report that we have only 10 years to forestall catastrophic climate change. Combining a national speaker network with a call for One-Night Teach-ins, the project culminates on April 7, 2020, in a national Power Dialog: 52 simultaneous, university-hosted webinars, one in every state, DC, and Puerto Rico. In these webinars, local climate solutions experts will suggest the top three ambitious but feasible state, urban, utility, or business initiatives that need to occur in Tennessee and Idaho, Missouri and New Jersey, Florida and Minnesota, if we aim to forestall catastrophic climate change. Following these state webinars, classes and other groups tuning in will have 45 minutes for “solutions sprints” designed to identify civic action opportunities for participants.
BARD CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY The Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability offer master’s programs in Environmental Policy, Climate Science and Policy, and Sustainable Business. The Bard Center for Environmental Policy’s career-focused, science-based, interdisciplinary master of science programs are located in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. The rigorous first-year coursework, followed by a required four-to-six-month immersive internship, culminates with a master’s Capstone Project and a 93 percent job placement rate within six months of graduation. Graduates are currently pursuing careers in many fields, such as alternative energy, international development, advocacy/lobbying, conservation, research, and strategic consulting. For more information: bard.edu/cep/.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Are We All in this Together? Generalized Prejudice Theory and Stigma Experiences
Diana Sanchez ’00 Rutgers University
Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:45–6 pm
Preston Theater The contexts that give rise to identity threats and their pernicious consequences for minorities are well documented. Yet, until recently, stigma researchers have largely assumed the necessity of a direct correspondence between safety/threat cues and the target (e.g., sexist remarks impact women). In contrast, this work demonstrates stigma transfer, i.e., the tendency for stigmatized group members to be threatened by prejudice targeting other stigmatized groups. In addition, this presentation will explore lay conceptions of prejudice that facilitate stigma transfer. Lastly, studies explore parallel responses to identity safety cues across identity dimensions. This talk will challenge long-held notions about the boundaries of stigma and have important implications for minority health, organizational diversity, and intraminority relations.Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7223, or e-mail [email protected].
Words Forever Young: Russian Avant-Garde Poetry in Translation
Thursday, October 17, 2019 5:30–7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Sponsored by the Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative and Russian and Eurasian Studies, this panel explores the joys and challenges of translating Russian Avant-Garde and late Modernist poetry to English. Maria Khotimsky of MIT and Ainsley Morse of Dartmouth College address the question of translatability of Hylea and Cubo-Futurist poetry, with examples from Guro, Kruchenykh, Khlebnikov and Mayakovsky, and discuss the complexities of contemporary readers' perception and interpretation of late Mandelstam's poetry in translation.
Maria Khotimsky is a Senior Lecturer in Russian and Russian Language Coordinator in the Department of Global Studies and Languages at MIT. Her recent work includes articles and conference talks on the ideology of translation in the Soviet Union, and poetics of translation in the works of several leading twentieth-century Russian poets, as well as in the work of Russian-American translingual poets. She is a co-editor of a volume of scholarly essays on the poetry and philosophy of Olga Sedakova, published in Russia (Ol’ga Sedakova: stikhi, smysly, prochteniia, NLO, 2017), and in the US (The Poetry and Poetics of Olga Sedakova. Origins, Philosophies, Points of Contention, University of Wisconsin Press, 2019).
Ainsley Morse teaches in the Dartmouth College Russian department and translates Russian and former Yugoslav poetry and prose. Recent publications include Permanent Evolution, a collection of theoretical essays by the Formalist critic Yuri Tynianov (ASP; edited and translated with Philip Redko), Andrei Egunov-Nikolev's "Soviet pastoral" Beyond Tula (ASP), and, with Bela Shayevich, Kholin 66: Diaries and Poems by Igor Kholin (UDP) and Vsevolod Nekrasov’s I Live I See (UDP 2013). She is currently translating the late avant-garde novelist and poet Konstantin Vaginov and contributing to an anthology of contemporary feminist poetry. Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Electronic Music Concert, in collaboration with Experimental Humanities and Computer Science
Visiting Artists: Codie (Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo and Kate Sicchio)
Thursday, October 17, 2019 6–8 pm
Blum Hall Codie is a live coding duo, working with sounds and visuals. This event will include a talk on the development of live coding performance techniques, followed by an improvised audio/video performance. The performance will feature Bard music seniors Bird Cohen, Ezra Kahn, and Maeve Schallert.
Free and open to all.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Blum Hall This talk and performance will focus on the work of Codie, a live coding group working with visuals and sounds. The talk will give background to the live coding community as well as the development of our live coding practices. The performance will show a world of colors, shapes, beeps and boops all created through real-time computer programming.
Codie is a live coding a/v group based in Brooklyn NY and Richmond VA (USA). Codie is seen in New York, Philadelphia, Berlin, Madrid, Sheffield and beyond in clubs, in living rooms, and on roof tops. Codie makes live performance, films and installations with code. https://codie.live/
Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo is an artist, programmer, and erstwhile data designer. She has created data-obscured art sites, new computer languages, and hybrid nostalgia machines. Her current focus is livecode and digital abstraction. Sarah is an alumna of the School for Poetic Computation, Recurse Center, Brown University, and NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She has taken part in group shows at Sonar+D, Westbeth, Day for Night, and Flux Factory. http://sarahghp.com/
Dr. Kate Sicchio is a choreographer, , media artist and performer whose work explores the interface between choreography and technology with wearable technology, live coding, and video systems. Her work has been shown internationally in many countries including the US, Germany, Australia, Belgium, Sweden, and the UK at venues such as PS122 (NYC), Banff New Media Institute (Canada), V&A Digital Futures (London), and Artisan Gallery (Hong Kong). http://www.sicchio.com
6:15 p.m. talk / 7:00 p.m. performance with special Bard guests Bird Cohen, Ezra Kahn, and Maeve Schallert
Sponsored by: Computer Science Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2359, or e-mail [email protected].
While trust in our institutions is on the decline, business is being looked to for solutions to issues from climate change to immigration and criminal justice. Employees are also leading the charge, leading petitions, staging walkouts and introducing shareholder proposals, asking CEOs to take a public stance and lead the charge. This new wave of employee activism may be a tipping point to achieve a more sustainable future. Join Clinical Professor of Marketing, Jorge Fontanez, of the Bard MBA in Sustainability Program in conversation with Jennifer Brown, an award-winning diversity and inclusion consultant and author. Her bestselling book, Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace and The Will to Change creates the case for leaders to embrace change.
The Institute of Advanced Theology Pre-Advent Lecture Series with Bruce Chilton
Prophetic Thinking—Ancient Israel
Friday, October 18, 2019 12:30–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Five weekly lectures on the origins of prophecy deploy the earliest Hebrew Scriptures comparatively, in the context of studies of shamanism and related topics. The aim is to permit the texts to articulate how they envision events that run counter to the prevailing patterns of political and military power, and ultimately to intimate an alternative structure of reality itself.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7335, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
A Model for Quantum Geometro-Dynamics: On the Road to Quantum Gravity
Aldo Riello • Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Friday, October 18, 2019 12–1 pm
Hegeman 107 General relativity and quantum mechanics are at the foundations of our understanding of space, time, gravity, and matter. Yet, it is not clear how they can fit into a consistent, encompassing framework, generically named a theory of “quantum gravity.” In this talk, I will paint in broad strokes the fundamental ideas underlying general relativity and quantum mechanics as well as some of the issues that arise when trying to combine their precepts. I will then present a possible way forward in the form of a theory of quantum geometro-dynamics, of which I will discuss the main characteristics. Curiously, we find that the way quantum space is supposed to evolve in a fictitious two-dimensional world (where the geometro-dynamics is well understood and solvable) is closely related to certain models of surface growth, known as solid-on-solid models (SoS).Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Xinran Li, a winner of Bard Conservatory’s concerto competition, takes on Sibelius’ touching violin concerto. Then, Shostakovich’s symphony—his first written after the death of Stalin—takes us from dark intensity to ecstatic joy.
Leon Botstein, conductor Xinran Li, violin
Sibelius Violin Concerto Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 Estimated run time: 2 hours and 5 minutesSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Where No Wall Remains An International Festival About Borders
Runs through Saturday, November 23, 2019
Bard College Campus
Special Events
Throughout the fall of 2019, partner programs across the Bard College campus will host a series of interdisciplinary events related to the the themes and discourse of Where No Wall Remains.
Film Screening of Jürgen Böttcher's Die Mauer (The Wall), 1990, 98 min. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Monday, November 11 at 6 pm Preston Cinema
Festival Introduction with Co-curators Gideon Lester and Tania El Khoury, with Biennial artists. Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 pm LUMA Theater
Connect, learn, and help chart a path forward for solutions-based climate change education and action in your school or community.
Saturday, October 19, 2019 9 am – 5:30 pm
Preston
Conference Program 9:00–10:10 a.m. From Anxiety to Action: Psychology for Climate Work with Renee Lertzman, PhD. Overview & Updates on the Drawdown Research with Chad Frischmann
10:30–11:20 a.m.Unpacking the Green New Deal: The Critical Importance of Equity Description: The Green New Deal outlines the most ambitious and transformative national goals since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s original New Deal and the World War II economic mobilizations. A national mobilization of this size and scale presents an unprecedented opportunity not only to combat the climate crisis, but also to eliminate poverty in the United States and to make wealth, prosperity, and security available to every person who participates in the transition. In this session, discover how equity across all sectors must be at the center of, and integrated with, all our climate work. Gain a deep understanding of the strategies and tools that ensure climate solutions benefit all—because the only way forward is to leave no one behind.
Rhiana Gunn-Wright, policy lead, Green New Deal Andrew Revkin, journalist & founding director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute.
11:35 a.m. – 12:25 p.m. The Paris Agreement and You: The Critical Role of Education and Public Engagement Description: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) international environmental treaty of 1992 has the goal to "stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. A crucial part of the treaty includes the role of education and public engagement. The UNFCCC Charter and the 2015 Paris Agreement recognized six elements of this work, now collectively referred to as Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE). In this session, explore how ACE is and could further support the implementation of subnational, national, and global climate education strategy and strengthening of the Paris Agreement.
What does this mean for our work on a local level? What is a Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement, and why is it critical that we learn about this? What role can students and teachers play? This session is especially aimed at those working or interested in a field related to ACE, and to anyone who would like to incorporate Drawdown into climate change education, engagement, and/or outreach.
1:45–2:35 p.m. Cultivating Drawdown Scholars: An Overview of Penn State’s Landmark Program with Project Drawdown Description: Penn State partnered with Project Drawdown to hold the inaugural Drawdown Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and the first International Science Conference on Drawdown. During the eight-week REU program this summer, 55 undergraduate students from across the United States were mentored by Penn State faculty and Project Drawdown's research team to study the Drawdown models and examine the feasibility of scaling them down locally as well as communicating findings. The students also developed curricular models and teaching tools for drawdown under the mentorship of Penn State faculty and Drawdown Education Fellows of the National Council for Science and the Environment. Students, faculty, and staff created materials that they shared at the end of the experience and were featured at the first Drawdown Scientific Conference at Penn State University Park in mid-September. During the conference, "Research to Action: The Science of Drawdown," Project Drawdown's research team and scientific experts and researchers from around the world met and had critical discussions about advancing and communicating the science of Drawdown. A platform for community engagement was also created through a theatrical performance involving the arts and sciences. In this session, discover how the programs were put together, accomplishments, and implications and explore some of the teaching tools, curricula concepts, and other resources.
3:05–3:55 p.m. Climate Learning at Scale: Washington State’s Story Applied to Your Reality Description: Washington State is coherently building solutions-oriented climate science literacy across its preK–12 school system. It is doing so with a commitment to changing structures and partnering with tribal educators in a way that demonstrates climate literacy and action that is place-based and equitable. The ClimeTime initiative supports science teacher training linking Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and climate science. In addition to teacher professional development, the project supports the development of instructional materials, design-related assessment tasks and evaluation strategies, and facilitated student events. In one of these projects, educators from the Spokane and Karuk tribes and others set out to design “locally relevant, three-dimensional solutions oriented learning storylines (SOLS)” in order to strengthen teachers’ climate science education instruction. To date, 100 percent of teachers who have participated report they are more prepared to make learning experiences inclusive for Native American students and have increased their ability to implement research-based instructional practices. Session participants will learn from project leaders and researchers about what was learned in the program’s first year. Participants will have a chance to engage with speakers for application to their own work. Additionally, participants will be introduced to the resource portal for the entire ClimeTime initiative and have the opportunity to consider use of the open source materials for their own purposes, including teacher trainings, curriculum, formative assessment resources and STEM Teaching Tools.
4:25–5:15 p.m. Crowd-Sourced Learning and Action: How a GIS-Powered Tool Can Activate Community Climate Solutions Description: What would happen if a critical mass of people across the planet could learn and act on the range of truly impactful climate solutions and resiliency measures that they could take individually and/or together with others? Leaders of this session have conceptually designed the tool to support this outcome and have begun prototyping the first elements with students and educators in Olympia, Washington, and Toronto, Canada. Join this session to advance this crowd-sourced, digital, and social technology that builds awareness, appreciation, community building, and action at the local to planetary scales.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability; Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing; Division of Social Studies; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Office of Sustainability; Psychology Program; Science, Technology, and Society Program.
Bard Farm Join LAB Biennial artist, Emilio Rojas, as the harvest of indigenous crops from his live installation Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is reaped. Experience this interactive land art first-hand as you take a walk through the crop border and enjoy dishes prepared from the harvest.
Naturalized Borders (to Gloria) is the first iteration of a multifaceted, interactive land art and community-based project, including a 72-foot long line of indigenous crops (corn, beans and squash, known as “the three sisters”) planted in the shape of the US/Mexican border line on the Bard Farm. Sponsored by: Fisher Center LAB.
Reception for "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage and Violetta White Delafield
Saturday, October 19, 2019 5:30–6:30 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library "Fruiting Bodies: The Mycological Passions of John Cage (1912–1992) and Violetta White Delafield (1875–1949)" will be on view October 1 – December 1, 2019 in the first floor lobby and second floor Sussman Reading Room of the Stevenson Library at Bard College. A reception for the exhibition will take place on Saturday, October 19, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.
A collaboration with the John Cage Trust, the Montgomery Place Campus, and the Stevenson Library, the exhibition highlights Cage and Delafield's forays into mycology.Sponsored by: John Cage Trust, Montgomery Place Campus; Libraries at Bard College.
La Voz and iD Studio Theatre present a Spanish-language musical play with English subtitles.
Saturday, October 19, 2019 7:30–9 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Heriberto, dead these 50 years, refuses to go to heaven until he is reunited with his beloved wife, Maruca. However, Maruca does not respond. She is still disoriented by the severe Alzheimer’s that afflicted her in life, and does not recognize Heriberto. It thus becomes his job to awaken her to the eternality of their love. His method: the cumbias and porros from the ’40s and ’50s, the music they danced and delighted to back in Santa Marta on the Atlantic coast of Colombia. Will this strategy work? If so, are Heriberto and Maruca ready to face the real music?
General admission: $20 $5 at the door for high school and college students with valid student ID.
Friday, October 18, 7:30pm, The Beverly, 224 Foxhall Ave., Kingston, NY 12401
Saturday, October 19, 7:30pm, Chapel of the Holy Innocents, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504
Sunday, October 20, 3:30pm, Trolley Barn, 489 Main St., Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Tickets sold at the La Voz office in Albee Annex basement, office #2, or on our Facebook page HERE. Sponsored by: La Voz; iD Studio Theatre.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Xinran Li, a winner of Bard Conservatory’s concerto competition, takes on Sibelius’ touching violin concerto. Then, Shostakovich’s symphony—his first written after the death of Stalin—takes us from dark intensity to ecstatic joy.
Leon Botstein, conductor Xinran Li, violin
Sibelius Violin Concerto Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 Estimated run time: 2 hours and 5 minutesSponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Directed and produced by award-winning filmmaker Lynn Novick, produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns, College Behind Bars reveals the transformative power of higher education through the experiences of incarcerated men and women earning degrees in the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI), one of the country’s most rigorous college-in-prison programs.
This preview event will feature segments from the documentary followed by panel discussions with Lynn Novick, BPI Executive Director Max Kenner ’01, and BPI alumni featured in the film.Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.
From Voter Suppression to the Census: A Decade of Fighting for Voting Rights
Dale Ho, ACLU Voting Rights Project Director
Tuesday, October 22, 2019 4:45–6:15 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 201 Since the 2010 midterm election, a wave of voter suppression laws has been unleashed around the country. The ACLU has been at the frontlines, successful challenging unnecessary voter registration requirements and barriers on Election Day in dozens of states. Attacks on voting rights have now grown to encompass not only registration and the ballot, but also the Decennial Census itself, which the Trump Administration sought to weaponize by attempting to add citizenship question to the census questionnaire. ACLU Voting Rights Project Director, Dale Ho, who argued the census citizenship question case in the Supreme Court, will address these issues and emerging threats to voting rights as we head towards the 2020 election.Sponsored by: Human Rights Program; Politics Program; Sociology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
Hessel Museum of Art, Gallery 3 Will Rawls is a New York–based choreographer, performer and writer. His work has appeared at the MoMA and MoMA PS1; MCA, Chicago; Danspace Project; New Museum of Contemporary Art; Issue Project Room; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; Walker Arts Center. At Danspace Project, he co-curated Lost and Found, comprised of performances and artist projects focused on the intergenerational impact of HIV/AIDS on dancers, women, and people of color. His writing has been published by Artforum International, the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Modern Art. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Robert Rauschenberg Residency and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant. He teaches and lectures widely in university, community and festival contexts.
Through the Speaker Series, CCS Bard brings distinguished artists, scholars, and curators to campus to present on their work. Speaker Series talks are held within Classroom 102 at CCS Bard unless otherwise noted. All talks are free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Jacob Neusner Memorial Lecture in Jewish and Religious Studies
Professor Moshe Halbertal NYU & Hebrew University
Thursday, October 24, 2019
at 4:45pm in Olin 102 & Sunday, October 27th at 7PM at The Sixth Street Community Synagogue Thursday, October 24th at 4:45pm in Olin 102
"The Biblical Book of Samuel and the Birth of Politics: Two Faces of Political Violence" The Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book's anonymous author was more than an inspired storyteller. The author was also an uncannily astute observer of political life and the moral compromises and contradictions that the struggle for power inevitably entails. The lecture will explore the ways in which the book of Samuel understands political violence political violence unleashed by the sovereign on his own subjects as it is rooted in the paranoia of the isolated ruler and the deniability fostered by hierarchical action through proxies.
Sunday, October 27th at 7PM The Sixth Street Community Synagogue 325 E. Sixth Street New York, NY
"Confronting Loss: The Meaning and Experience of Mourning form the Talmud to Maimonides" The experience of loss and mourning is a painful and ultimately inescapable feature of human life. Jewish law established practices of mourning that prescribe a rather detailed structure of the mourner’s conduct as well as the response of the community to the mourner and its obligation to provide consolation. Maimonides codified this body of regulations in his great code of Jewish Law, the Mishneh Torah, in the section titled “The Laws of Mourning.” This lecture will focus on the attempt to understand the meaning and practice of mourning in the Talmudic tradition and in Maimonides’ thought. It will explore the relationship of the concept of mourning in the Jewish tradition to other understandings of the dynamics of mourning such as Freud’s seminal essay “Mourning and Melancholia.Sponsored by: Jacob Neusner Memorial Lecture Fund, Jewish Studies, Religion, and Political Studies program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Book and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés Music by Al Carmines Directed by Morgan Green '12
Choreography by Lisa Fagan '11 Music Director Nathan Repasz Scenic Design by Jian Jung Costume Design by Alice Tavener Lighting Design by Masha Tsimring Sound Design by Tei Blow Dramaturg Miriam Felton-Dansky Stage Manager Samantha McCann*
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
CCS - Collection Teaching Gallery Through the Speaker Series, CCS Bard brings distinguished artists, scholars, and curators to campus to present on their work. All talks are free and open to the public.
Earlier this year, CCS Bard acquired Prem Krishnamurthy’s professional papers from the late 1990s on. Parroting the title of his 2016 performance-lecture, Endless Archive (Part II) represents a partial unpacking of one specific past. Krishnamurthy’s talk at CCS circles around publishing, exhibition design, curating, and collecting through documents and archival materials from his wide-ranging work. At the same time, such remnants emerge as tomorrow’s seeds, potential prologues for yet-to-be-written futuresSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
The Institute of Advanced Theology Pre-Advent Lecture Series with Bruce Chilton
Prophetic Thinking—Ancient Israel
Friday, October 25, 2019 12:30–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Five weekly lectures on the origins of prophecy deploy the earliest Hebrew Scriptures comparatively, in the context of studies of shamanism and related topics. The aim is to permit the texts to articulate how they envision events that run counter to the prevailing patterns of political and military power, and ultimately to intimate an alternative structure of reality itself.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7335, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Book and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés Music by Al Carmines Directed by Morgan Green '12
Choreography by Lisa Fagan '11 Music Director Nathan Repasz Scenic Design by Jian Jung Costume Design by Alice Tavener Lighting Design by Masha Tsimring Sound Design by Tei Blow Dramaturg Miriam Felton-Dansky Stage Manager Samantha McCann*
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Reem-Kayden Center Join faculty and students who participated in this year’s program in presenting their workSponsored by: Bard Summer Research Institute.
For more information, call 845-752-2355, or e-mail [email protected].
Book and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés Music by Al Carmines Directed by Morgan Green '12
Choreography by Lisa Fagan '11 Music Director Nathan Repasz Scenic Design by Jian Jung Costume Design by Alice Tavener Lighting Design by Masha Tsimring Sound Design by Tei Blow Dramaturg Miriam Felton-Dansky Stage Manager Samantha McCann*
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Book and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés Music by Al Carmines Directed by Morgan Green '12
Choreography by Lisa Fagan '11 Music Director Nathan Repasz Scenic Design by Jian Jung Costume Design by Alice Tavener Lighting Design by Masha Tsimring Sound Design by Tei Blow Dramaturg Miriam Felton-Dansky Stage Manager Samantha McCann*
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
The Montgomery Place Campus Bridget Maple ’05, formal gardener at Bard College, leads a garden tour at Montgomery Place and discusses the people, plants, and history of the site. Tour begins at the Visitors Center. Tours take place from 9:15 to 10:00 am and 10:15 to 11:00 am. For more information, call 845-752-5000, or e-mail [email protected].
The Montgomery Place Campus Henry Woods, Montgomery Place docent, will lead a walk through the trails, meadows, and fields of Montgomery Place and observe how the landscape was transformed from wilderness to working farm, to pleasure grounds, to the preserved historic site it is today. Total leisurely walking distance approximately 1 mile. Tour begins at the Visitor Center. For more information, call 845-752-5000, or e-mail [email protected].
Faculty-Student Roundtable: Trump and American Foreign Policy
Saturday, October 26, 2019 2–3 pm
Olin Hall Malia DuMont (Chief of Staff, Vice President for Strategy and Policy, and faculty member in the Political Studies program) and Chris McIntosh (Assistant Professor of Political Studies) join members of the Bard Debate Union for a Faculty-Student Roundtable discussion on Donald Trump and American foreign policy. Moderated by Ruth Zisman, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Co-Director of the Bard Debate Union. For more information about Family and Alumni weekend, visit: bard.edu/familyweekend; for more information about the Bard Debate Union, visit: debate.bard.edu.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Politics Program.
Bard Conservatory Orchestra Family Weekend Concert
Saturday, October 26, 2019 8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Leon Botstein, Music DirectorIves The Fourth of July from Holiday Symphony Sibelius Symphony No. 7 Honegger Symphony No. 3, Liturgique Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-OvertureSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Book and Lyrics by María Irene Fornés Music by Al Carmines Directed by Morgan Green '12
Choreography by Lisa Fagan '11 Music Director Nathan Repasz Scenic Design by Jian Jung Costume Design by Alice Tavener Lighting Design by Masha Tsimring Sound Design by Tei Blow Dramaturg Miriam Felton-Dansky Stage Manager Samantha McCann*
“Bizarre and sneakily thrilling” (New York Times), Promenade is a zany and charming anti-capitalist musical by two leading artists of the New York avant-garde — Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés (who passed away earlier this year) and composer Reverend Al Carmines. A cast of lowlife convicts and uptown swells sing a glorious score that blends nostalgic ballads, vaudeville, campy maximalism, and Broadway showstoppers. Bard alum Morgan Green ’12 returns to direct this kaleidoscopic, gorgeous, and utterly unconventional work, which premiered in 1965 at Judson Memorial Church—a center of the thriving off-off-Broadway theater scene—and transferred to off-Broadway in 1969.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater A night of creative performances from around the world. Come and enjoy the diverse talents of Bard students.
This is a free (nonticketed) event for the College community and the community in the greater area. All are welcome to attend.Sponsored by: International Student Organization.
For more information, call 845-758-7328, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Laura Franklin-Hall Associate Professor of Philosophy, NYU
Monday, October 28, 2019 4:45–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This lecture explores why scientists sometimes classify entities in terms of their histories, and other times based exclusively on their non-historical or ‘synchronic’ properties. After reviewing examples of these two approaches, I formulate a principle designed to both describe and explain this aspect of our scientific classificatory practice. According to this proposal, a domain is apt for historical classifications just when the probability of the independent emergence of similar entities (PIES) in that domain is very low. In addition to rationalizing this principle and showing its ability to correctly account for classification practices across the natural and social sciences, I consider whether the kinds so circumscribed will be objective or real.Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7280, or e-mail [email protected].
Ending the Endless War: The Costs of War Project and Activist Scholarship
Stephanie Savell Co-Director, The Costs of War Project
Monday, October 28, 2019 5:30–7 pm
Hegeman 204A Americans are starting to say and hear more about the need to end this country’s “endless war,” the United States’ ongoing war on terrorism that began in 2001. Yet most people still don’t realize that this war’s costs – human, financial, environmental, social and political – are so far-reaching as to directly affect each and every American, as well as millions of people around the world. Nor do people recognize that this war is the latest excuse for American empire, and that in the name of counterterrorism, the U.S. government and military are acting in 80 countries, 40% of nations on the globe. Stephanie Savell, co-director of Brown University’s Costs of War project, will speak about bridging academic research and the public sphere to prompt Americans to ask big questions: Is our current approach making us any safer? Is it making others around the world any safer? If not, what could we be doing instead? Dr. Savell will address the project’s major findings and the essential work of translation in using academic research to make a difference in public debate.Sponsored by: Global and International Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7693, or e-mail [email protected].
Learning Politics with Art: Lessons from Curation under Occupation
Kirsten Scheid, American University of Beirut / Clark Art Institute
Monday, October 28, 2019 6–8 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202 Studying imagination shifts attention to the emergent and yet-possible. In 2018, I cocurated an exhibition that invited Jerusalem audiences to reimagine the city’s “possible” existence by building on ludic spatial-temporal moves that have distilled in contemporary Palestinian art. This paper explores the lessons artistic imaginings of a possible Jerusalem, one not confined to space-time coordinates we use to understand realpolitik, offer the exhibition’s participants and audiences.
Associate professor of anthropology at the American University of Beirut, Kirsten Scheid studies imagination technologies, artistic materialities, and social change specifically through cases of modern and contemporary Arab art. Her essays appear in Anthropology Now, ARTMargins, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Museum Anthropology and can be accessed at https://aub-lb.academia.edu/KirstenScheid. She has cocurated The Jerusalem Show (Jerusalem, 2018) and The Arab Nude (Beirut, 2016), exhibited at the New Museum (2011), and consulted for the Tate Modern (2014) and MoMA (2016–18). The 2019–20 Clark/Oakley Fellow at the Clark Art Institute, Scheid is currently completing an historically informed ethnography of aesthetic encounters that comprise contemporary Palestine and point to new political imaginings.
This event is cosponsored by the Africana Studies Program, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, the Art History and Visual Culture Program, and the Human Rights Project. Sponsored by: Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7506, or e-mail [email protected].
The Bard Fiction Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner reads from Maggie Brown & Others
Monday, October 28, 2019 6:30–7:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Monday, October 28, at 6:30 p.m., in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Peter Ornerreads from his new collection, Maggie Brown & Others. Presented by the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series and the Written Arts Program, and introduced by MacArthur Fellow Dinaw Mengestu, the reading is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Books by Peter Orner will be available for sale, courtesy of Oblong Books & Music.
An essential voice in American fiction, Peter Orner is the author of acclaimed books such as The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (2006), winner of the Bard Fiction Prize; Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge (2013);and the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Am I Alone Here? (2016), a memoir. Best known for his short fiction, Orner has been hailed as “a master of his form,” a writer who “doesn’t simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls” (New York Times).Now, in his sixth book, Maggie Brown & Others (2019), Orner gathers a novella and forty-four stories—many as short as a few paragraphs, none longer than twenty pages—into an orchestral, polyphonic collection, his most sustained achievement yet.
Peter Orner is the author of two novels, three story collections, and a memoir. His stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and twice received a Pushcart Prize. Orner has been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, as well as a Fulbright to Namibia. Currently, he is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and lives with his family in Norwich, Vermont.
PRAISE FOR PETER ORNER
“It’s been apparent since his first book, Esther Stories (2001), that Peter Orner was a major talent . . . You know from the second you pick him up that he’s the real deal. His sentences are lit from below, like a swimming pool, with a kind of resonant yearning that’s impossible to fake . . . Orner can do anything.” —New York Times
“Mr. Orner packs remarkable pathos into his condensed dramas.” ―Wall Street Journal
“Orner writes with a combination of sincerity and self-awareness. . . . Most vividly reminiscent of Raymond Carver.” ―San Francisco Chronicle
“Orner is incapable of dishonoring his characters. He treats all of them—even the minor figures—with a fierce humanity.” —Boston Globe
“Peter Orner is that rare find: a young writer who can inhabit any character, traverse any landscape, and yet never stray from the sound of the human heart.” —Washington Post
“[Orner] is one of our most empathetic writers today. . . His fiction has an intimate feel: we are in conversation with otherwise unknown and forgotten lives. This is what makes Orner’s characters live and breathe beyond the page . . . This is how his clean, simple sentences succeed far beyond the limited space he gives them . . . Let us be thankful for Peter Orner.” ―Los Angeles Review of Books
“Orner is secretly one of the best contemporary writers working today: his characters are indelible, his focus small and piercing, his insights moving . . . all with his special sense for truth, character, and wistful realism.” ―Literary HubSponsored by: Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series and the Written Arts Program.
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The (R)evolution of Indigenous Food Systems of North America
Presented in association with Oblong Books & Music and Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability
Tuesday, October 29, 2019 5 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Sean Sherman, Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge reservation, and the founder of the company The Sioux Chef, is committed to revitalizing Native American cuisine. Through his research, he has uncovered and mapped out the foundations of the indigenous food systems through an indigenous perspective. Chef Sean has become renowned nationally and internationally in the culinary movement of indigenous foods and with an ever-growing team of indigenous minded peers, is leading a movement to completely redefine North American cuisine through the understanding and utilization of indigenous food knowledge. This is an evolution of Native American Foods, taking important educations of the past and applying them to the now.Run time is approximately 50 minutes, followed by a Q&A and book signing.Sponsored by: 2019 Live Arts Bard Biennial.
Fisher Studio Arts Building Visiting Artist Baseera Khan had to postpone her visit to Bard. The talk will now be on December 3 in Fisher Seminar Room.
Baseera Khan is a New York–based artist who sublimates colonial histories through performance and sculpture in order to map geographies of the future. Her work navigates the political circumstances of her identity as a femme Muslim American who grew up in Texas. She received an MFA from Cornell University and a BFA from the University of North Texas.Presented in association with Live Arts Bard’s festival about borders, Where No Wall Remains.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Join us for a discussion with Ian Buruma and Richard Aldous on Brexit:
What is Brexit?
What is the European Union and why is the UK leaving?
Why hasn’t Brexit happened yet?
Why did Parliament reject Theresa May’s Brexit deal?
What is the new Brexit deal?
What happens next?
Ian Buruma is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism. Studies in Chinese literature and history at Leyden University; graduate studies in Japanese cinema at Nihon University, Tokyo. Documentary filmmaker and photographer in Tokyo (1977–80); cultural editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, Hong Kong (1983–86); foreign editor of The Spectator, London (1990–91). Fellowships: Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin (1991–92); Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. (1998–99); Alistair Horne Visiting Fellow, St. Antony’s College, Oxford (1999–2000). Regular contributor to New York Review of Books, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, New Yorker, and The Guardian. Books include Behind the Mask (1983); God’s Dust (1988); Playing the Game (1990); The Wages of Guilt (1995); The Missionary and the Libertine (1997); Anglomania: A European Love Affair (1999); Bad Elements (2001); Inventing Japan: 1853–1964 (2003); Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (2006). Coauthor, Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies (2004). At Bard since 2003.
Richard Aldous is the Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Literature. Ph.D., University of Cambridge. Fellow, Royal Historical Society. Author and editor of 11 books, including Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian; Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship; Macmillan, Eisenhower and the Cold War; The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli; and biographies of Malcolm Sargent and Tony Ryan. Taught for 15 years at University College Dublin, where he was chair of the History Department. Writes regularly for publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and The American Interest, where he is a contributing editor. Took up the Eugene Meyer Chair at Bard in 2010.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
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