Continental Divide: Borderlands Wildlife, People, and the Wall
A photo exhibit exploring the fragile US-México border area
Runs through Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Gallery “The topic of the border wall between the United States and Mexico continues to be broadly and hotly debated: on national news media, by local and state governments, and even in coffee shops and over the dinner table. By now, broad segments of the population have heard widely varying opinions about the wall’s effect on illegal immigration, international politics, and the drug war. But what about the wall’s effect on the Sonoran pronghorn antelope herds and the kit fox? On the Mexican gray wolf, the ocelot, the jaguar, and the bighorn sheep? In unforgettable images and evocative text, Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall shows us what’s at stake.” — Krista SchlyerSponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Human Rights Project; La Voz; Photography Program.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Candlelight Vigil in Response to the Mass Shootings in New Zealand
Candlelight Vigil
Monday, April 1, 2019 5–6 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents In response to the heart-breaking terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, the campus community is invited and encouraged to attend a candlelight Campus Vigil, Monday, April 1, at 5:00pm on the Chapel lawn.
Our gathering is a time to stand together as a campus community in our collective grief and in our solidarity against this hate-based act of violence. The gathering will include brief reflections and readings from members of our community, a memorial reading of the names of those who were killed, and a candle-lit moment of silence. Our new Muslim Chaplain, Nora Zaki, ([email protected]) will lead this vigil and is also available to offer support to our Bard community. Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
The Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award finalist Joanna Scott reads from her work, followed by a conversation with Dinaw Mengestu
Monday, April 1, 2019 7–8 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Monday, April 1, at 7:00 p.m. in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), novelist Joanna Scott reads from her work. Presented by the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series, introduced by novelist and Bard literature and writing professor Mary Caponegro, and followed by a conversation with Dinaw Mengestu, the reading is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Books by Joanna Scott will be available for sale, courtesy of Oblong Books & Music.
Exploring subjects ranging from beauty and temptation to the motion of thought and the elusive potential of the imagination, Joanna Scott’s publications include Various Antidotes: Stories and the novel Arrogance, both PEN/Faulkner finalists; The Manikin, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and Follow Me, a New York Times Notable Book. Her most recent novels are Careers for Women (2017) and De Potter's Grand Tour (2014). Scott has written about modern and contemporary authors including Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald, Maureen Howard, William Gass, and J.M. Coetzee. Her play, Speakeasy, was produced by the Todd Theater Troupe at La MaMa and toured fringe festivals around the world.
Scott founded and directs The Inspiration Project, a volunteer literacy program for adults with developmental disabilities. She is a founding board member of the literary press Open Letter, and she is a contributing editor of Bard’s literary journal, Conjunctions, which published her story “Infidels” in the Fall 2018 issue, Conjunctions:71, A Cabinet of Curiosity.
Scott received her master’s degree from Brown University and has taught creative writing at Brown, the University of Maryland, and Princeton University; she is currently the Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester. Scott is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ambassador Book Award from the English-Speaking Union, and the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
PRAISE FOR JOANNA SCOTT
“The wit, the magical prose and the daring devices of Scott’s writing create an enchantment . . . her soundings of the depth of our natures are as accurate and revealing as Thoreau’s measurements of Walden Pond.” ―Nation
“A greatly gifted and highly original artist.” —New York Times Book Review
“Scott writes with the crispest and most telling of sentences. Her grasp of the mysteries within us is profound.” —Newsday
“Scott’s prose is sensitive and beautifully crafted . . . Her characters are both eminently human and touched with magic and mystery.” —Washington Post Book World
“One of the finest writers of her generation: elegant, sublime, of the earthy earth.” —Paul West
“What most amazes me about Joanna Scott’s extraordinary narratives is the vastness of the world her imagination ranges through and the rich, Dickensian variety of voices and characters one encounters.” —Robert Coover
Sponsored by: Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series and the Program in Written Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
Continental Divide: Borderlands Wildlife, People, and the Wall
A photo exhibit exploring the fragile US-México border area
Runs through Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Gallery “The topic of the border wall between the United States and Mexico continues to be broadly and hotly debated: on national news media, by local and state governments, and even in coffee shops and over the dinner table. By now, broad segments of the population have heard widely varying opinions about the wall’s effect on illegal immigration, international politics, and the drug war. But what about the wall’s effect on the Sonoran pronghorn antelope herds and the kit fox? On the Mexican gray wolf, the ocelot, the jaguar, and the bighorn sheep? In unforgettable images and evocative text, Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall shows us what’s at stake.” — Krista SchlyerSponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Human Rights Project; La Voz; Photography Program.
Fisher Studio Arts Building, Seminar Room Polly Apfelbaum’s(b.1955) artistic practice is distinguished by a hybridized aesthetic that fuses traditions of painting, craft, and installation. Deploying a wide variety of media—including fabric, paint, dyes, wallpaper, plasticine, and ceramics—her work has dissolved spatial, plastic, and temporal boundaries. She is best known for expansive polychromatic installations, which coalesce the radical and the beautiful, simultaneously domestic and irreverent. Her sensibility is informed by an encyclopedic knowledge of the applied arts, art history, and popular culture. The prolific artist has mounted nearly 60 solo exhibitions worldwide and has participated in hundreds of group exhibitions. She has received awards and grants from organizations including Anonymous Was a Woman, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
Attendees will hear from a panel of current students and alumni of Bard's MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy. Our Panel of student/alum experts will discuss topics such as:
career outcomes -- how the MS degrees at CEP and MBA in Sustainability have led to impactful sustainability careers
the program experience -- highlights on courses and key features at Bard (including the NYCLab course and the CEP internship)
how to get the most of your graduate school journey -- career development + student engagement opportunities at Bard
how to make your application stand out -- tips on perfecting your application materials, advice on getting through the graduate school admissions process
In addition: Program Director Eban Goodstein will provide an overview of the program offerings at Bard CEP and the MBA in Sustainability.
Our Admissions staff will also be on hand to provide information on the application process and answer questions regarding:
Continental Divide: Borderlands Wildlife, People, and the Wall
A photo exhibit exploring the fragile US-México border area
Runs through Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Gallery “The topic of the border wall between the United States and Mexico continues to be broadly and hotly debated: on national news media, by local and state governments, and even in coffee shops and over the dinner table. By now, broad segments of the population have heard widely varying opinions about the wall’s effect on illegal immigration, international politics, and the drug war. But what about the wall’s effect on the Sonoran pronghorn antelope herds and the kit fox? On the Mexican gray wolf, the ocelot, the jaguar, and the bighorn sheep? In unforgettable images and evocative text, Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall shows us what’s at stake.” — Krista SchlyerSponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Human Rights Project; La Voz; Photography Program.
Celine Wong Katzman Singaporean-American writer, curator, and educator
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 2:45–3:50 pm
Olin 301 Singaporean-American writer, curator, and educator Celine Wong Katzman will present recent curatorial projects and research. Her work focuses on time-based media, performance, and other forms critically engaged with new technologies. In particular she is interested in narratives traditionally excluded from these areas. In 2017 Celine co-founded EST, a curatorial collective that questions the Western imaginary of Asia as a monolithic entity and is interested in its potential as a call to organize across a spectrum of experience. Celine currently works as a teaching assistant at the School for Poetic Computation and has previously held administrative and curatorial support roles at institutions such as bitforms gallery, Rhizome, the Guggenheim and MoMA.
Celine Wong Katzman will be available to meet people and answer questions about her work at 4:00 pm in Fisher Annex Seminar room. All are invited.Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7247, or e-mail [email protected].
Visiting Artist Recital and Master Class: Andrew Willis, fortepiano, performs Bach Partitas
Bach Partitas performed on a fortepiano in the Cristofori tradition
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 4–6 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Andrew Willis received the foundation of his musical outlook as a student of Mieczyslaw Horszowski at The Curtis Institute of Music (BM, 1972). The cultivation of collaborative skills under the tutelage of Lambert Orkis at Temple University (MM, 1982) further expanded his horizons. At Cornell University (DMA, 1994), working with Malcolm Bilson and the faculty of the Center for Eighteenth-Century Music, he discovered the full joy of musical performance realized on historical keyboard instruments through the application of performance practices suitable to each stylistic era.
Andrew Willis's broad range as a performer has produced a varied discography. As a participant in the first complete recording of the Beethoven sonata cycle on period instruments, his performance of Op. 106 was hailed by The New York Times as "a 'Hammerklavier' of rare stature." As a modern pianist interested in contemporary repertoire, he commissioned, premiered, and recorded Martin Amlin's Sonata No. 7 (2000) as part of a program including other works by Amlin, Fine, and Copland. Equally at home as a collaborative pianist, he has partnered soprano Julianne Baird in recordings of Schubert Lieder and Rossini songs, soprano Georgine Resick in early-Romantic song cycles, and flutist Sue Ann Kahn in music of Rochberg, Schickele, Luening, Kraft, and Ibert. His most recent releases presented chamber music of Emanuel Bach on fortepiano with Rebecca Troxler and Chopin on an 1848 Pleyel with Brent Wissick.
A Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Willis teaches piano, fortepiano, and harpsichord performance and leads courses on keyboard literature and performance practice. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Continental Divide: Borderlands Wildlife, People, and the Wall
A photo exhibit exploring the fragile US-México border area
Runs through Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Gallery “The topic of the border wall between the United States and Mexico continues to be broadly and hotly debated: on national news media, by local and state governments, and even in coffee shops and over the dinner table. By now, broad segments of the population have heard widely varying opinions about the wall’s effect on illegal immigration, international politics, and the drug war. But what about the wall’s effect on the Sonoran pronghorn antelope herds and the kit fox? On the Mexican gray wolf, the ocelot, the jaguar, and the bighorn sheep? In unforgettable images and evocative text, Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall shows us what’s at stake.” — Krista SchlyerSponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Human Rights Project; La Voz; Photography Program.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Written and Directed by Jack Ferver With additional text by Tennessee Williams Scenic and Costume Design by Jeremy Jacob Lighting Design by JAX Messenger
Thursday, April 4, 2019 8 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Categorical thought shifts, blurs, and gives way in this new creation inspired by Tennessee William’s Streetcar Named Desire. Performers whiplash between wild theatrics and the hyper-real as they tear into the haunting and shattering effects of trauma. Childhood games become menacing. The crush of internal voices in emotional duress becomes external. Characters collapse and psyches merge on the frenetic seams of poetry and panic.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
A Fulbright Experience: Mutual Understanding through People, Places and Science
Frank Scalzo, Psychology Program
Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:45–6 pm
Preston Theater The Fulbright Program provides research and teaching opportunities for U.S. and foreign scholars, and students, to contribute to the mutual understanding of people, places and culture. The program funds approximately 470 U.S. Scholar awards and 1000 student research awards to 124 countries each year. I will present information on the Fulbright Program and describe my experiences as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Ljubljana in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1995 and most recently in 2018. The goals of the 2018 project were to strengthen the pharmacy curriculum and to develop techniques to use artificial intelligence to characterize movement patterns in larval zebrafish. I will describe the progress made in the project with an emphasis on the people, places and science that have contributed to my increased understanding of Slovenia and its people, and the many cultural and scientific contributions they have made.Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7380, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Humanities, Room 102 The lecture will present William Brumfield’s photographic documentation of the distinctive cultural heritage of the Russian North, with particular emphasis on its remarkable wooden churches. One of the glories of Russian culture, these monuments and their preservation have been under threat from numerous causes.
William Craft Brumfield is Professor of Slavic Studies and Sizeler Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University. Dr. Brumfield is an internationally known and widely celebrated scholar of Russian architecture. As a student of Russian literature and history, and as a photographer and historian of Russian architecture, Brumfield has worked in Russia since the summer of 1970. After earning his doctorate from the Slavic Department at the University of California, Berkeley, he taught at the University of Wisconsin and at Harvard University (Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages).Sponsored by: Institute for International Liberal Education; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Male, Female, Diverse: The Rise and Globalization of a 3rd Gender
Thursday, April 4, 2019 6–8 pm
BGIA, 108 W 39th St, Suite 1000, New York, NY 10018 Recently the universal gender binary has been undermined by the introduction of a third sex in states such Australia, India, Nepal, and Germany. This talk explains the surprising rise of a third gender by analyzing the 2018 introduction of a legal third sex (“diverse”) in Germany. Theoretical and historical legacies of the pre-modern state and medical discourses of gender variance are contrasted with the re-introduction of a third sex as result of effective transnational social movement activism through the UN and human rights discourses. Intersex activists pushing for change reframed the discourse on gender assignment from an emphasis on “medical correction” towards an emphasis on “legal protection.” This shift led to a deeper questioning the gender binary by some international organizations, national parties, and courts. The rise and diffusion of the third gender category offers insights about the meaning of gender, state power and social movements.
Angelika von Wahl of Lafayatte College will lead this discussion, and Ting Ting Cheng, attorney at Legal Momentum (formerly the National Organization of Women Legal Defense Fund) will serve as a discussant. This event will be followed by a reception. This is part of BGIA's James Chace Lectures and is supported by Foreign Affairs magazine For more information, call 845-758-6822.
The last two decades have seen an explosion of superheroic narratives on screen. Meanwhile, the political backdrop of the recent popular fascination with superheroes has been a growing sense of political uncertainty and crisis. At home and abroad, questions over the limits of representation, sovereign authority, and democratic action have defined a political world which, simultaneously, has become saturated with superheroic narratives. This evening event asks what kinds of political life, and what kinds of citizens, these big-screen superheroic stories imagine—and whether these foster, or impede, democratic ends. Our speakers explore this question on several fronts: How do contemporary superhero narratives receive, adapt, modify, or reject traditional heroic models? Who do these stories represent, and how? And can these stories provide resources for a healthier democratic life? Or, following Rousseau, should we conclude that “certain circumstances can make a hero necessary for the salvation of the human race, but at any time, a whole people of heroes would infallibly be its ruin”?
Time: 6:00 p.m. Location: Reem-Kayden Center for Science and Computation, Room 103 [map] Date: April 4, 2019 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Joshua Foa Dienstag is professor of political science and law at UCLA. He has written on the history of political thought, film, and the American Founding. He is the author of four books, including Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit, which won the book award for Excellence in Philosophy from the American Association of Publishers in 2006. His most recent book is Cinema Pessimism: Film and Representation in Democracy, which will be published this year by Oxford University Press. This year he is a fellow at the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles.
William Dixon is the director of the Language and Thinking Program at Bard College. He teaches in the Political Studies Program and in First-Year Seminar. His research centers around the question of prudence in democratic theory and cosmopolitanism.
Joshua Plencner is currently a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. His teaching and research explore the intersection of American visual culture and the politics of identity, with special interest in racial formation, comics studies, political theory, and American political development. His writing has appeared in both popular and scholarly outlets, including New Political Science, Black Perspectives, Artists Against Police Brutality, Middle Spaces, and the University Press of Mississippi.
MODERATOR
Libby Barringer is the Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. Barringer received her doctorate in Political Science from UCLA in 2016. Her work brings ancient and modern political thought and literature into conversation for the sake of contemporary democratic practices. In addition to her doctorate, she also holds an MSc in political theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA from the College of William and Mary in government and fine arts.
Continental Divide: Borderlands Wildlife, People, and the Wall
A photo exhibit exploring the fragile US-México border area
Runs through Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Gallery “The topic of the border wall between the United States and Mexico continues to be broadly and hotly debated: on national news media, by local and state governments, and even in coffee shops and over the dinner table. By now, broad segments of the population have heard widely varying opinions about the wall’s effect on illegal immigration, international politics, and the drug war. But what about the wall’s effect on the Sonoran pronghorn antelope herds and the kit fox? On the Mexican gray wolf, the ocelot, the jaguar, and the bighorn sheep? In unforgettable images and evocative text, Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall shows us what’s at stake.” — Krista SchlyerSponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Human Rights Project; La Voz; Photography Program.
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
Written and Directed by Jack Ferver With additional text by Tennessee Williams Scenic and Costume Design by Jeremy Jacob Lighting Design by JAX Messenger
Friday, April 5, 2019 8 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Categorical thought shifts, blurs, and gives way in this new creation inspired by Tennessee William’s Streetcar Named Desire. Performers whiplash between wild theatrics and the hyper-real as they tear into the haunting and shattering effects of trauma. Childhood games become menacing. The crush of internal voices in emotional duress becomes external. Characters collapse and psyches merge on the frenetic seams of poetry and panic.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Einstein and Quantum Mechanics: It’s Not What You Think
A. Douglas Stone – Yale University
Friday, April 5, 2019 12–1 pm
Hegeman 107 Einstein is well known for his rejection of quantum mechanics in the form it emerged from the work of Heisenberg, Born and Schrodinger in 1926. Much less appreciated are the many seminal contributions he made to quantum theory prior to his final scientific verdict: that the theory was at best incomplete. In this talk I present an overview of Einstein’s many conceptual breakthroughs and place them in historical context. I argue that Einstein, much more than Planck, introduced the concept of quantization of energy in atomic mechanics. Einstein proposed the photon, the first force-carrying particle discovered for a fundamental interaction, and put forward the notion of wave-particle duality, based on sound statistical arguments 14 years before De Broglie’s work. He was the first to recognize the intrinsic randomness in atomic processes, and introduced the notion of transition probabilities, embodied in the A and B coefficients for atomic emission and absorption. He also preceded Born in suggesting the interpretation of wave fields as probability densities for particles (photons), in the case of the electromagnetic field. Finally, stimulated by Bose, he introduced the notion of indistinguishable particles in the quantum sense and derived the condensed phase of bosons, which is one of the fundamental states of matter at low temperatures. His work on quantum statistics in turn directly stimulated Schrodinger towards his discovery of the wave equation of quantum mechanics. It was only due to his rejection of the final theory that he is not generally recognized as the most central figure in this historic achievement of human civilization. Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7302, or e-mail [email protected].
Naturalization Ceremony at Richard B. Fisher Center
Friday, April 5, 2019 2–3 pm
Fisher Center On Friday, April 5, the Dutchess County Clerk’s Office will hold a naturalization ceremony at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. At the ceremony, Dutchess County Clerk Bradford H. Kendall will administer the Oath of Allegiance to approximately 50 individuals. The Honorable Edward T. McLoughlin, Acting New York State Supreme Court Justice and Dutchess County Court Judge, will preside over the ceremony. The Honorable Christopher P. Gibson will deliver the keynote address welcoming participants as newly naturalized American Citizens. Gibson, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and retired U.S. Army Colonel, is the Stanley Kaplan Distinguished Visiting Professor of American Foreign Policy at Williams College. Bard President Leon Botstein will deliver opening remarks. Madison Bishop will provide musical accompaniment. The ceremony takes place at 2 p.m. and is open to the public.
Naturalization is the process by which U.S. citizenship is conferred upon a foreign citizen or national after he or she fulfills the requirements established by Congress in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The bureau of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) processes all naturalization applications and provides the clerk’s office with a list of the candidates selected to be naturalized. All petitioners must then participate in a Naturalization Ceremony and swear to the Oath of Allegiance in a formal court proceeding.
In Dutchess County, naturalization ceremonies are held bimonthly to induct new citizens of the United States of America and are open to the public with all invited to attend.Sponsored by: Dutchess County Government.
For more information, call 845-486-2133, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Join us for Shabbat candle-lighting, a brief and relaxed service, and a great home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner. Whether you're a Shabbat regular, an occasional participant, or a curious first-timer, come check us out! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, or e-mail [email protected].
Continental Divide: Borderlands Wildlife, People, and the Wall
A photo exhibit exploring the fragile US-México border area
Runs through Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Gallery “The topic of the border wall between the United States and Mexico continues to be broadly and hotly debated: on national news media, by local and state governments, and even in coffee shops and over the dinner table. By now, broad segments of the population have heard widely varying opinions about the wall’s effect on illegal immigration, international politics, and the drug war. But what about the wall’s effect on the Sonoran pronghorn antelope herds and the kit fox? On the Mexican gray wolf, the ocelot, the jaguar, and the bighorn sheep? In unforgettable images and evocative text, Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall shows us what’s at stake.” — Krista SchlyerSponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Human Rights Project; La Voz; Photography Program.
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Conducted by Leon Botstein, Music Director of The Orchestra Now and the American Symphony Orchestra Performed with members of the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, the Bard College Chamber Singers, and the Bard Festival Chorale. James Bagwell,choral director Margaret Tigue,soprano, VAP '20 Chloë Schaaf,mezzo-soprano, VAP '19 Cooper Nolan, tenor Wei Wu,bass
Requiem was written in memory of the Italian writer, Alessandro Manzoni, who had a great influence on Italian Romanticism. It received its premiere on the first anniversary of Manzoni’s death at the San Marco Church in Milan, conducted by Verdi himself. After its premiere, Requiem was quickly noticed and performed in concert halls around the world, which was generally unusual for religious music.The concert will last approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.
Written and Directed by Jack Ferver With additional text by Tennessee Williams Scenic and Costume Design by Jeremy Jacob Lighting Design by JAX Messenger
Saturday, April 6, 2019 8 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Categorical thought shifts, blurs, and gives way in this new creation inspired by Tennessee William’s Streetcar Named Desire. Performers whiplash between wild theatrics and the hyper-real as they tear into the haunting and shattering effects of trauma. Childhood games become menacing. The crush of internal voices in emotional duress becomes external. Characters collapse and psyches merge on the frenetic seams of poetry and panic.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Written and Directed by Jack Ferver With additional text by Tennessee Williams Scenic and Costume Design by Jeremy Jacob Lighting Design by JAX Messenger
Saturday, April 6, 2019 2 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Categorical thought shifts, blurs, and gives way in this new creation inspired by Tennessee William’s Streetcar Named Desire. Performers whiplash between wild theatrics and the hyper-real as they tear into the haunting and shattering effects of trauma. Childhood games become menacing. The crush of internal voices in emotional duress becomes external. Characters collapse and psyches merge on the frenetic seams of poetry and panic.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The men's and women's tennis teams host William Smith and Hobart. The women's match starts at 2, and the men's match will follow at around 6. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Continental Divide: Borderlands Wildlife, People, and the Wall
A photo exhibit exploring the fragile US-México border area
Runs through Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Gallery “The topic of the border wall between the United States and Mexico continues to be broadly and hotly debated: on national news media, by local and state governments, and even in coffee shops and over the dinner table. By now, broad segments of the population have heard widely varying opinions about the wall’s effect on illegal immigration, international politics, and the drug war. But what about the wall’s effect on the Sonoran pronghorn antelope herds and the kit fox? On the Mexican gray wolf, the ocelot, the jaguar, and the bighorn sheep? In unforgettable images and evocative text, Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall shows us what’s at stake.” — Krista SchlyerSponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Human Rights Project; La Voz; Photography Program.
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
Written and Directed by Jack Ferver With additional text by Tennessee Williams Scenic and Costume Design by Jeremy Jacob Lighting Design by JAX Messenger
Sunday, April 7, 2019 4 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Categorical thought shifts, blurs, and gives way in this new creation inspired by Tennessee William’s Streetcar Named Desire. Performers whiplash between wild theatrics and the hyper-real as they tear into the haunting and shattering effects of trauma. Childhood games become menacing. The crush of internal voices in emotional duress becomes external. Characters collapse and psyches merge on the frenetic seams of poetry and panic.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Conducted by Leon Botstein, Music Director of The Orchestra Now and the American Symphony Orchestra Performed with members of the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, the Bard College Chamber Singers, and the Bard Festival Chorale. James Bagwell,choral director Margaret Tigue,soprano, VAP '20 Chloë Schaaf,mezzo-soprano, VAP '19 Cooper Nolan, tenor Wei Wu,bass
Requiem was written in memory of the Italian writer, Alessandro Manzoni, who had a great influence on Italian Romanticism. It received its premiere on the first anniversary of Manzoni’s death at the San Marco Church in Milan, conducted by Verdi himself. After its premiere, Requiem was quickly noticed and performed in concert halls around the world, which was generally unusual for religious music.The concert will last approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard 2019 Spring Exhibition and Projects Opening Reception
Sunday, April 7, 2019 1–4 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.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, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Continental Divide: Borderlands Wildlife, People, and the Wall
A photo exhibit exploring the fragile US-México border area
Runs through Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Gallery “The topic of the border wall between the United States and Mexico continues to be broadly and hotly debated: on national news media, by local and state governments, and even in coffee shops and over the dinner table. By now, broad segments of the population have heard widely varying opinions about the wall’s effect on illegal immigration, international politics, and the drug war. But what about the wall’s effect on the Sonoran pronghorn antelope herds and the kit fox? On the Mexican gray wolf, the ocelot, the jaguar, and the bighorn sheep? In unforgettable images and evocative text, Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall shows us what’s at stake.” — Krista SchlyerSponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Human Rights Project; La Voz; Photography Program.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Olin Humanities, Room 102 The concept of dysfunction plays a central role in psychiatry, and particularly in analyses of psychiatric disorder. Psychiatric disorders are defined in the DSM-5, in part, as syndromes characterized by clinically significant symptoms that reflect “a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning.” Curiously absent from psychiatric manuals is an account of what constitutes function and dysfunction. I investigate whether philosophical accounts of function and dysfunction can do the work that psychiatry implicitly demands. I argue that one popular account cannot, and that it imports into psychiatry a problematic strain of adaptationism, which falls well short of the requisite standards of evidence in evolutionary biology.Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7280, or e-mail [email protected].
A Social Construction: An Artist Talk with IlaSahai Prouty
Monday, April 8, 2019 5–6 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Prouty’s A Social Construction allows people to respond to the language of race, speak through each other’s words, and speak their minds through the Paper Bag Test which breaks open the paper bag through interactive installations and Reconstitution Readings. Combining interactive exhibition with social and performative events that provoke an unfolding of the complexities of race, Prouty asks her audience to be in opposition to the reductive and retrenched conversation in the wider culture.
IlaSahai Prouty prompts us to contemplate how we define and give power, develop identity and build the narratives of our culture through art installations, actions and collaborations. Prouty is an Assistant Chair and Associate Professor of Art at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC where she teaches social practice. She received her MFA from the California College of Art, a BA from Brown University.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 504-729-7029, or e-mail [email protected].
A Reading by Ed Steck MFA ’12 and Ann Stephenson MFA ’07
Monday, April 8, 2019 7–8:30 pm
Bard Hall The John Ashbery series celebrates Bard graduates! Poetry graduates of the MFA program read from their work, followed by a conversation with current student writers, guests, and faculty.
Ed Steck is the author of An Interface for a Fractal Landscape (Ugly Duckling Presse), The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation (Ugly Duckling Presse), The Rose (with Adam Marnie, Hassla), Far Rainbow (Make Now Books), The Necro-Luminescence of Pink Mist (Skeleton Man Press), and other books. His work has been exhibited and performed nationally and internationally, most recently at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Librarie Yvon Lambert, Printed Matter, and Chateau Shatto. He is a recipient of grants from the Fund for Poetry, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, and the Pittsburgh Foundation.
Ann Stephenson’s publications include Adventure Club, The Poles, and Wirework. Some of her poems have appeared in Across the Margin, The Brooklyn Rail, The Delineator, Folder, Ladowich, The Recluse, and Sal Mimeo, among others—as well as the anthology Like Musical Instruments: 83 Contemporary American Poets by John Sarsgard and Larry Fagin (Broadstone Books). She is the editor of Tent Editions, which has released books from Marcella Durand and Carol Szamatowicz, and will soon publish new work from John Godfrey. She received her MFA from Bard College in 2007, and curated the Ready Set Readings series at Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta. Ann is the recipient of a 2017 NYFA Artist Fellowship in Poetry. She was born and raised in Georgia and lives and works in New York City.
Hosted by Ann Lauterbach. Free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations required. Sponsored by: John Ashbery Poetry Series.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, or e-mail [email protected].
Continental Divide: Borderlands Wildlife, People, and the Wall
A photo exhibit exploring the fragile US-México border area
Runs through Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Gallery “The topic of the border wall between the United States and Mexico continues to be broadly and hotly debated: on national news media, by local and state governments, and even in coffee shops and over the dinner table. By now, broad segments of the population have heard widely varying opinions about the wall’s effect on illegal immigration, international politics, and the drug war. But what about the wall’s effect on the Sonoran pronghorn antelope herds and the kit fox? On the Mexican gray wolf, the ocelot, the jaguar, and the bighorn sheep? In unforgettable images and evocative text, Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall shows us what’s at stake.” — Krista SchlyerSponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Human Rights Project; La Voz; Photography Program.
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Fisher Studio Arts building, Seminar Room Nancy Shaver (b. 1946) brings an idiosyncratic eye to sculpture, pairing found objects—a stack of egg crates, for instance, or a cluster of wooden boxes—that she sometimes leaves unaltered, sometimes slathers with a brightly colored coat of house paint. Shaver’s storied career includes 14 solo exhibitions in New York City between 1987 and today. In the 1970s, she was a protege of Walker Evans, and the two developed a friendship based on a mutual appreciation of junk stores and humble or overlooked objects. Numerous contemporary artists, including Robert Gober, cite Shaver as a guiding influence, as she has also been a teacher for most of her professional life. Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
A Celebration of Africana Studies: Linda Sikhakhane and Aaron Rimbui in Concert
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 5–7 pm
Bard Hall Please join us for an evening concert with two legendary South African jazz musicians, saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane and pianist Aaron Rimbui. After the performance, Sikhakhane and Rimbui will host a discussion about South African jazz. This event marks the end-of-the year celebration for Africana Studies, and is made possible through a long-standing partnership between Africana Studies and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Refreshments will be served.Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-4600, or e-mail [email protected].
Law and Lore: Remembering Spanish Immigrants in the US—A lecture by Prof. James Fernández (NYU)
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 6–7:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 How is it that a country of immigrants like the United States can be home to such a virulent strain of anti-immigrant sentiments and policies? Part of the answer to this question, Prof. James Fernández (NYU) sustains, has to do with the way in which descendants of immigrants (mis)construe the stories of their ancestors. For almost 10 years now, in collaboration with Luis Argeo, Prof. Fernández has been digitizing and analyzing the family archives of descendants of Spaniards who emigrated to the United States in the early 20th century. They have also conducted interviews with the custodians of those archives: children, grandchildren, and, in some cases, great-grandchildren of the immigrants. In this talk, Prof. Fernández discusses patterns in the discrepancies we often find between the historical record embodied in the archives, and the family lore that has developed around them.
Open to all. In English.Sponsored by: LAIS Program; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
ABOUT Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information.
Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team.
WHAT WILL BE COVERED?
Overview of graduate program offerings
Alumni success and career outcomes
Admissions information
Prerequisite course requirements
Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
Financial aid availability
Tips for a standout application
DEGREE OPTIONS Degree Options Include: MS in Environmental Policy MS in Climate Science and Policy MBA in Sustainability
Dual Degree Options Include: MS/JD with Pace Law School MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability
Peace Corps Programs Include: Master's International (before you serve) Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Caitlin O'Donnell for further details. For more information, call 845-758-7073.
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Continental Divide: Borderlands Wildlife, People, and the Wall
A photo exhibit exploring the fragile US-México border area
Runs through Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Gallery “The topic of the border wall between the United States and Mexico continues to be broadly and hotly debated: on national news media, by local and state governments, and even in coffee shops and over the dinner table. By now, broad segments of the population have heard widely varying opinions about the wall’s effect on illegal immigration, international politics, and the drug war. But what about the wall’s effect on the Sonoran pronghorn antelope herds and the kit fox? On the Mexican gray wolf, the ocelot, the jaguar, and the bighorn sheep? In unforgettable images and evocative text, Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall shows us what’s at stake.” — Krista SchlyerSponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Human Rights Project; La Voz; Photography Program.
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Live Streaming: Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration Press Conference
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 9–10 am
Hegeman 107 We will be live streaming the following press conference tomorrow morning in Hegeman 107: On April 10th 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration will present its first results in multiple simultaneous press conferences around the world, and many satellite events organized by its stakeholder and affiliated institutions.
These results may include the first direct images ever taken of a black hole. Even if they do not, this should be a fun and exciting time to gather and hear about what this collaboration has been doing. There will be a follow up seminar, that will discuss the results on Friday, April 12th at noon in Hegeman 107. Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7302, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Gallery There are so many unanswered questions about climate change; would you like some of yours to be answered? This Earth Day, the Bard Office of Sustainability will be offering a baked good to anyone who takes a few minutes to sit down with us and research one aspect of climate change as part of the Project Drawdown EcoChallenge. Earn challenge points for your school, eat some tasty food, and learn more about how our community can work to fix climate change.Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Being Human & Humane: A Look at the Last Hundred Years Through Chinese, Russian, and American Arts and Culture
Thursday, April 11, 2019 9 am – 4:15 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema The conference “Being Human & Humane” represents the American component of a larger project of academic cooperation among scholars from China, Russia, and the USA. This conference brings together faculty from the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University (Smolny College), Bard-Annandale, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and the Bard Early Colleges, as well as scholars from beyond Bard campuses. “Being Human & Humane” seeks to encourage cooperation between civilizations and come closer to building a workable model of humanitarian thought and practices.
Presented by the Bard Early Colleges, the Center for Civic Engagement, in collaboration with the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University (St.Petersburg, Russia).
April 11, 9am to 4:15pm, Weis Cinema, Bard College.
April 12, 9am to 4:15pm, BHSEC Queens.
April 13, 9:30am to 12:30pm, BHSEC Queens.
BHSEC Queens is located: 30-20 Thomson Ave., 8th Floor, Long Island City, NY, 11101. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-752-4857, or e-mail [email protected].
First Songs: The Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program Presents Two Preview Concerts
Performances at 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 11, 2019 4–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Two Preview Concerts of New Works composed by Julia Adolphe, Kati Agócs, Lera Auerbach, Susan Botti, Siobhan Cleary, Emily Cooley, Michael-Thomas Foumai, Alexander Goehr, John Harbison. Jihyun Kim, Tania León, Danika Lorèn, Annika Socolofsky, and Alex Stephenson
Performances by the singers of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard.
The same concerts will take place at National Sawdust, New York City, on Sunday, April 14, at 4 pm and 7 pm.Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
Here's What You Can Do With A Degree in Psychology: Applied Research
Thursday, April 11, 2019 4:45–6 pm
Preston Theater Join Psychology program alums Maayan Eldar, ’16, Helena Wippick, ’16 and Eva Frishberg, ’17 in discussing their paths since leaving Bard and what they did with their Bard education.Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7380, or e-mail [email protected].
Poet & Translator: A Bilingual Reading from Midnightin Spoleto
by Paolo Valesio, with Translator Todd Portnowitz
Thursday, April 11, 2019 5–6 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 Italian poet and scholar Paolo Valesio and his translator Todd Portnowitz read from their recent publication, Midnight in Spoleto (Fomite, 2018), and discuss the intricacies of the translation process.
PAOLO VALESIO is the author, among several other works, of twenty books of poetry and is the Giuseppe Ungaretti Professor Emeritus in Italian Literature at Columbia University. He was the founder, and coordinator for ten years, of the “Yale Poetry Group” at Yale University, and the founder and director of the journal Yale Italian Poetry (YIP), whose successor is the Italian Poetry Review(IPR) a “plurilingual journal of creativity and criticism” based in New York and in Florence, Italy—of which Valesio is the editor in chief; he is also the President of the “Centro Studi Sara Valesio” in Bologna.
TODD PORTNOWITZ is the translator of Midnight in Spoleto by Paolo Valesio (Fomite, 2018) and of Long Live Latin by Nicola Gardini, forthcoming in October from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and is a recipient of the Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. An assistant editor with Alfred A. Knopf, he is a co-founder of the Italian poetry journal Formavera and of the Brooklyn-based reading series for writer-translators, Us&Them. Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Italian Studies Program; Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7150, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Texas Artist Wayne Gilbert presents a documentary film on his work. Question and answer period afterwards addressing his art work that uses human cremains as its primary medium. Part of Prof. Susan Aberth's Outsider Artists Speakers Series.Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7126, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Join us for Shabbat candle-lighting, a brief and relaxed service, and a great home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner. Whether you're a Shabbat regular, an occasional participant, or a curious first-timer, come check us out! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
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.
Hegeman 107 Since Einstein first explained that gravity could be thought of as the bending of space and time, this theory has been used to make numerous surprising predictions. One of these is the existence of black holes, regions of space and time where mass has been so compacted that gravity’s pull has become inexorable. The evidence that black holes are part of nature has grown steadily over the last 45 years, but we have never been able to look at a black hole and its vicinity directly. Two years ago a team of astronomers and physicists took data on a networked collection of radio telescopes distributed over several continents and turned the entire earth into an interferometer. The resulting telescope is so sensitive that it could image an orange on the moon if it emitted radio waves. On Wednesday, April 10, at 9am EDT, the Event Horizon Telescope team will announce their results in a web conference. We will explain the history and setup of the measurement and discuss the recently reported results of this exciting experiment.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7302, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Join us for an in-progress showing of a new solo work by Ephrat Asherie Dance.Recipient of a 2016 New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award, Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie layers breaking, hip-hop, house, and vogue to the rich sounds of Nazareth’s buoyant score, which melds classical romantic music with popular Afro-Brazilian rhythms.
Presented through the Bard College Dance Program’s partnership with the American Dance Festival. Presentation support provided by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Sponsored by: American Dance Festival; Dance Program; Fisher Center.
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Led by The Boston Globe’s “bona fide b-girl,” Ephrat Asherie Dance makes its Fisher Center debut with Odeon, a high-energy, hybrid hip-hop work set to and inspired by the music of early 20th-century Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth, played live.
Recipient of a 2016 New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award, Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie layers breaking, hip-hop, house, and vogue to the rich sounds of Nazareth’s buoyant score, which melds classical romantic music with popular Afro-Brazilian rhythms.
Presented through the Bard College Dance Program’s partnership with the American Dance Festival. Presentation support provided by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Approximate running time is 55 minutes.Sponsored by: American Dance Festival; Dance Program; Fisher Center.
Registration closes March 11! To learn more and to register, please visit this link.
Saturday, April 13, 2019 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Attention is at the crux of all sorts of current interdisciplinary debates, and the subject of much public discourse in our age of social media and mobile tech. This event will place special emphasis on how attention works (and when it doesn’t) in the context of the contemporary academy, but it will also create space for broader conversations about presence, distraction, and technology now and in previous epochs. This “unconference” is distinct from a traditional conference in that all attendees have the opportunity to participate in interdisciplinary discussions, take part in skills-building workshops, and enjoy an array of activities all dedicated to the subject of attention.
The keynote will feature Jason Farman (University of Maryland), who will speak on his book Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World (Yale University Press, 2018). Bard’s own Marina van Zuylen, author of The Plenitude of Distraction (Sequence Press, 2018), will serve as respondent. Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Exhibition Center Works by Sarah Bastacky, Celia Brubaker, Michelle Gutierrez, Tiana Marsh, Jules Roberts, Suki Sekula, Bea Tabacchi, and Izzy Van den Heuvel.
*On view through April 27, 2019, 1:00–4:00 p.m. daily.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
Jason Farman is the Director of the Design Cultures & Creativity Program, an Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies, and a faculty member with the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author of the book Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media (Routledge, 2012 — winner of the 2012 Book of the Year Award from the Association of Internet Researchers), which focuses on how the worldwide adoption of mobile technologies is causing a reexamination of the core ideas about what it means to live our everyday lives: the practice of embodied space. Farman has been a contributing author for The Atlantic, Atlas Obscura, Real Life, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has also been interviewed on NPR, ABC News, the Associated Press, the Christian Science Monitor, the Baltimore Sun, and the Denver Post, among others. He received his Ph.D. in Performance Studies and Digital Media from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Marina van Zuylen is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Bard College. She was educated in France before receiving a B.A. in Russian Literature and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Harvard. She is the author of Difficulty as an Aesthetic Principle, Monomania, and The Plenitude of Distraction (Sequence/MIT Press). She has published articles in praise of some of the most beleaguered maladies of modernity—boredom, fatigue, idleness—and written about snobbery, dissociative disorders, and obsessive compulsive aesthetics. She has contributed to a number of collections about the work of Jacques Rancière and has written for MoMA and other art-related publications. She has taught at Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and the university of Paris VII. She is the national academic director of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, a free college course for underserved adults, and accepted on its behalf a National Humanities Medal from President Obama in 2014. She is presently writing Good Enough, a book about the unsung virtues of classical and modern mediocrity.Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7103, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.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, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Exhibition Center Works by Sarah Bastacky, Celia Brubaker, Michelle Gutierrez, Tiana Marsh, Jules Roberts, Suki Sekula, Bea Tabacchi, and Izzy Van den Heuvel.
*On view through April 27, 2019, 1:00–4:00 p.m. daily.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Led by The Boston Globe’s “bona fide b-girl,” Ephrat Asherie Dance makes its Fisher Center debut with Odeon, a high-energy, hybrid hip-hop work set to and inspired by the music of early 20th-century Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth, played live.
Recipient of a 2016 New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award, Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie layers breaking, hip-hop, house, and vogue to the rich sounds of Nazareth’s buoyant score, which melds classical romantic music with popular Afro-Brazilian rhythms.
Presented through the Bard College Dance Program’s partnership with the American Dance Festival. Presentation support provided by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Approximate running time is 55 minutes.Sponsored by: American Dance Festival; Dance Program; Fisher Center.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bard Exhibition Center Works by Sarah Bastacky, Celia Brubaker, Michelle Gutierrez, Tiana Marsh, Jules Roberts, Suki Sekula, Bea Tabacchi, and Izzy Van den Heuvel.
*On view through April 27, 2019, 1:00–4:00 p.m. daily.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
Judaism is often thought of as a religion of the book, and the most influential book in the Jewish canon is the Talmud—a famously complex, genre-defying text that has been at the center of Jewish life and learning since the Middle Ages. Nowadays, the Talmud is most often encountered in book form, typically in large tomes whose pages are imprinted with an iconic, typeset design. And yet the Talmud is considered to be the culmination of Judaism’s Oral Torah, and it was produced and originally transmitted orally by rabbis living in late antique Iraq.
This workshop will gather scholars, artists, a printer, a digitalist, and a performer to consider the many manifestations of this classical work and related Jewish textualities, from late antique graffiti and lament; to contemporary fiction, illustration, and printing; to the virtual universes of digitization and the internet, and experimental voice art. These explorations bear relevance not only for Jewish Studies, but also for broader matters such as the study of writing and orality, and the future of the book in the digital age.
Participants Zachary Braiterman is professor of religion in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University.
Jessica Tamar Deutsch is a New York based artist. In 2017, she published The Illustrated Pirkei Avot: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Ethics.
Victoria Hanna is a Jerusalem based composer, creator, performer, researcher, and teacher of voice and language.
Galit Hasan-Rokem is a poet, translator, and Grunwald Professor of Folklore and Professor of Hebrew Literature (emerita) at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Scott-Martin Kosofsky is an award-winning printer, book designer, and typography expert based in Rhinebeck.
Ruby Namdar is an Israeli novelist based in New York City. His novel The Ruined House (Harper, 2018) won the Sapir Prize, Israel’s most prestigious prize in Hebrew literature.
Jonathan Rosen is a writer and essayist, and wrote The Talmud and the Internet (Picador, 2000). He is the editorial director of Nextbook Press.
Karen B. Stern is associate professor of history at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
Shai Secunda holds the Jacob Neusner chair in Jewish Studies at Bard College.
Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld is the director of education at Sefaria.org.
Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Experimental Humanities Program; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Jewish Studies Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7389, or e-mail [email protected].
Blithewood Poverty, inequality, and the labor market are crucial pieces of the development puzzle in Latin America. Daniel Schteingart will share his view on how these issues leave the majority of economies in the region stuck without being able to catch up. Dr. Schteingart’s research interests include comparative development, comparative industrial policies, poverty, inequality, and global value chains. He is a postdoctoral fellow at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas CONICET and holds an MA in economic sociology and a PhD in sociology from the Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales of the Universidad de San Martín, Argentina.Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute; Levy Graduate Programs.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium The Written Arts Program will host a special panel on Writing and Publishing After Bard with distinguished guests who will talk about their experiences as writers, novelists, journalists, and editors. We will discuss how to generate stories for publication, how to find internships and jobs in publishing, how to submit stories and essays to literary journals for publication, and how careers in publishing and writing have evolved and continue to evolve.
Guest Speakers:
Nicole Nyhan is the managing editor of Conjunctions. A graduate of Bard College and the New School for Social Research, she has served on the editorial staffs of Grove Atlantic, Atavist Books, and Other Press.
Jonny Diamond is the editor-in-chief of Lithub.com. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in the Missouri Review, Geist, Hobart Pulp, Rolling Stone, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a book-length object history of the axe, part investigation of its symbolism in America’s westward expansion, part interrogation of contemporary tropes of masculinity and wilderness.
Wyatt Mason is a Bard professor and contributing editor of the New York Times Magazine and Harper’s. He also writes for the London Review of Books and the New Republic among many other publications. The Modern Library has published his translations of the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud in two volumes. His translations of Dante’s La Vita Nuova and Montaigne’s Essais are in progress.
Mark Binelli is the author of Detroit City Is the Place to Be and the novels Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ All-Time Greatest Hits. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, Men’s Journal, and the New York TimesMagazine. Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bard Exhibition Center Works by Sarah Bastacky, Celia Brubaker, Michelle Gutierrez, Tiana Marsh, Jules Roberts, Suki Sekula, Bea Tabacchi, and Izzy Van den Heuvel.
*On view through April 27, 2019, 1:00–4:00 p.m. daily.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
Ethnonationalism and the Right Wing in Imperial Japan
John Person, University at Albany, State University of New York
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 During the 1930s and 1940s, Japanese academics with an interest in Marxist and liberal theories of political reform faced a barrage of attacks from nationalist critics who charged that such approaches amounted to treason. This talk explores the notorious right-wing intellectuals of the Genri Nippon Society that led the charge in these attacks, and their ethnonationalist theory called “Japanism.” The essays and translations of Japanist intellectuals served as ammunition for government agencies and politicians aiming to remove political enemies or use anticommunist and patriotic rhetoric for political gain. But as the imperial government sought to harness the mobilizing potential of Japanist rhetoric, Japanists targeted not only leftists but also government figures and institutions for failing to act according to their vision of nationalist orthodoxy. At times collaborating with government agencies in crushing voices of class struggle, and at others becoming the target of government surveillance themselves, these intellectuals came to embody the paradoxically hegemonic yet arbitrary nature of nationalist ideology. This talk provides an account of the cosmopolitan roots and unstable networks of ethnonationalism in Imperial Japan, as well as its self-destructive trajectory.
John Person is an assistant professor of Japanese studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York, where he teaches courses on the history of Japan. He holds degrees from Gustavus Adolphus College and the University of Chicago, and was a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA and Hamilton College before joining the faculty at SUNY Albany. He has published articles in the Journal of Japanese Studies and the Journal of the History of Ideas, and is the translator of Hiroki Azuma’s General Will 2.0: Rousseau, Freud, Google (Vertical).Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Historical Studies Program; Japanese Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bard Exhibition Center Works by Sarah Bastacky, Celia Brubaker, Michelle Gutierrez, Tiana Marsh, Jules Roberts, Suki Sekula, Bea Tabacchi, and Izzy Van den Heuvel.
*On view through April 27, 2019, 1:00–4:00 p.m. daily.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
BARD CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY The Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability offer masters 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/.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Propaganda, Surveillance, and the 21st-Century Vilification of Sex Workers
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 6–7:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Danielle Blunt is a NYC-based dominatrix, a full-spectrum doula, and a sex worker rights activist. She studies power dynamics through kinesthetic modalities and researches the intersection of public health, sex work and equitable access to tech. Currently she is getting her master's at the CUNY School of Public Health. She enjoys watching her community thrive and making men cry.
Melissa Gira Grant is a senior staff reporter covering criminal justice at the Appeal and the author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Verso). She has been a contributing writer at the Village Voice and Pacific Standard, and her work has also appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, BuzzFeed News, the New York Review of Books, and the Nation, among other publications. Her essays are collected in Best Sex Writing, The Feminist Utopia Project, and Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo. She lives in New York.
It’s been one year since President Trump signed SESTA/FOSTA into law, a bill its supporters said would protect women and girls from trafficking into the sex trade. In this talk, we will work to make sense of how an obscure, complicated law like SESTA/FOSTA pushed the issue of sex workers’ rights into the public square, while sex workers simultaneously experienced more censorship and platform discrimination online.
We will trace the paradox sex workers currently face to the historic role sex workers have been cast in—as disruptive, as others, as dirt—over a century of attempts to scapegoat sex workers in moments of political upheaval, the expansion of surveillance and the rapid spread of propaganda through new technologies, and the threat of authoritarianism. In those times, as in this one, fearmongering and propaganda enjoyed a feedback loop, creating an enabling environment for repression and violence. What can we learn about the current attacks on sex workers from the closure of red-light districts a century ago, or in the witch hunts of 500 years ago? This was the fallout of SESTA/FOSTA: lawmakers claimed they were protecting vulnerable women and children from the dangers posed by traffickers and the internet. Yet lawmakers created a situation where vulnerable communities were exposed to more violence—not hidden in plain sight, but simply ignored.
This event is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bard Exhibition Center Works by Sarah Bastacky, Celia Brubaker, Michelle Gutierrez, Tiana Marsh, Jules Roberts, Suki Sekula, Bea Tabacchi, and Izzy Van den Heuvel.
*On view through April 27, 2019, 1:00–4:00 p.m. daily.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
Global Change and Biodiversity: Understanding Our Future through the Past
Brian McGill, University of Maine
Thursday, April 18, 2019 12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Humans are massively modifying our planet in many ways. Scientists often speak of five major components of global change: climate change, land use change, overharvesting, chemical change, and invasive species. One of the key challenges for both scientists and policy makers is to understand how these changes will influence the natural world we live in (and thus ultimately affect humans). This is a hard task. But very usefully, all of these kinds of change have occurred in the distant past (i.e, thousands and millions of years ago), which can help us understand what the future will look like. In this talk I will summarize how humans are modifying the planet, contextualize these changes in the context of similar changes in the the distant past, and explore how they will impact humans and the natural world. Climate change will be the main focus, but I will also look at other aspects of global change.Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2349, or e-mail [email protected].
Fake News! The View from Israel’s Military Occupation
Rebecca L. Stein Duke University Department of Anthropology
Thursday, April 18, 2019 5–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This paper studies the impact of new photographic technologies and image-sharing platforms on the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories. Taking its cue from Trumpian political discourse, I focus on the right-wing Jewish Israeli reckoning with the growing visual archive of Palestinian injury at Israeli state or settler hands – a reckoning that occurs through the discourse of “fake news,” or the charge that such images are fraudulent or manipulated in some regard to produce the damning portrait of Israel. I will trace the long colonial history of repudiation in the Israeli context, its modification in the digital age, and consider the ways it has become an increasingly standard right-wing response to images of state violence believed to damage Israel’s global standing. I will argue that the fraudulence charge is marshalled as a solution to the viral visibility of Israeli state violence -- a charge that works to bring these damning images back in line with dominant Israeli ideology by shifting the narrative from Palestinian injury to Israeli victimhood. The story of the “fake” image of Palestinian injury endeavors to strip the visual field of its Israeli perpetrators and Palestinian victims, thereby exonerating the state. Or such is the fantasy.Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Center for Civic Engagement; Experimental Humanities Program; Human Rights Project; Jewish Studies Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7201, or e-mail [email protected].
“Fight to Live, Live to Fight: Veteran Activism After War.”
Thursday, April 18, 2019 6–8 pm
SUNY Global Center - 116 E 55th Street, New York, New York 10022 While veterans are often cast as a “problem” for society, Benjamin Schrader’s new book, “Fight to Live, Live to Fight: Veteran Activism after War,” challenges this view by focusing on the progressive, positive, and productive activism that veterans engage in. Prof. Schrader weaves his own experiences as a former member of the American military and then as a member of the activist community with the stories of other veteran activists he has encountered across the United States. An accessible blend of political theory, international relations, and American politics, this book critically examines US foreign and domestic policy through the narratives of post-9/11 military veterans who have turned to activism after having exited the military. Veterans are involved in a wide array of activism including but not limited to: antiwar, economic justice, sexual violence prevention, immigration issues, and veteran healing through art. This is an accessible, captivating, and engaging work that may be read and appreciated not just by scholars, but also students and the wider public.
Benjamin Schrader is Visiting Professor at the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program in New York City.
This event is part of BGIA’s James Chace Lecture series, which is co-sponsored and hosted by SUNY Press.
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Join us for Shabbat candle-lighting, a brief and relaxed service, and a great home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner. Whether you're a Shabbat regular, an occasional participant, or a curious first-timer, come check us out! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bard Exhibition Center Works by Sarah Bastacky, Celia Brubaker, Michelle Gutierrez, Tiana Marsh, Jules Roberts, Suki Sekula, Bea Tabacchi, and Izzy Van den Heuvel.
*On view through April 27, 2019, 1:00–4:00 p.m. daily.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Farm Barn Join us at the Bard Farm to celebrate Earth Week and the new farm season, and to welcome our new farm manager, Rebecca Yoshino!
There will be live music, performed by the Glorious Schmutz and Preston & Cooper; food; a DIY herb pot tutorial; and drinks (for 21+). Please remember to bring your own reusable cup to support our Earth Week initiatives and sustainability on Bard’s campus!Sponsored by: Office of Sustainability.
Kline, Faculty Dining Room Bard's Passover Seder will be held on Friday, April 19 at 6:30 pm in the Faculty Dining Room. Anyone is welcome, and there is no charge, but each individual who wishes to attend must sign up by Tuesday, April 16.
SOUND THE TRUMPET! The Vibes of Venezuela Led by Etienne Charles, featuring Linda Briceño and Jorge Glem
Friday, April 19, 2019 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Journey through the rhythms of 19th-century popular waltz, 1920s merengue, and the lively cantor of traditional joropo in this celebration of Venezuelan jazz. Vocalist and trumpeter Linda Briceño and cuatro virtuoso Jorge Glem join trumpeter Etienne Charles to examine African, Native South American, and European influences on the modern music of Venezuela.
Presented in partnership with Catskill Jazz Factory. Sponsored by: Jazz at the Fisher Center.
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bard Exhibition Center Works by Sarah Bastacky, Celia Brubaker, Michelle Gutierrez, Tiana Marsh, Jules Roberts, Suki Sekula, Bea Tabacchi, and Izzy Van den Heuvel.
*On view through April 27, 2019, 1:00–4:00 p.m. daily.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
Blum Hall New compositions featuring: Chris Pasin - trumpet, Eric Person - saxophone, Phil Allen - trombone, Ira Coleman- bass, Peter O’Brien- drums, John Esposito - piano.
Free AdmissionSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.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, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Exhibition Center Works by Sarah Bastacky, Celia Brubaker, Michelle Gutierrez, Tiana Marsh, Jules Roberts, Suki Sekula, Bea Tabacchi, and Izzy Van den Heuvel.
*On view through April 27, 2019, 1:00–4:00 p.m. daily.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
Musicians from the Bard Conservatory, The Orchestra Now, and Bard Community Orchestra perform works by Léon, Piazzolla, Ponce, and Villa-Lobos
Sunday, April 21, 2019 4–6 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Hosted by Leonardo Pineda and Chris Beroes-Haigis, this concert will feature masterpieces by South American composers.Sponsored by: Bard Music Colombia.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Works for erhu, guzheng, and piano by 20th-century Chinese composers.
Sunday, April 21, 2019 7:30–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building 空山鸟语 刘天华 Bird Chirping on the Tranquil Mountain LIU Tianhua (1895-1932) LIU Chang, erhu
溟山 王中山 Ming Mountain WANG Zhongshan (b. 1969) WANG Yixin, guzheng
良宵 刘天华 A Beautiful Night (The tune for New Year’s Eve) LIU Tianhua (1895-1932) LIU Beitong, erhu LIU Chang, erhu
狮子戏球 杨秀明改編 Chaozhou folk song: The Lion Plays With a Ball arr. YANG Xiuming (b. 1935) WANG Sibei, guzheng
三门峡畅想曲 刘文金 Capriccio of Sanmenxia Dam LIU Wenjin (1937-2013) LIU Beitong, erhu Ivy Wu, piano
恋春风 刘乐 Romantic Breeze of Spring LIU Le (b. 1985) WANG Yixin, guzheng Ivy Wu, piano
Intermission
東北民歌：江河水 黄海怀改编 Northeastern folk song: Tears of the River arr. HUANG Haihuai (1935-1967) LIU Beitong, erhu
茉莉芬芳 何占豪 Fragrance of Jasmine Blossoms HE Zhanhao (b. 1933) WANG Sibei, guzheng
长城随想 － 遥望篇 刘文金 The Great Wall Capriccio LIU Wenjin (1937-2013) Movement IV Looking Into the Distance LIU Chang, erhu Chung-Yang (Francis) Huang, piano
化蝶 何占豪，陈刚 王天一，王居野改编 Butterfly Lovers HE Zhanhao (b. 1933) and CHEN Gang (b. 1935) arr. WANG Tianyi and WANG Juye WANG Sibei, guzheng WANG Yixin, guzheng
二泉映月 华彦钧 黄晓飞改编 Moon reflected on Second Spring HUA Yanjun (1893-1950) arr. HUANG Xiaofei LIU Beitong, erhu LIU Chang, zhonghu WANG Sibei, guzheng WANG Yixin, guzheng
Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bard Exhibition Center Works by Sarah Bastacky, Celia Brubaker, Michelle Gutierrez, Tiana Marsh, Jules Roberts, Suki Sekula, Bea Tabacchi, and Izzy Van den Heuvel.
*On view through April 27, 2019, 1:00–4:00 p.m. daily.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
From 1924 to Trump: The Roots of America’s Immigration Debate
Jia Lynn Yang, Deputy National Editor, The New York Times
Monday, April 22, 2019 4:45–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This talk will trace the current immigration debate back to the Supreme Court fight in 1922 over whether a Japanese-born man could naturalize, and the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924, which established ethnic quotas favoring “Anglo-Saxons.” Because immigration debates have long been predicated on who counts as sufficiently “white,” the current system—in which there are far more Asian and Hispanic immigrants than European—challenges traditional notions of who counts as American. Yang will discuss how the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act set us on this current course, but left much unfinished work around race and national identity that we confront today during the Trump administration. The talk will also address media coverage of Trump’s immigration policies as well as how to infuse journalistic work with a sense of history.
Jia Lynn Yang is a deputy national editor at the New York Times, where she helps oversee coverage of the country. Previously, she was deputy national security editor at the Washington Post, where she was an editor on the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2018 for its coverage of Trump and Russia. She is writing a book on the history of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, Un-American Elements, forthcoming from W. W. Norton in 2020.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Asian Studies Program; Global and International Studies Program; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Japanese Studies Program; Politics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Stylus Phantasticus and the 17th-Century North German Organ as Cabinets of Curiosities
Lecture by Paula Maust
Monday, April 22, 2019 5–6 pm
Blum N217 During the early modern era, a new fascination with collection resulted in a series of inimitable Wunderkammern. These cabinets of curiositiesappeared throughout Europe and contained all manner of objects, including souvenirs from distant lands, artworks, musical instruments, trinkets, scientific instruments, inventions, and items from the natural world. Not only a repository of objects, the Wunderkammer was also a system of organizing knowledge about the universe and for demonstrating the collector’s mastery of nature. Curiosity, wonder, and invention are prevalent themes that emerge across numerous 17th-century disciplines, and as a result, these cabinets have been widely discussed in literature about the early modern period.
Less commented on, however, is the fact that these same orientations toward the world can also be seen in the realms of music composition and instrument design. For instance, in his monumental 1650 Musurgia Universalis the inventor, collector, and music surveyor Athanasius Kircher defined all the musical styles known to him. Across hundreds of pages, the Musurgia Universalis captures the wonder and curiosity with which early moderns engaged with music. It also points to more concrete connections between the Wunderkammern and the 17th-century North German keyboard works than scholars have thus far described. Kircher described the Stylus Phantasticus as “the most free and unrestrained method of composing,” and works written in the style embody the spirit of invention manifested in the Wunderkammern. The same inclination toward wonder that was the impetus for the Wunderkammern is also present in the architectural design and innovative technologies of the 17th-century North German organ, particularly the independent pedal division. Just as the Wunderkammern provided a means for the collector to blend and master elements of art and nature, works written in the Stylus Phantasticus showcase the composer’s ability to harness the cosmic qualities of music and combine them with cutting-edge instrument design to inspire wonder in the listener. Ultimately, I argue pieces written in the Stylus Phantasticus as well as the instruments that were used to bring them to life are best understood as themselves cabinets of curiosities; to approach them as such is to reclaim the spirit with which these instruments and their music were created. Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7250, or e-mail [email protected].
Jessie Morgan-Owens, author of Girl in Black and White, in Conversation with Christian Crouch
Monday, April 22, 2019 5–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 204 Jessie Morgan-Owens is a photographer, dean of studies at Bard Early College–New Orleans, and author of a very well-received new book called Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement. On Monday, April 22, she will be on campus to read from the book and to join Christian Crouch in conversation about the issues it raises. Please join us for what should be a terrific and far-ranging discussion of racial politics, the abolitionist movement, U.S. history, the history of photography, the power of images, and more.
To borrow from the publisher’s blurb: “When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family’s freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face of American slavery. Famous abolitionists Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry David Thoreau, and John Albion Andrew would help Mary and her family in freedom, but Senator Charles Sumner saw a monumental political opportunity. Due to generations of sexual violence, Mary’s skin was so light that she ‘passed’ as white, and this fact would make her the key to his white audience’s sympathy. During his sold-out abolitionist lecture series, Sumner paraded Mary in front of rapt audiences as evidence that slavery was not bounded by race. Weaving together long-overlooked primary sources and arresting images, including the daguerreotype that turned Mary into the poster child of a movement, Jessie Morgan-Owens investigates tangled generations of sexual enslavement and the fraught politics that led Mary to Sumner. She follows Mary’s story through the lives of her determined mother and grandmother to her own adulthood, parallel to the story of the antislavery movement and the eventual signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Girl in Black and White restores Mary to her rightful place in history and uncovers a dramatic narrative of travels along the Underground Railroad, relationships tested by oppression, and the struggles of life after emancipation. The result is an exposé of the thorny racial politics of the abolitionist movement and the pervasive colorism that dictated where white sympathy lay―one that sheds light on a shameful legacy that still affects us profoundly today.”Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; American and Indigenous Studies Program; The Bard Early College Network.
For more information, call 845-758-6874, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bard Exhibition Center Works by Sarah Bastacky, Celia Brubaker, Michelle Gutierrez, Tiana Marsh, Jules Roberts, Suki Sekula, Bea Tabacchi, and Izzy Van den Heuvel.
*On view through April 27, 2019, 1:00–4:00 p.m. daily.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
A lecture on György Kurtág’s opera by Dr. Gergely Fazekas (Franz Liszt University of Music, Budapest)
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 5–6 pm
Bito 210 A “patiently perfect” opera (The New York Times) setting Samuel Beckett’s Endgame“to create an uncompromising work that is utterly distinctive” (The Guardian), a piece which proves its composer “to be Beckett’s equal” (The New Yorker): Fin de partie the long awaited first opera by the last representative of post-war art music, the 93-year-old Hungarian composer, György Kurtág had its first performance in November last year in one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world, La Scala in Milan. The opera makes intensive use of the four-hundred-year-old genre’s well-known techniques, while its musical language is true to Kurtág’s style (some basic elements of the opera’s music can be found already in the earliest pieces of Kurtág written in the late 1950s). Based on interviews made with the composer and using excerpts from a yet unpublished documentary on the opera, the lecture gives an introduction to Fin de partie, to Kurtág’s music and to his more than 60-year old relationship with Beckett’s texts. Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
2018 American Book Award–winning author Valeria Luiselli reads from her work
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 6–7 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema On Tuesday, April 23, at 6:00 p.m. in Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center, Valeria Luiselli reads from her work. 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 Valeria Luiselli will be available for sale, courtesy of Oblong Books & Music.
Valeria Luiselliwas born in Mexico City in 1983 and has lived in Costa Rica, South Korea, South Africa, India, Spain, France, and New York City. She is the author of a book of essays, Papeles falsos/Sidewalks (2012, 2014), and the internationally acclaimed novel Los ingravidos / Faces in the Crowd (2013, 2014), which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. In 2014, she won the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 prize, an annual award honoring young and promising fiction writers. Her novel La historia de mis dientes / The Story of My Teeth (2013, 2015) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the Azul Prize in Canada; was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Best Translated Book Award, and the Impac Prize 2017; and was named one of the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of the Year. Her recent book Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions won the 2018 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.
Luiselli received her PhD in comparative literature from Columbia University. Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages, and her writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, McSweeney’s, Harper’s, and the New Yorker. Her latest novel, Lost Children Archive (2019), which was written in English, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Luiselli was recently appointed as writer in residence in the Division of Languages and Literature at Bard College.
PRAISE FOR VALERIA LUISELLI
“The novel truly becomes novel again in Luiselli’s hands—electric, elastic, alluring, new. . . . She is a superb chronicler.” —New York Times
“Riveting, lyrical, virtuosic. . . . Luiselli’s metaphors are wrought with devastating precision. . . . The brilliance of the writing stirs rage and pity. It humanizes us.” —New York Times Book Review
“Daring, wholly original, brilliant . . . fascinating. . . . Luiselli is an extraordinary writer [with] a freewheeling novelist’s imagination.” —NPR
“A comprehensive literary intelligence.” —James Wood, New Yorker
“A master. . . . Luiselli confronts big picture questions: What does it mean to be American? To what lengths should we go to bear witness? Will history ever stop repeating itself? All the while, her language is so transporting, it stops you time and again.” —Carmen Maria Machado, O Magazine
“One of the most fascinating and impassioned authors at work today.” —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].
Silvered Water: A Film Screening and Discussion with Ossama Mohammed
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 6–8 pm
Preston “Shot by ‘1,001 Syrians’ according to the caption, Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait is a relentless chronicle of the horrors of the war told through grainy, jumpy, pixillated eyewitness accounts shot on cell phones. The immediacy the film achieves is shocking, but it is also mediated by three things: filmmaker Wiam Simav Bedirxan’s more professional vid-cam shooting during the siege of Homs, filmmaker Ossama Mohammed’s highly expressionistic editing together images, sound and music, and their intimate reflections on what they themselves are going through.” —Deborah Young for Cannes Film ReviewSponsored by: Film and Electronic Arts Program; Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-857-5518, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bard Exhibition Center Works by Sarah Bastacky, Celia Brubaker, Michelle Gutierrez, Tiana Marsh, Jules Roberts, Suki Sekula, Bea Tabacchi, and Izzy Van den Heuvel.
*On view through April 27, 2019, 1:00–4:00 p.m. daily.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
How to Resist, Harlem to the Amazon: Perspectives from Homeless and Landless Activists
Event with Marcus Moore, Charmel Lucas, and Nikita Price (Picture the Homeless, USA) and Ayala Dias Ferreira (MST- Landless Workers Movement, Brazil)
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 4:45–6 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In the US and Brazil alike, the housing crisis sweeps millions into its grasp each year, producing homelessness, destroying public space, and forcing people to migrate long distances. But homeless activists have powerfully resisted this trend through community organizing, collective action, and legislative change. Landless activists have occupied plantations, successfully resettling hundreds of thousands of people on land that used to be controlled by big agriculture. Come hear from housing organizers in New York City and landless organizers in Brazil. Learn more about how we can create new models of land and public space so that all have a right to a home.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Anthropology Program; Center for Civic Engagement; Historical Studies Program; LAIS Program; Sociology Program.
For more information, call 773-853-1901, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Classroom 102 Through the Speaker Series, CCS Bard brings distinguished artists, scholars, and curators to campus to present on their work. Speaker Series talks are held in classroom 102 at CCS Bard unless otherwise noted. All talks are free and open to the public.
Tom Holert works as an art historian, writer, curator, and artist in Berlin. In 2015 he cofounded (with Doreen Mende, Volker Pantenburg, and others) the Harun Farocki Institut (HaFI) in Berlin. From 1992 to 1999, after (and coinciding with) his academic studies (MA, Hamburg University, 1987; PhD, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 1995), Holert was an editor of Texte zur Kunst and a publisher of Spex magazine in Cologne; beginning in 1999 he taught and conducted research at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, ZHdK in Zurich, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and FU Berlin, among other institutions; in 2000 he cofounded the Institute of Visual Culture Studies (ISVC) with Mark Terkessidis, with whom he coauthored books on the militarization of the public sphere as well as on the impact of migration and tourism on urbanity and geopolitics. In 2012 he was a founding member of the Academy of the Arts of the World in Cologne.
Currently, Holert’s work focuses on the dialectics of interwar avantgarde art and thinking, the physical spaces of learning in a global cold war context (c. 1957–77), and the knowledge politics of contemporary art. Recent publications include: Marion von Osten: Once We Were Artists (coedited with Maria Hlavajova, 2017); Troubling Research: Performing Knowledge in the Arts (with Johanna Schaffer et al., 2014); and Übergriffe: Zustände und Zuständigkeiten der Gegenwartskunst (2014). In 2018, he cocurated (with Anselm Franke) Neolithic Childhood: Art in a False Present, c. 1930 at House of World Cultures (HKW), Berlin. Education Shock, an exhibition curated by Holert at HKW on learning and research environments of the global 1960s and 1970s, is scheduled for 2020/21.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Parks, Plazas, and Planters: Homelessness and Ecological Development
Eric Goldfischer, University of Minnesota
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 6–7:15 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In the 1990s, the well-known tactic of "broken-windows policing" targeted homeless people by removing them from core areas of New York City and other global mega-cities. Yet today, with a progressive administration and softer policing in place, homeless New Yorkers still find themselves unable to exist comfortably in public space. How should we understand this shift? In this presentation, I argue that the regime of anti-homelessness in New York has shifted to what I call "ecological development," and present evidence from an ethnographic study to show how green spaces, linear parks, and urban plaza areas have taken up the mantle of anti-homelessness, and how homeless activists resist these nefarious tools of urban planning and development.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Anthropology Program; Center for Civic Engagement; Historical Studies Program; LAIS Program; Sociology Program.
For more information, call 773-853-1901, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bard Exhibition Center Works by Sarah Bastacky, Celia Brubaker, Michelle Gutierrez, Tiana Marsh, Jules Roberts, Suki Sekula, Bea Tabacchi, and Izzy Van den Heuvel.
*On view through April 27, 2019, 1:00–4:00 p.m. daily.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater A dynamic evening of choreography by the extraordinary faculty of the Bard College Dance Program, performed by students in the program.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
Catherine Conybeare, Professor of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies, Bryn Mawr College
Thursday, April 25, 2019 4:45–6 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 The writings of Augustine of Hippo (354–430 CE) are fundamental to the Western European intellectual tradition. It is rarely taken into account, however, that he spent almost his entire life in North Africa. This talk will consider what the late Roman Empire looked like from the “eccentric” vantage points of Numidia and Africa Proconsularis—Algeria and Tunisia, in contemporary terms—and what effect that eccentricity may have had on Augustine’s thought.Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; Classical Studies Program; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Medieval Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7600, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Hall A fundamental part of the scientific enterprise is for each field to engage in critical self-examination to detect errors in our theories and methods, and improve them. In this talk, I discuss how well psychology, as a science, has been living up to this ideal, and what principles should guide our efforts to improve our science.Sponsored by: Andrew Jay Bernstein '68 Memorial Lecture Series; Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7224, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Join us for Shabbat candle-lighting, a brief and relaxed service, and a great home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner. Whether you're a Shabbat regular, an occasional participant, or a curious first-timer, come check us out! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bard Exhibition Center Works by Sarah Bastacky, Celia Brubaker, Michelle Gutierrez, Tiana Marsh, Jules Roberts, Suki Sekula, Bea Tabacchi, and Izzy Van den Heuvel.
*On view through April 27, 2019, 1:00–4:00 p.m. daily.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater A dynamic evening of choreography by the extraordinary faculty of the Bard College Dance Program, performed by students in the program.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bard Exhibition Center Works by Sarah Bastacky, Celia Brubaker, Michelle Gutierrez, Tiana Marsh, Jules Roberts, Suki Sekula, Bea Tabacchi, and Izzy Van den Heuvel.
*On view through April 27, 2019, 1:00–4:00 p.m. daily.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Conducted by Leon Botstein Music Director of The Orchestra Now and the American Symphony Orchestra Vadim Repin, violin Elizabeth de Trejo, soprano Bard Festival Chorale A copresentation with the Trans-Siberian Art Festival
Virgil Thomson “De Profundis”
Joachim Raff Psalm 130: “De Profundis”—U.S. premiere Lera Auerbach “De Profundis” (Violin Concerto No. 3) Lili Boulanger Psalm 130: “Du fond de l’abîme” (De Profundis)
World-renowned violinist Vadim Repin joins TŌN for this musical exploration of Psalm 130, which reads “Out of the depths, Oh Lord, have I cried unto Thee.” The concert features two premieres and two works by women composers.
Repin will perform the U.S. premiere of Lera Auerbach’s Violin Concerto No. 3, De Profundis. Lili Boulanger’s rendering of the psalm, performed with soprano Elizabeth de Trejo, is dedicated to the memory of her father and was composed at the early age of 22, just one year before her death.
Also on the program are an a cappella choral interpretation by Pulitzer Prize winner Virgil Thomson, and the U.S. premiere of Joachim Raff’s setting for soprano, eight-part choir, and orchestra, which he dedicated to his former colleague, Franz Liszt.
The concert will last approximately 2 hours and 35 minutes.Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater A dynamic evening of choreography by the extraordinary faculty of the Bard College Dance Program, performed by students in the program.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater A dynamic evening of choreography by the extraordinary faculty of the Bard College Dance Program, performed by students in the program.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
Reem-Kayden Center Girls' Adventures in Math (GAIM) is a themed mathematics competition for upper elementary and middle school girls, followed by strategy-based games. Teams of students will work on challenging problems, contextualized in a comic book containing the stories of pioneering women from history.
The competition is organized by Math-M-Addicts New York, Inc. The Bard Math Circle hosts this event to promote a culture of mathematical problem solving and mathematics enrichment in the mid-Hudson Valley.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing; Mathematics Program.
Conservatory Faculty Recital: Benjamin Hochman, piano
Mozart Piano Sonatas
Saturday, April 27, 2019 3–5 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Benjamin Hochman continues his five-concert cycle of the complete Mozart Piano Sonatas.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.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, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Conducted by Leon Botstein Music Director of The Orchestra Now and the American Symphony Orchestra Vadim Repin, violin Elizabeth de Trejo, soprano Bard Festival Chorale A copresentation with the Trans-Siberian Art Festival
Virgil Thomson “De Profundis”
Joachim Raff Psalm 130: “De Profundis”—U.S. premiere Lera Auerbach “De Profundis” (Violin Concerto No. 3) Lili Boulanger Psalm 130: “Du fond de l’abîme” (De Profundis)
World-renowned violinist Vadim Repin joins TŌN for this musical exploration of Psalm 130, which reads “Out of the depths, Oh Lord, have I cried unto Thee.” The concert features two premieres and two works by women composers.
Repin will perform the U.S. premiere of Lera Auerbach’s Violin Concerto No. 3, De Profundis. Lili Boulanger’s rendering of the psalm, performed with soprano Elizabeth de Trejo, is dedicated to the memory of her father and was composed at the early age of 22, just one year before her death.
Also on the program are an a cappella choral interpretation by Pulitzer Prize winner Virgil Thomson, and the U.S. premiere of Joachim Raff’s setting for soprano, eight-part choir, and orchestra, which he dedicated to his former colleague, Franz Liszt.
The concert will last approximately 2 hours and 35 minutes.Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
"Modernism in Translation: Poetry and Politics in Beirut's Belle Époque"
Robyn Creswell (Yale University)
Monday, April 29, 2019 5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 What was the fate of literary modernism beyond Europe? Robyn Creswell's talk will explore the work of the modernist poetry movement in Beirut during the decades following WWII. By translating the techniques and ideology of modernism into Arabic, the intellectuals of Shi'r magazine radically altered the very idea of poetry in that literary tradition. This lecture will focus on the Arab modernists' exchanges with French poets, American spies, and the classical past.Sponsored by: Arabic Studies Program; Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Zachary Schwartzman, music director Erica Kiesewetter, associate conductor Michael Patterson, assistant conductor
Beethoven Symphony No. 6 Pastoral with works by Bruch, Delibes, Gounod, Mozart, and Puccini featuring winners of the Bard College concerto competitionSponsored by: Bard College Community Orchestra.
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Continental Divide: Borderlands Wildlife, People, and the Wall
A photo exhibit exploring the fragile US-México border area
Runs through Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Gallery “The topic of the border wall between the United States and Mexico continues to be broadly and hotly debated: on national news media, by local and state governments, and even in coffee shops and over the dinner table. By now, broad segments of the population have heard widely varying opinions about the wall’s effect on illegal immigration, international politics, and the drug war. But what about the wall’s effect on the Sonoran pronghorn antelope herds and the kit fox? On the Mexican gray wolf, the ocelot, the jaguar, and the bighorn sheep? In unforgettable images and evocative text, Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall shows us what’s at stake.” — Krista SchlyerSponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Human Rights Project; La Voz; Photography Program.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Candlelight Vigil in Response to the Mass Shootings in New Zealand
Candlelight Vigil
Monday, April 1, 2019 5–6 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents In response to the heart-breaking terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, the campus community is invited and encouraged to attend a candlelight Campus Vigil, Monday, April 1, at 5:00pm on the Chapel lawn.
Our gathering is a time to stand together as a campus community in our collective grief and in our solidarity against this hate-based act of violence. The gathering will include brief reflections and readings from members of our community, a memorial reading of the names of those who were killed, and a candle-lit moment of silence. Our new Muslim Chaplain, Nora Zaki, ([email protected]) will lead this vigil and is also available to offer support to our Bard community. Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
The Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award finalist Joanna Scott reads from her work, followed by a conversation with Dinaw Mengestu
Monday, April 1, 2019 7–8 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Monday, April 1, at 7:00 p.m. in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), novelist Joanna Scott reads from her work. Presented by the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series, introduced by novelist and Bard literature and writing professor Mary Caponegro, and followed by a conversation with Dinaw Mengestu, the reading is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Books by Joanna Scott will be available for sale, courtesy of Oblong Books & Music.
Exploring subjects ranging from beauty and temptation to the motion of thought and the elusive potential of the imagination, Joanna Scott’s publications include Various Antidotes: Stories and the novel Arrogance, both PEN/Faulkner finalists; The Manikin, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and Follow Me, a New York Times Notable Book. Her most recent novels are Careers for Women (2017) and De Potter's Grand Tour (2014). Scott has written about modern and contemporary authors including Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald, Maureen Howard, William Gass, and J.M. Coetzee. Her play, Speakeasy, was produced by the Todd Theater Troupe at La MaMa and toured fringe festivals around the world.
Scott founded and directs The Inspiration Project, a volunteer literacy program for adults with developmental disabilities. She is a founding board member of the literary press Open Letter, and she is a contributing editor of Bard’s literary journal, Conjunctions, which published her story “Infidels” in the Fall 2018 issue, Conjunctions:71, A Cabinet of Curiosity.
Scott received her master’s degree from Brown University and has taught creative writing at Brown, the University of Maryland, and Princeton University; she is currently the Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester. Scott is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ambassador Book Award from the English-Speaking Union, and the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
PRAISE FOR JOANNA SCOTT
“The wit, the magical prose and the daring devices of Scott’s writing create an enchantment . . . her soundings of the depth of our natures are as accurate and revealing as Thoreau’s measurements of Walden Pond.” ―Nation
“A greatly gifted and highly original artist.” —New York Times Book Review
“Scott writes with the crispest and most telling of sentences. Her grasp of the mysteries within us is profound.” —Newsday
“Scott’s prose is sensitive and beautifully crafted . . . Her characters are both eminently human and touched with magic and mystery.” —Washington Post Book World
“One of the finest writers of her generation: elegant, sublime, of the earthy earth.” —Paul West
“What most amazes me about Joanna Scott’s extraordinary narratives is the vastness of the world her imagination ranges through and the rich, Dickensian variety of voices and characters one encounters.” —Robert Coover
Sponsored by: Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series and the Program in Written Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Studio Arts Building, Seminar Room Polly Apfelbaum’s(b.1955) artistic practice is distinguished by a hybridized aesthetic that fuses traditions of painting, craft, and installation. Deploying a wide variety of media—including fabric, paint, dyes, wallpaper, plasticine, and ceramics—her work has dissolved spatial, plastic, and temporal boundaries. She is best known for expansive polychromatic installations, which coalesce the radical and the beautiful, simultaneously domestic and irreverent. Her sensibility is informed by an encyclopedic knowledge of the applied arts, art history, and popular culture. The prolific artist has mounted nearly 60 solo exhibitions worldwide and has participated in hundreds of group exhibitions. She has received awards and grants from organizations including Anonymous Was a Woman, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
Attendees will hear from a panel of current students and alumni of Bard's MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy. Our Panel of student/alum experts will discuss topics such as:
career outcomes -- how the MS degrees at CEP and MBA in Sustainability have led to impactful sustainability careers
the program experience -- highlights on courses and key features at Bard (including the NYCLab course and the CEP internship)
how to get the most of your graduate school journey -- career development + student engagement opportunities at Bard
how to make your application stand out -- tips on perfecting your application materials, advice on getting through the graduate school admissions process
In addition: Program Director Eban Goodstein will provide an overview of the program offerings at Bard CEP and the MBA in Sustainability.
Our Admissions staff will also be on hand to provide information on the application process and answer questions regarding:
Celine Wong Katzman Singaporean-American writer, curator, and educator
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 2:45–3:50 pm
Olin 301 Singaporean-American writer, curator, and educator Celine Wong Katzman will present recent curatorial projects and research. Her work focuses on time-based media, performance, and other forms critically engaged with new technologies. In particular she is interested in narratives traditionally excluded from these areas. In 2017 Celine co-founded EST, a curatorial collective that questions the Western imaginary of Asia as a monolithic entity and is interested in its potential as a call to organize across a spectrum of experience. Celine currently works as a teaching assistant at the School for Poetic Computation and has previously held administrative and curatorial support roles at institutions such as bitforms gallery, Rhizome, the Guggenheim and MoMA.
Celine Wong Katzman will be available to meet people and answer questions about her work at 4:00 pm in Fisher Annex Seminar room. All are invited.Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7247, or e-mail [email protected].
Visiting Artist Recital and Master Class: Andrew Willis, fortepiano, performs Bach Partitas
Bach Partitas performed on a fortepiano in the Cristofori tradition
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 4–6 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Andrew Willis received the foundation of his musical outlook as a student of Mieczyslaw Horszowski at The Curtis Institute of Music (BM, 1972). The cultivation of collaborative skills under the tutelage of Lambert Orkis at Temple University (MM, 1982) further expanded his horizons. At Cornell University (DMA, 1994), working with Malcolm Bilson and the faculty of the Center for Eighteenth-Century Music, he discovered the full joy of musical performance realized on historical keyboard instruments through the application of performance practices suitable to each stylistic era.
Andrew Willis's broad range as a performer has produced a varied discography. As a participant in the first complete recording of the Beethoven sonata cycle on period instruments, his performance of Op. 106 was hailed by The New York Times as "a 'Hammerklavier' of rare stature." As a modern pianist interested in contemporary repertoire, he commissioned, premiered, and recorded Martin Amlin's Sonata No. 7 (2000) as part of a program including other works by Amlin, Fine, and Copland. Equally at home as a collaborative pianist, he has partnered soprano Julianne Baird in recordings of Schubert Lieder and Rossini songs, soprano Georgine Resick in early-Romantic song cycles, and flutist Sue Ann Kahn in music of Rochberg, Schickele, Luening, Kraft, and Ibert. His most recent releases presented chamber music of Emanuel Bach on fortepiano with Rebecca Troxler and Chopin on an 1848 Pleyel with Brent Wissick.
A Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Willis teaches piano, fortepiano, and harpsichord performance and leads courses on keyboard literature and performance practice. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Written and Directed by Jack Ferver With additional text by Tennessee Williams Scenic and Costume Design by Jeremy Jacob Lighting Design by JAX Messenger
Thursday, April 4, 2019 8 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Categorical thought shifts, blurs, and gives way in this new creation inspired by Tennessee William’s Streetcar Named Desire. Performers whiplash between wild theatrics and the hyper-real as they tear into the haunting and shattering effects of trauma. Childhood games become menacing. The crush of internal voices in emotional duress becomes external. Characters collapse and psyches merge on the frenetic seams of poetry and panic.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Stevenson Library Art by children ages 3, 4, and 5 from the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and Children's Center will be on display at the Stevenson Library throughout the month of April. For more information, call 845-758-7480, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/nurseryschool/.
A Fulbright Experience: Mutual Understanding through People, Places and Science
Frank Scalzo, Psychology Program
Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:45–6 pm
Preston Theater The Fulbright Program provides research and teaching opportunities for U.S. and foreign scholars, and students, to contribute to the mutual understanding of people, places and culture. The program funds approximately 470 U.S. Scholar awards and 1000 student research awards to 124 countries each year. I will present information on the Fulbright Program and describe my experiences as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Ljubljana in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1995 and most recently in 2018. The goals of the 2018 project were to strengthen the pharmacy curriculum and to develop techniques to use artificial intelligence to characterize movement patterns in larval zebrafish. I will describe the progress made in the project with an emphasis on the people, places and science that have contributed to my increased understanding of Slovenia and its people, and the many cultural and scientific contributions they have made.Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7380, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Humanities, Room 102 The lecture will present William Brumfield’s photographic documentation of the distinctive cultural heritage of the Russian North, with particular emphasis on its remarkable wooden churches. One of the glories of Russian culture, these monuments and their preservation have been under threat from numerous causes.
William Craft Brumfield is Professor of Slavic Studies and Sizeler Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University. Dr. Brumfield is an internationally known and widely celebrated scholar of Russian architecture. As a student of Russian literature and history, and as a photographer and historian of Russian architecture, Brumfield has worked in Russia since the summer of 1970. After earning his doctorate from the Slavic Department at the University of California, Berkeley, he taught at the University of Wisconsin and at Harvard University (Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages).Sponsored by: Institute for International Liberal Education; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Male, Female, Diverse: The Rise and Globalization of a 3rd Gender
Thursday, April 4, 2019 6–8 pm
BGIA, 108 W 39th St, Suite 1000, New York, NY 10018 Recently the universal gender binary has been undermined by the introduction of a third sex in states such Australia, India, Nepal, and Germany. This talk explains the surprising rise of a third gender by analyzing the 2018 introduction of a legal third sex (“diverse”) in Germany. Theoretical and historical legacies of the pre-modern state and medical discourses of gender variance are contrasted with the re-introduction of a third sex as result of effective transnational social movement activism through the UN and human rights discourses. Intersex activists pushing for change reframed the discourse on gender assignment from an emphasis on “medical correction” towards an emphasis on “legal protection.” This shift led to a deeper questioning the gender binary by some international organizations, national parties, and courts. The rise and diffusion of the third gender category offers insights about the meaning of gender, state power and social movements.
Angelika von Wahl of Lafayatte College will lead this discussion, and Ting Ting Cheng, attorney at Legal Momentum (formerly the National Organization of Women Legal Defense Fund) will serve as a discussant. This event will be followed by a reception. This is part of BGIA's James Chace Lectures and is supported by Foreign Affairs magazine For more information, call 845-758-6822.
The last two decades have seen an explosion of superheroic narratives on screen. Meanwhile, the political backdrop of the recent popular fascination with superheroes has been a growing sense of political uncertainty and crisis. At home and abroad, questions over the limits of representation, sovereign authority, and democratic action have defined a political world which, simultaneously, has become saturated with superheroic narratives. This evening event asks what kinds of political life, and what kinds of citizens, these big-screen superheroic stories imagine—and whether these foster, or impede, democratic ends. Our speakers explore this question on several fronts: How do contemporary superhero narratives receive, adapt, modify, or reject traditional heroic models? Who do these stories represent, and how? And can these stories provide resources for a healthier democratic life? Or, following Rousseau, should we conclude that “certain circumstances can make a hero necessary for the salvation of the human race, but at any time, a whole people of heroes would infallibly be its ruin”?
Time: 6:00 p.m. Location: Reem-Kayden Center for Science and Computation, Room 103 [map] Date: April 4, 2019 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Joshua Foa Dienstag is professor of political science and law at UCLA. He has written on the history of political thought, film, and the American Founding. He is the author of four books, including Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit, which won the book award for Excellence in Philosophy from the American Association of Publishers in 2006. His most recent book is Cinema Pessimism: Film and Representation in Democracy, which will be published this year by Oxford University Press. This year he is a fellow at the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles.
William Dixon is the director of the Language and Thinking Program at Bard College. He teaches in the Political Studies Program and in First-Year Seminar. His research centers around the question of prudence in democratic theory and cosmopolitanism.
Joshua Plencner is currently a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. His teaching and research explore the intersection of American visual culture and the politics of identity, with special interest in racial formation, comics studies, political theory, and American political development. His writing has appeared in both popular and scholarly outlets, including New Political Science, Black Perspectives, Artists Against Police Brutality, Middle Spaces, and the University Press of Mississippi.
MODERATOR
Libby Barringer is the Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. Barringer received her doctorate in Political Science from UCLA in 2016. Her work brings ancient and modern political thought and literature into conversation for the sake of contemporary democratic practices. In addition to her doctorate, she also holds an MSc in political theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA from the College of William and Mary in government and fine arts.
Written and Directed by Jack Ferver With additional text by Tennessee Williams Scenic and Costume Design by Jeremy Jacob Lighting Design by JAX Messenger
Friday, April 5, 2019 8 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Categorical thought shifts, blurs, and gives way in this new creation inspired by Tennessee William’s Streetcar Named Desire. Performers whiplash between wild theatrics and the hyper-real as they tear into the haunting and shattering effects of trauma. Childhood games become menacing. The crush of internal voices in emotional duress becomes external. Characters collapse and psyches merge on the frenetic seams of poetry and panic.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Einstein and Quantum Mechanics: It’s Not What You Think
A. Douglas Stone – Yale University
Friday, April 5, 2019 12–1 pm
Hegeman 107 Einstein is well known for his rejection of quantum mechanics in the form it emerged from the work of Heisenberg, Born and Schrodinger in 1926. Much less appreciated are the many seminal contributions he made to quantum theory prior to his final scientific verdict: that the theory was at best incomplete. In this talk I present an overview of Einstein’s many conceptual breakthroughs and place them in historical context. I argue that Einstein, much more than Planck, introduced the concept of quantization of energy in atomic mechanics. Einstein proposed the photon, the first force-carrying particle discovered for a fundamental interaction, and put forward the notion of wave-particle duality, based on sound statistical arguments 14 years before De Broglie’s work. He was the first to recognize the intrinsic randomness in atomic processes, and introduced the notion of transition probabilities, embodied in the A and B coefficients for atomic emission and absorption. He also preceded Born in suggesting the interpretation of wave fields as probability densities for particles (photons), in the case of the electromagnetic field. Finally, stimulated by Bose, he introduced the notion of indistinguishable particles in the quantum sense and derived the condensed phase of bosons, which is one of the fundamental states of matter at low temperatures. His work on quantum statistics in turn directly stimulated Schrodinger towards his discovery of the wave equation of quantum mechanics. It was only due to his rejection of the final theory that he is not generally recognized as the most central figure in this historic achievement of human civilization. Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7302, or e-mail [email protected].
Naturalization Ceremony at Richard B. Fisher Center
Friday, April 5, 2019 2–3 pm
Fisher Center On Friday, April 5, the Dutchess County Clerk’s Office will hold a naturalization ceremony at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. At the ceremony, Dutchess County Clerk Bradford H. Kendall will administer the Oath of Allegiance to approximately 50 individuals. The Honorable Edward T. McLoughlin, Acting New York State Supreme Court Justice and Dutchess County Court Judge, will preside over the ceremony. The Honorable Christopher P. Gibson will deliver the keynote address welcoming participants as newly naturalized American Citizens. Gibson, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and retired U.S. Army Colonel, is the Stanley Kaplan Distinguished Visiting Professor of American Foreign Policy at Williams College. Bard President Leon Botstein will deliver opening remarks. Madison Bishop will provide musical accompaniment. The ceremony takes place at 2 p.m. and is open to the public.
Naturalization is the process by which U.S. citizenship is conferred upon a foreign citizen or national after he or she fulfills the requirements established by Congress in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The bureau of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) processes all naturalization applications and provides the clerk’s office with a list of the candidates selected to be naturalized. All petitioners must then participate in a Naturalization Ceremony and swear to the Oath of Allegiance in a formal court proceeding.
In Dutchess County, naturalization ceremonies are held bimonthly to induct new citizens of the United States of America and are open to the public with all invited to attend.Sponsored by: Dutchess County Government.
For more information, call 845-486-2133, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Join us for Shabbat candle-lighting, a brief and relaxed service, and a great home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner. Whether you're a Shabbat regular, an occasional participant, or a curious first-timer, come check us out! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Conducted by Leon Botstein, Music Director of The Orchestra Now and the American Symphony Orchestra Performed with members of the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, the Bard College Chamber Singers, and the Bard Festival Chorale. James Bagwell,choral director Margaret Tigue,soprano, VAP '20 Chloë Schaaf,mezzo-soprano, VAP '19 Cooper Nolan, tenor Wei Wu,bass
Requiem was written in memory of the Italian writer, Alessandro Manzoni, who had a great influence on Italian Romanticism. It received its premiere on the first anniversary of Manzoni’s death at the San Marco Church in Milan, conducted by Verdi himself. After its premiere, Requiem was quickly noticed and performed in concert halls around the world, which was generally unusual for religious music.The concert will last approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.
Written and Directed by Jack Ferver With additional text by Tennessee Williams Scenic and Costume Design by Jeremy Jacob Lighting Design by JAX Messenger
Saturday, April 6, 2019 8 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Categorical thought shifts, blurs, and gives way in this new creation inspired by Tennessee William’s Streetcar Named Desire. Performers whiplash between wild theatrics and the hyper-real as they tear into the haunting and shattering effects of trauma. Childhood games become menacing. The crush of internal voices in emotional duress becomes external. Characters collapse and psyches merge on the frenetic seams of poetry and panic.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Written and Directed by Jack Ferver With additional text by Tennessee Williams Scenic and Costume Design by Jeremy Jacob Lighting Design by JAX Messenger
Saturday, April 6, 2019 2 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Categorical thought shifts, blurs, and gives way in this new creation inspired by Tennessee William’s Streetcar Named Desire. Performers whiplash between wild theatrics and the hyper-real as they tear into the haunting and shattering effects of trauma. Childhood games become menacing. The crush of internal voices in emotional duress becomes external. Characters collapse and psyches merge on the frenetic seams of poetry and panic.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The men's and women's tennis teams host William Smith and Hobart. The women's match starts at 2, and the men's match will follow at around 6. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Written and Directed by Jack Ferver With additional text by Tennessee Williams Scenic and Costume Design by Jeremy Jacob Lighting Design by JAX Messenger
Sunday, April 7, 2019 4 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
Categorical thought shifts, blurs, and gives way in this new creation inspired by Tennessee William’s Streetcar Named Desire. Performers whiplash between wild theatrics and the hyper-real as they tear into the haunting and shattering effects of trauma. Childhood games become menacing. The crush of internal voices in emotional duress becomes external. Characters collapse and psyches merge on the frenetic seams of poetry and panic.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Conducted by Leon Botstein, Music Director of The Orchestra Now and the American Symphony Orchestra Performed with members of the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, the Bard College Chamber Singers, and the Bard Festival Chorale. James Bagwell,choral director Margaret Tigue,soprano, VAP '20 Chloë Schaaf,mezzo-soprano, VAP '19 Cooper Nolan, tenor Wei Wu,bass
Requiem was written in memory of the Italian writer, Alessandro Manzoni, who had a great influence on Italian Romanticism. It received its premiere on the first anniversary of Manzoni’s death at the San Marco Church in Milan, conducted by Verdi himself. After its premiere, Requiem was quickly noticed and performed in concert halls around the world, which was generally unusual for religious music.The concert will last approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard 2019 Spring Exhibition and Projects Opening Reception
Sunday, April 7, 2019 1–4 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Beginning on April 7, 2019 and remaining on view through May 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies will present 14 exhibitions featuring work by major international and emerging contemporary artists. These exhibitions are curated by the second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art.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, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Humanities, Room 102 The concept of dysfunction plays a central role in psychiatry, and particularly in analyses of psychiatric disorder. Psychiatric disorders are defined in the DSM-5, in part, as syndromes characterized by clinically significant symptoms that reflect “a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning.” Curiously absent from psychiatric manuals is an account of what constitutes function and dysfunction. I investigate whether philosophical accounts of function and dysfunction can do the work that psychiatry implicitly demands. I argue that one popular account cannot, and that it imports into psychiatry a problematic strain of adaptationism, which falls well short of the requisite standards of evidence in evolutionary biology.Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7280, or e-mail [email protected].
A Social Construction: An Artist Talk with IlaSahai Prouty
Monday, April 8, 2019 5–6 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Prouty’s A Social Construction allows people to respond to the language of race, speak through each other’s words, and speak their minds through the Paper Bag Test which breaks open the paper bag through interactive installations and Reconstitution Readings. Combining interactive exhibition with social and performative events that provoke an unfolding of the complexities of race, Prouty asks her audience to be in opposition to the reductive and retrenched conversation in the wider culture.
IlaSahai Prouty prompts us to contemplate how we define and give power, develop identity and build the narratives of our culture through art installations, actions and collaborations. Prouty is an Assistant Chair and Associate Professor of Art at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC where she teaches social practice. She received her MFA from the California College of Art, a BA from Brown University.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 504-729-7029, or e-mail [email protected].
A Reading by Ed Steck MFA ’12 and Ann Stephenson MFA ’07
Monday, April 8, 2019 7–8:30 pm
Bard Hall The John Ashbery series celebrates Bard graduates! Poetry graduates of the MFA program read from their work, followed by a conversation with current student writers, guests, and faculty.
Ed Steck is the author of An Interface for a Fractal Landscape (Ugly Duckling Presse), The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation (Ugly Duckling Presse), The Rose (with Adam Marnie, Hassla), Far Rainbow (Make Now Books), The Necro-Luminescence of Pink Mist (Skeleton Man Press), and other books. His work has been exhibited and performed nationally and internationally, most recently at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Librarie Yvon Lambert, Printed Matter, and Chateau Shatto. He is a recipient of grants from the Fund for Poetry, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, and the Pittsburgh Foundation.
Ann Stephenson’s publications include Adventure Club, The Poles, and Wirework. Some of her poems have appeared in Across the Margin, The Brooklyn Rail, The Delineator, Folder, Ladowich, The Recluse, and Sal Mimeo, among others—as well as the anthology Like Musical Instruments: 83 Contemporary American Poets by John Sarsgard and Larry Fagin (Broadstone Books). She is the editor of Tent Editions, which has released books from Marcella Durand and Carol Szamatowicz, and will soon publish new work from John Godfrey. She received her MFA from Bard College in 2007, and curated the Ready Set Readings series at Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta. Ann is the recipient of a 2017 NYFA Artist Fellowship in Poetry. She was born and raised in Georgia and lives and works in New York City.
Hosted by Ann Lauterbach. Free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations required. Sponsored by: John Ashbery Poetry Series.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Studio Arts building, Seminar Room Nancy Shaver (b. 1946) brings an idiosyncratic eye to sculpture, pairing found objects—a stack of egg crates, for instance, or a cluster of wooden boxes—that she sometimes leaves unaltered, sometimes slathers with a brightly colored coat of house paint. Shaver’s storied career includes 14 solo exhibitions in New York City between 1987 and today. In the 1970s, she was a protege of Walker Evans, and the two developed a friendship based on a mutual appreciation of junk stores and humble or overlooked objects. Numerous contemporary artists, including Robert Gober, cite Shaver as a guiding influence, as she has also been a teacher for most of her professional life. Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
A Celebration of Africana Studies: Linda Sikhakhane and Aaron Rimbui in Concert
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 5–7 pm
Bard Hall Please join us for an evening concert with two legendary South African jazz musicians, saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane and pianist Aaron Rimbui. After the performance, Sikhakhane and Rimbui will host a discussion about South African jazz. This event marks the end-of-the year celebration for Africana Studies, and is made possible through a long-standing partnership between Africana Studies and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Refreshments will be served.Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-4600, or e-mail [email protected].
Law and Lore: Remembering Spanish Immigrants in the US—A lecture by Prof. James Fernández (NYU)
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 6–7:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 How is it that a country of immigrants like the United States can be home to such a virulent strain of anti-immigrant sentiments and policies? Part of the answer to this question, Prof. James Fernández (NYU) sustains, has to do with the way in which descendants of immigrants (mis)construe the stories of their ancestors. For almost 10 years now, in collaboration with Luis Argeo, Prof. Fernández has been digitizing and analyzing the family archives of descendants of Spaniards who emigrated to the United States in the early 20th century. They have also conducted interviews with the custodians of those archives: children, grandchildren, and, in some cases, great-grandchildren of the immigrants. In this talk, Prof. Fernández discusses patterns in the discrepancies we often find between the historical record embodied in the archives, and the family lore that has developed around them.
Open to all. In English.Sponsored by: LAIS Program; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
ABOUT Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information.
Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team.
WHAT WILL BE COVERED?
Overview of graduate program offerings
Alumni success and career outcomes
Admissions information
Prerequisite course requirements
Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
Financial aid availability
Tips for a standout application
DEGREE OPTIONS Degree Options Include: MS in Environmental Policy MS in Climate Science and Policy MBA in Sustainability
Dual Degree Options Include: MS/JD with Pace Law School MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability
Peace Corps Programs Include: Master's International (before you serve) Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Caitlin O'Donnell for further details. For more information, call 845-758-7073.
<<<< REGISTER HERE FOR LINK >>>>Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Live Streaming: Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration Press Conference
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 9–10 am
Hegeman 107 We will be live streaming the following press conference tomorrow morning in Hegeman 107: On April 10th 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration will present its first results in multiple simultaneous press conferences around the world, and many satellite events organized by its stakeholder and affiliated institutions.
These results may include the first direct images ever taken of a black hole. Even if they do not, this should be a fun and exciting time to gather and hear about what this collaboration has been doing. There will be a follow up seminar, that will discuss the results on Friday, April 12th at noon in Hegeman 107. Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7302, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Gallery There are so many unanswered questions about climate change; would you like some of yours to be answered? This Earth Day, the Bard Office of Sustainability will be offering a baked good to anyone who takes a few minutes to sit down with us and research one aspect of climate change as part of the Project Drawdown EcoChallenge. Earn challenge points for your school, eat some tasty food, and learn more about how our community can work to fix climate change.Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Being Human & Humane: A Look at the Last Hundred Years Through Chinese, Russian, and American Arts and Culture
Thursday, April 11, 2019 9 am – 4:15 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema The conference “Being Human & Humane” represents the American component of a larger project of academic cooperation among scholars from China, Russia, and the USA. This conference brings together faculty from the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University (Smolny College), Bard-Annandale, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and the Bard Early Colleges, as well as scholars from beyond Bard campuses. “Being Human & Humane” seeks to encourage cooperation between civilizations and come closer to building a workable model of humanitarian thought and practices.
Presented by the Bard Early Colleges, the Center for Civic Engagement, in collaboration with the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University (St.Petersburg, Russia).
April 11, 9am to 4:15pm, Weis Cinema, Bard College.
April 12, 9am to 4:15pm, BHSEC Queens.
April 13, 9:30am to 12:30pm, BHSEC Queens.
BHSEC Queens is located: 30-20 Thomson Ave., 8th Floor, Long Island City, NY, 11101. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-752-4857, or e-mail [email protected].
First Songs: The Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program Presents Two Preview Concerts
Performances at 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 11, 2019 4–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Two Preview Concerts of New Works composed by Julia Adolphe, Kati Agócs, Lera Auerbach, Susan Botti, Siobhan Cleary, Emily Cooley, Michael-Thomas Foumai, Alexander Goehr, John Harbison. Jihyun Kim, Tania León, Danika Lorèn, Annika Socolofsky, and Alex Stephenson
Performances by the singers of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard.
The same concerts will take place at National Sawdust, New York City, on Sunday, April 14, at 4 pm and 7 pm.Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
Here's What You Can Do With A Degree in Psychology: Applied Research
Thursday, April 11, 2019 4:45–6 pm
Preston Theater Join Psychology program alums Maayan Eldar, ’16, Helena Wippick, ’16 and Eva Frishberg, ’17 in discussing their paths since leaving Bard and what they did with their Bard education.Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7380, or e-mail [email protected].
Poet & Translator: A Bilingual Reading from Midnightin Spoleto
by Paolo Valesio, with Translator Todd Portnowitz
Thursday, April 11, 2019 5–6 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 Italian poet and scholar Paolo Valesio and his translator Todd Portnowitz read from their recent publication, Midnight in Spoleto (Fomite, 2018), and discuss the intricacies of the translation process.
PAOLO VALESIO is the author, among several other works, of twenty books of poetry and is the Giuseppe Ungaretti Professor Emeritus in Italian Literature at Columbia University. He was the founder, and coordinator for ten years, of the “Yale Poetry Group” at Yale University, and the founder and director of the journal Yale Italian Poetry (YIP), whose successor is the Italian Poetry Review(IPR) a “plurilingual journal of creativity and criticism” based in New York and in Florence, Italy—of which Valesio is the editor in chief; he is also the President of the “Centro Studi Sara Valesio” in Bologna.
TODD PORTNOWITZ is the translator of Midnight in Spoleto by Paolo Valesio (Fomite, 2018) and of Long Live Latin by Nicola Gardini, forthcoming in October from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and is a recipient of the Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. An assistant editor with Alfred A. Knopf, he is a co-founder of the Italian poetry journal Formavera and of the Brooklyn-based reading series for writer-translators, Us&Them. Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Italian Studies Program; Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7150, or e-mail [email protected].
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema Texas Artist Wayne Gilbert presents a documentary film on his work. Question and answer period afterwards addressing his art work that uses human cremains as its primary medium. Part of Prof. Susan Aberth's Outsider Artists Speakers Series.Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7126, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Join us for Shabbat candle-lighting, a brief and relaxed service, and a great home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner. Whether you're a Shabbat regular, an occasional participant, or a curious first-timer, come check us out! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, or e-mail [email protected].
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.
Hegeman 107 Since Einstein first explained that gravity could be thought of as the bending of space and time, this theory has been used to make numerous surprising predictions. One of these is the existence of black holes, regions of space and time where mass has been so compacted that gravity’s pull has become inexorable. The evidence that black holes are part of nature has grown steadily over the last 45 years, but we have never been able to look at a black hole and its vicinity directly. Two years ago a team of astronomers and physicists took data on a networked collection of radio telescopes distributed over several continents and turned the entire earth into an interferometer. The resulting telescope is so sensitive that it could image an orange on the moon if it emitted radio waves. On Wednesday, April 10, at 9am EDT, the Event Horizon Telescope team will announce their results in a web conference. We will explain the history and setup of the measurement and discuss the recently reported results of this exciting experiment.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7302, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Join us for an in-progress showing of a new solo work by Ephrat Asherie Dance.Recipient of a 2016 New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award, Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie layers breaking, hip-hop, house, and vogue to the rich sounds of Nazareth’s buoyant score, which melds classical romantic music with popular Afro-Brazilian rhythms.
Presented through the Bard College Dance Program’s partnership with the American Dance Festival. Presentation support provided by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Sponsored by: American Dance Festival; Dance Program; Fisher Center.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Led by The Boston Globe’s “bona fide b-girl,” Ephrat Asherie Dance makes its Fisher Center debut with Odeon, a high-energy, hybrid hip-hop work set to and inspired by the music of early 20th-century Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth, played live.
Recipient of a 2016 New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award, Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie layers breaking, hip-hop, house, and vogue to the rich sounds of Nazareth’s buoyant score, which melds classical romantic music with popular Afro-Brazilian rhythms.
Presented through the Bard College Dance Program’s partnership with the American Dance Festival. Presentation support provided by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Approximate running time is 55 minutes.Sponsored by: American Dance Festival; Dance Program; Fisher Center.
Registration closes March 11! To learn more and to register, please visit this link.
Saturday, April 13, 2019 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Attention is at the crux of all sorts of current interdisciplinary debates, and the subject of much public discourse in our age of social media and mobile tech. This event will place special emphasis on how attention works (and when it doesn’t) in the context of the contemporary academy, but it will also create space for broader conversations about presence, distraction, and technology now and in previous epochs. This “unconference” is distinct from a traditional conference in that all attendees have the opportunity to participate in interdisciplinary discussions, take part in skills-building workshops, and enjoy an array of activities all dedicated to the subject of attention.
The keynote will feature Jason Farman (University of Maryland), who will speak on his book Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World (Yale University Press, 2018). Bard’s own Marina van Zuylen, author of The Plenitude of Distraction (Sequence Press, 2018), will serve as respondent. Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Exhibition Center Works by Sarah Bastacky, Celia Brubaker, Michelle Gutierrez, Tiana Marsh, Jules Roberts, Suki Sekula, Bea Tabacchi, and Izzy Van den Heuvel.
*On view through April 27, 2019, 1:00–4:00 p.m. daily.Sponsored by: Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail [email protected].
Jason Farman is the Director of the Design Cultures & Creativity Program, an Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies, and a faculty member with the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author of the book Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media (Routledge, 2012 — winner of the 2012 Book of the Year Award from the Association of Internet Researchers), which focuses on how the worldwide adoption of mobile technologies is causing a reexamination of the core ideas about what it means to live our everyday lives: the practice of embodied space. Farman has been a contributing author for The Atlantic, Atlas Obscura, Real Life, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has also been interviewed on NPR, ABC News, the Associated Press, the Christian Science Monitor, the Baltimore Sun, and the Denver Post, among others. He received his Ph.D. in Performance Studies and Digital Media from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Marina van Zuylen is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Bard College. She was educated in France before receiving a B.A. in Russian Literature and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Harvard. She is the author of Difficulty as an Aesthetic Principle, Monomania, and The Plenitude of Distraction (Sequence/MIT Press). She has published articles in praise of some of the most beleaguered maladies of modernity—boredom, fatigue, idleness—and written about snobbery, dissociative disorders, and obsessive compulsive aesthetics. She has contributed to a number of collections about the work of Jacques Rancière and has written for MoMA and other art-related publications. She has taught at Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and the university of Paris VII. She is the national academic director of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, a free college course for underserved adults, and accepted on its behalf a National Humanities Medal from President Obama in 2014. She is presently writing Good Enough, a book about the unsung virtues of classical and modern mediocrity.Sponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7103, 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, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Led by The Boston Globe’s “bona fide b-girl,” Ephrat Asherie Dance makes its Fisher Center debut with Odeon, a high-energy, hybrid hip-hop work set to and inspired by the music of early 20th-century Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth, played live.
Recipient of a 2016 New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award, Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie layers breaking, hip-hop, house, and vogue to the rich sounds of Nazareth’s buoyant score, which melds classical romantic music with popular Afro-Brazilian rhythms.
Presented through the Bard College Dance Program’s partnership with the American Dance Festival. Presentation support provided by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Approximate running time is 55 minutes.Sponsored by: American Dance Festival; Dance Program; Fisher Center.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Judaism is often thought of as a religion of the book, and the most influential book in the Jewish canon is the Talmud—a famously complex, genre-defying text that has been at the center of Jewish life and learning since the Middle Ages. Nowadays, the Talmud is most often encountered in book form, typically in large tomes whose pages are imprinted with an iconic, typeset design. And yet the Talmud is considered to be the culmination of Judaism’s Oral Torah, and it was produced and originally transmitted orally by rabbis living in late antique Iraq.
This workshop will gather scholars, artists, a printer, a digitalist, and a performer to consider the many manifestations of this classical work and related Jewish textualities, from late antique graffiti and lament; to contemporary fiction, illustration, and printing; to the virtual universes of digitization and the internet, and experimental voice art. These explorations bear relevance not only for Jewish Studies, but also for broader matters such as the study of writing and orality, and the future of the book in the digital age.
Participants Zachary Braiterman is professor of religion in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University.
Jessica Tamar Deutsch is a New York based artist. In 2017, she published The Illustrated Pirkei Avot: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Ethics.
Victoria Hanna is a Jerusalem based composer, creator, performer, researcher, and teacher of voice and language.
Galit Hasan-Rokem is a poet, translator, and Grunwald Professor of Folklore and Professor of Hebrew Literature (emerita) at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Scott-Martin Kosofsky is an award-winning printer, book designer, and typography expert based in Rhinebeck.
Ruby Namdar is an Israeli novelist based in New York City. His novel The Ruined House (Harper, 2018) won the Sapir Prize, Israel’s most prestigious prize in Hebrew literature.
Jonathan Rosen is a writer and essayist, and wrote The Talmud and the Internet (Picador, 2000). He is the editorial director of Nextbook Press.
Karen B. Stern is associate professor of history at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
Shai Secunda holds the Jacob Neusner chair in Jewish Studies at Bard College.
Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld is the director of education at Sefaria.org.
Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Experimental Humanities Program; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Jewish Studies Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7389, or e-mail [email protected].
Blithewood Poverty, inequality, and the labor market are crucial pieces of the development puzzle in Latin America. Daniel Schteingart will share his view on how these issues leave the majority of economies in the region stuck without being able to catch up. Dr. Schteingart’s research interests include comparative development, comparative industrial policies, poverty, inequality, and global value chains. He is a postdoctoral fellow at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas CONICET and holds an MA in economic sociology and a PhD in sociology from the Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales of the Universidad de San Martín, Argentina.Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute; Levy Graduate Programs.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium The Written Arts Program will host a special panel on Writing and Publishing After Bard with distinguished guests who will talk about their experiences as writers, novelists, journalists, and editors. We will discuss how to generate stories for publication, how to find internships and jobs in publishing, how to submit stories and essays to literary journals for publication, and how careers in publishing and writing have evolved and continue to evolve.
Guest Speakers:
Nicole Nyhan is the managing editor of Conjunctions. A graduate of Bard College and the New School for Social Research, she has served on the editorial staffs of Grove Atlantic, Atavist Books, and Other Press.
Jonny Diamond is the editor-in-chief of Lithub.com. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in the Missouri Review, Geist, Hobart Pulp, Rolling Stone, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a book-length object history of the axe, part investigation of its symbolism in America’s westward expansion, part interrogation of contemporary tropes of masculinity and wilderness.
Wyatt Mason is a Bard professor and contributing editor of the New York Times Magazine and Harper’s. He also writes for the London Review of Books and the New Republic among many other publications. The Modern Library has published his translations of the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud in two volumes. His translations of Dante’s La Vita Nuova and Montaigne’s Essais are in progress.
Mark Binelli is the author of Detroit City Is the Place to Be and the novels Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ All-Time Greatest Hits. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, Men’s Journal, and the New York TimesMagazine. Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4454, or e-mail [email protected].
Ethnonationalism and the Right Wing in Imperial Japan
John Person, University at Albany, State University of New York
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 During the 1930s and 1940s, Japanese academics with an interest in Marxist and liberal theories of political reform faced a barrage of attacks from nationalist critics who charged that such approaches amounted to treason. This talk explores the notorious right-wing intellectuals of the Genri Nippon Society that led the charge in these attacks, and their ethnonationalist theory called “Japanism.” The essays and translations of Japanist intellectuals served as ammunition for government agencies and politicians aiming to remove political enemies or use anticommunist and patriotic rhetoric for political gain. But as the imperial government sought to harness the mobilizing potential of Japanist rhetoric, Japanists targeted not only leftists but also government figures and institutions for failing to act according to their vision of nationalist orthodoxy. At times collaborating with government agencies in crushing voices of class struggle, and at others becoming the target of government surveillance themselves, these intellectuals came to embody the paradoxically hegemonic yet arbitrary nature of nationalist ideology. This talk provides an account of the cosmopolitan roots and unstable networks of ethnonationalism in Imperial Japan, as well as its self-destructive trajectory.
John Person is an assistant professor of Japanese studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York, where he teaches courses on the history of Japan. He holds degrees from Gustavus Adolphus College and the University of Chicago, and was a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA and Hamilton College before joining the faculty at SUNY Albany. He has published articles in the Journal of Japanese Studies and the Journal of the History of Ideas, and is the translator of Hiroki Azuma’s General Will 2.0: Rousseau, Freud, Google (Vertical).Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Historical Studies Program; Japanese Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
BARD CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY The Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability offer masters 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/.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Propaganda, Surveillance, and the 21st-Century Vilification of Sex Workers
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 6–7:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Danielle Blunt is a NYC-based dominatrix, a full-spectrum doula, and a sex worker rights activist. She studies power dynamics through kinesthetic modalities and researches the intersection of public health, sex work and equitable access to tech. Currently she is getting her master's at the CUNY School of Public Health. She enjoys watching her community thrive and making men cry.
Melissa Gira Grant is a senior staff reporter covering criminal justice at the Appeal and the author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Verso). She has been a contributing writer at the Village Voice and Pacific Standard, and her work has also appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, BuzzFeed News, the New York Review of Books, and the Nation, among other publications. Her essays are collected in Best Sex Writing, The Feminist Utopia Project, and Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo. She lives in New York.
It’s been one year since President Trump signed SESTA/FOSTA into law, a bill its supporters said would protect women and girls from trafficking into the sex trade. In this talk, we will work to make sense of how an obscure, complicated law like SESTA/FOSTA pushed the issue of sex workers’ rights into the public square, while sex workers simultaneously experienced more censorship and platform discrimination online.
We will trace the paradox sex workers currently face to the historic role sex workers have been cast in—as disruptive, as others, as dirt—over a century of attempts to scapegoat sex workers in moments of political upheaval, the expansion of surveillance and the rapid spread of propaganda through new technologies, and the threat of authoritarianism. In those times, as in this one, fearmongering and propaganda enjoyed a feedback loop, creating an enabling environment for repression and violence. What can we learn about the current attacks on sex workers from the closure of red-light districts a century ago, or in the witch hunts of 500 years ago? This was the fallout of SESTA/FOSTA: lawmakers claimed they were protecting vulnerable women and children from the dangers posed by traffickers and the internet. Yet lawmakers created a situation where vulnerable communities were exposed to more violence—not hidden in plain sight, but simply ignored.
This event is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Global Change and Biodiversity: Understanding Our Future through the Past
Brian McGill, University of Maine
Thursday, April 18, 2019 12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Humans are massively modifying our planet in many ways. Scientists often speak of five major components of global change: climate change, land use change, overharvesting, chemical change, and invasive species. One of the key challenges for both scientists and policy makers is to understand how these changes will influence the natural world we live in (and thus ultimately affect humans). This is a hard task. But very usefully, all of these kinds of change have occurred in the distant past (i.e, thousands and millions of years ago), which can help us understand what the future will look like. In this talk I will summarize how humans are modifying the planet, contextualize these changes in the context of similar changes in the the distant past, and explore how they will impact humans and the natural world. Climate change will be the main focus, but I will also look at other aspects of global change.Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2349, or e-mail [email protected].
Fake News! The View from Israel’s Military Occupation
Rebecca L. Stein Duke University Department of Anthropology
Thursday, April 18, 2019 5–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This paper studies the impact of new photographic technologies and image-sharing platforms on the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories. Taking its cue from Trumpian political discourse, I focus on the right-wing Jewish Israeli reckoning with the growing visual archive of Palestinian injury at Israeli state or settler hands – a reckoning that occurs through the discourse of “fake news,” or the charge that such images are fraudulent or manipulated in some regard to produce the damning portrait of Israel. I will trace the long colonial history of repudiation in the Israeli context, its modification in the digital age, and consider the ways it has become an increasingly standard right-wing response to images of state violence believed to damage Israel’s global standing. I will argue that the fraudulence charge is marshalled as a solution to the viral visibility of Israeli state violence -- a charge that works to bring these damning images back in line with dominant Israeli ideology by shifting the narrative from Palestinian injury to Israeli victimhood. The story of the “fake” image of Palestinian injury endeavors to strip the visual field of its Israeli perpetrators and Palestinian victims, thereby exonerating the state. Or such is the fantasy.Sponsored by: Anthropology Program; Center for Civic Engagement; Experimental Humanities Program; Human Rights Project; Jewish Studies Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7201, or e-mail [email protected].
“Fight to Live, Live to Fight: Veteran Activism After War.”
Thursday, April 18, 2019 6–8 pm
SUNY Global Center - 116 E 55th Street, New York, New York 10022 While veterans are often cast as a “problem” for society, Benjamin Schrader’s new book, “Fight to Live, Live to Fight: Veteran Activism after War,” challenges this view by focusing on the progressive, positive, and productive activism that veterans engage in. Prof. Schrader weaves his own experiences as a former member of the American military and then as a member of the activist community with the stories of other veteran activists he has encountered across the United States. An accessible blend of political theory, international relations, and American politics, this book critically examines US foreign and domestic policy through the narratives of post-9/11 military veterans who have turned to activism after having exited the military. Veterans are involved in a wide array of activism including but not limited to: antiwar, economic justice, sexual violence prevention, immigration issues, and veteran healing through art. This is an accessible, captivating, and engaging work that may be read and appreciated not just by scholars, but also students and the wider public.
Benjamin Schrader is Visiting Professor at the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program in New York City.
This event is part of BGIA’s James Chace Lecture series, which is co-sponsored and hosted by SUNY Press.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Join us for Shabbat candle-lighting, a brief and relaxed service, and a great home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner. Whether you're a Shabbat regular, an occasional participant, or a curious first-timer, come check us out! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Farm Barn Join us at the Bard Farm to celebrate Earth Week and the new farm season, and to welcome our new farm manager, Rebecca Yoshino!
There will be live music, performed by the Glorious Schmutz and Preston & Cooper; food; a DIY herb pot tutorial; and drinks (for 21+). Please remember to bring your own reusable cup to support our Earth Week initiatives and sustainability on Bard’s campus!Sponsored by: Office of Sustainability.
Kline, Faculty Dining Room Bard's Passover Seder will be held on Friday, April 19 at 6:30 pm in the Faculty Dining Room. Anyone is welcome, and there is no charge, but each individual who wishes to attend must sign up by Tuesday, April 16.
SOUND THE TRUMPET! The Vibes of Venezuela Led by Etienne Charles, featuring Linda Briceño and Jorge Glem
Friday, April 19, 2019 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Journey through the rhythms of 19th-century popular waltz, 1920s merengue, and the lively cantor of traditional joropo in this celebration of Venezuelan jazz. Vocalist and trumpeter Linda Briceño and cuatro virtuoso Jorge Glem join trumpeter Etienne Charles to examine African, Native South American, and European influences on the modern music of Venezuela.
Presented in partnership with Catskill Jazz Factory. Sponsored by: Jazz at the Fisher Center.
Blum Hall New compositions featuring: Chris Pasin - trumpet, Eric Person - saxophone, Phil Allen - trombone, Ira Coleman- bass, Peter O’Brien- drums, John Esposito - piano.
Free AdmissionSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, 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, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Musicians from the Bard Conservatory, The Orchestra Now, and Bard Community Orchestra perform works by Léon, Piazzolla, Ponce, and Villa-Lobos
Sunday, April 21, 2019 4–6 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Hosted by Leonardo Pineda and Chris Beroes-Haigis, this concert will feature masterpieces by South American composers.Sponsored by: Bard Music Colombia.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail [email protected].
Works for erhu, guzheng, and piano by 20th-century Chinese composers.
Sunday, April 21, 2019 7:30–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building 空山鸟语 刘天华 Bird Chirping on the Tranquil Mountain LIU Tianhua (1895-1932) LIU Chang, erhu
溟山 王中山 Ming Mountain WANG Zhongshan (b. 1969) WANG Yixin, guzheng
良宵 刘天华 A Beautiful Night (The tune for New Year’s Eve) LIU Tianhua (1895-1932) LIU Beitong, erhu LIU Chang, erhu
狮子戏球 杨秀明改編 Chaozhou folk song: The Lion Plays With a Ball arr. YANG Xiuming (b. 1935) WANG Sibei, guzheng
三门峡畅想曲 刘文金 Capriccio of Sanmenxia Dam LIU Wenjin (1937-2013) LIU Beitong, erhu Ivy Wu, piano
恋春风 刘乐 Romantic Breeze of Spring LIU Le (b. 1985) WANG Yixin, guzheng Ivy Wu, piano
Intermission
東北民歌：江河水 黄海怀改编 Northeastern folk song: Tears of the River arr. HUANG Haihuai (1935-1967) LIU Beitong, erhu
茉莉芬芳 何占豪 Fragrance of Jasmine Blossoms HE Zhanhao (b. 1933) WANG Sibei, guzheng
长城随想 － 遥望篇 刘文金 The Great Wall Capriccio LIU Wenjin (1937-2013) Movement IV Looking Into the Distance LIU Chang, erhu Chung-Yang (Francis) Huang, piano
化蝶 何占豪，陈刚 王天一，王居野改编 Butterfly Lovers HE Zhanhao (b. 1933) and CHEN Gang (b. 1935) arr. WANG Tianyi and WANG Juye WANG Sibei, guzheng WANG Yixin, guzheng
二泉映月 华彦钧 黄晓飞改编 Moon reflected on Second Spring HUA Yanjun (1893-1950) arr. HUANG Xiaofei LIU Beitong, erhu LIU Chang, zhonghu WANG Sibei, guzheng WANG Yixin, guzheng
Sponsored by: US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
From 1924 to Trump: The Roots of America’s Immigration Debate
Jia Lynn Yang, Deputy National Editor, The New York Times
Monday, April 22, 2019 4:45–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This talk will trace the current immigration debate back to the Supreme Court fight in 1922 over whether a Japanese-born man could naturalize, and the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924, which established ethnic quotas favoring “Anglo-Saxons.” Because immigration debates have long been predicated on who counts as sufficiently “white,” the current system—in which there are far more Asian and Hispanic immigrants than European—challenges traditional notions of who counts as American. Yang will discuss how the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act set us on this current course, but left much unfinished work around race and national identity that we confront today during the Trump administration. The talk will also address media coverage of Trump’s immigration policies as well as how to infuse journalistic work with a sense of history.
Jia Lynn Yang is a deputy national editor at the New York Times, where she helps oversee coverage of the country. Previously, she was deputy national security editor at the Washington Post, where she was an editor on the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2018 for its coverage of Trump and Russia. She is writing a book on the history of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, Un-American Elements, forthcoming from W. W. Norton in 2020.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Asian Studies Program; Global and International Studies Program; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Japanese Studies Program; Politics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Stylus Phantasticus and the 17th-Century North German Organ as Cabinets of Curiosities
Lecture by Paula Maust
Monday, April 22, 2019 5–6 pm
Blum N217 During the early modern era, a new fascination with collection resulted in a series of inimitable Wunderkammern. These cabinets of curiositiesappeared throughout Europe and contained all manner of objects, including souvenirs from distant lands, artworks, musical instruments, trinkets, scientific instruments, inventions, and items from the natural world. Not only a repository of objects, the Wunderkammer was also a system of organizing knowledge about the universe and for demonstrating the collector’s mastery of nature. Curiosity, wonder, and invention are prevalent themes that emerge across numerous 17th-century disciplines, and as a result, these cabinets have been widely discussed in literature about the early modern period.
Less commented on, however, is the fact that these same orientations toward the world can also be seen in the realms of music composition and instrument design. For instance, in his monumental 1650 Musurgia Universalis the inventor, collector, and music surveyor Athanasius Kircher defined all the musical styles known to him. Across hundreds of pages, the Musurgia Universalis captures the wonder and curiosity with which early moderns engaged with music. It also points to more concrete connections between the Wunderkammern and the 17th-century North German keyboard works than scholars have thus far described. Kircher described the Stylus Phantasticus as “the most free and unrestrained method of composing,” and works written in the style embody the spirit of invention manifested in the Wunderkammern. The same inclination toward wonder that was the impetus for the Wunderkammern is also present in the architectural design and innovative technologies of the 17th-century North German organ, particularly the independent pedal division. Just as the Wunderkammern provided a means for the collector to blend and master elements of art and nature, works written in the Stylus Phantasticus showcase the composer’s ability to harness the cosmic qualities of music and combine them with cutting-edge instrument design to inspire wonder in the listener. Ultimately, I argue pieces written in the Stylus Phantasticus as well as the instruments that were used to bring them to life are best understood as themselves cabinets of curiosities; to approach them as such is to reclaim the spirit with which these instruments and their music were created. Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7250, or e-mail [email protected].
Jessie Morgan-Owens, author of Girl in Black and White, in Conversation with Christian Crouch
Monday, April 22, 2019 5–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 204 Jessie Morgan-Owens is a photographer, dean of studies at Bard Early College–New Orleans, and author of a very well-received new book called Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement. On Monday, April 22, she will be on campus to read from the book and to join Christian Crouch in conversation about the issues it raises. Please join us for what should be a terrific and far-ranging discussion of racial politics, the abolitionist movement, U.S. history, the history of photography, the power of images, and more.
To borrow from the publisher’s blurb: “When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family’s freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face of American slavery. Famous abolitionists Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry David Thoreau, and John Albion Andrew would help Mary and her family in freedom, but Senator Charles Sumner saw a monumental political opportunity. Due to generations of sexual violence, Mary’s skin was so light that she ‘passed’ as white, and this fact would make her the key to his white audience’s sympathy. During his sold-out abolitionist lecture series, Sumner paraded Mary in front of rapt audiences as evidence that slavery was not bounded by race. Weaving together long-overlooked primary sources and arresting images, including the daguerreotype that turned Mary into the poster child of a movement, Jessie Morgan-Owens investigates tangled generations of sexual enslavement and the fraught politics that led Mary to Sumner. She follows Mary’s story through the lives of her determined mother and grandmother to her own adulthood, parallel to the story of the antislavery movement and the eventual signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Girl in Black and White restores Mary to her rightful place in history and uncovers a dramatic narrative of travels along the Underground Railroad, relationships tested by oppression, and the struggles of life after emancipation. The result is an exposé of the thorny racial politics of the abolitionist movement and the pervasive colorism that dictated where white sympathy lay―one that sheds light on a shameful legacy that still affects us profoundly today.”Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; American and Indigenous Studies Program; The Bard Early College Network.
For more information, call 845-758-6874, or e-mail [email protected].
A lecture on György Kurtág’s opera by Dr. Gergely Fazekas (Franz Liszt University of Music, Budapest)
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 5–6 pm
Bito 210 A “patiently perfect” opera (The New York Times) setting Samuel Beckett’s Endgame“to create an uncompromising work that is utterly distinctive” (The Guardian), a piece which proves its composer “to be Beckett’s equal” (The New Yorker): Fin de partie the long awaited first opera by the last representative of post-war art music, the 93-year-old Hungarian composer, György Kurtág had its first performance in November last year in one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world, La Scala in Milan. The opera makes intensive use of the four-hundred-year-old genre’s well-known techniques, while its musical language is true to Kurtág’s style (some basic elements of the opera’s music can be found already in the earliest pieces of Kurtág written in the late 1950s). Based on interviews made with the composer and using excerpts from a yet unpublished documentary on the opera, the lecture gives an introduction to Fin de partie, to Kurtág’s music and to his more than 60-year old relationship with Beckett’s texts. Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
2018 American Book Award–winning author Valeria Luiselli reads from her work
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 6–7 pm
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema On Tuesday, April 23, at 6:00 p.m. in Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center, Valeria Luiselli reads from her work. 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 Valeria Luiselli will be available for sale, courtesy of Oblong Books & Music.
Valeria Luiselliwas born in Mexico City in 1983 and has lived in Costa Rica, South Korea, South Africa, India, Spain, France, and New York City. She is the author of a book of essays, Papeles falsos/Sidewalks (2012, 2014), and the internationally acclaimed novel Los ingravidos / Faces in the Crowd (2013, 2014), which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. In 2014, she won the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 prize, an annual award honoring young and promising fiction writers. Her novel La historia de mis dientes / The Story of My Teeth (2013, 2015) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the Azul Prize in Canada; was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Best Translated Book Award, and the Impac Prize 2017; and was named one of the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of the Year. Her recent book Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions won the 2018 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.
Luiselli received her PhD in comparative literature from Columbia University. Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages, and her writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Granta, McSweeney’s, Harper’s, and the New Yorker. Her latest novel, Lost Children Archive (2019), which was written in English, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Luiselli was recently appointed as writer in residence in the Division of Languages and Literature at Bard College.
PRAISE FOR VALERIA LUISELLI
“The novel truly becomes novel again in Luiselli’s hands—electric, elastic, alluring, new. . . . She is a superb chronicler.” —New York Times
“Riveting, lyrical, virtuosic. . . . Luiselli’s metaphors are wrought with devastating precision. . . . The brilliance of the writing stirs rage and pity. It humanizes us.” —New York Times Book Review
“Daring, wholly original, brilliant . . . fascinating. . . . Luiselli is an extraordinary writer [with] a freewheeling novelist’s imagination.” —NPR
“A comprehensive literary intelligence.” —James Wood, New Yorker
“A master. . . . Luiselli confronts big picture questions: What does it mean to be American? To what lengths should we go to bear witness? Will history ever stop repeating itself? All the while, her language is so transporting, it stops you time and again.” —Carmen Maria Machado, O Magazine
“One of the most fascinating and impassioned authors at work today.” —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].
Silvered Water: A Film Screening and Discussion with Ossama Mohammed
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 6–8 pm
Preston “Shot by ‘1,001 Syrians’ according to the caption, Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait is a relentless chronicle of the horrors of the war told through grainy, jumpy, pixillated eyewitness accounts shot on cell phones. The immediacy the film achieves is shocking, but it is also mediated by three things: filmmaker Wiam Simav Bedirxan’s more professional vid-cam shooting during the siege of Homs, filmmaker Ossama Mohammed’s highly expressionistic editing together images, sound and music, and their intimate reflections on what they themselves are going through.” —Deborah Young for Cannes Film ReviewSponsored by: Film and Electronic Arts Program; Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-857-5518, or e-mail [email protected].
How to Resist, Harlem to the Amazon: Perspectives from Homeless and Landless Activists
Event with Marcus Moore, Charmel Lucas, and Nikita Price (Picture the Homeless, USA) and Ayala Dias Ferreira (MST- Landless Workers Movement, Brazil)
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 4:45–6 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In the US and Brazil alike, the housing crisis sweeps millions into its grasp each year, producing homelessness, destroying public space, and forcing people to migrate long distances. But homeless activists have powerfully resisted this trend through community organizing, collective action, and legislative change. Landless activists have occupied plantations, successfully resettling hundreds of thousands of people on land that used to be controlled by big agriculture. Come hear from housing organizers in New York City and landless organizers in Brazil. Learn more about how we can create new models of land and public space so that all have a right to a home.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Anthropology Program; Center for Civic Engagement; Historical Studies Program; LAIS Program; Sociology Program.
For more information, call 773-853-1901, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Classroom 102 Through the Speaker Series, CCS Bard brings distinguished artists, scholars, and curators to campus to present on their work. Speaker Series talks are held in classroom 102 at CCS Bard unless otherwise noted. All talks are free and open to the public.
Tom Holert works as an art historian, writer, curator, and artist in Berlin. In 2015 he cofounded (with Doreen Mende, Volker Pantenburg, and others) the Harun Farocki Institut (HaFI) in Berlin. From 1992 to 1999, after (and coinciding with) his academic studies (MA, Hamburg University, 1987; PhD, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 1995), Holert was an editor of Texte zur Kunst and a publisher of Spex magazine in Cologne; beginning in 1999 he taught and conducted research at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, ZHdK in Zurich, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and FU Berlin, among other institutions; in 2000 he cofounded the Institute of Visual Culture Studies (ISVC) with Mark Terkessidis, with whom he coauthored books on the militarization of the public sphere as well as on the impact of migration and tourism on urbanity and geopolitics. In 2012 he was a founding member of the Academy of the Arts of the World in Cologne.
Currently, Holert’s work focuses on the dialectics of interwar avantgarde art and thinking, the physical spaces of learning in a global cold war context (c. 1957–77), and the knowledge politics of contemporary art. Recent publications include: Marion von Osten: Once We Were Artists (coedited with Maria Hlavajova, 2017); Troubling Research: Performing Knowledge in the Arts (with Johanna Schaffer et al., 2014); and Übergriffe: Zustände und Zuständigkeiten der Gegenwartskunst (2014). In 2018, he cocurated (with Anselm Franke) Neolithic Childhood: Art in a False Present, c. 1930 at House of World Cultures (HKW), Berlin. Education Shock, an exhibition curated by Holert at HKW on learning and research environments of the global 1960s and 1970s, is scheduled for 2020/21.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Parks, Plazas, and Planters: Homelessness and Ecological Development
Eric Goldfischer, University of Minnesota
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 6–7:15 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In the 1990s, the well-known tactic of "broken-windows policing" targeted homeless people by removing them from core areas of New York City and other global mega-cities. Yet today, with a progressive administration and softer policing in place, homeless New Yorkers still find themselves unable to exist comfortably in public space. How should we understand this shift? In this presentation, I argue that the regime of anti-homelessness in New York has shifted to what I call "ecological development," and present evidence from an ethnographic study to show how green spaces, linear parks, and urban plaza areas have taken up the mantle of anti-homelessness, and how homeless activists resist these nefarious tools of urban planning and development.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Anthropology Program; Center for Civic Engagement; Historical Studies Program; LAIS Program; Sociology Program.
For more information, call 773-853-1901, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater A dynamic evening of choreography by the extraordinary faculty of the Bard College Dance Program, performed by students in the program.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
Catherine Conybeare, Professor of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies, Bryn Mawr College
Thursday, April 25, 2019 4:45–6 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 The writings of Augustine of Hippo (354–430 CE) are fundamental to the Western European intellectual tradition. It is rarely taken into account, however, that he spent almost his entire life in North Africa. This talk will consider what the late Roman Empire looked like from the “eccentric” vantage points of Numidia and Africa Proconsularis—Algeria and Tunisia, in contemporary terms—and what effect that eccentricity may have had on Augustine’s thought.Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; Classical Studies Program; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Medieval Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7600, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Hall A fundamental part of the scientific enterprise is for each field to engage in critical self-examination to detect errors in our theories and methods, and improve them. In this talk, I discuss how well psychology, as a science, has been living up to this ideal, and what principles should guide our efforts to improve our science.Sponsored by: Andrew Jay Bernstein '68 Memorial Lecture Series; Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7224, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Join us for Shabbat candle-lighting, a brief and relaxed service, and a great home-cooked vegetarian Shabbat dinner. Whether you're a Shabbat regular, an occasional participant, or a curious first-timer, come check us out! All are welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 717-760-9359, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater A dynamic evening of choreography by the extraordinary faculty of the Bard College Dance Program, performed by students in the program.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Conducted by Leon Botstein Music Director of The Orchestra Now and the American Symphony Orchestra Vadim Repin, violin Elizabeth de Trejo, soprano Bard Festival Chorale A copresentation with the Trans-Siberian Art Festival
Virgil Thomson “De Profundis”
Joachim Raff Psalm 130: “De Profundis”—U.S. premiere Lera Auerbach “De Profundis” (Violin Concerto No. 3) Lili Boulanger Psalm 130: “Du fond de l’abîme” (De Profundis)
World-renowned violinist Vadim Repin joins TŌN for this musical exploration of Psalm 130, which reads “Out of the depths, Oh Lord, have I cried unto Thee.” The concert features two premieres and two works by women composers.
Repin will perform the U.S. premiere of Lera Auerbach’s Violin Concerto No. 3, De Profundis. Lili Boulanger’s rendering of the psalm, performed with soprano Elizabeth de Trejo, is dedicated to the memory of her father and was composed at the early age of 22, just one year before her death.
Also on the program are an a cappella choral interpretation by Pulitzer Prize winner Virgil Thomson, and the U.S. premiere of Joachim Raff’s setting for soprano, eight-part choir, and orchestra, which he dedicated to his former colleague, Franz Liszt.
The concert will last approximately 2 hours and 35 minutes.Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater A dynamic evening of choreography by the extraordinary faculty of the Bard College Dance Program, performed by students in the program.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater A dynamic evening of choreography by the extraordinary faculty of the Bard College Dance Program, performed by students in the program.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
Reem-Kayden Center Girls' Adventures in Math (GAIM) is a themed mathematics competition for upper elementary and middle school girls, followed by strategy-based games. Teams of students will work on challenging problems, contextualized in a comic book containing the stories of pioneering women from history.
The competition is organized by Math-M-Addicts New York, Inc. The Bard Math Circle hosts this event to promote a culture of mathematical problem solving and mathematics enrichment in the mid-Hudson Valley.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing; Mathematics Program.
Conservatory Faculty Recital: Benjamin Hochman, piano
Mozart Piano Sonatas
Saturday, April 27, 2019 3–5 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Benjamin Hochman continues his five-concert cycle of the complete Mozart Piano Sonatas.Sponsored 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, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Conducted by Leon Botstein Music Director of The Orchestra Now and the American Symphony Orchestra Vadim Repin, violin Elizabeth de Trejo, soprano Bard Festival Chorale A copresentation with the Trans-Siberian Art Festival
Virgil Thomson “De Profundis”
Joachim Raff Psalm 130: “De Profundis”—U.S. premiere Lera Auerbach “De Profundis” (Violin Concerto No. 3) Lili Boulanger Psalm 130: “Du fond de l’abîme” (De Profundis)
World-renowned violinist Vadim Repin joins TŌN for this musical exploration of Psalm 130, which reads “Out of the depths, Oh Lord, have I cried unto Thee.” The concert features two premieres and two works by women composers.
Repin will perform the U.S. premiere of Lera Auerbach’s Violin Concerto No. 3, De Profundis. Lili Boulanger’s rendering of the psalm, performed with soprano Elizabeth de Trejo, is dedicated to the memory of her father and was composed at the early age of 22, just one year before her death.
Also on the program are an a cappella choral interpretation by Pulitzer Prize winner Virgil Thomson, and the U.S. premiere of Joachim Raff’s setting for soprano, eight-part choir, and orchestra, which he dedicated to his former colleague, Franz Liszt.
The concert will last approximately 2 hours and 35 minutes.Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation.
Everybody is welcome!
After the silence, we will have some time to hear each other’s stories, experiences and questions, with a meal on Mondays and cookies and tea on Thursdays.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-2020, or e-mail [email protected].
"Modernism in Translation: Poetry and Politics in Beirut's Belle Époque"
Robyn Creswell (Yale University)
Monday, April 29, 2019 5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 What was the fate of literary modernism beyond Europe? Robyn Creswell's talk will explore the work of the modernist poetry movement in Beirut during the decades following WWII. By translating the techniques and ideology of modernism into Arabic, the intellectuals of Shi'r magazine radically altered the very idea of poetry in that literary tradition. This lecture will focus on the Arab modernists' exchanges with French poets, American spies, and the classical past.Sponsored by: Arabic Studies Program; Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Zachary Schwartzman, music director Erica Kiesewetter, associate conductor Michael Patterson, assistant conductor
Beethoven Symphony No. 6 Pastoral with works by Bruch, Delibes, Gounod, Mozart, and Puccini featuring winners of the Bard College concerto competitionSponsored by: Bard College Community Orchestra.
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Joshua Plencner is currently a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. His teaching and research explore the intersection of American visual culture and the politics of identity, with special interest in racial formation, comics studies, political theory, and American political development. His writing has appeared in both popular and scholarly outlets, including New Political Science, Black Perspectives, Artists Against Police Brutality, Middle Spaces, and the University Press of Mississippi.