Conservatory Sundays Bard College Conservatory Orchestra
Jeffrey Milarsky, guest conductor
Sunday, March 1, 2015 3 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Led by guest conductor Jeffrey Milarsky, the program includes John Adams’s Dr. Atomic Symphony, Samuel Barber’s First Essay for orchestra, and two world premieres by Bard students Adan Zuckerman ’15 and Andres Martinez de Velasco ’15. For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Stevenson Library In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the publishing partnership between Bard and the innovative literary journal Conjunctions, the Stevenson Library presents a special exhibition of issues and ephemera from the journal's archive, including artwork by Brice Marden and Francesco Clemente, the first publication of material from David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (with a never-reprinted introduction by the author), unpublished cover mock-ups, and more.Sponsored by: Stevenson Library.
The National Book Award–winning author of The News from Paraguay, Siam, I Married You for Happiness, and other books of fiction and biography reads from her work.
Monday, March 2, 2015 2:30–4 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Introduced by Bradford Morrow, this event is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations required.
"Tuck is a genius with moments … Her ability to capture beauty will remind readers of Margaret Yourcenar and Marguerite Duras." —Los Angeles Book Review
Born in Paris, LILY TUCK is the author of four previous novels: Interviewing Matisse, or the Woman Who Died Standing Up; The Woman Who Walked on Water; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, which was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and The News from Paraguay, winner of the National Book Award. She is also the author of the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and are collected in Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived. Sponsored by: Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail mmorriss@bard.edu.
Olin Humanities and Olin LC This first symposium consists of presentations that students develop in section-based research groups that explore some aspect of the broad intellectual and cultural context in which a particular text was written.
It is an opportunity for students and faculty to come together in a vibrant atmosphere of intellectual and creative exchange to investigate and test the ideas explored in the classroom. Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.
For more information, call 845-758-7490, or e-mail jcerulli@bard.edu.
Hegeman 102 What is behind the revival of tradition in modernizing China?
The presentation discusses the various interpretations of Confucianism which have prevailed during different historical eras, as well as the contemporary significance of Confucianism in China, East Asia, and the world. Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Religion Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7545, or e-mail ying@bard.edu.
Coups, Cadavers, and Catastrophes: The Persian Gulf in the New Year
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 5:30–6:30 pm
Preston The Persian Gulf region is never quiet, and the start of 2015 has been no exception: the death of the Saudi King; the collapse of the Yemeni government; the continued expansion of ISIS; and the new necessity of collaborating and negotiating with Iran, all foreshadow a year of major change, turmoil, and power shifts.
Join James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities Walter Russell Mead, Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA) Director Jonathan Cristol, and Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern & Historical Studies Omar Cheta for a discussion of the current/latest instability in the Persian Gulf and its impact on both American grand strategy and specific policy decisions in the region. Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program; Center for Civic Engagement; Historical Studies Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program; Political Studies Program.
Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex: The Invention of Heterosexuality in Ancient Rome
Anthony Philip Corbeill
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 6 pm
Olin, Room 102 This talk explores how the daily use by Latin speakers of a single linguistic category—grammatical gender—cultivates a sensitivity to the role of biological sex in Roman perceptions of both the human and more-than-human realms. The presentation has four parts: first, a demonstration that ancient scholars viewed grammatical gender as intricately connected with biological sex, even in the case of inanimate nouns; next the ways in which an awareness of this identification of grammar with biology enhances appreciation of Roman poetry; third, how the Romans imagined their earliest gods; and, finally, Roman attitudes toward human hermaphrodites and their visual representation. No knowledge of Latin, or of ancient Rome, is necessary.
A Lecture by Anthony Philip Corbeill Professor of Classics, University of Kansas Blegen Research Fellow, Vassar College
Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Classical Studies Program; Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; Language and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail minsky@bard.edu.
Dave Battisti, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, and Tamaki Endowed Chair, University of Washington
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 12–1 pm
Albee B102
David Battisti is The Tamaki Endowed Chair of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. David received a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences (1988) from the University of Washington. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin until 1990. Since then, he has been on the Faculty in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, and has served as the Director of JISAO (1997-2003) and of the UW's Earth Initiative (2003-2006).
Battisti's research is focused on understanding the natural variability of the climate system. He is especially interested in understanding how the interactions between the ocean, atmosphere, land and sea ice lead to variability in climate on time scales from seasonal to decades. His previous research includes coastal oceanography, the physics of the El Nino/Southern Osciallation (ENSO) phenomenon, midlatitude atmosphere/ocean variability and variability in the coupled atmosphere/sea ice system in the Arctic. Battisti is presently working to improve the El Nino models and their forecast skill, to understand the mechanisms responsible for the drought cycles in the Sahel, and to better understand the monsoons. He is also working on the impacts of climate variability and climate change on food production in Mexico, Indonesia and China.
Battisti's recent interests are in paleoclimate: in particular, the mechanisms responsible for the remarkable "abrupt" global climate changes evident throughout the last glacial period.
Battisti has served on numerous international science panels, on Committees of the National Research Council. He served for five years as co-chair of the Science Steering Committee for the U.S. Program on Climate (US CLIVAR) and is co-author of several international science plans. He has published over 100 papers in peer-review journals in atmospheric sciences and oceanography, and twice been awarded distinguished teaching awards.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
CMIA - The Poetics of Montage: a Conversation with Bernard Eisenschitz
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 1:30–4 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center Please join us for a public discussion with French critic and scholar Bernard Eisenschitz about Jean-Luc Godard, montage, and international cinema in the theater beginning at 1:30 PM.
This event is co-sponsored with the French Studies Program.
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule. Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
Public Debate: Should Hate Speech Be Criminalized?
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 7–8:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Should there be limits to the freedom of speech? Or should the freedom of speech be defended and protected at all costs, even when speech becomes violent, racist, sexist, homophobic, etc.? Would a limitation on the freedom of speech necessarily be unconstitutional? Should hate speech be criminalized?
Please join us for a public debate in response to recent events all over the world that necessitate such a discussion.
Resolved: hate speech should be criminalized.
Sponsored by the Bard Debate Union and the Center for Civic Engagement.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Bard Community Gospel Choir is a choral singing group founded to celebrate the Spirit in song. Drawing from the rich tradition of African-American gospel music, the ensemble also performs spiritual songs inspired by global music, musical theater, and popular music traditions. For more information, please to contact Nicholas Lewis at nlewis@bard.edu or by calling 845-752-4775.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
BGIA (NYC) Barak Mendelsohn, Associate Professor of Political Science, Haverford College; Research Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Senior Fellow, Center for the Study ofTerrorism, Foreign Policy Research Institute; author ofExpansion and Decline: al-Qaeda's Branching Out Strategy and Its Consequences (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2015) and Combating Jihadism: American Hegemony and International Cooperation in the War on Terrorism (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
The James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series is cosponsored by Foreign Affairs. It is free and open to the public by RSVP.
“Follow Me Down: Portraits of Louisiana Prison Musicians”
Thursday, March 5, 2015 8 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Sponsored by: American Studies Program; Anthropology Program; Bard Ethnomusicology; Difference and Media Project; Experimental Humanities Program; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2405, or e-mail msonevyt@bard.edu.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreography by: Julia Bryck Naja Gordon Gwendolyn Knapp Autumn Rivers Susie Yugler Sophie Zega
Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.
Friday, March 6, 7:30pm Saturday, March 7, 2pm Saturday, March 7, 7:30pm Sunday, March 8, 4pm
Leon Botstein, conductor James Bagwell, chorus master
Friday, March 6, 2015 8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Preconcert talk at 7 pm by James Bagwell
Considered Haydn’s masterpiece, this large oratorio features members of the American Symphony Orchestra, Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, Bard Festival Chorale, Bard Chamber Singers, Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and Longy Chorale. Sponsored by: Fisher Center.
Sustainable Business Fridays: Corporate Sustainability Reporting, Assurance and Compliance
Kristen Sullivan
Deloitte US
Friday, March 6, 2015 12–1 pm
Join the Bard MBA in Sustainability program for our twice-monthly dial-in conversation series over your lunchtime featuring sustainability leaders from the New York City area and across the planet.
On March 6th we will be discussing corporate sustainability reporting, assurrance and compliance with Kristen Sullivan from Deloitte US.
Recently in an interview in the Wall Street Journal about challenges facing CFO's, conflict minerals and the SEC's Conflict Minerals rule, Sullivan had this to say in response the the question,
WSJ: "What are you telling CFOs where to begin and what are some of the implementation issues they face?"
KS: "In addition to finance, the group should include representatives from legal, procurement, supply chain, sustainability, public policy and investor relations to support the effort from a governance structure. From CFOs’ perspective, such broad representation may provide them confidence that they’ve taken the appropriate measures and are in a position to conclude and report in the filings."
Sustainable Business Fridays convenes every first and fourth Friday of the month during the semester, with special guests selected by students in the Bard MBA in Sustainability program. Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
The Institute of Advanced Theology 2015 Lenten Lecture Series title: "Jesus: in his own terms"
Friday, March 6, 2015 12:30–1:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Institute of Advanced Theology will host the 2015 Lenten Lecture Series, "Jesus: in his own terms," led by Bruce Chilton. A brief descrition follows.
Research during the past two decades has brought Jesus into focus as a rabbi within Judaism, whose influence produced a new religious system. The series this Lent will identify five new insights, confirmed by the most recent scholarship, which illuninate the emergence and the future of Christianity as never before.
The IAT Lenten lecture series will be held on the following five Fridays: February 27, March 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th at the Bard College Chapel of the Holy Innocents.
The presentation is free and will begin at 12:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period.
Lunch will be at noon. For lunch, we will be providing box lunches, and there will be a cost that will be determined at a later time. Lunch reservations are required and can be made by calling 845-758-7279.
Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail desmond@bard.edu.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreography by: Julia Bryck Naja Gordon Gwendolyn Knapp Autumn Rivers Susie Yugler Sophie Zega
Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.
Friday, March 6, 7:30pm Saturday, March 7, 2pm Saturday, March 7, 7:30pm Sunday, March 8, 4pm
Leon Botstein, conductor James Bagwell, chorus master
Saturday, March 7, 2015 8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Preconcert talk at 7 pm by James Bagwell
Considered Haydn’s masterpiece, this large oratorio features members of the American Symphony Orchestra, Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, Bard Festival Chorale, Bard Chamber Singers, Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and Longy Chorale. Sponsored by: Fisher Center.
Stevenson Athletic Center Bard hosts Penn State-Behrend at 10 a.m., then New York University at 4 p.m. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreography by: Julia Bryck Naja Gordon Gwendolyn Knapp Autumn Rivers Susie Yugler Sophie Zega
Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.
Friday, March 6, 7:30pm Saturday, March 7, 2pm Saturday, March 7, 7:30pm Sunday, March 8, 4pm
Celebrating the fifth anniversary of the ensemble's first show at Bard, and featuring world premieres by Bard students and alumni!
Sunday, March 8, 2015 5–7 pm
Olin Hall Sunday, March 8, 2015 | 5:00 pm
Olin Hall | Bard College Free admission!
Self Portrait presents five works commissioned by Contemporaneous, including four world premieres and works by artists in the ensemble. The diverse pieces explore the rich, often complex, relationship between music and self-expression. Taken together, they offer a picture in sound of the ensemble at the present moment, informed by its history and imagining its future.
Tamzin Elliott (B.M., B.A., '16) whose work The New York Times has described as “effervescent” and “fresh,” has set her poetry to music in a new cycle of songs that feature soprano Lucy Dhegrae (M.M., '12). Drawing on disparate traditions, of songs for singer and large ensemble from Mahler to Frank Sinatra, Elliott’s music is intimate, vulnerable, and deeply affecting.
Dylan Mattingly's (B.M., B. A., '14) Lighthouse (Refugee Music by a Pacific Expatriate) is inspired by the composer's hometown San Francisco Bay, while Finnegan Shanahan's (B.A., '14) Water Cycle (Music for a Hudson River Railroad Dream-Map) reflects on the river that stretches from New York City up through Shanahan’s native Hudson Valley.
Impulses, by Brazilian composer and Contemporaneous clarinetist Vicente Alexim, is marked by high-energy bursts to propel and shape its dramatic transformations. Contrasting with this is the serene beauty of Still Life for Ensemble by Contemporaneous percussionist Matt Evans.
Da Capo Chamber Players, in collaboration with the Music Program at Bard, present “New-Fashioned,” a concert of new works and world premieres.
Monday, March 9, 2015 8–10 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building Bard faculty member Erica Lindsay’s piece “Further Explorations” will receive its premiere in a new version written for Da Capo, alongside a new work by Bard jazz student Kevin Hickey ’17. Also featured are three works that were written expressly for Da Capo within the last eight months: “if blues were green,” by Noach Lundgren ’16; “Dvash,” by Daniel Zlatkin ’17; and “Toccata, Recits, and Aria,” by Clint Needham.
The Da Capo Chamber Players are Curtis Macomber, violin; Patricia Spencer, flute; Meighan Stoops, clarinet; Gregory Hesselink, guest cellist; and Blair McMillen, piano. Also performing will be Erica Lindsay, tenor saxophone; Carolyn Hietter, alto-saxophone; Noach Lundgren ’16, electric bass; Meilin Wei ’19, percussion; Kevin Hickey ’17, guitar; Julian Lampert, contrabass; and Jonathan Collazo ’18, drums.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
Henderson 106 The energy industry is in transition. Technological innovation and increasing competitiveness of renewable energy resources, combined with aging infrastructure, extreme weather events, and system security and resiliency needs, are all leading to significant changes in our electricity system.
In April 2014, Governor Cuomo announced a process to re-make the way energy is produced, sold, purchased, and used in New York State. The initiative, called "Reforming the Energy Vision" (REV), will align electric utility practices and the NY Public Service Commission’s regulatory model with technological advances that have created alternatives to traditional solutions to meeting electricity demand.
Bard College invites you to attend a panel on March 3rd to learn about the REV Proceedings and to hear from representatives from four key stakeholder organizations how their organizations are responding to the REV, what it represents for the current system, and what impact it will likely have on the future of energy production, distribution, and consumption in New York.
Panelists: Rudy Stegemoeller, New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) Tom Rumsey, New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) Guy Sliker, New York Power Authority (NYPA) Joe Hally, Central HudsonSponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail phillips@bard.edu.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Bard Community Gospel Choir is a choral singing group founded to celebrate the Spirit in song. Drawing from the rich tradition of African-American gospel music, the ensemble also performs spiritual songs inspired by global music, musical theater, and popular music traditions. For more information, please to contact Nicholas Lewis at nlewis@bard.edu or by calling 845-752-4775.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The End of Labor Unions. So what? Presented by David Kettler
The industrial movement of organized labor, in the United States as in most modernized nations, was arguably among the most consequential political developments of the twentieth century. If one reads the most authoritative political science studies of the 1970s, the key characterizations would have to do with the "welfare rights" institutionalized in the "welfare state," the universal rise in living standards ("new middle class") and the "pluralist" or "neo-corporatist" modes of democracy that built and sustained those arrangements. This reading was as pervasive among conservative or radical critics as it was in the "mainstream" of informed political commentary. To the extent that these readings were more than ideological counters to the Communist ideological threat, they were accurate. And the better analysts knew that these arrangements were first of all a function of the place that organized labor had at various key bargaining tables. If one looks at the present day labor union statistics in the places where they were a major factor, they have effectively ceased to matter, except in Scandinavia. The question why? is a subject of specialized studies. The question what then? is an urgent topic among union professionals and intellectuals. But the modest topic of my talk is to share some indicators of the change, and to discuss some consequences.
Faculty and staff are invited to join us at 6:30 p.m. for a reception in the Olin Atrium prior to the event.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7490, or e-mail jcerulli@bard.edu.
Gospel Music Workshop with Guest Artist Damien Sneed
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 7–9 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents From 7:00 to 7:30pm there will be a pizza reception, followed by a workshop with Damien Sneed and our weekly Bard Community Gospel Choir rehearsal. This event is open to everyone in the Bard community, even if they have never been to a gospel choir rehearsal. We would love any and all to come and sing! Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail msonevyt@bard.edu.
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Carolee Schneemann, multidisciplinary artist. Bard College alumna, Class of 1959. Transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body. Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Bard Theater and Performance Program; Film and Electronic Arts Program; Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-4658, or e-mail akitnick@bard.edu.
Pinar Kemerli, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Studies, Bard College; former Lecturer at Bogaziçi University.
Cenk Sidar, Founder and Managing Director, Sidar GlobalAdvisors; foreign policy and economic advisor to the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the main opposition party in Turkey’s Grand National Assembly; frequent contributor to various outlets including Hurriyet Daily News, Radikal and Reflections Turkey.
Respondent and Moderator:
Nesrin Ersoy McMeekin, Lecturer in Social Studies, Bard College; former Lecturer in History, Koc University; and author of Turkey and the Bolsheviks: Relations between Kemalist Turkey and Bolshevik Russia during the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1922).
The James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series is cosponsored by Foreign Affairs. It is free and open to the public by RSVP.
Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
Hudson Valley Food + Policy Initiative Keynote: Michael Rozyne - Making Food (and Agriculture) Better: What Difference Can Bard Make?
Thursday, March 12, 2015 7:30–9 pm
Bard College Campus Micheal Rozyne, cofounder of Equal Exchange and executive director of Red Tomato, will focus on the challenges to building a local, sustainable food economy and the role that young people can play in changing the future of agriculture. Rozyne’s company, Red Tomato, connects farmers and consumers through marketing, trade, and education, and through a passionate belief that a family-farm, locally based, ecological, fair trade food system is the way to a better tomato.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
The Institute of Advanced Theology 2015 Lenten Lecture Series title: "Jesus: in his own terms"
Friday, March 13, 2015 12:30–1:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Institute of Advanced Theology will host the 2015 Lenten Lecture Series, "Jesus: in his own terms," led by Bruce Chilton. A brief descrition follows.
Research during the past two decades has brought Jesus into focus as a rabbi within Judaism, whose influence produced a new religious system. The series this Lent will identify five new insights, confirmed by the most recent scholarship, which illuninate the emergence and the future of Christianity as never before.
The IAT Lenten lecture series will be held on the following five Fridays: February 27, March 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th at the Bard College Chapel of the Holy Innocents.
The presentation is free and will begin at 12:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period.
Lunch will be at noon. For lunch, we will be providing box lunches, and there will be a cost that will be determined at a later time. Lunch reservations are required and can be made by calling 845-758-7279.
Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail desmond@bard.edu.
Olin Humanities and Olin Language Center Sometimes a contemporary novel finds its way immediately into the classroom. Junot Díaz’sThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Waois, among other things, one of those novels. Challenging the canon even as it immediately slots itself into that niche,Waoprovides a crash-course in the recent, violent history of the Dominican Republic, and serves as a means to understanding immigration, exile, and return. Oscar, the ultimate outsider hero, is an overweight, nerdy Dominican teenager, transplanted to New Jersey. No one gets him—he has no friends, no chance with girls, and his family is a financial and emotional mess—but he’s smart and somehow greater than his situation. In creating such a layered text—complete with extended footnotes, shifting points of view, and withering, hilarious dialogue—author Junot Díaz asks readers to consider how this boy’s journey relates to two nations’ official and unofficial histories.
IWT Curriculum Conversations foster innovative approaches to the teaching and reading of texts that contribute to our contemporary sense of an evolving American self. Using writing-to-learn strategies, the day’s workshops will encourage participants to consider several important questions: How does the novel’s use of varieties of diction—Spanglish, academic English, gaming jargon—tell us something new about how history is, or might be, written? How does nerd culture cross the boundaries of immigrant and exile cultures? And how might we situate Díaz’s stylistically- and structurally-innovative novel in relation to other classics of multicultural literature?
Writing-to-learn practices are the starting point for a rigorous reading of the text through the lens of contemporary and historical nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.
This series of one-day workshop for teachers of all subjects will:
Explore how unexpected pairings of a variety of genres, including poetry, drama, and essay, with a major key text of the curriculum reorients and reinvigorates our reading of the text
Offer specific, take-away writing strategies for teaching the text next to historical, economic, and sociological documents—including primary documents—enabling truly cross-disciplinary collaboration with colleagues
Provide an opportunity for participants to share their current curricula with each other and engage in cross-disciplinary planning with a team of teachers from their own or other schools.
8:30am-4:30pm BARD COLLEGE Workshop fee: $250 (includes morning coffee, lunch, and anthology of related readings) PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTERPlease sign up for our mailing list.
Olin Hall Students from the Preparatory Division in concert.
The Preparatory Division of The Bard College Conservatory of Music offers young people between the ages of 2 and 18 the joy of studying music in the context of a first-class conservatory. The early study of music brings important benefits to young people, touching many areas of their lives: language, motor and social skills, and an appreciation for the value of diligent effort. Most important, music enriches the young person's life and provides a lifetime of enjoyment.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail bardprep@bard.edu.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Bard Community Gospel Choir is a choral singing group founded to celebrate the Spirit in song. Drawing from the rich tradition of African-American gospel music, the ensemble also performs spiritual songs inspired by global music, musical theater, and popular music traditions. For more information, please to contact Nicholas Lewis at nlewis@bard.edu or by calling 845-752-4775.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The Institute of Advanced Theology 2015 Lenten Lecture Series title: "Jesus: in his own terms"
Friday, March 20, 2015 12:30–1:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Institute of Advanced Theology will host the 2015 Lenten Lecture Series, "Jesus: in his own terms," led by Bruce Chilton. A brief descrition follows.
Research during the past two decades has brought Jesus into focus as a rabbi within Judaism, whose influence produced a new religious system. The series this Lent will identify five new insights, confirmed by the most recent scholarship, which illuninate the emergence and the future of Christianity as never before.
The IAT Lenten lecture series will be held on the following five Fridays: February 27, March 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th at the Bard College Chapel of the Holy Innocents.
The presentation is free and will begin at 12:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period.
Lunch will be at noon. For lunch, we will be providing box lunches, and there will be a cost that will be determined at a later time. Lunch reservations are required and can be made by calling 845-758-7279.
Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail desmond@bard.edu.
Honey Field The doubleheader against St. Lawrence University marks the first varsity baseball games in Annandale since 1937! It's Honey Field's debut! Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building Students from the Preparatory Division in concert.
The Preparatory Division of The Bard College Conservatory of Music offers young people between the ages of 2 and 18 the joy of studying music in the context of a first-class conservatory. The early study of music brings important benefits to young people, touching many areas of their lives: language, motor and social skills, and an appreciation for the value of diligent effort. Most important, music enriches the young person's life and provides a lifetime of enjoyment.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail bardprep@bard.edu.
Honey Field Bard completes a four-game set against St. Lawrence University with two more Liberty League games. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Ana María León Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Monumentality for the Masses"
Monday, March 23, 2015 4 pm
Preston
This lecture examines a series of texts, images, and architectural projects produced in 1930s and 1940s Argentina, and how they participated in the intellectual, poetic, and spatial construction of the city of Buenos Aires as both a real and imaginary site. Casa Amarilla, an unbuilt housing project designed by Antonio Bonet, brings together these various works in the context of the city's population growth and the country's unsteady politics. I argue Casa Amarilla countered the centralized power of the Argentinian state by shifting formal characteristics of monumentality and centrality from the elites to the disenfranchised masses, and inserting them into the city.
Sponsored by: Art History Program; Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail mcdonald@bard.edu.
Film Screening, A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake and Director's Discussion by Michael Lessac
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 6:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema You are invited to join us in a special screening of the film, A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake , and a lively discussion led by the Director and Producer, Michael Lessac, founder of Global Arts Corps. The film recently had its US premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival in October 2014, where it received Honorable Mention for Best Feature Documentary and Honorable Mention for Best Editing on a Feature Documentary.
Film Synopsis: A diverse group of South African actors tours the war-torn regions of Northern Ireland, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia to share their country's experiment with reconciliation. As they ignite a dialogue among people with raw memories of atrocity, the actors find they must once again confront their homeland's violent past, and question their own capacity for healing and forgiveness. Featuring never-before-heard original music by jazz legend Hugh Masekela. To watch the official trailer, click here.
Date: 3/24/2015 Location: Weis Cinema 6:30pm Film Screening 8:30pm Discussion, led by Director, Michael Lessac and Producer Jackie Lessac
Pizza & Popcorn will be served!
Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; American Studies Program; Anthropology Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project.
For more information, call 845-758-7878, or e-mail arendt@bard.edu.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Bard Community Gospel Choir is a choral singing group founded to celebrate the Spirit in song. Drawing from the rich tradition of African-American gospel music, the ensemble also performs spiritual songs inspired by global music, musical theater, and popular music traditions. For more information, please to contact Nicholas Lewis at nlewis@bard.edu or by calling 845-752-4775.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Bard Hall Ethel Raim (vocals) is a leading performer and teacher of the unaccompanied women’s Yiddish folksong tradition and is widely recognized for her expertise in both Yiddish and Balkan vocal traditions. She has had a distinguished career as a performer, workshop leader/singing teacher and recording artist for the Elektra/Nonesuch labels. She has taught unaccompanied Yiddish singing at KlezKamp, KlezKanada, Yiddish Summer Weimar, and at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Ms. Raim is additionally the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of New York's Center for Traditional Music and Dance (CTMD), one of the nation's preeminent traditional arts organizations. Through CTMD, she has worked closely with thousands of master immigrant musicians and dancers to assist them in preserving and presenting the traditions of their communities. In 1962 she co-founded and was musical director of the renowned Pennywhistlers, the all women's vocal ensemble that was among the first to bring traditional women’s singing traditions from the Balkans and East Europe to the North American folk music world. Formerly a research assistant to pioneering ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, from 1965 to 1975 Raim served as Music Editor of Sing Out! Magazine and additionally edited a number of important folksong collections. At CTMD, Raim has curated and overseen the production of hundreds of artistic presentations, as well as publications, recordings and film documentaries, and has developed many of the innovative program models for which CTMD is best known, including Community Cultural Initiatives - designed to establish and nurture community-based documentation, presentation, education, and cultural preservation in New York's immigrant communities. Raim received the prestigious American Folklore Society’s Benjamin Botkin Award in 2012 in recognition of her career impact on the field of public sector folklore.
This event will begin at Bard Hall at 1:15 with a brief lecture by Professor Cecile Kunitz on the Yiddish folklore collected during ethnographic expeditions spearheaded by S. An-sky in the Pale of Jewish Settlement, 1912-1914.
The workshop will focus on unaccompanied Yiddish folksong with material drawn from the repertoires and style of traditional East European-born singers. Raim will primarily teach lyric love songs, the kind young girls often learned from their mothers, aunts and older sisters in pre-WW II Eastern Europe. She will emphasize vocal style, ornamentation and pronunciation, and will work to assist participants to hone their singing style and authentic expression. This workshop is open to all, but participants should be musically and linguistically prepared to really dig into the unaccompanied Yiddish folksong repertoire and style.
Co-sponsored by Jewish Studies and Bard Ethnomusicology.
Honey Field Bard hosts Elmira College in a non-league doubleheader. These games were postponed earlier this month. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Anna Zhelnina, Associate Professor, Smolny College, Russia Gagarin Human Rights Fellow, Bard College
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 5–6 pm
Olin, Room 102 In contemporary Russia, the transformation of political participation and disavowal of old political systems does not force people out of politics, but rather both changes the ways they participate and influences their living environments. One response to this change is DIY urbanism, a new form of contentious politics different from well-known Russian social movements. As citizens search for new ways to reclaim rights to their cities and to participate in decision making processes, often their attempts take the shape of creative initiatives and projects of direct action, not necessarily framed by political terms.
This talk will share a few examples of these ‘creative’ practices in urban activism, including street-art and grassroots initiatives using art and design to improve the urban environment. It will also argue that such initiatives can be analyzed as practices of Putin-era ‘neobohemians’, which do not succeed in reaching the wider urban public. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Human Rights Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4514, or e-mail jescott@bard.edu.
Etsy 55 Washington St. Brooklyn, NY 11201 Join the Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability for a visit to Etsy Headquarters in Brooklyn. Admissions staff, faculty, current students, applicants and prospects are invited to tour the office and meet Etsy's Sustainability Director for a discussion of the global marketplace's sustainability strategy.
Schedule:
5:30 Arrive at Etsy
5:30 - 6:00 Office Tour
6:00 Discussion with Etsy Sustainability Director
7:00 Prospective students and Applicants Info Session w/ Director Eban Goodstein
Dimming the Sun: How Clouds and Air Pollution Affect Global Climate
Beate Liepert Senior Research Scientist - Climate & Solar Energy NorthWest Research Associates
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 7 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema While anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are well known contributors to global warming, the additional impact of short-lived air pollution (e.g. anthropogenic aerosols) is not well understood. The potential for this air pollution to modify climate or even mask global warming will be introduced and the wider implications of aerosol-induced global dimming, including geoengineering prospects, will be discussed.
Beate Liepert is scientist and artist. Climate change and specifically the cycling of water and energy in a changing world are overarching themes of her research. Highlights of her research are the discovery of the phenomenon “global dimming”, which is the increase in atmospheric transparency, and its responsibility for masking parts of the global warming signal in the 20th century. She further pioneered research on the causes of dimming and its implications for the water and carbon cycle on Earth. Beate received a PhD in Meteorology from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany.
In 1996 she moved to New York City to become Doherty Research Scientist at Columbia University. Beate contributed a section on global dimming to the IPCC 4th Assessment Report “Scientific Basis” (chapter 3.4.4.2) that won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2007. While living in New York City, Beate attended the Certificate Program of Fine Arts at Parsons New School of Design. She moved to Seattle in 2009, and became partner and principal investigator at NorthWest Research Associates, a cooperative for basic and applied research.
Beate’s current research focuses on shifting weather patterns with global warming, and novel solar energy innovations. As artist Beate collaborates with the Seattle based artist, educator and designer Marisa Vitiello on a series of automatism drawings. In 2015 Marisa and Beate have been selected by Spaceworks Tacoma to do an installation in the downtown storefront program and in the Evergreen Association of Fine Arts Gallery Open Abstract Show in Seattle Washington.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2338, or e-mail edueker@bard.edu.
CMIA - Neorealism and the "Cinema of Poetry" (Public Discussion)
Thursday, March 26, 2015 1:30–4 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center Please join us for a public discussion withJoseph Luzzi (author of A Cinema of Poetry and Associate Professor of Italian Studies), John Pruitt (Associate Professor of Film and Electronic Arts), and Richard I. Suchenski on March 26th at 1:30 PM.
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule. Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
Olin Hall Bard celebrates its twenty-fifth year as publisher of the renowned literary journal Conjunctions with a special reading featuring Conjunctions contributors and editors and Bard faculty members Mary Caponegro, Benjamin Hale, Robert Kelly, Ann Lauterbach, Bradford Morrow, and Francine Prose.
Note that Neil Gaiman regrets that he will not be able to participate as previously announced.
The preeminent source for the best in innovative, provocative fiction, poetry, and narrative nonfiction, Conjunctions is edited by Bradford Morrow, Bard Center Fellow and professor of literature, and the winner of the PEN/Nora Magid Award for editorial excellence. The anniversary is also marked by a special exhibition at Stevenson Library.
The reading takes place March 26 at 7pm in Olin Hall and is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required.
Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail mmorriss@bard.edu.
The Institute of Advanced Theology 2015 Lenten Lecture Series title: "Jesus: in his own terms"
Friday, March 27, 2015 12:30–1:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Institute of Advanced Theology will host the 2015 Lenten Lecture Series, "Jesus: in his own terms," led by Bruce Chilton. A brief descrition follows.
Research during the past two decades has brought Jesus into focus as a rabbi within Judaism, whose influence produced a new religious system. The series this Lent will identify five new insights, confirmed by the most recent scholarship, which illuninate the emergence and the future of Christianity as never before.
The IAT Lenten lecture series will be held on the following five Fridays: February 27, March 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th at the Bard College Chapel of the Holy Innocents.
The presentation is free and will begin at 12:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period.
Lunch will be at noon. For lunch, we will be providing box lunches, and there will be a cost that will be determined at a later time. Lunch reservations are required and can be made by calling 845-758-7279.
Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail desmond@bard.edu.
An evening of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program. Join us to celebrate the invention and talent of these young theater-makers in this annual festival, which culminates their four years of study with distinguished faculty and visiting artists.
PROGRAM A (in order of performance)
Like the Moon Camille Weisgant
Without Prospero: A Staged Reading Samuel Robotham
Love Rage Zoë Elders
Vincent Patrick Dwyer
I'm Scared of the Colors [or At Least We Tried] Marissa Shadburn
Program A Friday, 3/27, 6:30pm -10:30pm Saturday, 3/28, 12:00pm - 4:00pm Sunday, 3/29, 6:30pm -10:30pm
PROGRAM B (in order of performance)
Puff Piece Pass Michael Kulukundis
Just Another Block Marisol Crawford
Holy Thieves Jordan Bodwell
Conversations in this River ValleyCydney Chase
Pasiphaë Ezra San MIllan
Program B Saturday, 3/28, 6:30pm -10:30pm Sunday, 3/29, 12:00pm - 4:00pm Monday, 3/30, 6:30pm -10:30pm
Sustainable Business Fridays: Hospitality and Supply Chain For Good
Jeffrey Amoscato
Vice President of Supply Chain and Menu Innovation
Friday, March 27, 2015 12–1 pm
Join the Bard MBA in Sustainability program for our twice-monthly dial-in conversation series over your lunchtime featuring sustainability leaders from the New York City area and across the planet.
On March 27th we spoke with Jeffrey Amoscato, Vice President of Supply Chain and Menu Innovation, Shake Shack about Hospitality and Supply Chain For Good Check out the Shake Shack, Stand for Something Good blog:
"We stand for something good in everything we do, which also means thoughtful and sustainable design of every Shack, community support through donations and programming, and hand-picked music played in each Shack (because a burger tastes a little better with good tunes)."
Jeff holds an AOS in Culinary Arts and a BA in Food and Beverage Management, both from the New England Culinary Institute
You may listen to the entire conversation below or read an exerpt on GreenBiz.com.
Sustainable Business Fridays convenes every first and fourth Friday of the month during the semester, with special guests selected by students in the Bard MBA in Sustainability program. Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Weinberg Field, Vassar College The Raptors take on William Smith College in a Liberty League game to be held at Vassar College. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
An evening of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program. Join us to celebrate the invention and talent of these young theater-makers in this annual festival, which culminates their four years of study with distinguished faculty and visiting artists.
PROGRAM A (in order of performance)
Like the Moon Camille Weisgant
Without Prospero: A Staged Reading Samuel Robotham
Love Rage Zoë Elders
Vincent Patrick Dwyer
I'm Scared of the Colors [or At Least We Tried] Marissa Shadburn
Program A Friday, 3/27, 6:30pm -10:30pm Saturday, 3/28, 12:00pm - 4:00pm Sunday, 3/29, 6:30pm -10:30pm
PROGRAM B (in order of performance)
Puff Piece Pass Michael Kulukundis
Just Another Block Marisol Crawford
Holy Thieves Jordan Bodwell
Conversations in this River ValleyCydney Chase
Pasiphaë Ezra San MIllan
Program B Saturday, 3/28, 6:30pm -10:30pm Sunday, 3/29, 12:00pm - 4:00pm Monday, 3/30, 6:30pm -10:30pm
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Open House in New York City
Attendees receive $65 application fee waiver!
Saturday, March 28, 2015 10 am – 1 pm
New York City Join us in New York City for an Open House hosted by the Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability. Admissions staff, faculty, and current students will be on hand to provide an overview of the programs offered, answer questions, and share tips on how to make your application stand out.
This event will be held in our New York City classroom located at 1150 6th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10036. Click here to RSVP! Email Caitlin O'Donnell with any questions.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Dietz Stadium, Kingston The Bard College men's and women's lacrosse team host Liberty League teams in back-to-back games at Dietz Stadium in Kingston. At noon, the men's team will host nationally ranked Rochester Institute of Technology. The women's team takes on Union College at 3:30. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
An evening of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program. Join us to celebrate the invention and talent of these young theater-makers in this annual festival, which culminates their four years of study with distinguished faculty and visiting artists.
PROGRAM A (in order of performance)
Like the Moon Camille Weisgant
Without Prospero: A Staged Reading Samuel Robotham
Love Rage Zoë Elders
Vincent Patrick Dwyer
I'm Scared of the Colors [or At Least We Tried] Marissa Shadburn
Program A Friday, 3/27, 6:30pm -10:30pm Saturday, 3/28, 12:00pm - 4:00pm Sunday, 3/29, 6:30pm -10:30pm
PROGRAM B (in order of performance)
Puff Piece Pass Michael Kulukundis
Just Another Block Marisol Crawford
Holy Thieves Jordan Bodwell
Conversations in this River ValleyCydney Chase
Pasiphaë Ezra San MIllan
Program B Saturday, 3/28, 6:30pm -10:30pm Sunday, 3/29, 12:00pm - 4:00pm Monday, 3/30, 6:30pm -10:30pm
An evening of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program. Join us to celebrate the invention and talent of these young theater-makers in this annual festival, which culminates their four years of study with distinguished faculty and visiting artists.
PROGRAM A (in order of performance)
Like the Moon Camille Weisgant
Without Prospero: A Staged Reading Samuel Robotham
Love Rage Zoë Elders
Vincent Patrick Dwyer
I'm Scared of the Colors [or At Least We Tried] Marissa Shadburn
Program A Friday, 3/27, 6:30pm -10:30pm Saturday, 3/28, 12:00pm - 4:00pm Sunday, 3/29, 6:30pm -10:30pm
PROGRAM B (in order of performance)
Puff Piece Pass Michael Kulukundis
Just Another Block Marisol Crawford
Holy Thieves Jordan Bodwell
Conversations in this River ValleyCydney Chase
Pasiphaë Ezra San MIllan
Program B Saturday, 3/28, 6:30pm -10:30pm Sunday, 3/29, 12:00pm - 4:00pm Monday, 3/30, 6:30pm -10:30pm
From Play to Opera: Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck and Alban Berg’s Wozzeck
Presented by Christopher Gibbs, Bard College
Alban Berg’s opera Wozzeck is hardly easy listening, either at its 1925 premiere in Berlin or today. Yet from the very beginning not only did composers, performers, and critics embrace the work, but so too did a much broader public. Various factors contribute to its enduring success and potent influence. One is the compelling story and brilliant libretto. Georg Büchner’s unfinished play Woyzeck, which Berg adapted, dates from 1837, the year the playwright died at age 23. From Büchner’s scattered fragments, Berg crafted a tightly organized work of musical theater. This lecture will consider the process of transformation from words to music and include screenings of selected scenes of both the play and opera.
Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.
For more information, call 845-758-7490, or e-mail jcerulli@bard.edu.
Building the Case: Design and Media at the International Military Tribunal, c. 1945
Olga Touloumi, Harvard University
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 4:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center, Lecture Hall A During four short months in the summer of 1945, the Office of Strategic Services, IBM, and landscape architect Dan Kiley prepared Courtroom 600 for the Nuremberg Trials. Planned as a “world spectacle,” the project required a wide mobilization of resources and technologies that crossed national and institutional boundaries. Scholars have extensively discussed the legal and diplomatic history of the International Military Tribunal, along with its implications for international law in the post-World War II period, but little attention has been paid to the position of the courtroom itself in this seminal event.
This lecture will unravel the role of design and architecture in the Nuremberg Trials, explaining that both served to produce international law as an integral component of the world organization that the United Nations announced. By looking into the series of projects that led to the final courtroom design, I will discuss the debates on representation, mediation, and participation that informed this interior. Ultimately, I argue, in the Nuremberg Courtroom designers and officials reconceived architecture as a mobile technology to transfer and implement models of legal space across expansive and contested networks of global communication. Sponsored by: Art History Program; Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail mcdonald@bard.edu.
Becoming States: Reflections on Faltering State-Building in Central Asia
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 5:30 pm
Hegeman 204 Emil Dzhuraev Center for Civic Engagement Teaching Fellow Associate Professor, International and Comparative Politics American University of Central Asia
As the five Central Asian states approach their first twenty-five years of independence, just how far they have gone toward modern statehood is an issue opened up to questions by a growing number of studies in politics of the region. While many outward traits of statehood have been easily adopted and looked becoming to these countries, a closer look reveals how problematic it has been for all five of them to actually become viable and stable states. The challenges these countries have faced, represented under the common rubric of their "post-soviet condition," allow some critical reflections on the predicament of modern state-building—or, of political constitution. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Global and International Studies Program; Political Studies Program; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
“Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict,” a talk by Stephen Ferry
A This event is organized by the Human Rights Project and the Photography program.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 6:30 pm
Olin, Room 102 Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict documents Colombia’s internal armed conflict with a focus on human rights and the struggle of Colombian civilians to resist the violence, often at great risk to their own lives. The project also looks at the history and current dynamics of the war in Colombia, while exposing the role of the distinct parties in the conflict.This project was supported by the Tim Hetherington Grant, a joint initiative of World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch. To read more about the project, visit the WorldPressPhoto website. You can also visit the Violentology website. You can also hear Stephen Ferry interviewed by Maria Hinojosa last November on NPR.
Since the late 1980s, Stephen has traveled to dozens of countries, covering social and political change, human rights, and the environment. He has contributed to the New York Times, GEO, TIME, National Geographic and many other publications. Stephen also works as a visual investigator with Human Rights Watch.
Stephen’s work has received numerous prizes in international photographic contests, such as World Press Photo, Picture of the Year and Best of Photojournalism. He has received grants and fellowships from the National Geographic Expeditions Council, the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the Howard Chapnick Fund, the Knight International Press Fellowship, the Getty Images Grant for Good grant, the Open Society Foundations and the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund. Visit his website.
Sponsored by: Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; Photography Program.
Film Screening: Victory over The Sun (St. Petersburg, 1913)
A Special Screening of Robert Benedetti's Documentary About Reconstruting the First Futurist Opera, Victory over the Sun
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 7–9 pm
Preston Theater, 110 This screening is in conjunction with Prof. Minin's course, "The Language of the Silver Age and the Avant-Garde," and Prof. Felton-Dansky's course, "20th Century Avant-Garde Performance."
Be there! or be a black square First time ever at Bard
Preceding the screening is a celebration of Kazimir Malevich and the Centenary of Suprematism. The Suprematism celebration will commence with the cutting of a Suprematist cake accompanied by a performance of music from Victory over the Sun as a musical background. This will be followed by the tasting of Malevich-design inspired cookies, bite-size Black Squares and self-service of a variety of teas. Photo ops in front of the wooden cutouts of the Malevich-design-inspired figures of characters from Victory over the Sun will also be available. Bring your cameras!
A discussion of the documentary and the opera will follow the screening. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Russian Art & Culture Project, Russian Club, Theater and Performance; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Conservatory Sundays Bard College Conservatory Orchestra
Jeffrey Milarsky, guest conductor
Sunday, March 1, 2015 3 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Led by guest conductor Jeffrey Milarsky, the program includes John Adams’s Dr. Atomic Symphony, Samuel Barber’s First Essay for orchestra, and two world premieres by Bard students Adan Zuckerman ’15 and Andres Martinez de Velasco ’15. For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu, or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu.
Stevenson Library In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the publishing partnership between Bard and the innovative literary journal Conjunctions, the Stevenson Library presents a special exhibition of issues and ephemera from the journal's archive, including artwork by Brice Marden and Francesco Clemente, the first publication of material from David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (with a never-reprinted introduction by the author), unpublished cover mock-ups, and more.Sponsored by: Stevenson Library.
The National Book Award–winning author of The News from Paraguay, Siam, I Married You for Happiness, and other books of fiction and biography reads from her work.
Monday, March 2, 2015 2:30–4 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Introduced by Bradford Morrow, this event is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations required.
"Tuck is a genius with moments … Her ability to capture beauty will remind readers of Margaret Yourcenar and Marguerite Duras." —Los Angeles Book Review
Born in Paris, LILY TUCK is the author of four previous novels: Interviewing Matisse, or the Woman Who Died Standing Up; The Woman Who Walked on Water; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, which was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and The News from Paraguay, winner of the National Book Award. She is also the author of the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and are collected in Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived. Sponsored by: Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail mmorriss@bard.edu.
Olin Humanities and Olin LC This first symposium consists of presentations that students develop in section-based research groups that explore some aspect of the broad intellectual and cultural context in which a particular text was written.
It is an opportunity for students and faculty to come together in a vibrant atmosphere of intellectual and creative exchange to investigate and test the ideas explored in the classroom. Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.
For more information, call 845-758-7490, or e-mail jcerulli@bard.edu.
Hegeman 102 What is behind the revival of tradition in modernizing China?
The presentation discusses the various interpretations of Confucianism which have prevailed during different historical eras, as well as the contemporary significance of Confucianism in China, East Asia, and the world. Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Religion Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7545, or e-mail ying@bard.edu.
Coups, Cadavers, and Catastrophes: The Persian Gulf in the New Year
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 5:30–6:30 pm
Preston The Persian Gulf region is never quiet, and the start of 2015 has been no exception: the death of the Saudi King; the collapse of the Yemeni government; the continued expansion of ISIS; and the new necessity of collaborating and negotiating with Iran, all foreshadow a year of major change, turmoil, and power shifts.
Join James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities Walter Russell Mead, Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA) Director Jonathan Cristol, and Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern & Historical Studies Omar Cheta for a discussion of the current/latest instability in the Persian Gulf and its impact on both American grand strategy and specific policy decisions in the region. Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program; Center for Civic Engagement; Historical Studies Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program; Political Studies Program.
Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex: The Invention of Heterosexuality in Ancient Rome
Anthony Philip Corbeill
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 6 pm
Olin, Room 102 This talk explores how the daily use by Latin speakers of a single linguistic category—grammatical gender—cultivates a sensitivity to the role of biological sex in Roman perceptions of both the human and more-than-human realms. The presentation has four parts: first, a demonstration that ancient scholars viewed grammatical gender as intricately connected with biological sex, even in the case of inanimate nouns; next the ways in which an awareness of this identification of grammar with biology enhances appreciation of Roman poetry; third, how the Romans imagined their earliest gods; and, finally, Roman attitudes toward human hermaphrodites and their visual representation. No knowledge of Latin, or of ancient Rome, is necessary.
A Lecture by Anthony Philip Corbeill Professor of Classics, University of Kansas Blegen Research Fellow, Vassar College
Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Classical Studies Program; Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; Language and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail minsky@bard.edu.
Dave Battisti, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, and Tamaki Endowed Chair, University of Washington
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 12–1 pm
Albee B102
David Battisti is The Tamaki Endowed Chair of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. David received a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences (1988) from the University of Washington. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin until 1990. Since then, he has been on the Faculty in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, and has served as the Director of JISAO (1997-2003) and of the UW's Earth Initiative (2003-2006).
Battisti's research is focused on understanding the natural variability of the climate system. He is especially interested in understanding how the interactions between the ocean, atmosphere, land and sea ice lead to variability in climate on time scales from seasonal to decades. His previous research includes coastal oceanography, the physics of the El Nino/Southern Osciallation (ENSO) phenomenon, midlatitude atmosphere/ocean variability and variability in the coupled atmosphere/sea ice system in the Arctic. Battisti is presently working to improve the El Nino models and their forecast skill, to understand the mechanisms responsible for the drought cycles in the Sahel, and to better understand the monsoons. He is also working on the impacts of climate variability and climate change on food production in Mexico, Indonesia and China.
Battisti's recent interests are in paleoclimate: in particular, the mechanisms responsible for the remarkable "abrupt" global climate changes evident throughout the last glacial period.
Battisti has served on numerous international science panels, on Committees of the National Research Council. He served for five years as co-chair of the Science Steering Committee for the U.S. Program on Climate (US CLIVAR) and is co-author of several international science plans. He has published over 100 papers in peer-review journals in atmospheric sciences and oceanography, and twice been awarded distinguished teaching awards.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
CMIA - The Poetics of Montage: a Conversation with Bernard Eisenschitz
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 1:30–4 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center Please join us for a public discussion with French critic and scholar Bernard Eisenschitz about Jean-Luc Godard, montage, and international cinema in the theater beginning at 1:30 PM.
This event is co-sponsored with the French Studies Program.
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule. Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
Public Debate: Should Hate Speech Be Criminalized?
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 7–8:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Should there be limits to the freedom of speech? Or should the freedom of speech be defended and protected at all costs, even when speech becomes violent, racist, sexist, homophobic, etc.? Would a limitation on the freedom of speech necessarily be unconstitutional? Should hate speech be criminalized?
Please join us for a public debate in response to recent events all over the world that necessitate such a discussion.
Resolved: hate speech should be criminalized.
Sponsored by the Bard Debate Union and the Center for Civic Engagement.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Bard Community Gospel Choir is a choral singing group founded to celebrate the Spirit in song. Drawing from the rich tradition of African-American gospel music, the ensemble also performs spiritual songs inspired by global music, musical theater, and popular music traditions. For more information, please to contact Nicholas Lewis at nlewis@bard.edu or by calling 845-752-4775.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
BGIA (NYC) Barak Mendelsohn, Associate Professor of Political Science, Haverford College; Research Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Senior Fellow, Center for the Study ofTerrorism, Foreign Policy Research Institute; author ofExpansion and Decline: al-Qaeda's Branching Out Strategy and Its Consequences (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2015) and Combating Jihadism: American Hegemony and International Cooperation in the War on Terrorism (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
The James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series is cosponsored by Foreign Affairs. It is free and open to the public by RSVP.
“Follow Me Down: Portraits of Louisiana Prison Musicians”
Thursday, March 5, 2015 8 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Sponsored by: American Studies Program; Anthropology Program; Bard Ethnomusicology; Difference and Media Project; Experimental Humanities Program; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2405, or e-mail msonevyt@bard.edu.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreography by: Julia Bryck Naja Gordon Gwendolyn Knapp Autumn Rivers Susie Yugler Sophie Zega
Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.
Friday, March 6, 7:30pm Saturday, March 7, 2pm Saturday, March 7, 7:30pm Sunday, March 8, 4pm
Leon Botstein, conductor James Bagwell, chorus master
Friday, March 6, 2015 8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Preconcert talk at 7 pm by James Bagwell
Considered Haydn’s masterpiece, this large oratorio features members of the American Symphony Orchestra, Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, Bard Festival Chorale, Bard Chamber Singers, Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and Longy Chorale. Sponsored by: Fisher Center.
Sustainable Business Fridays: Corporate Sustainability Reporting, Assurance and Compliance
Kristen Sullivan
Deloitte US
Friday, March 6, 2015 12–1 pm
Join the Bard MBA in Sustainability program for our twice-monthly dial-in conversation series over your lunchtime featuring sustainability leaders from the New York City area and across the planet.
On March 6th we will be discussing corporate sustainability reporting, assurrance and compliance with Kristen Sullivan from Deloitte US.
Recently in an interview in the Wall Street Journal about challenges facing CFO's, conflict minerals and the SEC's Conflict Minerals rule, Sullivan had this to say in response the the question,
WSJ: "What are you telling CFOs where to begin and what are some of the implementation issues they face?"
KS: "In addition to finance, the group should include representatives from legal, procurement, supply chain, sustainability, public policy and investor relations to support the effort from a governance structure. From CFOs’ perspective, such broad representation may provide them confidence that they’ve taken the appropriate measures and are in a position to conclude and report in the filings."
Sustainable Business Fridays convenes every first and fourth Friday of the month during the semester, with special guests selected by students in the Bard MBA in Sustainability program. Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
The Institute of Advanced Theology 2015 Lenten Lecture Series title: "Jesus: in his own terms"
Friday, March 6, 2015 12:30–1:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Institute of Advanced Theology will host the 2015 Lenten Lecture Series, "Jesus: in his own terms," led by Bruce Chilton. A brief descrition follows.
Research during the past two decades has brought Jesus into focus as a rabbi within Judaism, whose influence produced a new religious system. The series this Lent will identify five new insights, confirmed by the most recent scholarship, which illuninate the emergence and the future of Christianity as never before.
The IAT Lenten lecture series will be held on the following five Fridays: February 27, March 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th at the Bard College Chapel of the Holy Innocents.
The presentation is free and will begin at 12:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period.
Lunch will be at noon. For lunch, we will be providing box lunches, and there will be a cost that will be determined at a later time. Lunch reservations are required and can be made by calling 845-758-7279.
Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail desmond@bard.edu.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreography by: Julia Bryck Naja Gordon Gwendolyn Knapp Autumn Rivers Susie Yugler Sophie Zega
Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.
Friday, March 6, 7:30pm Saturday, March 7, 2pm Saturday, March 7, 7:30pm Sunday, March 8, 4pm
Leon Botstein, conductor James Bagwell, chorus master
Saturday, March 7, 2015 8 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Preconcert talk at 7 pm by James Bagwell
Considered Haydn’s masterpiece, this large oratorio features members of the American Symphony Orchestra, Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, Bard Festival Chorale, Bard Chamber Singers, Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and Longy Chorale. Sponsored by: Fisher Center.
Stevenson Athletic Center Bard hosts Penn State-Behrend at 10 a.m., then New York University at 4 p.m. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreography by: Julia Bryck Naja Gordon Gwendolyn Knapp Autumn Rivers Susie Yugler Sophie Zega
Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the program.
Friday, March 6, 7:30pm Saturday, March 7, 2pm Saturday, March 7, 7:30pm Sunday, March 8, 4pm
Celebrating the fifth anniversary of the ensemble's first show at Bard, and featuring world premieres by Bard students and alumni!
Sunday, March 8, 2015 5–7 pm
Olin Hall Sunday, March 8, 2015 | 5:00 pm
Olin Hall | Bard College Free admission!
Self Portrait presents five works commissioned by Contemporaneous, including four world premieres and works by artists in the ensemble. The diverse pieces explore the rich, often complex, relationship between music and self-expression. Taken together, they offer a picture in sound of the ensemble at the present moment, informed by its history and imagining its future.
Tamzin Elliott (B.M., B.A., '16) whose work The New York Times has described as “effervescent” and “fresh,” has set her poetry to music in a new cycle of songs that feature soprano Lucy Dhegrae (M.M., '12). Drawing on disparate traditions, of songs for singer and large ensemble from Mahler to Frank Sinatra, Elliott’s music is intimate, vulnerable, and deeply affecting.
Dylan Mattingly's (B.M., B. A., '14) Lighthouse (Refugee Music by a Pacific Expatriate) is inspired by the composer's hometown San Francisco Bay, while Finnegan Shanahan's (B.A., '14) Water Cycle (Music for a Hudson River Railroad Dream-Map) reflects on the river that stretches from New York City up through Shanahan’s native Hudson Valley.
Impulses, by Brazilian composer and Contemporaneous clarinetist Vicente Alexim, is marked by high-energy bursts to propel and shape its dramatic transformations. Contrasting with this is the serene beauty of Still Life for Ensemble by Contemporaneous percussionist Matt Evans.
Da Capo Chamber Players, in collaboration with the Music Program at Bard, present “New-Fashioned,” a concert of new works and world premieres.
Monday, March 9, 2015 8–10 pm
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building Bard faculty member Erica Lindsay’s piece “Further Explorations” will receive its premiere in a new version written for Da Capo, alongside a new work by Bard jazz student Kevin Hickey ’17. Also featured are three works that were written expressly for Da Capo within the last eight months: “if blues were green,” by Noach Lundgren ’16; “Dvash,” by Daniel Zlatkin ’17; and “Toccata, Recits, and Aria,” by Clint Needham.
The Da Capo Chamber Players are Curtis Macomber, violin; Patricia Spencer, flute; Meighan Stoops, clarinet; Gregory Hesselink, guest cellist; and Blair McMillen, piano. Also performing will be Erica Lindsay, tenor saxophone; Carolyn Hietter, alto-saxophone; Noach Lundgren ’16, electric bass; Meilin Wei ’19, percussion; Kevin Hickey ’17, guitar; Julian Lampert, contrabass; and Jonathan Collazo ’18, drums.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
Henderson 106 The energy industry is in transition. Technological innovation and increasing competitiveness of renewable energy resources, combined with aging infrastructure, extreme weather events, and system security and resiliency needs, are all leading to significant changes in our electricity system.
In April 2014, Governor Cuomo announced a process to re-make the way energy is produced, sold, purchased, and used in New York State. The initiative, called "Reforming the Energy Vision" (REV), will align electric utility practices and the NY Public Service Commission’s regulatory model with technological advances that have created alternatives to traditional solutions to meeting electricity demand.
Bard College invites you to attend a panel on March 3rd to learn about the REV Proceedings and to hear from representatives from four key stakeholder organizations how their organizations are responding to the REV, what it represents for the current system, and what impact it will likely have on the future of energy production, distribution, and consumption in New York.
Panelists: Rudy Stegemoeller, New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) Tom Rumsey, New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) Guy Sliker, New York Power Authority (NYPA) Joe Hally, Central HudsonSponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail phillips@bard.edu.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Bard Community Gospel Choir is a choral singing group founded to celebrate the Spirit in song. Drawing from the rich tradition of African-American gospel music, the ensemble also performs spiritual songs inspired by global music, musical theater, and popular music traditions. For more information, please to contact Nicholas Lewis at nlewis@bard.edu or by calling 845-752-4775.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The End of Labor Unions. So what? Presented by David Kettler
The industrial movement of organized labor, in the United States as in most modernized nations, was arguably among the most consequential political developments of the twentieth century. If one reads the most authoritative political science studies of the 1970s, the key characterizations would have to do with the "welfare rights" institutionalized in the "welfare state," the universal rise in living standards ("new middle class") and the "pluralist" or "neo-corporatist" modes of democracy that built and sustained those arrangements. This reading was as pervasive among conservative or radical critics as it was in the "mainstream" of informed political commentary. To the extent that these readings were more than ideological counters to the Communist ideological threat, they were accurate. And the better analysts knew that these arrangements were first of all a function of the place that organized labor had at various key bargaining tables. If one looks at the present day labor union statistics in the places where they were a major factor, they have effectively ceased to matter, except in Scandinavia. The question why? is a subject of specialized studies. The question what then? is an urgent topic among union professionals and intellectuals. But the modest topic of my talk is to share some indicators of the change, and to discuss some consequences.
Faculty and staff are invited to join us at 6:30 p.m. for a reception in the Olin Atrium prior to the event.
Sponsored by: Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7490, or e-mail jcerulli@bard.edu.
Gospel Music Workshop with Guest Artist Damien Sneed
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 7–9 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents From 7:00 to 7:30pm there will be a pizza reception, followed by a workshop with Damien Sneed and our weekly Bard Community Gospel Choir rehearsal. This event is open to everyone in the Bard community, even if they have never been to a gospel choir rehearsal. We would love any and all to come and sing! Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail msonevyt@bard.edu.
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Carolee Schneemann, multidisciplinary artist. Bard College alumna, Class of 1959. Transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body. Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Bard Theater and Performance Program; Film and Electronic Arts Program; Studio Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-4658, or e-mail akitnick@bard.edu.
Pinar Kemerli, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Studies, Bard College; former Lecturer at Bogaziçi University.
Cenk Sidar, Founder and Managing Director, Sidar GlobalAdvisors; foreign policy and economic advisor to the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the main opposition party in Turkey’s Grand National Assembly; frequent contributor to various outlets including Hurriyet Daily News, Radikal and Reflections Turkey.
Respondent and Moderator:
Nesrin Ersoy McMeekin, Lecturer in Social Studies, Bard College; former Lecturer in History, Koc University; and author of Turkey and the Bolsheviks: Relations between Kemalist Turkey and Bolshevik Russia during the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1922).
The James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series is cosponsored by Foreign Affairs. It is free and open to the public by RSVP.
Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
Hudson Valley Food + Policy Initiative Keynote: Michael Rozyne - Making Food (and Agriculture) Better: What Difference Can Bard Make?
Thursday, March 12, 2015 7:30–9 pm
Bard College Campus Micheal Rozyne, cofounder of Equal Exchange and executive director of Red Tomato, will focus on the challenges to building a local, sustainable food economy and the role that young people can play in changing the future of agriculture. Rozyne’s company, Red Tomato, connects farmers and consumers through marketing, trade, and education, and through a passionate belief that a family-farm, locally based, ecological, fair trade food system is the way to a better tomato.Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
The Institute of Advanced Theology 2015 Lenten Lecture Series title: "Jesus: in his own terms"
Friday, March 13, 2015 12:30–1:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Institute of Advanced Theology will host the 2015 Lenten Lecture Series, "Jesus: in his own terms," led by Bruce Chilton. A brief descrition follows.
Research during the past two decades has brought Jesus into focus as a rabbi within Judaism, whose influence produced a new religious system. The series this Lent will identify five new insights, confirmed by the most recent scholarship, which illuninate the emergence and the future of Christianity as never before.
The IAT Lenten lecture series will be held on the following five Fridays: February 27, March 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th at the Bard College Chapel of the Holy Innocents.
The presentation is free and will begin at 12:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period.
Lunch will be at noon. For lunch, we will be providing box lunches, and there will be a cost that will be determined at a later time. Lunch reservations are required and can be made by calling 845-758-7279.
Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail desmond@bard.edu.
Olin Humanities and Olin Language Center Sometimes a contemporary novel finds its way immediately into the classroom. Junot Díaz’sThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Waois, among other things, one of those novels. Challenging the canon even as it immediately slots itself into that niche,Waoprovides a crash-course in the recent, violent history of the Dominican Republic, and serves as a means to understanding immigration, exile, and return. Oscar, the ultimate outsider hero, is an overweight, nerdy Dominican teenager, transplanted to New Jersey. No one gets him—he has no friends, no chance with girls, and his family is a financial and emotional mess—but he’s smart and somehow greater than his situation. In creating such a layered text—complete with extended footnotes, shifting points of view, and withering, hilarious dialogue—author Junot Díaz asks readers to consider how this boy’s journey relates to two nations’ official and unofficial histories.
IWT Curriculum Conversations foster innovative approaches to the teaching and reading of texts that contribute to our contemporary sense of an evolving American self. Using writing-to-learn strategies, the day’s workshops will encourage participants to consider several important questions: How does the novel’s use of varieties of diction—Spanglish, academic English, gaming jargon—tell us something new about how history is, or might be, written? How does nerd culture cross the boundaries of immigrant and exile cultures? And how might we situate Díaz’s stylistically- and structurally-innovative novel in relation to other classics of multicultural literature?
Writing-to-learn practices are the starting point for a rigorous reading of the text through the lens of contemporary and historical nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.
This series of one-day workshop for teachers of all subjects will:
Explore how unexpected pairings of a variety of genres, including poetry, drama, and essay, with a major key text of the curriculum reorients and reinvigorates our reading of the text
Offer specific, take-away writing strategies for teaching the text next to historical, economic, and sociological documents—including primary documents—enabling truly cross-disciplinary collaboration with colleagues
Provide an opportunity for participants to share their current curricula with each other and engage in cross-disciplinary planning with a team of teachers from their own or other schools.
8:30am-4:30pm BARD COLLEGE Workshop fee: $250 (includes morning coffee, lunch, and anthology of related readings) PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTERPlease sign up for our mailing list.
Olin Hall Students from the Preparatory Division in concert.
The Preparatory Division of The Bard College Conservatory of Music offers young people between the ages of 2 and 18 the joy of studying music in the context of a first-class conservatory. The early study of music brings important benefits to young people, touching many areas of their lives: language, motor and social skills, and an appreciation for the value of diligent effort. Most important, music enriches the young person's life and provides a lifetime of enjoyment.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail bardprep@bard.edu.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Bard Community Gospel Choir is a choral singing group founded to celebrate the Spirit in song. Drawing from the rich tradition of African-American gospel music, the ensemble also performs spiritual songs inspired by global music, musical theater, and popular music traditions. For more information, please to contact Nicholas Lewis at nlewis@bard.edu or by calling 845-752-4775.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The Institute of Advanced Theology 2015 Lenten Lecture Series title: "Jesus: in his own terms"
Friday, March 20, 2015 12:30–1:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Institute of Advanced Theology will host the 2015 Lenten Lecture Series, "Jesus: in his own terms," led by Bruce Chilton. A brief descrition follows.
Research during the past two decades has brought Jesus into focus as a rabbi within Judaism, whose influence produced a new religious system. The series this Lent will identify five new insights, confirmed by the most recent scholarship, which illuninate the emergence and the future of Christianity as never before.
The IAT Lenten lecture series will be held on the following five Fridays: February 27, March 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th at the Bard College Chapel of the Holy Innocents.
The presentation is free and will begin at 12:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period.
Lunch will be at noon. For lunch, we will be providing box lunches, and there will be a cost that will be determined at a later time. Lunch reservations are required and can be made by calling 845-758-7279.
Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail desmond@bard.edu.
Honey Field The doubleheader against St. Lawrence University marks the first varsity baseball games in Annandale since 1937! It's Honey Field's debut! Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building Students from the Preparatory Division in concert.
The Preparatory Division of The Bard College Conservatory of Music offers young people between the ages of 2 and 18 the joy of studying music in the context of a first-class conservatory. The early study of music brings important benefits to young people, touching many areas of their lives: language, motor and social skills, and an appreciation for the value of diligent effort. Most important, music enriches the young person's life and provides a lifetime of enjoyment.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail bardprep@bard.edu.
Honey Field Bard completes a four-game set against St. Lawrence University with two more Liberty League games. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Ana María León Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Monumentality for the Masses"
Monday, March 23, 2015 4 pm
Preston
This lecture examines a series of texts, images, and architectural projects produced in 1930s and 1940s Argentina, and how they participated in the intellectual, poetic, and spatial construction of the city of Buenos Aires as both a real and imaginary site. Casa Amarilla, an unbuilt housing project designed by Antonio Bonet, brings together these various works in the context of the city's population growth and the country's unsteady politics. I argue Casa Amarilla countered the centralized power of the Argentinian state by shifting formal characteristics of monumentality and centrality from the elites to the disenfranchised masses, and inserting them into the city.
Sponsored by: Art History Program; Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail mcdonald@bard.edu.
Film Screening, A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake and Director's Discussion by Michael Lessac
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 6:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema You are invited to join us in a special screening of the film, A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake , and a lively discussion led by the Director and Producer, Michael Lessac, founder of Global Arts Corps. The film recently had its US premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival in October 2014, where it received Honorable Mention for Best Feature Documentary and Honorable Mention for Best Editing on a Feature Documentary.
Film Synopsis: A diverse group of South African actors tours the war-torn regions of Northern Ireland, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia to share their country's experiment with reconciliation. As they ignite a dialogue among people with raw memories of atrocity, the actors find they must once again confront their homeland's violent past, and question their own capacity for healing and forgiveness. Featuring never-before-heard original music by jazz legend Hugh Masekela. To watch the official trailer, click here.
Date: 3/24/2015 Location: Weis Cinema 6:30pm Film Screening 8:30pm Discussion, led by Director, Michael Lessac and Producer Jackie Lessac
Pizza & Popcorn will be served!
Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; American Studies Program; Anthropology Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project.
For more information, call 845-758-7878, or e-mail arendt@bard.edu.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Bard Community Gospel Choir is a choral singing group founded to celebrate the Spirit in song. Drawing from the rich tradition of African-American gospel music, the ensemble also performs spiritual songs inspired by global music, musical theater, and popular music traditions. For more information, please to contact Nicholas Lewis at nlewis@bard.edu or by calling 845-752-4775.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Bard Hall Ethel Raim (vocals) is a leading performer and teacher of the unaccompanied women’s Yiddish folksong tradition and is widely recognized for her expertise in both Yiddish and Balkan vocal traditions. She has had a distinguished career as a performer, workshop leader/singing teacher and recording artist for the Elektra/Nonesuch labels. She has taught unaccompanied Yiddish singing at KlezKamp, KlezKanada, Yiddish Summer Weimar, and at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Ms. Raim is additionally the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of New York's Center for Traditional Music and Dance (CTMD), one of the nation's preeminent traditional arts organizations. Through CTMD, she has worked closely with thousands of master immigrant musicians and dancers to assist them in preserving and presenting the traditions of their communities. In 1962 she co-founded and was musical director of the renowned Pennywhistlers, the all women's vocal ensemble that was among the first to bring traditional women’s singing traditions from the Balkans and East Europe to the North American folk music world. Formerly a research assistant to pioneering ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, from 1965 to 1975 Raim served as Music Editor of Sing Out! Magazine and additionally edited a number of important folksong collections. At CTMD, Raim has curated and overseen the production of hundreds of artistic presentations, as well as publications, recordings and film documentaries, and has developed many of the innovative program models for which CTMD is best known, including Community Cultural Initiatives - designed to establish and nurture community-based documentation, presentation, education, and cultural preservation in New York's immigrant communities. Raim received the prestigious American Folklore Society’s Benjamin Botkin Award in 2012 in recognition of her career impact on the field of public sector folklore.
This event will begin at Bard Hall at 1:15 with a brief lecture by Professor Cecile Kunitz on the Yiddish folklore collected during ethnographic expeditions spearheaded by S. An-sky in the Pale of Jewish Settlement, 1912-1914.
The workshop will focus on unaccompanied Yiddish folksong with material drawn from the repertoires and style of traditional East European-born singers. Raim will primarily teach lyric love songs, the kind young girls often learned from their mothers, aunts and older sisters in pre-WW II Eastern Europe. She will emphasize vocal style, ornamentation and pronunciation, and will work to assist participants to hone their singing style and authentic expression. This workshop is open to all, but participants should be musically and linguistically prepared to really dig into the unaccompanied Yiddish folksong repertoire and style.
Co-sponsored by Jewish Studies and Bard Ethnomusicology.
Honey Field Bard hosts Elmira College in a non-league doubleheader. These games were postponed earlier this month. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
Anna Zhelnina, Associate Professor, Smolny College, Russia Gagarin Human Rights Fellow, Bard College
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 5–6 pm
Olin, Room 102 In contemporary Russia, the transformation of political participation and disavowal of old political systems does not force people out of politics, but rather both changes the ways they participate and influences their living environments. One response to this change is DIY urbanism, a new form of contentious politics different from well-known Russian social movements. As citizens search for new ways to reclaim rights to their cities and to participate in decision making processes, often their attempts take the shape of creative initiatives and projects of direct action, not necessarily framed by political terms.
This talk will share a few examples of these ‘creative’ practices in urban activism, including street-art and grassroots initiatives using art and design to improve the urban environment. It will also argue that such initiatives can be analyzed as practices of Putin-era ‘neobohemians’, which do not succeed in reaching the wider urban public. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Human Rights Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4514, or e-mail jescott@bard.edu.
Etsy 55 Washington St. Brooklyn, NY 11201 Join the Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability for a visit to Etsy Headquarters in Brooklyn. Admissions staff, faculty, current students, applicants and prospects are invited to tour the office and meet Etsy's Sustainability Director for a discussion of the global marketplace's sustainability strategy.
Schedule:
5:30 Arrive at Etsy
5:30 - 6:00 Office Tour
6:00 Discussion with Etsy Sustainability Director
7:00 Prospective students and Applicants Info Session w/ Director Eban Goodstein
Dimming the Sun: How Clouds and Air Pollution Affect Global Climate
Beate Liepert Senior Research Scientist - Climate & Solar Energy NorthWest Research Associates
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 7 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema While anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are well known contributors to global warming, the additional impact of short-lived air pollution (e.g. anthropogenic aerosols) is not well understood. The potential for this air pollution to modify climate or even mask global warming will be introduced and the wider implications of aerosol-induced global dimming, including geoengineering prospects, will be discussed.
Beate Liepert is scientist and artist. Climate change and specifically the cycling of water and energy in a changing world are overarching themes of her research. Highlights of her research are the discovery of the phenomenon “global dimming”, which is the increase in atmospheric transparency, and its responsibility for masking parts of the global warming signal in the 20th century. She further pioneered research on the causes of dimming and its implications for the water and carbon cycle on Earth. Beate received a PhD in Meteorology from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany.
In 1996 she moved to New York City to become Doherty Research Scientist at Columbia University. Beate contributed a section on global dimming to the IPCC 4th Assessment Report “Scientific Basis” (chapter 3.4.4.2) that won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2007. While living in New York City, Beate attended the Certificate Program of Fine Arts at Parsons New School of Design. She moved to Seattle in 2009, and became partner and principal investigator at NorthWest Research Associates, a cooperative for basic and applied research.
Beate’s current research focuses on shifting weather patterns with global warming, and novel solar energy innovations. As artist Beate collaborates with the Seattle based artist, educator and designer Marisa Vitiello on a series of automatism drawings. In 2015 Marisa and Beate have been selected by Spaceworks Tacoma to do an installation in the downtown storefront program and in the Evergreen Association of Fine Arts Gallery Open Abstract Show in Seattle Washington.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2338, or e-mail edueker@bard.edu.
CMIA - Neorealism and the "Cinema of Poetry" (Public Discussion)
Thursday, March 26, 2015 1:30–4 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center Please join us for a public discussion withJoseph Luzzi (author of A Cinema of Poetry and Associate Professor of Italian Studies), John Pruitt (Associate Professor of Film and Electronic Arts), and Richard I. Suchenski on March 26th at 1:30 PM.
Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule. Sponsored by: Center for Moving Image Arts.
Olin Hall Bard celebrates its twenty-fifth year as publisher of the renowned literary journal Conjunctions with a special reading featuring Conjunctions contributors and editors and Bard faculty members Mary Caponegro, Benjamin Hale, Robert Kelly, Ann Lauterbach, Bradford Morrow, and Francine Prose.
Note that Neil Gaiman regrets that he will not be able to participate as previously announced.
The preeminent source for the best in innovative, provocative fiction, poetry, and narrative nonfiction, Conjunctions is edited by Bradford Morrow, Bard Center Fellow and professor of literature, and the winner of the PEN/Nora Magid Award for editorial excellence. The anniversary is also marked by a special exhibition at Stevenson Library.
The reading takes place March 26 at 7pm in Olin Hall and is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required.
Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail mmorriss@bard.edu.
The Institute of Advanced Theology 2015 Lenten Lecture Series title: "Jesus: in his own terms"
Friday, March 27, 2015 12:30–1:30 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Institute of Advanced Theology will host the 2015 Lenten Lecture Series, "Jesus: in his own terms," led by Bruce Chilton. A brief descrition follows.
Research during the past two decades has brought Jesus into focus as a rabbi within Judaism, whose influence produced a new religious system. The series this Lent will identify five new insights, confirmed by the most recent scholarship, which illuninate the emergence and the future of Christianity as never before.
The IAT Lenten lecture series will be held on the following five Fridays: February 27, March 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th at the Bard College Chapel of the Holy Innocents.
The presentation is free and will begin at 12:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period.
Lunch will be at noon. For lunch, we will be providing box lunches, and there will be a cost that will be determined at a later time. Lunch reservations are required and can be made by calling 845-758-7279.
Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7279, or e-mail desmond@bard.edu.
An evening of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program. Join us to celebrate the invention and talent of these young theater-makers in this annual festival, which culminates their four years of study with distinguished faculty and visiting artists.
PROGRAM A (in order of performance)
Like the Moon Camille Weisgant
Without Prospero: A Staged Reading Samuel Robotham
Love Rage Zoë Elders
Vincent Patrick Dwyer
I'm Scared of the Colors [or At Least We Tried] Marissa Shadburn
Program A Friday, 3/27, 6:30pm -10:30pm Saturday, 3/28, 12:00pm - 4:00pm Sunday, 3/29, 6:30pm -10:30pm
PROGRAM B (in order of performance)
Puff Piece Pass Michael Kulukundis
Just Another Block Marisol Crawford
Holy Thieves Jordan Bodwell
Conversations in this River ValleyCydney Chase
Pasiphaë Ezra San MIllan
Program B Saturday, 3/28, 6:30pm -10:30pm Sunday, 3/29, 12:00pm - 4:00pm Monday, 3/30, 6:30pm -10:30pm
Sustainable Business Fridays: Hospitality and Supply Chain For Good
Jeffrey Amoscato
Vice President of Supply Chain and Menu Innovation
Friday, March 27, 2015 12–1 pm
Join the Bard MBA in Sustainability program for our twice-monthly dial-in conversation series over your lunchtime featuring sustainability leaders from the New York City area and across the planet.
On March 27th we spoke with Jeffrey Amoscato, Vice President of Supply Chain and Menu Innovation, Shake Shack about Hospitality and Supply Chain For Good Check out the Shake Shack, Stand for Something Good blog:
"We stand for something good in everything we do, which also means thoughtful and sustainable design of every Shack, community support through donations and programming, and hand-picked music played in each Shack (because a burger tastes a little better with good tunes)."
Jeff holds an AOS in Culinary Arts and a BA in Food and Beverage Management, both from the New England Culinary Institute
You may listen to the entire conversation below or read an exerpt on GreenBiz.com.
Sustainable Business Fridays convenes every first and fourth Friday of the month during the semester, with special guests selected by students in the Bard MBA in Sustainability program. Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Weinberg Field, Vassar College The Raptors take on William Smith College in a Liberty League game to be held at Vassar College. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
An evening of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program. Join us to celebrate the invention and talent of these young theater-makers in this annual festival, which culminates their four years of study with distinguished faculty and visiting artists.
PROGRAM A (in order of performance)
Like the Moon Camille Weisgant
Without Prospero: A Staged Reading Samuel Robotham
Love Rage Zoë Elders
Vincent Patrick Dwyer
I'm Scared of the Colors [or At Least We Tried] Marissa Shadburn
Program A Friday, 3/27, 6:30pm -10:30pm Saturday, 3/28, 12:00pm - 4:00pm Sunday, 3/29, 6:30pm -10:30pm
PROGRAM B (in order of performance)
Puff Piece Pass Michael Kulukundis
Just Another Block Marisol Crawford
Holy Thieves Jordan Bodwell
Conversations in this River ValleyCydney Chase
Pasiphaë Ezra San MIllan
Program B Saturday, 3/28, 6:30pm -10:30pm Sunday, 3/29, 12:00pm - 4:00pm Monday, 3/30, 6:30pm -10:30pm
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Open House in New York City
Attendees receive $65 application fee waiver!
Saturday, March 28, 2015 10 am – 1 pm
New York City Join us in New York City for an Open House hosted by the Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability. Admissions staff, faculty, and current students will be on hand to provide an overview of the programs offered, answer questions, and share tips on how to make your application stand out.
This event will be held in our New York City classroom located at 1150 6th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10036. Click here to RSVP! Email Caitlin O'Donnell with any questions.
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Dietz Stadium, Kingston The Bard College men's and women's lacrosse team host Liberty League teams in back-to-back games at Dietz Stadium in Kingston. At noon, the men's team will host nationally ranked Rochester Institute of Technology. The women's team takes on Union College at 3:30. Come out and support the Raptors!Sponsored by: Department of Athletics and Recreation.
An evening of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program. Join us to celebrate the invention and talent of these young theater-makers in this annual festival, which culminates their four years of study with distinguished faculty and visiting artists.
PROGRAM A (in order of performance)
Like the Moon Camille Weisgant
Without Prospero: A Staged Reading Samuel Robotham
Love Rage Zoë Elders
Vincent Patrick Dwyer
I'm Scared of the Colors [or At Least We Tried] Marissa Shadburn
Program A Friday, 3/27, 6:30pm -10:30pm Saturday, 3/28, 12:00pm - 4:00pm Sunday, 3/29, 6:30pm -10:30pm
PROGRAM B (in order of performance)
Puff Piece Pass Michael Kulukundis
Just Another Block Marisol Crawford
Holy Thieves Jordan Bodwell
Conversations in this River ValleyCydney Chase
Pasiphaë Ezra San MIllan
Program B Saturday, 3/28, 6:30pm -10:30pm Sunday, 3/29, 12:00pm - 4:00pm Monday, 3/30, 6:30pm -10:30pm
An evening of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program. Join us to celebrate the invention and talent of these young theater-makers in this annual festival, which culminates their four years of study with distinguished faculty and visiting artists.
PROGRAM A (in order of performance)
Like the Moon Camille Weisgant
Without Prospero: A Staged Reading Samuel Robotham
Love Rage Zoë Elders
Vincent Patrick Dwyer
I'm Scared of the Colors [or At Least We Tried] Marissa Shadburn
Program A Friday, 3/27, 6:30pm -10:30pm Saturday, 3/28, 12:00pm - 4:00pm Sunday, 3/29, 6:30pm -10:30pm
PROGRAM B (in order of performance)
Puff Piece Pass Michael Kulukundis
Just Another Block Marisol Crawford
Holy Thieves Jordan Bodwell
Conversations in this River ValleyCydney Chase
Pasiphaë Ezra San MIllan
Program B Saturday, 3/28, 6:30pm -10:30pm Sunday, 3/29, 12:00pm - 4:00pm Monday, 3/30, 6:30pm -10:30pm
From Play to Opera: Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck and Alban Berg’s Wozzeck
Presented by Christopher Gibbs, Bard College
Alban Berg’s opera Wozzeck is hardly easy listening, either at its 1925 premiere in Berlin or today. Yet from the very beginning not only did composers, performers, and critics embrace the work, but so too did a much broader public. Various factors contribute to its enduring success and potent influence. One is the compelling story and brilliant libretto. Georg Büchner’s unfinished play Woyzeck, which Berg adapted, dates from 1837, the year the playwright died at age 23. From Büchner’s scattered fragments, Berg crafted a tightly organized work of musical theater. This lecture will consider the process of transformation from words to music and include screenings of selected scenes of both the play and opera.
Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.
For more information, call 845-758-7490, or e-mail jcerulli@bard.edu.
Building the Case: Design and Media at the International Military Tribunal, c. 1945
Olga Touloumi, Harvard University
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 4:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center, Lecture Hall A During four short months in the summer of 1945, the Office of Strategic Services, IBM, and landscape architect Dan Kiley prepared Courtroom 600 for the Nuremberg Trials. Planned as a “world spectacle,” the project required a wide mobilization of resources and technologies that crossed national and institutional boundaries. Scholars have extensively discussed the legal and diplomatic history of the International Military Tribunal, along with its implications for international law in the post-World War II period, but little attention has been paid to the position of the courtroom itself in this seminal event.
This lecture will unravel the role of design and architecture in the Nuremberg Trials, explaining that both served to produce international law as an integral component of the world organization that the United Nations announced. By looking into the series of projects that led to the final courtroom design, I will discuss the debates on representation, mediation, and participation that informed this interior. Ultimately, I argue, in the Nuremberg Courtroom designers and officials reconceived architecture as a mobile technology to transfer and implement models of legal space across expansive and contested networks of global communication. Sponsored by: Art History Program; Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail mcdonald@bard.edu.
Becoming States: Reflections on Faltering State-Building in Central Asia
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 5:30 pm
Hegeman 204 Emil Dzhuraev Center for Civic Engagement Teaching Fellow Associate Professor, International and Comparative Politics American University of Central Asia
As the five Central Asian states approach their first twenty-five years of independence, just how far they have gone toward modern statehood is an issue opened up to questions by a growing number of studies in politics of the region. While many outward traits of statehood have been easily adopted and looked becoming to these countries, a closer look reveals how problematic it has been for all five of them to actually become viable and stable states. The challenges these countries have faced, represented under the common rubric of their "post-soviet condition," allow some critical reflections on the predicament of modern state-building—or, of political constitution. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Global and International Studies Program; Political Studies Program; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
“Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict,” a talk by Stephen Ferry
A This event is organized by the Human Rights Project and the Photography program.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 6:30 pm
Olin, Room 102 Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict documents Colombia’s internal armed conflict with a focus on human rights and the struggle of Colombian civilians to resist the violence, often at great risk to their own lives. The project also looks at the history and current dynamics of the war in Colombia, while exposing the role of the distinct parties in the conflict.This project was supported by the Tim Hetherington Grant, a joint initiative of World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch. To read more about the project, visit the WorldPressPhoto website. You can also visit the Violentology website. You can also hear Stephen Ferry interviewed by Maria Hinojosa last November on NPR.
Since the late 1980s, Stephen has traveled to dozens of countries, covering social and political change, human rights, and the environment. He has contributed to the New York Times, GEO, TIME, National Geographic and many other publications. Stephen also works as a visual investigator with Human Rights Watch.
Stephen’s work has received numerous prizes in international photographic contests, such as World Press Photo, Picture of the Year and Best of Photojournalism. He has received grants and fellowships from the National Geographic Expeditions Council, the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the Howard Chapnick Fund, the Knight International Press Fellowship, the Getty Images Grant for Good grant, the Open Society Foundations and the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund. Visit his website.
Sponsored by: Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; Photography Program.
Film Screening: Victory over The Sun (St. Petersburg, 1913)
A Special Screening of Robert Benedetti's Documentary About Reconstruting the First Futurist Opera, Victory over the Sun
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 7–9 pm
Preston Theater, 110 This screening is in conjunction with Prof. Minin's course, "The Language of the Silver Age and the Avant-Garde," and Prof. Felton-Dansky's course, "20th Century Avant-Garde Performance."
Be there! or be a black square First time ever at Bard
Preceding the screening is a celebration of Kazimir Malevich and the Centenary of Suprematism. The Suprematism celebration will commence with the cutting of a Suprematist cake accompanied by a performance of music from Victory over the Sun as a musical background. This will be followed by the tasting of Malevich-design inspired cookies, bite-size Black Squares and self-service of a variety of teas. Photo ops in front of the wooden cutouts of the Malevich-design-inspired figures of characters from Victory over the Sun will also be available. Bring your cameras!
A discussion of the documentary and the opera will follow the screening. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Russian Art & Culture Project, Russian Club, Theater and Performance; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
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