First performed in the U.S. almost 100 years after its world premiere in Hamburg, this lushly orchestrated allegorical tale was staged by Christian Räth in 2019. Performed by a remarkable cast and the 80-member American Symphony Orchestra, this staging was a stellar example of Maestro Botstein’s commitment to reintroduce rarely seen operatic treasures to a contemporary audience.
Rubinstein’s operatic masterpiece is based on a poem depicting the isolation and despair of a fallen angel. Premiered to great acclaim in 1871, Demon received its first fully staged U.S. performances at Bard in 2018. With rich choral writing and a fiery libretto, the production was staged by Thaddeus Strassberger and featured an all-Russian cast, Pesvebi Georgian Dancers and The American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Botstein.
UPSTREAMING Bard SummerScape Opera and the Bard Music Festival have become synonymous with a new kind of concert experience, one that provides a “rich web of context” (New York Times) for a full appreciation of each composer’s inspirations, significance, and legacy.
This week, UPSTREAMING illuminates the world of Russian composer Sergey Taneyev (1856–1915). A highly gifted pianist and composer, Taneyev was a protégé and champion of Tchaikovsky’s, serving as soloist in early performances of the older composer’s piano concertos.
Taneyev was one of Russia’s most influential music theorists, teaching for nearly three decades at the Moscow Conservatory, where his students included Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, and Glière; Stravinsky later recalled how highly he valued Taneyev’s treatise on counterpoint, calling it “one of the best books of its kind.” Yet in striving to synthesize counterpoint with folksong, he developed a distinct compositional voice that looked forward to Stravinsky himself. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-sergey-taneyev/.
UPSTREAMING Bard SummerScape Opera and the Bard Music Festival have become synonymous with a new kind of concert experience, one that provides a “rich web of context” (New York Times) for a full appreciation of each composer’s inspirations, significance, and legacy.
This week, UPSTREAMING illuminates the work of German Romantic composer Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), featuring:
Carl Maria von Weber’s short life was marked by many lows—frequent illnesses, an arrest on embezzlement and other charges—but he also became one of the most influential composers of the early 19th century whose prodigious gifts as a composer, pianist, conductor, and writer bring to mind Mozart. The premiere of Der Freischütz in 1821, an opera that immediately captured the imagination of audiences in Europe and beyond, was a transformative event in the history of Romanticism and helped to usher in a new sensibility in music. He did not have a comparable success in the remaining five years of his life, although the overtures to his later Euryanthe and Oberon became repertory standards. In these operas, and in less familiar compositions, his masterful orchestration and compelling evocation of mood became models for composers from Meyerbeer to Wagner, Liszt, Berlioz, Glinka, and Hindemith. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-carl-maria-von-weber/.
This engrossing program encompasses varied works exploring religion and spirituality through the lens of female composers: Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, staged at Bard in 2015, animates a moral drama about social justice and personal courage, while Lili Boulanger’s Psalm 130 “Du fond de l'abîme” (1917) offers a deeply personal requiem dedicated to her father. Lera Auerbach’s Violin Concerto No. 3, “De Profundis” (2015) with Vadim Repin rounds out the program.
UPSTREAMING This week’s UPSTREAMING selection offers an exploration of French romanticism through the work of two composers—Emmanuel Chabrier and Hector Berlioz—who, while stylistically different, shared capacity for independent thought and innovation. The fully staged production of Chabrier’s Le roi malgré lui from the 2012 Bard SummerScape is complemented by Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette from the 2017 Bard Music Festival. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/French-Romanticism/.
UPSTREAMING “Botstein and Bard SummerScape show courage, foresight and great imagination, honoring operas that larger institutions are content to ignore. —Time Out New York
UPSTREAMING: Opera at Bard presents the musical centerpiece of the 2017 Bard SummerScape: Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s 1882 rare opera Dimitrij. Supporting content includes a recording of Janáček's Sinfonietta as performed by the American Symphony Orchestra and discussions including a lively and illuminating conversation between ASO music director Leon Botstein and noted Dvořák specialist Michael Beckerman. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-Dimitrij/.
One of the most revered Romantic composers of the late 19th and early 20th century, Richard Strauss’s symphonic poems and operas remain an indispensable feature of the standard repertoire. This program—which includes the operatic rarity Die Liebe der Danae (The Love of Danae) from the 2011 Bard SummerScape along with various symphonic and choral works—explores the composer’s substantial melodic gifts and his mastery of instrumentation and expression.
At once opulent and eerie, Pietro Mascagni’s Iris, composed in 1898 with libretto by Luigi Illica, received its North American premiere at Bard SummerScape in 2016. The American Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Leon Botstein performed with a brilliant cast of accomplished singers including the Australian tenor Gerard Schneider as a menacing and callous Osaka alongside the soprano Talise Travigne who movingly embodied the naivete and fragility of the eponymous character.
Leon Botstein in conversation with Stephanie Blythe
Runs through Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING For World Opera Day 2020, join two iconoclastic figures from the opera world for a wide-ranging and lively conversation. Revered mezzo & Artistic Director of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard, Stephanie Blythe joins Leon Botstein, Bard College President & Music Director of the American Symphony Orchestra engage in an engrossing discussion about their shared fascination with rarely-performed operas along with anecdotes and trenchant observations about the past, present, and future of the art form.
With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985
Runs through Sunday, November 28, 2021 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art This June, the Hessel Museum of Art will present With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985, the first full-scale scholarly North American survey of the groundbreaking yet understudied Pattern and Decoration art movement. Including painting, sculpture, collage, ceramics, textiles, installation art, and performance documentation, the exhibition spans the years 1972 to 1985 and features 45 artists from across the United States.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
All Eyes on Pushkin and Griboedov: Translator Betsy Hulick in Conversation with Julia Trubikhina
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 5:15–6:30 pm
Olin, Room 102 The Russian and Eurasian Studies Program and the Translation and Translatability Initiative at Bard cordially invite you to the reading from Betsy Hulick’s translations of Pushkin’s narrative poems “Little House in Kolomna” (1830), “Cout Nulin” (1825), and “Poltava” (1828-1829), and Alexander Griboedov’s seminal comedy in verse “Woe from Wit” (1822-1824), published by Columbia University Press in 2020. The event will center on Hulick’s conversation with translator and scholar Julia Trubikhina. They will address the history of Russian literary translations and the tasks of contemporary translators that stem from that legacy. What happens in the process of translation from the Russian? How can the issue of “fidelity” be resolved when translating Griboedov and Pushkin? Is the negotiation in literary translation, such as the sacrifice and replacement of form, necessary? Other poststructuralist and postmodern questions of writing and rewriting, related to what Walter Benjamin called the “afterlife of the original,” will also be addressed. Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
Antisemitism and Ableism: Refugees and Immigration Policy towards Jews and the Disabled in the Wake of the Holocaust
Katherine Sorrels University of Cincinnati
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
This lecture series, held throughout the 2021-2022 academic year, will explore the ongoing phenomenon of antisemitism by examining its myriad historical contexts and relationships to other forms of prejudice and hatred.
This talk will discuss the Camphill movement, an international network of intentional communities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities that was founded in Scotland during World War II by Austrian Jewish refugees. It will focus on the antisemitism and ableism that forced Camphill’s founders to flee Nazi Central Europe, the antisemitic and ableist immigration policies that they confronted in the US and Britain, and the way their response to these overlapping forms of prejudice informed the mission and identity of the movement they founded. Drawing on her forthcoming book On the Spectrum: Jewish Refugees from Nazi Austria and the Politics of Disability in the Britain and North America, Sorrels will use Camphill to reconstruct the larger story of how Jewish refugees transformed British and North American approaches to disability and, in the process, reshaped the tradition of Viennese curative education.
Katherine Sorrels is Associate Professor of History, Affiliate Faculty in Judaic Studies, and Chair of the Taft Health Humanities Research Group at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Cosmopolitan Outsiders: Imperial Inclusion, National Exclusion, and the Pan-European Idea (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She is the co-editor of two forthcoming volumes, Disability in German-Speaking Europe: History, Memory, and Culture (Camden House, 2022) and Ohio under COVID: Lessons from America's Heartland in Crisis (under review with the University of Michigan Press). Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Fellowship Program, and the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
NOTE: These lectures are open to the public but all visitors to the Bard campus must register in advance and provide proof of vaccination by completing this form.
Co-sponsored by The Hannah Arendt Center and The Center for the Study of Hate
Sponsored by: Office of the President and the Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7543, or e-mail [email protected].
ABOUT Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information.
Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team.
WHAT WILL BE COVERED?
Overview of graduate program offerings
Alumni success and career outcomes
Admissions information
Prerequisite course information
Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
Financial aid and scholarships
Tips for a standout application
Degree Options Degree options include: MS in Environmental Policy MS in Climate Science and Policy MBA in Sustainability
Dual degree options include: MS/JD with Pace Law School MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability
Peace Corps Programs Master's International (before you serve) Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Margo Bogossian at [email protected] for further details.
Info Sessions for Worldwide Teach-In on Climate and Justice
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 10–11 am
Online Event 10 am New York | 3 p.m. Vienna 3 pm New York | 8 p.m. Vienna 10 am Hong Kong 4 pm Paris
On Wednesday, November 3, OSUN's Solve Climate by 2030 project, in conjunction with the Graduate Programs in Sustainability at Bard College and other global partners, invites faculty, staff, and students across the network to join a 30-minute virtual info session to learn how to organize a 3-hour teach-in about climate change solutions at your campus or organization.
Climate-concerned students, educators and community members: join info sessions on November 3 and help grow the WorldWide Teach-In on Climate and Justice, happening March 30 2022. Focus your campus and community-- and the world--on local climate solutions.
Easy to organize models are available to engage hundreds of people on your campus or in your community in critical dialogue about our future. As students and educators, nothing is more important than this work. Help mobilize a million college, university and K-12 students, as well as community members and faith organizations.
Grants are available of $1,000 for faculty/staff/student teams to organize Teach-In events at OSUN universities, and act as regional hubs driving engagement at other institutions.
Register here for one of the 11/3 information sessions and learn how to easily engage hundreds of people from your campus or community in serious dialogue about climate solutions and justice in the transition.
The Worldwide Teach-In is a project of the Graduate Programs in Sustainability at Bard College in New York, USA, in conjunction with global partners and the Open Society University Network.
Before Mass Incarceration: Prisons and Prisoners in the Ancient Greco-Roman World
Marcus Folch, Columbia University
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 5:30–7 pm
Online Event
Many of the most famous people from the ancient Greco-Roman world are said to have been imprisoned: Socrates, Demosthenes, John the Baptist, Jesus, Saints Paul, Peter, and Perpetua, to name just a few. How did ancient prisons work? Were they like prisons today? What were they used for? And what do we learn about ancient—and modern—societies by studying prisons in classical Greece and Rome? This talk attempts to answer some of these questions by focusing on ancient prison narratives from Greece, Rome, and Egypt. This event is part of the Common Course, The Making of Citizenship: Local, National, Global.
Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display
Thursday, November 4, 2021 – Saturday, November 6, 2021
Online Event As part of its 30th anniversary season, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard)presents a multi-day online conference exploring how Blackness has been framed, how Black artists are viewed, and how African diasporic art histories have been shaped through exhibition-making. Marking the first scholarly conference to focus exclusively on African diasporic art exhibitions in the US and the UK, Reshaping the Field will spotlight case studies that have disrupted narratives about Black art and artists through presentations by leading art historians and curators such as Bridget Cooks, Cheryl Finley, Serubiri Moses,and Marlene Smith among many others. The conference has been organized by Nana Adusei-Poku, Associate Professor and Luma Scholar at CCS Bard.
More info at can be found on our website here.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
The Open Work: An Exhibition History of Elvira Dyangani Ose
Runs through Sunday, November 14, 2021 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries
The Open Work: An Exhibition History of Elvira Dyangani Ose focuses on the curatorial and critical work of Elvira Dyangani Ose (born 1974, Spain/Equatorial Guinea). In a selection of five exhibitions and three essays spanning at least 15 years, the exhibition draws from bibliographic sources, books, catalogs, and ephemera (posters et cetera). Exhibitions include: Africalls? (2007) at Casa Africa in Las Palmas, Spain, and Across the Board (2012) among others; and essays include: “For Whom Are Biennials Organised?” (2015), and “A Story Within A Story Within A Story,” the catalog essay for the 8th Gothenburg International Biennial (2015), among others. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display
Thursday, November 4, 2021 – Saturday, November 6, 2021
Online Event As part of its 30th anniversary season, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard)presents a multi-day online conference exploring how Blackness has been framed, how Black artists are viewed, and how African diasporic art histories have been shaped through exhibition-making. Marking the first scholarly conference to focus exclusively on African diasporic art exhibitions in the US and the UK, Reshaping the Field will spotlight case studies that have disrupted narratives about Black art and artists through presentations by leading art historians and curators such as Bridget Cooks, Cheryl Finley, Serubiri Moses,and Marlene Smith among many others. The conference has been organized by Nana Adusei-Poku, Associate Professor and Luma Scholar at CCS Bard.
More info at can be found on our website here.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event We planning for both the October 1 and November 5, 2021 Bard College IWT Writer as Reader Workshops to be held online. We look forward to returning to in-person workshops in 2022.
Writer as Reader workshops model writing practices that inspire students to read more carefully, to grasp the meaning in more complex texts, and to infer meaning from what they read. These workshops invite secondary and college teachers to consider “writing to read” as a central classroom practice, one that shows rather than tells students how writing clarifies the meaning of texts. Working with diverse writing-to-read strategies, workshop participants discover what they bring to the text, what is apparent in the text, what is inferred, and what questions the text poses.
Workshop offerings:
Language Choice as Language Justice: Reading for Resistance in Postcolonial Texts
Writing Home: Kinship, Citizenship, and Belonging in Sophocles’ Antigone and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
The Substance of Justice:The Narrative of Sojourner Truth and “The Merchant of Venice”
Walt Whitman: Looking, Listing, Vegetating
Aha! Moments: Exploring Epiphanies in James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield and ZZ Packer
Tell It Slant: Grappling with Suffering through Science Fiction and Fable
The Fractal Nature of Our World: The Mathematics of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia
Trouble in Paradise: Visions of Black Utopia & Despair in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Marvel's Black Panther
Issues in Translation: Poems that Prevail against Erasure
Guest Artists: Neave Trio, Ensemble in Residence at Longy School of Music of Bard College Anna Williams, violin, Mikhail Veselov, cello, Eri Nakamura, piano
Her Voice: Worksby three pioneering female composers: Louise Farrenc, Cécile Chaminade, and Jennifer Higdon
Friday, November 5, 2021 7–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Since forming in 2010, Neave Trio has earned enormous praise for its engaging, cutting-edge performances. WQXR explains, "'Neave' is actually a Gaelic name meaning 'bright' and 'radiant', both of which certainly apply to this trio's music making."The Boston Musical Intelligencer included Neave in its "Best of 2014" and “Best of 2016” roundups, claiming, “their unanimity, communication, variety of touch, and expressive sensibility rate first tier.” Neave has performed and held residencies at many esteemed concert series and at festivals worldwide. In the fall of 2017, the Trio joined the faculty of the Longy School of Music of Bard College as Alumni Artists, Faculty Ensemble‑in‑Residence. Neave Trio strives to champion new works by living composers and reach wider audiences through innovative concert presentations, regularly collaborating with artists of all mediums. These collaborations include D-Cell: an Exhibition & Durational Performance, conceived and directed by multi-disciplinary visual artist David Michalek; as well as performances with the Blythe Barton Dance Company; with dance collective Body Sonnet; with projection designer Ryan Brady; in Klee Musings by acclaimed American composer Augusta Read Thomas, which was premiered by Neave; in the premiere of Eric Nathan’s Missing Words V, sponsored by Coretet; and in a music video by filmmaker Amanda Alvarez Díaz of Astor Piazzolla’s “Otoño Porteño,” among many others. Gramophone described Neave Trio’s latest album Her Voice as, “a splendid introduction to these three pioneering female composers,” and as, “sumptuously recorded ... a taut and vivid interpretation.” Neave Trio’s other critically acclaimed recordings include Celebrating Piazzolla (Azica Records, 2018), which features mezzo-soprano Carla Jablonski; French Moments (Chandos Records, 2018); and its debut album, American Moments (Chandos Records, 2016).
Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display
Thursday, November 4, 2021 – Saturday, November 6, 2021
Online Event As part of its 30th anniversary season, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard)presents a multi-day online conference exploring how Blackness has been framed, how Black artists are viewed, and how African diasporic art histories have been shaped through exhibition-making. Marking the first scholarly conference to focus exclusively on African diasporic art exhibitions in the US and the UK, Reshaping the Field will spotlight case studies that have disrupted narratives about Black art and artists through presentations by leading art historians and curators such as Bridget Cooks, Cheryl Finley, Serubiri Moses,and Marlene Smith among many others. The conference has been organized by Nana Adusei-Poku, Associate Professor and Luma Scholar at CCS Bard.
More info at can be found on our website here.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, reflections, and Holy Communion this Sunday in the Chapel as we prepare for the start of a new semester at Bard. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. George, my five-month-old King Charles Cavalier spaniel, will be joining us!
We welcome all — Christians, Non-Christian, Spiritual but Not Religious, Agnostics, Believers, Doubters, Seekers, anyone who has questions about faith and religion, and those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Any questions, please email Mary Grace Williams at [email protected].Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Faculty Chamber Music Recital: French and French Connections Frank Corliss, piano; Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano; Marka Gustavsson, viola; Patricia Spencer, flute
Featuring two French composers plus two American composers who studied with Nadia Boulanger
Sunday, November 7, 2021 4–6 pm
Online Event Program: Thea Musgrave (b. 1928), Primavera (1971) soprano and flute Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de St. Georges, Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 1a, No. 1 flute and piano Maurice Duruflé, Prélude, Récitatif et Variations flute, viola, and piano Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Quartet in D Major, Wq 94 flute, viola, and piano Aaron Copland, Duo for Flute and Piano (1971) Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
A Reading with Jenny Offill from Her Novel, Weather, in Conversation with Daniel Williams
Monday, November 8, 2021 6:30–8 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Monday, November 8, at 6:30 p.m., in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Jenny Offill reads from her work and is joined in conversation with faculty member Daniel Williams.
Jenny Offill is an acclaimed fiction writer whose debut novel, Last Things (1999), was named a New York Times Notable Book and finalist for the LA Times First Book Award. The New York Times named her second novel, Dept. of Speculation, one of the 10 Best Books of 2014. Weather: A Novel was published in 2020 and lauded by the Boston Globe as “tiny in size but immense in scope, radically disorienting yet reassuringly humane, strikingly eccentric and completely irresistible.” Her critical work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review and Slate. She is coeditor, with Elissa Schappell, of the anthologies Money Changes Everything and The Friend Who Got Away; author of a number of children’s books; and subject of a February 2020 feature in the New York Times Magazine, “How to Write Fiction when the Planet is Falling Apart.” Honors include a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, Guggenheim Fellowship, New York Film Academy Fellowship in Fiction, and resident fellowships at Macdowell Colony, Slovenian PEN Centre, and Yaddo. Offill previously taught in the MFA programs at Brooklyn College, Syracuse University, Columbia University, and Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina; and served as Visiting Writer at Syracuse University and Sarah Lawrence College, and as Writer in Residence at Vassar College and Pratt University. She has been a Visiting Writer in Residence at Bard College since 2020.
Daniel Williams is Assistant Professor of Literature at Bard College. He specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and culture and also works on the literature of contemporary South and Southern Africa. His interests include history of science and philosophy, environmental humanities, and law and literature. His articles and reviews have appeared in venues such as ELH, Novel, Public Books, Studies in the Novel, Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Poetry, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Modern Language Notes, Comparative Literary Studies, Genre, Anglia, and Safundi, as well as in edited collections including The Link Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence and The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's basketball team opens the season against Sarah Lawrence College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Globally renowned violinist and Bard Conservatory of Music faculty member Gil Shaham joins the orchestra for the world premiere of a new piece written for him by award-winning composer Scott Wheeler. Also on the program are Julia Perry’s dramatic Stabat Mater, and George Bristow’s rarely-heard Arcadian Symphony.
Leon Botstein conductor Gil Shahamviolin Briana Huntermezzo-soprano
Julia Perry Stabat Mater Scott WheelerBirds of America (World Premiere) George Frederick Bristow Symphony No. 4, Arcadian
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Conservatory students compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, and the American Symphony Orchestra.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, reflections, and Holy Communion this Sunday in the Chapel as we prepare for the start of a new semester at Bard. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. George, my five-month-old King Charles Cavalier spaniel, will be joining us!
We welcome all — Christians, Non-Christian, Spiritual but Not Religious, Agnostics, Believers, Doubters, Seekers, anyone who has questions about faith and religion, and those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Any questions, please email Mary Grace Williams at [email protected].Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Globally renowned violinist and Bard Conservatory of Music faculty member Gil Shaham joins the orchestra for the world premiere of a new piece written for him by award-winning composer Scott Wheeler. Also on the program are Julia Perry’s dramatic Stabat Mater, and George Bristow’s rarely-heard Arcadian Symphony.
Leon Botstein conductor Gil Shahamviolin Briana Huntermezzo-soprano
Julia Perry Stabat Mater Scott WheelerBirds of America (World Premiere) George Frederick Bristow Symphony No. 4, Arcadian
Noon Concert: Voice, Piano, Cello, Oboe, and Flute
Conservatory students perform short works by Villa-Lobos, Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Kalliwoda, Prokofiev, and more during the final Noon Concert of the semester.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 12–1:15 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Bard Conservatory events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community. All visitors must register and demonstrate proof of vaccination in advance and wear a mask in any indoor campus setting Register to attend here - https://forms.gle/yGHSncyESFCqF8489
This event will also be live-streamed View the live stream at: https://youtu.be/eRJm4Z9JBo4Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Zrinka Stahuljak, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature, UCLA
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin, Room 204 Ever since the western involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq, and then Syria, the term 'fixer' became commonplace. It designates almost exclusively men who perform a range of services for foreign journalists and armies. Acting as interpreters, local informants, guides, drivers, mediators, brokers, these men are intermediaries, enablers who possess multiple skills and bodies of knowledge. Fixers existed already in the Middle Ages, in situations of multilingual encounter, such as crusades, pilgrimages, proselytization, trade, translation. Fixers are the invisible men and women of history, then as now. My new book, Fixers in the Middle Ages: History and Literature Connected (Seuil, 2021), aims to restore their presence in a productive conversation between the fixers of the past and of the present, and this paper will try to address ways in which looking at history, literature and politics through the lens of fixers, changes our relationship to the world and how we structure it.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; French Studies Program; Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project; Literature Program; Medieval Studies Program; OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives.
For more information, call 845-758-7571, or e-mail [email protected].
Yamamba: The Ogress as Egress to Imagination in the Works of Modern Japanese Artists
Dr. Rebecca Copeland is a professor of Japanese literature at Washington University in St. Louis
Thursday, November 18, 2021 5–6 pm
Online Event In this presentation, I will discuss the way artists—primarily modern women writers—have turned to the monstrous figure of the mountain witch, or yamamba, as a way to galvanize their creativity. We begin with an overview of this ogress and her conflicting characteristics before turning to the way she has served as the egress to creativity, from medieval theater to the contemporary stage. We will consider the noh play, Yamamba, as well as the works of modern writer Ōba Minako and the choreography Yasuko Yokoshi. The talk will touch upon the recently published book Yamamba: In Search of the Japanese Mountain Witch. Rebecca Copeland is a professor of Japanese literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on modern women’s writing, translation, and gender. More recently she has turned her attention to creative writing. Her debut novel, The Kimono Tattoo, was published by Brother Mockingbird Press in June 2021. That same month, Stone Bridge Press released her collection of creative responses to the yamamba, which she co-edited with Linda C. Ehrlich.
Olin Hall Music Program events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community. All visitors must register and demonstrate proof of vaccination in advance and wear a mask in any indoor campus setting Register to attend here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18unuAeKF4c-6zjZjCjOpD0efFz6HeXSGR1PdCh9PkK8/editSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
At a moment of political division and policy uncertainty, many believe American democracy is in serious danger. Inequality, polarization, the stoking of anger, the exploitation of weaknesses in our political system – all are threatening the representative government we once took for granted. We cannot go backward, so how do we move forward to assure that the years of struggle that led to our democracy were not in vain? Let’s get some answers from our distinguished experts.
Jacob Hacker is Stanley Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University and the author or co-author of numerous academic and popular articles and more than a half-dozen books, including the 2010 New York Times bestseller Winner-Take-All Politics. His latest book, written with Paul Pierson, is Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he received the Robert Ball Award of the National Academy of Social Science in 2020 and was inducted into the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2021.
Roger Berkowitz, the moderator, is Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College. Professor Berkowitz authored The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition (Harvard, 2005; Fordham, 2010; Chinese Law Press, 2011). Berkowitz is editor of The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition (forthcoming 2020) and co-editor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009), The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis (2012) and Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch (2017). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The American Interest, Bookforum, The Forward, The Paris Review Online, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, and many other publications. Berkowitz edits HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center and the weekly newsletter Amor Mundi. He is the winner of the 2019 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Bremen, Germany.
Online Event Övül Ö. Durmusoglu is an independent curator, educator and writer, currently guest professor and program co-leader in the Graduate School, UdK Berlin and visiting professor in the HBK Braunschweig. Focused on the intersectional narratives around contemporary political subjectivities, she acts between singular languages and collective energies, worldly immersions and historical cosmologies. Övül has recently co-curated 3rd AUTOSTRADA BIENNALE in Kosovo, 12th Survival Kit Festival in Riga, Latvia and “Die Balkone: Life, Art, Pandemic and Proximity” in Berlin (2020-21) with Joanna Warsza. In the past, she was curator at Steirischer Herbst; co-curated different sections of 10th, 13th and 14th Istanbul Biennials; and organised Public Programs for dOCUMENTA (13), among others. She is engaged with CA2M Madrid, Kunsthalle Wien and Martin Gropius Bau for her future projects.
Introduced by Hana Halilaj, Graduate Student, CCS Bard.
CCS Bard Speaker Series Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures are free and open, and will also be documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library & Archives. This semester, some talks will be in-person and others will be online. In order to receive a zoom link, registration is required in advance on eventbrite here.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents A panel discussion with artists John Ruppert, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak and EH Media Corps member Nikki Goldberg. Facilitated by curator, Danielle O'Steen.
This panel coincides with the closing of the 2021 Wilderstein Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, which highlights the work of artists who experiment with not only unexpected materials but also curious scale and unfamiliar viewing modes as tools for creating new, site-responsive installations. Curated by Krista Caballero, Co-Director of the Center for Experimental Humanities at Bard College and Julia B. Rosenbaum, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Bard College.
Please note: all visitors to Bard campus must be fully vaccinated and wear a mask while inside. For questions, please contact: [email protected] RSVP here: https://forms.gle/Qt52E52d8t4abamC6Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Historical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7103, or e-mail [email protected].
Viola Studio Fall Recital: Violists of Bard Conservatory
Featuring the students of Molly Carr, Marka Gustavsson, Melissa Reardon, Steve Tenenbom & Ira Weller
Saturday, November 20, 2021 11 am – 12:30 pm
Olin Hall
Works by J.S. Bach, Johannes Brahms, Benjamin Dale, Paul Hindemith, Henri Vieuxtemps, and William Walton, to name a few.
Bard Conservatory events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community. All visitors must register and demonstrate proof of vaccination in advance and wear a mask in any indoor campus setting
Romanticism and Impressionism: A Year in Time Pianists perform Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's Das Jahr and Claude Debussy's Préludes
Saturday, November 20, 2021 3–5 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space The pianists of the Bard Conservatory join together for a performance of Das Jahr, the rarely heard masterpiece by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, and Claude Debussy's early 20th century classic, Préludes (Book II).
View the live stream at https://youtu.be/8QfSZoootfQ
Bard Conservatory events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community. All visitors must register and demonstrate proof of vaccination in advance and wear a mask in any indoor campus setting Register to attend here - https://forms.gle/yGHSncyESFCqF8489Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Vocal Arts Program vocalists and postgraduate collaborative piano fellows present opera workshop scenes.
Saturday, November 20, 2021 7:30–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Join the members of the Bard VAP as they explore the world of French opera through composers such as Gounod, Massenet, Poulenc, and Bizet. From the tragic to the comic, these scenes examine love in all of its many forms.
Bard Conservatory events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community. All visitors must register and demonstrate proof of vaccination in advance and wear a mask in any indoor campus setting
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, reflections, and Holy Communion this Sunday in the Chapel as we prepare for the start of a new semester at Bard. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. George, my five-month-old King Charles Cavalier spaniel, will be joining us!
We welcome all — Christians, Non-Christian, Spiritual but Not Religious, Agnostics, Believers, Doubters, Seekers, anyone who has questions about faith and religion, and those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Any questions, please email Mary Grace Williams at [email protected].Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Bard Conservatory events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community. All visitors must register and demonstrate proof of vaccination in advance and wear a mask in any indoor campus setting Register to attend here - https://forms.gle/yGHSncyESFCqF8489
This event will also be live-streamed. View the live stream here - https://youtu.be/5nyNnGDVniM Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Hall For any non-Bard visitors and guests, please complete the Concert Vaccine registration form here: https://forms.gle/HCVJGs2PxtuhxKJ89Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
Old Gym Come join me as I celebrate the return of live (musical) theatre for my first concert as part of the Bard College Music Program senior project requirement!!! An hour long set of musical theater sung by amazing singer friends. Limited seating capacity. Masks must be worn at all times. Sponsored by: Music Program.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, reflections, and Holy Communion this Sunday in the Chapel as we prepare for the start of a new semester at Bard. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. George, my five-month-old King Charles Cavalier spaniel, will be joining us!
We welcome all — Christians, Non-Christian, Spiritual but Not Religious, Agnostics, Believers, Doubters, Seekers, anyone who has questions about faith and religion, and those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Any questions, please email Mary Grace Williams at [email protected].Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Faculty Recital: Schubert's Winterreise with Erika Switzer, piano, and Tyler Duncan, baritone
Sunday, November 28, 2021 2–3:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Bard Conservatory events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community. All visitors must register and demonstrate proof of vaccination in advance and wear a mask in any indoor campus setting
Degree Recital: Mercer Greenwald, viola with collaborative pianists Neilson Chen and Chewon Park
Works by J. S. Bach, Busch, Dvořák, and Brahms
Monday, November 29, 2021 8–9:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Bard Conservatory events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community. All visitors must register and demonstrate proof of vaccination in advance and wear a mask in any indoor campus setting Register to attend here - https://forms.gle/yGHSncyESFCqF8489
This event will also be live streamed. Watch here - https://youtu.be/hjS4x-VHwek Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Antisemitism and Christianity: Reckoning with the Christian Roots of Antisemitism and Racism in the Post-World War II World
Magda Teter Fordham University
Tuesday, November 30, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
The twentieth century, as scholar George M. Fredrickson has noted, brought both the “climax and retreat” of racism and antisemitism. The murder of six million Jews during World War II forced a reckoning with ideas that made this unprecedented crime possible and contributed to broader reconsideration of social and religious values dominating western society. It also forced, as the editor of Ebony would later write in the introduction to the special issue on “The White Problem in America” “a re-examination of the Christian faith which brought forth the idea that skin color was not a true measure of a man’s humanity.” This talk will seek to explain the modern rejection of equality of both Jews and Black people in the West by tracing Christianity’s claim to superiority that emerged in a theological context in antiquity but came to be implemented in a legal and political context when Christianity became a political power. I will argue that the Christian sense of superiority developed first in relation to Jews and then transformed to a racialized superiority when Europeans expanded their political reach beyond Europe, establishing slaveholding empires in the early modern period, culminating in the Holocaust and forcing an ongoing reckoning in the post-WWII era.
Magda Teter is Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland (Cambridge, 2006); Sinners on Trial (Harvard, 2011), which was a finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Prize; and Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth (Harvard, 2020), which won the 2020 National Jewish Book Award; and the forthcoming Enduring Marks of Servitude: Christianity’s Stamp on Antisemitism and Racism in Law and Culture. She has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. In 2020-2021, Teter was the NEH Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Jewish History.
NOTE: These lectures are open to the public but all visitors to the Bard campus must register in advance and provide proof of vaccination by completing this form.
Co-sponsored by The Hannah Arendt Center and The Center for the Study of Hate
Sponsored by: Office of the President and the Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7543, or e-mail [email protected].
First performed in the U.S. almost 100 years after its world premiere in Hamburg, this lushly orchestrated allegorical tale was staged by Christian Räth in 2019. Performed by a remarkable cast and the 80-member American Symphony Orchestra, this staging was a stellar example of Maestro Botstein’s commitment to reintroduce rarely seen operatic treasures to a contemporary audience.
Rubinstein’s operatic masterpiece is based on a poem depicting the isolation and despair of a fallen angel. Premiered to great acclaim in 1871, Demon received its first fully staged U.S. performances at Bard in 2018. With rich choral writing and a fiery libretto, the production was staged by Thaddeus Strassberger and featured an all-Russian cast, Pesvebi Georgian Dancers and The American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Botstein.
UPSTREAMING Bard SummerScape Opera and the Bard Music Festival have become synonymous with a new kind of concert experience, one that provides a “rich web of context” (New York Times) for a full appreciation of each composer’s inspirations, significance, and legacy.
This week, UPSTREAMING illuminates the world of Russian composer Sergey Taneyev (1856–1915). A highly gifted pianist and composer, Taneyev was a protégé and champion of Tchaikovsky’s, serving as soloist in early performances of the older composer’s piano concertos.
Taneyev was one of Russia’s most influential music theorists, teaching for nearly three decades at the Moscow Conservatory, where his students included Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, and Glière; Stravinsky later recalled how highly he valued Taneyev’s treatise on counterpoint, calling it “one of the best books of its kind.” Yet in striving to synthesize counterpoint with folksong, he developed a distinct compositional voice that looked forward to Stravinsky himself. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-sergey-taneyev/.
UPSTREAMING Bard SummerScape Opera and the Bard Music Festival have become synonymous with a new kind of concert experience, one that provides a “rich web of context” (New York Times) for a full appreciation of each composer’s inspirations, significance, and legacy.
This week, UPSTREAMING illuminates the work of German Romantic composer Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), featuring:
Carl Maria von Weber’s short life was marked by many lows—frequent illnesses, an arrest on embezzlement and other charges—but he also became one of the most influential composers of the early 19th century whose prodigious gifts as a composer, pianist, conductor, and writer bring to mind Mozart. The premiere of Der Freischütz in 1821, an opera that immediately captured the imagination of audiences in Europe and beyond, was a transformative event in the history of Romanticism and helped to usher in a new sensibility in music. He did not have a comparable success in the remaining five years of his life, although the overtures to his later Euryanthe and Oberon became repertory standards. In these operas, and in less familiar compositions, his masterful orchestration and compelling evocation of mood became models for composers from Meyerbeer to Wagner, Liszt, Berlioz, Glinka, and Hindemith. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-carl-maria-von-weber/.
This engrossing program encompasses varied works exploring religion and spirituality through the lens of female composers: Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, staged at Bard in 2015, animates a moral drama about social justice and personal courage, while Lili Boulanger’s Psalm 130 “Du fond de l'abîme” (1917) offers a deeply personal requiem dedicated to her father. Lera Auerbach’s Violin Concerto No. 3, “De Profundis” (2015) with Vadim Repin rounds out the program.
UPSTREAMING This week’s UPSTREAMING selection offers an exploration of French romanticism through the work of two composers—Emmanuel Chabrier and Hector Berlioz—who, while stylistically different, shared capacity for independent thought and innovation. The fully staged production of Chabrier’s Le roi malgré lui from the 2012 Bard SummerScape is complemented by Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette from the 2017 Bard Music Festival. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/French-Romanticism/.
UPSTREAMING “Botstein and Bard SummerScape show courage, foresight and great imagination, honoring operas that larger institutions are content to ignore. —Time Out New York
UPSTREAMING: Opera at Bard presents the musical centerpiece of the 2017 Bard SummerScape: Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s 1882 rare opera Dimitrij. Supporting content includes a recording of Janáček's Sinfonietta as performed by the American Symphony Orchestra and discussions including a lively and illuminating conversation between ASO music director Leon Botstein and noted Dvořák specialist Michael Beckerman. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-Dimitrij/.
One of the most revered Romantic composers of the late 19th and early 20th century, Richard Strauss’s symphonic poems and operas remain an indispensable feature of the standard repertoire. This program—which includes the operatic rarity Die Liebe der Danae (The Love of Danae) from the 2011 Bard SummerScape along with various symphonic and choral works—explores the composer’s substantial melodic gifts and his mastery of instrumentation and expression.
At once opulent and eerie, Pietro Mascagni’s Iris, composed in 1898 with libretto by Luigi Illica, received its North American premiere at Bard SummerScape in 2016. The American Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Leon Botstein performed with a brilliant cast of accomplished singers including the Australian tenor Gerard Schneider as a menacing and callous Osaka alongside the soprano Talise Travigne who movingly embodied the naivete and fragility of the eponymous character.
Leon Botstein in conversation with Stephanie Blythe
Runs through Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING For World Opera Day 2020, join two iconoclastic figures from the opera world for a wide-ranging and lively conversation. Revered mezzo & Artistic Director of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard, Stephanie Blythe joins Leon Botstein, Bard College President & Music Director of the American Symphony Orchestra engage in an engrossing discussion about their shared fascination with rarely-performed operas along with anecdotes and trenchant observations about the past, present, and future of the art form.
With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985
Runs through Sunday, November 28, 2021 12–6 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art This June, the Hessel Museum of Art will present With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985, the first full-scale scholarly North American survey of the groundbreaking yet understudied Pattern and Decoration art movement. Including painting, sculpture, collage, ceramics, textiles, installation art, and performance documentation, the exhibition spans the years 1972 to 1985 and features 45 artists from across the United States.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
All Eyes on Pushkin and Griboedov: Translator Betsy Hulick in Conversation with Julia Trubikhina
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 5:15–6:30 pm
Olin, Room 102 The Russian and Eurasian Studies Program and the Translation and Translatability Initiative at Bard cordially invite you to the reading from Betsy Hulick’s translations of Pushkin’s narrative poems “Little House in Kolomna” (1830), “Cout Nulin” (1825), and “Poltava” (1828-1829), and Alexander Griboedov’s seminal comedy in verse “Woe from Wit” (1822-1824), published by Columbia University Press in 2020. The event will center on Hulick’s conversation with translator and scholar Julia Trubikhina. They will address the history of Russian literary translations and the tasks of contemporary translators that stem from that legacy. What happens in the process of translation from the Russian? How can the issue of “fidelity” be resolved when translating Griboedov and Pushkin? Is the negotiation in literary translation, such as the sacrifice and replacement of form, necessary? Other poststructuralist and postmodern questions of writing and rewriting, related to what Walter Benjamin called the “afterlife of the original,” will also be addressed. Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7391, or e-mail [email protected].
Antisemitism and Ableism: Refugees and Immigration Policy towards Jews and the Disabled in the Wake of the Holocaust
Katherine Sorrels University of Cincinnati
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
This lecture series, held throughout the 2021-2022 academic year, will explore the ongoing phenomenon of antisemitism by examining its myriad historical contexts and relationships to other forms of prejudice and hatred.
This talk will discuss the Camphill movement, an international network of intentional communities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities that was founded in Scotland during World War II by Austrian Jewish refugees. It will focus on the antisemitism and ableism that forced Camphill’s founders to flee Nazi Central Europe, the antisemitic and ableist immigration policies that they confronted in the US and Britain, and the way their response to these overlapping forms of prejudice informed the mission and identity of the movement they founded. Drawing on her forthcoming book On the Spectrum: Jewish Refugees from Nazi Austria and the Politics of Disability in the Britain and North America, Sorrels will use Camphill to reconstruct the larger story of how Jewish refugees transformed British and North American approaches to disability and, in the process, reshaped the tradition of Viennese curative education.
Katherine Sorrels is Associate Professor of History, Affiliate Faculty in Judaic Studies, and Chair of the Taft Health Humanities Research Group at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Cosmopolitan Outsiders: Imperial Inclusion, National Exclusion, and the Pan-European Idea (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She is the co-editor of two forthcoming volumes, Disability in German-Speaking Europe: History, Memory, and Culture (Camden House, 2022) and Ohio under COVID: Lessons from America's Heartland in Crisis (under review with the University of Michigan Press). Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Fellowship Program, and the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
NOTE: These lectures are open to the public but all visitors to the Bard campus must register in advance and provide proof of vaccination by completing this form.
Co-sponsored by The Hannah Arendt Center and The Center for the Study of Hate
Sponsored by: Office of the President and the Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7543, or e-mail [email protected].
ABOUT Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information.
Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team.
WHAT WILL BE COVERED?
Overview of graduate program offerings
Alumni success and career outcomes
Admissions information
Prerequisite course information
Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
Financial aid and scholarships
Tips for a standout application
Degree Options Degree options include: MS in Environmental Policy MS in Climate Science and Policy MBA in Sustainability
Dual degree options include: MS/JD with Pace Law School MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability
Peace Corps Programs Master's International (before you serve) Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar at the end of the session. Email Margo Bogossian at [email protected] for further details.
Info Sessions for Worldwide Teach-In on Climate and Justice
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 10–11 am
Online Event 10 am New York | 3 p.m. Vienna 3 pm New York | 8 p.m. Vienna 10 am Hong Kong 4 pm Paris
On Wednesday, November 3, OSUN's Solve Climate by 2030 project, in conjunction with the Graduate Programs in Sustainability at Bard College and other global partners, invites faculty, staff, and students across the network to join a 30-minute virtual info session to learn how to organize a 3-hour teach-in about climate change solutions at your campus or organization.
Climate-concerned students, educators and community members: join info sessions on November 3 and help grow the WorldWide Teach-In on Climate and Justice, happening March 30 2022. Focus your campus and community-- and the world--on local climate solutions.
Easy to organize models are available to engage hundreds of people on your campus or in your community in critical dialogue about our future. As students and educators, nothing is more important than this work. Help mobilize a million college, university and K-12 students, as well as community members and faith organizations.
Grants are available of $1,000 for faculty/staff/student teams to organize Teach-In events at OSUN universities, and act as regional hubs driving engagement at other institutions.
Register here for one of the 11/3 information sessions and learn how to easily engage hundreds of people from your campus or community in serious dialogue about climate solutions and justice in the transition.
The Worldwide Teach-In is a project of the Graduate Programs in Sustainability at Bard College in New York, USA, in conjunction with global partners and the Open Society University Network.
Before Mass Incarceration: Prisons and Prisoners in the Ancient Greco-Roman World
Marcus Folch, Columbia University
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 5:30–7 pm
Online Event
Many of the most famous people from the ancient Greco-Roman world are said to have been imprisoned: Socrates, Demosthenes, John the Baptist, Jesus, Saints Paul, Peter, and Perpetua, to name just a few. How did ancient prisons work? Were they like prisons today? What were they used for? And what do we learn about ancient—and modern—societies by studying prisons in classical Greece and Rome? This talk attempts to answer some of these questions by focusing on ancient prison narratives from Greece, Rome, and Egypt. This event is part of the Common Course, The Making of Citizenship: Local, National, Global.
Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display
Thursday, November 4, 2021 – Saturday, November 6, 2021
Online Event As part of its 30th anniversary season, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard)presents a multi-day online conference exploring how Blackness has been framed, how Black artists are viewed, and how African diasporic art histories have been shaped through exhibition-making. Marking the first scholarly conference to focus exclusively on African diasporic art exhibitions in the US and the UK, Reshaping the Field will spotlight case studies that have disrupted narratives about Black art and artists through presentations by leading art historians and curators such as Bridget Cooks, Cheryl Finley, Serubiri Moses,and Marlene Smith among many others. The conference has been organized by Nana Adusei-Poku, Associate Professor and Luma Scholar at CCS Bard.
More info at can be found on our website here.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
The Open Work: An Exhibition History of Elvira Dyangani Ose
Runs through Sunday, November 14, 2021 11 am – 5 pm
CCS Galleries
The Open Work: An Exhibition History of Elvira Dyangani Ose focuses on the curatorial and critical work of Elvira Dyangani Ose (born 1974, Spain/Equatorial Guinea). In a selection of five exhibitions and three essays spanning at least 15 years, the exhibition draws from bibliographic sources, books, catalogs, and ephemera (posters et cetera). Exhibitions include: Africalls? (2007) at Casa Africa in Las Palmas, Spain, and Across the Board (2012) among others; and essays include: “For Whom Are Biennials Organised?” (2015), and “A Story Within A Story Within A Story,” the catalog essay for the 8th Gothenburg International Biennial (2015), among others. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display
Thursday, November 4, 2021 – Saturday, November 6, 2021
Online Event As part of its 30th anniversary season, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard)presents a multi-day online conference exploring how Blackness has been framed, how Black artists are viewed, and how African diasporic art histories have been shaped through exhibition-making. Marking the first scholarly conference to focus exclusively on African diasporic art exhibitions in the US and the UK, Reshaping the Field will spotlight case studies that have disrupted narratives about Black art and artists through presentations by leading art historians and curators such as Bridget Cooks, Cheryl Finley, Serubiri Moses,and Marlene Smith among many others. The conference has been organized by Nana Adusei-Poku, Associate Professor and Luma Scholar at CCS Bard.
More info at can be found on our website here.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event We planning for both the October 1 and November 5, 2021 Bard College IWT Writer as Reader Workshops to be held online. We look forward to returning to in-person workshops in 2022.
Writer as Reader workshops model writing practices that inspire students to read more carefully, to grasp the meaning in more complex texts, and to infer meaning from what they read. These workshops invite secondary and college teachers to consider “writing to read” as a central classroom practice, one that shows rather than tells students how writing clarifies the meaning of texts. Working with diverse writing-to-read strategies, workshop participants discover what they bring to the text, what is apparent in the text, what is inferred, and what questions the text poses.
Workshop offerings:
Language Choice as Language Justice: Reading for Resistance in Postcolonial Texts
Writing Home: Kinship, Citizenship, and Belonging in Sophocles’ Antigone and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
The Substance of Justice:The Narrative of Sojourner Truth and “The Merchant of Venice”
Walt Whitman: Looking, Listing, Vegetating
Aha! Moments: Exploring Epiphanies in James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield and ZZ Packer
Tell It Slant: Grappling with Suffering through Science Fiction and Fable
The Fractal Nature of Our World: The Mathematics of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia
Trouble in Paradise: Visions of Black Utopia & Despair in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Marvel's Black Panther
Issues in Translation: Poems that Prevail against Erasure
Guest Artists: Neave Trio, Ensemble in Residence at Longy School of Music of Bard College Anna Williams, violin, Mikhail Veselov, cello, Eri Nakamura, piano
Her Voice: Worksby three pioneering female composers: Louise Farrenc, Cécile Chaminade, and Jennifer Higdon
Friday, November 5, 2021 7–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Since forming in 2010, Neave Trio has earned enormous praise for its engaging, cutting-edge performances. WQXR explains, "'Neave' is actually a Gaelic name meaning 'bright' and 'radiant', both of which certainly apply to this trio's music making."The Boston Musical Intelligencer included Neave in its "Best of 2014" and “Best of 2016” roundups, claiming, “their unanimity, communication, variety of touch, and expressive sensibility rate first tier.” Neave has performed and held residencies at many esteemed concert series and at festivals worldwide. In the fall of 2017, the Trio joined the faculty of the Longy School of Music of Bard College as Alumni Artists, Faculty Ensemble‑in‑Residence. Neave Trio strives to champion new works by living composers and reach wider audiences through innovative concert presentations, regularly collaborating with artists of all mediums. These collaborations include D-Cell: an Exhibition & Durational Performance, conceived and directed by multi-disciplinary visual artist David Michalek; as well as performances with the Blythe Barton Dance Company; with dance collective Body Sonnet; with projection designer Ryan Brady; in Klee Musings by acclaimed American composer Augusta Read Thomas, which was premiered by Neave; in the premiere of Eric Nathan’s Missing Words V, sponsored by Coretet; and in a music video by filmmaker Amanda Alvarez Díaz of Astor Piazzolla’s “Otoño Porteño,” among many others. Gramophone described Neave Trio’s latest album Her Voice as, “a splendid introduction to these three pioneering female composers,” and as, “sumptuously recorded ... a taut and vivid interpretation.” Neave Trio’s other critically acclaimed recordings include Celebrating Piazzolla (Azica Records, 2018), which features mezzo-soprano Carla Jablonski; French Moments (Chandos Records, 2018); and its debut album, American Moments (Chandos Records, 2016).
Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display
Thursday, November 4, 2021 – Saturday, November 6, 2021
Online Event As part of its 30th anniversary season, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard)presents a multi-day online conference exploring how Blackness has been framed, how Black artists are viewed, and how African diasporic art histories have been shaped through exhibition-making. Marking the first scholarly conference to focus exclusively on African diasporic art exhibitions in the US and the UK, Reshaping the Field will spotlight case studies that have disrupted narratives about Black art and artists through presentations by leading art historians and curators such as Bridget Cooks, Cheryl Finley, Serubiri Moses,and Marlene Smith among many others. The conference has been organized by Nana Adusei-Poku, Associate Professor and Luma Scholar at CCS Bard.
More info at can be found on our website here.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, reflections, and Holy Communion this Sunday in the Chapel as we prepare for the start of a new semester at Bard. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. George, my five-month-old King Charles Cavalier spaniel, will be joining us!
We welcome all — Christians, Non-Christian, Spiritual but Not Religious, Agnostics, Believers, Doubters, Seekers, anyone who has questions about faith and religion, and those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Any questions, please email Mary Grace Williams at [email protected].Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Faculty Chamber Music Recital: French and French Connections Frank Corliss, piano; Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano; Marka Gustavsson, viola; Patricia Spencer, flute
Featuring two French composers plus two American composers who studied with Nadia Boulanger
Sunday, November 7, 2021 4–6 pm
Online Event Program: Thea Musgrave (b. 1928), Primavera (1971) soprano and flute Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de St. Georges, Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 1a, No. 1 flute and piano Maurice Duruflé, Prélude, Récitatif et Variations flute, viola, and piano Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Quartet in D Major, Wq 94 flute, viola, and piano Aaron Copland, Duo for Flute and Piano (1971) Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
A Reading with Jenny Offill from Her Novel, Weather, in Conversation with Daniel Williams
Monday, November 8, 2021 6:30–8 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Monday, November 8, at 6:30 p.m., in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Jenny Offill reads from her work and is joined in conversation with faculty member Daniel Williams.
Jenny Offill is an acclaimed fiction writer whose debut novel, Last Things (1999), was named a New York Times Notable Book and finalist for the LA Times First Book Award. The New York Times named her second novel, Dept. of Speculation, one of the 10 Best Books of 2014. Weather: A Novel was published in 2020 and lauded by the Boston Globe as “tiny in size but immense in scope, radically disorienting yet reassuringly humane, strikingly eccentric and completely irresistible.” Her critical work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review and Slate. She is coeditor, with Elissa Schappell, of the anthologies Money Changes Everything and The Friend Who Got Away; author of a number of children’s books; and subject of a February 2020 feature in the New York Times Magazine, “How to Write Fiction when the Planet is Falling Apart.” Honors include a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, Guggenheim Fellowship, New York Film Academy Fellowship in Fiction, and resident fellowships at Macdowell Colony, Slovenian PEN Centre, and Yaddo. Offill previously taught in the MFA programs at Brooklyn College, Syracuse University, Columbia University, and Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina; and served as Visiting Writer at Syracuse University and Sarah Lawrence College, and as Writer in Residence at Vassar College and Pratt University. She has been a Visiting Writer in Residence at Bard College since 2020.
Daniel Williams is Assistant Professor of Literature at Bard College. He specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and culture and also works on the literature of contemporary South and Southern Africa. His interests include history of science and philosophy, environmental humanities, and law and literature. His articles and reviews have appeared in venues such as ELH, Novel, Public Books, Studies in the Novel, Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Poetry, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Modern Language Notes, Comparative Literary Studies, Genre, Anglia, and Safundi, as well as in edited collections including The Link Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence and The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex The women's basketball team opens the season against Sarah Lawrence College. Come out and cheer!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Globally renowned violinist and Bard Conservatory of Music faculty member Gil Shaham joins the orchestra for the world premiere of a new piece written for him by award-winning composer Scott Wheeler. Also on the program are Julia Perry’s dramatic Stabat Mater, and George Bristow’s rarely-heard Arcadian Symphony.
Leon Botstein conductor Gil Shahamviolin Briana Huntermezzo-soprano
Julia Perry Stabat Mater Scott WheelerBirds of America (World Premiere) George Frederick Bristow Symphony No. 4, Arcadian
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Conservatory students compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, and the American Symphony Orchestra.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, reflections, and Holy Communion this Sunday in the Chapel as we prepare for the start of a new semester at Bard. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. George, my five-month-old King Charles Cavalier spaniel, will be joining us!
We welcome all — Christians, Non-Christian, Spiritual but Not Religious, Agnostics, Believers, Doubters, Seekers, anyone who has questions about faith and religion, and those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Any questions, please email Mary Grace Williams at [email protected].Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Globally renowned violinist and Bard Conservatory of Music faculty member Gil Shaham joins the orchestra for the world premiere of a new piece written for him by award-winning composer Scott Wheeler. Also on the program are Julia Perry’s dramatic Stabat Mater, and George Bristow’s rarely-heard Arcadian Symphony.
Leon Botstein conductor Gil Shahamviolin Briana Huntermezzo-soprano
Julia Perry Stabat Mater Scott WheelerBirds of America (World Premiere) George Frederick Bristow Symphony No. 4, Arcadian
Noon Concert: Voice, Piano, Cello, Oboe, and Flute
Conservatory students perform short works by Villa-Lobos, Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Kalliwoda, Prokofiev, and more during the final Noon Concert of the semester.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 12–1:15 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Bard Conservatory events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community. All visitors must register and demonstrate proof of vaccination in advance and wear a mask in any indoor campus setting Register to attend here - https://forms.gle/yGHSncyESFCqF8489
This event will also be live-streamed View the live stream at: https://youtu.be/eRJm4Z9JBo4Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Zrinka Stahuljak, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature, UCLA
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin, Room 204 Ever since the western involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq, and then Syria, the term 'fixer' became commonplace. It designates almost exclusively men who perform a range of services for foreign journalists and armies. Acting as interpreters, local informants, guides, drivers, mediators, brokers, these men are intermediaries, enablers who possess multiple skills and bodies of knowledge. Fixers existed already in the Middle Ages, in situations of multilingual encounter, such as crusades, pilgrimages, proselytization, trade, translation. Fixers are the invisible men and women of history, then as now. My new book, Fixers in the Middle Ages: History and Literature Connected (Seuil, 2021), aims to restore their presence in a productive conversation between the fixers of the past and of the present, and this paper will try to address ways in which looking at history, literature and politics through the lens of fixers, changes our relationship to the world and how we structure it.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; French Studies Program; Hannah Arendt Center; Human Rights Project; Literature Program; Medieval Studies Program; OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives.
For more information, call 845-758-7571, or e-mail [email protected].
Yamamba: The Ogress as Egress to Imagination in the Works of Modern Japanese Artists
Dr. Rebecca Copeland is a professor of Japanese literature at Washington University in St. Louis
Thursday, November 18, 2021 5–6 pm
Online Event In this presentation, I will discuss the way artists—primarily modern women writers—have turned to the monstrous figure of the mountain witch, or yamamba, as a way to galvanize their creativity. We begin with an overview of this ogress and her conflicting characteristics before turning to the way she has served as the egress to creativity, from medieval theater to the contemporary stage. We will consider the noh play, Yamamba, as well as the works of modern writer Ōba Minako and the choreography Yasuko Yokoshi. The talk will touch upon the recently published book Yamamba: In Search of the Japanese Mountain Witch. Rebecca Copeland is a professor of Japanese literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on modern women’s writing, translation, and gender. More recently she has turned her attention to creative writing. Her debut novel, The Kimono Tattoo, was published by Brother Mockingbird Press in June 2021. That same month, Stone Bridge Press released her collection of creative responses to the yamamba, which she co-edited with Linda C. Ehrlich.
Olin Hall Music Program events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community. All visitors must register and demonstrate proof of vaccination in advance and wear a mask in any indoor campus setting Register to attend here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18unuAeKF4c-6zjZjCjOpD0efFz6HeXSGR1PdCh9PkK8/editSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
At a moment of political division and policy uncertainty, many believe American democracy is in serious danger. Inequality, polarization, the stoking of anger, the exploitation of weaknesses in our political system – all are threatening the representative government we once took for granted. We cannot go backward, so how do we move forward to assure that the years of struggle that led to our democracy were not in vain? Let’s get some answers from our distinguished experts.
Jacob Hacker is Stanley Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University and the author or co-author of numerous academic and popular articles and more than a half-dozen books, including the 2010 New York Times bestseller Winner-Take-All Politics. His latest book, written with Paul Pierson, is Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he received the Robert Ball Award of the National Academy of Social Science in 2020 and was inducted into the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2021.
Roger Berkowitz, the moderator, is Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College. Professor Berkowitz authored The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition (Harvard, 2005; Fordham, 2010; Chinese Law Press, 2011). Berkowitz is editor of The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition (forthcoming 2020) and co-editor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009), The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis (2012) and Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch (2017). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The American Interest, Bookforum, The Forward, The Paris Review Online, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, and many other publications. Berkowitz edits HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center and the weekly newsletter Amor Mundi. He is the winner of the 2019 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Bremen, Germany.
Online Event Övül Ö. Durmusoglu is an independent curator, educator and writer, currently guest professor and program co-leader in the Graduate School, UdK Berlin and visiting professor in the HBK Braunschweig. Focused on the intersectional narratives around contemporary political subjectivities, she acts between singular languages and collective energies, worldly immersions and historical cosmologies. Övül has recently co-curated 3rd AUTOSTRADA BIENNALE in Kosovo, 12th Survival Kit Festival in Riga, Latvia and “Die Balkone: Life, Art, Pandemic and Proximity” in Berlin (2020-21) with Joanna Warsza. In the past, she was curator at Steirischer Herbst; co-curated different sections of 10th, 13th and 14th Istanbul Biennials; and organised Public Programs for dOCUMENTA (13), among others. She is engaged with CA2M Madrid, Kunsthalle Wien and Martin Gropius Bau for her future projects.
Introduced by Hana Halilaj, Graduate Student, CCS Bard.
CCS Bard Speaker Series Each semester CCS Bard hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Speakers are selected primarily by second-year graduate students and also by faculty and staff. All lectures are free and open, and will also be documented through audio recordings that reside in the CCS Bard Library & Archives. This semester, some talks will be in-person and others will be online. In order to receive a zoom link, registration is required in advance on eventbrite here.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents A panel discussion with artists John Ruppert, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak and EH Media Corps member Nikki Goldberg. Facilitated by curator, Danielle O'Steen.
This panel coincides with the closing of the 2021 Wilderstein Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, which highlights the work of artists who experiment with not only unexpected materials but also curious scale and unfamiliar viewing modes as tools for creating new, site-responsive installations. Curated by Krista Caballero, Co-Director of the Center for Experimental Humanities at Bard College and Julia B. Rosenbaum, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Bard College.
Please note: all visitors to Bard campus must be fully vaccinated and wear a mask while inside. For questions, please contact: [email protected] RSVP here: https://forms.gle/Qt52E52d8t4abamC6Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Historical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7103, or e-mail [email protected].
Viola Studio Fall Recital: Violists of Bard Conservatory
Featuring the students of Molly Carr, Marka Gustavsson, Melissa Reardon, Steve Tenenbom & Ira Weller
Saturday, November 20, 2021 11 am – 12:30 pm
Olin Hall
Works by J.S. Bach, Johannes Brahms, Benjamin Dale, Paul Hindemith, Henri Vieuxtemps, and William Walton, to name a few.
Bard Conservatory events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community. All visitors must register and demonstrate proof of vaccination in advance and wear a mask in any indoor campus setting
Romanticism and Impressionism: A Year in Time Pianists perform Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's Das Jahr and Claude Debussy's Préludes
Saturday, November 20, 2021 3–5 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space The pianists of the Bard Conservatory join together for a performance of Das Jahr, the rarely heard masterpiece by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, and Claude Debussy's early 20th century classic, Préludes (Book II).
View the live stream at https://youtu.be/8QfSZoootfQ
Bard Conservatory events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community. All visitors must register and demonstrate proof of vaccination in advance and wear a mask in any indoor campus setting Register to attend here - https://forms.gle/yGHSncyESFCqF8489Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Vocal Arts Program vocalists and postgraduate collaborative piano fellows present opera workshop scenes.
Saturday, November 20, 2021 7:30–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Join the members of the Bard VAP as they explore the world of French opera through composers such as Gounod, Massenet, Poulenc, and Bizet. From the tragic to the comic, these scenes examine love in all of its many forms.
Bard Conservatory events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community. All visitors must register and demonstrate proof of vaccination in advance and wear a mask in any indoor campus setting
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, reflections, and Holy Communion this Sunday in the Chapel as we prepare for the start of a new semester at Bard. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. George, my five-month-old King Charles Cavalier spaniel, will be joining us!
We welcome all — Christians, Non-Christian, Spiritual but Not Religious, Agnostics, Believers, Doubters, Seekers, anyone who has questions about faith and religion, and those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Any questions, please email Mary Grace Williams at [email protected].Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Bard Conservatory events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community. All visitors must register and demonstrate proof of vaccination in advance and wear a mask in any indoor campus setting Register to attend here - https://forms.gle/yGHSncyESFCqF8489
This event will also be live-streamed. View the live stream here - https://youtu.be/5nyNnGDVniM Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Olin Hall For any non-Bard visitors and guests, please complete the Concert Vaccine registration form here: https://forms.gle/HCVJGs2PxtuhxKJ89Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
Old Gym Come join me as I celebrate the return of live (musical) theatre for my first concert as part of the Bard College Music Program senior project requirement!!! An hour long set of musical theater sung by amazing singer friends. Limited seating capacity. Masks must be worn at all times. Sponsored by: Music Program.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are invited to gather for a time of prayer, reflections, and Holy Communion this Sunday in the Chapel as we prepare for the start of a new semester at Bard. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. George, my five-month-old King Charles Cavalier spaniel, will be joining us!
We welcome all — Christians, Non-Christian, Spiritual but Not Religious, Agnostics, Believers, Doubters, Seekers, anyone who has questions about faith and religion, and those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Any questions, please email Mary Grace Williams at [email protected].Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Faculty Recital: Schubert's Winterreise with Erika Switzer, piano, and Tyler Duncan, baritone
Sunday, November 28, 2021 2–3:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Bard Conservatory events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community. All visitors must register and demonstrate proof of vaccination in advance and wear a mask in any indoor campus setting
Degree Recital: Mercer Greenwald, viola with collaborative pianists Neilson Chen and Chewon Park
Works by J. S. Bach, Busch, Dvořák, and Brahms
Monday, November 29, 2021 8–9:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Bard Conservatory events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community. All visitors must register and demonstrate proof of vaccination in advance and wear a mask in any indoor campus setting Register to attend here - https://forms.gle/yGHSncyESFCqF8489
This event will also be live streamed. Watch here - https://youtu.be/hjS4x-VHwek Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Antisemitism and Christianity: Reckoning with the Christian Roots of Antisemitism and Racism in the Post-World War II World
Magda Teter Fordham University
Tuesday, November 30, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
The twentieth century, as scholar George M. Fredrickson has noted, brought both the “climax and retreat” of racism and antisemitism. The murder of six million Jews during World War II forced a reckoning with ideas that made this unprecedented crime possible and contributed to broader reconsideration of social and religious values dominating western society. It also forced, as the editor of Ebony would later write in the introduction to the special issue on “The White Problem in America” “a re-examination of the Christian faith which brought forth the idea that skin color was not a true measure of a man’s humanity.” This talk will seek to explain the modern rejection of equality of both Jews and Black people in the West by tracing Christianity’s claim to superiority that emerged in a theological context in antiquity but came to be implemented in a legal and political context when Christianity became a political power. I will argue that the Christian sense of superiority developed first in relation to Jews and then transformed to a racialized superiority when Europeans expanded their political reach beyond Europe, establishing slaveholding empires in the early modern period, culminating in the Holocaust and forcing an ongoing reckoning in the post-WWII era.
Magda Teter is Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland (Cambridge, 2006); Sinners on Trial (Harvard, 2011), which was a finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Prize; and Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth (Harvard, 2020), which won the 2020 National Jewish Book Award; and the forthcoming Enduring Marks of Servitude: Christianity’s Stamp on Antisemitism and Racism in Law and Culture. She has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. In 2020-2021, Teter was the NEH Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Jewish History.
NOTE: These lectures are open to the public but all visitors to the Bard campus must register in advance and provide proof of vaccination by completing this form.
Co-sponsored by The Hannah Arendt Center and The Center for the Study of Hate
Sponsored by: Office of the President and the Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7543, or e-mail [email protected].
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