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The Miracle of Helianeby Erich Wolfgang KorngoldRuns through Friday, December 31, 2021UPSTREAMING2019, Sosnoff Theater, SummerScape 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. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-Heliane/. Demonby Anton RubinsteinRuns through Friday, December 31, 2021UPSTREAMING2018, Sosnoff Theater, SummerScape 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. Read the Program For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-Demon/. OresteiaComposer in Context: Sergey TaneyevRuns through Friday, December 31, 2021UPSTREAMINGBard 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/. EuryantheComposer in Context: Carl Maria von WeberRuns through Friday, December 31, 2021UPSTREAMINGBard 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/. The Wreckersby Ethel SmythRuns through Friday, December 31, 2021UPSTREAMINGThis 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. Featuring:
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-The-Wreckers/. Le roi malgré luiRuns through Friday, December 31, 2021UPSTREAMINGThis 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/. DimitrijRuns through Friday, December 31, 2021UPSTREAMING“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/. Die Liebe der Danaeby Richard StraussRuns through Friday, December 31, 2021UPSTREAMINGOne 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. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-Danae/. Meshell NdegeocelloChapter & Verse: The Gospel of James BaldwinRuns through Monday, April 12, 2021UPSTREAMINGInspired by the writing of James Baldwin A Co-Production of Bismillah, LLC and Fisher Center at Bard “No label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and no religion is more important than the human being.”—James Baldwin A project inspired by James Baldwin’s truth-telling treatise on justice in the United States, The Fire Next Time, and our endlessly changing world. Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin is a 21st-century ritual tool kit for justice. A call for revolution. A gift during turbulent times. “Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy—but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” —James Baldwin Each month, September–December 2020, we offered gifts—music, thoughts, meditations, and visual testimonies of resilience—inspired by James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time. “This is my offering to you. This is a different experience so I hope you have an open mind or at least an open heart. I see James Baldwin as an Orisha, his writing as the living word. I wanted to pay homage to him and to the time and effort it took to sit, to physically and emotionally fill the page with a truth that made my own sorrow feel less lonely. He put me on a path of empathy and humility towards my parents. It humbled me towards my mother born in 1944 and my father born in 1939—a time I can’t imagine living in while black.” —Meshell Check out "Songs of Protest & Healing: Meshell Ndegeocello on the Gospel of James Baldwin" on Tidal Magazine. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/chapter-and-verse/. Irisby Pietro Mascagni |
Cassils: The Struggle for/The Struggle AgainstFriday, April 2, 2021Online Event |
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and ProjectsSaturday, April 3, 2021CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
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2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and ProjectsSunday, April 4, 2021CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
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Workshop: Practical Introduction to Facilitating Classroom DebatesTuesday, April 6, 2021Online Event |
The Evolving Understanding of Gender in International Law and "Gender Ideology" PushbackWednesday, April 7, 2021Online Event |
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and ProjectsThursday, April 8, 2021CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and ProjectsFriday, April 9, 2021CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and ProjectsSaturday, April 10, 2021CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and ProjectsSunday, April 11, 2021CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
Bilingualism vs. No-lingualism: Speechlessness as a ToolMonday, April 12, 2021Online Event |
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2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and ProjectsThursday, April 15, 2021CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and ProjectsFriday, April 16, 2021CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and ProjectsSaturday, April 17, 2021CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and ProjectsSunday, April 18, 2021CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
Does China's COVID-19 Management Legitimize Its Non-Democracy?Monday, April 19, 2021Online Event |
Noon ConcertConservatory students perform a half-hour long program.Tuesday, April 20, 2021Online Event |
Climate and Community Science Chat - April SessionWednesday, April 21, 2021Online Event |
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and ProjectsThursday, April 22, 2021CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and ProjectsFriday, April 23, 2021CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and ProjectsSaturday, April 24, 2021CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and ProjectsSunday, April 25, 2021CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
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Trauma Informed Teaching: Brain Science and the Trauma Informed Classroom with Louise GodboldTuesday, April 27, 2021Online Event |
Sedona Forum 2021: Defending DemocracyWednesday, April 28, 2021 – Friday, April 30, 2021Online Event |
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and ProjectsThursday, April 29, 2021CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and ProjectsFriday, April 30, 2021CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art |
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The Miracle of Heliane
by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Runs through Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMINGFirst 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.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-Heliane/.
Demon
by Anton Rubinstein
Runs through Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMING2018, Sosnoff Theater, SummerScape
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.
Read the Program
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-Demon/.
Oresteia
Composer in Context: Sergey Taneyev
Runs through Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMINGBard 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/.
Euryanthe
Composer in Context: Carl Maria von Weber
Runs through Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMINGBard 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:
- 2014 Bard SummerScape Opera: Euryanthe
- The American Symphony Orchestra performing Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 1 from the 2017 Bard Music Festival: Chopin and His World.
- Euryanthe video playlist, which includes: an opera talk with Maestro Botstein, a conversation with set designer Victoria Tzykun, and behind-the-scenes interviews with the producer, director, and cast of Euryanthe.
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/.
The Wreckers
by Ethel Smyth
Runs through Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMINGThis 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.
Featuring:
- SummerScape Opera: The Wreckers
- New Conversation: Leon Botstein with Thaddeus Strassberger
- BMF/TON Recordings: Spirituality Through the Lens of Female Composers
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-The-Wreckers/.
Le roi malgré lui
Runs through Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMINGThis 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/.
Dimitrij
Runs through Friday, December 31, 2021
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/.
Die Liebe der Danae
by Richard Strauss
Runs through Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMINGOne 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.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/UPS-Danae/.
Meshell Ndegeocello
Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin
Runs through Monday, April 12, 2021
UPSTREAMINGInspired by the writing of James Baldwin
Created by Meshell Ndegeocello
In collaboration with Charlotte Brathwaite
Featuring the contributions of Staceyann Chin, Suné Woods, Nicholas Galanin, Paul Thompson '93, Justin Hicks, and more.
A Co-Production of Bismillah, LLC and Fisher Center at Bard
Co-Commissioned by Live Arts Bard, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre, and Festival de Marseille.
“No label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and no religion is more important than the human being.”—James Baldwin
A project inspired by James Baldwin’s truth-telling treatise on justice in the United States, The Fire Next Time, and our endlessly changing world. Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin is a 21st-century ritual tool kit for justice. A call for revolution. A gift during turbulent times.
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy—but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” —James Baldwin
Each month, September–December 2020, we offered gifts—music, thoughts, meditations, and visual testimonies of resilience—inspired by James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time.
“This is my offering to you. This is a different experience so I hope you have an open mind or at least an open heart. I see James Baldwin as an Orisha, his writing as the living word. I wanted to pay homage to him and to the time and effort it took to sit, to physically and emotionally fill the page with a truth that made my own sorrow feel less lonely. He put me on a path of empathy and humility towards my parents. It humbled me towards my mother born in 1944 and my father born in 1939—a time I can’t imagine living in while black.” —Meshell
Check out "Songs of Protest & Healing: Meshell Ndegeocello on the Gospel of James Baldwin" on Tidal Magazine.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/chapter-and-verse/.
Iris
by Pietro Mascagni
Runs through Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMINGAt 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.
Read the Program
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/iris/.
2020 World Opera Day Talk
Leon Botstein in conversation with Stephanie Blythe
Runs through Friday, December 31, 2021
UPSTREAMINGFor 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.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/worldoperaday/.
The Future is Present
Runs through Sunday, May 16, 2021
Various“We projected ourselves into a future in which we are loved absolutely and we rehearsed our lives there.”
The Future Is Present is a process and a practice, it’s a model for building community in a very small and incredibly powerful way. Led by artists Charlotte Brathwaite, Justin Hicks, Janani Balasubramanian, Sunder Ganglani, June Cross, and Alyssa Simmons, the project built a small community of Black and Indigenous young people* and a small community of young artists from Bard College** to spend seven weeks cultivating intimacy and discourse.
The youth cohort created demands on our collective future. The Bard community members listened, deeply.
The artists at Bard made a series of short films for the youth cohort, available to view here.
* Reggi Alkiewicz, Tobias Torian Chance, Nia-Selassie Clarke, Whisper Crow Dog, Denaysha Macklin, Alethia Ramos, Dezjuan Smith, Kacey Thomas, Zia Williams, Gabrielle Xavier
** Adrian Costa, Megan Lacy, Cam Orr, Anya Petkovich, Taty Rozetta, Hakima Alem, Dani Wilder, and Mengchen Zhang
To read a transcript of the video above, click here.Sponsored by: Bard Theater & Performance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/the-future-is-present.
English Language Conversation Tables
Runs through Thursday, May 20, 2021
1–2 pm
Online EventPlease help spread the word!
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For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Earth Month Drawdown Ecochallenge: Bard + Community
A one-month team climate competition
Runs through Friday, April 30, 2021
Online EventBardians engaging with climate solutions through this online competition will have a greater understanding of how we can reverse global warming. Log in to sign up for Bard + Community Team via the URL provided or find the competition at earthmonth.ecochallenge.org.Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-464-8025, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://earthmonth.ecochallenge.org/participants/join?referral_code=0863bff2-6862-41ed-aaac-7d05e11b3dc1&team_invitation.
Cassils: The Struggle for/The Struggle Against
Friday, April 2, 2021
12–1 pm
Online EventThe OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Cassils, the third speaker in the Artists and Activists lecture series.
In a time of lockdown and quarantines, of fascism and propaganda, we need reason and action to be supported by visions of change. Cassils discusses artistic and performative tactics uniquely suited for our time. Reflecting on ten years of practice where they carve out strategies for trans representation, they discuss tactics to educate, engage and agitate while attempting to balance and center love, community and relevant action.
Cassils is a transgender artist who makes their own body the material and protagonist of their performances. Cassils’s art contemplates the history(s) of LGBTQI+ violence, representation, struggle and survival. For Cassils, performance is a form of social sculpture: drawing from the idea that bodies are formed in relation to forces of power and social expectations, Cassils’ work investigates historical contexts to examine the present moment.
This event is a webinar.
Join via Zoom.
Find out more about the Talks by Artists and Activists series.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and Projects
Saturday, April 3, 2021
12–5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservations.
Degree Recital: Gabrielle Hartman, bassoon
with Gwyyon Sin, piano
Saturday, April 3, 2021
7–8:30 pm
Online EventWorks by Michel Corrette, Launy Grøndahl, Adolphus Hailstork, and Camille Saint-Saëns
Gabrielle Hartman studies with Marc Goldberg at the Bard Conservatory, where she is completing a double degree in bassoon performance and biology with a concentration in global public health. She holds both the Conservatory’s Alexander Borodin Scholarship and Bard College’s John W. Boylan Scholarship in Medicine and Science.
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://youtu.be/RA0SyoiyA58 .
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and Projects
Sunday, April 4, 2021
12–5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservations.
Bard Chapel Service
Sunday, April 4, 2021
3–4 pm
Online EventYou are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1OHcyazdyQTZldz09.
Workshop: Practical Introduction to Facilitating Classroom Debates
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
8–11 am
Online EventIWT CLASP and the Global Debate Network invite faculty from across the network to join us for a 3-hour hands-on, interactive workshop on facilitating classroom debates.
We will walk through the various steps of organizing classroom debates - setting a debate topic, choosing a debate format, assigning the debate, preparing students, and grading the debate - as well as the various pedagogical functions of debate - public speaking, critical thinking, research, close reading, argument construction, and analytic writing. We will also discuss specific strategies for hosting virtual/online debates.
Click here to register
Please note: Space is limited. Please only register if you are able to join us for the entire 3-hour session.For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Solve Climate by 2030: A Global Dialog
Green Recovery / Climate Solutions / Just Transition
Runs through Thursday, April 15, 2021
9 am – 11 pm
Online EventOn Tuesday, April 6, OSUN's Solve Climate by 2030 project and the Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College are organizing simultaneous “global dialog” webinars to focus the world on regional and local solutions—in 50 different countries and in every US state.
The webinars will present climate solutions from experts in Hungary, South Africa, and Kyrgyzstan, as well as Florida, New Mexico and Minnesota—100 sites worldwide—about ambitious but feasible actions that could spur a just, Green Recovery and get the world on track to solving climate by 2030. Colleges and universities and local faith, civic, and business groups will host viewings of the webinars and in-person discussions of how to get involved in climate solutions.
Faculty at all levels are being asked to assign viewing the webinars as homework, and then spend the following class discussing climate solutions. This opportunity is not just for environmental studies classes. The challenges posed by solving climate change range across history, science, business, culture, economics, psychology, religion, government, media, journalism, and the arts. Solve Climate has disciplinary guides for follow-up discussions about the state-level, solutions-focused webinars.
The project will engage 300+ climate experts around the world as panel speakers, such as state and national political leaders, including members of the US Congress, a US Senator, a US governor, and two ambassadors from Kazakhstan.
See the list of global dialogs
Follow the #MakeClimateAClass social media campaign
Sign up here to stay informed
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Noon Concert: Livestreamed
Conservatory students perform works by Beethoven, Messiaen, Weill, Ysaÿe, and von Weber
One-hour program with piano, violin, clarinet, and mezzo-soprano
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
12–1 pm
Online EventSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQqLgU3DfosEE_IAQdk9jQ.
What Does Psychology Tell Us about the Human Capacity for Hate?
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
3–4 pm
Online EventWhat does psychology tell us about the human capacity for hate?
Please join the Bard Center for the Study of Hate on Tuesday, April 6 at 3 pm New York Time in welcoming Samantha Moore-Berg, Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab. She will speak about her work studying conflict across the globe. The lab “aims to understand how the human mind drives intergroup conflict and to put research into action to heal those divisions.”
This is an online event.
Please register here.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Informational Webinar: Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability
Join and receive a $65 application fee waiver!
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
7–8 pm
Online EventRSVP HERE
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational webinars for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs.
ABOUT
Webinars include a program overview for the Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy programs as well as detailed admissions information, course requirements, tips to make your application strong, and financial information.
Join a live information session with Director Goodstein and the admissions team and ask questions directly of the Bard team.
WHAT WILL BE COVERED?
- Overview of graduate program offerings
- Alumni success and career outcomes
- Admissions information
- Prerequisite course requirements
- Peace Corps and AmeriCorps programs
- Financial aid availability
- Tips for a standout application
Degree Options Include:
MS in Environmental Policy
MS in Climate Science and Policy
MBA in Sustainability
Dual Degree Options Include:
MS/JD with Pace Law School
MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching
MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability
Peace Corps Programs Include:
Master's International (before you serve)
Peace Corps Fellows (after you serve)
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar. Email Margo Bogossian at [email protected] for further details.
RSVP HERESponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/125217680453.
The Evolving Understanding of Gender in International Law and "Gender Ideology" Pushback
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
8–10 am
Online EventThe Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade welcomes all OSUN members to attend a virtual talk with Marija Antić and Ivana Radačić, who will discuss the use of the term "gender" in international human rights law, with particular attention paid to the social constructionist definition of gender in the Istanbul Convention. It will be argued that anti-gender discourse has a strong potential to undermine the developments in the domain of gender equality, only 25 years after the Beijing Conference on Women.
This is an online event.
Join via Zoom.
Find out more.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and Projects
Thursday, April 8, 2021
12–5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservations.
Digital Commission: There is a Baba in Our House
Thursday, April 8, 2021
1–2:30 pm
Online EventWorld premiere of the first in the OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts' annual digital commissions, featuring a Q&A with artist Leil Zahra and Nubian Geographic hosted by Dr. Hanan Toukan (Bard College Berlin).
في بيتنا بابا
Parting from a personal narrative, and using references from both popular culture and key political events, artist Leil Zahra Mortada uses the performative aspect of nationalism, and its propaganda, to contribute to a much-needed debate around Pan-Arabism and its consequences, history and present.
In this political coming-of-age, the video highlights the blurred lines between the Father figure as both the patriarch of the family and the leader of the nation. The author holds their father’s bias accountable despite the latter’s unquestionable commitment to social justice.
Leil Zahra Mortada is a transfeminist queer activist, researcher, and artist born in Beirut. Their film work includes the archival project “Words of Women from the Egyptian Revolution” and the awarded experimental short Breakup in 9 Scenes. Leil is behind the collaborative project Sound Frontier, a music research project focusing on marginalized music and sound art from a decolonial and feminist perspectives. They are a researcher and trainer on digital security, online privacy and open-source investigations. Recently they concluded a fellowship at Mozilla Foundation on the impacts of content policing on social media platforms. Their work focuses on queer and feminist politics, archiving, migration, anti-racism and decolonialism.
Nubian Geographic was founded in 2015 to document Nubia and its geography, history, language, wildlife and more. As a Nubian initiative, it works to counter the systemic erosion of the Nubian culture through research, documentation, producing resources and raising awareness. Nubian Geographic aims to become the origin of a Nubian Scientific Society that would help to preserve and revive Nubia's rich culture and history.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
HARMONY AND COMPASSION – MUSIC IN BUDDHIST RITUAL
AN ONLINE CONFERENCE AND PERFORMANCE SERIES, APRIL 8-10, 2021
Day One
Thursday, April 8, 2021
5:30–9 pm
Online EventThis year’s annual conference of the US-China Music Institute will explore forms of Buddhist musical practice through online discussions, performances, and demonstrations. Speakers will provide historical, sociological, and musicological context for musical rituals in Buddhist traditions. Performances will draw from different regions and styles of traditional chanting, ceremonial music, and contemporary composition.
All events are free and open to the public. Learn more and register to receive links prior to each event at barduschinamusic.org/harmony2021
CONFERENCE EVENT SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, APRIL 8
BUDDHISM, MUSIC, AND SOCIETY
Panel Discussion (Zoom) 5:30-7pm EST
Speakers- Andrew Quintman, Professor of Religious Studies, Wesleyan University
- Mingmei Yip, Visiting Professor of Chinese Music History, Bard College
- Chen Tao, Professor of Chinese Music, Bard College; Artistic Director, Melody of Dragon, Inc.
- Zhai Fengjian, Associate Researcher, China National Academy of Fine Arts
Performance (Streaming) 8-9pm EST
Featuring ceremonial chanting from- Daxiangguo Temple, Kaifang, Henan Province
- Zhihua Temple, Beijing
- Mount Wutai Buddhist Monk Ensemble, Shanxi Province
- Jade Buddha Temple, Shanghai
- Huafan University, Department of Buddhist Studies, Taipei
- International Buddhist Progress Society (IBPS), North America (multiple locations)
- Labrang Monastery, Gansu Autonomous Tibetan Prefecture
FRIDAY, APRIL 9
ENTERING THE WORLD, THE PATH OF MUSIC
Panel Discussion (Zoom) 5:30-7pm EST
Moderated byDominique Townsend, Professor of Religious Studies, and Jindong Cai, director of the US-China Music Institute
with
Jamyang Dolma, Founding Director, Academy of Himalayan Art and Child Development
Drukmo Gyal, singer
Ganavya Doraiswamy, singer
Performance (Streaming) 8-9pm EST
Modern Tibetan chant, traditional instrumental music, and modern works from composers Tan Dun and Qu Xiaosong.SATURDAY, APRIL 10
A BLESSING FROM BHUTAN
The final day of the Harmony and Compassion takes us on a virtual journey to the Kingdom of Bhutan, “the happiest country on earth.”Performance (Streaming) 7:30-8:30pm EST
Discussion and Q&A (Zoom) 8:30-9:30pm EST
Presented by: US-China Music Institute
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://barduschinamusic.org/harmony2021.
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and Projects
Friday, April 9, 2021
12–5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservations.
Fucking A
A Staged Reading by the Bard POC Theatre Ensemble
Friday, April 9, 2021
7 pm
Online Eventby Suzan-Lori Parks
Vocal Arrangements by Faith Amrapali Williams ‘22
Directed by Morgan Barnes-Whitehead ‘21
Produced by Taty Rozetta ‘21, Immanuel Williams ‘22, POC Theatre Ensemble
Featuring
Skye Carter ‘22, Ogechi Egonu ‘22, Maya Lavender ‘23, Sophia Lawder ‘23, Isis Pinheiro ‘21, Taty Rozetta ‘21, Morgan Barnes-Whitehead ‘21, Faith Amrapali Williams ‘22, and Immanuel Williams ‘22
This staged reading of one of Suzan-Lori Parks’s seldom-staged early works is led by Bard’s POC Theatre Ensemble, a student-run organization created by Jadyn Gray-Hough ‘20 and Immanuel Williams ‘22 which aims to facilitate an environment of inclusion within the Bard theatre community- particularly for people of color. POC Theatre Ensemble is primarily focused on theater written for and by people of color. Sponsored by: Bard Theater & Performance Program presents.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fucking-a.
Saw Kill Water Sampling
Friday, April 9, 2021
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Saw KillAs a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.
Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.
Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.
Open to everyone. Free training is available.
If interested, please contact:
Lindsey Drew
Bard Water Lab Manager
[email protected]Sponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
The Buddha’s Shadow and God’s Flesh: Image and Anti-image in Huiyuan and Julian of Norwich
Yun Ni, Assistant Professor of English Literature,
Peking University
Friday, April 9, 2021
12–1:30 pm
Online EventIn this talk the speaker will compare how medieval Chinese Buddhism and medieval English Christian mysticism deal with the relationship between the transcendent and the immanent. Specifically, the comparison centers on the ideology of visualization of the late fourth-century Chinese Buddhist monk Huiyuan 慧遠 (334–417) and the late fourteenth-century English Christian mystic Julian of Norwich (1342–1430). A thousand years apart, their articulations of the imagistic representation of the transcendent still reveal synchronic connections between Buddhist and Christian ideas about the absolute presence and necessary absence of the divine. Both religious thinkers use details related to the skin and to textiles when they address the representation of the “ineffable.” The ways they treat the boundaries between skin and textiles expose fundamental differences between the Trinity of the Christian God and the Buddha’s three bodies (the Trikāya), but the two religious writers reflect on a similar oscillation between the active generation and passive reception of mental images.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/81330911036
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Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Literature Program; Medieval Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/81330911036.
Emily Johnson: Land and An Architecture of the Overflow
Friday, April 9, 2021
12–1:30 pm
Online EventThe OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Emily Johnson, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series. Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. She is a land and water protector and an activist for justice, sovereignty and well-being.
A Bessie Award-winning choreographer, Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, she is based in Lenapehoking / New York City. Emily is of the Yup’ik Nation, and since 1998 has created work that considers the experience of sensing and seeing performance. Her dances function as portals and care processions, engaging audiences within and through space, time, and environment–interacting with a place's architecture, peoples, history and role in building futures.
Emily is trying to make a world where performance is part of life; where performance is an integral connection to each other, our environment, our stories, our past, present and future.
Emily hosts monthly ceremonial fires on Mannahatta in partnership with Abrons Arts Center and Karyn Recollet. She was a co-compiler of the document, Creating New Futures: Guidelines for Ethics and Equity in the Performing Arts, and is part of an advisory group, with Reuben Roqueni, Lori Pourier, Ronee Penoi, and Vallejo Gantner - developing a First Nations Performing Arts Network.
This is an online event.
Join via Zoom Link.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Research to Action Lecture Series: Making Ideas Into Law
Friday, April 9, 2021
12:15–1:30 pm
Online EventOSUN's Economic Democracy Initiative Research-to-Action series brings scholars, policy makers, and activists into conversation with OSUN students to discuss pathways for meaningful social change. The sessions highlight the practical ways in which guests have helped to actively change how we approach social and economic problems. From direct action and organizing, to public writing and speaking, to drafting legislation and other policy documents, the discussions will showcase how small steps and bottom-up efforts could potentially lead to big changes.
On Friday, April 9, Rohan Grey, Founder and President, Modern Money Network and Assistant Professor, Willamette Law and Pavlina Tcherneva, Founding Director of the Economic Democracy Initiative and Associate Professor, Bard College will discuss their respective experiences working with legislators on various policy documents, including the Job Guarantee Resolution, the ABC Act, and the WPA Act.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Student Recital: Ana Aparicio, violin
Works by Franck, Mozart, and Piazzolla
Friday, April 9, 2021
4–5 pm
Online Eventhttps://youtu.be/iqogMb0sqM0Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://youtu.be/iqogMb0sqM0.
HARMONY AND COMPASSION – MUSIC IN BUDDHIST RITUAL
AN ONLINE CONFERENCE AND PERFORMANCE SERIES, APRIL 8-10, 2021
Day Two
Friday, April 9, 2021
5:30–9 pm
Online EventThis year’s annual conference of the US-China Music Institute will explore forms of Buddhist musical practice through online discussions, performances, and demonstrations. Speakers will provide historical, sociological, and musicological context for musical rituals in Buddhist traditions. Performances will draw from different regions and styles of traditional chanting, ceremonial music, and contemporary composition.
All events are free and open to the public. Learn more and register to receive links prior to each event at barduschinamusic.org/harmony2021
CONFERENCE EVENT SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, APRIL 8
BUDDHISM, MUSIC, AND SOCIETY
Panel Discussion (Zoom) 5:30-7pm EST
Speakers- Andrew Quintman, Professor of Religious Studies, Wesleyan University
- Mingmei Yip, Visiting Professor of Chinese Music History, Bard College
- Chen Tao, Professor of Chinese Music, Bard College; Artistic Director, Melody of Dragon, Inc.
- Zhai Fengjian, Associate Researcher, China National Academy of Fine Arts
Performance (Streaming) 8-9pm EST
Featuring ceremonial chanting from- Daxiangguo Temple, Kaifang, Henan Province
- Zhihua Temple, Beijing
- Mount Wutai Buddhist Monk Ensemble, Shanxi Province
- Jade Buddha Temple, Shanghai
- Huafan University, Department of Buddhist Studies, Taipei
- International Buddhist Progress Society (IBPS), North America (multiple locations)
- Labrang Monastery, Gansu Autonomous Tibetan Prefecture
FRIDAY, APRIL 9
ENTERING THE WORLD, THE PATH OF MUSIC
Panel Discussion (Zoom) 5:30-7pm EST
Moderated byDominique Townsend, Professor of Religious Studies, and Jindong Cai, director of the US-China Music Institute
with
Jamyang Dolma, Founding Director, Academy of Himalayan Art and Child Development
Drukmo Gyal, singer
Ganavya Doraiswamy, singer
Performance (Streaming) 8-9pm EST
Modern Tibetan chant, traditional instrumental music, and modern works from composers Tan Dun and Qu Xiaosong.SATURDAY, APRIL 10
A BLESSING FROM BHUTAN
The final day of the Harmony and Compassion takes us on a virtual journey to the Kingdom of Bhutan, “the happiest country on earth.”Performance (Streaming) 7:30-8:30pm EST
Discussion and Q&A (Zoom) 8:30-9:30pm EST
Presented by: US-China Music Institute
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://barduschinamusic.org/harmony2021.
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and Projects
Saturday, April 10, 2021
12–5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservations.
Fucking A
A Staged Reading by the Bard POC Theatre Ensemble
Saturday, April 10, 2021
2 pm
Online Eventby Suzan-Lori Parks
Vocal Arrangements by Faith Amrapali Williams ‘22
Directed by Morgan Barnes-Whitehead ‘21
Produced by Taty Rozetta ‘21, Immanuel Williams ‘22, POC Theatre Ensemble
Featuring
Skye Carter ‘22, Ogechi Egonu ‘22, Maya Lavender ‘23, Sophia Lawder ‘23, Isis Pinheiro ‘21, Taty Rozetta ‘21, Morgan Barnes-Whitehead ‘21, Faith Amrapali Williams ‘22, and Immanuel Williams ‘22
This staged reading of one of Suzan-Lori Parks’s seldom-staged early works is led by Bard’s POC Theatre Ensemble, a student-run organization created by Jadyn Gray-Hough ‘20 and Immanuel Williams ‘22 which aims to facilitate an environment of inclusion within the Bard theatre community- particularly for people of color. POC Theatre Ensemble is primarily focused on theater written for and by people of color. Sponsored by: Bard Theater & Performance Program presents.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/fucking-a.
Degree Recital: Evan Petratos, tuba
Saturday, April 10, 2021
3–4 pm
Online EventSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://youtu.be/RiLeQgdbasY.
HARMONY AND COMPASSION – MUSIC IN BUDDHIST RITUAL
AN ONLINE CONFERENCE AND PERFORMANCE SERIES, APRIL 8-10, 2021
Day Three
Saturday, April 10, 2021
7:30–9:30 pm
Online EventThis year’s annual conference of the US-China Music Institute will explore forms of Buddhist musical practice through online discussions, performances, and demonstrations. Speakers will provide historical, sociological, and musicological context for musical rituals in Buddhist traditions. Performances will draw from different regions and styles of traditional chanting, ceremonial music, and contemporary composition.
All events are free and open to the public. Learn more and register to receive links prior to each event at barduschinamusic.org/harmony2021
CONFERENCE EVENT SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, APRIL 8
BUDDHISM, MUSIC, AND SOCIETY
Panel Discussion (Zoom) 5:30-7pm EST
Speakers- Andrew Quintman, Professor of Religious Studies, Wesleyan University
- Mingmei Yip, Visiting Professor of Chinese Music History, Bard College
- Chen Tao, Professor of Chinese Music, Bard College; Artistic Director, Melody of Dragon, Inc.
- Zhai Fengjian, Associate Researcher, China National Academy of Fine Arts
Performance (Streaming) 8-9pm EST
Featuring ceremonial chanting from- Daxiangguo Temple, Kaifang, Henan Province
- Zhihua Temple, Beijing
- Mount Wutai Buddhist Monk Ensemble, Shanxi Province
- Jade Buddha Temple, Shanghai
- Huafan University, Department of Buddhist Studies, Taipei
- International Buddhist Progress Society (IBPS), North America (multiple locations)
- Labrang Monastery, Gansu Autonomous Tibetan Prefecture
FRIDAY, APRIL 9
ENTERING THE WORLD, THE PATH OF MUSIC
Panel Discussion (Zoom) 5:30-7pm EST
Moderated byDominique Townsend, Professor of Religious Studies, and Jindong Cai, director of the US-China Music Institute
with
Jamyang Dolma, Founding Director, Academy of Himalayan Art and Child Development
Drukmo Gyal, singer
Ganavya Doraiswamy, singer
Performance (Streaming) 8-9pm EST
Modern Tibetan chant, traditional instrumental music, and modern works from composers Tan Dun and Qu Xiaosong.SATURDAY, APRIL 10
A BLESSING FROM BHUTAN
The final day of the Harmony and Compassion takes us on a virtual journey to the Kingdom of Bhutan, “the happiest country on earth.”Performance (Streaming) 7:30-8:30pm EST
Discussion and Q&A (Zoom) 8:30-9:30pm EST
Presented by: US-China Music Institute
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://barduschinamusic.org/harmony2021.
MENDELSSOHN & BERNSTEIN
Saturday, April 10, 2021
8 pm
UPSTREAMINGTŌN music director Leon Botstein leads the orchestra in Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony and Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium), featuring violin soloist Zongheng Zhang, a winner of the 2020 Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition. Also on the program is the 2008 work Ácana from Cuban-born composer Tania León, and Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, performed with pianist Blair McMillen.
Leon Botstein conductor
Zongheng Zhang ’21 violin
Blair McMillen piano
Tania León Ácana
Bernstein Serenade (after Plato's Symposium)
Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3, Scottish
Estimated run time: 2 hours
Sponsored by: The Orchestra Now.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/leon-botstein-TON.
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and Projects
Sunday, April 11, 2021
12–5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservations.
Bard Chapel Service
Sunday, April 11, 2021
3–4 pm
Online EventYou are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1OHcyazdyQTZldz09.
Degree Recital: Anna Hallett Gutierrez, violin
Works by Bach, Elgar, and Wynton Marsalis
Sunday, April 11, 2021
3–4 pm
Online EventSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://youtu.be/bdCV_t9-4wQ.
Bilingualism vs. No-lingualism: Speechlessness as a Tool
Monday, April 12, 2021
9:30–11 am
Online EventOSUN, along with European Humanities University and Bard Translation and Translatability initiative, invites OSUN members to an online event with Tatsiana Zamirouskaya, a writer and journalist from Minsk, Belarus, currently living in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her recent collection of metaphysical sci-fi stories, The Land of Random Numbers (2019), was longlisted for the Russian Bestseller Award and NOS Literary Award. Her novel about digital immortality and memory, The Deadnet, will be published in April 2021 by the AST/Elena Shubina Imprint. She has an MFA from Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and is a recipient of fellowships from the Macdowell Colony and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
This is an online event.
Join via Zoom link.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://zoom.us/j/92185382392?pwd=eGNaZVBZNXBTVFR1MFBhYyt2Rk5OQT09.
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Virtual Open House
Join and receive a $65 application fee waiver!
Monday, April 12, 2021
7–8:30 pm
Online EventRSVP HERE
Join us for an online Open House hosted by the Bard MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy.
Attendees will hear from a panel of current students and alumni of Bard's MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy. Our panel of student/alum experts will discuss topics such as:
- career outcomes -- how the MS degrees at CEP and MBA in Sustainability have led to impactful sustainability careers
- the program experience -- highlights on courses and key features at Bard (including the NYCLab course and the CEP internship)
- how to get the most of your graduate school journey -- career development + student engagement opportunities at Bard
- how to make your application stand out -- tips on perfecting your application materials, advice on getting through the graduate school admissions process
Our Admissions staff will also be on hand to provide information on the application process and answer questions regarding:
- financial aid opportunities
- successfully completing program prerequisites
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar. Email Margo Bogossian at [email protected] for further details.
RSVP HERE
Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/125218224079.
In Conversation with Author Nikkya Hargrove ’05: On Writing Memoir and Equity in Publishing
A BardWrites Event
Monday, April 12, 2021
7–8 pm
Online EventThe Office of Alumni/ae Affairs and Career Development Office presents a special BardWrites event, featuring author and Bardian Nikkya Hargrove ’05, for a discussion about personal essay, memoir, and equity in publishing. Nikkya’s work has been published by outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. Her much anticipated debut memoir, Mama: A Black, Queer Woman’s Journey to Motherhood (Algonquin), is due for publication in fall 2022. Nikkya is also a member of Bard’s Board of Governors and is chair of the alumni/ae Diversity Committee. The event will be hosted by author Maya Gottfried ’95 and is free to members of the Bard community. Registration is required.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Career Development Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lf-morTkvGN34y6b60HI4zHll7y9BeP7a.
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and Projects
Thursday, April 15, 2021
12–5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservations.
The Reception of Shostakovich’s Music
A lecture with Vladimir Orlov (Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Smolny) of St. Petersburg University)
Thursday, April 15, 2021
12–1 pm
Online EventIt is well-known that Joseph Stalin, leader of the USSR, left the performance of Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District in great outrage in 1936, which was followed with the first serious attack against Shostakovich. But underneath this, what was the real perception of the communist ideology by the composer? Did he actually stay aloof (like Andrei Volkonsky), comply cynically (like Sergei Prokofiev) or genuinely believe in it (like Alexander Davidenko)?
The lecture will discuss Shostakovich's examples of Soviet music, namely his ballets (The Bolt, The Golden Age), operas and other compositions and their up-and-down reception by the Soviet public and officialdom.
Join via ZoomSponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/81483320255.
Emily Han Senior Concert
Thursday, April 15, 2021
8–9:15 pm
Bito CPSSponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and Projects
Friday, April 16, 2021
12–5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservations.
Open Networking Session on Defining Civic Engagement
Friday, April 16, 2021
9–10 am
Online EventThis Open Networking Session on Defining Civic Engagement is sponsored by the Civic Engagement Working Group and is open to all OSUN members. This session will pose the question of how to define civic engagement on your campus.
Please share this networking opportunity with interested colleagues at your institution.
This is an online event.
Join via Zoom.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Kenny Fries, Author and Professor at Goddard College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program
"Disability Can Save Your Life"
Friday, April 16, 2021
12–1:30 pm
Online EventWhen disability is placed at the center of events, where it belongs, it provides the lens through which many of our society's ills can be clearly seen and, thus, changed.
On Friday, April 16, the Bard College Speaker Series on Disability welcomes you to join a presentation by writer Kenny Fries, who will read and talk about how societal views of disability, most importantly eugenics, have come to the surface once again as the COVID pandemic confronts us. Fries makes connections between his research on Aktion T4, the Nazi program that mass-murdered disabled people, and how it resonates today, as well as the importance of understanding how disability representation affects all of us, disabled and nondisabled alike.
For over two decades, Kenny Fries has looked at how disability provides an understanding of the interconnectedness between individuals and also between different cultures, using the prism of his life as a writer who lives with a congenital physical disability to forge a new understanding of a wide range of values and ideas, from systems of interdependence to intersectionality to Darwinian evolution to disability and the Holocaust.
Fries’s works include The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory, which received the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights; In the Province of the Gods, recipient of the Creative Capital literature award; and his forthcoming Stumbling Over History: Disability and the Holocaust, for which he received a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Arts and Literary Arts Fellowship.
This is a live webinar. Please join via Zoom.
Bard is committed to making every effort to provide reasonable accommodations for accessibility needs. There will be live captioning as well as an ASL interpreter and transcription services offered for this webinar. For other accessibility needs or for more information about this event please contact Disability Speaker Series Coordinator Jaime Alves at [email protected] or 845-758-7112. Sponsored by the Dean of the College and Disability Services.Sponsored by: Bard College Speaker Series on Disability ; Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7112, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/89507339718?pwd=cHBWL25zWGJlMit5RUROQW1lSUdydz09.
Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani: Border Forensics
Friday, April 16, 2021
12–1:30 pm
Online EventThe OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series.
In this presentation, Heller and Pezzani will discuss the nature of contemporary borders and the ever-shifting modalities of border violence. Drawing on their work within the Forensic Oceanography project since 2011, which has focused on the Mediterranean frontier, they will discuss the strategies they have used to document traces of violent events and seek accountability for them. Reflecting on the effectiveness, but also the ambivalences, limits, and blindspots of this practice, they will point to the directions they are beginning to explore within their new project, Border Forensics.
Working together since 2011, Heller and Pezzani cofounded Forensic Oceanography, a collaborative project that critically investigates the militarized border regime and the politics of migration in the Mediterranean Sea. Their collaborative work has been used as evidence in courts of law, published across different media and academic outlets, as well as exhibited and screened internationally.
This is an online event.
Join via Zoom.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82804987468?pwd=ZXpRVVB1bmdpZGVtNWRZR0pGN05mQT09.
Degree Recital: Gigi Hseuh, violin
with pianists Bethany Pietroniro and Ryan McCullough, violist Javen Lara, and cellist Nathan Matsubara
Friday, April 16, 2021
7–8:30 pm
Online EventProgram:
Violin Sonata No.3 in D minor, “Ballade” Eugène Ysaÿe
Road Movies for Violin and Piano John Adams
Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas Astor Piazzolla
(The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires)
Passacaglia for Violin and Viola Handel-Halvorsen
Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://youtu.be/7QAxUUpQumM.
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and Projects
Saturday, April 17, 2021
12–5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservations.
Trauma Informed Teaching Lecture Series: An Introduction with Ariane Simard
Saturday, April 17, 2021
4–6 am
Online Event10 AM Vienna l 4 AM New York
The OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives are pleased to invite OSUN members to the Trauma Informed Educators Workshop and Lecture Series, developed by Ariane Simard from Bard College Berlin.
Trauma Informed Education is an approach that recognizes the influence and impact of trauma on students and educators in the classroom and takes into account how factors including racism, sexism, poverty, community violence, migrant and refugee status, mental health issues, addiction, abuse, and neglect can hinder academic achievement as well as personal growth and functioning.
If we recognize education, as bell hooks does, as “part of our real world experience, our real life” (Democratic Education), then can we understand that trauma, in all its forms, is in the classroom and in the corporate university? As we begin to expand our teaching to include admittedly traumatized populations—be it war veterans, refugees or people who are incarcerated—we need a set of skills that can both address their trauma as well as the trauma we ourselves carry into the classroom.
Drawing on studies on education, brain development and the lasting effects of trauma, as well as some nonviolent communication techniques, this workshop series aims to provide educators with a new understanding on how trauma can affect a student’s ability to function as well as offer up some tools for creating a more trauma informed classroom where educators can begin to model the kind of techniques that will help create new pathways of learning.
In the first session with Ariane Simard of Bard College Berlin, we will introduce ourselves and discuss how we understand definitions of trauma in the classroom as well as explore definitions of cultural trauma, intergenerational trauma and institutional trauma. Because these topics get heavy at times, we will use the methods of the workshop, practice, and humor to sketch out a better understanding of how trauma affects our work in blended learning classrooms. Participants should read the bell hooks essay “Democratic Education,” in her book Teaching Community, before attending the workshop.
Please register to receive the Zoom link to attend.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSda3hQmR_XCnnvl_R2AcTIIV1hvnxyTHEkuoZUP3VfRe7VrfA/viewform.
Degree Recital: Jillian Reed, flute; with Christina Jones, cello, Ryan McCullough, piano, and Tyler Emerson, piano
Works by Joan Tower, Ana Bon di Venezia, Nikea Randolph, Alonzo Malik Pirio, and Joseph Schwantner
Saturday, April 17, 2021
5–6 pm
Online EventSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://youtu.be/Bvjm7K35g3Y.
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and Projects
Sunday, April 18, 2021
12–5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservations.
Bard Chapel Service
Sunday, April 18, 2021
3–4 pm
Online EventYou are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1OHcyazdyQTZldz09.
Degree Recital: Zachary McIntyre, horn; with pianists Diana Borshcheva and Gwyyon Sin
Works by Alan Abbot, Malcolm Arnold, Beethoven, Paul Dukas, and Jan Koetsier
Sunday, April 18, 2021
12–1 pm
Online EventSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail conservatory [email protected], or visit https://youtu.be/hHQKHE4UJQw.
THE CONDO CONCERTS: Fred Sherry String Quartet performs Schubert's String Quartet No. 15 in G Major and selections from German Dances
Free, live-streamed concert with with violinists Leila Josefowicz and Jesse Mills; violist Hsin-Yun Huang; and cellist Fred Sherry.
Sunday, April 18, 2021
7–9 pm
Online EventReserve your free tickets for this special one-time performance of Schubert's String Quartet No. 15 in G Major and German Dances here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/bard-college-conservatory-of-music-32430490385
THE CONDO CONCERTS is a series of concerts streamed from the Bard Conservatory with the generous support of artist George Condo. Featured musicians for the next concert on May 2 are clarinetist Anthony McGill and pianist Anna Polonsky.
Donations from the live-stream audience will benefit the Conservatory Scholarship Fund, including a new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarships. Donate online at www.bard.edu/conservatory/givingSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/o/bard-college-conservatory-of-music-32430490385.
Gather — A Screening
Part of the series A Start to Healing Through Land, Food, and Seed, organized by BardEATS students
Sunday, April 18, 2021
7–9 pm
Online EventKick off Earth week with a screening of Gather, “an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.”
Gather follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona) opening an indigenous café as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota) conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California) trying to save the Klamath river.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7180, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://kinema.live/events/gather-hbxhcl.
Does China's COVID-19 Management Legitimize Its Non-Democracy?
Monday, April 19, 2021
8–9 am
Online EventThe OSUN Democracy Institute at Central European University is hosting a panel discussion on China's management of the COVID-19 crisis.
As discontent grows in many European states over governmental incompetence at Covid-19 pandemic management, the question arises whether it is a system failure in the face of crisis. China has managed to keep Covid-19 at a minimal level, life has returned to normal and the economy on the whole has recovered. Europe, however, is struggling with questions of freedom (freedom of movement, freedom of assembly) and also those of data protection – aspects that have largely been neglected in China. Does this comparison offer legitimacy to the autocratic Chinese system? This debate will try to elucidate the question from different perspectives.
PANELISTS
Joanna Klabisch is Program Manager of the China Program at Asienhaus Stiftung.
Shi Ming is an award-winning freelance journalist, born and raised in Beijing.
Richard Turcsanyi is Senior Researcher at Palacky University, Olomouc, Assistant Professor at Mendel University in Brno, and Program Director at the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS).
DISCUSSANTS
Katalin Cseh is Member of the European Parliament and Vice President of Renew Europe.
Sandor Kusai is Honorary Associate Professor at Pazmany Peter Catholic University.
MODERATOR
Agota Revesz is an academic staff member at the Center for Cultural Studies on Science and Technology in China and Technische Universität Berlin.
The discussion will be streamed live on the Institute’s Facebook page. If you are interested in following it, then please join the Facebook event.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
More than Just Land: A History of the Stockbridge-Munsee
Part of the series A Start to Healing Through Land, Forest, and Seed, organized by BardEATS students
Monday, April 19, 2021
5–7 pm
Online EventGuest speaker Heather Bruegl, the cultural affairs director for the Stockbridge- Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians, will speak about the history of the Mohican people on this land as well as provide a space for action-oriented discussions on what the Bard community can do to be better allies for the Stockbridge-Munsee community while residing on their former homelands.
The event will include both a lecture and time for an open discussion.
Registration link below.Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-7180, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/more-than-just-land-a-history-of-the-stockbridge-munsee-tickets-146839024475.
Noon Concert
Conservatory students perform a half-hour long program.
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
12–1 pm
Online EventProgram:
Morceau Symphonique Alexandre Guilmant
Andante sostenuto (1837-1911)
Allegro moderato
Ameya Natarajan, trombone
Images, 1ere série Claude Debussy
Reflets dans l’eau (1862-1918)
Hommage à Rameau
Mouvement
Sindy Yang, pianoSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://youtu.be/ocYsoBpmDrw.
Who Is Afraid of Ideology?
A talk by artist and filmmaker Marwa Arsanios
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
3–4:30 pm
In this talk, Marwa Arsanios will present the research she has been conducting since 2017, which took her to different geographies such as Iraqi Kurdistan and southern Colombia, and to the encounter of different women's communes and feminist cooperatives that are directly resisting the dispossession of their land and resources and fighting for a "diprivatization" and a communalization process. Working at the intersection of feminist, ecological, and land struggles, they are often making paradigmatic shifts that Arsanios will try to articulate. She will also talk about her position as an artist and researcher in relation to their struggles, especially when it comes to their theoretical and political paradigms. Marwa Arsanios is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher who reconsiders politics of the mid 20th century from a contemporary perspective, with a particular focus on gender relations, urbanism, and industrialization. She approaches research collaboratively and seeks to work across disciplines. Arsanios has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Skuc gallery in Lujubljana (2018); Beirut Art Center (2017); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2016); Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2015); and Art in General, New York (2015). Her work has also been shown in a number of group exhibitions, including the Warsaw Biennial (2019), Sharjah Biennial (2019), Gwangju Biennial (2018), Lulea Biennial (2018), Let’s Talk About the Weather, Sursock Museum, Beirut (2016); Thessaloniki Biennial (2015); Home Works Forum, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2010, 2013, 2015); Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York (2014); 55th Venice Biennale (2013); and 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011), among others. Arsanios is the recipient of the Georges de Beauregard award at FID Marseille (2019) and the Special Prize of the Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize (2012). She was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany (2014), and the Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo Arts and Space (2010). She is the cofounder of the 98weeks Research Project. Arsanios received a master's of fine art, University of the Arts London (2007), and was a researcher in the Fine Art Department, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2011–12). She is currently a PhD candidate at the Akademie der bildenden Kunst in Vienna.
This event is organized in conjunction with MES301, Solidarity as Worldmaking.
Tuesday, April 20, 3pm Annandale / 9pm Berlin / 10pm Abu Dis
Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82599352084.
Countering Dispossession, Creating Access: A Panel Discussion with NY Black-led Land and Food Sovereignty Organizers
Part of the series A Start to Healing Through Land, Forest, and Seed, organized by BardEATS students
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
6–7:30 pm
Online EventPanelists include:
- Shaniqua Bowden, Head of Cultural Engagement, Kingston Land Trust
- Nfamara Badjie, Ever Growing Family Farm, and
- Alexander Wright, founder of the African Heritage Food Co-Op and Blegacy Farms.
The moderator will ask the speakers questions about their thoughts on different topics surrounding land dispossession, land/food sovereignty, and land access work.
There will be a 20-minute period at the end of the panel discussion for community members to ask questions.
Registration link below.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7180, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/countering-dispossession-creating-access-tickets-149236774209.
Climate and Community Science Chat - April Session
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
8:30–9:30 am
Online EventThe OSUN Community Science Coalition welcomes all members to the April Session of its Climate and Community Science Chat.
The first Climate and Community Science chat will focus on gathering a broad range of faculty members and researchers to start getting a sense of who is teaching on these topics and who is working on community-engaged efforts. Folks who are broadly interested in community science but who are not yet teaching/working in this area are also invited to join and learn about the work.
The OSUN Community Science Coalition bridges the widening gaps between climate-adapting communities, academic institutions, and the equitable management of shared natural resources, including drinkable water, fertile soils, and clean air. Through place-based, community-centric activities, CSC leverages OSUN’s global reach by creating a network of community-academic institutional partnerships to investigate and address the human and natural dimensions of resource sustainability in the face of climate change.
This is an online event. RSVP here.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Seeds of Hope, Seeds of Change: A Discussion Covering Topics of Seed Sovereignty, Seed Rematriation, and Allyship
Part of the series A Start to Healing Through Land, Forest, and Seed, organized by BardEATS students
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
6–7:30 pm
Online EventThe short film Seeds of Hope will precede the talk.
Speakers:
K Green (Seedshed Codirector and Hudson Valley Seed Company Founder)
Kenny Perkins (Ohero:kon rites of passage, Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment Horticulturist)
Registration link below.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Bard Office of Sustainability; Center for Civic Engagement; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-464-8025, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seeds-of-hope-seeds-of-change-tickets-149239618717.
Building a Career in Sustainability: Advice from Supply Chain Experts
Engage with professionals working in sustainable supply chains for advice and tips on launching your high impact career in the field.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
6:30–7:30 pm
Online EventRSVP HERE
Bard’s Graduate Programs in Sustainability are pleased to host a webinar series providing aspiring change-makers access to sustainability experts to gain tips on launching their own careers in sustainability.
Leaders in sustainable supply chain management create sourcing relationships with environmentally sound and socially just upstream producers worldwide, with the goal of creating organizations in service to a sustainable and equitable future. Join this conversation to hear from thought leaders who have been at the forefront of building sustainable supply chains to learn how they launched and grew their career, what tips they have for high impact careers in the industry, and what they look for in their new hires. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of panelists.
RSVP HERESponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-7073, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/138498269051.
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and Projects
Thursday, April 22, 2021
12–5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservations.
*****Drop Everything*****
Thursday, April 22, 2021
7:30 pm
Online EventA dynamic evening of choreography by the extraordinary faculty of the Bard College Dance Program, performed by students and faculty.
Choreography by:
Souleymane Badolo
Jean Churchill
Peggy Florin
Cameron McKinneySponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/drop-everything.
Seeing Countries From Afar: A Conversation with Suzy Hansen & Kamila Shamsie
Thursday, April 22, 2021
12–1 pm
Online EventDonald Trump and Brexit shook up the liberal world order and the notion of global cooperation. The Covid-19 crisis further diminished the leadership role that the US and UK have long held. How does the rest of the world see these two countries? BGIA professor and award winning journalist Suzy Hansen and award winning novelist Kamila Shamsie have both written extensively about the US and UK from abroad. Join us for a conversation about seeing countries from afar on Thursday, April 22 at 12pm EST/6pm Vienna. RSVP required. Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctdeqpqT8rE90qlCH_gi2cqcdRqTv8RCxh.
Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists
Thursday, April 22, 2021
5–6:30 pm
Online EventOSUN members and the public are invited to join filmmaker Wazhmah Osman and Professor Jeannette Estruth to discuss Osman's new book, Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists at this Bard College event.
Prof. Osman is an Assistant Professor in Temple University’s Department of Media Studies and Production. Her book analyzes the impact of international funding and cross-border media flows on the national politics of Afghanistan. Her research is rooted in feminist media ethnographies that focus on the political economy of global media industries and the regimes of representation and visual culture they produce. Her critically acclaimed documentary, "Postcards from Tora Bora," has been shown in festivals around the world.
This event is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the College, the Bard Lifetime Learning Institute, and the Academic Program Inclusion Challenge.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Closing Opportunity Gaps for Young Men of Color: The State of Mentorship and Youth Development Post-2020
Thursday, April 22, 2021
5:30–6:45 pm
Online EventIn the midst of the 2020 global pandemic, waves of nation-wide protests prompting urgent and frank conversations about race and social justice in this country. As COVID-19 exacerbated systemic inequalities, the opportunity gaps faced by young people across the country widened at an alarming rate—and yet, 2020 also gave rise to creative problem solving and nimble decision making like never before. Join us for a conversation that explores the unique position of youth development and mentorship in communities of color in a post-COVID world; and how the growing movement in defense of Black lives is affecting inclusion amongst young people trying to successfully navigate and thrive in predominantly white institutions and spaces.
Panelists:
Michael Blake
Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee
Brandon Micheal Hall
Activist, star of God Friended Me and HBO’s Search Party
Wes Moore
CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation
Angel Obergh ’23
Brothers@ Mentor and Campus Leader
Moderators:
Shawn Dove
CEO of Campaign for Black Male Achievement
Dariel Vasquez
CEO of Brothers@
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/closing-opportunity-gaps-for-young-men-of-color-tickets-147846987319.
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and Projects
Friday, April 23, 2021
12–5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservations.
*****Drop Everything*****
Friday, April 23, 2021
7:30 pm
Online EventA dynamic evening of choreography by the extraordinary faculty of the Bard College Dance Program, performed by students and faculty.
Choreography by:
Souleymane Badolo
Jean Churchill
Peggy Florin
Cameron McKinneySponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/drop-everything.
Trauma Informed Teaching Workshop Series: Nonviolent Communication with Ariane Simard
Friday, April 23, 2021
6–8:30 am
Online Event12 PM Vienna l 6 AM New York
The OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives are pleased to invite OSUN members to the "Trauma Informed Educators Workshop and Lecture Series," developed by Ariane Simard from Bard College Berlin.
Trauma Informed Education is an approach that recognizes the influence and impact of trauma on students and educators in the classroom and takes into account how factors including racism, sexism, poverty, community violence, migrant and refugee status, mental health issues, addiction, abuse and neglect can hinder academic achievement as well as personal growth and functioning.
Drawing on studies on education, brain development and the lasting effects of trauma, as well as some nonviolent communication techniques, this workshop series aims to provide educators with a new understanding on how trauma can affect a student’s ability to function as well as offer up some tools for creating a more trauma informed classroom where educators can begin to model the kind of techniques that will help create new pathways of learning.
In the second session with Kristin Masters of Nonviolent Communication Santa Cruz, the group discussed how listening to students and to ourselves is a key component of nonviolent communication, what some would call the first step in becoming trauma informed.
Using the key components and tools of nonviolent communication, we will workshop ways to turn these tools into lesson plans and learning objectives. Instructors should be prepared to discuss an assignment they regularly teach and should have either attended or viewed the recording of Kristin Masters’ April 20th workshop on Nonviolent Communication.
Please register to receive the Zoom link to attend.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Global Observatory on Academic Freedom: The Crisis of Academic Freedom
Friday, April 23, 2021
8:30–9:50 am
Online Event2:30 - 3:50 PM Vienna
OSUN's Global Observatory on Academic Freedom is proud to announce its first public event, gathering distinguished scholars to debate the key issues that have inspired us to create the Observatory.
Academic Freedom, as an empiric and an intellectual concept, is facing new challenges in all corners of the world and Europe, the West and the East, the Global North as much as the Global South. What is our modern day understanding of academic freedom and how can we, as an academic community, respond?
PANELISTS
Sjur Bergan, Head, Education Department, Directorate of Democratic Participation / DG Democracy, Council of Europe
Liviu Matei, Provost, Central European University, Vienna and Budapest and Director, Yehuda Elkana Centre for Higher Education
Nandini Ramanujam, Professor, Executive Co-Director and Director of Programs of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Faculty of Law, McGill University
Michel Wieviorka, Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and Chair of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris
MODERATOR
Milica Popovic, Visiting Researcher, OSUN Global Observatory on Academic Freedom, CEU Vienna
The Roundtable is part of the 6th Central European Higher Education Cooperation Conference, convening April 22–23. OSUN partners are welcome to attend all panels and events at this free conference.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
April Conference: “Reading the Word and the World”
Writing to Read for Today’s Classrooms - Online
Friday, April 23, 2021
9 am – 4 pm
Online EventIWT’s 2020 April Conference planned to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed in English, exploring why Freire’s ideas are still important for us to consider today. We hoped to investigate ways for students to become “critical co-investigators,” empowered to think of their readerly and writerly pursuits beyond the walls of the classroom. Like many events across the nation and the world, last year’s IWT conference was cancelled in order to prioritize the health and safety of all participants.
We are excited to revisit our intended focus on Friere and his lasting impact on schooling in IWT’s 2021 April Conference, but our focus has shifted. The emergency move to remote instruction necessitated by COVID-19 brought to the forefront a number of questions and challenges related to how students approach reading and writing and to the habits of mind necessary for these literacy practices to generate student agency. In his foreword to the 2010 Carnegie Corporation Report Writing to Read, Vartan Gregorian suggests, “the ability to read, comprehend, and write—in other words, to organize information into knowledge—can be viewed as tantamount to a survival skill.” Almost thirty years earlier, in “The Importance of the Act of Reading” (1983), Freire placed similar weight on the critical link between reading, writing, and action beyond the walls of the classroom. Freire proposes that, “the word is not merely preceded by reading the world, but by a certain form of writing it or rewriting it, that is, of transforming it by means of conscious, practical work.”
Freire’s crucial insight is that reading and writing are necessary avenues to student agency. However, sometimes the reality of the classroom is that at least a few students have not read, come to class unprepared, or are disengaged. These challenges point to larger questions around access and engagement. How do we share with our students the idea that literacy is empowering? How do we inspire students to love reading and to seek out texts to respond to? How can we use writing to read strategies to generate student engagement with meaningful questions and problems? How do we nurture authentic learning communities—whether online or in person—by creating collaborative reading sequences, shared language, and shared practices? How can writing to read practices democratize the comprehension process, modeling for students how inclusive discussion happens?
These are large questions that get to the core of IWT’s mission: to transform classrooms across disciplines through writing-rich practices that help students discover and interpret meaning, engage in productive dialogue, and learn critical thinking skills that support academic learning. By focusing on reading and writing-to-read practices, this year’s conference provides an opportunity for faculty to think together about how we can approach texts as critical co-investigators alongside our students. As always, the day will involve experiential workshop sessions and a plenary. We will highlight a range of strategies that consider how students read and how writing supports the habits of mind necessary for deeper, critical reading.Sponsored by: Institute for Writing and Thinking.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://iwt.bard.edu/programs/april/.
Ashmina Ranjit: Politics of Being
Friday, April 23, 2021
12–1:30 pm
Online EventThe OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Ashmina Ranjit, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series.
Just because we’re born with a vagina, why accept that our family, society, and state continue treating us as unequal "beings"? Why do sexual violence, unequal rights, and inequities persist? Why do we need to rethink and reimagine intersections of gender, caste, class, and religion?
I plan to reflect on insights from my journey of resisting and interrogating complex politics of Hindu patriarchy, especially the role of the nation-state in sustaining structures of dominance and exploitation. Using art as a tool for investigating and reclaiming my own position as a "Being," I am exploring my multiple identities as a human, citizen, Asian, and artist, amongst others.
Ashmina is Nepal’s leading conceptual artist and activist. She is at the forefront of artivism (art+activism) in South Asia. Her artworks challenge and confront the status quo. Subversion of stereotypes, politics of gender, and human rights are critical to her process. During insurgency, Ashmina's performances brought together armed forces, Maoists, civilians, and students to raise voices against violence, and for democracy. Ashmina performs, leads workshops, and connects communities. She creates an environment of collaboration and innovation for artists at her art hub LASANAA / NexUs. The Kathmandu Post featured her as one of 25 individuals who shaped Nepal.
This is an online event.
Join via Zoom.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/82087406372?pwd=dHl5RG1ZMWpjUlZxYThqQjZQSFVSQT09.
Degree Recital: Rowan Puig Davis, double bass
with Elias Dagher, piano
Works by Bach, Schubert, and Ariel Ramirez.
Friday, April 23, 2021
8–9 pm
Online EventSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://youtu.be/7gIfiG0tWbk.
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and Projects
Saturday, April 24, 2021
12–5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservations.
A Celebration of Aileen Passloff (1931-2020)
Saturday, April 24, 2021
4 pm
Online Event“I was strong and tireless and full of passion and loved dancing as deeply as one could ever love anything.”—Aileen Passloff
For over 40 years, Aileen Passloff was the L. May Hawver and Wallace Benjamin Flint Professor of Dance at Bard, in addition to her numerous contributions to the field of dance.
In celebration of Aileen’s life and work, her former students (who became life-long collaborators) Arthur Aviles '87, Charlotte Hendrickson '07, and EmmaGrace Skove-Epes '08 will give tribute performances during this live-streamed event. Special guest speakers, as well as pre-recorded messages and video archives of Aileen’s work, will also be featured.
Presented in collaboration with the Fisher Center, the President’s Office, the Dean’s Office, and the Office of Development and Alumni/ae AffairsSponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/a-celebration-of-aileen-passloff.
Degree Recital: Jiangli Liu, piano; with Zongheng Zhang, viola
Works by Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, and Schumann
Saturday, April 24, 2021
7–8:30 pm
Online EventSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://youtu.be/VzOieyWN8Dk.
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and Projects
Sunday, April 25, 2021
12–5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservations.
Bard Chapel Service
Sunday, April 25, 2021
3–4 pm
Online EventYou are invited to be part of our service of prayer and intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Currently we are meeting on Zoom (click here). We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, and anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/391331169?pwd=aGhpc1E4YzFubXV1OHcyazdyQTZldz09.
Vote for Sonita Alizada for the 2021 Freedom Prize
Sunday, April 25, 2021
9 am – 10 pm
Online EventInternational rapper, human rights activist, and Bard student Sonita Alizada has been nominated for the 2021 Freedom Prize, an educational initiative in which young people from around the world honor an inspiring person or organization who is committed to an exemplary fight for freedom.
OSUN and Bard College are pleased to support Alizada in her human rights work advocating against the practice of forced child marriage and urge OSUN members to consider submitting an online vote for her by April 25.
A native of Herat, Alizada fled with her family to Iran to escape the Taliban regime. She lived as an undocumented refugee street child in Teheran but was eventually able to secure a basic education through an NGO. Twice, at the ages of 9 and 16, she escaped being forced into marriages by her family.
Inspired by her plight and the shared experiences of friends, she wrote the moving rap song “Daughters for Sale,” which garnered worldwide attention and led to a collaboration with an Iranian filmmaker on a music video. Rohksareh Ghaemmaghemi also made an award-winning documentary about Alizada called Sonita.
After moving to the United States, Alizada secured a high school and college education and she is now taking courses in human rights and international studies in preparation to become a lawyer so she can return to her country to defend Afghan women and children. She has been named one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s Global Thinkers of 2015, BBC’s 100 Women of 2015, an Asia Societies Game Changer of 2017, a 2018 MTV Generation Change Award recipient, Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2019, and featured by CNN, NPR, BBC, Buzzfeed News and over 150 publications in 20 countries.
More than 12 million girls are forced to marry as children every year. OSUN encourages members to consider voting for Alizada for the Freedom Prize and to help uplift an important voice in the next generation of global human rights activists.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://normandiepourlapaix.fr/en/vote-freedom-prize.
Chamber Music Marathon
Student chamber music groups perform throughout the day.
Sunday, April 25, 2021
12–5 pm
Online EventSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://youtu.be/2Cp8QTCrJi0.
Trauma Informed Teaching: Brain Science and the Trauma Informed Classroom with Louise Godbold
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
2–10 am
Online Event8 AM Vienna l 2 AM New York
The OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives are pleased to invite OSUN members to the "Trauma Informed Educators Workshop and Lecture Series," developed by Ariane Simard from Bard College Berlin.
Trauma Informed Education is an approach that recognizes the influence and impact of trauma on students and educators in the classroom and takes into account how factors including racism, sexism, poverty, community violence, migrant and refugee status, mental health issues, addiction, abuse and neglect can hinder academic achievement as well as personal growth and functioning.
If we recognize education, as bell hooks does, as “part of our real world experience, our real life,” (Democratic Education) then can we understand that trauma, in all its forms, is in the classroom and in the corporate university? As we begin to expand our teaching to include admittedly traumatized populations–be it war veterans, refugees or people who are incarcerated–we need a set of skills that can both address their trauma as well as the trauma we ourselves carry into the classroom.
Drawing on studies on education, brain development and the lasting effects of trauma, as well as some nonviolent communication techniques, this workshop series aims to provide educators with a new understanding on how trauma can affect a student’s ability to function as well as offer up some tools for creating a more trauma informed classroom where educators can begin to model the kind of techniques that will help create new pathways of learning.
The third session will be led by Louise Godblod of Echo. Part of becoming trauma informed means understanding how biochemistry and the traumatized brain functions and how fight/flight/freeze response translates into less than ideal student behavior. We will discuss what can we do as educators to make our classrooms places where students not only learn the subjects we are teaching, but actually learn resilience.
As the executive director of the Los Angeles based nonprofit Echo Training, Louise Godbold has been working with community activists and educators for over 30 years on finding methods to educate about trauma and resilience in order to promote survivor empowerment. In this workshop we will learn how trauma affects the brain and develop some methods to provide support for traumatized students in blended learning classrooms. This workshop will be recorded.
Please register to receive the Zoom link to attend.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Spring Workshops with SOAS: Introduction to Engaged Research Methods – Freire’s Listening Survey and Participatory Visualisation
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
9 am – 12 pm
Online Event9 am New York l 3 pm Vienna
The OSUN Engaged Research Fund is pleased to announce a spring online training series on Engaged Research being held in conjunction with SOAS. This workshop series, open to faculty and graduate students across OSUN, is an introduction to the basic tools of Training for Transformation and Participatory Methods for Engaged Research. Faculty and graduate students interested in applying to the Engaged Research Fund are invited and encouraged to sign up to participate.
Session 4 – Introduction to Engaged Research Methods: Freire’s Listening Survey and Participatory Visualisation will be facilitated by Andrea Cornwall
This workshop is part of Phase 2 (April 27th, April 28th, May 4th), which is open to current applicants of the 2021 Engaged Research Fund’s Engaged Scholar Award (for graduate students) and Engaged Faculty Scholar Award (for faculty members).
Registration/Questions:
Dan Glass: [email protected] and Caitlin O’Donnell: [email protected]Register via Zoom.
For information on the rest of the series, click here
For information on the Engaged Research Fund, click here
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
The Legacy of 1989 and Political Activism Today
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
9–11 am
Online Event9 am New York l 3 pm Vienna
On April 27, OSUN welcomes members and students to tune in as the European Humanities University, supported by the Open Lithuania Foundation, hosts a roundtable discussion with members of the post-1989 generation, as part of the Europe for Citizens conference on "Rethinking the Democratic Future: Lessons from the 20th-Century Project."
What is the legacy of 1989 in the eyes of the young generation? How do students, who are studying Humanities and Social Sciences perceive the nature of the societal change that has occurred after 1989 and how do students perceive the threat which democracy faces today?
This roundtable brings together a cohort of students, born after the year 2000 and studying at a range of liberal arts universities throughout Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Student panelists:
Anastasiya Halaburda, European Humanities University
Benedek Pál, Central European University
Christine van den Berg, Bard College Berlin
Daria Manzhura, Bard College
Daniiar Sadykov, American University in Central Asia
Moderator:
Maksimas Milta, European Humanities University
This event is organized as part of the Europe for Citizens project “Rethinking the democratic future: lessons from the 20th century,” being held on April 26-28, 2021. Find out about other conference events.
Register for this event here
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Inaugural Economic Democracy Keynote: Economic Rights and Racial Justice
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
12:15–1:30 pm
Online EventThe OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative (EDI) is pleased to launch the Economic Democracy Keynote Series. It features scholars, public intellectuals, and activists whose work on economic, social, and environmental justice is shaping the tenor of our time.
Professor Darrick Hamilton, Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy and Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification, and Political Economy at the New School for Social Research, will deliver the inaugural address titled “Economic Rights and Racial Justice” on Tuesday, April 27, at 12:15 pm (EDT) via zoom.
Also sponsored by the Bard College Racial Justice Initiative and Economics Program.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86978838775?pwd=UE9FY0FETWpuMFlDNFZpeStzUHhmUT09#success.
15: The Disappearance of and Future for Lesbian Bars
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
7–8:30 pm
Online EventSince the 1980s, we have watched the number of Lesbian Bars in the US decline from 200 to just 15... with more locations set to close due to the ongoing Pandemic. Join us for an open panel discussing the decline and current state of lesbian bars in the US, intersectionality and the need for safe spaces for queer Women of Color, misogyny within the LGBTQIA+ community, and surviving the Pandemic. The panel will be followed by a short Q&A portion, and attendees will be able to donate to the bar(s) of their choosing. Donations are not required for attendance but are encouraged to ensure the continued survival of these cultural institutions.
Panelists are Lisa Cannistraci (she/they - Henrietta Hudson), Ally Spaulding (she/her - A League of Her Own), Jen & Jami Maguire (she/her - My Sister's Room).
Moderated by Belinda Drake (she/her), former candidate for Indiana State Senate.
*This event is open to the public. Attendees can join using these credentials Meeting ID: 814 2449 8208 | Passcode: 613458.Sponsored by: Out@Bard; Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/j/81424498208?pwd=MUFuY0NHczNTWkVYeCtlYVJFc3ZYQT09.
Recital: Hanqi Liu, piano
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
8–9 pm
Online EventProgram:
Chaconne (1962) Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931)
Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-flat major, Op. 22 (1800) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Allegro con brio
Adagio con molto espressione
Menuetto
Rondo: Allegretto
Skazka in F minor, Op. 14 No. 1 “Ophelia’s Song” (1905-07) Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880-1951)
Skazka in B minor, Op. 20 No. 2 “Campanella” (1909)Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7196, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://youtu.be/2Cp8QTCrJi0.
Sedona Forum 2021: Defending Democracy
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 – Friday, April 30, 2021
8:30 am – 4:45 pm
Online Event8:30 am - 4:45 pm New York l 2:30 - 10:45 pm Vienna
Arizona State University welcomes OSUN members to be a part of the 2021 Sedona Forum, held virtually from April 28-30, with the theme of Defending Democracy. The free event features panel discussions and one-on-one exchanges with high-level policymakers, thought leaders and industry experts, including Madeleine Albright, Bob Schieffer, James Mattis, Ben Affleck, Lindsey Graham, Jake Tapper, Dikembe Mutombo, Mary Callahan Erdoes, Mitch McConnell, Theresa May, Mitt Romney and Andrea Mitchell.
For the first time, the 2021 Sedona Forum will be virtual and open to friends of the McCain Institute. With the theme of “Defending Democracy,” this is an exciting opportunity to hear about the world’s most pressing issues from high-level panels featuring top experts and policymakers from around the world and on both sides of the aisle.
The 2021 Sedona Forum will feature topical and constructive conversations around the most critical issues of our time. Leading public figures from the world of business such as co-founder of Schmidt Futures and former CEO of Google Eric Schmidt and current CEO of YouTube Susan Wojcicki, public servants like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, global humanitarians such as Ben Affleck, Chef José Andrés and Angelina Jolie, and military leaders like Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley will discuss issues related to the rise of China, modern cyberwarfare, the Russia challenge, disinformation and the erosion of democracy, combatting human trafficking and much more.
RSVP here
View the full agenda here and list of 2021 speakers here. For more information, visit thesedonaforum.org.For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Spring Workshops with SOAS: Freire in Practice – Engaged Research as Transformation
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
9 am – 12 pm
Online Event9 am New York l 3 pm Vienna
The OSUN Engaged Research Fund is pleased to announce a spring online training series on Engaged Research being held in conjunction with SOAS. This workshop series, open to faculty and graduate students across OSUN, is an introduction to the basic tools of Training for Transformation and Participatory Methods for Engaged Research. Faculty and graduate students interested in applying to the Engaged Research Fund are invited and encouraged to sign up to participate.
Session 5 - Wednesday, April 28th, 9 am-12 pm EST — Freire in Practice: Engaged Research as Transformation. Facilitated by Maria Lahumatina
This workshop is part of Phase 2 (April 26th - May 4th), which is open to current applicants of the 2021 Engaged Research Fund’s Engaged Scholar Award (for graduate students) and Engaged Faculty Scholar Award (for faculty members).
Register:
Register via Zoom.Questions:
Dan Glass: [email protected] and Caitlin O’Donnell: [email protected]
For information on the rest of the series, click here
For information on the Engaged Research Fund, click here
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and Projects
Thursday, April 29, 2021
12–5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservations.
Sedona Forum 2021: Defending Democracy
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 – Friday, April 30, 2021
8:30 am – 4:45 pm
Online Event8:30 am - 4:45 pm New York l 2:30 - 10:45 pm Vienna
Arizona State University welcomes OSUN members to be a part of the 2021 Sedona Forum, held virtually from April 28-30, with the theme of Defending Democracy. The free event features panel discussions and one-on-one exchanges with high-level policymakers, thought leaders and industry experts, including Madeleine Albright, Bob Schieffer, James Mattis, Ben Affleck, Lindsey Graham, Jake Tapper, Dikembe Mutombo, Mary Callahan Erdoes, Mitch McConnell, Theresa May, Mitt Romney and Andrea Mitchell.
For the first time, the 2021 Sedona Forum will be virtual and open to friends of the McCain Institute. With the theme of “Defending Democracy,” this is an exciting opportunity to hear about the world’s most pressing issues from high-level panels featuring top experts and policymakers from around the world and on both sides of the aisle.
The 2021 Sedona Forum will feature topical and constructive conversations around the most critical issues of our time. Leading public figures from the world of business such as co-founder of Schmidt Futures and former CEO of Google Eric Schmidt and current CEO of YouTube Susan Wojcicki, public servants like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, global humanitarians such as Ben Affleck, Chef José Andrés and Angelina Jolie, and military leaders like Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley will discuss issues related to the rise of China, modern cyberwarfare, the Russia challenge, disinformation and the erosion of democracy, combatting human trafficking and much more.
RSVP here
View the full agenda here and list of 2021 speakers here. For more information, visit thesedonaforum.org.For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Recovery
Thursday, April 29, 2021
7:30 pm
Online EventChoreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard College Dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry. Their ideas are supported by a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by:
Sakinah Bennett '21
Arlo Tomecek '21
Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/recovery.
Socialism: Tragedy of an Idea
Thursday, April 29, 2021
9:30–11 am
Online Event9:30 am New York l 3:30 pm Vienna
On Thursday, April 29, OSUN and CEU invite members to an event based on a recent book by Lajos Bokros and in the tradition of the CEU University-Wide Seminars. "Socialism: Tragedy of an Idea" invites scholars from different academic disciplines across OSUN to discuss a topic of common interest from different intellectual, theoretical and methodological perspectives.
The seminar will address the questions:
- How was "socialism" understood, in particular from the perspective of political economy, by some of the most remarkable scholars who have studied it before and after the fall of communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe?
- How have scholars who have both studied and "lived" socialism, before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, understood it?
- What is socialism and what is freedom?
- What is the relationship between economic system and political regime?
- How has socialism worked outside the communist camp of Central and Eastern Europe.
PANELISTS:
Lajos Bokros / School of Public Policy
Roger Berkowitz / Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, Bard College
Cristina Corduneanu-Huci / School of Public Policy / Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy, and International Relations
Julius Horvath / Department of Economics and Business
MODERATOR:
Liviu Matei / CEU Provost and OSUN Vice-Chancellor
This is an online event. Please join via the Zoom Link
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
OSUN Network(ing) for your Career and Engagement
Thursday, April 29, 2021
1:30–2:30 pm
Online Event1:30 pm New York | 7:30 pm Vienna
On Thursday, April 29, as part of a professional orientation event series for graduating and other students, Bard College Berlin' Career Services will host a session for students on using the OSUN global network for student career opportunities.
Students from network campuses are invited to join the session and are encouraged to share the invitation. It is open to graduating and all other students who want to explore how the OSUN network can help their future professional or academic plans.
Networking in a global network: Join Career Services professionals to identify unique ways to connect across the Bard and OSUN global networks. Explore career and graduate school opportunities, student engagement initiatives and calls for proposals.
Join via ZoomSponsored by: Bard College Berlin.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Michael Sadowski, Men I've Never Been: A Memoir, in Conversation with Domenica Ruta
Thursday, April 29, 2021
7–8:30 pm
Hosted by Oblong BooksAward-winning author Michael Sadowski will talk with Domenica Ruta about his new memoir, Men I’ve Never Been, in which he recounts his odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity—and, ultimately, his sexual orientation—in order to become who he thinks he’s supposed to be.
Each chapter of Men I've Never Been highlights a different image of manhood that Sadowski saw at home, at school, or on television—from sports heroes, hunters, and game show hosts to his charismatic but hard-drinking father. As he learns not to talk, laugh, cry, or love, he retreats further behind a stoic mask of silence—outwardly well-functioning but emotionally isolated, sinking under the weight of the past.
Michael Sadowski is the author of the acclaimed books In a Queer Voice, Safe Is Not Enough, and Adolescents at School. He is an administrator and professor at Bard College.
Domenica Ruta is the author of the celebrated New York Times bestselling memoir With or Without You and the novel Last Day. Her short fiction has appeared in the Boston Review, the Indiana Review, and Epoch. She lives in New York City.
This online event is free. Your purchase of a book helps support the author and our independent bookstore and is greatly appreciated. Shipping or contactless curbside pickup available.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.oblongbooks.com/event/online-micahel-sadowski-w-domenica-ruta.
2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and Projects
Friday, April 30, 2021
12–5 pm
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions with more than 40 artists, offering a wide-ranging museum presentation organized by the 2021 graduating class of the master of arts program in curatorial studies.
Admission for members of the public is by advance reservation only—reserve your timed entry here.
Bard College students, faculty, and staff do not need to register in advance.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/visit/reservations.
Sedona Forum 2021: Defending Democracy
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 – Friday, April 30, 2021
8:30 am – 4:45 pm
Online Event8:30 am - 4:45 pm New York l 2:30 - 10:45 pm Vienna
Arizona State University welcomes OSUN members to be a part of the 2021 Sedona Forum, held virtually from April 28-30, with the theme of Defending Democracy. The free event features panel discussions and one-on-one exchanges with high-level policymakers, thought leaders and industry experts, including Madeleine Albright, Bob Schieffer, James Mattis, Ben Affleck, Lindsey Graham, Jake Tapper, Dikembe Mutombo, Mary Callahan Erdoes, Mitch McConnell, Theresa May, Mitt Romney and Andrea Mitchell.
For the first time, the 2021 Sedona Forum will be virtual and open to friends of the McCain Institute. With the theme of “Defending Democracy,” this is an exciting opportunity to hear about the world’s most pressing issues from high-level panels featuring top experts and policymakers from around the world and on both sides of the aisle.
The 2021 Sedona Forum will feature topical and constructive conversations around the most critical issues of our time. Leading public figures from the world of business such as co-founder of Schmidt Futures and former CEO of Google Eric Schmidt and current CEO of YouTube Susan Wojcicki, public servants like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, global humanitarians such as Ben Affleck, Chef José Andrés and Angelina Jolie, and military leaders like Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley will discuss issues related to the rise of China, modern cyberwarfare, the Russia challenge, disinformation and the erosion of democracy, combatting human trafficking and much more.
RSVP here
View the full agenda here and list of 2021 speakers here. For more information, visit thesedonaforum.org.For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Recovery
Friday, April 30, 2021
7:30 pm
Online EventChoreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard College Dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry. Their ideas are supported by a professional staff of designers.
Choreography by:
Sakinah Bennett '21
Arlo Tomecek '21
Sponsored by: Dance Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/recovery.
Trauma Informed Teaching: Brain Science and the Trauma Informed Classroom with Ariane Simard
Friday, April 30, 2021
6–6:15 am
Online Event12 PM Vienna l 6 AM New York
The OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives are pleased to invite OSUN members to the "Trauma Informed Educators Workshop and Lecture Series," developed by Ariane Simard from Bard College Berlin.
Trauma Informed Education is an approach that recognizes the influence and impact of trauma on students and educators in the classroom and takes into account how factors including racism, sexism, poverty, community violence, migrant and refugee status, mental health issues, addiction, abuse and neglect can hinder academic achievement as well as personal growth and functioning.
Drawing on studies on education, brain development and the lasting effects of trauma, as well as some nonviolent communication techniques, this workshop series aims to provide educators with a new understanding on how trauma can affect a student’s ability to function as well as offer up some tools for creating a more trauma informed classroom where educators can begin to model the kind of techniques that will help create new pathways of learning.
In the third session, led by Louise Godblod of Echo, it was discussed that part of becoming trauma-informed means understanding how biochemistry and the traumatized brain functions and how fight/flight/freeze response translates into less than ideal student behavior. We discussed what can we do as educators to make our classrooms places where students not only learn the subjects we are teaching, but actually learn resilience.
Reviewing the information we learned about the brain, how trauma affects brain chemistry and the methods we learned about dealing with these effects, at this event we will workshop ways to turn these tools into lesson plans and learning objectives. Instructors should be prepared to discuss an assignment they regularly teach and should have either attended or viewed the recording of Louse Godbold’s April 27th workshop on Brain Science and the Trauma Informed Classroom.
Register to receive the Zoom link and attend.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Mark Sealy: Photography, Race, Rights, and Representation
Friday, April 30, 2021
12–1:30 pm
Online Event12 pm New York l 6 pm Vienna
The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Mark Sealy, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series.
Dr Mark Sealy MBE is interested in the relationships between photography and social change, identity politics, race, and human rights. He has been director of London-based photographic arts institution Autograph ABP since 1991. He has produced numerous artist publications, curated exhibitions, and commissioned photographers and filmmakers worldwide, including the critically acclaimed exhibition Human Rights Human Wrongs at Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto in 2013 and at The Photographers’ Gallery, London in 2015.
Sealy has written for many international photography publications, including Foam Magazine, Aperture and the Independent Newspaper in London. He has written numerous essays for theoretical publications and artist monographs. In 2002, Sealy and professor Stuart Hall co-authored Different, which focused on photography and identity politics. His notable projects include the exhibition Self Evident Ikon Gallery Birmingham, The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding / Decoding for the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto and seminal and celebrated projects on the works of James Van Der Zee, Gordon Parks, Carrie Mae Weems, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Mahtab Hussain, Maud Sulter and Sunil Gupta are just a few of the many artists exhibitions he has curated. He was also the guest curator for Houston Fotofest 2020 working under the title of African Cosmologies Photography Time and the Other.
His recent book, Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time, was published in 2019 by Lawrence and Wishart. His PhD was awarded by Durham University England and focused on Photography and Cultural Violence. Sealy is also currently Principal Fellow Decolonising Photography at University of the Arts London.
This is an online event.
Join via Zoom.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.