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Events for October 2017

One Day University Film School Presents: "Norman" and a Discussion with Roger Berkowitz: Location: NYC
Sunday, October 1, 2017
9:15 am – 12 pm
"Crises of Democracy: Thinking in Dark Times": Hannah Arendt Center's 10th Annual Fall Conference
Thursday, October 12, 2017 – Friday, October 13, 2017
Olin Hall, 10 am – 5 pm
The Legacy of Stan Brakhage at Bard: A screening and conversation between Robert Kelly and P. Adams Sitney, discussing “The Legacy of Stan Brakhage at Bard”
Friday, October 27, 2017 – Saturday, October 28, 2017
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center; Ottaway Theater, 2–5 pm
Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities: Maya Lin
Monday, October 23, 2017 – Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 5–6:30 pm
Fall Break
Monday, October 9, 2017 – Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Bard College Campus
Family Weekend
Friday, October 20, 2017 – Sunday, October 22, 2017
Bard College Campus
The Prague Sonata: A Conversation with Bradford Morrow and Mary Caponegro
Monday, October 2, 2017
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 4:45 pm
Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA) Info Session: Study and Intern in NYC
Monday, October 2, 2017
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 5–6 pm
EUS Moderation Meeting
Monday, October 2, 2017
Hegeman 204B, 6–7:15 pm
Shakuhachi and Ichigenkin: Discovery in a Single Tone: New American music for ancient Japanese instruments
Monday, October 2, 2017
Bitó Conservatory Building, 8 pm
Summer Research Presentation
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Hegeman 204, 12 pm
Women's Volleyball Match
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym, 7 pm
CMIA - Films of Stanley Kubrick
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7 pm
Pianist Emanuele Arciuli: Performing works by John Adams, Louis W Ballard, Judd Greenstein, Curtis Cacioppo, Kyle Gann, Talib Rasul Hakim, Philip Glass and Frederic Rzewski
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Bitó Conservatory Building, 8 pm
National Climate Seminar: Cities Taken By Storm: Hurricanes and Urban Sustainability: Dr. Michael Neuman, University of Westminster
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
https://bluejeans.com/465542196, 12–1 pm
Women's Soccer Match - BIrdGang Game with pizza!
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex, 5:30 pm
CMIA - German Expressionism
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 6:30 pm
Tom Boutell Stories and Pictures from a Green Beret in Vietnam
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 7–9 pm
Men's Soccer Match - BirdGang game with pizza!
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex, 8 pm
Effects of Viruses on Plant Fitness: A Plant Ecologist's Foray into Plant Virus Ecology: Helen Alexander University of Kansas
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 12 pm
Water and the Power of Local Organizing: Jason West, Head of Wallkill Alliance
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 4:40 pm
Meditation Group
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A, 5–6:30 pm
Professor Tyler Bickford (University of Pittsburgh)  : New Media Poetics and the Politics of Childhood: Doing Media Ethnography in School
Thursday, October 5, 2017
RKC 103, 5:30 pm
Muslims in Diaspora: Navigating the Politics of Old and New
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Bard Hall (NYC), 6–8 pm
Listening to the Universe: The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics: Antonios Kontos Physics Program
Friday, October 6, 2017
Hegeman 107, 12 pm
Fall Ball Baseball Finale - Breast Cancer Awareness Event
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Honey Field, 12 pm
Women's Soccer Match
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex, 2 pm
Women's Tennis Match - Breast Cancer Awareness Event
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts, 3 pm
Women's Volleyball Match - Dig Pink! Breast Cancer Awareness Event
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym, 4 pm
Catskill Jazz Factory ​Heard Fresh: Music for Two Pianos: Fred Hersch & Sullivan Fortner
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7:30 pm
Discovery Day at Bard
Monday, October 9, 2017
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 9 am – 5 pm
CMIA - Film Among the Arts
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7 pm
School Choice?: Mary Pattillo Harold Washington Professor of Sociology & African American Studies Northwestern University  
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 4 pm
"Representative Democracy Has Failed": Bard College Public Debate
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room, 6 pm
CMIA - Westerns
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 6:30 pm
Have Farmers Cracked the Partisan Code? What a Divided Nation Must Learn From Rural Organizing: Lindsey Lusher Schute (CEP '07) Co-Founder and Executive Director of the National Young Farmers Coalition
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 4:40 pm
Stress and Memory: Effects on Multiple Memory Systems: Elizabeth Goldfarb Yale School of Medicine Yale Stress Center
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Preston Theater, 4:45 pm
Graduate Vocal Arts Program Concerto Competition Preliminary Round  
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Bitó Conservatory Building, 7 pm
The Evolution of Animal Flight From a Biomechanics Perspective: David E. Alexander University of Kansas
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Water-Based Liquid Crystals:  Ordered Fluids with Unusual Properties and Significant Potential for Applications: Peter J. Collings Department of Physics & Astronomy, Swarthmore College   
Friday, October 13, 2017
Hegeman 107, 12 pm
Conservatory Concerto Competition Preliminary Round  
Friday, October 13, 2017
Bitó Conservatory Building, 1–4 pm
Men's Soccer Match
Friday, October 13, 2017
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex, 4 pm
Tere O’Connor Long Run: World premiere/LAB commission  
Friday, October 13, 2017
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30 pm
Women's Volleyball Matches
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym, 12 pm
Conservatory Concerto Competition Final Round 
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage, 1 pm
Women's Tennis Match
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts, 1 pm
Men's Soccer Match
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex, 2 pm
Tere O’Connor Long Run: World premiere/LAB commission  
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30 pm
Women's Tennis Match
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts, 2 pm
Tere O’Connor Long Run: World premiere/LAB commission  
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 2 pm
Conservatory Percussion Studio Works by Quinn Collins
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Bitó Conservatory Building, 3 pm
Emma Smith-Stevens '09: Fiction Reading & Conversation: The Bard alumna reads from her first novel and discusses life after Bard
Monday, October 16, 2017
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 4:40–6 pm
Promising Beginnings and Arrested Developments: Early Arabic Translations of the Novel in Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine: Maya Issam Kesrouany, Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Literature, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)  
Monday, October 16, 2017
Olin Humanities, Room 202, 6 pm
Senior Project Prospectus Talks
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Hegeman 204, 11:40 am
Noon Concert
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Bitó Conservatory Building, 12 pm
Eva Hesse Film Screening   Note: New Location: Documentary produced by Karen Shapiro '78
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 5–7 pm
Shooting the Enemy: Harry Allen, Hip-Hop Activist & Media Assassin
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 5 pm
Hymns & Qualms: A reading by poet and translator Peter Cole (Yale University)  
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Weis Cinema, 5 pm
The Melodious Sound of the Right-Turning Conch: Historiography and Buddhist Counter-Development among Tibetans in China: Charlene Makley Professor of Anthropology, Reed College
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Preston, 6:30 pm
CMIA - Remembering the October Revolution
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7 pm
Malcolm Cecile Quartet
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Blum Hall, 8–10 pm
CMIA - Remembering the October Revolution
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 3 pm
CMIA - Remembering the October Revolution
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7 pm
Raising the Bar on Making the (Clif) Bar:  Clif Bar’s VP of Environmental Stewardship, Elysa Hammond on of Clif's mission to make good food with a purpose.
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
REI SoHo | 303 Lafayette Street | New York, NY 10012, 7–8:30 pm
God Mountains and Fengshui Forests: Sacred/Secular Dialectics and the Fate of Rural Tibetan and Han Communities in China’s Ecological Civilization: Christopher Coggins Professor of Geography & Asian Studies Simon's Rock College
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 4:40 pm
Till we have built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City: Adina Hoffman 
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 6 pm
Investing with Impact: Business Stepping Up: The Lovins Series
Thursday, October 19, 2017
LMHQ, 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, NYC, 6:30–8:30 pm
Jeff Siegel sextet
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Blum Hall, 8 pm
Why a Bard MBA Set Me Running for Congress: Breakfast conversation with Bard MBA alumni Jess King '15
Friday, October 20, 2017
LMHQ | 150 Broadway | 20th Floor | New York, NY 10038, 8–9 am
The 100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution Symposium
Friday, October 20, 2017
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 9 am – 5 pm
Daniel Mendelsohn’s  An Odyssey  with Nick Flynn
Friday, October 20, 2017
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7:30 pm
Bard MBA in Sustainability: October Residency Visit: Join Us to experience the Bard MBA program in action!
Saturday, October 21, 2017
LMHQ 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10038, 12–6 pm
Women's Soccer Match
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex, 2 pm
Mahler's Symphony No. 1, "Titan": Special Preview
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 2 pm
Jazz Faculty Concert: Performing works by Ellington and Strayhorn
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Bitó Conservatory Building, 2–4 pm
Trump and American Foreign Policy  Faculty-Student Roundtable
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Olin Hall, 2:45 pm
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony  
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 8 pm
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony  
Sunday, October 22, 2017
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 2 pm
Music Alive! 
Sunday, October 22, 2017
Bitó Conservatory Building, 3 pm
Symposium: Unpacking Histories, in conjunction with the exhibition "No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects"
Monday, October 23, 2017
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, 5–7 pm
"Other Worlds: An Evening with Poets Michael Ives and Yehoshua November": Yehoshua November & Michael Ives
Monday, October 23, 2017
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 5:30–7 pm
Göran Olsson’s Concerning Violence
Monday, October 23, 2017
Olin Humanities, Room 201, 6:15 pm
Bard College Community Jazz Orchestra: Featuring the music of special guest saxophonist, composer and educator Paavo Carey
Monday, October 23, 2017
Blum N211 (The Jazz Room), 8–10 pm
1917 Russian Revolution Round Table from Smolny College: BlueJeans Video-conference
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Henderson Center Smart Classroom ; Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 9:30–11:30 am
Bottleneck in the Drug Pipeline? Alternative Tumor Measurement-based Phase II Clinical Trial Endpoints for Predicting Overall Survival: Ming-Wen An, Vassar College
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Hegeman 204, 12 pm
'The Glitter of Putrescence': Cinema between Poetry and Horror: Philippe C. Met
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 5 pm
A Brilliant Genocide: followed by a panel discussion
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 6 pm
CMIA - Films of Louis Malle
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7 pm
SPEAKERS SERIES : NAEEM MOHAIEMEN
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
CCS Bard, Classroom 102, 5–7 pm
False Dawn: Protest, Democracy and Violence in the New Middle East
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, 170 E 64th St, New York, NY 10065, 6–7:30 pm
Men's Soccer Match
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex, 7 pm
Women's Volleyball Match
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym, 7 pm
CMIA - Workshop with Cinematographer Caroline Champetier
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7 pm
A Rose by Any Other Name: Measuring Activity in the Amygdala in Response to  Odors: Pia-Kelsey O’Neill Columbia University
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 12 pm
Science or Snake Oil? Managing eutrophication in Jordan Lake, NC: Robyn Smyth Assistant Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies, Bard College
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 4:40 pm
Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drug Treatment in the Era of Mass Incarceration : Allison McKim Sociology Program
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Preston Theater, 4:45 pm
Prometheus In and Out of Prison: Joshua Billings Assistant Professor of Classics, Princeton University
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Aspinwall 302, 6 pm
Attempts on Her Life: Written by Martin Crimp Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30 pm
Bard Farm Harvest Celebration and Happy Hour
Friday, October 27, 2017
Ludlow, 3:30–6:30 pm
CMIA - Early Sound Features
Friday, October 27, 2017
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 6:30 pm
Attempts on Her Life: Written by Martin Crimp Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
Friday, October 27, 2017
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30 pm
Moderation Papers Due
Friday, October 27, 2017
Bard College Campus
Men's Soccer Match
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Lorenzo Ferrari Soccer Complex, 2 pm
Attempts on Her Life: Written by Martin Crimp Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 2 pm
Cultural Show 2017
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–9 pm
Attempts on Her Life: Written by Martin Crimp Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30 pm
Climate Change Salon Series  : The Hudson RIver
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Montgomery Place, 2:30–5:30 pm
Borikén Florece: Helping Puerto Rico blossom again. 
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 3 pm
Attempts on Her Life: Written by Martin Crimp Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 4 pm
Visiting Artists: icarus Quartet Two Pianos and Two Percussionists perform Bartok and Maric
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Bitó Conservatory Building, 7 pm
A Reading by Diane Ackerman: The celebrated author reads from The Zookeeper’s Wife
Monday, October 30, 2017
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 2:30 pm
The Introduction to Mozart's "Dissonance" Quartet: An Unprecedented Network of Disorientations.: A talk by music theorist Eric Wen presented by the Bard College Music Program and the Conservatory of Music 
Monday, October 30, 2017
Bitó Conservatory Building, 4:30 pm
In the Guesthouse of Language: Translation as Asylum  : Christine Ivanovic Max Kade Distinguished Professor of German (Brown University & University of Vienna)  
Monday, October 30, 2017
Olin Humanities, Room 201, 6–8 pm
Cognizing Media: Shifts, Ruptures, Transformations: 2017 Fall Mellon Lecture by N. Katherine Hayles
Monday, October 30, 2017
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 7–9 pm
Bard Electric Guitar Ensemble performs Terry Riley's "In C"
Monday, October 30, 2017
Blum Hall, 8 pm
Senior Prospectus Talks
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Hegeman 204, 12 pm
Noon Concert  
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Bitó Conservatory Building, 12 pm
An Evening with French Writer Mathias Énard: Introduced by Francine Prose In conversation with Charlotte Mandell, his translator.
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Olin Humanities, Room 102, 5 pm
Terry Winters: Artist Presentation Fisher Studio Arts Building, Seminar Room   
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Fisher Studio Arts Building, 5–6 pm
CMIA - Films of Stanley Kubrick
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7 pm

Ongoing Events:

Montgomery Place Mansion Tours
Saturday, June 3, 2017 – Saturday, October 21, 2017
Historic Garden Tools of Montgomery Place
Saturday, July 1, 2017 – Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Picture Industry
Thursday, August 31, 2017 – Friday, December 15, 2017
No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects
Thursday, August 31, 2017 – Sunday, October 29, 2017
Shabbat: All are invited!
Friday, September 1, 2017 – Friday, December 15, 2017
Sanctuary: From Ancient Ritual to Modern Imperative.: Institute of Advanced Theology Lecture with Bruce Chilton
Friday, September 8, 2017 – Friday, October 6, 2017
Christian Service
Sunday, October 1, 2017 – Sunday, November 19, 2017
Bookwork by Doug Beube
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 – Sunday, November 12, 2017


all events are subject to change
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