Annual Bard Fiction Prize Is Awarded to Zain Khalid

Author Zain Khalid has received the Bard Fiction Prize for his first novel, Brother Alive (Grove Press, 2022). Khalid’s residency at Bard College is for the fall 2024 semester, during which time he will continue his writing and meet informally with students. Khalid will give a public reading at Bard during his residency.

Bard Early College to Offer Virtual Courses for Florida High School Students

Starting this month, Bard Early College will offer three tuition-free virtual college courses to high school students in Florida. Participating students who complete the program will receive three transferable college credits from Bard for each course, as well as a Bard College transcript. “These virtual courses, offered exclusively to students in Florida, cover educational topics that are under threat or actively blocked in the state, and Bard Early College aims to make these subjects available to the students who wish to study them,” said Dumaine Williams ’03, vice president for Early College at Bard.

Bard Conservatory Appoints Harpist Mariko Anraku to Faculty

The Bard College Conservatory of Music announces the appointment of harpist Mariko Anraku to the faculty. Mariko Anraku is hailed as “a manifestation of grace and elegance” (Jerusalem Post) and has enchanted audiences through numerous appearances as soloist, as well as chamber and orchestral musician. The New York Times has called her a “masterful artist of intelligence and wit.” Since 1995, she has held the position of associate principal harpist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. She is a devoted teacher, deeply committed to the mentoring and development of young musicians. 

Bard College Hosts Second Annual Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck Conference on Indigenous Research Methods and Practice in the Liberal Arts, October 12–14

“Refusal, Creation, and Intersectionality” Features Keynote Speakers Audra Simpson, Robert Keith Collins, and Corrie Roe

Bard College will host the second annual conference of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck from October 12 through 14. The conference, “Indigenous Research Methods and Practice in the Liberal Arts: Refusal, Creation, and Intersectionality,” explores the topic of “research” within the humanities. Building on last year’s conference surrounding methods, viewpoints, and experiences of archives within Native American and Indigenous Studies and African American Studies, this conference explores historically marginalized epistemologies of social sciences and arts research. This is the second of three annual conferences supported by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck, part of the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities for All Times initiative.

Investigative Journalist and Author Suki Kim Named 2023–24 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism at Bard College 

The Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS  Bard) and Bard College’s Human Rights Project named author Suki Kim as the 2023–24 recipient of  the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism. Established in 2014, the fellowship supports an  annual faculty position that brings a prominent scholar, activist, or practicing artist to teach and conduct research within the CCS Bard graduate program and the undergraduate Human Rights Program.