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Mural Project BardEatsCalling all artists!Runs through Monday, March 4, 2024Kline CommonsHave your work showcased on Bard Campus for years to come! $300 compensation for two artists whose chosen designs will beautify Kline and raise sustainability awareness surrounding post consumer food waste. We will be taking submissions until the end of February, the project will occur in March. See details in attached PDF. Brought to you by BardEats [email protected] Sponsored by: Office of Sustainability. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected]. Memory, Resistance, and Colonial Hierarchies of Belonging (A)cross the AtlanticFriday, March 1, 2024Olin 202 & RKC 103 |
Men's Volleyball vs. Endicott (NECC)Saturday, March 2, 2024Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym |
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Christian/Roman Catholic MassSunday, March 3, 2024Chapel of the Holy Innocents |
Particle Accelerators, Artificial Intelligence, and Ancient Greek Literature: The Vesuvius Challenge and the Future of ClassicsRob Cioffi, Chuck Doran, and Jay ElliottMonday, March 4, 2024Stevenson Library 4th Floor Reading Room |
The Three Rs of Postwar Internationalism: Refugee, Return, RepatriationArie M. Dubnov, George Washington UniversityTuesday, March 5, 2024Hegeman 106 |
Protecting Palestinian Digital Rights in Times of CrisisAn Online Lecture SeriesWednesday, March 6, 2024The Network Collaborative Course on “Freedom of Expression” announces a series of online guest lectures that are available for the public to observe online. |
Meditation GroupMondays and Thursdays 6–7 pmThursday, March 7, 2024Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room |
Between Power and Authority: Arendt on the Constitution and the CourtsThursday, March 7, 2024 – Friday, March 8, 2024Multiple Locations at Bard CollegeKeynote Speaker: Peg Birmingham (DePaul University) Organised by Nicholas Dunn (Bard College) The U.S. Supreme Court today faces a crisis of legitimacy. More than half of Americans have an unfavorable view of the Court—the lowest in over three decades. Following a slate of rulings on abortion, affirmative action, student debt, and freedom of religion, an increasing number of Americans no longer believe the Court is impartial, viewing it as simply another partisan institution. As a result, many are calling for various reforms of the Court, including term limits and packing the court. At the same time, the Court has, even at this moment, has struck down racially motivated gerrymandering in Alabama and has refused to accept the Independent State Legislature Theory that would allow states to overturn the will of their voters. There is little doubt that politics is at play in the Supreme Court; at the same time, the Court still gives credence to the idea of the rule of law and not men. In On Revolution, Hannah Arendt places the American constitutional tradition at the center of her inquiry into the founding and preserving of political freedom. The success of the American Revolution, for her, consisted in two things: its unleashing of citizen power through the principle of federalist dispersion of power and its institutionalization of authority in the Supreme Court and the United States Constitution. Regarding the former, Arendt argues that the embrace of federalism allowed for the multiplication and flourishing of power within a stable system. Regarding the latter, Arendt offers an original reading of the Supreme Court as the successor of the Roman Senate. The Court's authority combined with the surprising fact that the Constitution came to be worshiped allowed the United States to achieve authority for its laws absent religious sanction. This authority tied together permanence and change, permitting the country to develop and grow while also maintaining order and stability. In short, the combination of power and authority that emerged from the worship of the United States Constitution became the modern condition for the possibility of founding free government. This conference aims to bring together scholars of Arendt’s constitutional thought and those working in political and legal theory more broadly to pursue the following questions: Is the Supreme Court still a legal institution, one that wields and deserves the authority imbued by the rule of law? Is the Supreme Court simply an undemocratic institution of power? If the latter, should we abandon the charade that the Supreme Court is above politics? Or, should we work to uphold the reality and the illusion that the Court is a legal and not simply a political institution? Any answers to these questions request that we face what is lost if and when the Supreme Court is no longer recognized as a seat of authority. We are especially interested in papers that address: Arendt’s conception of power and/or authority, Arendt’s constitutional and/or legal theory, and the relevance of all of this for current discussions of the Supreme Court and constitutional politics. Registration and Format The event will take place in-person and will be free and open to the public. Please direct any questions to Nicholas Dunn ([email protected]). Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; OSUN. For more information, call 845-758-6822. New Kinds of Attention 2024Writing Based Teaching Online |
Spring Dance ConcertSaturday, March 9, 2024Fisher Center, LUMA Theater |
Christian/Roman Catholic MassSunday, March 10, 2024Chapel of the Holy Innocents |
Meditation GroupMondays and Thursdays 6–7 pmMonday, March 11, 2024Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room |
Bard InklingsTuesday, March 12, 2024Albee |
Men's Volleyball vs. Russell Sage College (NECC)Wednesday, March 13, 2024Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym |
Meditation GroupMondays and Thursdays 6–7 pmThursday, March 14, 2024Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room |
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Christian/Roman Catholic MassSunday, March 17, 2024Chapel of the Holy Innocents |
Meditation GroupMondays and Thursdays 6–7 pmMonday, March 18, 2024Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room |
Bard InklingsTuesday, March 19, 2024Albee |
The Democratic UnconsciousWednesday, March 20, 2024Bard College Berlin (Lecture Hall), Platanenstr. 98A, 13156 Berlin |
Meditation GroupMondays and Thursdays 6–7 pmThursday, March 21, 2024Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room |
The Orchestra Now: Free Chamber Music ConcertFriday, March 22, 2024Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space |
Men's Volleyball vs. Eastern Nazarene (NECC)Saturday, March 23, 2024Stevenson Athletic Center, Main Gym |
Christian/Roman Catholic MassSunday, March 24, 2024Chapel of the Holy Innocents |
Meditation GroupMondays and Thursdays 6–7 pmMonday, March 25, 2024Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room |
Bard InklingsTuesday, March 26, 2024Albee |
CMIA - Rocco and His BrothersWednesday, March 27, 2024Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center |
Meditation GroupMondays and Thursdays 6–7 pmThursday, March 28, 2024Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room |
Good Friday ServiceFriday, March 29, 2024Chapel of the Holy Innocents |
Women's Lacrosse vs. St. Lawrence (Liberty League)Saturday, March 30, 2024Stevenson Athletic Center, Soccer Field |
Christian/Roman Catholic MassSunday, March 31, 2024Chapel of the Holy Innocents |
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Mural Project BardEats
Calling all artists!
Monday, February 5, 2024 – Monday, March 4, 2024
Have your work showcased on Bard Campus for years to come!
$300 compensation for two artists whose chosen designs will beautify Kline and raise sustainability awareness surrounding post consumer food waste.
We will be taking submissions until the end of February, the project will occur in March. See details in attached PDF.
Brought to you by BardEats
[email protected]
Kline Commons
Sponsored by: Office of Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Memory, Resistance, and Colonial Hierarchies of Belonging (A)cross the Atlantic
Friday, March 1, 2024
1–6 pm
Olin 202 & RKC 103In their 1992 open letter to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, African American writers Audre Lorde and Gloria I. Joseph protested a recent wave of deadly attacks on refugees in East Germany by connecting it to tacit violence against people of color and the “fundamental questions of racism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia […] within the German psyche that have not been publicly examined and addressed in the last 50 years.” Instead of easily buying into the commemoration ritual of German Reunification, Lorde and Joseph measured the success of German memory culture by its effect on their lives, asking “Why has the dismantling of the Berlin Wall meant that we now feel less and less safe as Black Women visitors [...], lest we be insulted or attacked?”
Today, their question reverberates against the backdrop of multiple “refugee crises” and the rise of right-wing extremisms across Europe, with German’s AfD party growing in popularity. This one-day symposium builds on Lorde and Joseph’s protest letter to explore transnational connections and narratives of resistance in Germany and across the Atlantic. We seek to explore how marginalized groups have politically and historically advocated for justice by drawing parallels of remembrance against forgetting across different cultures, spaces, languages, bodies and times. By realizing parallels across multiple geopolitical histories of migrant activists, feminists, workers, Europeans of colour, Sinti and Roma populations and refugees we want to generate interdisciplinary discussions on the uses of memory as resistance.
We invite various artistic, academic and activist perspectives to provide new perspectives that broaden the clusters of Memory, Resistance and Colonial Hierarchies of Belonging. While our focus is on Germany, we welcome contributions from other contexts that comparatively address how Western colonial, imperial, transnational, and transatlantic memories are tied and translated to other regions and contexts.
This event is co-sponsored by: Rethinking Place Bard-On-Mahicantuck, A Mellon Foundation "Humanities For All Times" Initiative, Central European University, Gender Studies Department, The Hannah Arendt Center, The Literature Program, The Politics Program, The American And Indigenous Studies Program, The Philosophy Program, The History Program, The Human Rights Program, The Language Center, The Dean's Office, The Division Of Languages And Literature, and Bard Center For The Study Of Hate.
Schedule:
1:00-2:30 PM (Olin 202)Panel 1: Memory Making, Trauma, Colonialism, and Resistance
Tường Vi Nguyễn (Freie Universität Berlin) "Survival Consciousness: A Decolonial and Critical Phenomenological Approach"
Ain Ul Khair (CEU), “Memory-Making and the Question of Nostalgia”
Peter Odak (CEU), tbd
Ali Hashemian (CEU), “The Making of the Civilized Iranian Man: Masculinity, ‘Civilization’ and Race in the Interwar Nationalist Discourse in Iran”
2:45-4:00 PM (Olin 202)
Panel 2: Jessica Varela (CEU), “Gendering Blackness, Migration, Coloniality: Una Marson, Claudia Jones, and Audre Lorde in the UK and Germany” and Bard respondents Gabriella Lindsay, Jana Schmidt, Vivian Hoyden
4:30-6 PM (RCK 103) Keynote: Michelle M. Wright (Emory), “Time to Re-Member: A Physics of Queer Black Belonging”Sponsored by: German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Guest Artist Lecture-Recital: Catherine Kautsky, piano
Debussy in Paris: Poets, Politics, and the Piano Intertwined
Friday, March 1, 2024
4–5:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpacePianist Catherine Kautsky presents a lecture-recital placing Debussy's piano music in the context of fin-de siècle Paris. We’ll look at fairies and clowns, writers and painters, arabesques and castanets, and along the way we’ll encounter the many issues of race, gender, colonialism, and nationalism that affected (and afflicted) Paris c. 1900.
Catherine Kautsky, Chair of Keyboard at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI, has been lauded by the New York Times as “a pianist who can play Mozart and Schubert as though their sentiments and habits of speech coincided exactly with hers … The music spoke directly to the listener, with neither obfuscation nor pretense.” Her recording of the Debussy Preludes, released by Centaur in September, 2014, was said to “bring out all the power, majesty, and mystery of Debussy’s conception.“ Ms Kautsky has just released a 24 video set, “Great Works for the Piano” for Great Courses/Wondrium, and is also presenting courses on piano literature for the Juilliard Extension Division and the 92nd Street Y of New York City.
Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Men's Volleyball vs. Lesley (NECC)
Friday, March 1, 2024
7–9 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe Men's Volleyball team competes in a conference match against Lesley. Come out and support Men's Volleyball!
For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Senior Projects Festival
Friday, March 1, 2024
7:30–8:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterA weekend of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater & Performance Program.For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/senior-projects-festival/.
Men's Volleyball vs. Endicott (NECC)
Saturday, March 2, 2024
11 am – 1 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe Men's Volleyball team competes in a conference match against Endicott. Come out and support Men's Volleyball!
For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Senior Projects Festival
Saturday, March 2, 2024
2–3 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterA weekend of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater & Performance Program.For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/senior-projects-festival/.
Men's Volleyball vs. Manhattanville
Saturday, March 2, 2024
3–5 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe Men's Volleyball team competes in a non-conference match against Manhattanville. Come out and support Men's Volleyball!
For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Senior Projects Festival
Saturday, March 2, 2024
7:30–8:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterA weekend of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater & Performance Program.For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/senior-projects-festival/.
Christian/Roman Catholic Mass
Sunday, March 3, 2024
12–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsRoman Catholic Mass at Bard Chapel
Sundays at noon
Mass will be celebrated every Sunday during the academic semesters at noon in the Bard Chapel with prayers for healing.
Confessions will be available before Mass, and following Mass all are invited to Breaking Open the Word (a time to share what we heard God saying to our hearts in scripture).
For info contact: (fr.) Jim+ [email protected]Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Chinese Ensemble Spring Concert 2024
Shutong Li, conductor
Sunday, March 3, 2024
2–3:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceCelebrate the coming of Spring with the Bard Chinese Ensemble!
The program features concerto soloists Yixin Wang '24 on guzheng and Yijie Yin '25 on zhongruan, as well as several new arrangements prepared by conductor Shutong Li especially for the ensemble.
FREE and open to the public.
View the livestream at youtube.com/watch?v=DijT1NLqp6wSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-7026, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.barduschinamusic.org/events/chinese-ensemble-spring-2024.
Senior Projects Festival
Sunday, March 3, 2024
4–5 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterA weekend of performances created by the graduating seniors of Bard’s Theater & Performance Program.
Sponsored by: Bard Theater & Performance Program.For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/senior-projects-festival/.
Particle Accelerators, Artificial Intelligence, and Ancient Greek Literature: The Vesuvius Challenge and the Future of Classics
Rob Cioffi, Chuck Doran, and Jay Elliott
Monday, March 4, 2024
1:30–2:30 pm
Stevenson Library 4th Floor Reading RoomOn the afternoon of August 24th, 79 CE, an unusual cloud in the shape of a pine tree could be seen across the Bay of Naples. As night turned to dawn on the morning of the 25th, Mt. Vesuvius was erupting with lethal force: buildings shook violently, the sea was absorbed back into itself, and black clouds rent by fire coursed through the sky. The eruption buried cities, killed tens of thousands, and terrified countless others. Yet, Vesuvius’ destruction was also, paradoxically, responsible for stunning acts of preservation. In Pompeii, the volcanic ash created a time capsule of Roman life in 79 CE, and in Herculaneum the deadly, hot gas preserved a whole library: nearly 1,000 ancient Greek and Latin book rolls that had been carbonized during the eruption. The only problem has been reading them. For 250 years scholars have tried to unravel the Herculaneum texts with varying degrees of success—and substantial loss of material.
On the morning of February 5th, 2024 CE, all that changed. The Vesuvius Challenge announced three winners, who, thanks to advanced imaging technologies and artificial intelligence, have used a non-destructive process to read a significant portion of a new Herculaneum text. It is very likely by the epicurean philosopher Philodemus. Their discovery has the potential to change the landscape of Greek literature. It has already become major news and has featured in stories on NPR and in the Guardian. This informal seminar will present these findings to the Bard community, lay out their groundbreaking significance for anyone interested in Greek literature and ancient philosophy, and discuss their potential further applications.Sponsored by: Bard Interdisciplinary Science Postbaccalaureate Research Accelerator, Classical Studies, and Philosophy Programs.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Women's Lacrosse vs. Mount St. Mary College
Monday, March 4, 2024
5–7 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Soccer FieldThe Women's Lacrosse team competes in a non-conference match against Mount St. Mary College. Come out and support Women's Lacrosse!
For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
What is a Feminist Quantitative Method? Opportunities for Feminist Econometrics
Levy Institute Research Program of Gender Equality and the Economy: A Speaker Series Featuring Sarah Small, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah
Monday, March 4, 2024
5–6 pm
BlithewoodThe Gender Equality and the Economy Program of the Levy Economics Institute hosts a speaker series with practitioners and scholars across disciplines from around the globe to address the ever-relevant topic of “Gender Equality and the Economy.” Speakers will present their research and discuss differing approaches to economic analyses through a gender lens. The series highlights the importance of taking an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the implications of how gender and economic inequalities intersect in history, policy, and the everyday.
Join us for our third session with Sarah Small, Assistant Professor of Economics, The University of Utah, on Monday, March 4, from 5pm to 6pm in the Blithewood Conference Room, or on Zoom. Professor Small's presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members—both those in person and on Zoom are welcome to ask questions.
Light refreshments will be served. Register to attend via Zoom here.
This event is sponsored by The Levy Economics Institute, The Economics Program of Bard College, and The OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative.
Abstract:
Though feminist economics encourages methodological plurality, quantitative methods and econometrics have overtaken the discipline in recent years. Many feminist economists have demonstrated reasons to be concerned about the increasing foothold of quantitative methods, and others have provided thoughtful criticisms of specific quantitative measurements. However, few have made distinctions between mainstream econometrics and feminist econometrics, and a succinct set of resources for those trying to do feminist quantitative research is difficult to find. Drawing upon insights from feminist economics, queer methods, and intersectional approaches, this paper sets forth practical guidelines for feminists using econometric methods. Namely, it considers issues of data cleaning, replicability, survey weighting, comparison groups, non-binary measures of gender, intersectionality, causality claims, identification problems, atheoretical index composition, and measuring “difference.” It raises questions for contemporary feminist economists to consider as we grapple with the methodological identity of our field.
Sarah F. Small, PhD is an assistant professor in the department of economics at the University of Utah and the book review editor for Feminist Economics. Her research focuses on intrahousehold bargaining, unpaid care work, history of feminist economic thought, and feminist research methodology. Sarah earned her PhD in economics from Colorado State University and formerly held research positions at Rutgers and Duke universities.
To receive updates on this speaker series, please fill out this form, or visit the Speaker Series page which will be updated as new events in the series are scheduled.Sponsored by: Economics Program; Levy Economics Institute.
For more information, call 845-758-7714, or e-mail [email protected].
Meditation Group
Mondays and Thursdays 6–7 pm
Monday, March 4, 2024
6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation RoomMondays Guided Meditation
6-6:15 pm Dharma words
6:15-6:45 Meditation
6:45-7 pm Walking meditation & chanting
Thursdays Silent Meditation
6-7 pm Meditation in stillness
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.
Afterwards community sangha time with refreshments.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
CMIA - Impressionism
Monday, March 4, 2024
7–11:30 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Le Bonheur
(Agnés Varda, 1965, France, 80 minutes) - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
(Jacques Demy, 1964, France, 91 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
The Three Rs of Postwar Internationalism: Refugee, Return, Repatriation
Arie M. Dubnov, George Washington University
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
4 pm
Hegeman 106Three pivotal terms— "refugee," "return," and "repatriation" — played an exceptionally significant role in shaping international planning and discourse after World War II. Exploring the interconnections of international history and the history of political and religious concepts, the talk examines how these terms acquired distinct meanings within the framework of international policies and how they echo to this day in the context of the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.
Arie M. Dubnov is the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies. Trained in Israel and the U.S., he is a historian of twentieth century Jewish and Israeli history, with emphasis on the history of political thought, the study of nationalism, decolonization and partition politics, and with a subsidiary interest in the history of Israeli popular culture. Prior to his arrival at GW, Dubnov taught at Stanford University and the University of Haifa. He was a G.L. Mosse Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a participant in the National History Center’s International Decolonization Seminar, and recipient of the Dorset Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and a was Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford.Sponsored by: Global and International Studies Program; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Jewish Studies Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program; Politics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
Visiting Professor of Humanities Adam Shatz reads selections from his new book, followed by a conversation with Ziad Dallal, Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures and Director of Middle East Studies.
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
5–7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center; Room 103 About the Rebel's Clinic: “In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon’s shadow looms larger than ever. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution, and the psychology of power continue to shape radical movements across the world. In this searching biography, Adam Shatz tells the story of Fanon’s stunning journey, which has all the twists of a Cold War-era thriller.”Sponsored by: Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CMIA - Color, Part II
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
7–11:30 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
(Jacques Demy, 1964, France, 90 minutes, 35mm) - Ran
(Akira Kurosawa, 1985, Japan, 162 minutes)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Bard Inklings
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
7–8 pm
AlbeeThe Catholic Chaplaincy invites you to experience Bard Inklings: Conversations about God, Friendship, and Meaning each Tuesday, from 7–8 pm in the Chaplaincy Office Albee Basement. For information, please email [email protected]. All are welcome!
For more information, call 845-978-6122, or e-mail [email protected].
Protecting Palestinian Digital Rights in Times of Crisis
An Online Lecture Series
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
10–11:10 am
The Network Collaborative Course on “Freedom of Expression” announces a series of online guest lectures that are available for the public to observe online.The first lecture will be delivered on March 6 by Jalal Abukhater, a Palestinian rights advocate based in Jerusalem. Abukhater is the advocacy manager at 7amleh, the Arab Center for the Advancement for the Advancement of Social Media, a digital rights organization that fights for a free, fair, and safe digital space for all Palestinians. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session.
Viewers can address questions to Abukhater in advance by sending an email to Kseniya Shtalenkova at [email protected]. Please indicate “Lecture with Jalal Abukhater” as the email subject.
Join via Zoom.Sponsored by: OSUN.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Why Fiat Copper Money Collapsed: Evidence of Trust in Early Modern Europe
The Levy Economics Institute Presents a Guest Lecture Featuring Danila Raskov from the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
5–6 pm
BlithewoodAbstract:
The talk addresses two questions: Why did fiat copper money operations fail? And what is the reason behind the short-term success of these operations? I argue that, in both cases, trust as a habit and sovereigns' competition provide a more plausible explanation than the risk of default, the supply of money, or the scarcity of real resources. The issuance of copper currency at enforced exchange rates as the monetary campaign of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia (1654–1663) is worth investigating. The prevailing literature highlighted the fiasco accompanied by agio and hyperinflation. A better understanding of these initiatives can be achieved through a framework of trust, as expounded by Aglietta and Orléan. Trust, in this context, operates on three levels: as societal norms and conventions, as public trust in governing authorities, and as an interplay among sovereigns (including counterfeiters). This framework reveals that inflation correlates with a decline in trust, challenging the efficacy of both the State Theory of Money and monetarism.Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute.
For more information, call 845-758-7710.
The Photography Program Presents: Nina Katchadourian
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
6–7:30 pm
Weis CinemaNina Katchadourian is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes video, performance, sound, sculpture, photography, and public projects. Her video “Accent Elimination” was included at the 2015 Venice Biennale in the Armenian pavilion, which won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Group exhibitions have included shows at the Serpentine Gallery, Turner Contemporary, de Appel, Palais de Tokyo, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Turku Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, ICA Philadelphia, Brooklyn Museum, Artists Space, SculptureCenter, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Library, and MoMA PS1. A solo museum survey of her work entitled Curiouser opened at the Blanton Museum in 2017 and traveled to the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University and the BYU Art Museum. An accompanying monograph, also entitled Curiouser, is available from Tower Books.
Katchadourian completed a commission entitled "Floater Theater" for the Exploratorium in San Francisco in 2016 which is now permanently on view. In 2016 Katchadourian created "Dust Gathering," an audio tour on the subject of dust, for the Museum of Modern Art as part of their program "Artists Experiment. Katchadourian's work is public and private collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Blanton Museum of Art, Morgan Library, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Margulies Collection, and Saatchi Gallery. She has won grants and awards from the the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation, the Tiffany Foundation, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, Gronqvista Foundation, and the Nancy Graves Foundation. Katchadourian lives and works in Brooklyn and Berlin and she is a Clinical Full Professor on the faculty of NYU Gallatin. She is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery and Pace Gallery.Sponsored by: Photography Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
CMIA - White Nights
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
7:30–11:55 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- White Nights
(Luchino Visconti, 1957, Italy/France, 102 minutes) - Two Lovers
(James Gray, 2008, USA, 110 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Meditation Group
Mondays and Thursdays 6–7 pm
Thursday, March 7, 2024
6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation RoomMondays Guided Meditation
6-6:15 pm Dharma words
6:15-6:45 Meditation
6:45-7 pm Walking meditation & chanting
Thursdays Silent Meditation
6-7 pm Meditation in stillness
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.
Afterwards community sangha time with refreshments.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Between Power and Authority: Arendt on the Constitution and the Courts
Thursday, March 7, 2024 – Friday, March 8, 2024
Multiple Locations at Bard CollegeKeynote Speaker: Peg Birmingham (DePaul University)
Organised by Nicholas Dunn (Bard College)
The U.S. Supreme Court today faces a crisis of legitimacy. More than half of Americans have an unfavorable view of the Court—the lowest in over three decades. Following a slate of rulings on abortion, affirmative action, student debt, and freedom of religion, an increasing number of Americans no longer believe the Court is impartial, viewing it as simply another partisan institution. As a result, many are calling for various reforms of the Court, including term limits and packing the court. At the same time, the Court has, even at this moment, has struck down racially motivated gerrymandering in Alabama and has refused to accept the Independent State Legislature Theory that would allow states to overturn the will of their voters. There is little doubt that politics is at play in the Supreme Court; at the same time, the Court still gives credence to the idea of the rule of law and not men.
In On Revolution, Hannah Arendt places the American constitutional tradition at the center of her inquiry into the founding and preserving of political freedom. The success of the American Revolution, for her, consisted in two things: its unleashing of citizen power through the principle of federalist dispersion of power and its institutionalization of authority in the Supreme Court and the United States Constitution. Regarding the former, Arendt argues that the embrace of federalism allowed for the multiplication and flourishing of power within a stable system. Regarding the latter, Arendt offers an original reading of the Supreme Court as the successor of the Roman Senate. The Court's authority combined with the surprising fact that the Constitution came to be worshiped allowed the United States to achieve authority for its laws absent religious sanction. This authority tied together permanence and change, permitting the country to develop and grow while also maintaining order and stability. In short, the combination of power and authority that emerged from the worship of the United States Constitution became the modern condition for the possibility of founding free government.
This conference aims to bring together scholars of Arendt’s constitutional thought and those working in political and legal theory more broadly to pursue the following questions: Is the Supreme Court still a legal institution, one that wields and deserves the authority imbued by the rule of law? Is the Supreme Court simply an undemocratic institution of power? If the latter, should we abandon the charade that the Supreme Court is above politics? Or, should we work to uphold the reality and the illusion that the Court is a legal and not simply a political institution? Any answers to these questions request that we face what is lost if and when the Supreme Court is no longer recognized as a seat of authority. We are especially interested in papers that address: Arendt’s conception of power and/or authority, Arendt’s constitutional and/or legal theory, and the relevance of all of this for current discussions of the Supreme Court and constitutional politics.
Registration and Format
The event will take place in-person and will be free and open to the public. Please direct any questions to Nicholas Dunn ([email protected]). Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; OSUN.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bard NYC Online Info Session
Want to Go to NYC? Join our webinar at 5PM to learn how!
Thursday, March 7, 2024
5–6 pm
Online EventBard NYC pairs full time coursework with substantive internships in related areas of work. Students take 12–16 Bard College credits, including a required core seminar, while interning 15–20 hours per week at organizations across a variety of industries throughout New York City. We offer six interdisciplinary pathways: Advocacy & Social Justice; The Arts; Data Science & Society; Economics & Finance; International Affairs; and Media & Publishing. Fall 2024 applications due April 1.
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://bard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4eJCKpp0QlK1KtmbfMD78Q
Passcode: 586886Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4eJCKpp0QlK1KtmbfMD78Q.
Peg Birmingham: The Problem of Constitutional Authority in a Secular Age
Thursday, March 7, 2024
5:30–7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumJoin us for the 2nd Annual De Gruyter-Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking
This lecture will be live streamed on our Youtube Channel
Peg Birmingham (DePaul University)
“The Problem of Constitutional Authority in a Secular Age”
at the Laszlo S. Bito ‘60 Auditorium (Reem-Kayden Center) at Bard College
Event will be live-streamed
The Problem of Constitutional Authority in a Secular Age
Peg Birmingham
[1] “More important in our context [of thinking the meaning of revolution] is that
Machiavelli was the first to visualize the rise of a pure secular realm whose laws and
principles of action were independent of the teachings of the Church in particular and of
moral standards, transcending the sphere of human affairs, in general. It was for this
reason that he insisted that people who entered politics should first learn “how not to be
good,” that is, how not to act according to Christian precepts” (On Revolution, 36).
[2] “[it was] secularization itself, and not the contents of Christian teachings, which
constitutes the origin of revolution” (On Revolution, 26).
[3] “Politically, secularism means no more than religious creeds and institutions have no
publicly binding authority and that conversely, political life has no religious sanction.”
(“Religion and Politics” in Essays in Understanding, 372).
[4] “One cannot fail to register her insistence that even such politics [self-contained and
post-metaphysical] must have continuing recourse to an absolute of the kind that
metaphysics in the form of religion provided more plausibly and effortlessly than
revolution could easily succeed in doing” (Samuel Moyn, “Arendt on the Secular,” p. 76).
[5] “European absolutism in theory and practice, the existence of an absolute sovereign
whose will is the source of both power and law, was a relatively new phenomenon; it had
been the first and most conspicuous consequence of what we call secularization, namely,
the emancipation of secular power from the authority of the Church” (On Revolution,
159).
[6] “...secularization, which never denied religious content (this is an impossibility!) but
rather posed the ancient problem of earthly immortality anew” (Denktagebuch, Heft XX,
entry 2, 478).
[7] “In the political realm we deal always with adults who are past the age of education,
properly speaking, and politics or the right to participate in the management of public
affairs begins precisely where education has come to an end” (“What Authority?” in
Between Past and Future, 119).
[8] “[Authority] insofar as it is based on tradition, is of Roman political origin and was
monopolized by the Church only when it became the political as well as spiritual heir of
the Roman Empire” (“Religion and Politics” in Essays in Understanding, 372).
[9] [The loss of authority] allows for confronting “anew, without the religious trust in a
sacred beginning and without the protection of traditional and therefore self-evident
standards of behavior, by the elementary problems of human living-together” (“What is
Authority?”, 141).
[10] “Freedom and equality are political principles determined not by a transcendental
authority, before which all humans qua humans are equal, nor by a general human fate
like death, which one day takes all men equally from the world. Rather, they are
intrinsically worldly principles, which grow up directly from the coming together...” (“The
Hungarian Revolution and Totalitarian Imperialism” in Thinking Without a Bannister,
135).
[11] “[T]hey found it easy to think of passion in terms of desire and to banish from it any
connotation of its original meaning, which is prattein: to suffer and to endure. This lack
of experience gives their theories, even if they are sound, an air of lightminded, a certain
weightlessness which will put into jeopardy their durability. For humanly speaking, it is
endurance which enable man to create durability and continuity” (On Revolution, 95).
[12] “The modern growth of worldlessness, the withering away of everything between us,
can also be described as the spread of the desert” (“Epilogue” in The Promise of Politics,
201).
[13] “transform the desert into a world...through the conjoined faculties of passion and
action” (“Epilogue,” 202).
[14] [The condition for action are these passions] as “only those who can endure the
passion of living under desert conditions can be trusted to summon up in themselves the
courage that lies at the root of action, of becoming an active being” (“Epilogue,” 202).
[15] “[World-disclosing passions are measured] not in the force with which the passion
affects the soul, but rather by the amount of reality the passion transmits to it” (Men in
Dark Times, 6).
The Keynote Lecture of our two day Spring Conference:
Between Power and Authority: Arendt on the Constitution and the Courts
The U.S. Supreme Court today faces a crisis of legitimacy. More than half of Americans have an unfavorable view of the Court—the lowest in over three decades. Following a slate of rulings on abortion, affirmative action, student debt, and freedom of religion, an increasing number of Americans no longer believe the Court is impartial, viewing it as simply another partisan institution. As a result, many are calling for various reforms of the Court, including term limits and packing the court. At the same time, the Court has, even at this moment, has struck down racially motivated gerrymandering in Alabama and has refused to accept the Independent State Legislature Theory that would allow states to overturn the will of their voters. There is little doubt that politics is at play in the Supreme Court; at the same time, the Court still gives credence to the idea of the rule of law and not men.
In On Revolution, Hannah Arendt places the American constitutional tradition at the center of her inquiry into the founding and preserving of political freedom. The success of the American Revolution, for her, consisted in two things: its unleashing of citizen power through the principle of federalist dispersion of power and its institutionalization of authority in the Supreme Court and the United States Constitution. Regarding the former, Arendt argues that the embrace of federalism allowed for the multiplication and flourishing of power within a stable system. Regarding the latter, Arendt offers an original reading of the Supreme Court as the successor of the Roman Senate. The Court's authority combined with the surprising fact that the Constitution came to be worshiped allowed the United States to achieve authority for its laws absent religious sanction. This authority tied together permanence and change, permitting the country to develop and grow while also maintaining order and stability. In short, the combination of power and authority that emerged from the worship of the United States Constitution became the modern condition for the possibility of founding free government.
This conference aims to bring together scholars of Arendt’s constitutional thought and those working in political and legal theory more broadly to pursue the following questions: Is the Supreme Court still a legal institution, one that wields and deserves the authority imbued by the rule of law? Is the Supreme Court simply an undemocratic institution of power? If the latter, should we abandon the charade that the Supreme Court is above politics? Or, should we work to uphold the reality and the illusion that the Court is a legal and not simply a political institution? Any answers to these questions request that we face what is lost if and when the Supreme Court is no longer recognized as a seat of authority. We are especially interested in papers that address: Arendt’s conception of power and/or authority, Arendt’s constitutional and/or legal theory, and the relevance of all of this for current discussions of the Supreme Court and constitutional politics.
Registration and Format
The event will take place in-person and will be free and open to the public. Please direct any questions to Nicholas Dunn ([email protected]).
Visit the conference page for full schedule
Sponsored by: De Gruyter.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Degree Recital: Joel Guahnich, trumpet, with Gabriele Zemaityte, piano
Recent works for trumpet and brass quintet.
Thursday, March 7, 2024
8–9:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceFree and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Between Power and Authority: Arendt on the Constitution and the Courts
Thursday, March 7, 2024 – Friday, March 8, 2024
Multiple Locations at Bard CollegeKeynote Speaker: Peg Birmingham (DePaul University)
Organised by Nicholas Dunn (Bard College)
The U.S. Supreme Court today faces a crisis of legitimacy. More than half of Americans have an unfavorable view of the Court—the lowest in over three decades. Following a slate of rulings on abortion, affirmative action, student debt, and freedom of religion, an increasing number of Americans no longer believe the Court is impartial, viewing it as simply another partisan institution. As a result, many are calling for various reforms of the Court, including term limits and packing the court. At the same time, the Court has, even at this moment, has struck down racially motivated gerrymandering in Alabama and has refused to accept the Independent State Legislature Theory that would allow states to overturn the will of their voters. There is little doubt that politics is at play in the Supreme Court; at the same time, the Court still gives credence to the idea of the rule of law and not men.
In On Revolution, Hannah Arendt places the American constitutional tradition at the center of her inquiry into the founding and preserving of political freedom. The success of the American Revolution, for her, consisted in two things: its unleashing of citizen power through the principle of federalist dispersion of power and its institutionalization of authority in the Supreme Court and the United States Constitution. Regarding the former, Arendt argues that the embrace of federalism allowed for the multiplication and flourishing of power within a stable system. Regarding the latter, Arendt offers an original reading of the Supreme Court as the successor of the Roman Senate. The Court's authority combined with the surprising fact that the Constitution came to be worshiped allowed the United States to achieve authority for its laws absent religious sanction. This authority tied together permanence and change, permitting the country to develop and grow while also maintaining order and stability. In short, the combination of power and authority that emerged from the worship of the United States Constitution became the modern condition for the possibility of founding free government.
This conference aims to bring together scholars of Arendt’s constitutional thought and those working in political and legal theory more broadly to pursue the following questions: Is the Supreme Court still a legal institution, one that wields and deserves the authority imbued by the rule of law? Is the Supreme Court simply an undemocratic institution of power? If the latter, should we abandon the charade that the Supreme Court is above politics? Or, should we work to uphold the reality and the illusion that the Court is a legal and not simply a political institution? Any answers to these questions request that we face what is lost if and when the Supreme Court is no longer recognized as a seat of authority. We are especially interested in papers that address: Arendt’s conception of power and/or authority, Arendt’s constitutional and/or legal theory, and the relevance of all of this for current discussions of the Supreme Court and constitutional politics.
Registration and Format
The event will take place in-person and will be free and open to the public. Please direct any questions to Nicholas Dunn ([email protected]). Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; OSUN.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
New Kinds of Attention 2024
Writing Based Teaching Online
Friday, March 8, 2024
10 am – 2:30 pm
Online EventThe New Kinds of Attention online workshop series offers short, accessible introductions to IWT writing-based teaching practices. It is designed for educators who are curious about IWT workshops or looking to expand their writing-based teaching toolkit, including those unable to attend IWT’s on-campus workshops at Bard. The workshops in this series provide an immersive, online introduction to IWT pedagogy and a taste of the experience of our popular July Weeklong Workshops.
In 2024, the series will be held on February 9, February 23, and March 8, from 10 am – 2:30 pm EST, including a 30-minute break. Scroll down for the full list of workshops!
For more information, call 845-752-4516, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://iwt.bard.edu/workshops/new-kinds-of-attention/.
Spring Dance Concert
Friday, March 8, 2024
7:30–8:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterChoreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance-making. Dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.
Sponsored by: Dance Program.For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-dance-concert/.
Offenbach: Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld)
Friday, March 8, 2024
8–10 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterOrphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld) welcomes the audience to a world of humans, gods and goddesses that seems all too familiar. This is Olympus High, a place where the tipping scales of popularity and power provide the perfect backdrop for a tale of love, jealousy, and intrigue. This is prom and circumstance for the ages, a lively, witty operetta springing from the genius of a young, aspiring Jacques Offenbach in 1858, playing out here in the year 1986, where relationships and hierarchy haven’t changed a bit.
Sung in French with English supertitles, dialog in English.
Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/orphee-aux-enfers/.
Spring Dance Concert
Saturday, March 9, 2024
1:30–2:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterChoreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance-making. Dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.
Sponsored by: Dance Program.For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-dance-concert/.
Women's Lacrosse vs. Wentworth Institute of Technology
Saturday, March 9, 2024
2–4 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Soccer FieldThe Women's Lacrosse team competes in a non-conference match against Wentworth Institute of Technology. Come out and support Women's Lacrosse!
For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
The Keyboard as Muse: Piano Music of Chopin and Scarlatti
Seven pianists perform works by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) and Fryderyk Chopin (1810-49).
Saturday, March 9, 2024
7–8:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceFree and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Spring Dance Concert
Saturday, March 9, 2024
7:30–8:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterChoreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance-making. Dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.
Sponsored by: Dance Program.For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-dance-concert/.
Christian/Roman Catholic Mass
Sunday, March 10, 2024
12–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsRoman Catholic Mass at Bard Chapel
Sundays at noon
Mass will be celebrated every Sunday during the academic semesters at noon in the Bard Chapel with prayers for healing.
Confessions will be available before Mass, and following Mass all are invited to Breaking Open the Word (a time to share what we heard God saying to our hearts in scripture).
For info contact: (fr.) Jim+ [email protected]Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Spring Dance Concert
Sunday, March 10, 2024
1:30–2:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterChoreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance-making. Dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.
Sponsored by: Dance Program.For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/spring-dance-concert/.
Offenbach: Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld)
Sunday, March 10, 2024
2–4 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterOrphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld) welcomes the audience to a world of humans, gods and goddesses that seems all too familiar. This is Olympus High, a place where the tipping scales of popularity and power provide the perfect backdrop for a tale of love, jealousy, and intrigue. This is prom and circumstance for the ages, a lively, witty operetta springing from the genius of a young, aspiring Jacques Offenbach in 1858, playing out here in the year 1986, where relationships and hierarchy haven’t changed a bit.
Sung in French with English supertitles, dialog in English.
Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/orphee-aux-enfers/.
Meditation Group
Mondays and Thursdays 6–7 pm
Monday, March 11, 2024
6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation RoomMondays Guided Meditation
6-6:15 pm Dharma words
6:15-6:45 Meditation
6:45-7 pm Walking meditation & chanting
Thursdays Silent Meditation
6-7 pm Meditation in stillness
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.
Afterwards community sangha time with refreshments.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Noon Concert: Conservatory Students Perform Works for Marimba, Violin, Piano, and Voice.
Monday, March 11, 2024
12–1 pm
Bitó Conservatory BuildingStudents perform selections from a wide range of solo and chamber works.
Free and open to the public. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
IAT Lecture Series: Divisions that Define Us
Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology
Monday, March 11, 2024
12–1:30 pm
Bard HallDuring the past two millennia, systemic ruptures in the understanding of religion and society have shaped the cultural contours of all the lands that once comprised the Roman Empire. These schisms have of course featured in the histories of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, but they also have exerted a profound influence on the ways that people in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and later the Americas conceive of themselves of their relations with one another. Our series will deal in order with: (1) the emergence of Christianity from Judaism and the resulting contention, (2) the breach between the Latin West and the Greek East after the conversion of Constantine, (3) the rise of Islam and the proclamation of the Crusades, (4) the Reformation and its consequences, and (5) the opposition between religion and science in the modern period.
This series will be on the following Mondays at noon: March 11, March 25, April 8, and April 22.Sponsored by: The Institute for Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
108 Cups of CommuniTea
Everyone is welcome! Come receive a magic cup of tea!
Monday, March 11, 2024
3–4:30 pm
Reichel Lobby (next to Weis Cinema)A project promoting interconnection and compassion
In conjunction with the ELAS studio arts class The Art of Life, led by Tatjana Myoko v. Prittwitz.
With: Kaizei'Le Butler * Gray Conway * Hristian Dsouza Michaeli * Moselle Fredericks * Kylie Gent * Hamed Haidari * Arisleida Herrera * Nova Minchin * George Moschapidakis * Jhamil Luis Rondon Trelles * Chase Wayne-Duffy * Kyra Zimmermann
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Civil Liberties In America Today
A conversation with ACLU Deputy Legal Director Yasmin Cader and Bard President Leon Botstein
Monday, March 11, 2024
5–7 pm
Olin HallBard College is hosting a discussion between College President Leon Botstein and Deputy Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Yasmin Cader on Monday, March 11, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm in Olin Auditorium in the Olin Humanities Building. Botstein and Cader will discuss the topic of civil liberties. This discussion is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CMIA - Lives of the Artists
Monday, March 11, 2024
7–11:30 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Lust for Life
(Vincente Minnelli, 1956, USA, 118 minutes) - Van Gogh
(Maurice Pialat, 1991, France, 158 minutes)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Bard Inklings
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
7–8 pm
AlbeeThe Catholic Chaplaincy invites you to experience Bard Inklings: Conversations about God, Friendship, and Meaning each Tuesday, from 7–8 pm in the Chaplaincy Office Albee Basement. For information, please email [email protected]. All are welcome!
For more information, call 845-978-6122, or e-mail [email protected].
The Keith Haring Lecture in Art and Activism: Suki Kim
Introduced by Tom Keenan, Professor of Comparative Literature
Director, Human Rights Program, Bard College
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
5–7 pm
CCS Bard, Classroom 102Suki Kim (2023–24 Keith Haring Fellow) is an investigative journalist, novelist, and the only writer ever to have lived undercover in North Korea for immersive journalism. Kim’s New York Times bestseller Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite (Penguin Random House) is an unprecedented literary documentation of the world’s most secretive gulag nation during the final year of Kim Jong Il’s reign.
Kim’s novel, The Interpreter (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) was the PEN Open Book Award winner and a PEN Hemingway Prize finalist, and her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Washington Post, Harper’s, the Atlantic, the New Republic, and the New Yorker. Her groundbreaking essay, “The Reluctant Memoirist” (TNR), exposed sexism and racism in publishing and the systematic undermining of female expertise. Her investigation of the sexual harassment at WNYC, the nation’s largest public radio station, for New York Magazine, voted as Longreads’ “Best Investigative Reporting,” led to its internal shakedown, from the dismissal of its longest-serving program hosts to the eventual exit of its president. Her essay on fear for Lapham’s Quarterly was published in the Best American Essays series.
Awards include a Guggenheim, George Soros Open Society fellowship, Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant, American Academy Berlin Prize, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellowship at Harvard University, as well as serving as a Ferris professor of Creative Nonfiction at Princeton University. Her TED Talk has drawn millions of viewers, and Kim was the 2020 Convocation Keynote Speaker at Barnard College, Columbia University, and she has appeared in the media around the world including CNN, BBC, CBS, NBC, and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Kim is at work on a nonfiction book (W.W. Norton), The Prince and the Revolutionary: Children of War, which was shortlisted for a 2022 Lukas Prize work-in-progess, given by Columbia University School of Journalism and Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies; Human Rights Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Studio Art Spring 2024 Visiting Artist: Caroline Woolard
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
5:40–6:45 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaCaroline Woolard is the W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement and a founding co-organizer of Art.coop. She is the coauthor of three books: Making and Being (Pioneer Works, 2019), a book for educators about interdisciplinary collaboration, coauthored with Susan Jahoda; Art, Engagement, Economy (onomatopee, 2020), a book about managing socially-engaged and public art projects; and TRADE SCHOOL: 2009–2019, a book about peer learning that Woolard catalyzed in thirty cities internationally over a decade. Woolard’s artwork has been featured twice on New York Close Up (2014, 2016), a digital film series produced by Art21, and broadcast on PBS.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
How Harm Reduction Advances Public Safety & Decarceration
The critical role investments in societal systems play in public safety
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
7:30 pm
RKC 103Join us for a discussion on how harm reduction advances public safety and decarceration with Yasmin Cader, Deputy Legal Director, ACLU and Lisa Daugaard, Co-Executive Director, PDA
For more information, call 845-901-1363, or e-mail [email protected].
Men's Volleyball vs. Russell Sage College (NECC)
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
7–9 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe Men's Volleyball team competes in a conference match against Russell Sage College. Come out and support Men's Volleyball!
For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Bard GPS March Informational Webinar
The Bard GPS team uses “Join and receive a $65 application fee waiver!”
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
7–8 pm
Online Event<<< RSVP HERE:https://gpsresources.bard.edu/online-info-session-march-13-2024 >>>
The Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational sessions for prospective students to learn more about graduate school options in our MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy programs including the MS in Environmental Policy, MS in Climate Science and Policy and the MEd in Environmental Education.
Join us on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 7:00pm ET to learn about our programs directly from Director Eban Goodstein and the admissions team. There will be a time for questions at the end of the session.
WHAT WE COVER:
- Overview of graduate program offerings
- Alumni success and career outcomes
- Admissions information
- Financial aid and scholarships
- Prerequisite course information
- Tips for a standout application
MBA in Sustainability
MEd in Environmental Education
MS in Climate Science and Policy
MS in Environmental Policy
Dual degree options include:
MS/JID with Pace Law School
MS/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching
MEd/MAT with Bard's Master of Arts in Teaching
MS/MBA with Bard's MBA in Sustainability
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar. Email the Bard GPS admissions team at [email protected] for additional information
<<< RSVP HERE: https://gpsresources.bard.edu/online-info-session-march-13-2024 >>>Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
For more information, call 845-663-4197, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://gpsresources.bard.edu/online-info-session-march-13-2024.
CMIA - Fellini and Pasolini
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
7:30–11:55 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Federico Fellini Film
(Federico Fellini) - Oedipus Rex
(Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1967, Italy, 105 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Meditation Group
Mondays and Thursdays 6–7 pm
Thursday, March 14, 2024
6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation RoomMondays Guided Meditation
6-6:15 pm Dharma words
6:15-6:45 Meditation
6:45-7 pm Walking meditation & chanting
Thursdays Silent Meditation
6-7 pm Meditation in stillness
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.
Afterwards community sangha time with refreshments.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Kalen Goodluck ’16: Center for Indigenous Studies Alumni/ae Speaker Series
Thursday, March 14, 2024
3:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaKalen Goodluck ’16 is a Diné, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Tsimshian journalist and photographer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, whose work focuses on Indigenous Affairs, near and far. Goodluck is a graduate of the Bard College Human Rights Program, class of 2016. kalengoodluck.comSponsored by: Center for Indigenous Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Spring Recess
Runs through Sunday, March 24, 2024
Bard College CampusSponsored by: Registrar's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Christian/Roman Catholic Mass
Sunday, March 17, 2024
12–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsRoman Catholic Mass at Bard Chapel
Sundays at noon
Mass will be celebrated every Sunday during the academic semesters at noon in the Bard Chapel with prayers for healing.
Confessions will be available before Mass, and following Mass all are invited to Breaking Open the Word (a time to share what we heard God saying to our hearts in scripture).
For info contact: (fr.) Jim+ [email protected]Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Meditation Group
Mondays and Thursdays 6–7 pm
Monday, March 18, 2024
6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation RoomMondays Guided Meditation
6-6:15 pm Dharma words
6:15-6:45 Meditation
6:45-7 pm Walking meditation & chanting
Thursdays Silent Meditation
6-7 pm Meditation in stillness
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.
Afterwards community sangha time with refreshments.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Inklings
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
7–8 pm
AlbeeThe Catholic Chaplaincy invites you to experience Bard Inklings: Conversations about God, Friendship, and Meaning each Tuesday, from 7–8 pm in the Chaplaincy Office Albee Basement. For information, please email [email protected]. All are welcome!
For more information, call 845-978-6122, or e-mail [email protected].
The Democratic Unconscious
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
7 pm
Bard College Berlin (Lecture Hall), Platanenstr. 98A, 13156 BerlinAmerican democracy takes off with the profoundly ambiguous phrase "We the people . . . " But who are "the people?" A motley collection of individuals, micro-communities, and macro-communities? Or a unified entity, national (das Volk), religious, or otherwise? Though it’s easy to define the word democracy as the power of the people, the definition doesn’t get us very far. The fragility of the democratic idea has much to do with the insecurity of democratic experience.
In this lecture, Michael Steinberg will argue, first, that democracy needs to be defined and historicized according to the principle of plurality and, second, that participation in a polity defined by plurality can be understood as a function of affect as well as contract—the affective dimension of what Avishai Margalit has called "thin relations." Third, where there is affect there is also the unconscious. Democratic affect needs to be understood, with the help of insights from psychoanalysis, to allow enough room for the unconscious and its manifestations, including the arts.
Register for the lecture here.
Michael P. Steinberg is the Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, and Professor of Music and German Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. From 2016 to 2018 he served as president of the American Academy in Berlin. At Brown he served as the founding director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities (2005-2015) and as Vice Provost for the Arts (2015-16). He was member of the Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers ad Institutes (CHCI) between 2006 and 2016 and serves as a board member of Bard College Berlin as well as the Barenboim-Said Foundation USA. His books include The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal (Stanford, 2022), The Trouble with Wagner (Chicago, 2018) as well as the edited volume Makers of Jewish Modernity (Princeton, 2016; winner of the National Jewish Book Award for non-fiction); Listening to Reason: Culture, Music, and Subjectivity in 19th - Century Music (Princeton, 2004), and The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival (Cornell, 2000), of which the German edition (Ursprung und Ideologie der Salzburger Festspiele; Anton Pustet Verlag, 2000) won Austria's Victor Adler Staatspreis in 2001.
Educated at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, he has been a visiting professor at these two schools as well as at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and National Tsing-hua University in Taiwan. He was a member of the Cornell University Department of History between 1988 and 2005; a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin in 2003 and at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2015-16. He is the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Between 2009 and 2013 he served as dramaturg on a co-production of Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung at the Berlin State Opera and the Teatro alla Scala, Milan. He was curator of the exhibition “Richard Wagner and the Nationalization of Feeling” at the German Historical Museum in Berlin (April – September 2022).
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Meditation Group
Mondays and Thursdays 6–7 pm
Thursday, March 21, 2024
6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation RoomMondays Guided Meditation
6-6:15 pm Dharma words
6:15-6:45 Meditation
6:45-7 pm Walking meditation & chanting
Thursdays Silent Meditation
6-7 pm Meditation in stillness
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.
Afterwards community sangha time with refreshments.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
The Orchestra Now: Free Chamber Music Concert
Thursday, March 21, 2024
5–7 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceMembers of The Orchestra Now perform a free concert of chamber music featuring music by Bernstein, Brahms, Debussy, Schubert, and others.
Bernstein West Side Story for Brass Quintet
Brahms String Quartet No. 2, Op. 51, No. 2, mvt. 4
Alexander Borodin String Quartet No. 2, mvt. 1, 3
Barber String Quartet, Op. 11, mvt. 1, 2
Jean Françaix Wind Quintet No. 1
Debussy Dance Sacred and Dance Profane
Brahms Clarinet Trio, Op.114, mvt. 1, 2
Dvořák String Quarter No. 12, “American”, mvt. 1, 2
Schubert Piano Trio No. 2, mvt. 1, 2
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Orchestra Now: Free Chamber Music Concert
Friday, March 22, 2024
5–7 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceMembers of The Orchestra Now perform a free concert of chamber music featuring music by Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Bach, and others.
Mozart Divertimento in E-flat major, K. 226
Bach Chaconne for low brass quartet
Daniel McCarthy Infinity for trumpet and marimba
Marco Schirripa Underground Interlude for trombone and marimba
Kevin Puts And Legions Will Rise
Poulenc Sextet for piano and winds
Rossini Duet for cello and bass
Barber Summer Music for wind quintet, Op. 31
Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70, mvt. 1
Beethoven String Quartet No. 7, Op. 59, No. 1, mvt. 1
Gabriella Smith Carrot Revolution for string quartet
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Men's Volleyball vs. Eastern Nazarene (NECC)
Saturday, March 23, 2024
11 am – 1 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Main GymThe Men's Volleyball team competes in a conference match against Eastern Nazarene. Come out and support Men's Volleyball!
For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Christian/Roman Catholic Mass
Sunday, March 24, 2024
12–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsRoman Catholic Mass at Bard Chapel
Sundays at noon
Mass will be celebrated every Sunday during the academic semesters at noon in the Bard Chapel with prayers for healing.
Confessions will be available before Mass, and following Mass all are invited to Breaking Open the Word (a time to share what we heard God saying to our hearts in scripture).
For info contact: (fr.) Jim+ [email protected]Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Meditation Group
Mondays and Thursdays 6–7 pm
Monday, March 25, 2024
6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation RoomMondays Guided Meditation
6-6:15 pm Dharma words
6:15-6:45 Meditation
6:45-7 pm Walking meditation & chanting
Thursdays Silent Meditation
6-7 pm Meditation in stillness
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.
Afterwards community sangha time with refreshments.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
IAT Lecture Series: Divisions that Define Us
Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology
Monday, March 25, 2024
12–1:30 pm
Bard HallDuring the past two millennia, systemic ruptures in the understanding of religion and society have shaped the cultural contours of all the lands that once comprised the Roman Empire. These schisms have of course featured in the histories of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, but they also have exerted a profound influence on the ways that people in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and later the Americas conceive of themselves of their relations with one another. Our series will deal in order with: (1) the emergence of Christianity from Judaism and the resulting contention, (2) the breach between the Latin West and the Greek East after the conversion of Constantine, (3) the rise of Islam and the proclamation of the Crusades, (4) the Reformation and its consequences, and (5) the opposition between religion and science in the modern period.
This series will be on the following Mondays at noon: March 25, April 8, and April 22.Sponsored by: The Institute for Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].
A Reading by Brian Evenson
The 2019 Shirley Jackson Award winner reads from his work
Monday, March 25, 2024
4:30–5:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaNovelist and short story writer Brian Evenson will read from new work at Bard College on Monday, March 25 at 5:00 pm in Weis Cinema, located in the Bertelsmann Campus Center. Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell (2021), and the Weird West microcollection Black Bark (2023). The reading, which is being presented as part of Bradford Morrow’s course on innovative contemporary fiction, is free and open to the public.
Evenson’s collection Song for the Unraveling of the World (2019) won the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times’ Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction. Previous books have won the American Library Association’s RUSA Prize Award and the International Horror Guild Award, and have been finalists for the Edgar Award. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes, an NEA fellowship, and a Guggenheim Award. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. A new book, Good Night, Sleep Tight, will be published by Coffee House Press in September of 2024. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts.
“There is not a more intense, prolific, or apocalyptic writer of fiction in America than Brian Evenson.” —George Saunders
“Brian Evenson is one of the most consistently vital and unnerving voices in writing today. . . . No matter where you start with Evenson’s work, the door is wide ajar, and once you go through it you won't be coming out.” —VICE
“Brian Evenson is one of my favorite living horror writers.” —Carmen Maria Machado
“You’ve heard of ‘postmodern’ stories—well, Evenson’s stories are post-everything. They are post-human, post-reason, post-apocalyptic. . . . In an Evenson story, there are two horrible things that can happen to you. You can either fail to survive, or survive.” — New York Times
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
Bard Inklings
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
7–8 pm
AlbeeThe Catholic Chaplaincy invites you to experience Bard Inklings: Conversations about God, Friendship, and Meaning each Tuesday, from 7–8 pm in the Chaplaincy Office Albee Basement. For information, please email [email protected]. All are welcome!
For more information, call 845-978-6122, or e-mail [email protected].
Technology, Humanity, and the Future
Runs through Tuesday, April 9, 2024
10:10–11:30 am
Online EventOnline lectures from Krista Caballero's OSUN Online Course on "Technology, Humanity, & the Future" are open to the public. This course is offered by the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
All lectures will be held from 10:10–11:30 am New York.
Attendees should RSVP to [email protected] for the Zoom link.
Lectures:
Tuesday, March 26: Histories of Silicon Valley with Jeanette Estruth, Bard College, New York
Tuesday, April 2: Panel on Deep Fakes with Joel McKim, Birkbeck, University of London; Josh Glick, Bard College, New York; and Mihaela Mihailova, San Francisco State University
Tuesday, April 9: Artist talk with Aarati Akkapeddi, EHCN
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Women's Lacrosse vs. Centenary
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
5:30–7:30 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Soccer FieldThe Women's Lacrosse team competes in a non-conference match against Centenary. Come out and support Women's Lacrosse!
For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Unsettled
Lecture Performance by Argyro Nicolaou
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
6–7:30 pm
Weis Cinema, Campus CenterUnsettled is a lecture performance by scholar and filmmaker Argyro Nicolaou that explores the fast-changing landscapes of an island under occupation and her attempts to reconstruct her mother’s past.
The town of Varosha on the eastern coast of Cyprus, where Nicolaou’s mother is from, was fenced off by the occupying Turkish military for 46 years. Since the Greek-backed coup d’etat and Turkish invasion of 1974 that divided the island and displaced a third of its population, Varosha was neither settled nor demolished. It turned into a “ghost town”.
In 2006, a family friend entered the town undetected, snuck into the family’s ancestral home, and recovered a childhood diary that belonged to Nicolaou’s mother. This was the closest Nicolaou came to witnessing her mother’s life before she was displaced, until October 2020, when the Turkish military opened Varosha to the public, and the two women were able to visit the town together for the first time.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://chra.bard.edu/event/nicolaou-unsettled/.
CMIA - 2001
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
7–9:30 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- 2001: A Space Odyssey
(Stanley Kubrick, 1968, UK/USA, 142 minutes, 35mm)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
CMIA - Rocco and His Brothers
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
7:30–11:30 pm
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center- Rocco and His Brothers
(Luchino Visconti, 1960, Italy, 179 minutes)
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
Meditation Group
Mondays and Thursdays 6–7 pm
Thursday, March 28, 2024
6–7 pm
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation RoomMondays Guided Meditation
6-6:15 pm Dharma words
6:15-6:45 Meditation
6:45-7 pm Walking meditation & chanting
Thursdays Silent Meditation
6-7 pm Meditation in stillness
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.
Afterwards community sangha time with refreshments.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail [email protected].
Critiquing from the Margins: Examining the Power of Black Girls’ Critiques of Class-Based Disparities in Schools
Levy Institute Research Program of Gender Equality and the Economy: A Speaker Series Featuring Jomaira Salas Pujols, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bard College
Thursday, March 28, 2024
5–6 pm
BlithewoodThe Gender Equality and the Economy Program of the Levy Economics Institute hosts a speaker series with practitioners and scholars across disciplines from around the globe to address the ever-relevant topic of “Gender Equality and the Economy.” Speakers will present their research and discuss differing approaches to economic analyses through a gender lens. The series highlights the importance of taking an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the implications of how gender and economic inequalities intersect in history, policy, and the everyday.
Join us for our fourth session with Jomaira Salas Pujols, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bard College, on Thursday, March 28, from 5pm to 6pm in the Blithewood Conference Room, or on Zoom. Dr. Pujols's presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members—both those in person and on Zoom are welcome to ask questions.
Light refreshments will be served. Register to attend via Zoom here.
Abstract
Social scientists have long attended to how Black and other marginalized groups articulate critiques of class exploitation and socioeconomic disparities. This research sheds light into the mechanisms through which Black individuals come to identify economic oppression and how they leverage these insights to engage in community and political organizing. Too often missing from this narrative, however, are the voices of Black youth, who not only face chronic unemployment but are also impacted by decades of urban and school divestment. In this talk, I turn to the voices and experiences of high school-aged Black girls to examine how they articulate the motivations and impact of educational funding inequities. I argue that Black girls display a keen awareness of the relationship between anti-Blackness and the chronic underfunding of public education, and document how their insights can offer us frameworks for moving from critical consciousness into action.
Jomaira Salas Pujols, PhD is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bard College. Her research sits at the intersection of race, place, gender, and education. Her current book project, Black Girls Journeying, examines how Black girls draw on their movement through place to identify and challenge educational injustice—a concept she theorizes as journeying. Her research has been published in the Youth & Society journal and has been supported by the National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation. Professor Salas Pujols’s other research interests include the study of Afro-Latina girlhood, Black girls’ perceptions of school dress codes, and the racialized legacies of punishment in school.
To receive updates on this speaker series, please fill out this form or visit the Speaker Series page which will be updated as new events in the series are scheduled.Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute.
For more information, call 845-758-7714, or e-mail [email protected].
Holy Thursday
Thursday, March 28, 2024
6–8 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsWe begin Holy Week with the celebration of the Lord's Last Supper, which is sometimes called Maundy ("commandment") Thursday, as we are commanded to be a people who serve the world. Our service will take place at tables (like the Last Supper) and the liturgy will include Holy Communion, discussion of the biblical readings, and a symbolic hand washing ceremony. A simple meal will be served. All are welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Good Friday Service
Friday, March 29, 2024
12–1 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsHoly Week continues with Good Friday when we remember the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The service will include the reading of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of John, along with prayers and music by cellist Christine Gummere.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Carol Gilligan: In a Human Voice
Friday, March 29, 2024
12–1 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaCarol Gilligan's landmark book In a Different Voice (1982)—the “little book that started a revolution” brought women's voices to the fore in work on the self and moral development, enabling women to be heard in their own right, and with their own integrity, for the first time. Forty years later, Gilligan returns to the subject matter of her classic book, re-examining its central arguments and concerns from the vantage point of the present. Thanks to the work that she and others have done in recent decades, it is now possible to clarify and articulate what couldn't quite be seen or said at the time of the original publication: that the “different voice” (of care ethics), although initially heard as a “feminine” voice, is in fact a human voice—and that the voice it differs from is a patriarchal voice (bound to gender binaries and hierarchies). While gender is central to the story Gilligan tells, this is not a story about gender: it is a human story.
Copies of the book will be signed and sold.
This event is sponsored by the Gender Equity Initiative, the Hannah Arendt Center, the Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence, the Open Society University Network, the Master of Arts in Teaching Program, and the Programs in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
CELLO SOUNDS: Peter Wiley Cello Studio Recital
Five student cellists and faculty member Peter Wiley perform an informal, hour-long program of short works by Friedrich August Kummer (1797-1879), Dvořák, Haydn, Fauré, Mascagni, Saint-Saëns, and Bruch.
Friday, March 29, 2024
5–6 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceFree and open to the public.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.
Screening of Rock. Paper. Grenade (2022)
with filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk in person!
Friday, March 29, 2024
5–7:30 pm
Avery AuditoriumSet in 1990s Ukraine, this spanning coming-of-age story follows Tymophii and his friendship with a peculiar but intriguing older man whose entire life is shrouded in secrecy. Based on the autobiography "Who Are You?" by Artem Chekh, this drama—with glints of humor—presents a portrait of post-Soviet life that addresses the traumas of war by shuttling between the domestic and public, the personal and the communal. Critic Rich Cline writes, “Shot in superbly visual sets and locations, the film’s narrative unfolds in understated anecdotal scenes that feel bracingly true to life.”
Iryna Tsilyk is a Ukrainian film director and writer. She is the director of the award-winning documentary film The Earth is Blue as an Orange, which received the award for the best director at the Sundance Film Festival 2020, as well as dozens of other prestigious honors. Tsilyk is also the director of the fiction film Rock. Paper. Grenade based on the novel "Who Are You?" by Ukrainian writer and Iryna's husband Artem Chekh. Additionally, Iryna Tsilyk is the author of 8 books (poetry, prose, children's editions). Her poems and short stories have been translated into several languages and published in a number of international literary magazines and anthologies. During Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine, Iryna also began writing columns and essays for various international publications and has been engaged in cultural diplomacy for her country. Iryna and her family live in Kyiv. Iryna’s husband, Ukrainian writer Artem Ckekh, is serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.Sponsored by: Film and Electronic Arts Program; Human Rights Program; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 781-724-0207, or e-mail [email protected].
Women's Lacrosse vs. St. Lawrence (Liberty League)
Saturday, March 30, 2024
3–5 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, Soccer FieldThe Women's Lacrosse team competes in a conference match against St. Lawrence. Come out and support Women's Lacrosse!
For more information, call 845-758-7531, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://bardathletics.com/.
Christian/Roman Catholic Mass
Sunday, March 31, 2024
12–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy InnocentsRoman Catholic Mass at Bard Chapel
Sundays at noon
Mass will be celebrated every Sunday during the academic semesters at noon in the Bard Chapel with prayers for healing.
Confessions will be available before Mass, and following Mass all are invited to Breaking Open the Word (a time to share what we heard God saying to our hearts in scripture).
For info contact: (fr.) Jim+ [email protected]Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail [email protected].
Trans Swim
Sunday, March 31, 2024
4–6 pm
Stevenson Athletic Center, PoolThe Stevenson Athletics Center Pool is reserved exclusively for trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people to use for two hours. No reservation is required. If desired, there is a gender neutral changing room and shower on the ground floor of the gym.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].