Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Massage is excellent for stress relief, to ease tense muscles, for headaches and backaches, and promotes a general sense of well-being.
Students: $80 for one hour, 30 minute sessions (students only) $45 Staff & Faculty: $100 for one hour
You can schedule a massage by texting or calling 845-702-6751. For more information visit www.gentlemountain.com. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Sottery Hall Bard College’s Campus Advocate Divine Perez-Ferreira will host regular office hours in Sottery 107 this semester on Tuesdays from 12–2 pm.
Divine works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can come to Sottery anytime between 12–2 pm.
CVSS offers:
- Information about domestic violence and sexual assault prevention; - Advocates who are there to support and believe you; - Connection to counseling or support groups; - Information about police reporting and the criminal justice system; and - Help finding additional services for student/faculty needs.
If you would like to schedule a meeting in advance, you can reach out to Divine directly at dperez@familyservicesny.org or to the Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination at nondiscrimination@bard.edu with your request.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail baldasso@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Hipster Meets the Ghost of Communism: New Laborers of Soviet Factories
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 303 As part of this semester's Memory Studies seminar, Margarita Kuleva, Visiting Assistant Professor at NYU's Russian and Slavic Department, will deliver a guest lecture on the new generation of creative laborers re-inhabiting former Soviet factories with post-industrial projects, such as contemporary art centers, creative spaces, and clusters. Kuleva will address their working lives and memory of space, the new "stakhanovization" of labor, and the role of these "cultural oases" in post-Soviet cities. The lecture is based on ethnographic data and includes examples from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. This event is sponsored by OSUN, the Gagarin Center at Bard, and Bard Programs in Historical Studies and Russian and Eurasian Studies.
For more information, please contact Victor Apryshchenko For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Guest Lecture: Margarita Kuleva, Visiting Assistant Professor, NYU Russian and Slavic Department
Hipster Meets the Ghost of Communism: New Labourers of Soviet Factories
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 12:30–2:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 303 As a part of Memory-studies seminar, the lecture portrays a new generation of creative laborers re-inhabiting former Soviet factories with post-industrial projects such as contemporary art centers, creative spaces, and clusters. Margarita addresses their working lives and memory of space, the new ‘stakhanovization’ of the labor, and the role of these ‘cultural oases’ in post-Soviet cities. The lecture is based on ethnographic data and includes examples from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.
Sponsored by the OSUN, Gagarin Center at Bard College, and the Programs in Historical Studies and Russian and Eurasian StudiesSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Historical Studies Program; OSUN; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sylee@bard.edu.
Online Event A J-1 Scholar Orientation is being offered on the first Tuesday of each month during the Spring 2025 semester via zoom. All recently-arrived J-1 Scholars and department representatives are welcome to attend.Sponsored by: International Student and Scholar Services.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pngo@bard.edu.
RKC 103 The big consequences for the West of losing "small wars" (like Algeria, Vietnam, or Afghanistan) are due to the constitutive role of "the Orient" in Western identities. This talk will discuss how these identities are committed, in diverse ways, to notions of Western vitality, strength and dominance over non-European peoples. There is no more obvious sign of Western weakness and "Oriental" strength than defeat in war or failure to obtain victory. Unsurprisingly then, such setbacks become sites of political and cultural disruption and production at all levels of Western society.Sponsored by: Co-sponsored by the Ukraine and Decolonial Thought Common Course, the Human Rights Project, and the Anthropology, Politics, and GIS Programs.
For more information, call 845-758-7662, or e-mail msonevyt@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 TIME CHANGE FOR THE FOLLOWING DATE: April 22 6:30 p.m. instead of 5:30 p.m. Power Vinyasa focuses on building whole body strength and flexibility through a quick paced yoga flow. Incorporating lunges, squats, core work and balance postures, this challenging practice will make you sweat as you match breath and movement. Class will conclude with a wind-down to send you out the door feeling grounded. Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sxiong@bard.edu.
Latin American Student Organization General Meeting
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 6–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 A space to connect with LASO student members, share your thoughts, and learn more about our organization.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Humanities, Room 302 Come join, Tuesdays at 7 pm, to chat and play all things Pokemon! Meetings will be in Olin 302.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Campus Center, Cafe Hike in the dark? Join the Civic Ambassadors Climate Group to explore trails near the Bard campus at night—with stargazing and a meditation session as part of the program. Hand warmers, snacks, and drinks will be provided — and the hike will be followed by an (indoor) tea party with cookies, sweets, and some climate action! Meet up at the Down the Road Cafe, Campus Center. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions, and more. Schedule by texting/calling Phillip Brown at 845-943-7644
Please inquire about Health Insurances accepted For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON JANUARY 15 This class blends optimal alignment with the movement and grace of Vinyasa flow. Class includes seated, standing, and supine poses. The Vinyasa segment moves at a moderate pace allowing alignment cues to be woven in. A slower flow is accessible for newer students and allows more experienced students to refine their poses.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Albee; Annex Basement (La Voz Magazine on google Maps) Are you interested in journalism, activism, and Latino immigrant issues? La Voz magazine seeks to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
We invite students of all skills and talents to come to our weekly meeting on Wednesdays, 1:30 to 2:30pm, at the La Voz office (Albee Annex Basement, in front of Henderson computer lab), or via Zoom in case of bad weather. Regularly held at the Kline College Room.
Albee The Coalition of Christian Students will offer an Ecumenical Bible Study for the Bard Community every Wednesday from 5 to 6 pm in the Chaplaincy Office (Albee Basement). Our goal is to find common ground and prayerfully study scripture together. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Gazing Back at the Compound Eye: The Estrangement of Surveillance Images in Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes
By Luwei Wang, Ph.D. Candidate University of Wisconsin, Madison
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 5:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 The imagination of surveillance cameras and the digital media as “compound eyes” is a dominant motif in contemporary Chinese critical and cultural production. This concept resonates deeply within Chinese visual culture and film, where the compound eye functions as both a technological reality and a symbolic structure. In this talk, I examine this intersection through Xu Bing’s experimental art film Dragonfly Eyes (2017). My analysis focuses on Xu Bing’s distinctive approach of repurposing the found surveillance footage, through which he subverts traditional power dynamics, and transforms the surveillance apparatus into an object of critical reflection. By defamiliarizing audiences from the machine vision they have grown accustomed to, the film disrupts the neutrality of digital seeing. In doing so, it prompts reflection on deep- seated anxieties in the digital age—including the takeover of visual representation by digital media, the alienation from lived experience, the obsession with achieving a totalized and comprehensive replication of reality, and the estrangement from nature. I argue that Dragonfly Eyes fundamentally engages with these concerns by constructing an intricate relationship between surveillance footage, webcam recordings, the film’s protagonists, and the audience. Blurring the boundaries between viewing subject and object, the film positions its protagonists as both narrators and characters, oscillating between reality and fiction, observer and observed. Through this interplay, Dragonfly Eyes invites contemplation on the pervasive impact of digital surveillance and the shifting nature of visuality in the contemporary world.Sponsored by: Dean of the College, Division of Languages and Literature, Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL), and Chinese Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sxiong@bard.edu.
Citizen Science Presents: Moving Mountains with Jen Schwartz
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 6–8 pm
RKC 103; Reem-Kayden Center In early 2024 in the small mountain community of Round Top, NY, developers announced plans for a massive ultra-luxury resort. In order to accommodate 320,000-square-feet of new buildings and a private wastewater treatment plant, the team would need to raze 17 acres of forest, rearrange the mountainside, and divert existing streams and ponds. When Round Top resident Jen Schwartz learned of the project, she knew she had to act.The project would put the only local drinking source at risk of contamination and potentially dry up private wells.
In a special presentation for Bard’s Citizen Science program, journalist and editor Jen Schwartz will talk about her findings, discuss her grassroots environmental group Save Round Top, and talk more broadly about pulling communities together to help fight irresponsible real estate development. A brief interview with Citizen Science faculty member Brooke Borel and a general Q&A session will follow.Sponsored by: Citizen Science Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail cmilliot@bard.edu.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Come join us for our Film Making At Bard weekly meetings. Any ideas/scripts for films are more than welcome, otherwise, come ready to plan and discuss!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Building a Career in Sustainability: Leveraging Your Peace Corps Experience
Learn how a group of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers leveraged their service into a successful and impactful career in sustainability.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 7–8:30 pm
Online Event RSVP HERE for this free panel discussion
ABOUT THE EVENT: Interested in leveraging your past (or future) Peace Corps service into a sustainability career? Join the Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability for a discussion with Returned Peace Corps Volunteers as they share how they successfully transitioned from service to impactful careers in sustainability. Hear their stories, insights, and advice on building a purpose-driven career. Panel will be held via Zoom, and attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions.
More information on the panelists coming soon!Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library The BYO Book Group is back this Wednesday, April 2 from 7- 8 pm on the first floor of the library! This week, join Bard junior Norwood in the lounge area behind the research help desk to chat about all things books and reading. Share ideas, recommendations, and inspiration. There is no assigned reading; this is a space to chat informally about whatever you're reading and connect with other readers. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail amurphy@bard.edu.
Olin Language Center, Room 120 This is a support group open for people who are looking to learn more about addiction. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House Come join us for a low-stakes writing group to get the creative juices flowing! Different guided prompts and themes every week. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Beyond the Binary: "It's Complicated" Weekly Screening Series
Featuring: The Third Narrative Podcast Screening
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 8–9:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Join us for our weekly screening series exploring nuanced and diverse perspectives on the Israel-Palestine conflict. “It’s Complicated”, a project of the Hannah Arendt Center, presents the Third Narrative podcast, led by Palestinian hosts Amira Mohammad and Ibrahim Abu Ahmed. Through candid conversations and nuanced analysis, they challenge biases, unpack complexities, and promote meaningful dialogue on Israel-Palestine, to foster meaningful understanding of the region.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Universities as Frontline Responders: Lessons Learned from the Field
Thursday, April 3, 2025 8–10 am
Online Event 8 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna
OSUN and the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities present a panel on "Universities as Frontline Responders: Lessons Learned from the Field." Join the Co-Leaders of the Universities at the Frontline Responders Initiative for a conversation on how universities are using the Frontliner Model to respond to challenges and provide critical support to their communities. Panelists will share stories of how their universities are responding to emerging and ongoing crises in different contexts and present shared strategies for encouraging universities to lead as bold and nimble civic actors who partner with communities to respond swiftly and intelligently to unexpected societal challenges.
Moderator: Rabih Shibli, Director of the Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service (CCECS) at the American University of Beirut
Confirmed Speakers: Samia Huq, Dean of the School of General Education and Professor of Anthropology, Brac University Maheen Mumtaz, Manager Community Services, National University of Sciences & Technology Erin Cannan, Vice President for Civic Engagement; Deputy Director, Bard Center for Civic Engagement Jude Acquuah, Assistant Director for Outreach and Experiential Learning Programs at Ashesi University
Universities as Frontline Responders: Lessons Learned from the Field
Thursday, April 3, 2025 8–10 am
Online Event 8 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna
OSUN and the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities present a panel on "Universities as Frontline Responders: Lessons Learned from the Field." Join the Co-Leaders of the Universities at the Frontline Responders Initiative for a conversation on how universities are using the Frontliner Model to respond to challenges and provide critical support to their communities. Panelists will share stories of how their universities are responding to emerging and ongoing crises in different contexts and present shared strategies for encouraging universities to lead as bold and nimble civic actors who partner with communities to respond swiftly and intelligently to unexpected societal challenges.
Moderator: Rabih Shibli, Director of the Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service (CCECS) at the American University of Beirut
Confirmed Speakers: Samia Huq, Dean of the School of General Education and Professor of Anthropology, Brac University Maheen Mumtaz, Manager Community Services, National University of Sciences & Technology Erin Cannan, Vice President for Civic Engagement; Deputy Director, Bard Center for Civic Engagement Jude Acquuah, Assistant Director for Outreach and Experiential Learning Programs at Ashesi University
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 This class is about listening to the body and focusing on form and breathwork to create a moving meditation. We will combine pranayama (breathwork practices) with a gentle flow, to create a space of solace from stress and anxiety. The class will be a mixture of hatha postures and dynamic sequences, with lots of variations and alternatives, allowing students to shape their own practice. Some classes will also end with sound baths before silent meditation. Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.
Join the Persian table every Thursday. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mshahbaz@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 3, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ochilton@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 3, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail fchamoun@bard.edu.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor Drop by the library between 3–5 pm and collage with us! At the large table next to the Janet Malcolm: Critical Collage exhibition on the first floor. Materials provided. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail amurphy@bard.edu.
Online Event Renowned dancer and teacher Edgardo Fernendez will discuss how “Using dance as an instrument, we make injustices visible: homophobia and transphobia, the right to identity, the abuse and abandonment of the elderly, the potential of people with disabilities to teach and to dance tango." Join us for this engaging conversation. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Come play chess with the Chess Club! We will be playing in the Georgeball Lounge, except on on 02/06, 02/13, and 03/27 when we will be playing in the Red Room.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Gilson Place Come have Brazilian lemonade and appetizers and watch a Brazilian film to learn more about Brazilian culture! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail dabend@bard.edu.
Campus Center Lobby Learn about Health, Counseling, and Wellness. Get information on recovery or harm reduction resources on and off campus. Ask questions and make a connection with your peers!Sponsored by: Health, Counseling an Wellness .
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 3, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail zdallal@bard.edu.
The Poetry of Physics: What Literature Can Teach Us About the Ultimate Nature of Reality
William Egginton, Decker Professor in the Humanities, Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, April 3, 2025 5:30–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In this lecture I explore the two major physical theories of the twentieth century, relativity and quantum mechanics, by way of what we could call their poetic and philosophical foundations. Key to this approach will be the idea that reality isn’t an unfiltered picture of what’s out there, but rather a complex human construct, and that because of that we need essentially human means to understand it, among them literature and philosophy. In this light I argue that philosophers like Plato and Kant, and poets like Dante and Borges, are key to understanding the ideas of Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg.
William Egginton is the Decker Professor in the Humanities, Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of multiple books, including How the World Became a Stage (2003), Perversity and Ethics (2006), A Wrinkle in History (2007), The Philosopher’s Desire (2007), The Theater of Truth (2010), In Defense of Religious Moderation (2011), The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World (2016), The Splintering of the American Mind (2018), and The Rigor of Angels (2023), which was named to several best of 2023 lists, including The New York Times and The New Yorker. He is co-author with David Castillo of Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media (2017) and What Would Cervantes Do? Navigating Post-Truth with Spanish Baroque Literature (2022). His most recent book, on the philosophical, psychoanalytic, and surrealist dimensions of the work of Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, was published in January 2024.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; LAIS Program; Literature Program; Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jluzzi@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 3, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail plopezga@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 Join us for a one hour mat pilates class, focusing on strengthening and toning muscles.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Campus Center, Lobby Guess what’s back? Thursday Night Live is kicking off again—starting Thursday, March 27th from 7 to 9 pm at Down The Road Café—and you’re invited. Presented by The Real in collaboration with the Student Activities Board, this weekly music series features a student band or artist tearing it up for the first 30 minutes, an open jam session where you can hop in and make some noise, chill vibes, and live music. But wait... there’s more. Only during Thursday Night Live, you can feast on:
A Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich hotter than your midterm stress
A new themed mocktail every week (surprise your taste buds)
So whether you’re here to play, vibe, or just vibe next to the people playing—come through. Let’s turn DTR into the live music hub it was always meant to be. We will not be having this event on 5/1.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Public Debate and Expert Panel Double Feature: Opposition Under Authoritarianism
Thursday, April 3, 2025 7–9 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema In today’s political landscape, it can be challenging to know what our politicians, let alone the average person, can do to effect change and combat authoritarianism. Should opposition politicians be expected to respond openly and aggressively to every action taken by the government? How have other countries attempted to stymie their own recent shifts toward authoritarianism? To what extent are we really in a “constitutional crisis”?
In the first half of our event, members of the Bard Debate Union will debate the topic “In times of political instability, do opposition politicians have the responsibility to ‘swing at every pitch’?” In the second half, an expert panel consisting of Bard Professor of Politics, CCE Director, and Executive Vice President Jonathan Becker, Bard Associate Professor of Politics Michelle Murray, CEU Assistant Professor of International Relations Erzsebet Strausz, and Political Strategist Blake Zeff will discuss recent events and unpack the big questions that are defining our current political moment. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail cbronte@bard.edu.
Olin Humanities, Room 204 Interested in improving your public speaking skills, traveling to compete at other colleges, or getting involved in our local events? All are welcome to join our regular weekly debate meetings! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail cbronte@bard.edu.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, come bake challah and help prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose, they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another with the openness and closeness that seem so natural in kitchens. All are welcome. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail jboettiger@bard.edu.
★★★★★ “Inspired interrogation of ‘the great male artist’” —The Stage
★★★★ “Scoring pertinent points about the abusiveness inherent in the genius cult” —The Guardian
Blending together Adrienne Truscott (Spiegeltent at Bard emcee, Wild Bore, Asking For It, The Wau Wau Sisters)’s genre-straddling work and savagely comedic discourse on gender with internationally renowned theatre company Brokentalkers’ (The Examination, Have I No Mouth, The Blue Boy) formally slippery dramaturgy, the award-winning Masterclass is a parody like no other—uncovering excruciating truths about privilege, gender, and power.
Taking shape as an interview, Masterclass doesn’t hold back. Performed by ‘fed-up feminist’ Adrienne Truscott and ‘all-around good guy’ Feidlim Cannon, Masterclass begins as a cockamamie masterclass between two familiar archetypes—the self-mythologizing male artist (Truscott) and a sycophantic interviewer (Cannon). It’s fun. It’s familiar. There are wigs. But there is something more at play.
This wickedly funny take-down of the macho artist has been performed to critical acclaim across the world, including the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival, RISING Melbourne, Southbank Centre London, Brighton Festival, Teatro do Bairro Alto Lisbon, and many more. Now it’s New York’s turn!
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Woods Studio The members of the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and The Bard Children's Center are proud to present their works of art that include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and 3D art. April 7–11, Woods Studio. A family reception will be held April 10 at 3:30pm. For more information, call 845-758-7444, or e-mail kwilliam@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions and more. Schedule an appointment by texting or calling Dr. Sarah Heslip at (413) 884-2798. Please inquire about insurance. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Friday, April 4, 2025 – Sunday, April 6, 2025 10 am – 11:55 pm
Tewksbury Hall Basement Bard On TV is hosting a 48-hour film competition from April 4th to April 6th. On April 4 at 10 am, the script and props, that must be included in the film, will be released. You will have until April 6th at 10 am to plan, film, and edit.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Central Asia at the Crossroads: Governance, Innovation, and Identity in Transition CONFERENCE
Friday, April 4, 2025 10 am – 5 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium This conference brings together faculty, scholars, and administrators from the American University of Central Asia and Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY). As long-standing partners, Bard and AUCA have impacted the education and professional development of thousands of young people, responding to and contributing to the political, economic, and socio-cultural changes in the region. We will discuss the achievements and goals of the partnership, as well as issues of legal frameworks, cultural identity, and evolving geopolitical alignments that shape the future of Central Asia's regional stability and global influence. Over the course of a day, scholars will engage in dialogue about political participation and economic opportunity in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia; the region's culture as it evolves in response to shifting geopolitical alignments; and the region's educational visions, ambitions, and hopes.
10.00 – 10.30 Opening remarks
10.30 – 12.00 Panel 1 LAW & SECURITY Moderated by Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University
Kamila Mateeva, Head of Law Division; Associate Professor of Law, AUCA “Evolving Legal Frameworks in Central Asia: Navigating Challenges and Seizing Opportunities”
Saniia Toktogazieva, Dean of Academic Planning and Strategic Partnerships; Associate Professor of Law, AUCA “Constitutionalism in Central Asia: Challenges and current trends”
Togzhan Kassenova (Senior Fellow, Project on International Security, Commerce and Economic Statecraft at the University of Albany) “Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Story: Reclaiming the Agency and National Identity Building”
1.30 – 3.15 Panel 2 ECONOMICS & THE ENVIRONMENT Moderated by Eban Goodstein, Bard College
Zarylbek Kudabaev, Head of the Applied Sciences Division; Professor of Economics, AUCA “Economic Transformations in Central Asia: Current Trends, Challenges, and Future Prospects”
Urmat Ryskulov, Chair of the School of Entrepreneurship and Business Administration; Associate Professor of Business and Finance, AUCA “Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Central Asia: Catalysts for Sustainable Development”
Aniruddha Mitra, Bard College (co-authors: James T. Bang, St. Ambrose University, Nurgul Ukueva, Associate Professor, Economics Department, American University of Central Asia, Visiting Associate Professor, Bard College) “Trust, Risk, and Attitudes toward Climate Change, Evidence from Kyrgyzstan”
Aisalkyn Botoeva, Co-Founder and Principal Researcher of Altai Atlantic research company “The Power of Narrative: Rethinking How We Share Knowledge about the Region.”
3.30 – 5.15 Panel 3 CULTURE & IDENTITY Moderated by Elena Kim, Bard College
Ruslan Rahimov, Head of the Division of Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Development, AUCA “Reclaiming Identity: Decolonization Narratives and Cultural Reawakening in Central Asia”
Daniyar Karabaev, Head of the Division of Arts, Humanities and Communication; Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, AUCA “Memory Politics: The Role of Oral History in Central Asia”
Marek Eby, Visiting Scholar, Columbia University Harriman Institute “Narratives of Soviet Kyrgyzstan through the Lens of Health: The Case of Malaria”
Jarkyn Shadymanova, Associate Professor, Sociology Department, AUCA, M.Ed. Candidate in Environmental Education, Bard College “NGOs at the Intersection of Drug Treatment and Infectious Disease Prevention: Practices from Central Asia and China”Sponsored by: REAS, CCE, and IILE.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ovoronin@bard.edu.
Craft and Connect at 12 pm at Sawkill Coffee House. Offered by Wellness Education, Counseling, and Disability Access Services
Friday, April 4, 2025 12–1 pm
Sawkill Coffee House Crafting, puzzles. community, connections, and tips and strategies for being and staying resilient! Email wellnesseducation@bard.edu to sign up, but walk-ins are welcome.
New Annandale House The International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) meets for lab time every Friday at New Annandale House. Those interested in digital humanities or archiving are welcome to stop by any time between 12 and 4 pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pf0250@bard.edu.
Mark Your Calendars for the Spring Internship & Seasonal Job Fair!
Friday, April 4, 2025 12–3 pm
Campus Center, Lobby Looking for a Summer Opportunity?
Meet employers and hear about their opportunities in fields of Communications, Education, Film, Research, Community & Social Justice, Agriculture & Farming, Business, Sustainability, and more. Gain insight into what employers are looking for in student interns, get a free LinkedIn Photo and enter to win raffle prizes. Learn about internships and funding opportunities available for students!*Masks optional.* For more information, call 845-758-7539, or e-mail cdo@bard.edu.
Learn more about applying to Levy with Thomas Masterson, graduate program director, and Tyler Emerson, outreach and recruitment liaison.
Friday, April 4, 2025 12–1 pm
Online Event This information session with Graduate Program Director Thomas Masterson and Graduate Outreach and Recruitment Liaison Tyler Emerson provides an overview of the Levy academic programs, student life, admission requirements, enrollment steps, new scholarships, financial aid procedures, and immigration requirements for international students. Applicants who attend a virtual information session will have their application fees waived.
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion known as the parsha, each week. Join Rabbi Joshua Boettiger and others in the Bard community for an informal Torah Study session each Friday—open to everyone of all religious backgrounds.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Jewish Studies Program.
Brody Lab - Hegeman 107 While many physics undergraduates focus on academic or research careers, diverse opportunities exist within industry. I will discuss some common non-academic careers for physicists, essential skills (eg programming, data analysis), and practical advice for job searching, including insights from my own transition from academia to industry. A comparison of academic and industrial careers will be presented, along with examples of how core physics principles are applied in real-world settings. This talk aims to equip physics undergraduates with the knowledge to explore and pursue successful industrial careers.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
Kingston Mosque The Muslim Student Organization (MSO) offers transportation for anyone who would like to go to the mosque on Fridays for Jummah Prayers. The pick-up time is at 12:00 p.m. for the Kingston Mosque and the departure time from the Mosque is 2 pm. Time is flexible based on who is driving and how many people join.
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Gathering of writers and editors for the paper to work on current issues! Anyone is welcome to join, and no experience is required. On 3/28 we will be meeting in Olin 203.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
TBD weekly Bring your bike to one or all of these rides. Meet at 2 pm. More Info when you sign up by scanning the QR code below or email lb9580@bard.edu All experience levels are welcome. Helmets available! Programs made possible by a generous donation in loving memory of James Kirk Bernard. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Bard On Go weekly meeting. The first meeting is for our club members to connect with each other, discussing video ideas for the upcoming semester.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Stevenson Library You're warmly invited to join from 3:30 to 5:00pm in Stevenson Library 402 (fourth floor) to work on your Senior Project in a calm, quiet, and supportive space.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jesmith@bard.edu.
Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs Calling all Bard seniors!
April 4th marks the start of the final 50 days before Commencement. Do you know everything you need to know? Like, how do I submit my Senior Project? Where do I pick up my cap and gown? When are Senior Portraits? What is Baccalaureate?
Join us at the Anne Cox Chambers Alumni/ae Center (across from Bard’s main entrance on 9G) to get your questions answered, and stay for food, drinks, a raffle, and more!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics; Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Career Development Office; Center for Civic Engagement; Dean of Student Affairs; Office of Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of International Student and Scholar Services; Senior Salon Series; Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail tmandrin@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House Come craft with us. We will be doing sewing, knitting, paper crafts, and anything else you like! Learn new skills or work on a project.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail jboettiger@bard.edu.
Works by Olivier Tarpaga, Michael Laurello, Dan Langa, and Nathalie Joachim.
Friday, April 4, 2025 7 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
★★★★★ “Inspired interrogation of ‘the great male artist’” —The Stage
★★★★ “Scoring pertinent points about the abusiveness inherent in the genius cult” —The Guardian
Blending together Adrienne Truscott (Spiegeltent at Bard emcee, Wild Bore, Asking For It, The Wau Wau Sisters)’s genre-straddling work and savagely comedic discourse on gender with internationally renowned theatre company Brokentalkers’ (The Examination, Have I No Mouth, The Blue Boy) formally slippery dramaturgy, the award-winning Masterclass is a parody like no other—uncovering excruciating truths about privilege, gender, and power.
Taking shape as an interview, Masterclass doesn’t hold back. Performed by ‘fed-up feminist’ Adrienne Truscott and ‘all-around good guy’ Feidlim Cannon, Masterclass begins as a cockamamie masterclass between two familiar archetypes—the self-mythologizing male artist (Truscott) and a sycophantic interviewer (Cannon). It’s fun. It’s familiar. There are wigs. But there is something more at play.
This wickedly funny take-down of the macho artist has been performed to critical acclaim across the world, including the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival, RISING Melbourne, Southbank Centre London, Brighton Festival, Teatro do Bairro Alto Lisbon, and many more. Now it’s New York’s turn!
SMOG Join us for a night of pure teteo and perreo, old-school style! We're bringing back the classic reggaeton vibes with all your favorite throwback jams. Get ready to dance, vibe, and party like never before! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Friday, April 4, 2025 – Sunday, April 6, 2025 10 am – 11:55 pm
Tewksbury Hall Basement Bard On TV is hosting a 48-hour film competition from April 4th to April 6th. On April 4 at 10 am, the script and props, that must be included in the film, will be released. You will have until April 6th at 10 am to plan, film, and edit.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
A time to properly recycle household electronic waste, light bulbs and select batteries
Saturday, April 5, 2025 7:30 am – 1 pm
Red Hook Recycle Center, 23 Glen Pond Road For Bardians who live in Red Hook, this annual event is an important service to help recover critical metals found in electronic waste and prevent toxic materials from being landfilled or incinerated. For everyone: this is an opportunity for Bard community members to volunteer (see the volunteer info here).
This event supplements what can normally be brought to the Town Recycling Center. A list of acceptable waste (and items that will not be accepted) is on the Town website. Accepted household items include, but are not limited to, cameras, computers, copiers and printers, cables, CDs and cassettes, mobile phones, TVs, fluorescent bulbs, LED bulbs, certain batteries, and more. This event is a Red Hook residential service only. Some quantity limits may apply.Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Opening Reception for 15: The 2025 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions
Saturday, April 5, 2025 1–4 pm
Hessel Museum of Art Opening Reception, Saturday, April 5, 1–4 pm.
Limited free seating is available on a roundtrip chartered bus from New York City for the April 5th opening. Reservations are required and can be made on this by calling +1 845-758-7598 or emailing Mary Rozell at mrozell@bard.edu. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/1010-15.
★★★★★ “Inspired interrogation of ‘the great male artist’” —The Stage
★★★★ “Scoring pertinent points about the abusiveness inherent in the genius cult” —The Guardian
Blending together Adrienne Truscott (Spiegeltent at Bard emcee, Wild Bore, Asking For It, The Wau Wau Sisters)’s genre-straddling work and savagely comedic discourse on gender with internationally renowned theatre company Brokentalkers’ (The Examination, Have I No Mouth, The Blue Boy) formally slippery dramaturgy, the award-winning Masterclass is a parody like no other—uncovering excruciating truths about privilege, gender, and power.
Taking shape as an interview, Masterclass doesn’t hold back. Performed by ‘fed-up feminist’ Adrienne Truscott and ‘all-around good guy’ Feidlim Cannon, Masterclass begins as a cockamamie masterclass between two familiar archetypes—the self-mythologizing male artist (Truscott) and a sycophantic interviewer (Cannon). It’s fun. It’s familiar. There are wigs. But there is something more at play.
This wickedly funny take-down of the macho artist has been performed to critical acclaim across the world, including the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival, RISING Melbourne, Southbank Centre London, Brighton Festival, Teatro do Bairro Alto Lisbon, and many more. Now it’s New York’s turn!
Studio Art Senior Project Exhibition Opening Reception
Saturday, April 5, 2025 3–6 pm
Bard Exhibition Center Please join us to celebrate the senior thesis work of our first group of Studio Art Senior Students: L.A., Bruno Licamele, Blossom Bogen-Froese, Tess Cogen, Eva Gretskaya, Logan Tondini, Maggy Peyton, Margartia Padua, and Sara Garcia Roth. For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail pmead@bard.edu.
TŌN’s tenth season at the Fisher Center concludes with a program of dazzling and colorful music by three European composers. The concert begins with Kaija Saariaho’sLaterna Magica, inspired by the autobiography of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Then the orchestra is joined by clarinetist Miles Wazni, a winner of the 2023 Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition, for Carl Maria von Weber’s virtuosic Clarinet Concerto No. 2. We close with the scintillating and revelatory third symphony of French composer Albéric Magnard.
★★★★★ “Inspired interrogation of ‘the great male artist’” —The Stage
★★★★ “Scoring pertinent points about the abusiveness inherent in the genius cult” —The Guardian
Blending together Adrienne Truscott (Spiegeltent at Bard emcee, Wild Bore, Asking For It, The Wau Wau Sisters)’s genre-straddling work and savagely comedic discourse on gender with internationally renowned theatre company Brokentalkers’ (The Examination, Have I No Mouth, The Blue Boy) formally slippery dramaturgy, the award-winning Masterclass is a parody like no other—uncovering excruciating truths about privilege, gender, and power.
Taking shape as an interview, Masterclass doesn’t hold back. Performed by ‘fed-up feminist’ Adrienne Truscott and ‘all-around good guy’ Feidlim Cannon, Masterclass begins as a cockamamie masterclass between two familiar archetypes—the self-mythologizing male artist (Truscott) and a sycophantic interviewer (Cannon). It’s fun. It’s familiar. There are wigs. But there is something more at play.
This wickedly funny take-down of the macho artist has been performed to critical acclaim across the world, including the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival, RISING Melbourne, Southbank Centre London, Brighton Festival, Teatro do Bairro Alto Lisbon, and many more. Now it’s New York’s turn!
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Friday, April 4, 2025 – Sunday, April 6, 2025 10 am – 11:55 pm
Tewksbury Hall Basement Bard On TV is hosting a 48-hour film competition from April 4th to April 6th. On April 4 at 10 am, the script and props, that must be included in the film, will be released. You will have until April 6th at 10 am to plan, film, and edit.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (1114 River Road) in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome!
Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu.
Leadership in Times of Crisis: Workshops with OSUN Global Engagement Fellows
Sunday, April 6, 2025 10 am – 12 pm
10 AM New York l 4 PM Vienna
OSUN Global Engagement Fellows present "Leadership in Times of Crisis," an online student conference in which Fellows facilitate simultaneous workshops on the following topics:
1. Resilient Leadership: Managing Stress and Burnout in Crisis – Strategies for staying strong under pressure. Led by Nurbolot Piridinov.
2. Tech and Innovation in Crisis Leadership – The role of digital tools in crisis response. Led by Shadin Nassar.
3. Leading Through Crisis: Mental Health and Well-being – Addressing the importance of mental health for leaders in crisis situations, strategies for managing stress and burnout, and fostering resilience in teams. Led by Nafira Nayeem.
4. Resilient and Innovative leadership in relation to technology. Led by Vishal Parkash.
The workshops will be followed by Q&A and discussion sessions.
Leadership in Times of Crisis: Workshops with OSUN Global Engagement Fellows
Sunday, April 6, 2025 10 am – 12 pm
Online Event 10 AM New York l 4 PM Vienna
OSUN Global Engagement Fellows present "Leadership in Times of Crisis," an online student conference in which Fellows facilitate simultaneous workshops on the following topics:
1. Resilient Leadership: Managing Stress and Burnout in Crisis – Strategies for staying strong under pressure. Led by Nurbolot Piridinov.
2. Tech and Innovation in Crisis Leadership – The role of digital tools in crisis response. Led by Shadin Nassar.
3. Leading Through Crisis: Mental Health and Well-being – Addressing the importance of mental health for leaders in crisis situations, strategies for managing stress and burnout, and fostering resilience in teams. Led by Nafira Nayeem.
4. Resilient and Innovative leadership in relation to technology. Led by Vishal Parkash.
The workshops will be followed by Q&A and discussion sessions.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor Join us for a workshop to create beaded "Water Is Life" pins led by Rethinking Place 2025 Artist Fellow Sayo’:kla Kindness Williams. Registration required: register here.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at 11:30 in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jhess@bard.edu.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge A space for Anthro seniors to read SPROJ work, discuss, receive feedback, and for all Anthro majors to share any anthropological writing. There will be refreshments.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Coalition Of Christian Students: Quaker Meeting For Worship
Sunday, April 6, 2025 1–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are invited to join us as we gather in silence to seek the Inner-Light. No minister leads us in worship, no prayers or hymns are planned. We wait and listen for the Holy Spirit to speak in and through us. Both our silence and our spoken words bring us closer together and closer to God. Meeting will take place on the First Day of each week (Sunday) at the Chapel of the Holy Innocents from 1-2pm.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
TŌN’s tenth season at the Fisher Center concludes with a program of dazzling and colorful music by three European composers. The concert begins with Kaija Saariaho’sLaterna Magica, inspired by the autobiography of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Then the orchestra is joined by clarinetist Miles Wazni, a winner of the 2023 Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition, for Carl Maria von Weber’s virtuosic Clarinet Concerto No. 2. We close with the scintillating and revelatory third symphony of French composer Albéric Magnard.
Olin Hall In preparation for her Carnegie Hall debut recital, pianist Alexandra Balog presents a solo piano recital featuring works by Kodály, Mozart, Noah Max, and Schubert.
★★★★★ “Inspired interrogation of ‘the great male artist’” —The Stage
★★★★ “Scoring pertinent points about the abusiveness inherent in the genius cult” —The Guardian
Blending together Adrienne Truscott (Spiegeltent at Bard emcee, Wild Bore, Asking For It, The Wau Wau Sisters)’s genre-straddling work and savagely comedic discourse on gender with internationally renowned theatre company Brokentalkers’ (The Examination, Have I No Mouth, The Blue Boy) formally slippery dramaturgy, the award-winning Masterclass is a parody like no other—uncovering excruciating truths about privilege, gender, and power.
Taking shape as an interview, Masterclass doesn’t hold back. Performed by ‘fed-up feminist’ Adrienne Truscott and ‘all-around good guy’ Feidlim Cannon, Masterclass begins as a cockamamie masterclass between two familiar archetypes—the self-mythologizing male artist (Truscott) and a sycophantic interviewer (Cannon). It’s fun. It’s familiar. There are wigs. But there is something more at play.
This wickedly funny take-down of the macho artist has been performed to critical acclaim across the world, including the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival, RISING Melbourne, Southbank Centre London, Brighton Festival, Teatro do Bairro Alto Lisbon, and many more. Now it’s New York’s turn!
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space A program of classical musical theater selections, featuring the works of Stephen Sondheim, Frederick Loewe, Joseph Stein, Dave Malloy, Joe Masteroff, and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory website here.
Bard on Television: 48-hour Film Competition Film Screening
Sunday, April 6, 2025 5–7 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Join Bard on TV to watch all of the submissions from our 48-hour Film Competition. Winners will be announced at this time!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Woods Studio The members of the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and The Bard Children's Center are proud to present their works of art that include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and 3D art. April 7–11, Woods Studio. A family reception will be held April 10 at 3:30pm. For more information, call 845-758-7444, or e-mail kwilliam@bard.edu.
Sasha Skochilenko on "How Liberal Arts & Sciences Helped Me in Jail"
Monday, April 7, 2025 12–3 pm
Online Event 12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna
Sasha Skochilenko, a Russian artist and musician who was arrested and imprisoned in 2022 for opposing the war in Ukraine, will speak at Bard College Berlin on “How a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences Helped Me in Jail.” The talk will be moderated by her Smolny academic advisor, Ilya Kalinin.
Skochilenko will discuss her studies in anthropology at Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia) and how this experience shaped and strengthened her anti-war stance. She will also reflect on her famous courtroom speech, “Oh yes, life!” which explores the value of life and reconciliation in times of war and conflict, and how these ideas helped her survive imprisonment.
Former Political Prisoner Sasha Skochilenko on "How Liberal Arts & Sciences Helped Me in Jail"
Monday, April 7, 2025 12–3 pm
Online Event 12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna
Sasha Skochilenko, a Russian artist and musician who was arrested and imprisoned in 2022 for opposing the war in Ukraine, will speak at Bard College Berlin on “How a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences Helped Me in Jail.” The talk will be moderated by her Smolny academic advisor, Ilya Kalinin.
Skochilenko will discuss her studies in anthropology at Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia) and how this experience shaped and strengthened her anti-war stance. She will also reflect on her famous courtroom speech, “Oh yes, life!” which explores the value of life and reconciliation in times of war and conflict, and how these ideas helped her survive imprisonment.
Join via Zoom For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Institute of Advanced Theology Spring Lecture Series
Monday, April 7, 2025 12:30–2 pm
Bard Hall A lecture series from Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology The Bible does not mean only what Christianity says it means, or only what Judaism says it means, or only what Islam says it means. Biblical meaning also cannot be reduced to the caricatures produced by a small but strident coterie of atheist Fundamentalists in recent years.
The Bible unfolded over the course of a millennium of development. During that process social forces in each phase shaped the texts as they stand today, and in some cases the texts can be seen to push back against their contexts. The formation of the Bible resulted in the evolution of a social message, what the Aramaic, and Hebrew, and Greek languages of composition call a “gospel.” Our series is designed to uncover the grounding principles of this gospel as it unfolded over time and was articulated by the Bible in its own terms, before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam emerged.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail mgermano@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, April 7, 2025 1–2 pm
Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Campus Center, Lobby Join You Survived and the Campus Advocate in making a playlist that makes you feel empowered, respected, and uplifted. There will also beself defense items available. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON MARCH 10 During this gentle Kripalu Yoga flow, students are invited to play with their edge, experiment with what works for their body, and make the practice their very own. In this yoga of compassion, we move through centering techniques and flow through postures, keeping an emphasis on the breath. Kripalu Yoga invites experimentation and inquiry into every movement and moment...come play!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Olin Humanities, Room 204 Vance Serchuk, Executive Director of KKR Global Institute, will deliver a lecture on the Russian Defense Industry with a Q&A following. All are welcome to attend.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy Offices) Come by the Chaplaincy office (Albee Basement) to knit or learn how to knit! Crocheters and needleworkers are also invited. Materials including yarn and knitting needles are provided. Everyone is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Join us for our bi-weekly meetings to learn about Caribbean culture through fun events, tough talks, collabs, and more! Dates: 2/10/25, 2/24/25, 3/10/25, 3,24/25, 4/7/25, 4/21/25, 5/5/25Sponsored by: Student Activities.
“All poetry is revolution”: Reading and Discussion of Anna Greki’s Algeria, Capital: Algiers with Marine Cornuet and Ammiel Alcalay
Monday, April 7, 2025 5:30–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In 1963, a year after Algerian independence, Anna Greki, an Algerian poet of French descent living in exile in Tunisia, published Algeria, Capital: Algiers, her first poetry collection, in French and Arabic. Greki, 32 at the time, had participated in the Algerian revolution and was arrested, incarcerated and tortured by the French military for her activism. Algeria, Capital: Algiers, translated by Marine Cornuet, and introduced by Ammiel Alcalay, includes poems Greki wrote while in prison and is available in English for the first time. Please join us for a reading and discussion of Greki’s life and work, and of the translation itself.
Marine Cornuet is a Brooklyn-based translator, poet, and editor. Recent publications include Cloche Pèlerine (Le Castor Astral, 2024), a French translation of Kaveh Akbar’s poetry collection Pilgrim Bell, and Algeria, capital: Algiers (Pinsapo Press and Lost & Found, 2024), an English translation of Anna Gréki’s poetry collection Algérie, capitale Algers. She holds an MFA from Queens College, CUNY, and is the co-founder of the literary journal Clotheslines. She is a member of the working collective and an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse.
Poet, novelist, translator, essayist, critic, and scholar Ammiel Alcalay’s latest books are CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books, his co-translation of Nasser Rabah’s Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece, and the forthcoming Follow the Person: Archival Encounters. In 2017, he received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for his work as founder and General Editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative; he is a Distinguished Professor at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative, French Studies, Hannah Arendt Center, Middle Eastern Studies, and Pinsapo Press.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail glindsay@bard.edu.
Stevenson Gym- Class Room 1 Come join us for our weekly juggling meeting on Mondays 7 pm - 9 pm. No experience required (We Will Teach You)!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Writing the Introduction and Conclusion of Your Senior Project
A Faculty Panel and Q&A
Monday, April 7, 2025 7–8 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Senior Project introductions and conclusions can be tricky to write. If you need some inspiration, you are warmly invited to join Rob Culp, Julia Rosenbaum, and Éric Trudel on Monday, April 7. They'll dispense writing wisdom, take your questions, and make you glad you came to this talk.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jesmith@bard.edu.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Massage is excellent for stress relief, to ease tense muscles, for headaches and backaches, and promotes a general sense of well-being.
Students: $80 for one hour, 30 minute sessions (students only) $45 Staff & Faculty: $100 for one hour
You can schedule a massage by texting or calling 845-702-6751. For more information visit www.gentlemountain.com. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Sottery Hall Bard College’s Campus Advocate Divine Perez-Ferreira will host regular office hours in Sottery 107 this semester on Tuesdays from 12–2 pm.
Divine works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can come to Sottery anytime between 12–2 pm.
CVSS offers:
- Information about domestic violence and sexual assault prevention; - Advocates who are there to support and believe you; - Connection to counseling or support groups; - Information about police reporting and the criminal justice system; and - Help finding additional services for student/faculty needs.
If you would like to schedule a meeting in advance, you can reach out to Divine directly at dperez@familyservicesny.org or to the Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination at nondiscrimination@bard.edu with your request.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail baldasso@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sylee@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pngo@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 TIME CHANGE FOR THE FOLLOWING DATE: April 22 6:30 p.m. instead of 5:30 p.m. Power Vinyasa focuses on building whole body strength and flexibility through a quick paced yoga flow. Incorporating lunges, squats, core work and balance postures, this challenging practice will make you sweat as you match breath and movement. Class will conclude with a wind-down to send you out the door feeling grounded. Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sxiong@bard.edu.
Latin American Student Organization General Meeting
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 6–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 A space to connect with LASO student members, share your thoughts, and learn more about our organization.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Humanities, Room 302 Come join, Tuesdays at 7 pm, to chat and play all things Pokemon! Meetings will be in Olin 302.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Woods Studio The members of the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and The Bard Children's Center are proud to present their works of art that include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and 3D art. April 7–11, Woods Studio. A family reception will be held April 10 at 3:30pm. For more information, call 845-758-7444, or e-mail kwilliam@bard.edu.
National Identity, National Minorities, and the Politics of Historical Memory
Memory-Studies Talk Series: Elise Giuliano
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 12:30–2:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 303 This talk discusses Dr Giuliano's current research about discourse among ethnic minority populations in Russia’s regions and how to think about the subjectivity and identity of ethnic minorities in multi-ethnic states. Following the end of communist rule in eastern Europe in 1989, most of the new nation-states dedicated themselves to reconstructing a history that viewed Soviet domination following WWII as a departure from their nation’s natural democratic path. Leaders in the post-Soviet states that emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 took a more differentiated approach, especially with regard to the recent Soviet past. In Ukraine, especially since Russia’s invasion in 2022, public memory about Soviet history has become more urgent and politicized. This talk will consider what varied interpretations of critical historical episodes mean for the attempt to define a coherent nation-state and discuss how citizens’ lived experiences and personal family histories interact with attempts by political authorities to define a common public memory.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Historical Studies Program; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
The Hindu Home Kitchen and the Internet of Landlords
Featuring Sucharita Kanjilal, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 5–6 pm
Blithewood Join the Levy Institute Research Program of Gender Equality and the Economy for a lecture and discussion with Sucharita Kanjilal, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard. Professor Kanjilal's presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members.
The emergence of the “creator economy”, the $100-billion global industry of monetized online content creation, raises critical questions about how platform economies articulate with social life. Some Marxist scholars argue that platforms act as rent-seeking landlords, inserting themselves as indispensable digital intermediaries between producers and consumers of services. Bringing a feminist, ethnographic lens to ‘the Internet of Landlords’, this presentation follows Indian creators who make food content on YouTube and Instagram in order to theorize creator labor as household industry, re-fashioned as the ‘household start-up’. It describes how creators perform home-based piecework, while their household infrastructures subsidize platforms’ production costs. How are situated relations of reproduction transmuted into the means of global content production? Why is the Hindu home kitchen, once a stubbornly guarded space of heterosexual caste-making, now open for business? Kanjilal posits, consequently, that reproductive relations of gender, caste and race are constitutive of the material relations of production within platforms’ rentier arrangements.
Sucharita Kanjilal is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard College. Her research focuses on feminist theories of global capitalism, shifting regimes of social reproduction, critical food studies, and contemporary caste-class relations in South Asia. She draws connections between feminist economic anthropology, anthropology of media, gender studies, the anthropology of food, and anti-caste epistemologies. Her current book manuscript, titled Home Chefs: Indian Households Produce for the Global Creator Economy, is an ethnographic study of Indian food media producers engaged in global platform-based industries of online content creation. Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute.
Campus Center, Weis Cinema An Expert Witness Geomancer Mystic, as the artist describes, unites the forensic, spatial, and mystical elements of a place, giving testimony to concealed histories while constructing profound truths. They go beyond interpreting land to co-create spaces that are independent, sacred, and ecologically aligned, to protect and restore places as active sites of truth, continuity, and renewal. In this presentation, Hawai'i artist and building practitioner Sean Connelly of After Oceanic shares critical and projective work around creating “architecture for ‘āina” revealing a long disregarded history of US urbanism in Hawai'i and the community grassroots networks of collaborative care and native resurgence working to recover indigenous systems of sustenance for the future.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space On Tuesday, April 8 at 6pm, poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge will read from her work. Introduced by David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature Ann Lauterbach, this reading is free and open to the public.
Born in Beijing, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is the author of fourteen books of poetry, including Hello, the Roses,Empathy, and I Love Artists. Her latest collection, A Treatise on Stars, received the Bollingen Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, among others. Her collaborations include works in theater, dance, music, and the visual arts. Her poems were broadcast from a SpaceX flight in 2021 and her work with composer George Lewis and The Crossing Choir won a Grammy in 2025. She lives in northern New Mexico. Sponsored by: John Ashbery Poetry Series and Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mbrien@bard.edu.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Join us for an evening of a guided tango! Learn the principles of tango with our group.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability -- Online Info Session
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational sessions for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 7–8 pm
Online Event 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.
Join us on Tuesday, April 8, 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. Register here!
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
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.
REGISTER HERESponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard Graduate Programs; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions, and more. Schedule by texting/calling Phillip Brown at 845-943-7644
Please inquire about Health Insurances accepted For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON JANUARY 15 This class blends optimal alignment with the movement and grace of Vinyasa flow. Class includes seated, standing, and supine poses. The Vinyasa segment moves at a moderate pace allowing alignment cues to be woven in. A slower flow is accessible for newer students and allows more experienced students to refine their poses.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Albee; Annex Basement (La Voz Magazine on google Maps) Are you interested in journalism, activism, and Latino immigrant issues? La Voz magazine seeks to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
We invite students of all skills and talents to come to our weekly meeting on Wednesdays, 1:30 to 2:30pm, at the La Voz office (Albee Annex Basement, in front of Henderson computer lab), or via Zoom in case of bad weather. Regularly held at the Kline College Room.
Albee The Coalition of Christian Students will offer an Ecumenical Bible Study for the Bard Community every Wednesday from 5 to 6 pm in the Chaplaincy Office (Albee Basement). Our goal is to find common ground and prayerfully study scripture together. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Come join us for our Film Making At Bard weekly meetings. Any ideas/scripts for films are more than welcome, otherwise, come ready to plan and discuss!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Language Center, Room 120 This is a support group open for people who are looking to learn more about addiction. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House Come join us for a low-stakes writing group to get the creative juices flowing! Different guided prompts and themes every week. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Beyond the Binary: "It's Complicated" Weekly Screening Series
Featuring: The Third Narrative Podcast Screening
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 8–9:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Join us for our weekly screening series exploring nuanced and diverse perspectives on the Israel-Palestine conflict. “It’s Complicated”, a project of the Hannah Arendt Center, presents the Third Narrative podcast, led by Palestinian hosts Amira Mohammad and Ibrahim Abu Ahmed. Through candid conversations and nuanced analysis, they challenge biases, unpack complexities, and promote meaningful dialogue on Israel-Palestine, to foster meaningful understanding of the region.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Woods Studio The members of the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and The Bard Children's Center are proud to present their works of art that include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and 3D art. April 7–11, Woods Studio. A family reception will be held April 10 at 3:30pm. For more information, call 845-758-7444, or e-mail kwilliam@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Campus Center, Lobby Meet and speak with an admissions representative from Bard College's Graduate Programs. Learn about the many academic programs and gain insight into fields of study, application timelines, and options for Bard students. Bard Graduate Programs MA | MS | MM | MEd | MAT | MFA | MBA | MPhil | PhD Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts Master of Arts in Teaching Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Environmental Policy Environmental Science MBA in Sustainability Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture Graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Bard Conservatory Graduate Conducting Programs at the Bard Conservatory Chinese Music and Culture - The Chinese Music Institute The Orchestra Now Longy School of Music of Bard College Master of Music Program Center for Human Rights and The Arts M.A. in Global Studies
Two Lectures Presented by the Inaugural Anthony Lester Fellows in Human Rights
Promoting Legal Protections to Uphold the Ban on FGM in The Gambia (Hilina Degefa) and Training and Supporting Local Human Rights Defenders in Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Trinidad and Tobago (Marian Da Silva)
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 5–6:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Please join us for an evening with Hilina Berhanu Degefa and Marian Alejandra Da Silva Parra, our 2024–25 Lester Fellows in Human Rights. Degefa, an expert on women’s rights from Ethiopia, will discuss her work to combat proposals to legalize female genital mutilation in the Gambia. Da Silva Parra, a human rights lawyer from Venezuela, will discuss her project to train and support local human rights defenders in Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Trinidad and Tobago. The fellowships honor the memory and legacy of Anthony Lester QC (Lord Lester of Herne Hill), one of Britain’s most distinguished human rights lawyers. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sn1088@bard.edu.
The Impact of Climate Change on the Palestinian Sectoral Reallocation of Labor
Featuring ABQ Professor and Levy Research Associate Sameh Hallaq
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 5–6 pm
Blithewood Conference Room Join the Levy Institute Graduate Program for a lecture and discussion with AQB Professor and Levy Research AssociateSameh Hallaq. He will present his research on weather patterns which finds that an increase in rainfall in the previous year is associated with a higher proportion of workers in the agricultural sector, especially in regions where agriculture is the primary economic activity. The study also examines two potential mechanisms through which climate change affects labor decisions: agricultural labor migration to the Israeli labor market and how climate shocks affect agricultural wages. Dr. Hallaq’s presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members.
Sameh Hallaq is an Associate Professor in the Economics Program at Al-Quds Bard College, Al-Quds University. Dr. Hallaq is a Research Associate at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College. He obtained his PhD in economics at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, in 2019. His published research has consistently focused on the theme of “Human Capital,” where he explores the determinants of early life intervention: education, health, and well-being, within the Palestinian context: a highly unstable political and economic environment accompanied by a violent conflict. Also, he investigates how these factors shape later life consequences, such as educational attainment, labor market outcomes, wages, and employment. He was recently granted the Award of Scientific Research from Al-Quds University Deanship of Research.Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute.
Stevenson Library Join the Civic Ambassadors from Bard's Center for Civic Engagement on the first floor of the library for a fun night of pub-style trivia! Test your knowledge of current events in categories ranging from politics to pop culture. There will be snacks and prizes!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail amurphy@bard.edu.
Campus Center, Weis Cinema If reparations are inversions of debt, what would it take to repair the paradigm of private property? The Broken Pitcher Forum traces the entangled histories of debt and property law from the banks and commissioners at the center of the film The Broken Pitcher (2022) to the colonial land surveys, loans, and tributes that transformed land into collateral.
The public program will begin with the film's opening sequence, which follows the rise of home foreclosures in Cyprus after the 2012–13 financial crisis. The screening will be followed by a conversation between the film’s co-directors, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Marina Christodoulidou; writer and curator Adam HajYahia; and Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bard College. The discussion will be moderated by filmmaker and scholar Argyro Nicolaou. Followed by the Numismatics lecture-performance by Emiddio Vasquez.
The forum approaches the film as a departure point, tracing these foreclosures through longer colonial histories of property and ownership in dialogue with each speaker’s ongoing research, from the effects of austerity and real estate speculation on life in Athens, to the psychic, materialist, and aesthetic formulations of the condition of debt. This public program is presented as part of the group exhibition Mutable Cycles on view April 5 – May 25, 2025, curated by Ariana Kalliga at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. For more information, call 845-758-7573, e-mail crobertson@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/1076-mutable-cycles.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room A book talk by Meg Stone, Executive Director of IMPACT Boston, an abuse prevention and empowerment self-defense organization.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Meg Stone will be reading from her newly published book, The Cost of Fear: Why Most Safety Advice is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender Based Violence. There will be a Q&A to follow.Sponsored by: Health, Counseling, and Wellness.
Blum Hall Bard Electronic Music is proud to present German electroacoustic artist Christoph Heemann's live performance in Blum Hall on Wednesday, April 9. A legendary figure in electronic music who has quietly produced a unique and vast body of work since his beginnings with the absurdist cutups of H.N.A.S. in the mid-1980s, Heemann has been active as a solo artist and in many groups including Mirror (with Andrew Chalk), Mimir (with Jim O’Rourke), and In Camera (with Timo van Luijk).
Christoph Heemann will also speak to Sarah Hennies’ Composing With Field Recordings class on April 10. Those wishing to attend this artist talk can get in touch with Professor Hennies at shennies@bard.edu. This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail shennies@bard.edu.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 This class is about listening to the body and focusing on form and breathwork to create a moving meditation. We will combine pranayama (breathwork practices) with a gentle flow, to create a space of solace from stress and anxiety. The class will be a mixture of hatha postures and dynamic sequences, with lots of variations and alternatives, allowing students to shape their own practice. Some classes will also end with sound baths before silent meditation. Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.
Join the Persian table every Thursday. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mshahbaz@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 10, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ochilton@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 10, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail fchamoun@bard.edu.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Come play chess with the Chess Club! We will be playing in the Georgeball Lounge, except on on 02/06, 02/13, and 03/27 when we will be playing in the Red Room.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail dabend@bard.edu.
Campus Center Lobby Learn about Health, Counseling, and Wellness. Get information on recovery or harm reduction resources on and off campus. Ask questions and make a connection with your peers!Sponsored by: Health, Counseling an Wellness .
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 10, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail zdallal@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 10, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail plopezga@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 Join us for a one hour mat pilates class, focusing on strengthening and toning muscles.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Campus Center, Lobby Guess what’s back? Thursday Night Live is kicking off again—starting Thursday, March 27th from 7 to 9 pm at Down The Road Café—and you’re invited. Presented by The Real in collaboration with the Student Activities Board, this weekly music series features a student band or artist tearing it up for the first 30 minutes, an open jam session where you can hop in and make some noise, chill vibes, and live music. But wait... there’s more. Only during Thursday Night Live, you can feast on:
A Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich hotter than your midterm stress
A new themed mocktail every week (surprise your taste buds)
So whether you’re here to play, vibe, or just vibe next to the people playing—come through. Let’s turn DTR into the live music hub it was always meant to be. We will not be having this event on 5/1.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Humanities, Room 204 Interested in improving your public speaking skills, traveling to compete at other colleges, or getting involved in our local events? All are welcome to join our regular weekly debate meetings! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail cbronte@bard.edu.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, come bake challah and help prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose, they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another with the openness and closeness that seem so natural in kitchens. All are welcome. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail jboettiger@bard.edu.
Woods Studio The members of the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and The Bard Children's Center are proud to present their works of art that include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and 3D art. April 7–11, Woods Studio. A family reception will be held April 10 at 3:30pm. For more information, call 845-758-7444, or e-mail kwilliam@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Back in the day, art history was taught using mounted photos. These vintage photos of art, architecture and artifacts make great home decor. Proceeds benefit the AHVC program. Come on by!Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail ekoch@bard.edu.
Faculty Reading: Walk Her Way New York City with Jana Mader
Thursday, April 10, 2025 5:30–6:30 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor This Thursday, April 10 at 5:30 p.m., join Jana Mader, Director of Academic Programs at the Hannah Arendt Center and Visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities, for a conversation and reading from her new book, Walk Her Way New York City: A Walking Guide to Women's History (Hardie Grant Books, 2025). This engaging guide, co-authored by Jana Mader and Kaitlyn Allen and illustrated by Aja O'Han, features ten curated walking tours across the boroughs, revealing the remarkable contributions and lives of well-loved and unsung heroines who shaped the city’s story. Light refreshments will be provided as well as a book raffle for participants. This event is co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence, Stevenson Library, and the Hannah Arendt Center. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail amurphy@bard.edu.
Join us for a film screening of Artifact War and a Q&A with Dr. Amr Al-Azm who is featured in the film. Click here to watch the trailer.
Weis Theater, April 10, 5:30pm
Thursday, April 10, 2025 5:30–8 pm
An intrepid archeology professor and his team of students are the only ones who stand in the way of an ISIS illicit antiquities network. Faced with losing their cultural heritage they become spies, and they go undercover in ISIS territory. They dodge bombs and militia to create a system to monitor theft and destruction of Syrian antiquities. During this process, they discover more than they anticipated, discovering thousands of trafficked items and that the crimes committed are being enabled by terrorists and multinational corporations. The tragedy continues because the sale of illegal goods is uncovered in the most unsuspecting place.Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Center for Human Rights and the Arts; Experimental Humanities Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail ekoch@bard.edu.
RKC 200 When Carey Goldberg was growing up during the Cold War, US-Soviet relations loomed as critical for avoiding nuclear Armageddon. So she studied Russian and journalism in high school and college, and finagled a visa as a nanny to get to Moscow and start reporting. For more than six years she covered the former Soviet Union, its collapse and what came after, and was a Pulitzer finalist for group coverage of the 1991 coup. She then came home to work for The New York Times and went on to other jobs in journalism, but her time in Moscow remains her “glory days.” She will share some of her experiences and discuss the importance of Russian language skills for a successful career in international reporting.Sponsored by: Russian and Eurasian Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ovoronin@bard.edu.
Senior Class Counsel: Seniors VS Staff Basketball Game
Thursday, April 10, 2025 6–8 pm
Main Gym- Stevenson Athletic Center Come support your seniors and faculty/staff members as they battle each other in a fun basketball game.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Montgomery Place Estate Spring has finally arrived, and Montgomery Place is excited to celebrate the blooming plants and trees of Bard's campus!
Join us for a hands-on workshop led by CEP Environmental Science & Policy Graduate Student, Kim Easlick, where we'll use various species of daffodils (Genus: Narcissus) to dye fabric pieces, which you can take home as hand towels, bandanas, and more. Bard students are also welcome to bring their own small fabric items to dye.
This event is free and exclusively for Bard students. Registration is limited to 20 participants and is first come, first serve. Register here. We hope to see you there! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ke2849@bard.edu.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Woods Studio The members of the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and The Bard Children's Center are proud to present their works of art that include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and 3D art. April 7–11, Woods Studio. A family reception will be held April 10 at 3:30pm. For more information, call 845-758-7444, or e-mail kwilliam@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions and more. Schedule an appointment by texting or calling Dr. Sarah Heslip at (413) 884-2798. Please inquire about insurance. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Craft and Connect at 12 pm at Sawkill Coffee House. Offered by Wellness Education, Counseling, and Disability Access Services
Friday, April 11, 2025 12–1 pm
Sawkill Coffee House Crafting, puzzles. community, connections, and tips and strategies for being and staying resilient! Email wellnesseducation@bard.edu to sign up, but walk-ins are welcome.
New Annandale House The International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) meets for lab time every Friday at New Annandale House. Those interested in digital humanities or archiving are welcome to stop by any time between 12 and 4 pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pf0250@bard.edu.
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion known as the parsha, each week. Join Rabbi Joshua Boettiger and others in the Bard community for an informal Torah Study session each Friday—open to everyone of all religious backgrounds.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Jewish Studies Program.
Kingston Mosque The Muslim Student Organization (MSO) offers transportation for anyone who would like to go to the mosque on Fridays for Jummah Prayers. The pick-up time is at 12:00 p.m. for the Kingston Mosque and the departure time from the Mosque is 2 pm. Time is flexible based on who is driving and how many people join.
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Gathering of writers and editors for the paper to work on current issues! Anyone is welcome to join, and no experience is required. On 3/28 we will be meeting in Olin 203.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
TBD weekly Bring your bike to one or all of these rides. Meet at 2 pm. More Info when you sign up by scanning the QR code below or email lb9580@bard.edu All experience levels are welcome. Helmets available! Programs made possible by a generous donation in loving memory of James Kirk Bernard. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Bard On Go weekly meeting. The first meeting is for our club members to connect with each other, discussing video ideas for the upcoming semester.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Stevenson Library You're warmly invited to join from 3:30 to 5:00pm in Stevenson Library 402 (fourth floor) to work on your Senior Project in a calm, quiet, and supportive space.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jesmith@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House Come craft with us. We will be doing sewing, knitting, paper crafts, and anything else you like! Learn new skills or work on a project.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail jboettiger@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Totalitarianism, Religions, and Architecture: The Impact of Totalitarian Regimes on the Architectural and Monumental Religious Landscape in the Short Twentieth Century
Friday, April 11, 2025 – Saturday, April 12, 2025
Finberg House The “short 20th century” was marked by totalitarian regimes, which profoundly impacted the society they governed. Such regimes comprehensively and tremendously planned to mobilize masses and gain their consensus through direct control of the lives of individuals and by enforcing collective rituals, myths, and rhetoric. Militarized corporality, high–impact aesthetic symbolism, political liturgy and leaders’ worship are just some of the aspects that typified these regimes’ actions in shaping public space. This led authors, like Emilio Gentile and Robert Mallett, to use the term “political religion” to indicate the evocative reach of totalitarian regimes' narratives and symbols to create a cultural memory by which masses can envision themselves as a single, cohesive social body. Building cultural memory involved shaping a material and visual culture that evoked the autopoietic national myths and the palingenetic past inspired by the regimes, as in the case of the Roman Empire for the Italian Fascism. In such a way, Fascist, Nazi and Communist regimes actively used architecture as a tool of creating influence in rational and emotional perspective. They shaped the urban and rural architectural landscape according to their conception of history (past, present, and future) and the people as a nation. This included at times the enshrinement of religious architectural and monumental heritage.
These totalitarian regimes molded their relationship with religious institutions and traditions since their oriented conception of religion. This was discernible, and an extremization of post–Westphalian understanding about religion was based on a dialectical relationship between political power and religious institutions in which the latter are essentially subjugated to the former. However, this did not preclude regimes, such as the fascist one, from establishing agreements and collaborations with religious institutions, nor did it prevent their state secularism from mimetically and selectively embed some religious practices or symbols. In the case of communist and socialist–relative regimes, it could happen that state institutions subjugated religious ones in what we might call the “domestication of religion” which could involve blatant anti–religious conflict, as in the instance of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, or even the incorporation of national worship and state ideology into religious organizations. Indeed, it also included the shaping of the architectural religious landscape, which could be subdued to state purpose or even targeted by the anti–religious campaigns as in Albania’s in 1967 when churches and mosques were closed, destroyed or converted to civilian uses. Yet in the case of communist–inspired regimes as much as fascist ones, it would be inaccurate to believe that state institutions were able to totally erase the religious monumental and architectural landscape: both religious authorities and faithful were able to develop practices of negotiation and resistance through re–using and preserving religious spaces. Specific sacred locations were occasionally used to elaborate the cultural memory of religious communities, as happened in Soviet Central Asia. This workshop aims to investigate, according to various epistemological perspectives (historical, anthropological, architectural, archaeological) and through different methodological approaches how totalitarian regimes in the short 20th century shaped the religious monumental and architectural landscape. For more information, call 845-758-7662, or e-mail kbarkey@bard.edu.
Olin Hall Bard students, faculty, staff, and members of the Hudson Valley community are welcome to attend a free symposium centering on two environmental threats facing the Hudson/ Mahicantuck River. The primary purpose of the symposium is to facilitate public discussion— informed by science, environmental law, and best citizen advocacy practices—about how members of the community can effectively address and work together to curtail these threats. Morning presentations will be followed by an afternoon panel and public discussion.
The Threats:
• High levels of PCB contamination due to General Electric’s dumping of toxic material for 30 years and G.E.’s clean-up of PCBs between 2009 and 2015 that does not meet agreed upon environmental benchmarks. Continuing PCB contamination poses human health risks, causes ongoing extinction and disease to fish and wildlife, and damages river ecosystems, wetlands, and ground water. • “Bomb Trains”—overloaded freight trains carrying Bakken shale oil and unidentified chemicals along the eroding west bank of the river. A derailment would spell catastrophe.
Schedule:
10:00 - 10:10 Introduction to “The Fate of the River” symposium. 10:10 - 10: 35 Introduction and screening of Jon Bowermaster’s film "A Toxic Legacy about General Electric’s Contamination of the Hudson/ Mahicantuck River" 10:40 - 11:00 Jeremy Cherson, Associate Director of Government Affairs, Riverkeeper 11:05 to 11:25 Erin Doran, Faculty in Environmental Law, Bard Center for Environmental Policy, and Senior Staff Attorney, Food & Water Watch 11:35 -11:55 David Carpenter, Director of Institute for Health and the Environment, SUNY. Albany Noon to 1:00 LUNCH BREAK 1:05 - 1:25 Eli Dueker, Associate Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies, and Director of Bard Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities 1:25 - 1:40 Introduction to and screening of Jon Bowermaster’s film Bomb Trains 1:45 - 2:05 Florence Murray, Partner of Murray & Murray Law Firm, represents stakeholders affected by the toxic aftermath of the 2023 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in East Palestine, Ohio 2:15 - 2:35 COFFEE BREAK 2:40 - 4:00 Panel and Public Discussion: “Next Steps Toward a Healthier River”
Speakers:
Jon Bowermaster is a writer, filmmaker, and six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council.
Jeremy Cherson earned his MS in Environmental Policy at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy and now serves as the Associate Director of Government Affairs working to advance Riverkeeper's priorities in Albany and Washington, DC.
Erin Doran is a Senior Staff Attorney at Food & Water Watch focusing on climate and energy matters. She was previously a Senior Attorney at Riverkeeper, where she advocated for clean water, healthy ecosystems, and resilient climate solutions in the Hudson Valley.
David O. Carpenter is a public health physician and is Director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany, as well as Professor of Environmental Health Sciences within the School of Public Health at the University at Albany. His research focuses on the environmental causes of human disease, both those directly caused by chemical exposure and those mediated via endocrine disruption.
Eli Dueker is an Associate Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies at Bard College and former executive director of Project Underground, an international environmental and human rights organization.
Florence Murray is a partner at Murray & Murray, Co. L.P.A., where her areas of practice include primarily traumatic brain injuries and wrongful death actions, civil rights violations with severe injuries, and trucking collisions. She is active with the Ohio Association for Justice, National Lawyers Guild, and the Brain Injury Association.
The Fate of the River symposium is the first in a series of public discussions on "Environmental Injustice Across the Americas" that focuses on state-sanctioned pollution, the poisoning of water, destruction of the commons, and the fight for justice. The Fate of the River is co-sponsored by Bard College’s Human Rights Program, Center for Civic Engagement, Center for Environmental Policy, Environmental Studies, and the Office of Sustainability. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Lobby Join NAMI Mid-Hudson, BRAVE, and U Survived as we table on campus to share mental health resources, raise awareness, and build a culture of support. Come say hi, grab some info, and learn how you can make a difference!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
The Q&A and I: Agency and Self-Expression in the Survey Era
Speakers: Ingrid Becker, Visiting Assistant Professor of Human Rights; Yarran Hominh, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Friday, April 11, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Hegeman 204A What is agency? To what extent does it manifest as the expression of internal will or as a response to external circumstances? This salon—part talk, part conversation—will explore these questions through two disciplinary contexts that are not often considered together: sociology and poetry, or more specifically, the sociological survey and lyric poetry. While we might think of the lyric as a pre-eminent space of authentic self-expression that issues from something “inside” an individual, and the survey as a technology that constructs selves through questions that impose a set of “outside” constraints on what individuals express, this salon will consider thinkers and poems from the early-mid 20th century that trouble this binary. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail yhominh@bard.edu.
Adventures in Science Writing: Editing the American Journal of Physics
A talk by Beth Parks, Colgate University
Friday, April 11, 2025 12 pm
Brody Lab - Hegeman 107 Editing the American Journal of Physics for the past 5 years has taught me more than I could have imagined about physics, writing, and publishing. I’ll share some of those lessons in this talk.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
Sensational Fungi: From Vision to Taste, how Fungi use Sensory Systems to Navigate the World
A talk by Andrew Swafford, Middlebury College
Friday, April 11, 2025 12 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium What do you and fungi have in common?
This talk focuses on how organisms perceive and adapt to their environment through the evolution of sensory systems like vision. In this seminar, we will explore the surprising sensory systems of early diverging fungi, the similarity of fungal and animal eyes, and the consequences of sensory system evolution on the global spread of the frog-killing pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Lastly, we will take a sneak peek into the future of sensory research in fungi led by students at Middlebury.Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Unpacking the Trump Agenda: A Conversation with Walter Mead
Friday, April 11, 2025 12–1 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 104 The Center for Civic Engagement and the Alexander Hamilton Society at Bard are pleased to invite the Bard community to our upcoming speaker event with Walter Russell Mead for a discussion of the Trump Doctrine, the future of American power, and the unraveling of the liberal international order.
Since January 20, the Trump administration has stunned the world with its flood the zone strategy: upending institutional norms, ruthlessly exercising power at home by cracking down on elite law firms and universities, dismantling federal bureaucracies, moving aggressively to secure the border, and fundamentally altering US foreign policy in multiple pivotal regions around the world. Just last week, this unconventional approach to world politics took another turn as President Trump imposed a dizzying array of new tariffs on the global trade system—a system the United States has built and protected since its inception after the end of World War II.
Walter Russell Mead is the senior scholar, Center for Civic Engagement and Hannah Arendt Center, and the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute, the Alexander Hamilton Professor of Strategy and Statecraft with the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida, and the “Global View” columnist at the Wall Street Journal.
Sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement and the Alexander Hamilton Society at Bard For more information, call 845-758-7378, or e-mail jbecker@bard.edu.
Online Event We're reading The Life of the Mind, Hannah Arendt’s unfinished final work. In it, she focuses on three basic mental activities—thinking, willing, and judging—and their relation to the world of appearances and to the human capacity for moral and political action. The new critical edition makes available in print, for the first time, the text of the typescripts as Arendt left them, complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished material, detailed annotations, and extensive scholarly commentary. We will also be referring to Mary McCarthy's edition for increased accessibility.
Free to HAC members and to Bard students, staff, and faculty! Email arendt@bard.edu for the Zoom link.
Find the full Virtural Reading Group schedule: hac.bard.edu/programs/vrg/ Get the new critical edition of The Life of the Mindhere.
Don't worry if you miss a VRG meeting! We post them all on our YouTube channel the week after they're recorded. Or tune in to an edited version of the chapter readings plus bonus episodes on our podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Student Recital: Qijia Liu, violin, with Nomin Samdan, piano
Works by Ysaÿe, Mozart, Bach, and Stravinsky
Friday, April 11, 2025 1 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Join us for a student recital. Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Moderated by Daniel Brinkerhoff Young, Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Union College
Friday, April 11, 2025 4–5:30 pm
Union College, Lippmann 100
Please join us for the third session of the Hudson Valley Political Theory Workshop this Friday, April 11. Spring Semester workshops will take place at Union College.
The Hudson Valley Political Theory Workshop is a new collaborative project launched by Bard College and Union College. The workshop aims to bring together political theorists working in or near the Hudson Valley Region in a series of workshops to share their work in progress, create new networks, and open up possibilities for new collaborative research projects that further advance humanities.
We are delighted to welcome Daniel Brinkerhoff Young, Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Union College.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pkemerli@bard.edu.
The Dime Store Presents: April Shower's Bring May Flowers!
Friday, April 11, 2025 5–7 pm
Campus Center, Lobby Come to our April tabling to grab free contraceptives, drop off anonymous questions, or enter our raffle for special baskets made by yours truly! We can't wait to see you soon.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Preston Theater Inspired by real events occured in the People's Republic of China, A Touch of Sin 天注定 (2014) weaves together four distinct stories to reflect on the growing social inequalities, corruption, and moral erosion in contemporary Chinese society as a result of its rapid modernization. The film's director, Jia Zhangke, is one of the most renowned contemporary Chinese filmmakers and known for his documentary-style realism and focus on the lives of marginalized and working people. Snacks and light refreshments will be served. Sponsored by: Chinese Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sxiong@bard.edu.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Totalitarianism, Religions, and Architecture: The Impact of Totalitarian Regimes on the Architectural and Monumental Religious Landscape in the Short Twentieth Century
Friday, April 11, 2025 – Saturday, April 12, 2025
Finberg House The “short 20th century” was marked by totalitarian regimes, which profoundly impacted the society they governed. Such regimes comprehensively and tremendously planned to mobilize masses and gain their consensus through direct control of the lives of individuals and by enforcing collective rituals, myths, and rhetoric. Militarized corporality, high–impact aesthetic symbolism, political liturgy and leaders’ worship are just some of the aspects that typified these regimes’ actions in shaping public space. This led authors, like Emilio Gentile and Robert Mallett, to use the term “political religion” to indicate the evocative reach of totalitarian regimes' narratives and symbols to create a cultural memory by which masses can envision themselves as a single, cohesive social body. Building cultural memory involved shaping a material and visual culture that evoked the autopoietic national myths and the palingenetic past inspired by the regimes, as in the case of the Roman Empire for the Italian Fascism. In such a way, Fascist, Nazi and Communist regimes actively used architecture as a tool of creating influence in rational and emotional perspective. They shaped the urban and rural architectural landscape according to their conception of history (past, present, and future) and the people as a nation. This included at times the enshrinement of religious architectural and monumental heritage.
These totalitarian regimes molded their relationship with religious institutions and traditions since their oriented conception of religion. This was discernible, and an extremization of post–Westphalian understanding about religion was based on a dialectical relationship between political power and religious institutions in which the latter are essentially subjugated to the former. However, this did not preclude regimes, such as the fascist one, from establishing agreements and collaborations with religious institutions, nor did it prevent their state secularism from mimetically and selectively embed some religious practices or symbols. In the case of communist and socialist–relative regimes, it could happen that state institutions subjugated religious ones in what we might call the “domestication of religion” which could involve blatant anti–religious conflict, as in the instance of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, or even the incorporation of national worship and state ideology into religious organizations. Indeed, it also included the shaping of the architectural religious landscape, which could be subdued to state purpose or even targeted by the anti–religious campaigns as in Albania’s in 1967 when churches and mosques were closed, destroyed or converted to civilian uses. Yet in the case of communist–inspired regimes as much as fascist ones, it would be inaccurate to believe that state institutions were able to totally erase the religious monumental and architectural landscape: both religious authorities and faithful were able to develop practices of negotiation and resistance through re–using and preserving religious spaces. Specific sacred locations were occasionally used to elaborate the cultural memory of religious communities, as happened in Soviet Central Asia. This workshop aims to investigate, according to various epistemological perspectives (historical, anthropological, architectural, archaeological) and through different methodological approaches how totalitarian regimes in the short 20th century shaped the religious monumental and architectural landscape. For more information, call 845-758-7662, or e-mail kbarkey@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The Women's Tennis team competes in a home match against William Smith. Come out and support Women's Tennis! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Barringer House Members of Bards Ambitious Artist Club will showcase their film in progress. In this meeting we will go over the production, do a read through, and discuss logistics. For more information, call 312-841-3686, or e-mail jd1605@bard.edu.
Honey Field The Baseball team competes in a home double-header against the University of Rochester. Come out and support Baseball!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Saturday, April 12, 2025 – Sunday, April 13, 2025 12–12 pm
Memorial Hall (Old Gym) Presented by WXBC and Bard Electronic Music, 24 Hour Drone will be a full day (noon April 12 – noon April 13) of continuous musical performances by Bard students, faculty, and community members. More information here.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 414-412-0775, or e-mail em3200@bard.edu.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Come make a mask and learn about Carnival mask culture from the Carribean and Latin America! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Required Recital: Riley Lyons, trombone, with Gabriele Zemaityte, piano
Featuring works by Kevin Day, Ferdinand David, and Stjepan Šulek
Saturday, April 12, 2025 1 pm
Olin Hall Join us for a student recital. Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The Men's Tennis team competes in a home game against Hobart. Come out and support Men's Tennis! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space A showcase featuring compositions by Elena Hause, Lili M. Namazi, Rowan Robinson, Olivia Marhevka, Logan Rishard, Santiago Mieres, Artemy Muhkin, Steve Bonacci, Julian Raheb, Emily Ta, Sam Mutter, Faisal Jones, Drew Frankenberg, and Manar Hashmi. Free and open to the public.
Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
Blithewood MSO is celebrating its annual Eid celebration. Bard MSO will host and five colleges from the Hudson Valley will attend: Vassar, Marist, SUNY New Paltz, Dutchess Community College, and Siena College. The celebration will conclude wih a firework show at 9pm, which is open to all. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room All are invited to Bard's annual Passover Seder, a ritualized meal where we retell the story of the ancient Israelites going out from slavery, weaving in songs, teachings, and other offerings on the theme of freedom throughout the evening. Our ceremony will begin at 6:30pm, and we will start eating around 7:45pm. If you would like to come, please RSVP to jboettiger@bard.edu, so we can get a sense of numbers. All faculty, staff, and students are welcome, as well as family members or friends who may be visiting.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The Graduate Vocal Arts Program presents: "Music for Today"
Songs of Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives
Saturday, April 12, 2025 7:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building In honor of two iconic composers on the anniversary of their 150th birthdays, the young artists of the Vocal Arts Program and the Conservatory Piano Fellows present Schoenberg's Das Buch der hängenden Gärten (The Book of the Hanging Gardens) and a collection of songs of Charles Ives. Each composer found a new and highly individual musical language to respond to the rapidly changing world of the early 20th century, still highly relevant for our time.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; Bard Conservatory Post-Graduate Piano Fellowship.
Manor Come enjoy good music, food, games, face painting, caricature, drawings, prizes and performances by the Bard Surrealist Circus! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (1114 River Road) in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome!
Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at 11:30 in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jhess@bard.edu.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge A space for Anthro seniors to read SPROJ work, discuss, receive feedback, and for all Anthro majors to share any anthropological writing. There will be refreshments.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Coalition Of Christian Students: Quaker Meeting For Worship
Sunday, April 13, 2025 1–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are invited to join us as we gather in silence to seek the Inner-Light. No minister leads us in worship, no prayers or hymns are planned. We wait and listen for the Holy Spirit to speak in and through us. Both our silence and our spoken words bring us closer together and closer to God. Meeting will take place on the First Day of each week (Sunday) at the Chapel of the Holy Innocents from 1-2pm.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Saturday, April 12, 2025 – Sunday, April 13, 2025 12–12 pm
Memorial Hall (Old Gym) Presented by WXBC and Bard Electronic Music, 24 Hour Drone will be a full day (noon April 12 – noon April 13) of continuous musical performances by Bard students, faculty, and community members. More information here.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 414-412-0775, or e-mail em3200@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The Women's Tennis team competes in a home match against Ithaca. Come out and support Women's Tennis! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Get Engaged Alumni Speakers Series: Resilience in Action–Staying Engaged and Committed in Challenging Times
Sunday, April 13, 2025 11 am – 12 pm
Online Event 11 AM New York l 5 PM Vienna
This workshop with Nathalissa Charles will help participants stay engaged and keep pushing forward, even in difficult times. They will learn why engagement matters and discover practical ways to stay involved during hardships. By building a growth mindset, participants will see challenges as chances to learn and stay committed.
Nathalissa Charles recently earned a degree in financial institution management at Quisqueya University in Haiti, benefiting from a scholarship program from the Haitian Education and Leadership Program. She had the opportunity to attend the Civic Engagement Course and be part of the Get Engaged Conference of 2024.
Get Engaged Alumni Speakers Series: Resilience in Action–Staying Engaged and Committed in Challenging Times
Sunday, April 13, 2025 11 am – 12 pm
Online Event 11 AM New York l 5 PM Vienna
This workshop with Nathalissa Charles will help participants stay engaged and keep pushing forward, even in difficult times. They will learn why engagement matters and discover practical ways to stay involved during hardships. By building a growth mindset, participants will see challenges as chances to learn and stay committed.
Nathalissa Charles recently earned a degree in financial institution management at Quisqueya University in Haiti, benefiting from a scholarship program from the Haitian Education and Leadership Program. She had the opportunity to attend the Civic Engagement Course and be part of the Get Engaged Conference of 2024.
Honey Field The Baseball team competes in a home double-header against Rochester Institute of Technology. Come out and support Baseball!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC As the German Romantic movement took hold in the early 19th century, artists of all types began examining the relationship between nature and the human soul. Painter Caspar David Friedrich, widely considered the most important German artist of the era, portrayed nature as a setting for profound spiritual and emotional encounters. His compatriot, the renowned composer Robert Schumann, also took inspiration from the natural world. Upon moving to Düsseldorf, along the Rhine River, he wrote his buoyant Third Symphony, which he titled the Rhenish.
In the popular series Sight & Sound, The Orchestra Now explores the parallels between orchestral music and the visual arts. Each performance includes a Met curator introduction, a discussion with conductor and music historian Leon Botstein accompanied by on-screen exhibition images and live musical excerpts, then a full performance of the works and an audience Q&A.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The Men's Tennis team competes in a home game against Ithaca. Come out and support Men's Tennis! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Third Year Recital: Grace Trenouth, soprano, with Bat-Erdene Batbileg, piano
"Diva Down!": Works by Schubert, Britten, Viardot, Schmidt, Schumann, and Bolcom.
Sunday, April 13, 2025 3 pm
Olin Hall Join us for a student recital. Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Olin Humanities, Room 201 If you’ve experienced sexual assault or know anyone who is a survivor, our support group is here for you and stands with you, and we’re here to listen and support you. No one deserves to go through this, and everyone who experienced abuse deserves the time, care, and resources they need to heal.
This is a closed group, meaning that once the meeting begins, no one may join in order to keep the group a safe space. This is not a therapeutic group, but a support group.
Baement in Resnick A Join us for a three session workshop session to spend time with and learn about spring edible plants :). We’ll start on April 13th by slowing down for a plant sit meditation to tap into the physical, spiritual, and energetic medicine plants hold. On April 18th we’ll meet at the waterfall for a sweet spring forage walk. Learn to identify and intentionally harvest spring edibles! On May 11th we’ll put all our plant love together and collectively cook and share a foraged dinner of nettle pesto pasta and dandelion salad over a bonfire. This is the first workshop of three.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Under The Sea Stitches: Crochet Coral Reef Workshop Series
Sunday, April 13, 2025 7:30–9 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Join the Bard College Office Of Sustainability for the first workshop in our Learn To Crochet Series, where we"ll start from the very beginning! Jamora Arroyo-Jefferson will teach the basics of crochet as we create coral appliques, building skills to eventually craft a full crochet coral reef while discussing ocean conservation. Bring your own hooks or borrow one from us! Come stitch for sustainability, see you there.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Institute of Advanced Theology Spring Lecture Series
Monday, April 14, 2025 12:30–2 pm
Bard Hall A lecture series from Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology The Bible does not mean only what Christianity says it means, or only what Judaism says it means, or only what Islam says it means. Biblical meaning also cannot be reduced to the caricatures produced by a small but strident coterie of atheist Fundamentalists in recent years.
The Bible unfolded over the course of a millennium of development. During that process social forces in each phase shaped the texts as they stand today, and in some cases the texts can be seen to push back against their contexts. The formation of the Bible resulted in the evolution of a social message, what the Aramaic, and Hebrew, and Greek languages of composition call a “gospel.” Our series is designed to uncover the grounding principles of this gospel as it unfolded over time and was articulated by the Bible in its own terms, before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam emerged.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail mgermano@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, April 14, 2025 1–2 pm
Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON MARCH 10 During this gentle Kripalu Yoga flow, students are invited to play with their edge, experiment with what works for their body, and make the practice their very own. In this yoga of compassion, we move through centering techniques and flow through postures, keeping an emphasis on the breath. Kripalu Yoga invites experimentation and inquiry into every movement and moment...come play!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy Offices) Come by the Chaplaincy office (Albee Basement) to knit or learn how to knit! Crocheters and needleworkers are also invited. Materials including yarn and knitting needles are provided. Everyone is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Join us for our bi-weekly meetings to learn about Caribbean culture through fun events, tough talks, collabs, and more! Dates: 2/10/25, 2/24/25, 3/10/25, 3,24/25, 4/7/25, 4/21/25, 5/5/25Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Stevenson Gym- Class Room 1 Come join us for our weekly juggling meeting on Mondays 7 pm - 9 pm. No experience required (We Will Teach You)!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
An hour-long program of short performances by Bard Conservatory students.
Monday, April 14, 2025 12 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Traduttore, Traditore? Reflections on Translating Dante
by Joe Luzzi (Bard College)
Monday, April 14, 2025 6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 The Italians have a saying traduttore, traditore – that is, the “translator" of a book can often be a “traitor” to it if he fails to capture both its letter and its spirit! In this event, Professor Joseph Luzzi will discuss his new translation of Dante’s Vita Nuova (Liveright/Norton, December 2024), which was Dante’s first book and a moving account of his youthful love for his muse, Beatrice, and his discovery of his passion for poetry. Professor Luzzi will show how his understanding of translation as a “way of thinking” also helped him complete his recent Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography (Princeton University Press, November 2024). Overall, he will share his experiences in trying to remain faithful to Dante’s original language, while at the same time bringing his own personal understanding and interpretation of the Vita Nuova, an early masterpiece by Italy’s so-called sommo poeta, supreme poet.Sponsored by: Italian Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail baldasso@bard.edu.
Human Rights Educators USA 2024–2025 Training As Action Series Module 8
Monday, April 14, 2025 7–9 pm
Online Event Human Rights Educators USA's annual Training as Action Series is a virtual series of workshops focused on bridging personal and collective action on some of the most critical human rights issues of today.
TAAS creates an educational space to connect and collaborate with others in human rights education and training. It also gives participants the skills, resources, and tools needed to take action on human rights issues in their communities.
The 2024-2025 series centers on: "Youth Power, Defending Human Rights: Learnings and Actions for the 35th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)."
April 14, 2025 @ 7pm EST MODULE 8: THEORY OF CHANGE: DESIGNING YOUTH SPACES/PLACES IN HUMAN RIGHTS Facilitators: Carly Sandstrom & Jessica Terbrueggen Register to join
Bard Electronic Music Program presents: N119 Night
Monday, April 14, 2025 8–10 pm
Blum N119 Bard electronic music students present music, films, experiments, and drafts in an informal setting. This month's musicians include Iris Gross, Felix LeVeque, August Levine, and Ondina McDonald. Open and free to the public. Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail msargent@bard.edu.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Massage is excellent for stress relief, to ease tense muscles, for headaches and backaches, and promotes a general sense of well-being.
Students: $80 for one hour, 30 minute sessions (students only) $45 Staff & Faculty: $100 for one hour
You can schedule a massage by texting or calling 845-702-6751. For more information visit www.gentlemountain.com. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Sottery Hall Bard College’s Campus Advocate Divine Perez-Ferreira will host regular office hours in Sottery 107 this semester on Tuesdays from 12–2 pm.
Divine works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can come to Sottery anytime between 12–2 pm.
CVSS offers:
- Information about domestic violence and sexual assault prevention; - Advocates who are there to support and believe you; - Connection to counseling or support groups; - Information about police reporting and the criminal justice system; and - Help finding additional services for student/faculty needs.
If you would like to schedule a meeting in advance, you can reach out to Divine directly at dperez@familyservicesny.org or to the Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination at nondiscrimination@bard.edu with your request.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail baldasso@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sylee@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pngo@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 TIME CHANGE FOR THE FOLLOWING DATE: April 22 6:30 p.m. instead of 5:30 p.m. Power Vinyasa focuses on building whole body strength and flexibility through a quick paced yoga flow. Incorporating lunges, squats, core work and balance postures, this challenging practice will make you sweat as you match breath and movement. Class will conclude with a wind-down to send you out the door feeling grounded. Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sxiong@bard.edu.
Latin American Student Organization General Meeting
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 6–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 A space to connect with LASO student members, share your thoughts, and learn more about our organization.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Humanities, Room 302 Come join, Tuesdays at 7 pm, to chat and play all things Pokemon! Meetings will be in Olin 302.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
April 15th Application Deadline | Levy Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
The Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy were created to offer students an alternative to mainstream programs in economics and finance. These innovative programs combine a rigorous course of study with the exceptional opportunity to participate in advanced economics research. Our application deadline is April 15th, 2025. Apply Now Sponsored by: Bard Graduate Programs; Levy Economics Institute; Levy Graduate Programs.
For more information, call 845-758-7776, or e-mail temerson@bard.edu.
Red Hook Village CCE is excited to announce an open call for submissions from emerging artists to show their art to the local community. Artists are invited to create art to display in one of four art boxes located in publicly-accessible spaces around the Town and Village of Red Hook. Each unit is permanently mounted on a six-sided wooden pole at eye level to provide an intimate viewing opportunity for the visitor from Spring 2025 to Spring 2026. This year's theme is Flora and Fauna: Celebrating the Hudson Valley.
If you live, work or attend school in or around Red Hook, you are most likely artistically inspired by the natural beauty of the Hudson Valley and its rich biodiversity. This is an opportunity to share your work and inspiration with the community! Official opening is May 10.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Our book, Disability Worlds, chronicles our immersion in NYC’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. Disability consciousness, we show, emerges in everyday politics, practices, and frictions, from genetic testing to the reimagining of kinship, and the perils of what some call “the disability cliff”, while highlighting the remarkable world-changing creativity of neurodiversity activists and disabled artists. In today’s talk, we will focus on a chapter entitled, “Living Otherwise” that tracks the histories and everyday practices of disability arts activists. We explored projects created by people with diverse bodyminds across a dizzying array of genres, producing new culturalimaginaries centered on disability experiences and aesthetics, reframing the very concept of artistry itself. The disability art world ranges from community theater and poetry readings in neighborhood libraries todisability arts boot camps at cultural institutions such as the Whitney Museum and the Gibney Performing Arts Center, dance at Lincoln Center, The Shed, the High Line, Broadway performances, and more. Our research preceded and coincided with the pandemic when many activities shifted online, creating unexpected challenges and opportunities in the disability arts world. Overall, we show how participation inthe arts offers new opportunities, resources, and models for “living otherwise.”Sponsored by: Anthropology Program and Disability & Difference.
For more information, call 845-758-7662, or e-mail sstamato@bard.edu.
Richard Gordon Jazz Series Featuring Eri Yamamoto’s Colors of The Night Trio
Jazz at Bard and the László Z. Bitó Conservatory of Music Present
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 4–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Free and open to the public. Artist Talk with Eri Yamamoto: 4:00–5:00 PM, Blum N211 Concert: 7:30 PM, László Z. Bitó Conservatory Performance Space Featuring: Eri Yamamoto, piano; William Parker, bass; Ikuo Takeuchi, drums.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 201-577-1092, or e-mail asanchez@bard.edu.
Featuring Eri Yamamoto’s Colors of The Night Trio - Concert at 7:30 pm in the Lásló Z. Bitó '60 Performance Space, Lecture at 4pm in Blum N211, the Jazz room
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 4–8:30 pm
László Z. Bitó Conservatory Performance Space This special concert is dedicated to the memory of Richard Gordon, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Bard College and a consummate jazz pianist. His enduring contributions to both academia and the arts will be honored through this musical tribute. The series is generously supported by Bard Jazz Studies, the Bitó Conservatory of Music and private donations in his memory.
Join us for an Artist's talk with Eri Yamamoto at 4pm in Blum N211, then a concert at 7:30 pm in the Lásló Z. Bitó '60 Performance Space.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail asanchez@bard.edu.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge We will be providing suturing kits and Yadriel will be giving an instructional! There will also be pizza!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Uri Shanas, Associate Professor at University of Haifa-Oranim
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 5:30–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 201 In this talk, Prof. Uri Shanas, will introduce the TiME (This is My Earth) initiative. TiME is a non-profit and volunteer-based international conservation organization that works with local communities to acquire and steward biodiversity hotspots around the world. The organization is led by an array of environmental leaders and renowned scientists from around the world. Since 2016, TiME has purchased and protected ten biodiversity hotspots in the upper Amazon, the Caribbean, Colombia, Brazil, Kenya, and Ecuador, protecting a total area of over 15 million square yards. After the talk, Professor Shanas will talk with students about potential involvement in TiME.
This event is sponsored by the Sociology and EUS/ES Programs.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Sociology Program.
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Daniel Mendelsohn and Robert Cioffi will read from Mendelsohn's edition of Homer’s Odyssey. Widely known for his essays on classical literature and culture in the New Yorker and many other publications, Mendelsohn gives us a line-for-line rendering of the Odyssey that is both engrossing as poetry and true to its source. Mendelsohn’s expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer’s dense verses without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original. A discussion will follow.
Please register for this free event here. Sponsored by: Classical Studies, the Dean of the College, and Oblong Books.
Kline, Faculty Dining Room Speakers: Youssef Ait Benasser, Assistant Professor, Trade Economist Emanuele Citera, Assistant Professor, Financial Economist Kyle Mohr, Assistant Professor, Macroeconomist Giuliano Toshoro Yajima, Research Scholar of the Levy Institute
Tariffs are making the headlines, but what do they really mean for the economy, workers, and global trade? Are they a tool for protection or a path to higher prices? How have they shaped economic history, and what role do they play in today’s financial and macroeconomic landscape?
Join us for a popup teach-in on tariffs where Bard expert panelists in trade policy, finance, and macroeconomics will break down the impacts, controversies, and future of tariffs. After short presentations, bring your questions for a lively discussion. Don’t miss this chance to cut through the noise and understand one of the most debated policy tools in today’s economy. See you there!
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions, and more. Schedule by texting/calling Phillip Brown at 845-943-7644
Please inquire about Health Insurances accepted For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON JANUARY 15 This class blends optimal alignment with the movement and grace of Vinyasa flow. Class includes seated, standing, and supine poses. The Vinyasa segment moves at a moderate pace allowing alignment cues to be woven in. A slower flow is accessible for newer students and allows more experienced students to refine their poses.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Albee; Annex Basement (La Voz Magazine on google Maps) Are you interested in journalism, activism, and Latino immigrant issues? La Voz magazine seeks to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
We invite students of all skills and talents to come to our weekly meeting on Wednesdays, 1:30 to 2:30pm, at the La Voz office (Albee Annex Basement, in front of Henderson computer lab), or via Zoom in case of bad weather. Regularly held at the Kline College Room.
Albee The Coalition of Christian Students will offer an Ecumenical Bible Study for the Bard Community every Wednesday from 5 to 6 pm in the Chaplaincy Office (Albee Basement). Our goal is to find common ground and prayerfully study scripture together. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Come join us for our Film Making At Bard weekly meetings. Any ideas/scripts for films are more than welcome, otherwise, come ready to plan and discuss!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Language Center, Room 120 This is a support group open for people who are looking to learn more about addiction. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House Come join us for a low-stakes writing group to get the creative juices flowing! Different guided prompts and themes every week. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Beyond the Binary: "It's Complicated" Weekly Screening Series
Featuring: The Third Narrative Podcast Screening
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 8–9:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Join us for our weekly screening series exploring nuanced and diverse perspectives on the Israel-Palestine conflict. “It’s Complicated”, a project of the Hannah Arendt Center, presents the Third Narrative podcast, led by Palestinian hosts Amira Mohammad and Ibrahim Abu Ahmed. Through candid conversations and nuanced analysis, they challenge biases, unpack complexities, and promote meaningful dialogue on Israel-Palestine, to foster meaningful understanding of the region.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Various Campus Locations The Bard Center for Civic Engagement and Career Development Office sponsor Community Action Awards that help cover costs associated with unpaid summer internships that support pre-professional experiences. Undergrads identify an internship site and apply for funding. Applications for the Summer of 2025 will open on Saturday March 1st.
Awards: Five $4,000 awards for 8+ week-long internships (the equivalent of approximately 250 hours) Eight $3,000 awards for 8 week-long internships (the equivalent of approximately 200 hours) Five $1,500 awards for 4 week-long internships (the equivalent of approximately 100 hours) PLEASE NOTE: Some smaller amounts of funding are available to cover expenses related to unpaid internships. CCE and CDO awards two awards maximum per internship site; each award is taxed.
FAQ's:
Am I eligible? All Bard undergrads who have at least one more semester at Bard are eligible, as long as they are pursuing a community-based, public-facing internship in the following fields: civic engagement, education, government, social justice, human rights, media, public policy, the arts and social entrepreneurship. Bard graduate students are not eligible for this award, unless you are a current undergrad transitioning to a Bard graduate studies program. The Community Action Award Program prioritizes first time CAA recipients, so that the Selection Committee can ensure spreading out opportunities amongst our student body.
If I have a local internship, can I live on Bard's campus for the duration of my internship? Yes, as long as you meet all Bard Residence Life summer housing deadlines! We will cover your on-campus housing costs
If I cannot pay out of pocket for pre-internship expenses (flights, housing, etc.), what should I do? You should schedule an appointment with either Elena Sniezek and Sarah deVeer to discuss your specific needs.
If I already received a Community Action Award in a previous summer, can I apply again? Yes, but your CAA application will only be considered after first time applicants are considered.
Anna Jones Memorial Garden Join us for Bard's Annual Easter Egg hunt, open to the Bard community (including the kids of Bard faculty, staff, and students). Our Easter Egg hunt features select prizes from local businesses!
The rain location will be inside the Bard Chapel.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Chaplaincy; Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sdeveer@bard.edu.
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center A film about "Combatants for Peace," a joint Palestinian-Israeli organization of former fighters. Sponsored by the Office of the President, the Dean of the College, Sociology, Interdisciplinary Study of Religions, and Jewish Studies programs, and It’s Complicated from the Hannah Arendt Center.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 This class is about listening to the body and focusing on form and breathwork to create a moving meditation. We will combine pranayama (breathwork practices) with a gentle flow, to create a space of solace from stress and anxiety. The class will be a mixture of hatha postures and dynamic sequences, with lots of variations and alternatives, allowing students to shape their own practice. Some classes will also end with sound baths before silent meditation. Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.
Join the Persian table every Thursday. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mshahbaz@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 17, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ochilton@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 17, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail fchamoun@bard.edu.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Come play chess with the Chess Club! We will be playing in the Georgeball Lounge, except on on 02/06, 02/13, and 03/27 when we will be playing in the Red Room.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail dabend@bard.edu.
Campus Center Lobby Learn about Health, Counseling, and Wellness. Get information on recovery or harm reduction resources on and off campus. Ask questions and make a connection with your peers!Sponsored by: Health, Counseling an Wellness .
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 17, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail zdallal@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 17, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail plopezga@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 Join us for a one hour mat pilates class, focusing on strengthening and toning muscles.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Campus Center, Lobby Guess what’s back? Thursday Night Live is kicking off again—starting Thursday, March 27th from 7 to 9 pm at Down The Road Café—and you’re invited. Presented by The Real in collaboration with the Student Activities Board, this weekly music series features a student band or artist tearing it up for the first 30 minutes, an open jam session where you can hop in and make some noise, chill vibes, and live music. But wait... there’s more. Only during Thursday Night Live, you can feast on:
A Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich hotter than your midterm stress
A new themed mocktail every week (surprise your taste buds)
So whether you’re here to play, vibe, or just vibe next to the people playing—come through. Let’s turn DTR into the live music hub it was always meant to be. We will not be having this event on 5/1.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Humanities, Room 204 Interested in improving your public speaking skills, traveling to compete at other colleges, or getting involved in our local events? All are welcome to join our regular weekly debate meetings! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail cbronte@bard.edu.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, come bake challah and help prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose, they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another with the openness and closeness that seem so natural in kitchens. All are welcome. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail jboettiger@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Olin Hall Featuring Bat-Erdene Batbileg, piano, and Lap Yin Lee, violin. Join us for a student recital. Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Led by Carlos Macías Prieto and Luis Chavez-Gonzalez
Thursday, April 17, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Olin 101 The Indigenous language of Nahuatl is currently spoken by over one and a half million people. Participants will learn basic greetings and expressions in modern Nahuatl. Presented as a part of Pueblos Originarios/Original Pueblos: Indigenous Perspectives from Turtle Island, Cemanahuac, and Abiayala.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 860-992-6472, or e-mail mroise@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The Men's Tennis team competes in a home game against Purchase. Come out and support Men's Tennis! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Open Studios: Works In-Progress by First-Year MA Students in Human Rights & the Arts
Thursday, April 17, 2025 3–6 pm
Massena Campus First-year MA students at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts present works in progress developed in their core requirement in art making, co-taught by artist and CHRA visiting faculty member Robin Frohardt and artist and CHRA scholar-in-residence Oscar Gardea.
The open studio is available on the Massena campus for the duration of this event. For those without access to a car, the Bard College Annandale-Massena Shuttle will offer transportation to Bard students, staff, and faculty between Kline Bus Stop (Southbound) and the Massena Campus Roundabout. Any and all persons riding Bard Shuttles must be Bard students, faculty, or staff members with a valid and legible Bard ID. Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Thursday, April 17, 2025 – Friday, April 18, 2025 3–12 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room This two-day class provides a journey through our personal and professional experience within a binary society. We will reflect on how we have challenged pre-established norms to expand our expression in tango and in life.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Student Activities.
Open Studios: Works In-Progress by First-Year MA Students in Human Rights & the Arts
Thursday, April 17, 2025 3–6 pm
Massena Campus First-year MA students at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts present works-in-progress developed in class, led by artists Robin Frohardt and Oscar Gardea. These works reflect their exploration of the potential of everyday objects and materials, with emphasis on repurposing discarded items and utilizing unconventional materials.
Material Storytelling, led by Robin Frohardt, delved into the use of discarded materials repurposed through various techniques to create narrative, build scenarios, and characters. Survey on Waste and the Supernatural, led by Oscar Gardea, observed the concept of waste as a strategy to reconfigure erased culture in zones of conflict. The showcased works range from puppetry to masks, object theater, costumes, and interactive installations, as employed to transform seemingly mundane or discarded materials into powerful tools for storytelling.
Parking is available on the Massena campus. The Bard Massena Shuttle offers transportation to Bard students, staff, and faculty between Kline Bus Stop (Southbound) and the Massena Campus Roundabout. Please see the shuttle schedule. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ahajyahia@bard.edu.
A journey to the south with Don Guaman Poma de Ayala
Thursday, April 17, 2025 3:30 pm
Olin 107 An urgent letter was sent in 1613 from Peru to the King of Spain. In this workshop, we will come together to uncover its urgency, painting images of the past that may help us to light our present.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 860-992-6472, or e-mail mroise@bard.edu.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Trust is a multifaceted concept that is a necessary component in most of our interactions, whether they be social, team-based, or goal oriented in nature. As robots enter our world, we need to understand what it means to trust a robot and what factors and situations have an impact on human-robot trust. This talk will introduce an overview of trust before discussing two types of trust that can be used to categorize the way human-robot interaction researchers define, investigate, and measure trust. The speaker will also present a study that looks at whether and how trust in robots transfers between environments.Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
A conversation with David Salle and Francine Prose
Thursday, April 17, 2025 5–7 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor David Salle and Francine Prose will discuss the artwork and writing of Janet Malcolm in conjunction with the exhibition Janet Malcolm: Critical Collage at Stevenson Library. David Salle, the subject of Malcolm’s 1994 New Yorker profile “Forty-One False Starts,” is one of America’s most esteemed painters. He is also the author of How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art . Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard Francine Prose is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, including Reading Like a Writer and The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired . She is the former president of the PEN American Center. All are welcome. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents A gathering to celebrate Christ's command to love and God's covenant with Israel with a simple meal.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Nahua (Aztec) Writing After the Conquest: Domingo Chimalpahin and the Cemanahuac Archive in Colonial Mexico
Thursday, April 17, 2025 6 pm
Olin 102 Part of Pueblos Originarios/Original Pueblos: Indigenous Perspectives from Turtle Island, Cemanahuac, and Abiayala. A gathering to foster dialogue about Indigeneity throughout the Americas.
This presentation examines the writings of don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin (hereafter Chimalpahin), a Nahua tlacuilo (scribe) who produced the largest body of written texts in Nahuatl and Spanish among Nahua (Aztec) writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; it illustrates that Chimalpahin refutes Spanish historiography by revising and extending the narratives of Spanish, castizo, mestizo, and Indigenous authors, all while placing Indigenous history in a global context. By framing Chimalpahin’s work as a forward-looking endeavor, Chimalpahin’s writing encourages us to reconsider Nahua intellectual production at the turn of the seventeenth century and as a starting point from which to imagine alternative futures that support Indigenous struggles for land and self-determination.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mroise@bard.edu.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions and more. Schedule an appointment by texting or calling Dr. Sarah Heslip at (413) 884-2798. Please inquire about insurance. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Craft and Connect at 12 pm at Sawkill Coffee House. Offered by Wellness Education, Counseling, and Disability Access Services
Friday, April 18, 2025 12–1 pm
Sawkill Coffee House Crafting, puzzles. community, connections, and tips and strategies for being and staying resilient! Email wellnesseducation@bard.edu to sign up, but walk-ins are welcome.
New Annandale House The International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) meets for lab time every Friday at New Annandale House. Those interested in digital humanities or archiving are welcome to stop by any time between 12 and 4 pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pf0250@bard.edu.
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion known as the parsha, each week. Join Rabbi Joshua Boettiger and others in the Bard community for an informal Torah Study session each Friday—open to everyone of all religious backgrounds.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Jewish Studies Program.
Kingston Mosque The Muslim Student Organization (MSO) offers transportation for anyone who would like to go to the mosque on Fridays for Jummah Prayers. The pick-up time is at 12:00 p.m. for the Kingston Mosque and the departure time from the Mosque is 2 pm. Time is flexible based on who is driving and how many people join.
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Gathering of writers and editors for the paper to work on current issues! Anyone is welcome to join, and no experience is required. On 3/28 we will be meeting in Olin 203.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
TBD weekly Bring your bike to one or all of these rides. Meet at 2 pm. More Info when you sign up by scanning the QR code below or email lb9580@bard.edu All experience levels are welcome. Helmets available! Programs made possible by a generous donation in loving memory of James Kirk Bernard. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Bard On Go weekly meeting. The first meeting is for our club members to connect with each other, discussing video ideas for the upcoming semester.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Stevenson Library You're warmly invited to join from 3:30 to 5:00pm in Stevenson Library 402 (fourth floor) to work on your Senior Project in a calm, quiet, and supportive space.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jesmith@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House Come craft with us. We will be doing sewing, knitting, paper crafts, and anything else you like! Learn new skills or work on a project.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail jboettiger@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event We're reading The Life of the Mind, Hannah Arendt’s unfinished final work. In it, she focuses on three basic mental activities—thinking, willing, and judging—and their relation to the world of appearances and to the human capacity for moral and political action. The new critical edition makes available in print, for the first time, the text of the typescripts as Arendt left them, complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished material, detailed annotations, and extensive scholarly commentary. We will also be referring to Mary McCarthy's edition for increased accessibility.
Free to HAC members and to Bard students, staff, and faculty! Email arendt@bard.edu for the Zoom link.
Find the full Virtural Reading Group schedule: hac.bard.edu/programs/vrg/ Get the new critical edition of The Life of the Mindhere.
Don't worry if you miss a VRG meeting! We post them all on our YouTube channel the week after they're recorded. Or tune in to an edited version of the chapter readings plus bonus episodes on our podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Thursday, April 17, 2025 – Friday, April 18, 2025 3–12 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room This two-day class provides a journey through our personal and professional experience within a binary society. We will reflect on how we have challenged pre-established norms to expand our expression in tango and in life.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Student Activities.
Montgomery Place Estate Join Montgomery Place for a Magnolia foraging walk and syrup tasting led by CEP Environmental Science & Policy Graduate Student Kim Easlick! We'll kick off the event with a stroll across the grounds to the Saucer magnolia (Magnolia ×soulangeana) in front of the mansion, where we'll gather petals to simmer into a delicious syrup, with recipe courtesy of Alexis Nikole, The Black Forager.
Afterward, students can sample the syrup by adding it to a tea or espresso-based drink of their choice, sponsored by local Red Hook business, JB Peel Coffee & Tea! Registration is free and limited to 20 participants and is first come, first serve. Register here. We look forward to seeing you there!Sponsored by: Bard Arboretum; Montgomery Place.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ke2849@bard.edu.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents A Good Friday Service remembering Christ’s crucifixion and the reading of The Passion according to the Gospel of John. All are welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Campus Center, Lobby Psychology Study. Three psychology students are looking for participants for their study being held in the Campus Center on Friday, April 18th, from 12 pm to 5 pm and on Saturday, April 19th, from 4 pm to 7 pm. Anyone over 18 can participate! If you choose to participate, you can be entered into a raffle to win a $40 Barnes and Noble gift card! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
The Madness of Delusions: Is it Time to Drop the D-Word?
Friday, April 18, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Hegeman 204
A vast philosophical and scientific literature has grown up around the nature and function of delusions. Professor Justin Garson will argue in this talk that we should abandon the concept of delusion entirely because it involves an unreasonable and harmful stance toward the “delusional patient.” As a case study, this talk considers the plight of targeted individuals (TIs), a global community whose members have the belief that they are the victims of organized stalking or electronic harassment.
Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ktabb@bard.edu.
Meet at the waterfall Join us for a three session workshop session to spend time with and learn about spring edible plants. We’ll start on April 13 by slowing down for a plant sit meditation to tap into the physical, spiritual, and energetic medicine plants hold. On April 18th we’ll meet at the waterfall for a sweet spring forage walk. Learn to identify and intentionally harvest spring edibles! On May 11th we’ll put all our plant love together and collectively cook and share a foraged dinner of nettle pesto pasta and dandelion salad over a bonfire. This is the second workshop of three.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Professor Andre Isaacs will be hosting a talk about copper-catalyzed "click chemistry" and outreach for students from marginalized groups.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Making it Click: An Approach to N-Heterocycles and Inclusive Excellence
A talk by Dr. André Isaacs, Associate Professor of Chemistry, The College of the Holy Cross
Friday, April 18, 2025 1:10 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Dr. Isaacs's research is centered on a very reliable organic reaction: the copper-catalyzed cycloaddition of sulfonyl azides and terminal alkynes (CuAAC) commonly known as ‘click chemistry’. This fragmentation creates reactive intermediates which can be intercepted to synthesize nitrogen heterocycles, important structural components in a majority of pharmaceutical drugs. This seminar will also discuss strategies that capitalize on the learning styles and culture of the younger generation to broaden participation in STEM.Sponsored by: Chemistry Program; Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mclaughl@bard.edu.
Tennis Courts The Women's Tennis team competes in a home match against Liberty League foe RIT. Come out and support Women's Tennis!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Tennis Courts The Men's Tennis team competes in a home match against Liberty League foe RIT. Come out and support Men's Tennis!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Ferrari Soccer & Lacrosse Complex The Women's Lacrosse team competes in a home conference game against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) for Senior Day. Come out and support Women's Lacrosse!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Student-led service with Gospel Choir, Stations of the Cross, Passion Reading, and Quaker Silence.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Performances by Riley Lyons, Ameya Natarajan, Christina Ng-Leyba, and Eli Rupper, tenor trombone; Yu-Tien James Chou, bass trombone; and Zander Grier, tuba and bass trombone.
Friday, April 18, 2025 7 pm
Olin Hall Featuring works by Mahler, Pergolesi, Theo Charlier, Ferdinand David, Don Haddad, Stjepan Sulek, Tchaikovsky, and Edward MacDowell.
Free and open to the public. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Discussion with Comedian, Peace Builder, and Activist Noam Shuster Eliassi
Presented by Beyond the Binary
Friday, April 18, 2025 7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 Join us for an evening of critical conversation and cultural insight with Noam Shuster Eliassi—comedian, activist, and cultural critic. Noam uses comedy to challenge systems of power and open space for dialogue on justice, identity, and coexistence. She grew up in Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, the only intentionally mixed Palestinian-Jewish community in Israel, and performs in Hebrew, Arabic, and English.
Her work spans stages across the globe, including the Palestine Comedy Festival, where she became the first Jewish performer to take the mic. With a background in peacebuilding and a sharp comedic voice, Noam brings together stories, satire, and social critique in a way that’s as entertaining as it is necessary.
This event is hosted by It’s Complicated, a student-led project of the Hannah Arendt Center, creating space for thoughtful learning, cross-perspective dialogue, and critical engagement around Israel/Palestine.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space FeaturingNeilson Chen, piano; Luca Sakon, violin; Lili Simon, violin; Nandor Burai, violin; Sándor Burka, violin; Jessica Ward, viola; Dari Batsaikhan, cello; Yu-Cih Chang, double bass; Ashley Lim, harp; and David Kéringer, conductor. Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
The Bard Theater & Performance Program presents Good Penny by DN Bashir, Assistant Professor of Theater & Performance at Bard College, and directed by Katherine Wilkinson.
Manor House Cafe Collaboration with the CCE's Gender Equity Leadership Initiative. Stop by to make menstrual kits for donation, eat pizza, and play trivia for prizes!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room This annual event, hosted by the Institute for International Liberal Education (IILE) in partnership with a multitude of Bard community organizations and departments, provides a space for people to learn about different cultures and connect with others who share their interests and values while enjoying food from around the world. Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education; Office of International Student and Scholar Services.
Sierra Presents: Discussing the BIPOC experience at Bard
Saturday, April 19, 2025 1:30–3 pm
Gilson Place How can the BIPOC experience be better at Bard? Attend this informal forum for a community discussion. Let’s talk school policies!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Ferrari Soccer & Lacrosse Complex The Women's Lacrosse team competes in a home game against Ithaca College for Pride Day. Come out and support Women's Lacrosse!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
The Bard Theater & Performance Program presents Good Penny by DN Bashir, Assistant Professor of Theater & Performance at Bard College, and directed by Katherine Wilkinson.
Studio Art Senior Project Exhibition Opening Reception
Bard Exhibition Center, UBS Exhibition #2
Saturday, April 19, 2025 3–6 pm
Bard Exhibition Center Please join us to celebrate the work of our second group of senior students exhibiting in Red Hook at the Bard Exhibition Center: Tommy Bennett, Veritie Howard, Mya Muchineuta, Autumn Knight, Zoe Mogannam, Mia Natelli, Paulina Jamieson, Sammie Perez, Roma Taitwood, and Calum Tinker. For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail pmead@bard.edu.
Campus Center, Quad The Rhythm and Food Fest brings Bard's campus an array of cultural food and performances, music, vendors, artists, and fun. Please come out and indulge yourself in this space for joy and festivities. RAIN DATE - 4/13/25 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Join us for prop making, wig styling, sewing, and any other cosplay related crafts. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Lobby Psychology Study. Three psychology students are looking for participants for their study being held in the Campus Center on Friday, April 18th, from 12 pm to 5 pm and on Saturday, April 19th, from 4 pm to 7 pm. Anyone over 18 can participate! If you choose to participate, you can be entered into a raffle to win a $40 Barnes and Noble gift card! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Lobby Help us fundraise to support the renovations and continued growth of the Rondout Community Garden in Kingston, a grassroots effort to promote sustainability, environmental justice, and community healing through gardening in low-income communities! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
The Bard Baroque Ensemble, under the direction of Renée Anne Louprette, presents its debut performance in the Fisher Center, featuring works by Bach, Handel, and Mozart dedicated to the memory of Frederick Fisher Hammond (1937–2023), Professor Emeritus and the Irma Brandeis Chair of Romance Cultures and Music History.
The program celebrates the restoration of Professor Hammond’s French double-manual and Italian single-manual harpsichords—now a part of Bard College’s collection of early keyboard instruments—featuring them in the Concerto for Two Harpsichords, Strings, and Continuo in C Minor, BWV 1060 by Johann Sebastian Bach, with Sophia Cornicello and Raymond Erickson as harpsichord soloists.
One of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s most popular and enduring works, Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550, opens the program, interpreted by the Ensemble with a Baroque sensibility. Bard faculty member and distinguished tenor Rufus Müller presents the ravishing opening aria from Handel’s Serse: Ombra mai fu (Never was a shade).
The program concludes with Bach’s Cantata No. 1: Wie schön leuchtet Der Morgenstern (How brightly shines the Morningstar), featuring the Bard Chamber Singers, Preparatory Division Children’s Chorus, and soloists from the Graduate Vocal Arts Program. This luminous chorale-cantata—originally conceived for the Feast of the Annunciation—is presented here in the context of transition from darkness to light, on the date of Holy Saturday within the Christian Church. Valentina Grasso, Assistant Professor of History at Bard, will present a reading from Dante’s Divine Comedy—in lieu of the traditional Lutheran sermon—at the center of Bach’s 1725 masterpiece.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater The Bard Baroque Ensemble, under the direction of Renée Anne Louprette, presents its debut performance in the Fisher Center, featuring works by Bach, Handel, and Mozart dedicated to the memory of Frederick Fisher Hammond (1937–2023), Professor Emeritus and the Irma Brandeis Chair of Romance Cultures and Music History. The program celebrates the restoration of Professor Hammond’s French double-manual and Italian single-manual harpsichords, now a part of Bard College’s collection of early keyboard instruments, featuring them in the Concerto for Two Harpsichords, Strings, and Continuo in C Minor, BWV 1060 by Johann Sebastian Bach, with Sophia Cornicello and Raymond Erickson as harpsichord soloists.
The Bard Theater & Performance Program presents Good Penny by DN Bashir, Assistant Professor of Theater & Performance at Bard College, and directed by Katherine Wilkinson.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (1114 River Road) in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome!
Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at 11:30 in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jhess@bard.edu.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge A space for Anthro seniors to read SPROJ work, discuss, receive feedback, and for all Anthro majors to share any anthropological writing. There will be refreshments.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Coalition Of Christian Students: Quaker Meeting For Worship
Sunday, April 20, 2025 1–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are invited to join us as we gather in silence to seek the Inner-Light. No minister leads us in worship, no prayers or hymns are planned. We wait and listen for the Holy Spirit to speak in and through us. Both our silence and our spoken words bring us closer together and closer to God. Meeting will take place on the First Day of each week (Sunday) at the Chapel of the Holy Innocents from 1-2pm.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Humanities, Room 201 If you’ve experienced sexual assault or know anyone who is a survivor, our support group is here for you and stands with you, and we’re here to listen and support you. No one deserves to go through this, and everyone who experienced abuse deserves the time, care, and resources they need to heal.
This is a closed group, meaning that once the meeting begins, no one may join in order to keep the group a safe space. This is not a therapeutic group, but a support group.
The Bard Theater & Performance Program presents Good Penny by DN Bashir, Assistant Professor of Theater & Performance at Bard College, and directed by Katherine Wilkinson.
Degree Recital: Jalen Mims, clarinet, with Neilson Chen, piano
Works by Othmar Schoeck, Johannes Brahms, and Paquito D’Rivera.
Sunday, April 20, 2025 4 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Join us for a student recital. Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Institute of Advanced Theology Spring Lecture Series
Monday, April 21, 2025 12:30–2 pm
Bard Hall A lecture series from Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology The Bible does not mean only what Christianity says it means, or only what Judaism says it means, or only what Islam says it means. Biblical meaning also cannot be reduced to the caricatures produced by a small but strident coterie of atheist Fundamentalists in recent years.
The Bible unfolded over the course of a millennium of development. During that process social forces in each phase shaped the texts as they stand today, and in some cases the texts can be seen to push back against their contexts. The formation of the Bible resulted in the evolution of a social message, what the Aramaic, and Hebrew, and Greek languages of composition call a “gospel.” Our series is designed to uncover the grounding principles of this gospel as it unfolded over time and was articulated by the Bible in its own terms, before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam emerged.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail mgermano@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, April 21, 2025 1–2 pm
Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON MARCH 10 During this gentle Kripalu Yoga flow, students are invited to play with their edge, experiment with what works for their body, and make the practice their very own. In this yoga of compassion, we move through centering techniques and flow through postures, keeping an emphasis on the breath. Kripalu Yoga invites experimentation and inquiry into every movement and moment...come play!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy Offices) Come by the Chaplaincy office (Albee Basement) to knit or learn how to knit! Crocheters and needleworkers are also invited. Materials including yarn and knitting needles are provided. Everyone is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Join us for our bi-weekly meetings to learn about Caribbean culture through fun events, tough talks, collabs, and more! Dates: 2/10/25, 2/24/25, 3/10/25, 3,24/25, 4/7/25, 4/21/25, 5/5/25Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Stevenson Gym- Class Room 1 Come join us for our weekly juggling meeting on Mondays 7 pm - 9 pm. No experience required (We Will Teach You)!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Pollution, Community Waters, and Unequal Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York
Monday, April 21, 2025 – Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Olin Language Center, Room 115
This series brings together Brazilian and American researchers from the humanities, social studies, and natural sciences to discuss urban and environmental studies and participatory methodologies. They focus on case studies of peripheral neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, where two speakers were raised and others have spent years conducting in-depth ethnographic research. Rio’s favelas and peripheries are characterized by high levels of poverty, environmental degradation, and street violence, as well as being hubs of active community organizing, art production, and local scholarship. The speakers will share insights from their research, discuss their participation in community-science projects, and highlight alternative routes for disseminating data, art, and activism.
We will provide space for formal talks, open round tables, and informal discussions. A companion workshop in Rio de Janeiro in August of this year will build upon the insights from the event at Bard and incorporate civil society members in Rio.
Sponsored by: Sociology, Anthropology, Environmental & Urban Studies, History, LAIS, Politics, ELAS, Data Analytics, & the Center for Human Rights & the Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail pklein@bard.edu.
Environmental Injustice Across the Americas: Pollution, Community Waters, and Unequal Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York
Monday, April 21, 2025 – Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Environmental Injustice Across the Americas: Pollution, Community Waters, and Unequal Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York
This Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences series brings together Brazilian and American researchers from the humanities, social studies, and natural sciences to discuss urban and environmental studies and participatory methodologies. The events focus on case studies of peripheral neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, where two speakers were raised and others have spent years conducting in-depth ethnographic research.
Rio’s favelas and peripheries are characterized by high levels of poverty, environmental degradation, and street violence, as well as being hubs of active community organizing, art production, and local scholarship. The speakers will share insights from their research, discuss their participation in community-science projects, and highlight alternative routes for disseminating data, art, and activism.
Schedule:
Monday, April 21 at 11:50am – 1:10pm in Olin LC 115 “The Politics of Waste, Sacrifice Zones, and the Production of Rio de Janeiro” Maria Raquel Passos Lima and Mariana Cavalcanti
Tuesday, April 22 at 3:30pm – 6:00pm in Weis Cinema “Participatory Research, Community Science, Art, and Activism in Rio de Janeiro” Maria Raquel Passos Lima, Henrique Gomes, Nicholas Barnes, Luna Borges, and Andreza da Silveira Jorge
Wednesday, April 23 at 11:50am – 1:10pm in Olin LC 115 “The Favela and the Sea: Fishing, Violence, and Environmental (In)Justice in Rio de Janeiro” Henrique Gomes, Nicholas Barnes, Luna Borges Pereira Santos, and Peter Klein
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail pklein@bard.edu. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Quad Please join the Bard Arboretum for an informational Arbor Day tabling session on Monday, April 21. We'll have a variety of resources for students, as well as small prizes for answering tree-related trivia questions. We hope to see you there! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ke2849@bard.edu.
Music Research Strategies' (Marshall Trammell) Grammar of Motives
Sawkill Watershed score visualization based on found data
Monday, April 21, 2025 1:30–3 pm
Sawkill Creek -- meet at the mushroom farm Music Research Strategies' (Marshall Trammell) Grammar of Motives is a hands-on, student-made, tactical media-making Insurgent Learning Workshop to create a graphic score music composition and conduction system for a faculty performance based on highlighting popular education and conservation inititiaves from the Bard Community Science Lab and the Saw Kill Watershed Community.
RSVP here. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The Men's Tennis team competes in a home game against Lehman and will be celebrating their Seniors. Come out and support Men's Tennis! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
First-Year Seminar • Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition
And the Artwork that Inspired it
Monday, April 21, 2025 5:15–6:45 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
This performance, featuring the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, is presented as part of the second-semester program for the First-Year Seminar.
This semester, the course invites students to engage with the complexities of democratic life—its challenges, responsibilities, and possibilities. Through foundational texts in literature, philosophy, history, and political theory, students explore enduring questions of citizenship, belonging, and the meaning of community.
Culture—including music—plays a vital role in shaping how we imagine and inhabit our shared world. This performance expands on that conversation, offering a powerful artistic lens through which to reflect on the human dimensions of civic life.
This performance, featuring the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, is presented as part of the second-semester program for the First-Year Seminar.
This semester, the course invites students to engage with the complexities of democratic life— its challenges, responsibilities, and possibilities. Through foundational texts in literature, philosophy, history, and political theory, students explore enduring questions of citizenship, belonging, and the meaning of community. Culture (including music) plays a vital role in shaping how we imagine and inhabit our shared world. This performance expands on that conversation, offering a powerful artistic lens through which to reflect on the human dimensions of civic life.
Attendance is mandatory for First-Year Seminar students.Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail fysem@bard.edu.
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Screening of an Oscar-winning film about the destruction of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta. Followed by a discussion with Sam Stein, a Palestinian Solidarity Activist working in Masafer Yatta.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Massage is excellent for stress relief, to ease tense muscles, for headaches and backaches, and promotes a general sense of well-being.
Students: $80 for one hour, 30 minute sessions (students only) $45 Staff & Faculty: $100 for one hour
You can schedule a massage by texting or calling 845-702-6751. For more information visit www.gentlemountain.com. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Sottery Hall Bard College’s Campus Advocate Divine Perez-Ferreira will host regular office hours in Sottery 107 this semester on Tuesdays from 12–2 pm.
Divine works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can come to Sottery anytime between 12–2 pm.
CVSS offers:
- Information about domestic violence and sexual assault prevention; - Advocates who are there to support and believe you; - Connection to counseling or support groups; - Information about police reporting and the criminal justice system; and - Help finding additional services for student/faculty needs.
If you would like to schedule a meeting in advance, you can reach out to Divine directly at dperez@familyservicesny.org or to the Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination at nondiscrimination@bard.edu with your request.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail baldasso@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sylee@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pngo@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 TIME CHANGE FOR THE FOLLOWING DATE: April 22 6:30 p.m. instead of 5:30 p.m. Power Vinyasa focuses on building whole body strength and flexibility through a quick paced yoga flow. Incorporating lunges, squats, core work and balance postures, this challenging practice will make you sweat as you match breath and movement. Class will conclude with a wind-down to send you out the door feeling grounded. Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sxiong@bard.edu.
Latin American Student Organization General Meeting
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 6–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 A space to connect with LASO student members, share your thoughts, and learn more about our organization.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Humanities, Room 302 Come join, Tuesdays at 7 pm, to chat and play all things Pokemon! Meetings will be in Olin 302.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Pollution, Community Waters, and Unequal Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York
Monday, April 21, 2025 – Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Olin Language Center, Room 115
This series brings together Brazilian and American researchers from the humanities, social studies, and natural sciences to discuss urban and environmental studies and participatory methodologies. They focus on case studies of peripheral neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, where two speakers were raised and others have spent years conducting in-depth ethnographic research. Rio’s favelas and peripheries are characterized by high levels of poverty, environmental degradation, and street violence, as well as being hubs of active community organizing, art production, and local scholarship. The speakers will share insights from their research, discuss their participation in community-science projects, and highlight alternative routes for disseminating data, art, and activism.
We will provide space for formal talks, open round tables, and informal discussions. A companion workshop in Rio de Janeiro in August of this year will build upon the insights from the event at Bard and incorporate civil society members in Rio.
Sponsored by: Sociology, Anthropology, Environmental & Urban Studies, History, LAIS, Politics, ELAS, Data Analytics, & the Center for Human Rights & the Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail pklein@bard.edu.
Environmental Injustice Across the Americas: Pollution, Community Waters, and Unequal Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York
Monday, April 21, 2025 – Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Environmental Injustice Across the Americas: Pollution, Community Waters, and Unequal Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York
This Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences series brings together Brazilian and American researchers from the humanities, social studies, and natural sciences to discuss urban and environmental studies and participatory methodologies. The events focus on case studies of peripheral neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, where two speakers were raised and others have spent years conducting in-depth ethnographic research.
Rio’s favelas and peripheries are characterized by high levels of poverty, environmental degradation, and street violence, as well as being hubs of active community organizing, art production, and local scholarship. The speakers will share insights from their research, discuss their participation in community-science projects, and highlight alternative routes for disseminating data, art, and activism.
Schedule:
Monday, April 21 at 11:50am – 1:10pm in Olin LC 115 “The Politics of Waste, Sacrifice Zones, and the Production of Rio de Janeiro” Maria Raquel Passos Lima and Mariana Cavalcanti
Tuesday, April 22 at 3:30pm – 6:00pm in Weis Cinema “Participatory Research, Community Science, Art, and Activism in Rio de Janeiro” Maria Raquel Passos Lima, Henrique Gomes, Nicholas Barnes, Luna Borges, and Andreza da Silveira Jorge
Wednesday, April 23 at 11:50am – 1:10pm in Olin LC 115 “The Favela and the Sea: Fishing, Violence, and Environmental (In)Justice in Rio de Janeiro” Henrique Gomes, Nicholas Barnes, Luna Borges Pereira Santos, and Peter Klein
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail pklein@bard.edu. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, 21 April, 5:30PM. Stevenson Library A Conversation between editor Bradford Morrow and critic Christian Lorentzen on the importance of literary journals for contemporary writers.
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Tuesday, 22 April, 5:00PM. Bito Conservatory Auditorium A Reading with special guests, including Forrest Gander, Shane McCrae, and Francine Prose.
Since 1981, Conjunctions, founded and edited by Bradford Morrow, has been the preeminent home for writers who challenge convention with works that are formally innovative and culturally transformative.
Bard has been publishing Conjunctions since 1990, beginning with issue #15 and running through to forthcoming issue #84 We Love All We Voices.
Conjunctions was Initially conceived as a festschrift for New Directions’ founder, James Laughlin. The inaugural issue included Tennessee Williams, John Hawkes, Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, and Paul Bowles. Since the journal has come to Bard, it has featured work by, among many others: Forrest Gander, Mary Caponegro, Joyce Carol Oats, Robert Creeley, Lydia Davis, Ben Okri, Jayne Anne Phillips, Ann Lauterbach, David Foster Wallace, Rick Moody, Peter Gizzi, Karen Russell, Nathanael Mackey and Shane McCrae. Sponsored by: Office of the President, Office of the Dean of the College, and Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail caponegr@bard.edu.
The Graduate Vocal Arts Program Presents: First-Year Vocal Ensembles Concert
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 12 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space The first year students of the Graduate Vocal Arts program present a short lunchtime concert of 16th and 17th century unaccompanied madrigals and airs by composers including John Dowland and Henry Purcell. Free and open to the public.
Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
Jazz Room Music Research Strategies' (Marshall Trammell) Grammar of Motives is a hands-on, student-made, tactical media-making Insurgent Learning Workshop to create a graphic score music composition and conduction system for a faculty performance based on highlighting popular education and conservation inititiaves from the Bard Community Science Lab and the Saw Kill Watershed Community. Join us for drafting and rehearsal.
RSVP here. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, and Literary Biography: A talk by Zachary Leader
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 5:30–7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce has been called “the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century.” This talk, by the critic and biographer Zachary Leader, tells the story of the book and its maker, in the process arguing for the artistic claims not only of Ellmann himself, a remarkable man, but of literary biography in general.
Zachary Leader (born 1946) is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton. He was an undergraduate at Northwestern University, and did graduate work at Trinity College, Cambridge and Harvard University, where he was awarded a PhD in English in 1977. Although born and raised in the U.S. he has lived for over forty years in the U.K., and has dual British and American citizenship. His best-known works are The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2001), The Life of Kingsley Amis (2007), a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964 (2015), which was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize in the U.K. The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife 1965 to 2005 was published in 2018. He has written and edited a dozen books, including both volumes of the Saul Bellow biography, and is General Editor of The Oxford History of Life-Writing, a seven-volume series published by OUP. A recipient of Guggenheim, Whiting, Huntington, Leverhulme and British Academy Fellowships, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Introduction: Gregory Moynahan, Associate Professor of History, Bard College Q&A Moderator: Elizabeth Frank, Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, Bard CollegeSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Division of Social Studies; German Studies Program; Hannah Arendt Center; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Irish and Celtic Studies (ICS) Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail frank@bard.edu.
Online Event This month's special guest James Romm, in conversation about his forthcoming book, Plato and the Tyrant, with host Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center.
Plato and the Tyrant (Norton, May 2025) is a hard look at Plato's political misadventure in the Greek city of Syracuse, where Plato collaborated with a despotic regime in hopes of moderating its absolutism, and at the ways his Republic is connected, in disquieting ways, to that Syracusan episode.
James Romm is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College and author of numerous books on topics from Greek history and culture. His essays and reviews appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.
For Love of the World, every fourth Tuesday from 6-6:30 pm on Radio Kingston is your portal to the bold ideas and respectful, deep conversations about contemporary issues that we’re having regularly at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Join host Roger Berkowitz each month as we delve into the work of one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, Hannah Arendt, with renowned scholars and public intellectuals, and exemplify what it means to have a conversation of patient humility, in the Arendtian tradition.
1490 AM | 107.9 FM | or stream online and anytime at radiokingston.orgSponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions, and more. Schedule by texting/calling Phillip Brown at 845-943-7644
Please inquire about Health Insurances accepted For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON JANUARY 15 This class blends optimal alignment with the movement and grace of Vinyasa flow. Class includes seated, standing, and supine poses. The Vinyasa segment moves at a moderate pace allowing alignment cues to be woven in. A slower flow is accessible for newer students and allows more experienced students to refine their poses.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Albee; Annex Basement (La Voz Magazine on google Maps) Are you interested in journalism, activism, and Latino immigrant issues? La Voz magazine seeks to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
We invite students of all skills and talents to come to our weekly meeting on Wednesdays, 1:30 to 2:30pm, at the La Voz office (Albee Annex Basement, in front of Henderson computer lab), or via Zoom in case of bad weather. Regularly held at the Kline College Room.
Albee The Coalition of Christian Students will offer an Ecumenical Bible Study for the Bard Community every Wednesday from 5 to 6 pm in the Chaplaincy Office (Albee Basement). Our goal is to find common ground and prayerfully study scripture together. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Come join us for our Film Making At Bard weekly meetings. Any ideas/scripts for films are more than welcome, otherwise, come ready to plan and discuss!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Language Center, Room 120 This is a support group open for people who are looking to learn more about addiction. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House Come join us for a low-stakes writing group to get the creative juices flowing! Different guided prompts and themes every week. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Beyond the Binary: "It's Complicated" Weekly Screening Series
Featuring: The Third Narrative Podcast Screening
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 8–9:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Join us for our weekly screening series exploring nuanced and diverse perspectives on the Israel-Palestine conflict. “It’s Complicated”, a project of the Hannah Arendt Center, presents the Third Narrative podcast, led by Palestinian hosts Amira Mohammad and Ibrahim Abu Ahmed. Through candid conversations and nuanced analysis, they challenge biases, unpack complexities, and promote meaningful dialogue on Israel-Palestine, to foster meaningful understanding of the region.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Pollution, Community Waters, and Unequal Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York
Monday, April 21, 2025 – Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Olin Language Center, Room 115
This series brings together Brazilian and American researchers from the humanities, social studies, and natural sciences to discuss urban and environmental studies and participatory methodologies. They focus on case studies of peripheral neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, where two speakers were raised and others have spent years conducting in-depth ethnographic research. Rio’s favelas and peripheries are characterized by high levels of poverty, environmental degradation, and street violence, as well as being hubs of active community organizing, art production, and local scholarship. The speakers will share insights from their research, discuss their participation in community-science projects, and highlight alternative routes for disseminating data, art, and activism.
We will provide space for formal talks, open round tables, and informal discussions. A companion workshop in Rio de Janeiro in August of this year will build upon the insights from the event at Bard and incorporate civil society members in Rio.
Sponsored by: Sociology, Anthropology, Environmental & Urban Studies, History, LAIS, Politics, ELAS, Data Analytics, & the Center for Human Rights & the Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail pklein@bard.edu.
Environmental Injustice Across the Americas: Pollution, Community Waters, and Unequal Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York
Monday, April 21, 2025 – Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Environmental Injustice Across the Americas: Pollution, Community Waters, and Unequal Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York
This Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences series brings together Brazilian and American researchers from the humanities, social studies, and natural sciences to discuss urban and environmental studies and participatory methodologies. The events focus on case studies of peripheral neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, where two speakers were raised and others have spent years conducting in-depth ethnographic research.
Rio’s favelas and peripheries are characterized by high levels of poverty, environmental degradation, and street violence, as well as being hubs of active community organizing, art production, and local scholarship. The speakers will share insights from their research, discuss their participation in community-science projects, and highlight alternative routes for disseminating data, art, and activism.
Schedule:
Monday, April 21 at 11:50am – 1:10pm in Olin LC 115 “The Politics of Waste, Sacrifice Zones, and the Production of Rio de Janeiro” Maria Raquel Passos Lima and Mariana Cavalcanti
Tuesday, April 22 at 3:30pm – 6:00pm in Weis Cinema “Participatory Research, Community Science, Art, and Activism in Rio de Janeiro” Maria Raquel Passos Lima, Henrique Gomes, Nicholas Barnes, Luna Borges, and Andreza da Silveira Jorge
Wednesday, April 23 at 11:50am – 1:10pm in Olin LC 115 “The Favela and the Sea: Fishing, Violence, and Environmental (In)Justice in Rio de Janeiro” Henrique Gomes, Nicholas Barnes, Luna Borges Pereira Santos, and Peter Klein
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail pklein@bard.edu. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
THINKING ABOUT STUDYING ABROAD? Come to this session to learn how it all works here at Bard!
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge STUDY ABROAD INFO SESSION THINKING ABOUT STUDYING ABROAD? Come to this session to learn how it all works here at Bard!
WILL DISCUSS: The Petition for Study Abroad process Bard Abroad programs (including Bard NYC) Tuition Exchanges (including a new one in Spain!) Non-Bard programs Summer programs Financial Aid/Scholarships Deadlines/Timelines COME SEE WHAT’S POSSIBLE!
SOPHOMORES: Want to study abroad for Spring 2026? You must attend a session and then meet with Director for Study Abroad and Student Exchange Trish Fleming asap (before Summer Break would be best). The deadlines for Spring come VERY early in the fall term, so you’ll want to be prepared. CAN’T ATTEND THE SESSION but STILL WANT TO MEET WITH TRISH BEFORE SUMMER? Complete THIS FORM and be on the lookout for an email from International Programs Assistant Dylan Short to schedule that.
Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7080, or e-mail fleming@bard.edu.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Come out to the Bard Makers Spring Fair on Wednesday afternoon and shop for unique, handmade items at reasonable prices. In an effort to support sustainable small businesses in the area, CCE invites you to take a look and buy from these campus and local makers! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Drop in help with citations, formatting and more for the home stretch.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 3–5 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor Students submitting their senior projects this semester are invited to drop by any or all of the library's SPROJ Clinics for help with citations, formatting, and other last minute questions. Clinics on:
Wednesday, April 23, 3–5 pm
Friday April 25, 3–5 pm
Sunday April 27, 3–5 pm
Can't make it? Request an appointment or stop by the research help desk during reference hours.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail amurphy@bard.edu.
Music Research Strategies: Performance of Selected Scores
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 3:30–4:30 pm
Olin Auditorium Music Research Strategies' (Marshall Trammell) Grammar of Motives is a hands-on, student-made, tactical media-making Insurgent Learning Workshop to create a graphic score music composition and conduction system for a faculty performance based on highlighting popular education and conservation inititiaves from the Bard Community Science Lab and the Saw Kill Watershed Community. Join us for a performance of the developed scores.
RSVP here.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies.
Five Disruptive Principles in the Liberal Arts Series: Agency and Responsibility
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 5–6:30 pm
Online Event 5 PM New York l 10 PM Vienna
AltLiberalArts' “Five Disruptive Principles in the Liberal Arts” series explores the core values that define an exceptional liberal arts education. The first event will explore "Agency/Responsibility" with moderator Susan Burns and panelists Sophia Brown and Dan Chambliss. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to engage with innovative thought leaders as they share their vision of how these principles empower students and educators alike.
Susan Burns spent 34 years as a writer and editor for SagaCity Media (formerly Gulfshore Media) in Sarasota, where she was founding editor of a regional business magazine and editor-in-chief of Sarasota Magazine before retiring in 2022. A New College alum, she sat on the New College Foundation board from 2020 to 2024 and served as chair of the governance committee.
Sophia Brown is the Program Coordinator of PEN America Florida. She graduated from New College in 2023, where she studied English with a slash in Rhetoric in Writing and served as the Editor in Chief of the student-run newspaper, the Catalyst, from Fall 2021 to Spring 2023.
Daniel F. Chambliss (B.A. New College, 1975; PhD Yale University, 1982) is the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Hamilton College, and co-author, with his former student Chris Takacs, of How College Works. He is also co-author, with Russell Schutt, of Making Sense of the Social World, a research methods text currently in its fifth edition.
The Preacher's Flow: Inspired Eloquence as the central skill of Mahāyāna Buddhist Preachers
A talk by Dr. Ralph Craig, Assistant Professor of Religion, Whitman College
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This talk first discusses the South Asian Buddhist notion of pratibhāna-pratisaṃvid, or “skillful knowledge of inspired eloquence.” Then it turns to a discussion of how the concept of “inspired eloquence” informs and provides context for Turner’s sermonic stylings on her last recorded albums. It will conclude by considering what the notion of inspired eloquence offers to our understanding of the history of both South Asian Mahāyāna Buddhism and American Buddhism.
This talk is made possible through the generous support of the Warren Mills Hutcheson Endowed Fund in Religion. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ssecunda@bard.edu.
Join us for a talk by Director of Bard Globalization and the International Affairs Program Elmira Bayrasli.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.
Recital and Masterclass: West Point Brass Quintet featuring Master Sergeant Yalin Chi
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 7 pm
Olin Hall
The West Point Brass Quintet is the primary chamber ensemble of the Army’s oldest musical organization, the West Point Band. Stationed at the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Quintet provides support for West Point ceremonies as well as other outreach events throughout the Northeast.
Master Sergeant Yalin Chi joined the West Point Band in 2007. She has appeared as a piano soloist with the Green Bay Orchestra, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra, among others; and has performed at Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Gardner Museum, and Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, South Korea.
Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 This class is about listening to the body and focusing on form and breathwork to create a moving meditation. We will combine pranayama (breathwork practices) with a gentle flow, to create a space of solace from stress and anxiety. The class will be a mixture of hatha postures and dynamic sequences, with lots of variations and alternatives, allowing students to shape their own practice. Some classes will also end with sound baths before silent meditation. Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.
Join the Persian table every Thursday. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mshahbaz@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 24, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ochilton@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 24, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail fchamoun@bard.edu.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Come play chess with the Chess Club! We will be playing in the Georgeball Lounge, except on on 02/06, 02/13, and 03/27 when we will be playing in the Red Room.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail dabend@bard.edu.
Campus Center Lobby Learn about Health, Counseling, and Wellness. Get information on recovery or harm reduction resources on and off campus. Ask questions and make a connection with your peers!Sponsored by: Health, Counseling an Wellness .
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 24, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail zdallal@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 24, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail plopezga@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 Join us for a one hour mat pilates class, focusing on strengthening and toning muscles.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Campus Center, Lobby Guess what’s back? Thursday Night Live is kicking off again—starting Thursday, March 27th from 7 to 9 pm at Down The Road Café—and you’re invited. Presented by The Real in collaboration with the Student Activities Board, this weekly music series features a student band or artist tearing it up for the first 30 minutes, an open jam session where you can hop in and make some noise, chill vibes, and live music. But wait... there’s more. Only during Thursday Night Live, you can feast on:
A Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich hotter than your midterm stress
A new themed mocktail every week (surprise your taste buds)
So whether you’re here to play, vibe, or just vibe next to the people playing—come through. Let’s turn DTR into the live music hub it was always meant to be. We will not be having this event on 5/1.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Humanities, Room 204 Interested in improving your public speaking skills, traveling to compete at other colleges, or getting involved in our local events? All are welcome to join our regular weekly debate meetings! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail cbronte@bard.edu.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, come bake challah and help prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose, they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another with the openness and closeness that seem so natural in kitchens. All are welcome. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail jboettiger@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Disability as a Social Identity Protects Against Ableism
A talk by Dr. Kathleen Bogart, Oregon State University
Thursday, April 24, 2025 4 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium The largest minority group in the United States, disability, is often overlooked in prejudice research. As with other socially constructed minorities, it is valuable to examine disability through a social identity lens. Recent research shows that experiencing ableism may prompt development of disability pride, which in turn protects self-esteem. Thus, we might resist ableism by fostering disability pride and increasing representation of the social model of disability.
This lecture is made possible through the generous support of the Andrew J. Bernstein Foundation. It is free and open to the public. Sponsored by: The Andrew J. Bernstein Foundation and Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nwittlin@bard.edu.
Kline Commons Lawn Join us at the BardEATS Community Market for live music, crafts, games, thrifting, food, and more! Come meet local businesses, student clubs, and passionate community members doing work at Bard and in the greater Hudson Valley!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Socialist F(r)action of Oil: Petropoetics of Early Soviet Culture
Lecture by preeminent Russian literary critic and scholar in exile Ilya Kalinin (Humboldt University and Bard College Berlin)
Thursday, April 24, 2025 5:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 205 In his lecture, Ilya Kalinin will explore the impact of the Bolshevik petroleum project - the extraction and use of oil - on the culture and ideology of the early Soviet state. Soviet society communicated with oil in the language of socialist transformation. But the sovietization of oil was broader than its technological and sociopolitical processing. For oil to flow from the wells and fill the arteries of the socialist economy, it had to permeate the discursive fabric of Soviet media and cultural production. Dr. Kalinin will discuss this complex relationship through an analysis of literary works, film, and visual art from the 1920s and beyond.Sponsored by: The Russian and Eurasian Studies program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ovoronin@bard.edu.
Olin Humanities, Room 102 Join us for a talk by Senior Fellow at Bard Center for Civic Engagement Frederic C. Hof. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail itscomplicatedhac@bard.edu.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions and more. Schedule an appointment by texting or calling Dr. Sarah Heslip at (413) 884-2798. Please inquire about insurance. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Craft and Connect at 12 pm at Sawkill Coffee House. Offered by Wellness Education, Counseling, and Disability Access Services
Friday, April 25, 2025 12–1 pm
Sawkill Coffee House Crafting, puzzles. community, connections, and tips and strategies for being and staying resilient! Email wellnesseducation@bard.edu to sign up, but walk-ins are welcome.
New Annandale House The International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) meets for lab time every Friday at New Annandale House. Those interested in digital humanities or archiving are welcome to stop by any time between 12 and 4 pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pf0250@bard.edu.
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion known as the parsha, each week. Join Rabbi Joshua Boettiger and others in the Bard community for an informal Torah Study session each Friday—open to everyone of all religious backgrounds.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Jewish Studies Program.
Kingston Mosque The Muslim Student Organization (MSO) offers transportation for anyone who would like to go to the mosque on Fridays for Jummah Prayers. The pick-up time is at 12:00 p.m. for the Kingston Mosque and the departure time from the Mosque is 2 pm. Time is flexible based on who is driving and how many people join.
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Gathering of writers and editors for the paper to work on current issues! Anyone is welcome to join, and no experience is required. On 3/28 we will be meeting in Olin 203.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
TBD weekly Bring your bike to one or all of these rides. Meet at 2 pm. More Info when you sign up by scanning the QR code below or email lb9580@bard.edu All experience levels are welcome. Helmets available! Programs made possible by a generous donation in loving memory of James Kirk Bernard. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Bard On Go weekly meeting. The first meeting is for our club members to connect with each other, discussing video ideas for the upcoming semester.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Stevenson Library You're warmly invited to join from 3:30 to 5:00pm in Stevenson Library 402 (fourth floor) to work on your Senior Project in a calm, quiet, and supportive space.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jesmith@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House Come craft with us. We will be doing sewing, knitting, paper crafts, and anything else you like! Learn new skills or work on a project.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail jboettiger@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event We're reading The Life of the Mind, Hannah Arendt’s unfinished final work. In it, she focuses on three basic mental activities—thinking, willing, and judging—and their relation to the world of appearances and to the human capacity for moral and political action. The new critical edition makes available in print, for the first time, the text of the typescripts as Arendt left them, complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished material, detailed annotations, and extensive scholarly commentary. We will also be referring to Mary McCarthy's edition for increased accessibility.
Free to HAC members and to Bard students, staff, and faculty! Email arendt@bard.edu for the Zoom link.
Find the full Virtural Reading Group schedule: hac.bard.edu/programs/vrg/ Get the new critical edition of The Life of the Mindhere.
Don't worry if you miss a VRG meeting! We post them all on our YouTube channel the week after they're recorded. Or tune in to an edited version of the chapter readings plus bonus episodes on our podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Sidelines Redrawn: Re-examining the Role of Marginality in Ancient Greek Literature
*Note location change
Friday, April 25, 2025 9 am – 5 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In our contemporary era, marginality typically refers to people that lie on the fringes or margins of society with regard to some socio-economic or socio-political characteristic. In the context of the ancient Greek world, it is fairly easy to assign groups to this marginal category. However, ancient literature tends to complicate this modern notion of marginality, and characters that would normally be considered marginal from a historical standpoint are often put in positions that allow them to influence others and act beyond the limitations of their societal station. This talk will discuss the disconnect between literature and historical reality when it comes to marginal characters and their potential for agency and efficacy. Reexamining ancient Greek literature with this in mind will provide another avenue of interpretation that will contribute to our understanding of these works.Sponsored by: Classical Studies and the Dean's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail tarcher@bard.edu.
Hybrid Event The 2025 April Conference is a full day workshop in small, interactive groups. It is a hybrid event, and participants can join us in person at Bard College or online. Participants read and write together in their workshop groups, drawing on a rich anthology of texts, and gather for a mid-morning plenary session that helps to anchor and inspire the day’s work. For more information, call 845-752-4516, e-mail alipman@bard.edu, or visit https://iwt.bard.edu/april/.
Detecting Gravitational-waves: From Instrumentation to Compact Binaries
A talk by Georgia Mansell, Syracuse University
Friday, April 25, 2025 12 pm
Brody Lab - Hegeman 107 The advanced LIGO (laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory) detectors are currently in their fourth observing run, with greater sensitivity to gravitational waves than ever before, able to detect binary neutron star inspirals out to over 165 Mpc. In this talk, I will explain some of the technologies which enable gravitational-wave detection, including squeezed light, laser stabilization, and quadruple suspensions. I will also talk about the gravitational-wave instrumentation projects going on at Syracuse University, including an electrostatic violin mode damper for suspended optics.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
THINKING ABOUT STUDYING ABROAD? Director for Study Abroad and Student Exchange Trish Fleming will be tabling in the Campus Center Lobby today to answer all your questions.
Friday, April 25, 2025 12–3 pm
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge INFO WILL BE AVAILABLE ON: The Petition for Study Abroad process Bard Abroad programs (including Bard NYC) Tuition Exchanges (including a new one in Spain!) Non-Bard programs Summer programs Financial Aid/Scholarships Deadlines/Timelines COME SEE WHAT’S POSSIBLE!
SOPHOMORES: Want to study abroad for Spring 2026? You should attend a Study Abroad Info Session first if at all possible (there’s another one on Monday, April 28 at noon!) and then meet with Trish Fleming asap (before Summer Break would be best). The deadlines for Spring come VERY early in the fall term, so you’ll want to be prepared. CAN’T ATTEND THE INFO TABLE OR INFO SESSION but STILL WANT TO MEET WITH TRISH BEFORE SUMMER? Complete THIS FORM and be on the lookout for an email from International Programs Assistant Dylan Short to schedule that. Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7080, or e-mail fleming@bard.edu.
Drop in help with citations, formatting & more for the home stretch
Friday, April 25, 2025 3–5 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor Students submitting their senior projects this semester are invited to drop by any or all of the library's Sproj Clinics for help with citations, formatting, & other last minute questions:
Wednesday, April 23, 3-5 pm
Friday April 25, 3-5 pm
Sunday April 27, 3-5 pm
Can't make it? Request an appointment or stop by the research help desk during reference hours.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail amurphy@bard.edu.
State of Fracture: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights and the Arts, 2025
Runs through Sunday, May 4, 2025 3–7:30 pm
Massena Campus The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts is pleased to announce its Class of 2025 MA thesis exhibition.
The exhibition is taking place April 25 through May 4, 3 – 7:30 pm, across the Massena Campus at Bard. The exhibition features installations, films, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
State of Fracture: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2025
Runs through Sunday, May 4, 2025 3–7:30 pm
Massena Campus The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2025.
The exhibition is taking place April 25 through May 4, 3–7:30 pm, across the Massena Campus at Bard College. The exhibition features installations, films, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Below is the program for the thesis exhibition, including a list of events and showcased works :
Opening Reception Friday, 25 April 2025 4pm–7pm Exhibition opening and food-for-purchase provided by Samosa Shack.
Lecture Performance Conducting Empire by Elinor Arden Friday 25 April, Sunday 27 April, Saturday 3 May 6:30 pm–7pm
Panel Presentation Featuring Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona, Pyae Phyo Aung, and Arina Pshenichnaya Saturday, May 3 4 pm–5 pm
Written Theses Excerpts of these works are on display in the exhibition
“The Human Right to What?” Hunger, Food, and People: A Journey to the South Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona
Sacred War as the Russian National Idea Arina Pshenichnaya
“Late pyar lone lar?” In Search of A Clear Conscience in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Pyae Phyo Aung
A Baghdad Sin: Peregrinations in A Ruptured Geography Nabil Salih
Installations Open daily, 3–7:30 pm
FordDat Sariyah Abuzant
Livestreamed Genocide: TikTok LIVE in Gaza Sarah Al-Yahya
Calls from an Unseen Chorus Amr Amer
Conducting Empire Elinor Arden
The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine Leil Zahra Mortada
Prison Rule 113.11 and Fugitive Tools Mauro Tosarelli
Thesis Project Abstracts
FordDat Sariyah Abuzant This installation features a docufiction video and explores the role of an unofficial taxi vehicle vital to mobility in occupied Palestine, using the cases of Abu Dis and Al-Eizariya, two towns located in Area C of the West Bank. Manufactured by Ford Motor Company, this US vehicle has unintentionally functioned as the connective tissue of a fragmented landscape, navigating an apartheid system reinforced by the Oslo Accords. Operating illegally for over thirty years, the Ford Transit has not only sustained movement but also emerged as a tool of cultural sovereignty, community-structured infrastructure, and self-governance. A time capsule of Oslo’s failures, this vehicle offers a lens into the lived realities of Palestinian daily resistance and the unyielding struggle for the right to move.
Livestreamed Genocide: TikTok LIVE in Gaza Sarah Al-Yahya This hybrid project, comprised of an interactive, web-based installation and research article, examines how “history’s first livestreamed genocide” in Gaza has been presented on TikTok LIVE. The work explores these streams, characterized by their low viewership as well as scattered and disorienting nature, arguing that they reshape our understanding of “livestreamed genocide” as a historical media paradigm. The installation foregrounds the tensions between a gamified platform and the realities of war on the Gaza Strip. In doing so, it examines the uneasy rise of TikTok’s algorithmically-driven platform as a space where social media visibility and atrocity merge, clash, and are reshaped by the logic of public engagement.
Calls from an Unseen Chorus Amr Amer Calls from an Unseen Chorus is a sound installation that resists the passive consumption of Palestine as an image of suffering, instead demanding engagement through the act of listening. Centering the auditory as a site of resistance, the work immerses audiences in the sonic realities of occupation and defiance—from the oppressive stasis of colonial checkpoints to the collective force of protest chants, resistance music, and the recorded wills of martyrs. These layered soundscapes challenge static representations of Palestinian struggle, asserting a mobilized, dissenting presence and an unceasing fight for liberation. By stripping away the visual, Calls from an Unseen Chorus transforms listening into an entry point for solidarity, where sound becomes both testimony and a call to resistance.
Conducting Empire Elinor Arden Conducting Empire is a research article and an installation-performance investigating the material history of the undersea cable network: the physical ‘backbone’ of the internet. The project explores what lies beneath Google’s marketing strategies for their new transatlantic cables, tracing the genealogy of this infrastructure to 19th-century Britain and the era of so-called abolition. A live activation of a sound sculpture exposes the metallic substance of the cable network and its transmission of historical records into the present. By linking claims of technological progress to imperial control, the work reframes the utopian ideal of global connectivity with evidence found in the British National Archives, from the Birmingham copper industry to a mass of colonial correspondences. Conducting Empire removes the network’s insulation to uncover how telecommunications were produced through a violent historical circuit.
“Late pyar lone lar?” In Search of A Clear Conscience in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Pyae Phyo Aung This written thesis explores the question of morality and conscience in the anti-authoritarian revolution that took shape in response to the 2021 military coup in Myanmar. The term late pyar lone chin refers to the pride of performing a just action or the shame and guilt of not doing so, and the question, late pyar lone lar?, means roughly “do you have a clear conscience?” It is now widely used to testify to (or question) one’s stance and involvement in the revolution. Examining the digital artifacts and lived experiences of protestors, resistance fighters, and activist fundraisers, the thesis studies the role of calls to conscience in political mobilization and investigates how affect and morality have been activated through aesthetic means to shape the trajectory of the Spring Revolution in Myanmar.
“The Human Right to What?” Hunger, Food, and People: A Journey to the South. Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona The public policy known as Areas of Protection for Food Production was launched in July of 2024 in the south of La Guajira, Colombia. It aims to focus land use on agricultural production and prohibit any type of mining exploitation. This transition is based on concepts such as the human right to food and food security. This written thesis explores the origins of these concepts, their scope, and their limitations. This is particularly relevant at a time when the La Guajira Corporation is about to grant approval to the mining company Best Coal Company to exploit millions of tons of coal in the Cañaverales Community. This thesis responds to the crisis and the difficulties of the energy transition from an epistemological point of view, through an analysis of archives and geopoetics.
The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine Leil Zahra Mortada This hybrid project interrogates the role of Arab cultural production—particularly Egyptian songs and films about the Aswan High Dam—in shaping public history and contributing to Nubian dispossession. Building on an ongoing collaboration with Nubian activists, one component of this project is a research article that critiques nationalism and encourages a reflection on the power of cultural memory to perpetuate erasure or resist it. The second component of this project is an interactive installation titled The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine, which examines state propaganda and confronts the failures of Arab liberation movements, while centering a Nubian narrative and presents a speculative grassroots response.
Sacred War as the Russian National Idea Arina Pshenichnaya Despite the secular image often associated with modern nationalism, the Russian state’s sacralization of war reveals the enduring power of religious symbols, rituals, and narratives in shaping national identity. This written thesis examines how the concept of sacred war has become central to the Russian national idea through a fusion of Orthodox theology, state power, and militarized aesthetics. It focuses on two key phenomena: the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces, which presents war as a timeless and divine foundation of Russian identity; and front-line baptismal rituals, which transform soldiers into metaphysical agents of a civilizational mission. I analyze these practices through the writings of Aleksandr Dugin, whose metaphysical theory of civilizational conflict (noomachy) frames war not as a geopolitical act but as an ontological necessity. Dugin’s thought provides the ideological architecture through which Russia is positioned as a sacred civilization resisting Western nihilism, where war is not simply justified, but ritually and cosmologically required. In doing so, the study challenges secular readings of nationalism and highlights how authoritarian regimes can mobilize religious metaphysics to render war not only legitimate, but liturgically necessary.
A Baghdad Sin: Peregrinations in a Ruptured Geography Nabil Salih Aftermaths are deceptive. They obscure and conceal. This text, weaved along a photographic inquiry, troubles the notion of quietude. Together, they try to point to what lurks and haunts in the crevices of a wounded urbanscape. Twenty-one years after the invasion and occupation of Iraq, what litter and refuse remain in Baghdad today? In a time of rapid urban reconfiguration, what do the residual wartime rubble and the paraphernalia of security regimes tell us of the present, its politics, and relationship to the past? Put differently, what forces and apparatuses obstruct an Iraqi’s walk? Standing by the ruins is an old tradition dating to pre-Islamic poetry and the laments of ancient Mesopotamia. This essay follows suit but goes beyond. Its fragments narrate my auto-ethnographic and ethnographic walks and rides in Baghdad, where I investigate the constellations of rubble, the affects they discharge, and the memories they awaken in a given locale. Much ink and blood were spilled on the streets of Baghdad and world newspapers; this endeavor asks what Iraqis are left with today. The photographs aspire to a private archive for public loss, each being an obstinate interlocutor tested for what eludes vision and what is thought to be seen.
Prison Rule 113.11 and Fugitive Tools Mauro Tosarelli Prisons are not just spaces of deprivation and submission but environments where survival gives rise to new forms of expression and interaction. Despite spatial, social, and political constraints, prisoners cultivate communication networks through sound, imagery, and handmade tools. This installation reframes prison life by focusing on acquired culture and produced knowledge rather than narratives of marginalization. Prison Rule 113.11 highlights both clandestine tools of disobedience—tattoo guns, fishing lines, and makeshift speakers—and the coercion tools manufactured through prison labor. These objects are not merely functional but symbolic of defiance and connection. By amplifying sound rather than retreating into silence, prisoners reclaim their lives and assert their resistance to isolation. Positioning these tools as ‘fugitive objects’, this work reveals how incarcerated individuals are not merely passive subjects but a challenge to the very structures designed to contain them.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Works by Hansen, Blume, Piazzolla, Dvořák, Wolf, Beach, Poulenc, Debussy, Franck, and more!
Friday, April 25, 2025 4–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
This concert is a part of the Conservatory’s Chamber Music Program, which all instrumental and studio faculty support through their generous coaching and mentorship. Please note that there will be a break in the program from approximately 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel.
SMOG: Kassie Krut, Le Bang, Pocket Merchant, Summer Fling
Friday, April 25, 2025 8:30 pm – 2 am
SMOG Kassie Krut, alumni of the much missed math-rock band Palm and of Bard College itself, return to campus for the first time since maybe the 10th anniversary of SMOG itself. Joining them will be the seven-piece funk-rock band summer fling, alumni band Pocket Merchant with their debut album, and Brooklyn punk trio Le Bang. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
State of Fracture: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights and the Arts, 2025
Runs through Sunday, May 4, 2025 3–7:30 pm
Massena Campus The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts is pleased to announce its Class of 2025 MA thesis exhibition.
The exhibition is taking place April 25 through May 4, 3 – 7:30 pm, across the Massena Campus at Bard. The exhibition features installations, films, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
State of Fracture: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2025
Runs through Sunday, May 4, 2025 3–7:30 pm
Massena Campus The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2025.
The exhibition is taking place April 25 through May 4, 3–7:30 pm, across the Massena Campus at Bard College. The exhibition features installations, films, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Below is the program for the thesis exhibition, including a list of events and showcased works :
Opening Reception Friday, 25 April 2025 4pm–7pm Exhibition opening and food-for-purchase provided by Samosa Shack.
Lecture Performance Conducting Empire by Elinor Arden Friday 25 April, Sunday 27 April, Saturday 3 May 6:30 pm–7pm
Panel Presentation Featuring Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona, Pyae Phyo Aung, and Arina Pshenichnaya Saturday, May 3 4 pm–5 pm
Written Theses Excerpts of these works are on display in the exhibition
“The Human Right to What?” Hunger, Food, and People: A Journey to the South Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona
Sacred War as the Russian National Idea Arina Pshenichnaya
“Late pyar lone lar?” In Search of A Clear Conscience in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Pyae Phyo Aung
A Baghdad Sin: Peregrinations in A Ruptured Geography Nabil Salih
Installations Open daily, 3–7:30 pm
FordDat Sariyah Abuzant
Livestreamed Genocide: TikTok LIVE in Gaza Sarah Al-Yahya
Calls from an Unseen Chorus Amr Amer
Conducting Empire Elinor Arden
The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine Leil Zahra Mortada
Prison Rule 113.11 and Fugitive Tools Mauro Tosarelli
Thesis Project Abstracts
FordDat Sariyah Abuzant This installation features a docufiction video and explores the role of an unofficial taxi vehicle vital to mobility in occupied Palestine, using the cases of Abu Dis and Al-Eizariya, two towns located in Area C of the West Bank. Manufactured by Ford Motor Company, this US vehicle has unintentionally functioned as the connective tissue of a fragmented landscape, navigating an apartheid system reinforced by the Oslo Accords. Operating illegally for over thirty years, the Ford Transit has not only sustained movement but also emerged as a tool of cultural sovereignty, community-structured infrastructure, and self-governance. A time capsule of Oslo’s failures, this vehicle offers a lens into the lived realities of Palestinian daily resistance and the unyielding struggle for the right to move.
Livestreamed Genocide: TikTok LIVE in Gaza Sarah Al-Yahya This hybrid project, comprised of an interactive, web-based installation and research article, examines how “history’s first livestreamed genocide” in Gaza has been presented on TikTok LIVE. The work explores these streams, characterized by their low viewership as well as scattered and disorienting nature, arguing that they reshape our understanding of “livestreamed genocide” as a historical media paradigm. The installation foregrounds the tensions between a gamified platform and the realities of war on the Gaza Strip. In doing so, it examines the uneasy rise of TikTok’s algorithmically-driven platform as a space where social media visibility and atrocity merge, clash, and are reshaped by the logic of public engagement.
Calls from an Unseen Chorus Amr Amer Calls from an Unseen Chorus is a sound installation that resists the passive consumption of Palestine as an image of suffering, instead demanding engagement through the act of listening. Centering the auditory as a site of resistance, the work immerses audiences in the sonic realities of occupation and defiance—from the oppressive stasis of colonial checkpoints to the collective force of protest chants, resistance music, and the recorded wills of martyrs. These layered soundscapes challenge static representations of Palestinian struggle, asserting a mobilized, dissenting presence and an unceasing fight for liberation. By stripping away the visual, Calls from an Unseen Chorus transforms listening into an entry point for solidarity, where sound becomes both testimony and a call to resistance.
Conducting Empire Elinor Arden Conducting Empire is a research article and an installation-performance investigating the material history of the undersea cable network: the physical ‘backbone’ of the internet. The project explores what lies beneath Google’s marketing strategies for their new transatlantic cables, tracing the genealogy of this infrastructure to 19th-century Britain and the era of so-called abolition. A live activation of a sound sculpture exposes the metallic substance of the cable network and its transmission of historical records into the present. By linking claims of technological progress to imperial control, the work reframes the utopian ideal of global connectivity with evidence found in the British National Archives, from the Birmingham copper industry to a mass of colonial correspondences. Conducting Empire removes the network’s insulation to uncover how telecommunications were produced through a violent historical circuit.
“Late pyar lone lar?” In Search of A Clear Conscience in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Pyae Phyo Aung This written thesis explores the question of morality and conscience in the anti-authoritarian revolution that took shape in response to the 2021 military coup in Myanmar. The term late pyar lone chin refers to the pride of performing a just action or the shame and guilt of not doing so, and the question, late pyar lone lar?, means roughly “do you have a clear conscience?” It is now widely used to testify to (or question) one’s stance and involvement in the revolution. Examining the digital artifacts and lived experiences of protestors, resistance fighters, and activist fundraisers, the thesis studies the role of calls to conscience in political mobilization and investigates how affect and morality have been activated through aesthetic means to shape the trajectory of the Spring Revolution in Myanmar.
“The Human Right to What?” Hunger, Food, and People: A Journey to the South. Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona The public policy known as Areas of Protection for Food Production was launched in July of 2024 in the south of La Guajira, Colombia. It aims to focus land use on agricultural production and prohibit any type of mining exploitation. This transition is based on concepts such as the human right to food and food security. This written thesis explores the origins of these concepts, their scope, and their limitations. This is particularly relevant at a time when the La Guajira Corporation is about to grant approval to the mining company Best Coal Company to exploit millions of tons of coal in the Cañaverales Community. This thesis responds to the crisis and the difficulties of the energy transition from an epistemological point of view, through an analysis of archives and geopoetics.
The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine Leil Zahra Mortada This hybrid project interrogates the role of Arab cultural production—particularly Egyptian songs and films about the Aswan High Dam—in shaping public history and contributing to Nubian dispossession. Building on an ongoing collaboration with Nubian activists, one component of this project is a research article that critiques nationalism and encourages a reflection on the power of cultural memory to perpetuate erasure or resist it. The second component of this project is an interactive installation titled The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine, which examines state propaganda and confronts the failures of Arab liberation movements, while centering a Nubian narrative and presents a speculative grassroots response.
Sacred War as the Russian National Idea Arina Pshenichnaya Despite the secular image often associated with modern nationalism, the Russian state’s sacralization of war reveals the enduring power of religious symbols, rituals, and narratives in shaping national identity. This written thesis examines how the concept of sacred war has become central to the Russian national idea through a fusion of Orthodox theology, state power, and militarized aesthetics. It focuses on two key phenomena: the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces, which presents war as a timeless and divine foundation of Russian identity; and front-line baptismal rituals, which transform soldiers into metaphysical agents of a civilizational mission. I analyze these practices through the writings of Aleksandr Dugin, whose metaphysical theory of civilizational conflict (noomachy) frames war not as a geopolitical act but as an ontological necessity. Dugin’s thought provides the ideological architecture through which Russia is positioned as a sacred civilization resisting Western nihilism, where war is not simply justified, but ritually and cosmologically required. In doing so, the study challenges secular readings of nationalism and highlights how authoritarian regimes can mobilize religious metaphysics to render war not only legitimate, but liturgically necessary.
A Baghdad Sin: Peregrinations in a Ruptured Geography Nabil Salih Aftermaths are deceptive. They obscure and conceal. This text, weaved along a photographic inquiry, troubles the notion of quietude. Together, they try to point to what lurks and haunts in the crevices of a wounded urbanscape. Twenty-one years after the invasion and occupation of Iraq, what litter and refuse remain in Baghdad today? In a time of rapid urban reconfiguration, what do the residual wartime rubble and the paraphernalia of security regimes tell us of the present, its politics, and relationship to the past? Put differently, what forces and apparatuses obstruct an Iraqi’s walk? Standing by the ruins is an old tradition dating to pre-Islamic poetry and the laments of ancient Mesopotamia. This essay follows suit but goes beyond. Its fragments narrate my auto-ethnographic and ethnographic walks and rides in Baghdad, where I investigate the constellations of rubble, the affects they discharge, and the memories they awaken in a given locale. Much ink and blood were spilled on the streets of Baghdad and world newspapers; this endeavor asks what Iraqis are left with today. The photographs aspire to a private archive for public loss, each being an obstinate interlocutor tested for what eludes vision and what is thought to be seen.
Prison Rule 113.11 and Fugitive Tools Mauro Tosarelli Prisons are not just spaces of deprivation and submission but environments where survival gives rise to new forms of expression and interaction. Despite spatial, social, and political constraints, prisoners cultivate communication networks through sound, imagery, and handmade tools. This installation reframes prison life by focusing on acquired culture and produced knowledge rather than narratives of marginalization. Prison Rule 113.11 highlights both clandestine tools of disobedience—tattoo guns, fishing lines, and makeshift speakers—and the coercion tools manufactured through prison labor. These objects are not merely functional but symbolic of defiance and connection. By amplifying sound rather than retreating into silence, prisoners reclaim their lives and assert their resistance to isolation. Positioning these tools as ‘fugitive objects’, this work reveals how incarcerated individuals are not merely passive subjects but a challenge to the very structures designed to contain them.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Bring your broken but beloved items for free fixings by volunteer coaches.
Saturday, April 26, 2025 10 am – 1 pm
Red Hook Community Center, 59 Fisk St, Red Hook A Repair Café is a free meeting place where people come together to repair "broken but beloved" things. We love keeping fixable things out of the landfill! We will have volunteers with repair skills ("Repair Coaches") in all kinds of fields ready to fix. Sometimes they can just provide advice, and sometimes more parts are needed than they have, but they have a good time trying!Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability.
Tennis Courts The Women's Tennis team competes in a home match against Russell Sage College for Senior Day. Come out and support Women's Tennis!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Works by Bourgeois, Beethoven, Debussy, Bizet, Prokofiev, and Brahms.
Saturday, April 26, 2025 3–5 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
This concert is a part of the Conservatory’s Chamber Music Program, which all instrumental and studio faculty support through their generous coaching and mentorship.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel.
Studio Art Senior Project Exhibition Opening Reception
Fisher Studio Art Galleries Exhibition #2
Saturday, April 26, 2025 4–7 pm
Please join us to celebrate the thesis work of Mark Williams (in the Lobby Gallery) and Hollis Fluker (in the Center Gallery). For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail pmead@bard.edu.
Saturday, April 26, 2025 – Sunday, April 27, 2025 7:30–8:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater A play performed, directed, and designed by students of the Musical Theater Performance Workshop. Runtime is approximately 105 minutes with no intermission.
This show contains material that might be triggering for some audience members. For more information, please contact dsytkowski@bard.edu.Sponsored by: Music Program.
Manor Let’s celebrate lesbian visibility week with DJ YaYa! There will be mocktails, prizes, and giveaways. Open to all identities! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (1114 River Road) in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome!
Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at 11:30 in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jhess@bard.edu.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge A space for Anthro seniors to read SPROJ work, discuss, receive feedback, and for all Anthro majors to share any anthropological writing. There will be refreshments.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Coalition Of Christian Students: Quaker Meeting For Worship
Sunday, April 27, 2025 1–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are invited to join us as we gather in silence to seek the Inner-Light. No minister leads us in worship, no prayers or hymns are planned. We wait and listen for the Holy Spirit to speak in and through us. Both our silence and our spoken words bring us closer together and closer to God. Meeting will take place on the First Day of each week (Sunday) at the Chapel of the Holy Innocents from 1-2pm.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
State of Fracture: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights and the Arts, 2025
Runs through Sunday, May 4, 2025 3–7:30 pm
Massena Campus The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts is pleased to announce its Class of 2025 MA thesis exhibition.
The exhibition is taking place April 25 through May 4, 3 – 7:30 pm, across the Massena Campus at Bard. The exhibition features installations, films, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
State of Fracture: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2025
Runs through Sunday, May 4, 2025 3–7:30 pm
Massena Campus The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2025.
The exhibition is taking place April 25 through May 4, 3–7:30 pm, across the Massena Campus at Bard College. The exhibition features installations, films, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Below is the program for the thesis exhibition, including a list of events and showcased works :
Opening Reception Friday, 25 April 2025 4pm–7pm Exhibition opening and food-for-purchase provided by Samosa Shack.
Lecture Performance Conducting Empire by Elinor Arden Friday 25 April, Sunday 27 April, Saturday 3 May 6:30 pm–7pm
Panel Presentation Featuring Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona, Pyae Phyo Aung, and Arina Pshenichnaya Saturday, May 3 4 pm–5 pm
Written Theses Excerpts of these works are on display in the exhibition
“The Human Right to What?” Hunger, Food, and People: A Journey to the South Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona
Sacred War as the Russian National Idea Arina Pshenichnaya
“Late pyar lone lar?” In Search of A Clear Conscience in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Pyae Phyo Aung
A Baghdad Sin: Peregrinations in A Ruptured Geography Nabil Salih
Installations Open daily, 3–7:30 pm
FordDat Sariyah Abuzant
Livestreamed Genocide: TikTok LIVE in Gaza Sarah Al-Yahya
Calls from an Unseen Chorus Amr Amer
Conducting Empire Elinor Arden
The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine Leil Zahra Mortada
Prison Rule 113.11 and Fugitive Tools Mauro Tosarelli
Thesis Project Abstracts
FordDat Sariyah Abuzant This installation features a docufiction video and explores the role of an unofficial taxi vehicle vital to mobility in occupied Palestine, using the cases of Abu Dis and Al-Eizariya, two towns located in Area C of the West Bank. Manufactured by Ford Motor Company, this US vehicle has unintentionally functioned as the connective tissue of a fragmented landscape, navigating an apartheid system reinforced by the Oslo Accords. Operating illegally for over thirty years, the Ford Transit has not only sustained movement but also emerged as a tool of cultural sovereignty, community-structured infrastructure, and self-governance. A time capsule of Oslo’s failures, this vehicle offers a lens into the lived realities of Palestinian daily resistance and the unyielding struggle for the right to move.
Livestreamed Genocide: TikTok LIVE in Gaza Sarah Al-Yahya This hybrid project, comprised of an interactive, web-based installation and research article, examines how “history’s first livestreamed genocide” in Gaza has been presented on TikTok LIVE. The work explores these streams, characterized by their low viewership as well as scattered and disorienting nature, arguing that they reshape our understanding of “livestreamed genocide” as a historical media paradigm. The installation foregrounds the tensions between a gamified platform and the realities of war on the Gaza Strip. In doing so, it examines the uneasy rise of TikTok’s algorithmically-driven platform as a space where social media visibility and atrocity merge, clash, and are reshaped by the logic of public engagement.
Calls from an Unseen Chorus Amr Amer Calls from an Unseen Chorus is a sound installation that resists the passive consumption of Palestine as an image of suffering, instead demanding engagement through the act of listening. Centering the auditory as a site of resistance, the work immerses audiences in the sonic realities of occupation and defiance—from the oppressive stasis of colonial checkpoints to the collective force of protest chants, resistance music, and the recorded wills of martyrs. These layered soundscapes challenge static representations of Palestinian struggle, asserting a mobilized, dissenting presence and an unceasing fight for liberation. By stripping away the visual, Calls from an Unseen Chorus transforms listening into an entry point for solidarity, where sound becomes both testimony and a call to resistance.
Conducting Empire Elinor Arden Conducting Empire is a research article and an installation-performance investigating the material history of the undersea cable network: the physical ‘backbone’ of the internet. The project explores what lies beneath Google’s marketing strategies for their new transatlantic cables, tracing the genealogy of this infrastructure to 19th-century Britain and the era of so-called abolition. A live activation of a sound sculpture exposes the metallic substance of the cable network and its transmission of historical records into the present. By linking claims of technological progress to imperial control, the work reframes the utopian ideal of global connectivity with evidence found in the British National Archives, from the Birmingham copper industry to a mass of colonial correspondences. Conducting Empire removes the network’s insulation to uncover how telecommunications were produced through a violent historical circuit.
“Late pyar lone lar?” In Search of A Clear Conscience in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Pyae Phyo Aung This written thesis explores the question of morality and conscience in the anti-authoritarian revolution that took shape in response to the 2021 military coup in Myanmar. The term late pyar lone chin refers to the pride of performing a just action or the shame and guilt of not doing so, and the question, late pyar lone lar?, means roughly “do you have a clear conscience?” It is now widely used to testify to (or question) one’s stance and involvement in the revolution. Examining the digital artifacts and lived experiences of protestors, resistance fighters, and activist fundraisers, the thesis studies the role of calls to conscience in political mobilization and investigates how affect and morality have been activated through aesthetic means to shape the trajectory of the Spring Revolution in Myanmar.
“The Human Right to What?” Hunger, Food, and People: A Journey to the South. Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona The public policy known as Areas of Protection for Food Production was launched in July of 2024 in the south of La Guajira, Colombia. It aims to focus land use on agricultural production and prohibit any type of mining exploitation. This transition is based on concepts such as the human right to food and food security. This written thesis explores the origins of these concepts, their scope, and their limitations. This is particularly relevant at a time when the La Guajira Corporation is about to grant approval to the mining company Best Coal Company to exploit millions of tons of coal in the Cañaverales Community. This thesis responds to the crisis and the difficulties of the energy transition from an epistemological point of view, through an analysis of archives and geopoetics.
The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine Leil Zahra Mortada This hybrid project interrogates the role of Arab cultural production—particularly Egyptian songs and films about the Aswan High Dam—in shaping public history and contributing to Nubian dispossession. Building on an ongoing collaboration with Nubian activists, one component of this project is a research article that critiques nationalism and encourages a reflection on the power of cultural memory to perpetuate erasure or resist it. The second component of this project is an interactive installation titled The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine, which examines state propaganda and confronts the failures of Arab liberation movements, while centering a Nubian narrative and presents a speculative grassroots response.
Sacred War as the Russian National Idea Arina Pshenichnaya Despite the secular image often associated with modern nationalism, the Russian state’s sacralization of war reveals the enduring power of religious symbols, rituals, and narratives in shaping national identity. This written thesis examines how the concept of sacred war has become central to the Russian national idea through a fusion of Orthodox theology, state power, and militarized aesthetics. It focuses on two key phenomena: the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces, which presents war as a timeless and divine foundation of Russian identity; and front-line baptismal rituals, which transform soldiers into metaphysical agents of a civilizational mission. I analyze these practices through the writings of Aleksandr Dugin, whose metaphysical theory of civilizational conflict (noomachy) frames war not as a geopolitical act but as an ontological necessity. Dugin’s thought provides the ideological architecture through which Russia is positioned as a sacred civilization resisting Western nihilism, where war is not simply justified, but ritually and cosmologically required. In doing so, the study challenges secular readings of nationalism and highlights how authoritarian regimes can mobilize religious metaphysics to render war not only legitimate, but liturgically necessary.
A Baghdad Sin: Peregrinations in a Ruptured Geography Nabil Salih Aftermaths are deceptive. They obscure and conceal. This text, weaved along a photographic inquiry, troubles the notion of quietude. Together, they try to point to what lurks and haunts in the crevices of a wounded urbanscape. Twenty-one years after the invasion and occupation of Iraq, what litter and refuse remain in Baghdad today? In a time of rapid urban reconfiguration, what do the residual wartime rubble and the paraphernalia of security regimes tell us of the present, its politics, and relationship to the past? Put differently, what forces and apparatuses obstruct an Iraqi’s walk? Standing by the ruins is an old tradition dating to pre-Islamic poetry and the laments of ancient Mesopotamia. This essay follows suit but goes beyond. Its fragments narrate my auto-ethnographic and ethnographic walks and rides in Baghdad, where I investigate the constellations of rubble, the affects they discharge, and the memories they awaken in a given locale. Much ink and blood were spilled on the streets of Baghdad and world newspapers; this endeavor asks what Iraqis are left with today. The photographs aspire to a private archive for public loss, each being an obstinate interlocutor tested for what eludes vision and what is thought to be seen.
Prison Rule 113.11 and Fugitive Tools Mauro Tosarelli Prisons are not just spaces of deprivation and submission but environments where survival gives rise to new forms of expression and interaction. Despite spatial, social, and political constraints, prisoners cultivate communication networks through sound, imagery, and handmade tools. This installation reframes prison life by focusing on acquired culture and produced knowledge rather than narratives of marginalization. Prison Rule 113.11 highlights both clandestine tools of disobedience—tattoo guns, fishing lines, and makeshift speakers—and the coercion tools manufactured through prison labor. These objects are not merely functional but symbolic of defiance and connection. By amplifying sound rather than retreating into silence, prisoners reclaim their lives and assert their resistance to isolation. Positioning these tools as ‘fugitive objects’, this work reveals how incarcerated individuals are not merely passive subjects but a challenge to the very structures designed to contain them.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Saturday, April 26, 2025 – Sunday, April 27, 2025 7:30–8:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater A play performed, directed, and designed by students of the Musical Theater Performance Workshop. Runtime is approximately 105 minutes with no intermission.
This show contains material that might be triggering for some audience members. For more information, please contact dsytkowski@bard.edu.Sponsored by: Music Program.
Heaven in a Wild Flower: The Earthly and the Divine
A Graduate Conducting Degree Recital with The Orchestra Now
Sunday, April 27, 2025 2–3 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
The Degree Recital is the culminating project of the Graduate Conducting Program. Given during the second year of study, students have the opportunity to conduct the repertoire of their choice in this concert.
Join The Orchestra Now and the Graduate Conducting Program’s class of 2025 on a journey through the spiritual and the mundane, and their essential roles in the human experience. Featuring works from Mozart to Ginastera, this program explores the joy of life, the solemnity of death, and the hope for renewal.
Drop in help with citations, formatting & more for the home stretch
Sunday, April 27, 2025 3–5 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor Students submitting their senior projects this semester are invited to drop by any or all of the library's Sproj Clinics for help with citations, formatting, & other last minute questions:
Wednesday, April 23, 3-5 pm
Friday April 25, 3-5 pm
Sunday April 27, 3-5 pm
Can't make it? Request an appointment or stop by the research help desk during reference hours.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail amurphy@bard.edu.
Tennis Courts The Women's Tennis team competes in a home match against Vassar College. Come out and support Women's Tennis!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Works by Gliére, Strauss, Mozart, Chopin, and Hindemith.
Sunday, April 27, 2025 4 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Featuring Gabriele Zemaityte, Alberto Arias-Flores, Felix Johnson, Robert Santini, and Sabrina Schettler.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Learning about the history of Carnival, making wings and masks, and picking up costumes and tye-dye shirts! Presented by the Carribean Students Association.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, April 28, 2025 1–2 pm
Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON MARCH 10 During this gentle Kripalu Yoga flow, students are invited to play with their edge, experiment with what works for their body, and make the practice their very own. In this yoga of compassion, we move through centering techniques and flow through postures, keeping an emphasis on the breath. Kripalu Yoga invites experimentation and inquiry into every movement and moment...come play!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy Offices) Come by the Chaplaincy office (Albee Basement) to knit or learn how to knit! Crocheters and needleworkers are also invited. Materials including yarn and knitting needles are provided. Everyone is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Join us for our bi-weekly meetings to learn about Caribbean culture through fun events, tough talks, collabs, and more! Dates: 2/10/25, 2/24/25, 3/10/25, 3,24/25, 4/7/25, 4/21/25, 5/5/25Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Stevenson Gym- Class Room 1 Come join us for our weekly juggling meeting on Mondays 7 pm - 9 pm. No experience required (We Will Teach You)!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
State of Fracture: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights and the Arts, 2025
Runs through Sunday, May 4, 2025 3–7:30 pm
Massena Campus The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts is pleased to announce its Class of 2025 MA thesis exhibition.
The exhibition is taking place April 25 through May 4, 3 – 7:30 pm, across the Massena Campus at Bard. The exhibition features installations, films, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
State of Fracture: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2025
Runs through Sunday, May 4, 2025 3–7:30 pm
Massena Campus The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2025.
The exhibition is taking place April 25 through May 4, 3–7:30 pm, across the Massena Campus at Bard College. The exhibition features installations, films, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Below is the program for the thesis exhibition, including a list of events and showcased works :
Opening Reception Friday, 25 April 2025 4pm–7pm Exhibition opening and food-for-purchase provided by Samosa Shack.
Lecture Performance Conducting Empire by Elinor Arden Friday 25 April, Sunday 27 April, Saturday 3 May 6:30 pm–7pm
Panel Presentation Featuring Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona, Pyae Phyo Aung, and Arina Pshenichnaya Saturday, May 3 4 pm–5 pm
Written Theses Excerpts of these works are on display in the exhibition
“The Human Right to What?” Hunger, Food, and People: A Journey to the South Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona
Sacred War as the Russian National Idea Arina Pshenichnaya
“Late pyar lone lar?” In Search of A Clear Conscience in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Pyae Phyo Aung
A Baghdad Sin: Peregrinations in A Ruptured Geography Nabil Salih
Installations Open daily, 3–7:30 pm
FordDat Sariyah Abuzant
Livestreamed Genocide: TikTok LIVE in Gaza Sarah Al-Yahya
Calls from an Unseen Chorus Amr Amer
Conducting Empire Elinor Arden
The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine Leil Zahra Mortada
Prison Rule 113.11 and Fugitive Tools Mauro Tosarelli
Thesis Project Abstracts
FordDat Sariyah Abuzant This installation features a docufiction video and explores the role of an unofficial taxi vehicle vital to mobility in occupied Palestine, using the cases of Abu Dis and Al-Eizariya, two towns located in Area C of the West Bank. Manufactured by Ford Motor Company, this US vehicle has unintentionally functioned as the connective tissue of a fragmented landscape, navigating an apartheid system reinforced by the Oslo Accords. Operating illegally for over thirty years, the Ford Transit has not only sustained movement but also emerged as a tool of cultural sovereignty, community-structured infrastructure, and self-governance. A time capsule of Oslo’s failures, this vehicle offers a lens into the lived realities of Palestinian daily resistance and the unyielding struggle for the right to move.
Livestreamed Genocide: TikTok LIVE in Gaza Sarah Al-Yahya This hybrid project, comprised of an interactive, web-based installation and research article, examines how “history’s first livestreamed genocide” in Gaza has been presented on TikTok LIVE. The work explores these streams, characterized by their low viewership as well as scattered and disorienting nature, arguing that they reshape our understanding of “livestreamed genocide” as a historical media paradigm. The installation foregrounds the tensions between a gamified platform and the realities of war on the Gaza Strip. In doing so, it examines the uneasy rise of TikTok’s algorithmically-driven platform as a space where social media visibility and atrocity merge, clash, and are reshaped by the logic of public engagement.
Calls from an Unseen Chorus Amr Amer Calls from an Unseen Chorus is a sound installation that resists the passive consumption of Palestine as an image of suffering, instead demanding engagement through the act of listening. Centering the auditory as a site of resistance, the work immerses audiences in the sonic realities of occupation and defiance—from the oppressive stasis of colonial checkpoints to the collective force of protest chants, resistance music, and the recorded wills of martyrs. These layered soundscapes challenge static representations of Palestinian struggle, asserting a mobilized, dissenting presence and an unceasing fight for liberation. By stripping away the visual, Calls from an Unseen Chorus transforms listening into an entry point for solidarity, where sound becomes both testimony and a call to resistance.
Conducting Empire Elinor Arden Conducting Empire is a research article and an installation-performance investigating the material history of the undersea cable network: the physical ‘backbone’ of the internet. The project explores what lies beneath Google’s marketing strategies for their new transatlantic cables, tracing the genealogy of this infrastructure to 19th-century Britain and the era of so-called abolition. A live activation of a sound sculpture exposes the metallic substance of the cable network and its transmission of historical records into the present. By linking claims of technological progress to imperial control, the work reframes the utopian ideal of global connectivity with evidence found in the British National Archives, from the Birmingham copper industry to a mass of colonial correspondences. Conducting Empire removes the network’s insulation to uncover how telecommunications were produced through a violent historical circuit.
“Late pyar lone lar?” In Search of A Clear Conscience in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Pyae Phyo Aung This written thesis explores the question of morality and conscience in the anti-authoritarian revolution that took shape in response to the 2021 military coup in Myanmar. The term late pyar lone chin refers to the pride of performing a just action or the shame and guilt of not doing so, and the question, late pyar lone lar?, means roughly “do you have a clear conscience?” It is now widely used to testify to (or question) one’s stance and involvement in the revolution. Examining the digital artifacts and lived experiences of protestors, resistance fighters, and activist fundraisers, the thesis studies the role of calls to conscience in political mobilization and investigates how affect and morality have been activated through aesthetic means to shape the trajectory of the Spring Revolution in Myanmar.
“The Human Right to What?” Hunger, Food, and People: A Journey to the South. Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona The public policy known as Areas of Protection for Food Production was launched in July of 2024 in the south of La Guajira, Colombia. It aims to focus land use on agricultural production and prohibit any type of mining exploitation. This transition is based on concepts such as the human right to food and food security. This written thesis explores the origins of these concepts, their scope, and their limitations. This is particularly relevant at a time when the La Guajira Corporation is about to grant approval to the mining company Best Coal Company to exploit millions of tons of coal in the Cañaverales Community. This thesis responds to the crisis and the difficulties of the energy transition from an epistemological point of view, through an analysis of archives and geopoetics.
The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine Leil Zahra Mortada This hybrid project interrogates the role of Arab cultural production—particularly Egyptian songs and films about the Aswan High Dam—in shaping public history and contributing to Nubian dispossession. Building on an ongoing collaboration with Nubian activists, one component of this project is a research article that critiques nationalism and encourages a reflection on the power of cultural memory to perpetuate erasure or resist it. The second component of this project is an interactive installation titled The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine, which examines state propaganda and confronts the failures of Arab liberation movements, while centering a Nubian narrative and presents a speculative grassroots response.
Sacred War as the Russian National Idea Arina Pshenichnaya Despite the secular image often associated with modern nationalism, the Russian state’s sacralization of war reveals the enduring power of religious symbols, rituals, and narratives in shaping national identity. This written thesis examines how the concept of sacred war has become central to the Russian national idea through a fusion of Orthodox theology, state power, and militarized aesthetics. It focuses on two key phenomena: the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces, which presents war as a timeless and divine foundation of Russian identity; and front-line baptismal rituals, which transform soldiers into metaphysical agents of a civilizational mission. I analyze these practices through the writings of Aleksandr Dugin, whose metaphysical theory of civilizational conflict (noomachy) frames war not as a geopolitical act but as an ontological necessity. Dugin’s thought provides the ideological architecture through which Russia is positioned as a sacred civilization resisting Western nihilism, where war is not simply justified, but ritually and cosmologically required. In doing so, the study challenges secular readings of nationalism and highlights how authoritarian regimes can mobilize religious metaphysics to render war not only legitimate, but liturgically necessary.
A Baghdad Sin: Peregrinations in a Ruptured Geography Nabil Salih Aftermaths are deceptive. They obscure and conceal. This text, weaved along a photographic inquiry, troubles the notion of quietude. Together, they try to point to what lurks and haunts in the crevices of a wounded urbanscape. Twenty-one years after the invasion and occupation of Iraq, what litter and refuse remain in Baghdad today? In a time of rapid urban reconfiguration, what do the residual wartime rubble and the paraphernalia of security regimes tell us of the present, its politics, and relationship to the past? Put differently, what forces and apparatuses obstruct an Iraqi’s walk? Standing by the ruins is an old tradition dating to pre-Islamic poetry and the laments of ancient Mesopotamia. This essay follows suit but goes beyond. Its fragments narrate my auto-ethnographic and ethnographic walks and rides in Baghdad, where I investigate the constellations of rubble, the affects they discharge, and the memories they awaken in a given locale. Much ink and blood were spilled on the streets of Baghdad and world newspapers; this endeavor asks what Iraqis are left with today. The photographs aspire to a private archive for public loss, each being an obstinate interlocutor tested for what eludes vision and what is thought to be seen.
Prison Rule 113.11 and Fugitive Tools Mauro Tosarelli Prisons are not just spaces of deprivation and submission but environments where survival gives rise to new forms of expression and interaction. Despite spatial, social, and political constraints, prisoners cultivate communication networks through sound, imagery, and handmade tools. This installation reframes prison life by focusing on acquired culture and produced knowledge rather than narratives of marginalization. Prison Rule 113.11 highlights both clandestine tools of disobedience—tattoo guns, fishing lines, and makeshift speakers—and the coercion tools manufactured through prison labor. These objects are not merely functional but symbolic of defiance and connection. By amplifying sound rather than retreating into silence, prisoners reclaim their lives and assert their resistance to isolation. Positioning these tools as ‘fugitive objects’, this work reveals how incarcerated individuals are not merely passive subjects but a challenge to the very structures designed to contain them.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
THINKING ABOUT STUDYING ABROAD? Come to this session to learn how it all works here at Bard!
Monday, April 28, 2025 12–1 pm
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge WILL DISCUSS: The Petition for Study Abroad process Bard Abroad programs (including Bard NYC) Tuition Exchanges (including a new one in Spain!) Non-Bard programs Summer programs Financial Aid/Scholarships Deadlines/Timelines COME SEE WHAT’S POSSIBLE!
SOPHOMORES: Want to study abroad for Spring 2026? You must attend a session and then meet with Director for Study Abroad and Student Exchange Trish Fleming asap (before Summer Break would be best). The deadlines for Spring come VERY early in the fall term, so you’ll want to be prepared.
CAN’T MAKE THIS SESSION? Trish Fleming will be tabling in the Campus Center on Friday, April 25 from noon to 3pm AND will offer another Study Abroad Info Session on Monday, April 28 from noon – 1pm.
BUSY ALL THOSE TIMES but STILL WANT TO MEET WITH TRISH BEFORE SUMMER? Complete THIS FORM and be on the lookout for an email from International Programs Assistant Dylan Short to schedule it.Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7080, or e-mail fleming@bard.edu.
An hour-long program of short performances by Bard Conservatory students.
Monday, April 28, 2025 12 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Sierra4Speaker: Discussing the Freshman Experience
Monday, April 28, 2025 1–2:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 CALLING ALL FRESHMEN: Come talk L&T, CitSci, FYSEM, Residential Life, and more. What has the freshman experience been like for you? What could be better? Come visit my table at the campus center and chat as a community about how the student government can enhance the freshman experience moving forward.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Massage is excellent for stress relief, to ease tense muscles, for headaches and backaches, and promotes a general sense of well-being.
Students: $80 for one hour, 30 minute sessions (students only) $45 Staff & Faculty: $100 for one hour
You can schedule a massage by texting or calling 845-702-6751. For more information visit www.gentlemountain.com. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Sottery Hall Bard College’s Campus Advocate Divine Perez-Ferreira will host regular office hours in Sottery 107 this semester on Tuesdays from 12–2 pm.
Divine works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can come to Sottery anytime between 12–2 pm.
CVSS offers:
- Information about domestic violence and sexual assault prevention; - Advocates who are there to support and believe you; - Connection to counseling or support groups; - Information about police reporting and the criminal justice system; and - Help finding additional services for student/faculty needs.
If you would like to schedule a meeting in advance, you can reach out to Divine directly at dperez@familyservicesny.org or to the Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination at nondiscrimination@bard.edu with your request.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail baldasso@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sylee@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pngo@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 TIME CHANGE FOR THE FOLLOWING DATE: April 22 6:30 p.m. instead of 5:30 p.m. Power Vinyasa focuses on building whole body strength and flexibility through a quick paced yoga flow. Incorporating lunges, squats, core work and balance postures, this challenging practice will make you sweat as you match breath and movement. Class will conclude with a wind-down to send you out the door feeling grounded. Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sxiong@bard.edu.
Latin American Student Organization General Meeting
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 6–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 A space to connect with LASO student members, share your thoughts, and learn more about our organization.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Humanities, Room 302 Come join, Tuesdays at 7 pm, to chat and play all things Pokemon! Meetings will be in Olin 302.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
State of Fracture: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights and the Arts, 2025
Runs through Sunday, May 4, 2025 3–7:30 pm
Massena Campus The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts is pleased to announce its Class of 2025 MA thesis exhibition.
The exhibition is taking place April 25 through May 4, 3 – 7:30 pm, across the Massena Campus at Bard. The exhibition features installations, films, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
State of Fracture: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2025
Runs through Sunday, May 4, 2025 3–7:30 pm
Massena Campus The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2025.
The exhibition is taking place April 25 through May 4, 3–7:30 pm, across the Massena Campus at Bard College. The exhibition features installations, films, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Below is the program for the thesis exhibition, including a list of events and showcased works :
Opening Reception Friday, 25 April 2025 4pm–7pm Exhibition opening and food-for-purchase provided by Samosa Shack.
Lecture Performance Conducting Empire by Elinor Arden Friday 25 April, Sunday 27 April, Saturday 3 May 6:30 pm–7pm
Panel Presentation Featuring Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona, Pyae Phyo Aung, and Arina Pshenichnaya Saturday, May 3 4 pm–5 pm
Written Theses Excerpts of these works are on display in the exhibition
“The Human Right to What?” Hunger, Food, and People: A Journey to the South Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona
Sacred War as the Russian National Idea Arina Pshenichnaya
“Late pyar lone lar?” In Search of A Clear Conscience in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Pyae Phyo Aung
A Baghdad Sin: Peregrinations in A Ruptured Geography Nabil Salih
Installations Open daily, 3–7:30 pm
FordDat Sariyah Abuzant
Livestreamed Genocide: TikTok LIVE in Gaza Sarah Al-Yahya
Calls from an Unseen Chorus Amr Amer
Conducting Empire Elinor Arden
The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine Leil Zahra Mortada
Prison Rule 113.11 and Fugitive Tools Mauro Tosarelli
Thesis Project Abstracts
FordDat Sariyah Abuzant This installation features a docufiction video and explores the role of an unofficial taxi vehicle vital to mobility in occupied Palestine, using the cases of Abu Dis and Al-Eizariya, two towns located in Area C of the West Bank. Manufactured by Ford Motor Company, this US vehicle has unintentionally functioned as the connective tissue of a fragmented landscape, navigating an apartheid system reinforced by the Oslo Accords. Operating illegally for over thirty years, the Ford Transit has not only sustained movement but also emerged as a tool of cultural sovereignty, community-structured infrastructure, and self-governance. A time capsule of Oslo’s failures, this vehicle offers a lens into the lived realities of Palestinian daily resistance and the unyielding struggle for the right to move.
Livestreamed Genocide: TikTok LIVE in Gaza Sarah Al-Yahya This hybrid project, comprised of an interactive, web-based installation and research article, examines how “history’s first livestreamed genocide” in Gaza has been presented on TikTok LIVE. The work explores these streams, characterized by their low viewership as well as scattered and disorienting nature, arguing that they reshape our understanding of “livestreamed genocide” as a historical media paradigm. The installation foregrounds the tensions between a gamified platform and the realities of war on the Gaza Strip. In doing so, it examines the uneasy rise of TikTok’s algorithmically-driven platform as a space where social media visibility and atrocity merge, clash, and are reshaped by the logic of public engagement.
Calls from an Unseen Chorus Amr Amer Calls from an Unseen Chorus is a sound installation that resists the passive consumption of Palestine as an image of suffering, instead demanding engagement through the act of listening. Centering the auditory as a site of resistance, the work immerses audiences in the sonic realities of occupation and defiance—from the oppressive stasis of colonial checkpoints to the collective force of protest chants, resistance music, and the recorded wills of martyrs. These layered soundscapes challenge static representations of Palestinian struggle, asserting a mobilized, dissenting presence and an unceasing fight for liberation. By stripping away the visual, Calls from an Unseen Chorus transforms listening into an entry point for solidarity, where sound becomes both testimony and a call to resistance.
Conducting Empire Elinor Arden Conducting Empire is a research article and an installation-performance investigating the material history of the undersea cable network: the physical ‘backbone’ of the internet. The project explores what lies beneath Google’s marketing strategies for their new transatlantic cables, tracing the genealogy of this infrastructure to 19th-century Britain and the era of so-called abolition. A live activation of a sound sculpture exposes the metallic substance of the cable network and its transmission of historical records into the present. By linking claims of technological progress to imperial control, the work reframes the utopian ideal of global connectivity with evidence found in the British National Archives, from the Birmingham copper industry to a mass of colonial correspondences. Conducting Empire removes the network’s insulation to uncover how telecommunications were produced through a violent historical circuit.
“Late pyar lone lar?” In Search of A Clear Conscience in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Pyae Phyo Aung This written thesis explores the question of morality and conscience in the anti-authoritarian revolution that took shape in response to the 2021 military coup in Myanmar. The term late pyar lone chin refers to the pride of performing a just action or the shame and guilt of not doing so, and the question, late pyar lone lar?, means roughly “do you have a clear conscience?” It is now widely used to testify to (or question) one’s stance and involvement in the revolution. Examining the digital artifacts and lived experiences of protestors, resistance fighters, and activist fundraisers, the thesis studies the role of calls to conscience in political mobilization and investigates how affect and morality have been activated through aesthetic means to shape the trajectory of the Spring Revolution in Myanmar.
“The Human Right to What?” Hunger, Food, and People: A Journey to the South. Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona The public policy known as Areas of Protection for Food Production was launched in July of 2024 in the south of La Guajira, Colombia. It aims to focus land use on agricultural production and prohibit any type of mining exploitation. This transition is based on concepts such as the human right to food and food security. This written thesis explores the origins of these concepts, their scope, and their limitations. This is particularly relevant at a time when the La Guajira Corporation is about to grant approval to the mining company Best Coal Company to exploit millions of tons of coal in the Cañaverales Community. This thesis responds to the crisis and the difficulties of the energy transition from an epistemological point of view, through an analysis of archives and geopoetics.
The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine Leil Zahra Mortada This hybrid project interrogates the role of Arab cultural production—particularly Egyptian songs and films about the Aswan High Dam—in shaping public history and contributing to Nubian dispossession. Building on an ongoing collaboration with Nubian activists, one component of this project is a research article that critiques nationalism and encourages a reflection on the power of cultural memory to perpetuate erasure or resist it. The second component of this project is an interactive installation titled The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine, which examines state propaganda and confronts the failures of Arab liberation movements, while centering a Nubian narrative and presents a speculative grassroots response.
Sacred War as the Russian National Idea Arina Pshenichnaya Despite the secular image often associated with modern nationalism, the Russian state’s sacralization of war reveals the enduring power of religious symbols, rituals, and narratives in shaping national identity. This written thesis examines how the concept of sacred war has become central to the Russian national idea through a fusion of Orthodox theology, state power, and militarized aesthetics. It focuses on two key phenomena: the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces, which presents war as a timeless and divine foundation of Russian identity; and front-line baptismal rituals, which transform soldiers into metaphysical agents of a civilizational mission. I analyze these practices through the writings of Aleksandr Dugin, whose metaphysical theory of civilizational conflict (noomachy) frames war not as a geopolitical act but as an ontological necessity. Dugin’s thought provides the ideological architecture through which Russia is positioned as a sacred civilization resisting Western nihilism, where war is not simply justified, but ritually and cosmologically required. In doing so, the study challenges secular readings of nationalism and highlights how authoritarian regimes can mobilize religious metaphysics to render war not only legitimate, but liturgically necessary.
A Baghdad Sin: Peregrinations in a Ruptured Geography Nabil Salih Aftermaths are deceptive. They obscure and conceal. This text, weaved along a photographic inquiry, troubles the notion of quietude. Together, they try to point to what lurks and haunts in the crevices of a wounded urbanscape. Twenty-one years after the invasion and occupation of Iraq, what litter and refuse remain in Baghdad today? In a time of rapid urban reconfiguration, what do the residual wartime rubble and the paraphernalia of security regimes tell us of the present, its politics, and relationship to the past? Put differently, what forces and apparatuses obstruct an Iraqi’s walk? Standing by the ruins is an old tradition dating to pre-Islamic poetry and the laments of ancient Mesopotamia. This essay follows suit but goes beyond. Its fragments narrate my auto-ethnographic and ethnographic walks and rides in Baghdad, where I investigate the constellations of rubble, the affects they discharge, and the memories they awaken in a given locale. Much ink and blood were spilled on the streets of Baghdad and world newspapers; this endeavor asks what Iraqis are left with today. The photographs aspire to a private archive for public loss, each being an obstinate interlocutor tested for what eludes vision and what is thought to be seen.
Prison Rule 113.11 and Fugitive Tools Mauro Tosarelli Prisons are not just spaces of deprivation and submission but environments where survival gives rise to new forms of expression and interaction. Despite spatial, social, and political constraints, prisoners cultivate communication networks through sound, imagery, and handmade tools. This installation reframes prison life by focusing on acquired culture and produced knowledge rather than narratives of marginalization. Prison Rule 113.11 highlights both clandestine tools of disobedience—tattoo guns, fishing lines, and makeshift speakers—and the coercion tools manufactured through prison labor. These objects are not merely functional but symbolic of defiance and connection. By amplifying sound rather than retreating into silence, prisoners reclaim their lives and assert their resistance to isolation. Positioning these tools as ‘fugitive objects’, this work reveals how incarcerated individuals are not merely passive subjects but a challenge to the very structures designed to contain them.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Five Disruptive Principles in the Liberal Arts Series: Engagement
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 4–5:30 pm
Online Event 4 PM New York l 10 PM Vienna
AltLiberalArts' “Five Disruptive Principles in the Liberal Arts” series explores the core values that define an exceptional liberal arts education. The second event in the series will explore "Engagement." Carol Flint will moderate and Maureen T. Cannon and Maria Vesperi are panelists.
In student-driven learning environments, students aren’t treated as consumers of education, nor as vessels to be filled with information. Instead, they are expected to be active participants in their own academic journeys.
Carol Flint and Emmy Award winner who has written and produced over 400 hours of episodic prime time television, including the shows LA Law, ER, and the West Wing.
Maureen T. Cannon has practiced at both the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and the Washington, D.C. law firm of Williams and Connolly. In her own law practice, she has represented leading executives in the fields of higher education and professional sports.
Maria Vesperi is an anthropologist and a professor at the University of South Florida and then a journalist for the Tampa Bay Times. She then joined the New College of Florida Anthropology department and helped students establish The Catalyst, a student-led newspaper.
CCS Bard, Classroom 102 As part of a series co-presented by Forge Project and CCS Bard, artist Marilou Schultz will speak about her work on April 29 at 5 pm.
Forge Project Talks are part of a set of broader initiatives at Bard College that seek to place Native American and Indigenous Studies at the heart of curricular innovation, which includes programming organized by the Center for Indigenous Studies and the Rethinking Place initiative. These programs are made possible by the Forge Endowed Fund for Indigenous Studies at Bard College, generously supported by the Gochman Family Foundation along with George Soros and the Open Society Foundations.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Do you know your community? If yes, this is the event for you! Test your knowledge for a chance to win a mystery prize...and snacks too!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Join us for an evening of a guided tango! Learn the principles of tango with our group.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions, and more. Schedule by texting/calling Phillip Brown at 845-943-7644
Please inquire about Health Insurances accepted For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON JANUARY 15 This class blends optimal alignment with the movement and grace of Vinyasa flow. Class includes seated, standing, and supine poses. The Vinyasa segment moves at a moderate pace allowing alignment cues to be woven in. A slower flow is accessible for newer students and allows more experienced students to refine their poses.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Albee; Annex Basement (La Voz Magazine on google Maps) Are you interested in journalism, activism, and Latino immigrant issues? La Voz magazine seeks to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
We invite students of all skills and talents to come to our weekly meeting on Wednesdays, 1:30 to 2:30pm, at the La Voz office (Albee Annex Basement, in front of Henderson computer lab), or via Zoom in case of bad weather. Regularly held at the Kline College Room.
Albee The Coalition of Christian Students will offer an Ecumenical Bible Study for the Bard Community every Wednesday from 5 to 6 pm in the Chaplaincy Office (Albee Basement). Our goal is to find common ground and prayerfully study scripture together. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Come join us for our Film Making At Bard weekly meetings. Any ideas/scripts for films are more than welcome, otherwise, come ready to plan and discuss!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Language Center, Room 120 This is a support group open for people who are looking to learn more about addiction. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House Come join us for a low-stakes writing group to get the creative juices flowing! Different guided prompts and themes every week. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
State of Fracture: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights and the Arts, 2025
Runs through Sunday, May 4, 2025 3–7:30 pm
Massena Campus The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts is pleased to announce its Class of 2025 MA thesis exhibition.
The exhibition is taking place April 25 through May 4, 3 – 7:30 pm, across the Massena Campus at Bard. The exhibition features installations, films, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
State of Fracture: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2025
Runs through Sunday, May 4, 2025 3–7:30 pm
Massena Campus The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2025.
The exhibition is taking place April 25 through May 4, 3–7:30 pm, across the Massena Campus at Bard College. The exhibition features installations, films, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Below is the program for the thesis exhibition, including a list of events and showcased works :
Opening Reception Friday, 25 April 2025 4pm–7pm Exhibition opening and food-for-purchase provided by Samosa Shack.
Lecture Performance Conducting Empire by Elinor Arden Friday 25 April, Sunday 27 April, Saturday 3 May 6:30 pm–7pm
Panel Presentation Featuring Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona, Pyae Phyo Aung, and Arina Pshenichnaya Saturday, May 3 4 pm–5 pm
Written Theses Excerpts of these works are on display in the exhibition
“The Human Right to What?” Hunger, Food, and People: A Journey to the South Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona
Sacred War as the Russian National Idea Arina Pshenichnaya
“Late pyar lone lar?” In Search of A Clear Conscience in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Pyae Phyo Aung
A Baghdad Sin: Peregrinations in A Ruptured Geography Nabil Salih
Installations Open daily, 3–7:30 pm
FordDat Sariyah Abuzant
Livestreamed Genocide: TikTok LIVE in Gaza Sarah Al-Yahya
Calls from an Unseen Chorus Amr Amer
Conducting Empire Elinor Arden
The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine Leil Zahra Mortada
Prison Rule 113.11 and Fugitive Tools Mauro Tosarelli
Thesis Project Abstracts
FordDat Sariyah Abuzant This installation features a docufiction video and explores the role of an unofficial taxi vehicle vital to mobility in occupied Palestine, using the cases of Abu Dis and Al-Eizariya, two towns located in Area C of the West Bank. Manufactured by Ford Motor Company, this US vehicle has unintentionally functioned as the connective tissue of a fragmented landscape, navigating an apartheid system reinforced by the Oslo Accords. Operating illegally for over thirty years, the Ford Transit has not only sustained movement but also emerged as a tool of cultural sovereignty, community-structured infrastructure, and self-governance. A time capsule of Oslo’s failures, this vehicle offers a lens into the lived realities of Palestinian daily resistance and the unyielding struggle for the right to move.
Livestreamed Genocide: TikTok LIVE in Gaza Sarah Al-Yahya This hybrid project, comprised of an interactive, web-based installation and research article, examines how “history’s first livestreamed genocide” in Gaza has been presented on TikTok LIVE. The work explores these streams, characterized by their low viewership as well as scattered and disorienting nature, arguing that they reshape our understanding of “livestreamed genocide” as a historical media paradigm. The installation foregrounds the tensions between a gamified platform and the realities of war on the Gaza Strip. In doing so, it examines the uneasy rise of TikTok’s algorithmically-driven platform as a space where social media visibility and atrocity merge, clash, and are reshaped by the logic of public engagement.
Calls from an Unseen Chorus Amr Amer Calls from an Unseen Chorus is a sound installation that resists the passive consumption of Palestine as an image of suffering, instead demanding engagement through the act of listening. Centering the auditory as a site of resistance, the work immerses audiences in the sonic realities of occupation and defiance—from the oppressive stasis of colonial checkpoints to the collective force of protest chants, resistance music, and the recorded wills of martyrs. These layered soundscapes challenge static representations of Palestinian struggle, asserting a mobilized, dissenting presence and an unceasing fight for liberation. By stripping away the visual, Calls from an Unseen Chorus transforms listening into an entry point for solidarity, where sound becomes both testimony and a call to resistance.
Conducting Empire Elinor Arden Conducting Empire is a research article and an installation-performance investigating the material history of the undersea cable network: the physical ‘backbone’ of the internet. The project explores what lies beneath Google’s marketing strategies for their new transatlantic cables, tracing the genealogy of this infrastructure to 19th-century Britain and the era of so-called abolition. A live activation of a sound sculpture exposes the metallic substance of the cable network and its transmission of historical records into the present. By linking claims of technological progress to imperial control, the work reframes the utopian ideal of global connectivity with evidence found in the British National Archives, from the Birmingham copper industry to a mass of colonial correspondences. Conducting Empire removes the network’s insulation to uncover how telecommunications were produced through a violent historical circuit.
“Late pyar lone lar?” In Search of A Clear Conscience in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Pyae Phyo Aung This written thesis explores the question of morality and conscience in the anti-authoritarian revolution that took shape in response to the 2021 military coup in Myanmar. The term late pyar lone chin refers to the pride of performing a just action or the shame and guilt of not doing so, and the question, late pyar lone lar?, means roughly “do you have a clear conscience?” It is now widely used to testify to (or question) one’s stance and involvement in the revolution. Examining the digital artifacts and lived experiences of protestors, resistance fighters, and activist fundraisers, the thesis studies the role of calls to conscience in political mobilization and investigates how affect and morality have been activated through aesthetic means to shape the trajectory of the Spring Revolution in Myanmar.
“The Human Right to What?” Hunger, Food, and People: A Journey to the South. Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona The public policy known as Areas of Protection for Food Production was launched in July of 2024 in the south of La Guajira, Colombia. It aims to focus land use on agricultural production and prohibit any type of mining exploitation. This transition is based on concepts such as the human right to food and food security. This written thesis explores the origins of these concepts, their scope, and their limitations. This is particularly relevant at a time when the La Guajira Corporation is about to grant approval to the mining company Best Coal Company to exploit millions of tons of coal in the Cañaverales Community. This thesis responds to the crisis and the difficulties of the energy transition from an epistemological point of view, through an analysis of archives and geopoetics.
The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine Leil Zahra Mortada This hybrid project interrogates the role of Arab cultural production—particularly Egyptian songs and films about the Aswan High Dam—in shaping public history and contributing to Nubian dispossession. Building on an ongoing collaboration with Nubian activists, one component of this project is a research article that critiques nationalism and encourages a reflection on the power of cultural memory to perpetuate erasure or resist it. The second component of this project is an interactive installation titled The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine, which examines state propaganda and confronts the failures of Arab liberation movements, while centering a Nubian narrative and presents a speculative grassroots response.
Sacred War as the Russian National Idea Arina Pshenichnaya Despite the secular image often associated with modern nationalism, the Russian state’s sacralization of war reveals the enduring power of religious symbols, rituals, and narratives in shaping national identity. This written thesis examines how the concept of sacred war has become central to the Russian national idea through a fusion of Orthodox theology, state power, and militarized aesthetics. It focuses on two key phenomena: the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces, which presents war as a timeless and divine foundation of Russian identity; and front-line baptismal rituals, which transform soldiers into metaphysical agents of a civilizational mission. I analyze these practices through the writings of Aleksandr Dugin, whose metaphysical theory of civilizational conflict (noomachy) frames war not as a geopolitical act but as an ontological necessity. Dugin’s thought provides the ideological architecture through which Russia is positioned as a sacred civilization resisting Western nihilism, where war is not simply justified, but ritually and cosmologically required. In doing so, the study challenges secular readings of nationalism and highlights how authoritarian regimes can mobilize religious metaphysics to render war not only legitimate, but liturgically necessary.
A Baghdad Sin: Peregrinations in a Ruptured Geography Nabil Salih Aftermaths are deceptive. They obscure and conceal. This text, weaved along a photographic inquiry, troubles the notion of quietude. Together, they try to point to what lurks and haunts in the crevices of a wounded urbanscape. Twenty-one years after the invasion and occupation of Iraq, what litter and refuse remain in Baghdad today? In a time of rapid urban reconfiguration, what do the residual wartime rubble and the paraphernalia of security regimes tell us of the present, its politics, and relationship to the past? Put differently, what forces and apparatuses obstruct an Iraqi’s walk? Standing by the ruins is an old tradition dating to pre-Islamic poetry and the laments of ancient Mesopotamia. This essay follows suit but goes beyond. Its fragments narrate my auto-ethnographic and ethnographic walks and rides in Baghdad, where I investigate the constellations of rubble, the affects they discharge, and the memories they awaken in a given locale. Much ink and blood were spilled on the streets of Baghdad and world newspapers; this endeavor asks what Iraqis are left with today. The photographs aspire to a private archive for public loss, each being an obstinate interlocutor tested for what eludes vision and what is thought to be seen.
Prison Rule 113.11 and Fugitive Tools Mauro Tosarelli Prisons are not just spaces of deprivation and submission but environments where survival gives rise to new forms of expression and interaction. Despite spatial, social, and political constraints, prisoners cultivate communication networks through sound, imagery, and handmade tools. This installation reframes prison life by focusing on acquired culture and produced knowledge rather than narratives of marginalization. Prison Rule 113.11 highlights both clandestine tools of disobedience—tattoo guns, fishing lines, and makeshift speakers—and the coercion tools manufactured through prison labor. These objects are not merely functional but symbolic of defiance and connection. By amplifying sound rather than retreating into silence, prisoners reclaim their lives and assert their resistance to isolation. Positioning these tools as ‘fugitive objects’, this work reveals how incarcerated individuals are not merely passive subjects but a challenge to the very structures designed to contain them.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Leadership in a Time of Crisis: University Leaders Speak
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 9–10:30 am
Online Event 9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna
Universities as Frontline Responders, an initiative supported by OSUN and the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities, will host an important panel discussion focused on the leadership strategies that university presidents have employed to respond to various crises and discuss the lessons that can be drawn from this moment, as universities face wide ranging challenges. OSUN faculty, staff and students, are welcome.
Moderator: Jonathan Becker, Executive Vice President of Bard College
Speakers:
Margee Ensign, President of American University of Bulgaria Fadlo R. Khuri, President of American University of Beirut Dmytro Sherengovsky, Vice-Rector for Outreach and Social Engagement, Ukrainian Catholic University Kyaw Moe Tun, President of Parami University (Myanmar)
Various Campus Locations Join Civic Ambassadors for informal working groups of faculty, staff, and students, who are organizing events such as discussion groups, book clubs, community dinners, mutual aid support, and volunteering opportunities. The groups will also work to educate the Bard community on how local, state, and federal government works, including ways Bardians can engage with local elected officials. Meetings run weekly. Gov. Institutions Working Group: Mondays, 1:15 PM, Olin 310 Gender Working Group: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM, Library Room 302 Climate Working Group: Thursdays, 1 PM, Kline Rights Working Group: Fridays, 10 AM, Olin 310 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Massage is excellent for stress relief, to ease tense muscles, for headaches and backaches, and promotes a general sense of well-being.
Students: $80 for one hour, 30 minute sessions (students only) $45 Staff & Faculty: $100 for one hour
You can schedule a massage by texting or calling 845-702-6751. For more information visit www.gentlemountain.com. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Sottery Hall Bard College’s Campus Advocate Divine Perez-Ferreira will host regular office hours in Sottery 107 this semester on Tuesdays from 12–2 pm.
Divine works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can come to Sottery anytime between 12–2 pm.
CVSS offers:
- Information about domestic violence and sexual assault prevention; - Advocates who are there to support and believe you; - Connection to counseling or support groups; - Information about police reporting and the criminal justice system; and - Help finding additional services for student/faculty needs.
If you would like to schedule a meeting in advance, you can reach out to Divine directly at dperez@familyservicesny.org or to the Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination at nondiscrimination@bard.edu with your request.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail baldasso@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Hipster Meets the Ghost of Communism: New Laborers of Soviet Factories
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 303 As part of this semester's Memory Studies seminar, Margarita Kuleva, Visiting Assistant Professor at NYU's Russian and Slavic Department, will deliver a guest lecture on the new generation of creative laborers re-inhabiting former Soviet factories with post-industrial projects, such as contemporary art centers, creative spaces, and clusters. Kuleva will address their working lives and memory of space, the new "stakhanovization" of labor, and the role of these "cultural oases" in post-Soviet cities. The lecture is based on ethnographic data and includes examples from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. This event is sponsored by OSUN, the Gagarin Center at Bard, and Bard Programs in Historical Studies and Russian and Eurasian Studies.
For more information, please contact Victor Apryshchenko For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Guest Lecture: Margarita Kuleva, Visiting Assistant Professor, NYU Russian and Slavic Department
Hipster Meets the Ghost of Communism: New Labourers of Soviet Factories
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 12:30–2:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 303 As a part of Memory-studies seminar, the lecture portrays a new generation of creative laborers re-inhabiting former Soviet factories with post-industrial projects such as contemporary art centers, creative spaces, and clusters. Margarita addresses their working lives and memory of space, the new ‘stakhanovization’ of the labor, and the role of these ‘cultural oases’ in post-Soviet cities. The lecture is based on ethnographic data and includes examples from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.
Sponsored by the OSUN, Gagarin Center at Bard College, and the Programs in Historical Studies and Russian and Eurasian StudiesSponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Historical Studies Program; OSUN; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sylee@bard.edu.
Online Event A J-1 Scholar Orientation is being offered on the first Tuesday of each month during the Spring 2025 semester via zoom. All recently-arrived J-1 Scholars and department representatives are welcome to attend.Sponsored by: International Student and Scholar Services.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pngo@bard.edu.
RKC 103 The big consequences for the West of losing "small wars" (like Algeria, Vietnam, or Afghanistan) are due to the constitutive role of "the Orient" in Western identities. This talk will discuss how these identities are committed, in diverse ways, to notions of Western vitality, strength and dominance over non-European peoples. There is no more obvious sign of Western weakness and "Oriental" strength than defeat in war or failure to obtain victory. Unsurprisingly then, such setbacks become sites of political and cultural disruption and production at all levels of Western society.Sponsored by: Co-sponsored by the Ukraine and Decolonial Thought Common Course, the Human Rights Project, and the Anthropology, Politics, and GIS Programs.
For more information, call 845-758-7662, or e-mail msonevyt@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 TIME CHANGE FOR THE FOLLOWING DATE: April 22 6:30 p.m. instead of 5:30 p.m. Power Vinyasa focuses on building whole body strength and flexibility through a quick paced yoga flow. Incorporating lunges, squats, core work and balance postures, this challenging practice will make you sweat as you match breath and movement. Class will conclude with a wind-down to send you out the door feeling grounded. Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sxiong@bard.edu.
Latin American Student Organization General Meeting
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 6–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 A space to connect with LASO student members, share your thoughts, and learn more about our organization.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Humanities, Room 302 Come join, Tuesdays at 7 pm, to chat and play all things Pokemon! Meetings will be in Olin 302.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Campus Center, Cafe Hike in the dark? Join the Civic Ambassadors Climate Group to explore trails near the Bard campus at night—with stargazing and a meditation session as part of the program. Hand warmers, snacks, and drinks will be provided — and the hike will be followed by an (indoor) tea party with cookies, sweets, and some climate action! Meet up at the Down the Road Cafe, Campus Center. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions, and more. Schedule by texting/calling Phillip Brown at 845-943-7644
Please inquire about Health Insurances accepted For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON JANUARY 15 This class blends optimal alignment with the movement and grace of Vinyasa flow. Class includes seated, standing, and supine poses. The Vinyasa segment moves at a moderate pace allowing alignment cues to be woven in. A slower flow is accessible for newer students and allows more experienced students to refine their poses.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Albee; Annex Basement (La Voz Magazine on google Maps) Are you interested in journalism, activism, and Latino immigrant issues? La Voz magazine seeks to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
We invite students of all skills and talents to come to our weekly meeting on Wednesdays, 1:30 to 2:30pm, at the La Voz office (Albee Annex Basement, in front of Henderson computer lab), or via Zoom in case of bad weather. Regularly held at the Kline College Room.
Albee The Coalition of Christian Students will offer an Ecumenical Bible Study for the Bard Community every Wednesday from 5 to 6 pm in the Chaplaincy Office (Albee Basement). Our goal is to find common ground and prayerfully study scripture together. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Gazing Back at the Compound Eye: The Estrangement of Surveillance Images in Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes
By Luwei Wang, Ph.D. Candidate University of Wisconsin, Madison
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 5:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 The imagination of surveillance cameras and the digital media as “compound eyes” is a dominant motif in contemporary Chinese critical and cultural production. This concept resonates deeply within Chinese visual culture and film, where the compound eye functions as both a technological reality and a symbolic structure. In this talk, I examine this intersection through Xu Bing’s experimental art film Dragonfly Eyes (2017). My analysis focuses on Xu Bing’s distinctive approach of repurposing the found surveillance footage, through which he subverts traditional power dynamics, and transforms the surveillance apparatus into an object of critical reflection. By defamiliarizing audiences from the machine vision they have grown accustomed to, the film disrupts the neutrality of digital seeing. In doing so, it prompts reflection on deep- seated anxieties in the digital age—including the takeover of visual representation by digital media, the alienation from lived experience, the obsession with achieving a totalized and comprehensive replication of reality, and the estrangement from nature. I argue that Dragonfly Eyes fundamentally engages with these concerns by constructing an intricate relationship between surveillance footage, webcam recordings, the film’s protagonists, and the audience. Blurring the boundaries between viewing subject and object, the film positions its protagonists as both narrators and characters, oscillating between reality and fiction, observer and observed. Through this interplay, Dragonfly Eyes invites contemplation on the pervasive impact of digital surveillance and the shifting nature of visuality in the contemporary world.Sponsored by: Dean of the College, Division of Languages and Literature, Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL), and Chinese Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sxiong@bard.edu.
Citizen Science Presents: Moving Mountains with Jen Schwartz
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 6–8 pm
RKC 103; Reem-Kayden Center In early 2024 in the small mountain community of Round Top, NY, developers announced plans for a massive ultra-luxury resort. In order to accommodate 320,000-square-feet of new buildings and a private wastewater treatment plant, the team would need to raze 17 acres of forest, rearrange the mountainside, and divert existing streams and ponds. When Round Top resident Jen Schwartz learned of the project, she knew she had to act.The project would put the only local drinking source at risk of contamination and potentially dry up private wells.
In a special presentation for Bard’s Citizen Science program, journalist and editor Jen Schwartz will talk about her findings, discuss her grassroots environmental group Save Round Top, and talk more broadly about pulling communities together to help fight irresponsible real estate development. A brief interview with Citizen Science faculty member Brooke Borel and a general Q&A session will follow.Sponsored by: Citizen Science Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail cmilliot@bard.edu.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Come join us for our Film Making At Bard weekly meetings. Any ideas/scripts for films are more than welcome, otherwise, come ready to plan and discuss!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Building a Career in Sustainability: Leveraging Your Peace Corps Experience
Learn how a group of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers leveraged their service into a successful and impactful career in sustainability.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 7–8:30 pm
Online Event RSVP HERE for this free panel discussion
ABOUT THE EVENT: Interested in leveraging your past (or future) Peace Corps service into a sustainability career? Join the Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability for a discussion with Returned Peace Corps Volunteers as they share how they successfully transitioned from service to impactful careers in sustainability. Hear their stories, insights, and advice on building a purpose-driven career. Panel will be held via Zoom, and attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions.
More information on the panelists coming soon!Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library The BYO Book Group is back this Wednesday, April 2 from 7- 8 pm on the first floor of the library! This week, join Bard junior Norwood in the lounge area behind the research help desk to chat about all things books and reading. Share ideas, recommendations, and inspiration. There is no assigned reading; this is a space to chat informally about whatever you're reading and connect with other readers. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail amurphy@bard.edu.
Olin Language Center, Room 120 This is a support group open for people who are looking to learn more about addiction. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House Come join us for a low-stakes writing group to get the creative juices flowing! Different guided prompts and themes every week. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Beyond the Binary: "It's Complicated" Weekly Screening Series
Featuring: The Third Narrative Podcast Screening
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 8–9:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Join us for our weekly screening series exploring nuanced and diverse perspectives on the Israel-Palestine conflict. “It’s Complicated”, a project of the Hannah Arendt Center, presents the Third Narrative podcast, led by Palestinian hosts Amira Mohammad and Ibrahim Abu Ahmed. Through candid conversations and nuanced analysis, they challenge biases, unpack complexities, and promote meaningful dialogue on Israel-Palestine, to foster meaningful understanding of the region.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Universities as Frontline Responders: Lessons Learned from the Field
Thursday, April 3, 2025 8–10 am
Online Event 8 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna
OSUN and the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities present a panel on "Universities as Frontline Responders: Lessons Learned from the Field." Join the Co-Leaders of the Universities at the Frontline Responders Initiative for a conversation on how universities are using the Frontliner Model to respond to challenges and provide critical support to their communities. Panelists will share stories of how their universities are responding to emerging and ongoing crises in different contexts and present shared strategies for encouraging universities to lead as bold and nimble civic actors who partner with communities to respond swiftly and intelligently to unexpected societal challenges.
Moderator: Rabih Shibli, Director of the Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service (CCECS) at the American University of Beirut
Confirmed Speakers: Samia Huq, Dean of the School of General Education and Professor of Anthropology, Brac University Maheen Mumtaz, Manager Community Services, National University of Sciences & Technology Erin Cannan, Vice President for Civic Engagement; Deputy Director, Bard Center for Civic Engagement Jude Acquuah, Assistant Director for Outreach and Experiential Learning Programs at Ashesi University
Universities as Frontline Responders: Lessons Learned from the Field
Thursday, April 3, 2025 8–10 am
Online Event 8 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna
OSUN and the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities present a panel on "Universities as Frontline Responders: Lessons Learned from the Field." Join the Co-Leaders of the Universities at the Frontline Responders Initiative for a conversation on how universities are using the Frontliner Model to respond to challenges and provide critical support to their communities. Panelists will share stories of how their universities are responding to emerging and ongoing crises in different contexts and present shared strategies for encouraging universities to lead as bold and nimble civic actors who partner with communities to respond swiftly and intelligently to unexpected societal challenges.
Moderator: Rabih Shibli, Director of the Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service (CCECS) at the American University of Beirut
Confirmed Speakers: Samia Huq, Dean of the School of General Education and Professor of Anthropology, Brac University Maheen Mumtaz, Manager Community Services, National University of Sciences & Technology Erin Cannan, Vice President for Civic Engagement; Deputy Director, Bard Center for Civic Engagement Jude Acquuah, Assistant Director for Outreach and Experiential Learning Programs at Ashesi University
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 This class is about listening to the body and focusing on form and breathwork to create a moving meditation. We will combine pranayama (breathwork practices) with a gentle flow, to create a space of solace from stress and anxiety. The class will be a mixture of hatha postures and dynamic sequences, with lots of variations and alternatives, allowing students to shape their own practice. Some classes will also end with sound baths before silent meditation. Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.
Join the Persian table every Thursday. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mshahbaz@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 3, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ochilton@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 3, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail fchamoun@bard.edu.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor Drop by the library between 3–5 pm and collage with us! At the large table next to the Janet Malcolm: Critical Collage exhibition on the first floor. Materials provided. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail amurphy@bard.edu.
Online Event Renowned dancer and teacher Edgardo Fernendez will discuss how “Using dance as an instrument, we make injustices visible: homophobia and transphobia, the right to identity, the abuse and abandonment of the elderly, the potential of people with disabilities to teach and to dance tango." Join us for this engaging conversation. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Come play chess with the Chess Club! We will be playing in the Georgeball Lounge, except on on 02/06, 02/13, and 03/27 when we will be playing in the Red Room.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Gilson Place Come have Brazilian lemonade and appetizers and watch a Brazilian film to learn more about Brazilian culture! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail dabend@bard.edu.
Campus Center Lobby Learn about Health, Counseling, and Wellness. Get information on recovery or harm reduction resources on and off campus. Ask questions and make a connection with your peers!Sponsored by: Health, Counseling an Wellness .
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 3, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail zdallal@bard.edu.
The Poetry of Physics: What Literature Can Teach Us About the Ultimate Nature of Reality
William Egginton, Decker Professor in the Humanities, Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, April 3, 2025 5:30–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In this lecture I explore the two major physical theories of the twentieth century, relativity and quantum mechanics, by way of what we could call their poetic and philosophical foundations. Key to this approach will be the idea that reality isn’t an unfiltered picture of what’s out there, but rather a complex human construct, and that because of that we need essentially human means to understand it, among them literature and philosophy. In this light I argue that philosophers like Plato and Kant, and poets like Dante and Borges, are key to understanding the ideas of Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg.
William Egginton is the Decker Professor in the Humanities, Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of multiple books, including How the World Became a Stage (2003), Perversity and Ethics (2006), A Wrinkle in History (2007), The Philosopher’s Desire (2007), The Theater of Truth (2010), In Defense of Religious Moderation (2011), The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World (2016), The Splintering of the American Mind (2018), and The Rigor of Angels (2023), which was named to several best of 2023 lists, including The New York Times and The New Yorker. He is co-author with David Castillo of Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media (2017) and What Would Cervantes Do? Navigating Post-Truth with Spanish Baroque Literature (2022). His most recent book, on the philosophical, psychoanalytic, and surrealist dimensions of the work of Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, was published in January 2024.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; LAIS Program; Literature Program; Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jluzzi@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 3, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail plopezga@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 Join us for a one hour mat pilates class, focusing on strengthening and toning muscles.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Campus Center, Lobby Guess what’s back? Thursday Night Live is kicking off again—starting Thursday, March 27th from 7 to 9 pm at Down The Road Café—and you’re invited. Presented by The Real in collaboration with the Student Activities Board, this weekly music series features a student band or artist tearing it up for the first 30 minutes, an open jam session where you can hop in and make some noise, chill vibes, and live music. But wait... there’s more. Only during Thursday Night Live, you can feast on:
A Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich hotter than your midterm stress
A new themed mocktail every week (surprise your taste buds)
So whether you’re here to play, vibe, or just vibe next to the people playing—come through. Let’s turn DTR into the live music hub it was always meant to be. We will not be having this event on 5/1.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Public Debate and Expert Panel Double Feature: Opposition Under Authoritarianism
Thursday, April 3, 2025 7–9 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema In today’s political landscape, it can be challenging to know what our politicians, let alone the average person, can do to effect change and combat authoritarianism. Should opposition politicians be expected to respond openly and aggressively to every action taken by the government? How have other countries attempted to stymie their own recent shifts toward authoritarianism? To what extent are we really in a “constitutional crisis”?
In the first half of our event, members of the Bard Debate Union will debate the topic “In times of political instability, do opposition politicians have the responsibility to ‘swing at every pitch’?” In the second half, an expert panel consisting of Bard Professor of Politics, CCE Director, and Executive Vice President Jonathan Becker, Bard Associate Professor of Politics Michelle Murray, CEU Assistant Professor of International Relations Erzsebet Strausz, and Political Strategist Blake Zeff will discuss recent events and unpack the big questions that are defining our current political moment. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail cbronte@bard.edu.
Olin Humanities, Room 204 Interested in improving your public speaking skills, traveling to compete at other colleges, or getting involved in our local events? All are welcome to join our regular weekly debate meetings! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail cbronte@bard.edu.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, come bake challah and help prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose, they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another with the openness and closeness that seem so natural in kitchens. All are welcome. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail jboettiger@bard.edu.
★★★★★ “Inspired interrogation of ‘the great male artist’” —The Stage
★★★★ “Scoring pertinent points about the abusiveness inherent in the genius cult” —The Guardian
Blending together Adrienne Truscott (Spiegeltent at Bard emcee, Wild Bore, Asking For It, The Wau Wau Sisters)’s genre-straddling work and savagely comedic discourse on gender with internationally renowned theatre company Brokentalkers’ (The Examination, Have I No Mouth, The Blue Boy) formally slippery dramaturgy, the award-winning Masterclass is a parody like no other—uncovering excruciating truths about privilege, gender, and power.
Taking shape as an interview, Masterclass doesn’t hold back. Performed by ‘fed-up feminist’ Adrienne Truscott and ‘all-around good guy’ Feidlim Cannon, Masterclass begins as a cockamamie masterclass between two familiar archetypes—the self-mythologizing male artist (Truscott) and a sycophantic interviewer (Cannon). It’s fun. It’s familiar. There are wigs. But there is something more at play.
This wickedly funny take-down of the macho artist has been performed to critical acclaim across the world, including the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival, RISING Melbourne, Southbank Centre London, Brighton Festival, Teatro do Bairro Alto Lisbon, and many more. Now it’s New York’s turn!
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Woods Studio The members of the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and The Bard Children's Center are proud to present their works of art that include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and 3D art. April 7–11, Woods Studio. A family reception will be held April 10 at 3:30pm. For more information, call 845-758-7444, or e-mail kwilliam@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions and more. Schedule an appointment by texting or calling Dr. Sarah Heslip at (413) 884-2798. Please inquire about insurance. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Friday, April 4, 2025 – Sunday, April 6, 2025 10 am – 11:55 pm
Tewksbury Hall Basement Bard On TV is hosting a 48-hour film competition from April 4th to April 6th. On April 4 at 10 am, the script and props, that must be included in the film, will be released. You will have until April 6th at 10 am to plan, film, and edit.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Central Asia at the Crossroads: Governance, Innovation, and Identity in Transition CONFERENCE
Friday, April 4, 2025 10 am – 5 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium This conference brings together faculty, scholars, and administrators from the American University of Central Asia and Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY). As long-standing partners, Bard and AUCA have impacted the education and professional development of thousands of young people, responding to and contributing to the political, economic, and socio-cultural changes in the region. We will discuss the achievements and goals of the partnership, as well as issues of legal frameworks, cultural identity, and evolving geopolitical alignments that shape the future of Central Asia's regional stability and global influence. Over the course of a day, scholars will engage in dialogue about political participation and economic opportunity in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia; the region's culture as it evolves in response to shifting geopolitical alignments; and the region's educational visions, ambitions, and hopes.
10.00 – 10.30 Opening remarks
10.30 – 12.00 Panel 1 LAW & SECURITY Moderated by Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University
Kamila Mateeva, Head of Law Division; Associate Professor of Law, AUCA “Evolving Legal Frameworks in Central Asia: Navigating Challenges and Seizing Opportunities”
Saniia Toktogazieva, Dean of Academic Planning and Strategic Partnerships; Associate Professor of Law, AUCA “Constitutionalism in Central Asia: Challenges and current trends”
Togzhan Kassenova (Senior Fellow, Project on International Security, Commerce and Economic Statecraft at the University of Albany) “Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Story: Reclaiming the Agency and National Identity Building”
1.30 – 3.15 Panel 2 ECONOMICS & THE ENVIRONMENT Moderated by Eban Goodstein, Bard College
Zarylbek Kudabaev, Head of the Applied Sciences Division; Professor of Economics, AUCA “Economic Transformations in Central Asia: Current Trends, Challenges, and Future Prospects”
Urmat Ryskulov, Chair of the School of Entrepreneurship and Business Administration; Associate Professor of Business and Finance, AUCA “Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Central Asia: Catalysts for Sustainable Development”
Aniruddha Mitra, Bard College (co-authors: James T. Bang, St. Ambrose University, Nurgul Ukueva, Associate Professor, Economics Department, American University of Central Asia, Visiting Associate Professor, Bard College) “Trust, Risk, and Attitudes toward Climate Change, Evidence from Kyrgyzstan”
Aisalkyn Botoeva, Co-Founder and Principal Researcher of Altai Atlantic research company “The Power of Narrative: Rethinking How We Share Knowledge about the Region.”
3.30 – 5.15 Panel 3 CULTURE & IDENTITY Moderated by Elena Kim, Bard College
Ruslan Rahimov, Head of the Division of Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Development, AUCA “Reclaiming Identity: Decolonization Narratives and Cultural Reawakening in Central Asia”
Daniyar Karabaev, Head of the Division of Arts, Humanities and Communication; Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, AUCA “Memory Politics: The Role of Oral History in Central Asia”
Marek Eby, Visiting Scholar, Columbia University Harriman Institute “Narratives of Soviet Kyrgyzstan through the Lens of Health: The Case of Malaria”
Jarkyn Shadymanova, Associate Professor, Sociology Department, AUCA, M.Ed. Candidate in Environmental Education, Bard College “NGOs at the Intersection of Drug Treatment and Infectious Disease Prevention: Practices from Central Asia and China”Sponsored by: REAS, CCE, and IILE.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ovoronin@bard.edu.
Craft and Connect at 12 pm at Sawkill Coffee House. Offered by Wellness Education, Counseling, and Disability Access Services
Friday, April 4, 2025 12–1 pm
Sawkill Coffee House Crafting, puzzles. community, connections, and tips and strategies for being and staying resilient! Email wellnesseducation@bard.edu to sign up, but walk-ins are welcome.
New Annandale House The International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) meets for lab time every Friday at New Annandale House. Those interested in digital humanities or archiving are welcome to stop by any time between 12 and 4 pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pf0250@bard.edu.
Mark Your Calendars for the Spring Internship & Seasonal Job Fair!
Friday, April 4, 2025 12–3 pm
Campus Center, Lobby Looking for a Summer Opportunity?
Meet employers and hear about their opportunities in fields of Communications, Education, Film, Research, Community & Social Justice, Agriculture & Farming, Business, Sustainability, and more. Gain insight into what employers are looking for in student interns, get a free LinkedIn Photo and enter to win raffle prizes. Learn about internships and funding opportunities available for students!*Masks optional.* For more information, call 845-758-7539, or e-mail cdo@bard.edu.
Learn more about applying to Levy with Thomas Masterson, graduate program director, and Tyler Emerson, outreach and recruitment liaison.
Friday, April 4, 2025 12–1 pm
Online Event This information session with Graduate Program Director Thomas Masterson and Graduate Outreach and Recruitment Liaison Tyler Emerson provides an overview of the Levy academic programs, student life, admission requirements, enrollment steps, new scholarships, financial aid procedures, and immigration requirements for international students. Applicants who attend a virtual information session will have their application fees waived.
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion known as the parsha, each week. Join Rabbi Joshua Boettiger and others in the Bard community for an informal Torah Study session each Friday—open to everyone of all religious backgrounds.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Jewish Studies Program.
Brody Lab - Hegeman 107 While many physics undergraduates focus on academic or research careers, diverse opportunities exist within industry. I will discuss some common non-academic careers for physicists, essential skills (eg programming, data analysis), and practical advice for job searching, including insights from my own transition from academia to industry. A comparison of academic and industrial careers will be presented, along with examples of how core physics principles are applied in real-world settings. This talk aims to equip physics undergraduates with the knowledge to explore and pursue successful industrial careers.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
Kingston Mosque The Muslim Student Organization (MSO) offers transportation for anyone who would like to go to the mosque on Fridays for Jummah Prayers. The pick-up time is at 12:00 p.m. for the Kingston Mosque and the departure time from the Mosque is 2 pm. Time is flexible based on who is driving and how many people join.
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Gathering of writers and editors for the paper to work on current issues! Anyone is welcome to join, and no experience is required. On 3/28 we will be meeting in Olin 203.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
TBD weekly Bring your bike to one or all of these rides. Meet at 2 pm. More Info when you sign up by scanning the QR code below or email lb9580@bard.edu All experience levels are welcome. Helmets available! Programs made possible by a generous donation in loving memory of James Kirk Bernard. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Bard On Go weekly meeting. The first meeting is for our club members to connect with each other, discussing video ideas for the upcoming semester.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Stevenson Library You're warmly invited to join from 3:30 to 5:00pm in Stevenson Library 402 (fourth floor) to work on your Senior Project in a calm, quiet, and supportive space.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jesmith@bard.edu.
Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs Calling all Bard seniors!
April 4th marks the start of the final 50 days before Commencement. Do you know everything you need to know? Like, how do I submit my Senior Project? Where do I pick up my cap and gown? When are Senior Portraits? What is Baccalaureate?
Join us at the Anne Cox Chambers Alumni/ae Center (across from Bard’s main entrance on 9G) to get your questions answered, and stay for food, drinks, a raffle, and more!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics; Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Career Development Office; Center for Civic Engagement; Dean of Student Affairs; Office of Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs; Office of International Student and Scholar Services; Senior Salon Series; Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail tmandrin@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House Come craft with us. We will be doing sewing, knitting, paper crafts, and anything else you like! Learn new skills or work on a project.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail jboettiger@bard.edu.
Works by Olivier Tarpaga, Michael Laurello, Dan Langa, and Nathalie Joachim.
Friday, April 4, 2025 7 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
★★★★★ “Inspired interrogation of ‘the great male artist’” —The Stage
★★★★ “Scoring pertinent points about the abusiveness inherent in the genius cult” —The Guardian
Blending together Adrienne Truscott (Spiegeltent at Bard emcee, Wild Bore, Asking For It, The Wau Wau Sisters)’s genre-straddling work and savagely comedic discourse on gender with internationally renowned theatre company Brokentalkers’ (The Examination, Have I No Mouth, The Blue Boy) formally slippery dramaturgy, the award-winning Masterclass is a parody like no other—uncovering excruciating truths about privilege, gender, and power.
Taking shape as an interview, Masterclass doesn’t hold back. Performed by ‘fed-up feminist’ Adrienne Truscott and ‘all-around good guy’ Feidlim Cannon, Masterclass begins as a cockamamie masterclass between two familiar archetypes—the self-mythologizing male artist (Truscott) and a sycophantic interviewer (Cannon). It’s fun. It’s familiar. There are wigs. But there is something more at play.
This wickedly funny take-down of the macho artist has been performed to critical acclaim across the world, including the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival, RISING Melbourne, Southbank Centre London, Brighton Festival, Teatro do Bairro Alto Lisbon, and many more. Now it’s New York’s turn!
SMOG Join us for a night of pure teteo and perreo, old-school style! We're bringing back the classic reggaeton vibes with all your favorite throwback jams. Get ready to dance, vibe, and party like never before! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Friday, April 4, 2025 – Sunday, April 6, 2025 10 am – 11:55 pm
Tewksbury Hall Basement Bard On TV is hosting a 48-hour film competition from April 4th to April 6th. On April 4 at 10 am, the script and props, that must be included in the film, will be released. You will have until April 6th at 10 am to plan, film, and edit.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
A time to properly recycle household electronic waste, light bulbs and select batteries
Saturday, April 5, 2025 7:30 am – 1 pm
Red Hook Recycle Center, 23 Glen Pond Road For Bardians who live in Red Hook, this annual event is an important service to help recover critical metals found in electronic waste and prevent toxic materials from being landfilled or incinerated. For everyone: this is an opportunity for Bard community members to volunteer (see the volunteer info here).
This event supplements what can normally be brought to the Town Recycling Center. A list of acceptable waste (and items that will not be accepted) is on the Town website. Accepted household items include, but are not limited to, cameras, computers, copiers and printers, cables, CDs and cassettes, mobile phones, TVs, fluorescent bulbs, LED bulbs, certain batteries, and more. This event is a Red Hook residential service only. Some quantity limits may apply.Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Opening Reception for 15: The 2025 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions
Saturday, April 5, 2025 1–4 pm
Hessel Museum of Art Opening Reception, Saturday, April 5, 1–4 pm.
Limited free seating is available on a roundtrip chartered bus from New York City for the April 5th opening. Reservations are required and can be made on this by calling +1 845-758-7598 or emailing Mary Rozell at mrozell@bard.edu. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/1010-15.
★★★★★ “Inspired interrogation of ‘the great male artist’” —The Stage
★★★★ “Scoring pertinent points about the abusiveness inherent in the genius cult” —The Guardian
Blending together Adrienne Truscott (Spiegeltent at Bard emcee, Wild Bore, Asking For It, The Wau Wau Sisters)’s genre-straddling work and savagely comedic discourse on gender with internationally renowned theatre company Brokentalkers’ (The Examination, Have I No Mouth, The Blue Boy) formally slippery dramaturgy, the award-winning Masterclass is a parody like no other—uncovering excruciating truths about privilege, gender, and power.
Taking shape as an interview, Masterclass doesn’t hold back. Performed by ‘fed-up feminist’ Adrienne Truscott and ‘all-around good guy’ Feidlim Cannon, Masterclass begins as a cockamamie masterclass between two familiar archetypes—the self-mythologizing male artist (Truscott) and a sycophantic interviewer (Cannon). It’s fun. It’s familiar. There are wigs. But there is something more at play.
This wickedly funny take-down of the macho artist has been performed to critical acclaim across the world, including the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival, RISING Melbourne, Southbank Centre London, Brighton Festival, Teatro do Bairro Alto Lisbon, and many more. Now it’s New York’s turn!
Studio Art Senior Project Exhibition Opening Reception
Saturday, April 5, 2025 3–6 pm
Bard Exhibition Center Please join us to celebrate the senior thesis work of our first group of Studio Art Senior Students: L.A., Bruno Licamele, Blossom Bogen-Froese, Tess Cogen, Eva Gretskaya, Logan Tondini, Maggy Peyton, Margartia Padua, and Sara Garcia Roth. For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail pmead@bard.edu.
TŌN’s tenth season at the Fisher Center concludes with a program of dazzling and colorful music by three European composers. The concert begins with Kaija Saariaho’sLaterna Magica, inspired by the autobiography of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Then the orchestra is joined by clarinetist Miles Wazni, a winner of the 2023 Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition, for Carl Maria von Weber’s virtuosic Clarinet Concerto No. 2. We close with the scintillating and revelatory third symphony of French composer Albéric Magnard.
★★★★★ “Inspired interrogation of ‘the great male artist’” —The Stage
★★★★ “Scoring pertinent points about the abusiveness inherent in the genius cult” —The Guardian
Blending together Adrienne Truscott (Spiegeltent at Bard emcee, Wild Bore, Asking For It, The Wau Wau Sisters)’s genre-straddling work and savagely comedic discourse on gender with internationally renowned theatre company Brokentalkers’ (The Examination, Have I No Mouth, The Blue Boy) formally slippery dramaturgy, the award-winning Masterclass is a parody like no other—uncovering excruciating truths about privilege, gender, and power.
Taking shape as an interview, Masterclass doesn’t hold back. Performed by ‘fed-up feminist’ Adrienne Truscott and ‘all-around good guy’ Feidlim Cannon, Masterclass begins as a cockamamie masterclass between two familiar archetypes—the self-mythologizing male artist (Truscott) and a sycophantic interviewer (Cannon). It’s fun. It’s familiar. There are wigs. But there is something more at play.
This wickedly funny take-down of the macho artist has been performed to critical acclaim across the world, including the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival, RISING Melbourne, Southbank Centre London, Brighton Festival, Teatro do Bairro Alto Lisbon, and many more. Now it’s New York’s turn!
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Friday, April 4, 2025 – Sunday, April 6, 2025 10 am – 11:55 pm
Tewksbury Hall Basement Bard On TV is hosting a 48-hour film competition from April 4th to April 6th. On April 4 at 10 am, the script and props, that must be included in the film, will be released. You will have until April 6th at 10 am to plan, film, and edit.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (1114 River Road) in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome!
Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu.
Leadership in Times of Crisis: Workshops with OSUN Global Engagement Fellows
Sunday, April 6, 2025 10 am – 12 pm
10 AM New York l 4 PM Vienna
OSUN Global Engagement Fellows present "Leadership in Times of Crisis," an online student conference in which Fellows facilitate simultaneous workshops on the following topics:
1. Resilient Leadership: Managing Stress and Burnout in Crisis – Strategies for staying strong under pressure. Led by Nurbolot Piridinov.
2. Tech and Innovation in Crisis Leadership – The role of digital tools in crisis response. Led by Shadin Nassar.
3. Leading Through Crisis: Mental Health and Well-being – Addressing the importance of mental health for leaders in crisis situations, strategies for managing stress and burnout, and fostering resilience in teams. Led by Nafira Nayeem.
4. Resilient and Innovative leadership in relation to technology. Led by Vishal Parkash.
The workshops will be followed by Q&A and discussion sessions.
Leadership in Times of Crisis: Workshops with OSUN Global Engagement Fellows
Sunday, April 6, 2025 10 am – 12 pm
Online Event 10 AM New York l 4 PM Vienna
OSUN Global Engagement Fellows present "Leadership in Times of Crisis," an online student conference in which Fellows facilitate simultaneous workshops on the following topics:
1. Resilient Leadership: Managing Stress and Burnout in Crisis – Strategies for staying strong under pressure. Led by Nurbolot Piridinov.
2. Tech and Innovation in Crisis Leadership – The role of digital tools in crisis response. Led by Shadin Nassar.
3. Leading Through Crisis: Mental Health and Well-being – Addressing the importance of mental health for leaders in crisis situations, strategies for managing stress and burnout, and fostering resilience in teams. Led by Nafira Nayeem.
4. Resilient and Innovative leadership in relation to technology. Led by Vishal Parkash.
The workshops will be followed by Q&A and discussion sessions.
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor Join us for a workshop to create beaded "Water Is Life" pins led by Rethinking Place 2025 Artist Fellow Sayo’:kla Kindness Williams. Registration required: register here.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at 11:30 in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jhess@bard.edu.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge A space for Anthro seniors to read SPROJ work, discuss, receive feedback, and for all Anthro majors to share any anthropological writing. There will be refreshments.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Coalition Of Christian Students: Quaker Meeting For Worship
Sunday, April 6, 2025 1–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are invited to join us as we gather in silence to seek the Inner-Light. No minister leads us in worship, no prayers or hymns are planned. We wait and listen for the Holy Spirit to speak in and through us. Both our silence and our spoken words bring us closer together and closer to God. Meeting will take place on the First Day of each week (Sunday) at the Chapel of the Holy Innocents from 1-2pm.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
TŌN’s tenth season at the Fisher Center concludes with a program of dazzling and colorful music by three European composers. The concert begins with Kaija Saariaho’sLaterna Magica, inspired by the autobiography of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Then the orchestra is joined by clarinetist Miles Wazni, a winner of the 2023 Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition, for Carl Maria von Weber’s virtuosic Clarinet Concerto No. 2. We close with the scintillating and revelatory third symphony of French composer Albéric Magnard.
Olin Hall In preparation for her Carnegie Hall debut recital, pianist Alexandra Balog presents a solo piano recital featuring works by Kodály, Mozart, Noah Max, and Schubert.
★★★★★ “Inspired interrogation of ‘the great male artist’” —The Stage
★★★★ “Scoring pertinent points about the abusiveness inherent in the genius cult” —The Guardian
Blending together Adrienne Truscott (Spiegeltent at Bard emcee, Wild Bore, Asking For It, The Wau Wau Sisters)’s genre-straddling work and savagely comedic discourse on gender with internationally renowned theatre company Brokentalkers’ (The Examination, Have I No Mouth, The Blue Boy) formally slippery dramaturgy, the award-winning Masterclass is a parody like no other—uncovering excruciating truths about privilege, gender, and power.
Taking shape as an interview, Masterclass doesn’t hold back. Performed by ‘fed-up feminist’ Adrienne Truscott and ‘all-around good guy’ Feidlim Cannon, Masterclass begins as a cockamamie masterclass between two familiar archetypes—the self-mythologizing male artist (Truscott) and a sycophantic interviewer (Cannon). It’s fun. It’s familiar. There are wigs. But there is something more at play.
This wickedly funny take-down of the macho artist has been performed to critical acclaim across the world, including the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival, RISING Melbourne, Southbank Centre London, Brighton Festival, Teatro do Bairro Alto Lisbon, and many more. Now it’s New York’s turn!
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space A program of classical musical theater selections, featuring the works of Stephen Sondheim, Frederick Loewe, Joseph Stein, Dave Malloy, Joe Masteroff, and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory website here.
Bard on Television: 48-hour Film Competition Film Screening
Sunday, April 6, 2025 5–7 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Join Bard on TV to watch all of the submissions from our 48-hour Film Competition. Winners will be announced at this time!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Woods Studio The members of the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and The Bard Children's Center are proud to present their works of art that include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and 3D art. April 7–11, Woods Studio. A family reception will be held April 10 at 3:30pm. For more information, call 845-758-7444, or e-mail kwilliam@bard.edu.
Sasha Skochilenko on "How Liberal Arts & Sciences Helped Me in Jail"
Monday, April 7, 2025 12–3 pm
Online Event 12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna
Sasha Skochilenko, a Russian artist and musician who was arrested and imprisoned in 2022 for opposing the war in Ukraine, will speak at Bard College Berlin on “How a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences Helped Me in Jail.” The talk will be moderated by her Smolny academic advisor, Ilya Kalinin.
Skochilenko will discuss her studies in anthropology at Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia) and how this experience shaped and strengthened her anti-war stance. She will also reflect on her famous courtroom speech, “Oh yes, life!” which explores the value of life and reconciliation in times of war and conflict, and how these ideas helped her survive imprisonment.
Former Political Prisoner Sasha Skochilenko on "How Liberal Arts & Sciences Helped Me in Jail"
Monday, April 7, 2025 12–3 pm
Online Event 12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna
Sasha Skochilenko, a Russian artist and musician who was arrested and imprisoned in 2022 for opposing the war in Ukraine, will speak at Bard College Berlin on “How a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences Helped Me in Jail.” The talk will be moderated by her Smolny academic advisor, Ilya Kalinin.
Skochilenko will discuss her studies in anthropology at Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia) and how this experience shaped and strengthened her anti-war stance. She will also reflect on her famous courtroom speech, “Oh yes, life!” which explores the value of life and reconciliation in times of war and conflict, and how these ideas helped her survive imprisonment.
Join via Zoom For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Institute of Advanced Theology Spring Lecture Series
Monday, April 7, 2025 12:30–2 pm
Bard Hall A lecture series from Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology The Bible does not mean only what Christianity says it means, or only what Judaism says it means, or only what Islam says it means. Biblical meaning also cannot be reduced to the caricatures produced by a small but strident coterie of atheist Fundamentalists in recent years.
The Bible unfolded over the course of a millennium of development. During that process social forces in each phase shaped the texts as they stand today, and in some cases the texts can be seen to push back against their contexts. The formation of the Bible resulted in the evolution of a social message, what the Aramaic, and Hebrew, and Greek languages of composition call a “gospel.” Our series is designed to uncover the grounding principles of this gospel as it unfolded over time and was articulated by the Bible in its own terms, before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam emerged.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail mgermano@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, April 7, 2025 1–2 pm
Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Campus Center, Lobby Join You Survived and the Campus Advocate in making a playlist that makes you feel empowered, respected, and uplifted. There will also beself defense items available. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON MARCH 10 During this gentle Kripalu Yoga flow, students are invited to play with their edge, experiment with what works for their body, and make the practice their very own. In this yoga of compassion, we move through centering techniques and flow through postures, keeping an emphasis on the breath. Kripalu Yoga invites experimentation and inquiry into every movement and moment...come play!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Olin Humanities, Room 204 Vance Serchuk, Executive Director of KKR Global Institute, will deliver a lecture on the Russian Defense Industry with a Q&A following. All are welcome to attend.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy Offices) Come by the Chaplaincy office (Albee Basement) to knit or learn how to knit! Crocheters and needleworkers are also invited. Materials including yarn and knitting needles are provided. Everyone is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Join us for our bi-weekly meetings to learn about Caribbean culture through fun events, tough talks, collabs, and more! Dates: 2/10/25, 2/24/25, 3/10/25, 3,24/25, 4/7/25, 4/21/25, 5/5/25Sponsored by: Student Activities.
“All poetry is revolution”: Reading and Discussion of Anna Greki’s Algeria, Capital: Algiers with Marine Cornuet and Ammiel Alcalay
Monday, April 7, 2025 5:30–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In 1963, a year after Algerian independence, Anna Greki, an Algerian poet of French descent living in exile in Tunisia, published Algeria, Capital: Algiers, her first poetry collection, in French and Arabic. Greki, 32 at the time, had participated in the Algerian revolution and was arrested, incarcerated and tortured by the French military for her activism. Algeria, Capital: Algiers, translated by Marine Cornuet, and introduced by Ammiel Alcalay, includes poems Greki wrote while in prison and is available in English for the first time. Please join us for a reading and discussion of Greki’s life and work, and of the translation itself.
Marine Cornuet is a Brooklyn-based translator, poet, and editor. Recent publications include Cloche Pèlerine (Le Castor Astral, 2024), a French translation of Kaveh Akbar’s poetry collection Pilgrim Bell, and Algeria, capital: Algiers (Pinsapo Press and Lost & Found, 2024), an English translation of Anna Gréki’s poetry collection Algérie, capitale Algers. She holds an MFA from Queens College, CUNY, and is the co-founder of the literary journal Clotheslines. She is a member of the working collective and an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse.
Poet, novelist, translator, essayist, critic, and scholar Ammiel Alcalay’s latest books are CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books, his co-translation of Nasser Rabah’s Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece, and the forthcoming Follow the Person: Archival Encounters. In 2017, he received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for his work as founder and General Editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative; he is a Distinguished Professor at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative, French Studies, Hannah Arendt Center, Middle Eastern Studies, and Pinsapo Press.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail glindsay@bard.edu.
Stevenson Gym- Class Room 1 Come join us for our weekly juggling meeting on Mondays 7 pm - 9 pm. No experience required (We Will Teach You)!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Writing the Introduction and Conclusion of Your Senior Project
A Faculty Panel and Q&A
Monday, April 7, 2025 7–8 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Senior Project introductions and conclusions can be tricky to write. If you need some inspiration, you are warmly invited to join Rob Culp, Julia Rosenbaum, and Éric Trudel on Monday, April 7. They'll dispense writing wisdom, take your questions, and make you glad you came to this talk.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jesmith@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Massage is excellent for stress relief, to ease tense muscles, for headaches and backaches, and promotes a general sense of well-being.
Students: $80 for one hour, 30 minute sessions (students only) $45 Staff & Faculty: $100 for one hour
You can schedule a massage by texting or calling 845-702-6751. For more information visit www.gentlemountain.com. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Sottery Hall Bard College’s Campus Advocate Divine Perez-Ferreira will host regular office hours in Sottery 107 this semester on Tuesdays from 12–2 pm.
Divine works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can come to Sottery anytime between 12–2 pm.
CVSS offers:
- Information about domestic violence and sexual assault prevention; - Advocates who are there to support and believe you; - Connection to counseling or support groups; - Information about police reporting and the criminal justice system; and - Help finding additional services for student/faculty needs.
If you would like to schedule a meeting in advance, you can reach out to Divine directly at dperez@familyservicesny.org or to the Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination at nondiscrimination@bard.edu with your request.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail baldasso@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sylee@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pngo@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 TIME CHANGE FOR THE FOLLOWING DATE: April 22 6:30 p.m. instead of 5:30 p.m. Power Vinyasa focuses on building whole body strength and flexibility through a quick paced yoga flow. Incorporating lunges, squats, core work and balance postures, this challenging practice will make you sweat as you match breath and movement. Class will conclude with a wind-down to send you out the door feeling grounded. Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sxiong@bard.edu.
Latin American Student Organization General Meeting
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 6–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 A space to connect with LASO student members, share your thoughts, and learn more about our organization.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Humanities, Room 302 Come join, Tuesdays at 7 pm, to chat and play all things Pokemon! Meetings will be in Olin 302.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Woods Studio The members of the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and The Bard Children's Center are proud to present their works of art that include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and 3D art. April 7–11, Woods Studio. A family reception will be held April 10 at 3:30pm. For more information, call 845-758-7444, or e-mail kwilliam@bard.edu.
National Identity, National Minorities, and the Politics of Historical Memory
Memory-Studies Talk Series: Elise Giuliano
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 12:30–2:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 303 This talk discusses Dr Giuliano's current research about discourse among ethnic minority populations in Russia’s regions and how to think about the subjectivity and identity of ethnic minorities in multi-ethnic states. Following the end of communist rule in eastern Europe in 1989, most of the new nation-states dedicated themselves to reconstructing a history that viewed Soviet domination following WWII as a departure from their nation’s natural democratic path. Leaders in the post-Soviet states that emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 took a more differentiated approach, especially with regard to the recent Soviet past. In Ukraine, especially since Russia’s invasion in 2022, public memory about Soviet history has become more urgent and politicized. This talk will consider what varied interpretations of critical historical episodes mean for the attempt to define a coherent nation-state and discuss how citizens’ lived experiences and personal family histories interact with attempts by political authorities to define a common public memory.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Historical Studies Program; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
The Hindu Home Kitchen and the Internet of Landlords
Featuring Sucharita Kanjilal, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 5–6 pm
Blithewood Join the Levy Institute Research Program of Gender Equality and the Economy for a lecture and discussion with Sucharita Kanjilal, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard. Professor Kanjilal's presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members.
The emergence of the “creator economy”, the $100-billion global industry of monetized online content creation, raises critical questions about how platform economies articulate with social life. Some Marxist scholars argue that platforms act as rent-seeking landlords, inserting themselves as indispensable digital intermediaries between producers and consumers of services. Bringing a feminist, ethnographic lens to ‘the Internet of Landlords’, this presentation follows Indian creators who make food content on YouTube and Instagram in order to theorize creator labor as household industry, re-fashioned as the ‘household start-up’. It describes how creators perform home-based piecework, while their household infrastructures subsidize platforms’ production costs. How are situated relations of reproduction transmuted into the means of global content production? Why is the Hindu home kitchen, once a stubbornly guarded space of heterosexual caste-making, now open for business? Kanjilal posits, consequently, that reproductive relations of gender, caste and race are constitutive of the material relations of production within platforms’ rentier arrangements.
Sucharita Kanjilal is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard College. Her research focuses on feminist theories of global capitalism, shifting regimes of social reproduction, critical food studies, and contemporary caste-class relations in South Asia. She draws connections between feminist economic anthropology, anthropology of media, gender studies, the anthropology of food, and anti-caste epistemologies. Her current book manuscript, titled Home Chefs: Indian Households Produce for the Global Creator Economy, is an ethnographic study of Indian food media producers engaged in global platform-based industries of online content creation. Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute.
Campus Center, Weis Cinema An Expert Witness Geomancer Mystic, as the artist describes, unites the forensic, spatial, and mystical elements of a place, giving testimony to concealed histories while constructing profound truths. They go beyond interpreting land to co-create spaces that are independent, sacred, and ecologically aligned, to protect and restore places as active sites of truth, continuity, and renewal. In this presentation, Hawai'i artist and building practitioner Sean Connelly of After Oceanic shares critical and projective work around creating “architecture for ‘āina” revealing a long disregarded history of US urbanism in Hawai'i and the community grassroots networks of collaborative care and native resurgence working to recover indigenous systems of sustenance for the future.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space On Tuesday, April 8 at 6pm, poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge will read from her work. Introduced by David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature Ann Lauterbach, this reading is free and open to the public.
Born in Beijing, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is the author of fourteen books of poetry, including Hello, the Roses,Empathy, and I Love Artists. Her latest collection, A Treatise on Stars, received the Bollingen Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, among others. Her collaborations include works in theater, dance, music, and the visual arts. Her poems were broadcast from a SpaceX flight in 2021 and her work with composer George Lewis and The Crossing Choir won a Grammy in 2025. She lives in northern New Mexico. Sponsored by: John Ashbery Poetry Series and Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mbrien@bard.edu.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Join us for an evening of a guided tango! Learn the principles of tango with our group.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability -- Online Info Session
Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability holds online informational sessions for prospective students to learn more about graduate school.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 7–8 pm
Online Event 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.
Join us on Tuesday, April 8, 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. Register here!
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
A $65 application fee waiver is available to those who participate in the webinar.
REGISTER HERESponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard Graduate Programs; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions, and more. Schedule by texting/calling Phillip Brown at 845-943-7644
Please inquire about Health Insurances accepted For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON JANUARY 15 This class blends optimal alignment with the movement and grace of Vinyasa flow. Class includes seated, standing, and supine poses. The Vinyasa segment moves at a moderate pace allowing alignment cues to be woven in. A slower flow is accessible for newer students and allows more experienced students to refine their poses.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Albee; Annex Basement (La Voz Magazine on google Maps) Are you interested in journalism, activism, and Latino immigrant issues? La Voz magazine seeks to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
We invite students of all skills and talents to come to our weekly meeting on Wednesdays, 1:30 to 2:30pm, at the La Voz office (Albee Annex Basement, in front of Henderson computer lab), or via Zoom in case of bad weather. Regularly held at the Kline College Room.
Albee The Coalition of Christian Students will offer an Ecumenical Bible Study for the Bard Community every Wednesday from 5 to 6 pm in the Chaplaincy Office (Albee Basement). Our goal is to find common ground and prayerfully study scripture together. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Come join us for our Film Making At Bard weekly meetings. Any ideas/scripts for films are more than welcome, otherwise, come ready to plan and discuss!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Language Center, Room 120 This is a support group open for people who are looking to learn more about addiction. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House Come join us for a low-stakes writing group to get the creative juices flowing! Different guided prompts and themes every week. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Beyond the Binary: "It's Complicated" Weekly Screening Series
Featuring: The Third Narrative Podcast Screening
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 8–9:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Join us for our weekly screening series exploring nuanced and diverse perspectives on the Israel-Palestine conflict. “It’s Complicated”, a project of the Hannah Arendt Center, presents the Third Narrative podcast, led by Palestinian hosts Amira Mohammad and Ibrahim Abu Ahmed. Through candid conversations and nuanced analysis, they challenge biases, unpack complexities, and promote meaningful dialogue on Israel-Palestine, to foster meaningful understanding of the region.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Woods Studio The members of the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and The Bard Children's Center are proud to present their works of art that include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and 3D art. April 7–11, Woods Studio. A family reception will be held April 10 at 3:30pm. For more information, call 845-758-7444, or e-mail kwilliam@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Campus Center, Lobby Meet and speak with an admissions representative from Bard College's Graduate Programs. Learn about the many academic programs and gain insight into fields of study, application timelines, and options for Bard students. Bard Graduate Programs MA | MS | MM | MEd | MAT | MFA | MBA | MPhil | PhD Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts Master of Arts in Teaching Graduate Programs in Sustainability: Environmental Policy Environmental Science MBA in Sustainability Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture Graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Bard Conservatory Graduate Conducting Programs at the Bard Conservatory Chinese Music and Culture - The Chinese Music Institute The Orchestra Now Longy School of Music of Bard College Master of Music Program Center for Human Rights and The Arts M.A. in Global Studies
Two Lectures Presented by the Inaugural Anthony Lester Fellows in Human Rights
Promoting Legal Protections to Uphold the Ban on FGM in The Gambia (Hilina Degefa) and Training and Supporting Local Human Rights Defenders in Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Trinidad and Tobago (Marian Da Silva)
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 5–6:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Please join us for an evening with Hilina Berhanu Degefa and Marian Alejandra Da Silva Parra, our 2024–25 Lester Fellows in Human Rights. Degefa, an expert on women’s rights from Ethiopia, will discuss her work to combat proposals to legalize female genital mutilation in the Gambia. Da Silva Parra, a human rights lawyer from Venezuela, will discuss her project to train and support local human rights defenders in Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Trinidad and Tobago. The fellowships honor the memory and legacy of Anthony Lester QC (Lord Lester of Herne Hill), one of Britain’s most distinguished human rights lawyers. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sn1088@bard.edu.
The Impact of Climate Change on the Palestinian Sectoral Reallocation of Labor
Featuring ABQ Professor and Levy Research Associate Sameh Hallaq
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 5–6 pm
Blithewood Conference Room Join the Levy Institute Graduate Program for a lecture and discussion with AQB Professor and Levy Research AssociateSameh Hallaq. He will present his research on weather patterns which finds that an increase in rainfall in the previous year is associated with a higher proportion of workers in the agricultural sector, especially in regions where agriculture is the primary economic activity. The study also examines two potential mechanisms through which climate change affects labor decisions: agricultural labor migration to the Israeli labor market and how climate shocks affect agricultural wages. Dr. Hallaq’s presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members.
Sameh Hallaq is an Associate Professor in the Economics Program at Al-Quds Bard College, Al-Quds University. Dr. Hallaq is a Research Associate at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College. He obtained his PhD in economics at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, in 2019. His published research has consistently focused on the theme of “Human Capital,” where he explores the determinants of early life intervention: education, health, and well-being, within the Palestinian context: a highly unstable political and economic environment accompanied by a violent conflict. Also, he investigates how these factors shape later life consequences, such as educational attainment, labor market outcomes, wages, and employment. He was recently granted the Award of Scientific Research from Al-Quds University Deanship of Research.Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute.
Stevenson Library Join the Civic Ambassadors from Bard's Center for Civic Engagement on the first floor of the library for a fun night of pub-style trivia! Test your knowledge of current events in categories ranging from politics to pop culture. There will be snacks and prizes!Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail amurphy@bard.edu.
Campus Center, Weis Cinema If reparations are inversions of debt, what would it take to repair the paradigm of private property? The Broken Pitcher Forum traces the entangled histories of debt and property law from the banks and commissioners at the center of the film The Broken Pitcher (2022) to the colonial land surveys, loans, and tributes that transformed land into collateral.
The public program will begin with the film's opening sequence, which follows the rise of home foreclosures in Cyprus after the 2012–13 financial crisis. The screening will be followed by a conversation between the film’s co-directors, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Marina Christodoulidou; writer and curator Adam HajYahia; and Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bard College. The discussion will be moderated by filmmaker and scholar Argyro Nicolaou. Followed by the Numismatics lecture-performance by Emiddio Vasquez.
The forum approaches the film as a departure point, tracing these foreclosures through longer colonial histories of property and ownership in dialogue with each speaker’s ongoing research, from the effects of austerity and real estate speculation on life in Athens, to the psychic, materialist, and aesthetic formulations of the condition of debt. This public program is presented as part of the group exhibition Mutable Cycles on view April 5 – May 25, 2025, curated by Ariana Kalliga at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. For more information, call 845-758-7573, e-mail crobertson@bard.edu, or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/1076-mutable-cycles.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room A book talk by Meg Stone, Executive Director of IMPACT Boston, an abuse prevention and empowerment self-defense organization.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Meg Stone will be reading from her newly published book, The Cost of Fear: Why Most Safety Advice is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender Based Violence. There will be a Q&A to follow.Sponsored by: Health, Counseling, and Wellness.
Blum Hall Bard Electronic Music is proud to present German electroacoustic artist Christoph Heemann's live performance in Blum Hall on Wednesday, April 9. A legendary figure in electronic music who has quietly produced a unique and vast body of work since his beginnings with the absurdist cutups of H.N.A.S. in the mid-1980s, Heemann has been active as a solo artist and in many groups including Mirror (with Andrew Chalk), Mimir (with Jim O’Rourke), and In Camera (with Timo van Luijk).
Christoph Heemann will also speak to Sarah Hennies’ Composing With Field Recordings class on April 10. Those wishing to attend this artist talk can get in touch with Professor Hennies at shennies@bard.edu. This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail shennies@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 This class is about listening to the body and focusing on form and breathwork to create a moving meditation. We will combine pranayama (breathwork practices) with a gentle flow, to create a space of solace from stress and anxiety. The class will be a mixture of hatha postures and dynamic sequences, with lots of variations and alternatives, allowing students to shape their own practice. Some classes will also end with sound baths before silent meditation. Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.
Join the Persian table every Thursday. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mshahbaz@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 10, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ochilton@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 10, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail fchamoun@bard.edu.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Come play chess with the Chess Club! We will be playing in the Georgeball Lounge, except on on 02/06, 02/13, and 03/27 when we will be playing in the Red Room.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail dabend@bard.edu.
Campus Center Lobby Learn about Health, Counseling, and Wellness. Get information on recovery or harm reduction resources on and off campus. Ask questions and make a connection with your peers!Sponsored by: Health, Counseling an Wellness .
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 10, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail zdallal@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 10, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail plopezga@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 Join us for a one hour mat pilates class, focusing on strengthening and toning muscles.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Campus Center, Lobby Guess what’s back? Thursday Night Live is kicking off again—starting Thursday, March 27th from 7 to 9 pm at Down The Road Café—and you’re invited. Presented by The Real in collaboration with the Student Activities Board, this weekly music series features a student band or artist tearing it up for the first 30 minutes, an open jam session where you can hop in and make some noise, chill vibes, and live music. But wait... there’s more. Only during Thursday Night Live, you can feast on:
A Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich hotter than your midterm stress
A new themed mocktail every week (surprise your taste buds)
So whether you’re here to play, vibe, or just vibe next to the people playing—come through. Let’s turn DTR into the live music hub it was always meant to be. We will not be having this event on 5/1.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Humanities, Room 204 Interested in improving your public speaking skills, traveling to compete at other colleges, or getting involved in our local events? All are welcome to join our regular weekly debate meetings! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail cbronte@bard.edu.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, come bake challah and help prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose, they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another with the openness and closeness that seem so natural in kitchens. All are welcome. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail jboettiger@bard.edu.
Woods Studio The members of the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and The Bard Children's Center are proud to present their works of art that include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and 3D art. April 7–11, Woods Studio. A family reception will be held April 10 at 3:30pm. For more information, call 845-758-7444, or e-mail kwilliam@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Back in the day, art history was taught using mounted photos. These vintage photos of art, architecture and artifacts make great home decor. Proceeds benefit the AHVC program. Come on by!Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail ekoch@bard.edu.
Faculty Reading: Walk Her Way New York City with Jana Mader
Thursday, April 10, 2025 5:30–6:30 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor This Thursday, April 10 at 5:30 p.m., join Jana Mader, Director of Academic Programs at the Hannah Arendt Center and Visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities, for a conversation and reading from her new book, Walk Her Way New York City: A Walking Guide to Women's History (Hardie Grant Books, 2025). This engaging guide, co-authored by Jana Mader and Kaitlyn Allen and illustrated by Aja O'Han, features ten curated walking tours across the boroughs, revealing the remarkable contributions and lives of well-loved and unsung heroines who shaped the city’s story. Light refreshments will be provided as well as a book raffle for participants. This event is co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Inclusive Excellence, Stevenson Library, and the Hannah Arendt Center. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail amurphy@bard.edu.
Join us for a film screening of Artifact War and a Q&A with Dr. Amr Al-Azm who is featured in the film. Click here to watch the trailer.
Weis Theater, April 10, 5:30pm
Thursday, April 10, 2025 5:30–8 pm
An intrepid archeology professor and his team of students are the only ones who stand in the way of an ISIS illicit antiquities network. Faced with losing their cultural heritage they become spies, and they go undercover in ISIS territory. They dodge bombs and militia to create a system to monitor theft and destruction of Syrian antiquities. During this process, they discover more than they anticipated, discovering thousands of trafficked items and that the crimes committed are being enabled by terrorists and multinational corporations. The tragedy continues because the sale of illegal goods is uncovered in the most unsuspecting place.Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Center for Human Rights and the Arts; Experimental Humanities Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail ekoch@bard.edu.
RKC 200 When Carey Goldberg was growing up during the Cold War, US-Soviet relations loomed as critical for avoiding nuclear Armageddon. So she studied Russian and journalism in high school and college, and finagled a visa as a nanny to get to Moscow and start reporting. For more than six years she covered the former Soviet Union, its collapse and what came after, and was a Pulitzer finalist for group coverage of the 1991 coup. She then came home to work for The New York Times and went on to other jobs in journalism, but her time in Moscow remains her “glory days.” She will share some of her experiences and discuss the importance of Russian language skills for a successful career in international reporting.Sponsored by: Russian and Eurasian Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ovoronin@bard.edu.
Senior Class Counsel: Seniors VS Staff Basketball Game
Thursday, April 10, 2025 6–8 pm
Main Gym- Stevenson Athletic Center Come support your seniors and faculty/staff members as they battle each other in a fun basketball game.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Montgomery Place Estate Spring has finally arrived, and Montgomery Place is excited to celebrate the blooming plants and trees of Bard's campus!
Join us for a hands-on workshop led by CEP Environmental Science & Policy Graduate Student, Kim Easlick, where we'll use various species of daffodils (Genus: Narcissus) to dye fabric pieces, which you can take home as hand towels, bandanas, and more. Bard students are also welcome to bring their own small fabric items to dye.
This event is free and exclusively for Bard students. Registration is limited to 20 participants and is first come, first serve. Register here. We hope to see you there! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ke2849@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Woods Studio The members of the Abigail Lundquist Botstein Nursery School and The Bard Children's Center are proud to present their works of art that include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and 3D art. April 7–11, Woods Studio. A family reception will be held April 10 at 3:30pm. For more information, call 845-758-7444, or e-mail kwilliam@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions and more. Schedule an appointment by texting or calling Dr. Sarah Heslip at (413) 884-2798. Please inquire about insurance. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Craft and Connect at 12 pm at Sawkill Coffee House. Offered by Wellness Education, Counseling, and Disability Access Services
Friday, April 11, 2025 12–1 pm
Sawkill Coffee House Crafting, puzzles. community, connections, and tips and strategies for being and staying resilient! Email wellnesseducation@bard.edu to sign up, but walk-ins are welcome.
New Annandale House The International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) meets for lab time every Friday at New Annandale House. Those interested in digital humanities or archiving are welcome to stop by any time between 12 and 4 pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pf0250@bard.edu.
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion known as the parsha, each week. Join Rabbi Joshua Boettiger and others in the Bard community for an informal Torah Study session each Friday—open to everyone of all religious backgrounds.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Jewish Studies Program.
Kingston Mosque The Muslim Student Organization (MSO) offers transportation for anyone who would like to go to the mosque on Fridays for Jummah Prayers. The pick-up time is at 12:00 p.m. for the Kingston Mosque and the departure time from the Mosque is 2 pm. Time is flexible based on who is driving and how many people join.
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Gathering of writers and editors for the paper to work on current issues! Anyone is welcome to join, and no experience is required. On 3/28 we will be meeting in Olin 203.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
TBD weekly Bring your bike to one or all of these rides. Meet at 2 pm. More Info when you sign up by scanning the QR code below or email lb9580@bard.edu All experience levels are welcome. Helmets available! Programs made possible by a generous donation in loving memory of James Kirk Bernard. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Bard On Go weekly meeting. The first meeting is for our club members to connect with each other, discussing video ideas for the upcoming semester.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Stevenson Library You're warmly invited to join from 3:30 to 5:00pm in Stevenson Library 402 (fourth floor) to work on your Senior Project in a calm, quiet, and supportive space.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jesmith@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House Come craft with us. We will be doing sewing, knitting, paper crafts, and anything else you like! Learn new skills or work on a project.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail jboettiger@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Totalitarianism, Religions, and Architecture: The Impact of Totalitarian Regimes on the Architectural and Monumental Religious Landscape in the Short Twentieth Century
Friday, April 11, 2025 – Saturday, April 12, 2025
Finberg House The “short 20th century” was marked by totalitarian regimes, which profoundly impacted the society they governed. Such regimes comprehensively and tremendously planned to mobilize masses and gain their consensus through direct control of the lives of individuals and by enforcing collective rituals, myths, and rhetoric. Militarized corporality, high–impact aesthetic symbolism, political liturgy and leaders’ worship are just some of the aspects that typified these regimes’ actions in shaping public space. This led authors, like Emilio Gentile and Robert Mallett, to use the term “political religion” to indicate the evocative reach of totalitarian regimes' narratives and symbols to create a cultural memory by which masses can envision themselves as a single, cohesive social body. Building cultural memory involved shaping a material and visual culture that evoked the autopoietic national myths and the palingenetic past inspired by the regimes, as in the case of the Roman Empire for the Italian Fascism. In such a way, Fascist, Nazi and Communist regimes actively used architecture as a tool of creating influence in rational and emotional perspective. They shaped the urban and rural architectural landscape according to their conception of history (past, present, and future) and the people as a nation. This included at times the enshrinement of religious architectural and monumental heritage.
These totalitarian regimes molded their relationship with religious institutions and traditions since their oriented conception of religion. This was discernible, and an extremization of post–Westphalian understanding about religion was based on a dialectical relationship between political power and religious institutions in which the latter are essentially subjugated to the former. However, this did not preclude regimes, such as the fascist one, from establishing agreements and collaborations with religious institutions, nor did it prevent their state secularism from mimetically and selectively embed some religious practices or symbols. In the case of communist and socialist–relative regimes, it could happen that state institutions subjugated religious ones in what we might call the “domestication of religion” which could involve blatant anti–religious conflict, as in the instance of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, or even the incorporation of national worship and state ideology into religious organizations. Indeed, it also included the shaping of the architectural religious landscape, which could be subdued to state purpose or even targeted by the anti–religious campaigns as in Albania’s in 1967 when churches and mosques were closed, destroyed or converted to civilian uses. Yet in the case of communist–inspired regimes as much as fascist ones, it would be inaccurate to believe that state institutions were able to totally erase the religious monumental and architectural landscape: both religious authorities and faithful were able to develop practices of negotiation and resistance through re–using and preserving religious spaces. Specific sacred locations were occasionally used to elaborate the cultural memory of religious communities, as happened in Soviet Central Asia. This workshop aims to investigate, according to various epistemological perspectives (historical, anthropological, architectural, archaeological) and through different methodological approaches how totalitarian regimes in the short 20th century shaped the religious monumental and architectural landscape. For more information, call 845-758-7662, or e-mail kbarkey@bard.edu.
Olin Hall Bard students, faculty, staff, and members of the Hudson Valley community are welcome to attend a free symposium centering on two environmental threats facing the Hudson/ Mahicantuck River. The primary purpose of the symposium is to facilitate public discussion— informed by science, environmental law, and best citizen advocacy practices—about how members of the community can effectively address and work together to curtail these threats. Morning presentations will be followed by an afternoon panel and public discussion.
The Threats:
• High levels of PCB contamination due to General Electric’s dumping of toxic material for 30 years and G.E.’s clean-up of PCBs between 2009 and 2015 that does not meet agreed upon environmental benchmarks. Continuing PCB contamination poses human health risks, causes ongoing extinction and disease to fish and wildlife, and damages river ecosystems, wetlands, and ground water. • “Bomb Trains”—overloaded freight trains carrying Bakken shale oil and unidentified chemicals along the eroding west bank of the river. A derailment would spell catastrophe.
Schedule:
10:00 - 10:10 Introduction to “The Fate of the River” symposium. 10:10 - 10: 35 Introduction and screening of Jon Bowermaster’s film "A Toxic Legacy about General Electric’s Contamination of the Hudson/ Mahicantuck River" 10:40 - 11:00 Jeremy Cherson, Associate Director of Government Affairs, Riverkeeper 11:05 to 11:25 Erin Doran, Faculty in Environmental Law, Bard Center for Environmental Policy, and Senior Staff Attorney, Food & Water Watch 11:35 -11:55 David Carpenter, Director of Institute for Health and the Environment, SUNY. Albany Noon to 1:00 LUNCH BREAK 1:05 - 1:25 Eli Dueker, Associate Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies, and Director of Bard Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities 1:25 - 1:40 Introduction to and screening of Jon Bowermaster’s film Bomb Trains 1:45 - 2:05 Florence Murray, Partner of Murray & Murray Law Firm, represents stakeholders affected by the toxic aftermath of the 2023 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in East Palestine, Ohio 2:15 - 2:35 COFFEE BREAK 2:40 - 4:00 Panel and Public Discussion: “Next Steps Toward a Healthier River”
Speakers:
Jon Bowermaster is a writer, filmmaker, and six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council.
Jeremy Cherson earned his MS in Environmental Policy at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy and now serves as the Associate Director of Government Affairs working to advance Riverkeeper's priorities in Albany and Washington, DC.
Erin Doran is a Senior Staff Attorney at Food & Water Watch focusing on climate and energy matters. She was previously a Senior Attorney at Riverkeeper, where she advocated for clean water, healthy ecosystems, and resilient climate solutions in the Hudson Valley.
David O. Carpenter is a public health physician and is Director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany, as well as Professor of Environmental Health Sciences within the School of Public Health at the University at Albany. His research focuses on the environmental causes of human disease, both those directly caused by chemical exposure and those mediated via endocrine disruption.
Eli Dueker is an Associate Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies at Bard College and former executive director of Project Underground, an international environmental and human rights organization.
Florence Murray is a partner at Murray & Murray, Co. L.P.A., where her areas of practice include primarily traumatic brain injuries and wrongful death actions, civil rights violations with severe injuries, and trucking collisions. She is active with the Ohio Association for Justice, National Lawyers Guild, and the Brain Injury Association.
The Fate of the River symposium is the first in a series of public discussions on "Environmental Injustice Across the Americas" that focuses on state-sanctioned pollution, the poisoning of water, destruction of the commons, and the fight for justice. The Fate of the River is co-sponsored by Bard College’s Human Rights Program, Center for Civic Engagement, Center for Environmental Policy, Environmental Studies, and the Office of Sustainability. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Lobby Join NAMI Mid-Hudson, BRAVE, and U Survived as we table on campus to share mental health resources, raise awareness, and build a culture of support. Come say hi, grab some info, and learn how you can make a difference!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
The Q&A and I: Agency and Self-Expression in the Survey Era
Speakers: Ingrid Becker, Visiting Assistant Professor of Human Rights; Yarran Hominh, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Friday, April 11, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Hegeman 204A What is agency? To what extent does it manifest as the expression of internal will or as a response to external circumstances? This salon—part talk, part conversation—will explore these questions through two disciplinary contexts that are not often considered together: sociology and poetry, or more specifically, the sociological survey and lyric poetry. While we might think of the lyric as a pre-eminent space of authentic self-expression that issues from something “inside” an individual, and the survey as a technology that constructs selves through questions that impose a set of “outside” constraints on what individuals express, this salon will consider thinkers and poems from the early-mid 20th century that trouble this binary. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail yhominh@bard.edu.
Adventures in Science Writing: Editing the American Journal of Physics
A talk by Beth Parks, Colgate University
Friday, April 11, 2025 12 pm
Brody Lab - Hegeman 107 Editing the American Journal of Physics for the past 5 years has taught me more than I could have imagined about physics, writing, and publishing. I’ll share some of those lessons in this talk.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
Sensational Fungi: From Vision to Taste, how Fungi use Sensory Systems to Navigate the World
A talk by Andrew Swafford, Middlebury College
Friday, April 11, 2025 12 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium What do you and fungi have in common?
This talk focuses on how organisms perceive and adapt to their environment through the evolution of sensory systems like vision. In this seminar, we will explore the surprising sensory systems of early diverging fungi, the similarity of fungal and animal eyes, and the consequences of sensory system evolution on the global spread of the frog-killing pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Lastly, we will take a sneak peek into the future of sensory research in fungi led by students at Middlebury.Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail broberts@bard.edu.
Unpacking the Trump Agenda: A Conversation with Walter Mead
Friday, April 11, 2025 12–1 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 104 The Center for Civic Engagement and the Alexander Hamilton Society at Bard are pleased to invite the Bard community to our upcoming speaker event with Walter Russell Mead for a discussion of the Trump Doctrine, the future of American power, and the unraveling of the liberal international order.
Since January 20, the Trump administration has stunned the world with its flood the zone strategy: upending institutional norms, ruthlessly exercising power at home by cracking down on elite law firms and universities, dismantling federal bureaucracies, moving aggressively to secure the border, and fundamentally altering US foreign policy in multiple pivotal regions around the world. Just last week, this unconventional approach to world politics took another turn as President Trump imposed a dizzying array of new tariffs on the global trade system—a system the United States has built and protected since its inception after the end of World War II.
Walter Russell Mead is the senior scholar, Center for Civic Engagement and Hannah Arendt Center, and the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute, the Alexander Hamilton Professor of Strategy and Statecraft with the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida, and the “Global View” columnist at the Wall Street Journal.
Sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement and the Alexander Hamilton Society at Bard For more information, call 845-758-7378, or e-mail jbecker@bard.edu.
Online Event We're reading The Life of the Mind, Hannah Arendt’s unfinished final work. In it, she focuses on three basic mental activities—thinking, willing, and judging—and their relation to the world of appearances and to the human capacity for moral and political action. The new critical edition makes available in print, for the first time, the text of the typescripts as Arendt left them, complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished material, detailed annotations, and extensive scholarly commentary. We will also be referring to Mary McCarthy's edition for increased accessibility.
Free to HAC members and to Bard students, staff, and faculty! Email arendt@bard.edu for the Zoom link.
Find the full Virtural Reading Group schedule: hac.bard.edu/programs/vrg/ Get the new critical edition of The Life of the Mindhere.
Don't worry if you miss a VRG meeting! We post them all on our YouTube channel the week after they're recorded. Or tune in to an edited version of the chapter readings plus bonus episodes on our podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Student Recital: Qijia Liu, violin, with Nomin Samdan, piano
Works by Ysaÿe, Mozart, Bach, and Stravinsky
Friday, April 11, 2025 1 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Join us for a student recital. Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Moderated by Daniel Brinkerhoff Young, Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Union College
Friday, April 11, 2025 4–5:30 pm
Union College, Lippmann 100
Please join us for the third session of the Hudson Valley Political Theory Workshop this Friday, April 11. Spring Semester workshops will take place at Union College.
The Hudson Valley Political Theory Workshop is a new collaborative project launched by Bard College and Union College. The workshop aims to bring together political theorists working in or near the Hudson Valley Region in a series of workshops to share their work in progress, create new networks, and open up possibilities for new collaborative research projects that further advance humanities.
We are delighted to welcome Daniel Brinkerhoff Young, Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Union College.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pkemerli@bard.edu.
The Dime Store Presents: April Shower's Bring May Flowers!
Friday, April 11, 2025 5–7 pm
Campus Center, Lobby Come to our April tabling to grab free contraceptives, drop off anonymous questions, or enter our raffle for special baskets made by yours truly! We can't wait to see you soon.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Preston Theater Inspired by real events occured in the People's Republic of China, A Touch of Sin 天注定 (2014) weaves together four distinct stories to reflect on the growing social inequalities, corruption, and moral erosion in contemporary Chinese society as a result of its rapid modernization. The film's director, Jia Zhangke, is one of the most renowned contemporary Chinese filmmakers and known for his documentary-style realism and focus on the lives of marginalized and working people. Snacks and light refreshments will be served. Sponsored by: Chinese Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sxiong@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Totalitarianism, Religions, and Architecture: The Impact of Totalitarian Regimes on the Architectural and Monumental Religious Landscape in the Short Twentieth Century
Friday, April 11, 2025 – Saturday, April 12, 2025
Finberg House The “short 20th century” was marked by totalitarian regimes, which profoundly impacted the society they governed. Such regimes comprehensively and tremendously planned to mobilize masses and gain their consensus through direct control of the lives of individuals and by enforcing collective rituals, myths, and rhetoric. Militarized corporality, high–impact aesthetic symbolism, political liturgy and leaders’ worship are just some of the aspects that typified these regimes’ actions in shaping public space. This led authors, like Emilio Gentile and Robert Mallett, to use the term “political religion” to indicate the evocative reach of totalitarian regimes' narratives and symbols to create a cultural memory by which masses can envision themselves as a single, cohesive social body. Building cultural memory involved shaping a material and visual culture that evoked the autopoietic national myths and the palingenetic past inspired by the regimes, as in the case of the Roman Empire for the Italian Fascism. In such a way, Fascist, Nazi and Communist regimes actively used architecture as a tool of creating influence in rational and emotional perspective. They shaped the urban and rural architectural landscape according to their conception of history (past, present, and future) and the people as a nation. This included at times the enshrinement of religious architectural and monumental heritage.
These totalitarian regimes molded their relationship with religious institutions and traditions since their oriented conception of religion. This was discernible, and an extremization of post–Westphalian understanding about religion was based on a dialectical relationship between political power and religious institutions in which the latter are essentially subjugated to the former. However, this did not preclude regimes, such as the fascist one, from establishing agreements and collaborations with religious institutions, nor did it prevent their state secularism from mimetically and selectively embed some religious practices or symbols. In the case of communist and socialist–relative regimes, it could happen that state institutions subjugated religious ones in what we might call the “domestication of religion” which could involve blatant anti–religious conflict, as in the instance of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, or even the incorporation of national worship and state ideology into religious organizations. Indeed, it also included the shaping of the architectural religious landscape, which could be subdued to state purpose or even targeted by the anti–religious campaigns as in Albania’s in 1967 when churches and mosques were closed, destroyed or converted to civilian uses. Yet in the case of communist–inspired regimes as much as fascist ones, it would be inaccurate to believe that state institutions were able to totally erase the religious monumental and architectural landscape: both religious authorities and faithful were able to develop practices of negotiation and resistance through re–using and preserving religious spaces. Specific sacred locations were occasionally used to elaborate the cultural memory of religious communities, as happened in Soviet Central Asia. This workshop aims to investigate, according to various epistemological perspectives (historical, anthropological, architectural, archaeological) and through different methodological approaches how totalitarian regimes in the short 20th century shaped the religious monumental and architectural landscape. For more information, call 845-758-7662, or e-mail kbarkey@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The Women's Tennis team competes in a home match against William Smith. Come out and support Women's Tennis! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Barringer House Members of Bards Ambitious Artist Club will showcase their film in progress. In this meeting we will go over the production, do a read through, and discuss logistics. For more information, call 312-841-3686, or e-mail jd1605@bard.edu.
Honey Field The Baseball team competes in a home double-header against the University of Rochester. Come out and support Baseball!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Saturday, April 12, 2025 – Sunday, April 13, 2025 12–12 pm
Memorial Hall (Old Gym) Presented by WXBC and Bard Electronic Music, 24 Hour Drone will be a full day (noon April 12 – noon April 13) of continuous musical performances by Bard students, faculty, and community members. More information here.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 414-412-0775, or e-mail em3200@bard.edu.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Come make a mask and learn about Carnival mask culture from the Carribean and Latin America! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Required Recital: Riley Lyons, trombone, with Gabriele Zemaityte, piano
Featuring works by Kevin Day, Ferdinand David, and Stjepan Šulek
Saturday, April 12, 2025 1 pm
Olin Hall Join us for a student recital. Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The Men's Tennis team competes in a home game against Hobart. Come out and support Men's Tennis! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space A showcase featuring compositions by Elena Hause, Lili M. Namazi, Rowan Robinson, Olivia Marhevka, Logan Rishard, Santiago Mieres, Artemy Muhkin, Steve Bonacci, Julian Raheb, Emily Ta, Sam Mutter, Faisal Jones, Drew Frankenberg, and Manar Hashmi. Free and open to the public.
Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
Blithewood MSO is celebrating its annual Eid celebration. Bard MSO will host and five colleges from the Hudson Valley will attend: Vassar, Marist, SUNY New Paltz, Dutchess Community College, and Siena College. The celebration will conclude wih a firework show at 9pm, which is open to all. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room All are invited to Bard's annual Passover Seder, a ritualized meal where we retell the story of the ancient Israelites going out from slavery, weaving in songs, teachings, and other offerings on the theme of freedom throughout the evening. Our ceremony will begin at 6:30pm, and we will start eating around 7:45pm. If you would like to come, please RSVP to jboettiger@bard.edu, so we can get a sense of numbers. All faculty, staff, and students are welcome, as well as family members or friends who may be visiting.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The Graduate Vocal Arts Program presents: "Music for Today"
Songs of Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives
Saturday, April 12, 2025 7:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building In honor of two iconic composers on the anniversary of their 150th birthdays, the young artists of the Vocal Arts Program and the Conservatory Piano Fellows present Schoenberg's Das Buch der hängenden Gärten (The Book of the Hanging Gardens) and a collection of songs of Charles Ives. Each composer found a new and highly individual musical language to respond to the rapidly changing world of the early 20th century, still highly relevant for our time.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; Bard Conservatory Post-Graduate Piano Fellowship.
Manor Come enjoy good music, food, games, face painting, caricature, drawings, prizes and performances by the Bard Surrealist Circus! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (1114 River Road) in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome!
Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at 11:30 in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jhess@bard.edu.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge A space for Anthro seniors to read SPROJ work, discuss, receive feedback, and for all Anthro majors to share any anthropological writing. There will be refreshments.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Coalition Of Christian Students: Quaker Meeting For Worship
Sunday, April 13, 2025 1–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are invited to join us as we gather in silence to seek the Inner-Light. No minister leads us in worship, no prayers or hymns are planned. We wait and listen for the Holy Spirit to speak in and through us. Both our silence and our spoken words bring us closer together and closer to God. Meeting will take place on the First Day of each week (Sunday) at the Chapel of the Holy Innocents from 1-2pm.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Saturday, April 12, 2025 – Sunday, April 13, 2025 12–12 pm
Memorial Hall (Old Gym) Presented by WXBC and Bard Electronic Music, 24 Hour Drone will be a full day (noon April 12 – noon April 13) of continuous musical performances by Bard students, faculty, and community members. More information here.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 414-412-0775, or e-mail em3200@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The Women's Tennis team competes in a home match against Ithaca. Come out and support Women's Tennis! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Get Engaged Alumni Speakers Series: Resilience in Action–Staying Engaged and Committed in Challenging Times
Sunday, April 13, 2025 11 am – 12 pm
Online Event 11 AM New York l 5 PM Vienna
This workshop with Nathalissa Charles will help participants stay engaged and keep pushing forward, even in difficult times. They will learn why engagement matters and discover practical ways to stay involved during hardships. By building a growth mindset, participants will see challenges as chances to learn and stay committed.
Nathalissa Charles recently earned a degree in financial institution management at Quisqueya University in Haiti, benefiting from a scholarship program from the Haitian Education and Leadership Program. She had the opportunity to attend the Civic Engagement Course and be part of the Get Engaged Conference of 2024.
Get Engaged Alumni Speakers Series: Resilience in Action–Staying Engaged and Committed in Challenging Times
Sunday, April 13, 2025 11 am – 12 pm
Online Event 11 AM New York l 5 PM Vienna
This workshop with Nathalissa Charles will help participants stay engaged and keep pushing forward, even in difficult times. They will learn why engagement matters and discover practical ways to stay involved during hardships. By building a growth mindset, participants will see challenges as chances to learn and stay committed.
Nathalissa Charles recently earned a degree in financial institution management at Quisqueya University in Haiti, benefiting from a scholarship program from the Haitian Education and Leadership Program. She had the opportunity to attend the Civic Engagement Course and be part of the Get Engaged Conference of 2024.
Honey Field The Baseball team competes in a home double-header against Rochester Institute of Technology. Come out and support Baseball!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC As the German Romantic movement took hold in the early 19th century, artists of all types began examining the relationship between nature and the human soul. Painter Caspar David Friedrich, widely considered the most important German artist of the era, portrayed nature as a setting for profound spiritual and emotional encounters. His compatriot, the renowned composer Robert Schumann, also took inspiration from the natural world. Upon moving to Düsseldorf, along the Rhine River, he wrote his buoyant Third Symphony, which he titled the Rhenish.
In the popular series Sight & Sound, The Orchestra Now explores the parallels between orchestral music and the visual arts. Each performance includes a Met curator introduction, a discussion with conductor and music historian Leon Botstein accompanied by on-screen exhibition images and live musical excerpts, then a full performance of the works and an audience Q&A.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The Men's Tennis team competes in a home game against Ithaca. Come out and support Men's Tennis! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Third Year Recital: Grace Trenouth, soprano, with Bat-Erdene Batbileg, piano
"Diva Down!": Works by Schubert, Britten, Viardot, Schmidt, Schumann, and Bolcom.
Sunday, April 13, 2025 3 pm
Olin Hall Join us for a student recital. Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Olin Humanities, Room 201 If you’ve experienced sexual assault or know anyone who is a survivor, our support group is here for you and stands with you, and we’re here to listen and support you. No one deserves to go through this, and everyone who experienced abuse deserves the time, care, and resources they need to heal.
This is a closed group, meaning that once the meeting begins, no one may join in order to keep the group a safe space. This is not a therapeutic group, but a support group.
Baement in Resnick A Join us for a three session workshop session to spend time with and learn about spring edible plants :). We’ll start on April 13th by slowing down for a plant sit meditation to tap into the physical, spiritual, and energetic medicine plants hold. On April 18th we’ll meet at the waterfall for a sweet spring forage walk. Learn to identify and intentionally harvest spring edibles! On May 11th we’ll put all our plant love together and collectively cook and share a foraged dinner of nettle pesto pasta and dandelion salad over a bonfire. This is the first workshop of three.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Under The Sea Stitches: Crochet Coral Reef Workshop Series
Sunday, April 13, 2025 7:30–9 pm
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Join the Bard College Office Of Sustainability for the first workshop in our Learn To Crochet Series, where we"ll start from the very beginning! Jamora Arroyo-Jefferson will teach the basics of crochet as we create coral appliques, building skills to eventually craft a full crochet coral reef while discussing ocean conservation. Bring your own hooks or borrow one from us! Come stitch for sustainability, see you there.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Institute of Advanced Theology Spring Lecture Series
Monday, April 14, 2025 12:30–2 pm
Bard Hall A lecture series from Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology The Bible does not mean only what Christianity says it means, or only what Judaism says it means, or only what Islam says it means. Biblical meaning also cannot be reduced to the caricatures produced by a small but strident coterie of atheist Fundamentalists in recent years.
The Bible unfolded over the course of a millennium of development. During that process social forces in each phase shaped the texts as they stand today, and in some cases the texts can be seen to push back against their contexts. The formation of the Bible resulted in the evolution of a social message, what the Aramaic, and Hebrew, and Greek languages of composition call a “gospel.” Our series is designed to uncover the grounding principles of this gospel as it unfolded over time and was articulated by the Bible in its own terms, before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam emerged.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail mgermano@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, April 14, 2025 1–2 pm
Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON MARCH 10 During this gentle Kripalu Yoga flow, students are invited to play with their edge, experiment with what works for their body, and make the practice their very own. In this yoga of compassion, we move through centering techniques and flow through postures, keeping an emphasis on the breath. Kripalu Yoga invites experimentation and inquiry into every movement and moment...come play!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy Offices) Come by the Chaplaincy office (Albee Basement) to knit or learn how to knit! Crocheters and needleworkers are also invited. Materials including yarn and knitting needles are provided. Everyone is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Join us for our bi-weekly meetings to learn about Caribbean culture through fun events, tough talks, collabs, and more! Dates: 2/10/25, 2/24/25, 3/10/25, 3,24/25, 4/7/25, 4/21/25, 5/5/25Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Stevenson Gym- Class Room 1 Come join us for our weekly juggling meeting on Mondays 7 pm - 9 pm. No experience required (We Will Teach You)!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
An hour-long program of short performances by Bard Conservatory students.
Monday, April 14, 2025 12 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Traduttore, Traditore? Reflections on Translating Dante
by Joe Luzzi (Bard College)
Monday, April 14, 2025 6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 The Italians have a saying traduttore, traditore – that is, the “translator" of a book can often be a “traitor” to it if he fails to capture both its letter and its spirit! In this event, Professor Joseph Luzzi will discuss his new translation of Dante’s Vita Nuova (Liveright/Norton, December 2024), which was Dante’s first book and a moving account of his youthful love for his muse, Beatrice, and his discovery of his passion for poetry. Professor Luzzi will show how his understanding of translation as a “way of thinking” also helped him complete his recent Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography (Princeton University Press, November 2024). Overall, he will share his experiences in trying to remain faithful to Dante’s original language, while at the same time bringing his own personal understanding and interpretation of the Vita Nuova, an early masterpiece by Italy’s so-called sommo poeta, supreme poet.Sponsored by: Italian Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail baldasso@bard.edu.
Human Rights Educators USA 2024–2025 Training As Action Series Module 8
Monday, April 14, 2025 7–9 pm
Online Event Human Rights Educators USA's annual Training as Action Series is a virtual series of workshops focused on bridging personal and collective action on some of the most critical human rights issues of today.
TAAS creates an educational space to connect and collaborate with others in human rights education and training. It also gives participants the skills, resources, and tools needed to take action on human rights issues in their communities.
The 2024-2025 series centers on: "Youth Power, Defending Human Rights: Learnings and Actions for the 35th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)."
April 14, 2025 @ 7pm EST MODULE 8: THEORY OF CHANGE: DESIGNING YOUTH SPACES/PLACES IN HUMAN RIGHTS Facilitators: Carly Sandstrom & Jessica Terbrueggen Register to join
Bard Electronic Music Program presents: N119 Night
Monday, April 14, 2025 8–10 pm
Blum N119 Bard electronic music students present music, films, experiments, and drafts in an informal setting. This month's musicians include Iris Gross, Felix LeVeque, August Levine, and Ondina McDonald. Open and free to the public. Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail msargent@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Massage is excellent for stress relief, to ease tense muscles, for headaches and backaches, and promotes a general sense of well-being.
Students: $80 for one hour, 30 minute sessions (students only) $45 Staff & Faculty: $100 for one hour
You can schedule a massage by texting or calling 845-702-6751. For more information visit www.gentlemountain.com. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Sottery Hall Bard College’s Campus Advocate Divine Perez-Ferreira will host regular office hours in Sottery 107 this semester on Tuesdays from 12–2 pm.
Divine works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can come to Sottery anytime between 12–2 pm.
CVSS offers:
- Information about domestic violence and sexual assault prevention; - Advocates who are there to support and believe you; - Connection to counseling or support groups; - Information about police reporting and the criminal justice system; and - Help finding additional services for student/faculty needs.
If you would like to schedule a meeting in advance, you can reach out to Divine directly at dperez@familyservicesny.org or to the Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination at nondiscrimination@bard.edu with your request.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail baldasso@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sylee@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pngo@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 TIME CHANGE FOR THE FOLLOWING DATE: April 22 6:30 p.m. instead of 5:30 p.m. Power Vinyasa focuses on building whole body strength and flexibility through a quick paced yoga flow. Incorporating lunges, squats, core work and balance postures, this challenging practice will make you sweat as you match breath and movement. Class will conclude with a wind-down to send you out the door feeling grounded. Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sxiong@bard.edu.
Latin American Student Organization General Meeting
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 6–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 A space to connect with LASO student members, share your thoughts, and learn more about our organization.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Humanities, Room 302 Come join, Tuesdays at 7 pm, to chat and play all things Pokemon! Meetings will be in Olin 302.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
April 15th Application Deadline | Levy Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
The Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy were created to offer students an alternative to mainstream programs in economics and finance. These innovative programs combine a rigorous course of study with the exceptional opportunity to participate in advanced economics research. Our application deadline is April 15th, 2025. Apply Now Sponsored by: Bard Graduate Programs; Levy Economics Institute; Levy Graduate Programs.
For more information, call 845-758-7776, or e-mail temerson@bard.edu.
Red Hook Village CCE is excited to announce an open call for submissions from emerging artists to show their art to the local community. Artists are invited to create art to display in one of four art boxes located in publicly-accessible spaces around the Town and Village of Red Hook. Each unit is permanently mounted on a six-sided wooden pole at eye level to provide an intimate viewing opportunity for the visitor from Spring 2025 to Spring 2026. This year's theme is Flora and Fauna: Celebrating the Hudson Valley.
If you live, work or attend school in or around Red Hook, you are most likely artistically inspired by the natural beauty of the Hudson Valley and its rich biodiversity. This is an opportunity to share your work and inspiration with the community! Official opening is May 10.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Our book, Disability Worlds, chronicles our immersion in NYC’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. Disability consciousness, we show, emerges in everyday politics, practices, and frictions, from genetic testing to the reimagining of kinship, and the perils of what some call “the disability cliff”, while highlighting the remarkable world-changing creativity of neurodiversity activists and disabled artists. In today’s talk, we will focus on a chapter entitled, “Living Otherwise” that tracks the histories and everyday practices of disability arts activists. We explored projects created by people with diverse bodyminds across a dizzying array of genres, producing new culturalimaginaries centered on disability experiences and aesthetics, reframing the very concept of artistry itself. The disability art world ranges from community theater and poetry readings in neighborhood libraries todisability arts boot camps at cultural institutions such as the Whitney Museum and the Gibney Performing Arts Center, dance at Lincoln Center, The Shed, the High Line, Broadway performances, and more. Our research preceded and coincided with the pandemic when many activities shifted online, creating unexpected challenges and opportunities in the disability arts world. Overall, we show how participation inthe arts offers new opportunities, resources, and models for “living otherwise.”Sponsored by: Anthropology Program and Disability & Difference.
For more information, call 845-758-7662, or e-mail sstamato@bard.edu.
Richard Gordon Jazz Series Featuring Eri Yamamoto’s Colors of The Night Trio
Jazz at Bard and the László Z. Bitó Conservatory of Music Present
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 4–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Free and open to the public. Artist Talk with Eri Yamamoto: 4:00–5:00 PM, Blum N211 Concert: 7:30 PM, László Z. Bitó Conservatory Performance Space Featuring: Eri Yamamoto, piano; William Parker, bass; Ikuo Takeuchi, drums.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
For more information, call 201-577-1092, or e-mail asanchez@bard.edu.
Featuring Eri Yamamoto’s Colors of The Night Trio - Concert at 7:30 pm in the Lásló Z. Bitó '60 Performance Space, Lecture at 4pm in Blum N211, the Jazz room
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 4–8:30 pm
László Z. Bitó Conservatory Performance Space This special concert is dedicated to the memory of Richard Gordon, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Bard College and a consummate jazz pianist. His enduring contributions to both academia and the arts will be honored through this musical tribute. The series is generously supported by Bard Jazz Studies, the Bitó Conservatory of Music and private donations in his memory.
Join us for an Artist's talk with Eri Yamamoto at 4pm in Blum N211, then a concert at 7:30 pm in the Lásló Z. Bitó '60 Performance Space.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail asanchez@bard.edu.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge We will be providing suturing kits and Yadriel will be giving an instructional! There will also be pizza!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Uri Shanas, Associate Professor at University of Haifa-Oranim
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 5:30–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 201 In this talk, Prof. Uri Shanas, will introduce the TiME (This is My Earth) initiative. TiME is a non-profit and volunteer-based international conservation organization that works with local communities to acquire and steward biodiversity hotspots around the world. The organization is led by an array of environmental leaders and renowned scientists from around the world. Since 2016, TiME has purchased and protected ten biodiversity hotspots in the upper Amazon, the Caribbean, Colombia, Brazil, Kenya, and Ecuador, protecting a total area of over 15 million square yards. After the talk, Professor Shanas will talk with students about potential involvement in TiME.
This event is sponsored by the Sociology and EUS/ES Programs.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Sociology Program.
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Daniel Mendelsohn and Robert Cioffi will read from Mendelsohn's edition of Homer’s Odyssey. Widely known for his essays on classical literature and culture in the New Yorker and many other publications, Mendelsohn gives us a line-for-line rendering of the Odyssey that is both engrossing as poetry and true to its source. Mendelsohn’s expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer’s dense verses without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original. A discussion will follow.
Please register for this free event here. Sponsored by: Classical Studies, the Dean of the College, and Oblong Books.
Kline, Faculty Dining Room Speakers: Youssef Ait Benasser, Assistant Professor, Trade Economist Emanuele Citera, Assistant Professor, Financial Economist Kyle Mohr, Assistant Professor, Macroeconomist Giuliano Toshoro Yajima, Research Scholar of the Levy Institute
Tariffs are making the headlines, but what do they really mean for the economy, workers, and global trade? Are they a tool for protection or a path to higher prices? How have they shaped economic history, and what role do they play in today’s financial and macroeconomic landscape?
Join us for a popup teach-in on tariffs where Bard expert panelists in trade policy, finance, and macroeconomics will break down the impacts, controversies, and future of tariffs. After short presentations, bring your questions for a lively discussion. Don’t miss this chance to cut through the noise and understand one of the most debated policy tools in today’s economy. See you there!
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions, and more. Schedule by texting/calling Phillip Brown at 845-943-7644
Please inquire about Health Insurances accepted For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON JANUARY 15 This class blends optimal alignment with the movement and grace of Vinyasa flow. Class includes seated, standing, and supine poses. The Vinyasa segment moves at a moderate pace allowing alignment cues to be woven in. A slower flow is accessible for newer students and allows more experienced students to refine their poses.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Albee; Annex Basement (La Voz Magazine on google Maps) Are you interested in journalism, activism, and Latino immigrant issues? La Voz magazine seeks to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
We invite students of all skills and talents to come to our weekly meeting on Wednesdays, 1:30 to 2:30pm, at the La Voz office (Albee Annex Basement, in front of Henderson computer lab), or via Zoom in case of bad weather. Regularly held at the Kline College Room.
Albee The Coalition of Christian Students will offer an Ecumenical Bible Study for the Bard Community every Wednesday from 5 to 6 pm in the Chaplaincy Office (Albee Basement). Our goal is to find common ground and prayerfully study scripture together. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Come join us for our Film Making At Bard weekly meetings. Any ideas/scripts for films are more than welcome, otherwise, come ready to plan and discuss!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Language Center, Room 120 This is a support group open for people who are looking to learn more about addiction. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House Come join us for a low-stakes writing group to get the creative juices flowing! Different guided prompts and themes every week. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Beyond the Binary: "It's Complicated" Weekly Screening Series
Featuring: The Third Narrative Podcast Screening
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 8–9:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Join us for our weekly screening series exploring nuanced and diverse perspectives on the Israel-Palestine conflict. “It’s Complicated”, a project of the Hannah Arendt Center, presents the Third Narrative podcast, led by Palestinian hosts Amira Mohammad and Ibrahim Abu Ahmed. Through candid conversations and nuanced analysis, they challenge biases, unpack complexities, and promote meaningful dialogue on Israel-Palestine, to foster meaningful understanding of the region.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Various Campus Locations The Bard Center for Civic Engagement and Career Development Office sponsor Community Action Awards that help cover costs associated with unpaid summer internships that support pre-professional experiences. Undergrads identify an internship site and apply for funding. Applications for the Summer of 2025 will open on Saturday March 1st.
Awards: Five $4,000 awards for 8+ week-long internships (the equivalent of approximately 250 hours) Eight $3,000 awards for 8 week-long internships (the equivalent of approximately 200 hours) Five $1,500 awards for 4 week-long internships (the equivalent of approximately 100 hours) PLEASE NOTE: Some smaller amounts of funding are available to cover expenses related to unpaid internships. CCE and CDO awards two awards maximum per internship site; each award is taxed.
FAQ's:
Am I eligible? All Bard undergrads who have at least one more semester at Bard are eligible, as long as they are pursuing a community-based, public-facing internship in the following fields: civic engagement, education, government, social justice, human rights, media, public policy, the arts and social entrepreneurship. Bard graduate students are not eligible for this award, unless you are a current undergrad transitioning to a Bard graduate studies program. The Community Action Award Program prioritizes first time CAA recipients, so that the Selection Committee can ensure spreading out opportunities amongst our student body.
If I have a local internship, can I live on Bard's campus for the duration of my internship? Yes, as long as you meet all Bard Residence Life summer housing deadlines! We will cover your on-campus housing costs
If I cannot pay out of pocket for pre-internship expenses (flights, housing, etc.), what should I do? You should schedule an appointment with either Elena Sniezek and Sarah deVeer to discuss your specific needs.
If I already received a Community Action Award in a previous summer, can I apply again? Yes, but your CAA application will only be considered after first time applicants are considered.
Anna Jones Memorial Garden Join us for Bard's Annual Easter Egg hunt, open to the Bard community (including the kids of Bard faculty, staff, and students). Our Easter Egg hunt features select prizes from local businesses!
The rain location will be inside the Bard Chapel.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Chaplaincy; Student Activities.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sdeveer@bard.edu.
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center A film about "Combatants for Peace," a joint Palestinian-Israeli organization of former fighters. Sponsored by the Office of the President, the Dean of the College, Sociology, Interdisciplinary Study of Religions, and Jewish Studies programs, and It’s Complicated from the Hannah Arendt Center.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 This class is about listening to the body and focusing on form and breathwork to create a moving meditation. We will combine pranayama (breathwork practices) with a gentle flow, to create a space of solace from stress and anxiety. The class will be a mixture of hatha postures and dynamic sequences, with lots of variations and alternatives, allowing students to shape their own practice. Some classes will also end with sound baths before silent meditation. Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.
Join the Persian table every Thursday. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mshahbaz@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 17, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ochilton@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 17, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail fchamoun@bard.edu.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Come play chess with the Chess Club! We will be playing in the Georgeball Lounge, except on on 02/06, 02/13, and 03/27 when we will be playing in the Red Room.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail dabend@bard.edu.
Campus Center Lobby Learn about Health, Counseling, and Wellness. Get information on recovery or harm reduction resources on and off campus. Ask questions and make a connection with your peers!Sponsored by: Health, Counseling an Wellness .
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 17, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail zdallal@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 17, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail plopezga@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 Join us for a one hour mat pilates class, focusing on strengthening and toning muscles.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Campus Center, Lobby Guess what’s back? Thursday Night Live is kicking off again—starting Thursday, March 27th from 7 to 9 pm at Down The Road Café—and you’re invited. Presented by The Real in collaboration with the Student Activities Board, this weekly music series features a student band or artist tearing it up for the first 30 minutes, an open jam session where you can hop in and make some noise, chill vibes, and live music. But wait... there’s more. Only during Thursday Night Live, you can feast on:
A Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich hotter than your midterm stress
A new themed mocktail every week (surprise your taste buds)
So whether you’re here to play, vibe, or just vibe next to the people playing—come through. Let’s turn DTR into the live music hub it was always meant to be. We will not be having this event on 5/1.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Humanities, Room 204 Interested in improving your public speaking skills, traveling to compete at other colleges, or getting involved in our local events? All are welcome to join our regular weekly debate meetings! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail cbronte@bard.edu.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, come bake challah and help prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose, they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another with the openness and closeness that seem so natural in kitchens. All are welcome. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail jboettiger@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Olin Hall Featuring Bat-Erdene Batbileg, piano, and Lap Yin Lee, violin. Join us for a student recital. Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Led by Carlos Macías Prieto and Luis Chavez-Gonzalez
Thursday, April 17, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Olin 101 The Indigenous language of Nahuatl is currently spoken by over one and a half million people. Participants will learn basic greetings and expressions in modern Nahuatl. Presented as a part of Pueblos Originarios/Original Pueblos: Indigenous Perspectives from Turtle Island, Cemanahuac, and Abiayala.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 860-992-6472, or e-mail mroise@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The Men's Tennis team competes in a home game against Purchase. Come out and support Men's Tennis! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Open Studios: Works In-Progress by First-Year MA Students in Human Rights & the Arts
Thursday, April 17, 2025 3–6 pm
Massena Campus First-year MA students at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts present works in progress developed in their core requirement in art making, co-taught by artist and CHRA visiting faculty member Robin Frohardt and artist and CHRA scholar-in-residence Oscar Gardea.
The open studio is available on the Massena campus for the duration of this event. For those without access to a car, the Bard College Annandale-Massena Shuttle will offer transportation to Bard students, staff, and faculty between Kline Bus Stop (Southbound) and the Massena Campus Roundabout. Any and all persons riding Bard Shuttles must be Bard students, faculty, or staff members with a valid and legible Bard ID. Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Thursday, April 17, 2025 – Friday, April 18, 2025 3–12 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room This two-day class provides a journey through our personal and professional experience within a binary society. We will reflect on how we have challenged pre-established norms to expand our expression in tango and in life.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Student Activities.
Open Studios: Works In-Progress by First-Year MA Students in Human Rights & the Arts
Thursday, April 17, 2025 3–6 pm
Massena Campus First-year MA students at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts present works-in-progress developed in class, led by artists Robin Frohardt and Oscar Gardea. These works reflect their exploration of the potential of everyday objects and materials, with emphasis on repurposing discarded items and utilizing unconventional materials.
Material Storytelling, led by Robin Frohardt, delved into the use of discarded materials repurposed through various techniques to create narrative, build scenarios, and characters. Survey on Waste and the Supernatural, led by Oscar Gardea, observed the concept of waste as a strategy to reconfigure erased culture in zones of conflict. The showcased works range from puppetry to masks, object theater, costumes, and interactive installations, as employed to transform seemingly mundane or discarded materials into powerful tools for storytelling.
Parking is available on the Massena campus. The Bard Massena Shuttle offers transportation to Bard students, staff, and faculty between Kline Bus Stop (Southbound) and the Massena Campus Roundabout. Please see the shuttle schedule. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ahajyahia@bard.edu.
A journey to the south with Don Guaman Poma de Ayala
Thursday, April 17, 2025 3:30 pm
Olin 107 An urgent letter was sent in 1613 from Peru to the King of Spain. In this workshop, we will come together to uncover its urgency, painting images of the past that may help us to light our present.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 860-992-6472, or e-mail mroise@bard.edu.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Trust is a multifaceted concept that is a necessary component in most of our interactions, whether they be social, team-based, or goal oriented in nature. As robots enter our world, we need to understand what it means to trust a robot and what factors and situations have an impact on human-robot trust. This talk will introduce an overview of trust before discussing two types of trust that can be used to categorize the way human-robot interaction researchers define, investigate, and measure trust. The speaker will also present a study that looks at whether and how trust in robots transfers between environments.Sponsored by: Psychology Program.
A conversation with David Salle and Francine Prose
Thursday, April 17, 2025 5–7 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor David Salle and Francine Prose will discuss the artwork and writing of Janet Malcolm in conjunction with the exhibition Janet Malcolm: Critical Collage at Stevenson Library. David Salle, the subject of Malcolm’s 1994 New Yorker profile “Forty-One False Starts,” is one of America’s most esteemed painters. He is also the author of How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art . Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard Francine Prose is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, including Reading Like a Writer and The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired . She is the former president of the PEN American Center. All are welcome. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents A gathering to celebrate Christ's command to love and God's covenant with Israel with a simple meal.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Nahua (Aztec) Writing After the Conquest: Domingo Chimalpahin and the Cemanahuac Archive in Colonial Mexico
Thursday, April 17, 2025 6 pm
Olin 102 Part of Pueblos Originarios/Original Pueblos: Indigenous Perspectives from Turtle Island, Cemanahuac, and Abiayala. A gathering to foster dialogue about Indigeneity throughout the Americas.
This presentation examines the writings of don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin (hereafter Chimalpahin), a Nahua tlacuilo (scribe) who produced the largest body of written texts in Nahuatl and Spanish among Nahua (Aztec) writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; it illustrates that Chimalpahin refutes Spanish historiography by revising and extending the narratives of Spanish, castizo, mestizo, and Indigenous authors, all while placing Indigenous history in a global context. By framing Chimalpahin’s work as a forward-looking endeavor, Chimalpahin’s writing encourages us to reconsider Nahua intellectual production at the turn of the seventeenth century and as a starting point from which to imagine alternative futures that support Indigenous struggles for land and self-determination.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mroise@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions and more. Schedule an appointment by texting or calling Dr. Sarah Heslip at (413) 884-2798. Please inquire about insurance. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Craft and Connect at 12 pm at Sawkill Coffee House. Offered by Wellness Education, Counseling, and Disability Access Services
Friday, April 18, 2025 12–1 pm
Sawkill Coffee House Crafting, puzzles. community, connections, and tips and strategies for being and staying resilient! Email wellnesseducation@bard.edu to sign up, but walk-ins are welcome.
New Annandale House The International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) meets for lab time every Friday at New Annandale House. Those interested in digital humanities or archiving are welcome to stop by any time between 12 and 4 pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pf0250@bard.edu.
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion known as the parsha, each week. Join Rabbi Joshua Boettiger and others in the Bard community for an informal Torah Study session each Friday—open to everyone of all religious backgrounds.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Jewish Studies Program.
Kingston Mosque The Muslim Student Organization (MSO) offers transportation for anyone who would like to go to the mosque on Fridays for Jummah Prayers. The pick-up time is at 12:00 p.m. for the Kingston Mosque and the departure time from the Mosque is 2 pm. Time is flexible based on who is driving and how many people join.
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Gathering of writers and editors for the paper to work on current issues! Anyone is welcome to join, and no experience is required. On 3/28 we will be meeting in Olin 203.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
TBD weekly Bring your bike to one or all of these rides. Meet at 2 pm. More Info when you sign up by scanning the QR code below or email lb9580@bard.edu All experience levels are welcome. Helmets available! Programs made possible by a generous donation in loving memory of James Kirk Bernard. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Bard On Go weekly meeting. The first meeting is for our club members to connect with each other, discussing video ideas for the upcoming semester.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Stevenson Library You're warmly invited to join from 3:30 to 5:00pm in Stevenson Library 402 (fourth floor) to work on your Senior Project in a calm, quiet, and supportive space.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jesmith@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House Come craft with us. We will be doing sewing, knitting, paper crafts, and anything else you like! Learn new skills or work on a project.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail jboettiger@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event We're reading The Life of the Mind, Hannah Arendt’s unfinished final work. In it, she focuses on three basic mental activities—thinking, willing, and judging—and their relation to the world of appearances and to the human capacity for moral and political action. The new critical edition makes available in print, for the first time, the text of the typescripts as Arendt left them, complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished material, detailed annotations, and extensive scholarly commentary. We will also be referring to Mary McCarthy's edition for increased accessibility.
Free to HAC members and to Bard students, staff, and faculty! Email arendt@bard.edu for the Zoom link.
Find the full Virtural Reading Group schedule: hac.bard.edu/programs/vrg/ Get the new critical edition of The Life of the Mindhere.
Don't worry if you miss a VRG meeting! We post them all on our YouTube channel the week after they're recorded. Or tune in to an edited version of the chapter readings plus bonus episodes on our podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Thursday, April 17, 2025 – Friday, April 18, 2025 3–12 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room This two-day class provides a journey through our personal and professional experience within a binary society. We will reflect on how we have challenged pre-established norms to expand our expression in tango and in life.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Student Activities.
Montgomery Place Estate Join Montgomery Place for a Magnolia foraging walk and syrup tasting led by CEP Environmental Science & Policy Graduate Student Kim Easlick! We'll kick off the event with a stroll across the grounds to the Saucer magnolia (Magnolia ×soulangeana) in front of the mansion, where we'll gather petals to simmer into a delicious syrup, with recipe courtesy of Alexis Nikole, The Black Forager.
Afterward, students can sample the syrup by adding it to a tea or espresso-based drink of their choice, sponsored by local Red Hook business, JB Peel Coffee & Tea! Registration is free and limited to 20 participants and is first come, first serve. Register here. We look forward to seeing you there!Sponsored by: Bard Arboretum; Montgomery Place.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ke2849@bard.edu.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents A Good Friday Service remembering Christ’s crucifixion and the reading of The Passion according to the Gospel of John. All are welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Campus Center, Lobby Psychology Study. Three psychology students are looking for participants for their study being held in the Campus Center on Friday, April 18th, from 12 pm to 5 pm and on Saturday, April 19th, from 4 pm to 7 pm. Anyone over 18 can participate! If you choose to participate, you can be entered into a raffle to win a $40 Barnes and Noble gift card! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
The Madness of Delusions: Is it Time to Drop the D-Word?
Friday, April 18, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Hegeman 204
A vast philosophical and scientific literature has grown up around the nature and function of delusions. Professor Justin Garson will argue in this talk that we should abandon the concept of delusion entirely because it involves an unreasonable and harmful stance toward the “delusional patient.” As a case study, this talk considers the plight of targeted individuals (TIs), a global community whose members have the belief that they are the victims of organized stalking or electronic harassment.
Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ktabb@bard.edu.
Meet at the waterfall Join us for a three session workshop session to spend time with and learn about spring edible plants. We’ll start on April 13 by slowing down for a plant sit meditation to tap into the physical, spiritual, and energetic medicine plants hold. On April 18th we’ll meet at the waterfall for a sweet spring forage walk. Learn to identify and intentionally harvest spring edibles! On May 11th we’ll put all our plant love together and collectively cook and share a foraged dinner of nettle pesto pasta and dandelion salad over a bonfire. This is the second workshop of three.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Professor Andre Isaacs will be hosting a talk about copper-catalyzed "click chemistry" and outreach for students from marginalized groups.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Making it Click: An Approach to N-Heterocycles and Inclusive Excellence
A talk by Dr. André Isaacs, Associate Professor of Chemistry, The College of the Holy Cross
Friday, April 18, 2025 1:10 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Dr. Isaacs's research is centered on a very reliable organic reaction: the copper-catalyzed cycloaddition of sulfonyl azides and terminal alkynes (CuAAC) commonly known as ‘click chemistry’. This fragmentation creates reactive intermediates which can be intercepted to synthesize nitrogen heterocycles, important structural components in a majority of pharmaceutical drugs. This seminar will also discuss strategies that capitalize on the learning styles and culture of the younger generation to broaden participation in STEM.Sponsored by: Chemistry Program; Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mclaughl@bard.edu.
Tennis Courts The Women's Tennis team competes in a home match against Liberty League foe RIT. Come out and support Women's Tennis!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Tennis Courts The Men's Tennis team competes in a home match against Liberty League foe RIT. Come out and support Men's Tennis!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Ferrari Soccer & Lacrosse Complex The Women's Lacrosse team competes in a home conference game against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) for Senior Day. Come out and support Women's Lacrosse!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Student-led service with Gospel Choir, Stations of the Cross, Passion Reading, and Quaker Silence.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Performances by Riley Lyons, Ameya Natarajan, Christina Ng-Leyba, and Eli Rupper, tenor trombone; Yu-Tien James Chou, bass trombone; and Zander Grier, tuba and bass trombone.
Friday, April 18, 2025 7 pm
Olin Hall Featuring works by Mahler, Pergolesi, Theo Charlier, Ferdinand David, Don Haddad, Stjepan Sulek, Tchaikovsky, and Edward MacDowell.
Free and open to the public. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Discussion with Comedian, Peace Builder, and Activist Noam Shuster Eliassi
Presented by Beyond the Binary
Friday, April 18, 2025 7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 Join us for an evening of critical conversation and cultural insight with Noam Shuster Eliassi—comedian, activist, and cultural critic. Noam uses comedy to challenge systems of power and open space for dialogue on justice, identity, and coexistence. She grew up in Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, the only intentionally mixed Palestinian-Jewish community in Israel, and performs in Hebrew, Arabic, and English.
Her work spans stages across the globe, including the Palestine Comedy Festival, where she became the first Jewish performer to take the mic. With a background in peacebuilding and a sharp comedic voice, Noam brings together stories, satire, and social critique in a way that’s as entertaining as it is necessary.
This event is hosted by It’s Complicated, a student-led project of the Hannah Arendt Center, creating space for thoughtful learning, cross-perspective dialogue, and critical engagement around Israel/Palestine.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space FeaturingNeilson Chen, piano; Luca Sakon, violin; Lili Simon, violin; Nandor Burai, violin; Sándor Burka, violin; Jessica Ward, viola; Dari Batsaikhan, cello; Yu-Cih Chang, double bass; Ashley Lim, harp; and David Kéringer, conductor. Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
The Bard Theater & Performance Program presents Good Penny by DN Bashir, Assistant Professor of Theater & Performance at Bard College, and directed by Katherine Wilkinson.
Manor House Cafe Collaboration with the CCE's Gender Equity Leadership Initiative. Stop by to make menstrual kits for donation, eat pizza, and play trivia for prizes!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room This annual event, hosted by the Institute for International Liberal Education (IILE) in partnership with a multitude of Bard community organizations and departments, provides a space for people to learn about different cultures and connect with others who share their interests and values while enjoying food from around the world. Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education; Office of International Student and Scholar Services.
Sierra Presents: Discussing the BIPOC experience at Bard
Saturday, April 19, 2025 1:30–3 pm
Gilson Place How can the BIPOC experience be better at Bard? Attend this informal forum for a community discussion. Let’s talk school policies!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Ferrari Soccer & Lacrosse Complex The Women's Lacrosse team competes in a home game against Ithaca College for Pride Day. Come out and support Women's Lacrosse!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
The Bard Theater & Performance Program presents Good Penny by DN Bashir, Assistant Professor of Theater & Performance at Bard College, and directed by Katherine Wilkinson.
Studio Art Senior Project Exhibition Opening Reception
Bard Exhibition Center, UBS Exhibition #2
Saturday, April 19, 2025 3–6 pm
Bard Exhibition Center Please join us to celebrate the work of our second group of senior students exhibiting in Red Hook at the Bard Exhibition Center: Tommy Bennett, Veritie Howard, Mya Muchineuta, Autumn Knight, Zoe Mogannam, Mia Natelli, Paulina Jamieson, Sammie Perez, Roma Taitwood, and Calum Tinker. For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail pmead@bard.edu.
Campus Center, Quad The Rhythm and Food Fest brings Bard's campus an array of cultural food and performances, music, vendors, artists, and fun. Please come out and indulge yourself in this space for joy and festivities. RAIN DATE - 4/13/25 For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Join us for prop making, wig styling, sewing, and any other cosplay related crafts. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Lobby Psychology Study. Three psychology students are looking for participants for their study being held in the Campus Center on Friday, April 18th, from 12 pm to 5 pm and on Saturday, April 19th, from 4 pm to 7 pm. Anyone over 18 can participate! If you choose to participate, you can be entered into a raffle to win a $40 Barnes and Noble gift card! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Lobby Help us fundraise to support the renovations and continued growth of the Rondout Community Garden in Kingston, a grassroots effort to promote sustainability, environmental justice, and community healing through gardening in low-income communities! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
The Bard Baroque Ensemble, under the direction of Renée Anne Louprette, presents its debut performance in the Fisher Center, featuring works by Bach, Handel, and Mozart dedicated to the memory of Frederick Fisher Hammond (1937–2023), Professor Emeritus and the Irma Brandeis Chair of Romance Cultures and Music History.
The program celebrates the restoration of Professor Hammond’s French double-manual and Italian single-manual harpsichords—now a part of Bard College’s collection of early keyboard instruments—featuring them in the Concerto for Two Harpsichords, Strings, and Continuo in C Minor, BWV 1060 by Johann Sebastian Bach, with Sophia Cornicello and Raymond Erickson as harpsichord soloists.
One of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s most popular and enduring works, Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550, opens the program, interpreted by the Ensemble with a Baroque sensibility. Bard faculty member and distinguished tenor Rufus Müller presents the ravishing opening aria from Handel’s Serse: Ombra mai fu (Never was a shade).
The program concludes with Bach’s Cantata No. 1: Wie schön leuchtet Der Morgenstern (How brightly shines the Morningstar), featuring the Bard Chamber Singers, Preparatory Division Children’s Chorus, and soloists from the Graduate Vocal Arts Program. This luminous chorale-cantata—originally conceived for the Feast of the Annunciation—is presented here in the context of transition from darkness to light, on the date of Holy Saturday within the Christian Church. Valentina Grasso, Assistant Professor of History at Bard, will present a reading from Dante’s Divine Comedy—in lieu of the traditional Lutheran sermon—at the center of Bach’s 1725 masterpiece.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater The Bard Baroque Ensemble, under the direction of Renée Anne Louprette, presents its debut performance in the Fisher Center, featuring works by Bach, Handel, and Mozart dedicated to the memory of Frederick Fisher Hammond (1937–2023), Professor Emeritus and the Irma Brandeis Chair of Romance Cultures and Music History. The program celebrates the restoration of Professor Hammond’s French double-manual and Italian single-manual harpsichords, now a part of Bard College’s collection of early keyboard instruments, featuring them in the Concerto for Two Harpsichords, Strings, and Continuo in C Minor, BWV 1060 by Johann Sebastian Bach, with Sophia Cornicello and Raymond Erickson as harpsichord soloists.
The Bard Theater & Performance Program presents Good Penny by DN Bashir, Assistant Professor of Theater & Performance at Bard College, and directed by Katherine Wilkinson.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (1114 River Road) in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome!
Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at 11:30 in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jhess@bard.edu.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge A space for Anthro seniors to read SPROJ work, discuss, receive feedback, and for all Anthro majors to share any anthropological writing. There will be refreshments.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Coalition Of Christian Students: Quaker Meeting For Worship
Sunday, April 20, 2025 1–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are invited to join us as we gather in silence to seek the Inner-Light. No minister leads us in worship, no prayers or hymns are planned. We wait and listen for the Holy Spirit to speak in and through us. Both our silence and our spoken words bring us closer together and closer to God. Meeting will take place on the First Day of each week (Sunday) at the Chapel of the Holy Innocents from 1-2pm.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Humanities, Room 201 If you’ve experienced sexual assault or know anyone who is a survivor, our support group is here for you and stands with you, and we’re here to listen and support you. No one deserves to go through this, and everyone who experienced abuse deserves the time, care, and resources they need to heal.
This is a closed group, meaning that once the meeting begins, no one may join in order to keep the group a safe space. This is not a therapeutic group, but a support group.
The Bard Theater & Performance Program presents Good Penny by DN Bashir, Assistant Professor of Theater & Performance at Bard College, and directed by Katherine Wilkinson.
Degree Recital: Jalen Mims, clarinet, with Neilson Chen, piano
Works by Othmar Schoeck, Johannes Brahms, and Paquito D’Rivera.
Sunday, April 20, 2025 4 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Join us for a student recital. Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Institute of Advanced Theology Spring Lecture Series
Monday, April 21, 2025 12:30–2 pm
Bard Hall A lecture series from Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology The Bible does not mean only what Christianity says it means, or only what Judaism says it means, or only what Islam says it means. Biblical meaning also cannot be reduced to the caricatures produced by a small but strident coterie of atheist Fundamentalists in recent years.
The Bible unfolded over the course of a millennium of development. During that process social forces in each phase shaped the texts as they stand today, and in some cases the texts can be seen to push back against their contexts. The formation of the Bible resulted in the evolution of a social message, what the Aramaic, and Hebrew, and Greek languages of composition call a “gospel.” Our series is designed to uncover the grounding principles of this gospel as it unfolded over time and was articulated by the Bible in its own terms, before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam emerged.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail mgermano@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, April 21, 2025 1–2 pm
Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON MARCH 10 During this gentle Kripalu Yoga flow, students are invited to play with their edge, experiment with what works for their body, and make the practice their very own. In this yoga of compassion, we move through centering techniques and flow through postures, keeping an emphasis on the breath. Kripalu Yoga invites experimentation and inquiry into every movement and moment...come play!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy Offices) Come by the Chaplaincy office (Albee Basement) to knit or learn how to knit! Crocheters and needleworkers are also invited. Materials including yarn and knitting needles are provided. Everyone is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Join us for our bi-weekly meetings to learn about Caribbean culture through fun events, tough talks, collabs, and more! Dates: 2/10/25, 2/24/25, 3/10/25, 3,24/25, 4/7/25, 4/21/25, 5/5/25Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Stevenson Gym- Class Room 1 Come join us for our weekly juggling meeting on Mondays 7 pm - 9 pm. No experience required (We Will Teach You)!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Pollution, Community Waters, and Unequal Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York
Monday, April 21, 2025 – Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Olin Language Center, Room 115
This series brings together Brazilian and American researchers from the humanities, social studies, and natural sciences to discuss urban and environmental studies and participatory methodologies. They focus on case studies of peripheral neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, where two speakers were raised and others have spent years conducting in-depth ethnographic research. Rio’s favelas and peripheries are characterized by high levels of poverty, environmental degradation, and street violence, as well as being hubs of active community organizing, art production, and local scholarship. The speakers will share insights from their research, discuss their participation in community-science projects, and highlight alternative routes for disseminating data, art, and activism.
We will provide space for formal talks, open round tables, and informal discussions. A companion workshop in Rio de Janeiro in August of this year will build upon the insights from the event at Bard and incorporate civil society members in Rio.
Sponsored by: Sociology, Anthropology, Environmental & Urban Studies, History, LAIS, Politics, ELAS, Data Analytics, & the Center for Human Rights & the Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail pklein@bard.edu.
Environmental Injustice Across the Americas: Pollution, Community Waters, and Unequal Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York
Monday, April 21, 2025 – Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Environmental Injustice Across the Americas: Pollution, Community Waters, and Unequal Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York
This Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences series brings together Brazilian and American researchers from the humanities, social studies, and natural sciences to discuss urban and environmental studies and participatory methodologies. The events focus on case studies of peripheral neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, where two speakers were raised and others have spent years conducting in-depth ethnographic research.
Rio’s favelas and peripheries are characterized by high levels of poverty, environmental degradation, and street violence, as well as being hubs of active community organizing, art production, and local scholarship. The speakers will share insights from their research, discuss their participation in community-science projects, and highlight alternative routes for disseminating data, art, and activism.
Schedule:
Monday, April 21 at 11:50am – 1:10pm in Olin LC 115 “The Politics of Waste, Sacrifice Zones, and the Production of Rio de Janeiro” Maria Raquel Passos Lima and Mariana Cavalcanti
Tuesday, April 22 at 3:30pm – 6:00pm in Weis Cinema “Participatory Research, Community Science, Art, and Activism in Rio de Janeiro” Maria Raquel Passos Lima, Henrique Gomes, Nicholas Barnes, Luna Borges, and Andreza da Silveira Jorge
Wednesday, April 23 at 11:50am – 1:10pm in Olin LC 115 “The Favela and the Sea: Fishing, Violence, and Environmental (In)Justice in Rio de Janeiro” Henrique Gomes, Nicholas Barnes, Luna Borges Pereira Santos, and Peter Klein
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail pklein@bard.edu. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Quad Please join the Bard Arboretum for an informational Arbor Day tabling session on Monday, April 21. We'll have a variety of resources for students, as well as small prizes for answering tree-related trivia questions. We hope to see you there! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ke2849@bard.edu.
Music Research Strategies' (Marshall Trammell) Grammar of Motives
Sawkill Watershed score visualization based on found data
Monday, April 21, 2025 1:30–3 pm
Sawkill Creek -- meet at the mushroom farm Music Research Strategies' (Marshall Trammell) Grammar of Motives is a hands-on, student-made, tactical media-making Insurgent Learning Workshop to create a graphic score music composition and conduction system for a faculty performance based on highlighting popular education and conservation inititiaves from the Bard Community Science Lab and the Saw Kill Watershed Community.
RSVP here. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Tennis Courts The Men's Tennis team competes in a home game against Lehman and will be celebrating their Seniors. Come out and support Men's Tennis! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
First-Year Seminar • Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition
And the Artwork that Inspired it
Monday, April 21, 2025 5:15–6:45 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
This performance, featuring the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, is presented as part of the second-semester program for the First-Year Seminar.
This semester, the course invites students to engage with the complexities of democratic life—its challenges, responsibilities, and possibilities. Through foundational texts in literature, philosophy, history, and political theory, students explore enduring questions of citizenship, belonging, and the meaning of community.
Culture—including music—plays a vital role in shaping how we imagine and inhabit our shared world. This performance expands on that conversation, offering a powerful artistic lens through which to reflect on the human dimensions of civic life.
This performance, featuring the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, is presented as part of the second-semester program for the First-Year Seminar.
This semester, the course invites students to engage with the complexities of democratic life— its challenges, responsibilities, and possibilities. Through foundational texts in literature, philosophy, history, and political theory, students explore enduring questions of citizenship, belonging, and the meaning of community. Culture (including music) plays a vital role in shaping how we imagine and inhabit our shared world. This performance expands on that conversation, offering a powerful artistic lens through which to reflect on the human dimensions of civic life.
Attendance is mandatory for First-Year Seminar students.Sponsored by: First-Year Seminar.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail fysem@bard.edu.
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Screening of an Oscar-winning film about the destruction of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta. Followed by a discussion with Sam Stein, a Palestinian Solidarity Activist working in Masafer Yatta.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Massage is excellent for stress relief, to ease tense muscles, for headaches and backaches, and promotes a general sense of well-being.
Students: $80 for one hour, 30 minute sessions (students only) $45 Staff & Faculty: $100 for one hour
You can schedule a massage by texting or calling 845-702-6751. For more information visit www.gentlemountain.com. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Sottery Hall Bard College’s Campus Advocate Divine Perez-Ferreira will host regular office hours in Sottery 107 this semester on Tuesdays from 12–2 pm.
Divine works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can come to Sottery anytime between 12–2 pm.
CVSS offers:
- Information about domestic violence and sexual assault prevention; - Advocates who are there to support and believe you; - Connection to counseling or support groups; - Information about police reporting and the criminal justice system; and - Help finding additional services for student/faculty needs.
If you would like to schedule a meeting in advance, you can reach out to Divine directly at dperez@familyservicesny.org or to the Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination at nondiscrimination@bard.edu with your request.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail baldasso@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sylee@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pngo@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 TIME CHANGE FOR THE FOLLOWING DATE: April 22 6:30 p.m. instead of 5:30 p.m. Power Vinyasa focuses on building whole body strength and flexibility through a quick paced yoga flow. Incorporating lunges, squats, core work and balance postures, this challenging practice will make you sweat as you match breath and movement. Class will conclude with a wind-down to send you out the door feeling grounded. Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sxiong@bard.edu.
Latin American Student Organization General Meeting
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 6–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 A space to connect with LASO student members, share your thoughts, and learn more about our organization.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Humanities, Room 302 Come join, Tuesdays at 7 pm, to chat and play all things Pokemon! Meetings will be in Olin 302.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Pollution, Community Waters, and Unequal Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York
Monday, April 21, 2025 – Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Olin Language Center, Room 115
This series brings together Brazilian and American researchers from the humanities, social studies, and natural sciences to discuss urban and environmental studies and participatory methodologies. They focus on case studies of peripheral neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, where two speakers were raised and others have spent years conducting in-depth ethnographic research. Rio’s favelas and peripheries are characterized by high levels of poverty, environmental degradation, and street violence, as well as being hubs of active community organizing, art production, and local scholarship. The speakers will share insights from their research, discuss their participation in community-science projects, and highlight alternative routes for disseminating data, art, and activism.
We will provide space for formal talks, open round tables, and informal discussions. A companion workshop in Rio de Janeiro in August of this year will build upon the insights from the event at Bard and incorporate civil society members in Rio.
Sponsored by: Sociology, Anthropology, Environmental & Urban Studies, History, LAIS, Politics, ELAS, Data Analytics, & the Center for Human Rights & the Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail pklein@bard.edu.
Environmental Injustice Across the Americas: Pollution, Community Waters, and Unequal Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York
Monday, April 21, 2025 – Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Environmental Injustice Across the Americas: Pollution, Community Waters, and Unequal Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York
This Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences series brings together Brazilian and American researchers from the humanities, social studies, and natural sciences to discuss urban and environmental studies and participatory methodologies. The events focus on case studies of peripheral neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, where two speakers were raised and others have spent years conducting in-depth ethnographic research.
Rio’s favelas and peripheries are characterized by high levels of poverty, environmental degradation, and street violence, as well as being hubs of active community organizing, art production, and local scholarship. The speakers will share insights from their research, discuss their participation in community-science projects, and highlight alternative routes for disseminating data, art, and activism.
Schedule:
Monday, April 21 at 11:50am – 1:10pm in Olin LC 115 “The Politics of Waste, Sacrifice Zones, and the Production of Rio de Janeiro” Maria Raquel Passos Lima and Mariana Cavalcanti
Tuesday, April 22 at 3:30pm – 6:00pm in Weis Cinema “Participatory Research, Community Science, Art, and Activism in Rio de Janeiro” Maria Raquel Passos Lima, Henrique Gomes, Nicholas Barnes, Luna Borges, and Andreza da Silveira Jorge
Wednesday, April 23 at 11:50am – 1:10pm in Olin LC 115 “The Favela and the Sea: Fishing, Violence, and Environmental (In)Justice in Rio de Janeiro” Henrique Gomes, Nicholas Barnes, Luna Borges Pereira Santos, and Peter Klein
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail pklein@bard.edu. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, 21 April, 5:30PM. Stevenson Library A Conversation between editor Bradford Morrow and critic Christian Lorentzen on the importance of literary journals for contemporary writers.
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Tuesday, 22 April, 5:00PM. Bito Conservatory Auditorium A Reading with special guests, including Forrest Gander, Shane McCrae, and Francine Prose.
Since 1981, Conjunctions, founded and edited by Bradford Morrow, has been the preeminent home for writers who challenge convention with works that are formally innovative and culturally transformative.
Bard has been publishing Conjunctions since 1990, beginning with issue #15 and running through to forthcoming issue #84 We Love All We Voices.
Conjunctions was Initially conceived as a festschrift for New Directions’ founder, James Laughlin. The inaugural issue included Tennessee Williams, John Hawkes, Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, and Paul Bowles. Since the journal has come to Bard, it has featured work by, among many others: Forrest Gander, Mary Caponegro, Joyce Carol Oats, Robert Creeley, Lydia Davis, Ben Okri, Jayne Anne Phillips, Ann Lauterbach, David Foster Wallace, Rick Moody, Peter Gizzi, Karen Russell, Nathanael Mackey and Shane McCrae. Sponsored by: Office of the President, Office of the Dean of the College, and Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail caponegr@bard.edu.
The Graduate Vocal Arts Program Presents: First-Year Vocal Ensembles Concert
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 12 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space The first year students of the Graduate Vocal Arts program present a short lunchtime concert of 16th and 17th century unaccompanied madrigals and airs by composers including John Dowland and Henry Purcell. Free and open to the public.
Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
Jazz Room Music Research Strategies' (Marshall Trammell) Grammar of Motives is a hands-on, student-made, tactical media-making Insurgent Learning Workshop to create a graphic score music composition and conduction system for a faculty performance based on highlighting popular education and conservation inititiaves from the Bard Community Science Lab and the Saw Kill Watershed Community. Join us for drafting and rehearsal.
RSVP here. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, and Literary Biography: A talk by Zachary Leader
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 5:30–7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce has been called “the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century.” This talk, by the critic and biographer Zachary Leader, tells the story of the book and its maker, in the process arguing for the artistic claims not only of Ellmann himself, a remarkable man, but of literary biography in general.
Zachary Leader (born 1946) is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton. He was an undergraduate at Northwestern University, and did graduate work at Trinity College, Cambridge and Harvard University, where he was awarded a PhD in English in 1977. Although born and raised in the U.S. he has lived for over forty years in the U.K., and has dual British and American citizenship. His best-known works are The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2001), The Life of Kingsley Amis (2007), a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964 (2015), which was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize in the U.K. The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife 1965 to 2005 was published in 2018. He has written and edited a dozen books, including both volumes of the Saul Bellow biography, and is General Editor of The Oxford History of Life-Writing, a seven-volume series published by OUP. A recipient of Guggenheim, Whiting, Huntington, Leverhulme and British Academy Fellowships, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Introduction: Gregory Moynahan, Associate Professor of History, Bard College Q&A Moderator: Elizabeth Frank, Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, Bard CollegeSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Division of Social Studies; German Studies Program; Hannah Arendt Center; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Irish and Celtic Studies (ICS) Program; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail frank@bard.edu.
Online Event This month's special guest James Romm, in conversation about his forthcoming book, Plato and the Tyrant, with host Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center.
Plato and the Tyrant (Norton, May 2025) is a hard look at Plato's political misadventure in the Greek city of Syracuse, where Plato collaborated with a despotic regime in hopes of moderating its absolutism, and at the ways his Republic is connected, in disquieting ways, to that Syracusan episode.
James Romm is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College and author of numerous books on topics from Greek history and culture. His essays and reviews appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.
For Love of the World, every fourth Tuesday from 6-6:30 pm on Radio Kingston is your portal to the bold ideas and respectful, deep conversations about contemporary issues that we’re having regularly at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Join host Roger Berkowitz each month as we delve into the work of one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, Hannah Arendt, with renowned scholars and public intellectuals, and exemplify what it means to have a conversation of patient humility, in the Arendtian tradition.
1490 AM | 107.9 FM | or stream online and anytime at radiokingston.orgSponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions, and more. Schedule by texting/calling Phillip Brown at 845-943-7644
Please inquire about Health Insurances accepted For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON JANUARY 15 This class blends optimal alignment with the movement and grace of Vinyasa flow. Class includes seated, standing, and supine poses. The Vinyasa segment moves at a moderate pace allowing alignment cues to be woven in. A slower flow is accessible for newer students and allows more experienced students to refine their poses.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Albee; Annex Basement (La Voz Magazine on google Maps) Are you interested in journalism, activism, and Latino immigrant issues? La Voz magazine seeks to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
We invite students of all skills and talents to come to our weekly meeting on Wednesdays, 1:30 to 2:30pm, at the La Voz office (Albee Annex Basement, in front of Henderson computer lab), or via Zoom in case of bad weather. Regularly held at the Kline College Room.
Albee The Coalition of Christian Students will offer an Ecumenical Bible Study for the Bard Community every Wednesday from 5 to 6 pm in the Chaplaincy Office (Albee Basement). Our goal is to find common ground and prayerfully study scripture together. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Come join us for our Film Making At Bard weekly meetings. Any ideas/scripts for films are more than welcome, otherwise, come ready to plan and discuss!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Language Center, Room 120 This is a support group open for people who are looking to learn more about addiction. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House Come join us for a low-stakes writing group to get the creative juices flowing! Different guided prompts and themes every week. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Beyond the Binary: "It's Complicated" Weekly Screening Series
Featuring: The Third Narrative Podcast Screening
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 8–9:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Join us for our weekly screening series exploring nuanced and diverse perspectives on the Israel-Palestine conflict. “It’s Complicated”, a project of the Hannah Arendt Center, presents the Third Narrative podcast, led by Palestinian hosts Amira Mohammad and Ibrahim Abu Ahmed. Through candid conversations and nuanced analysis, they challenge biases, unpack complexities, and promote meaningful dialogue on Israel-Palestine, to foster meaningful understanding of the region.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Pollution, Community Waters, and Unequal Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York
Monday, April 21, 2025 – Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Olin Language Center, Room 115
This series brings together Brazilian and American researchers from the humanities, social studies, and natural sciences to discuss urban and environmental studies and participatory methodologies. They focus on case studies of peripheral neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, where two speakers were raised and others have spent years conducting in-depth ethnographic research. Rio’s favelas and peripheries are characterized by high levels of poverty, environmental degradation, and street violence, as well as being hubs of active community organizing, art production, and local scholarship. The speakers will share insights from their research, discuss their participation in community-science projects, and highlight alternative routes for disseminating data, art, and activism.
We will provide space for formal talks, open round tables, and informal discussions. A companion workshop in Rio de Janeiro in August of this year will build upon the insights from the event at Bard and incorporate civil society members in Rio.
Sponsored by: Sociology, Anthropology, Environmental & Urban Studies, History, LAIS, Politics, ELAS, Data Analytics, & the Center for Human Rights & the Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail pklein@bard.edu.
Environmental Injustice Across the Americas: Pollution, Community Waters, and Unequal Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York
Monday, April 21, 2025 – Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Environmental Injustice Across the Americas: Pollution, Community Waters, and Unequal Urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and New York
This Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences series brings together Brazilian and American researchers from the humanities, social studies, and natural sciences to discuss urban and environmental studies and participatory methodologies. The events focus on case studies of peripheral neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, where two speakers were raised and others have spent years conducting in-depth ethnographic research.
Rio’s favelas and peripheries are characterized by high levels of poverty, environmental degradation, and street violence, as well as being hubs of active community organizing, art production, and local scholarship. The speakers will share insights from their research, discuss their participation in community-science projects, and highlight alternative routes for disseminating data, art, and activism.
Schedule:
Monday, April 21 at 11:50am – 1:10pm in Olin LC 115 “The Politics of Waste, Sacrifice Zones, and the Production of Rio de Janeiro” Maria Raquel Passos Lima and Mariana Cavalcanti
Tuesday, April 22 at 3:30pm – 6:00pm in Weis Cinema “Participatory Research, Community Science, Art, and Activism in Rio de Janeiro” Maria Raquel Passos Lima, Henrique Gomes, Nicholas Barnes, Luna Borges, and Andreza da Silveira Jorge
Wednesday, April 23 at 11:50am – 1:10pm in Olin LC 115 “The Favela and the Sea: Fishing, Violence, and Environmental (In)Justice in Rio de Janeiro” Henrique Gomes, Nicholas Barnes, Luna Borges Pereira Santos, and Peter Klein
For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail pklein@bard.edu. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
THINKING ABOUT STUDYING ABROAD? Come to this session to learn how it all works here at Bard!
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge STUDY ABROAD INFO SESSION THINKING ABOUT STUDYING ABROAD? Come to this session to learn how it all works here at Bard!
WILL DISCUSS: The Petition for Study Abroad process Bard Abroad programs (including Bard NYC) Tuition Exchanges (including a new one in Spain!) Non-Bard programs Summer programs Financial Aid/Scholarships Deadlines/Timelines COME SEE WHAT’S POSSIBLE!
SOPHOMORES: Want to study abroad for Spring 2026? You must attend a session and then meet with Director for Study Abroad and Student Exchange Trish Fleming asap (before Summer Break would be best). The deadlines for Spring come VERY early in the fall term, so you’ll want to be prepared. CAN’T ATTEND THE SESSION but STILL WANT TO MEET WITH TRISH BEFORE SUMMER? Complete THIS FORM and be on the lookout for an email from International Programs Assistant Dylan Short to schedule that.
Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7080, or e-mail fleming@bard.edu.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Come out to the Bard Makers Spring Fair on Wednesday afternoon and shop for unique, handmade items at reasonable prices. In an effort to support sustainable small businesses in the area, CCE invites you to take a look and buy from these campus and local makers! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Drop in help with citations, formatting and more for the home stretch.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 3–5 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor Students submitting their senior projects this semester are invited to drop by any or all of the library's SPROJ Clinics for help with citations, formatting, and other last minute questions. Clinics on:
Wednesday, April 23, 3–5 pm
Friday April 25, 3–5 pm
Sunday April 27, 3–5 pm
Can't make it? Request an appointment or stop by the research help desk during reference hours.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail amurphy@bard.edu.
Music Research Strategies: Performance of Selected Scores
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 3:30–4:30 pm
Olin Auditorium Music Research Strategies' (Marshall Trammell) Grammar of Motives is a hands-on, student-made, tactical media-making Insurgent Learning Workshop to create a graphic score music composition and conduction system for a faculty performance based on highlighting popular education and conservation inititiaves from the Bard Community Science Lab and the Saw Kill Watershed Community. Join us for a performance of the developed scores.
RSVP here.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Indigenous Studies.
Five Disruptive Principles in the Liberal Arts Series: Agency and Responsibility
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 5–6:30 pm
Online Event 5 PM New York l 10 PM Vienna
AltLiberalArts' “Five Disruptive Principles in the Liberal Arts” series explores the core values that define an exceptional liberal arts education. The first event will explore "Agency/Responsibility" with moderator Susan Burns and panelists Sophia Brown and Dan Chambliss. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to engage with innovative thought leaders as they share their vision of how these principles empower students and educators alike.
Susan Burns spent 34 years as a writer and editor for SagaCity Media (formerly Gulfshore Media) in Sarasota, where she was founding editor of a regional business magazine and editor-in-chief of Sarasota Magazine before retiring in 2022. A New College alum, she sat on the New College Foundation board from 2020 to 2024 and served as chair of the governance committee.
Sophia Brown is the Program Coordinator of PEN America Florida. She graduated from New College in 2023, where she studied English with a slash in Rhetoric in Writing and served as the Editor in Chief of the student-run newspaper, the Catalyst, from Fall 2021 to Spring 2023.
Daniel F. Chambliss (B.A. New College, 1975; PhD Yale University, 1982) is the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Hamilton College, and co-author, with his former student Chris Takacs, of How College Works. He is also co-author, with Russell Schutt, of Making Sense of the Social World, a research methods text currently in its fifth edition.
The Preacher's Flow: Inspired Eloquence as the central skill of Mahāyāna Buddhist Preachers
A talk by Dr. Ralph Craig, Assistant Professor of Religion, Whitman College
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This talk first discusses the South Asian Buddhist notion of pratibhāna-pratisaṃvid, or “skillful knowledge of inspired eloquence.” Then it turns to a discussion of how the concept of “inspired eloquence” informs and provides context for Turner’s sermonic stylings on her last recorded albums. It will conclude by considering what the notion of inspired eloquence offers to our understanding of the history of both South Asian Mahāyāna Buddhism and American Buddhism.
This talk is made possible through the generous support of the Warren Mills Hutcheson Endowed Fund in Religion. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ssecunda@bard.edu.
Join us for a talk by Director of Bard Globalization and the International Affairs Program Elmira Bayrasli.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.
Recital and Masterclass: West Point Brass Quintet featuring Master Sergeant Yalin Chi
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 7 pm
Olin Hall
The West Point Brass Quintet is the primary chamber ensemble of the Army’s oldest musical organization, the West Point Band. Stationed at the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Quintet provides support for West Point ceremonies as well as other outreach events throughout the Northeast.
Master Sergeant Yalin Chi joined the West Point Band in 2007. She has appeared as a piano soloist with the Green Bay Orchestra, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra, among others; and has performed at Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Gardner Museum, and Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, South Korea.
Free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 This class is about listening to the body and focusing on form and breathwork to create a moving meditation. We will combine pranayama (breathwork practices) with a gentle flow, to create a space of solace from stress and anxiety. The class will be a mixture of hatha postures and dynamic sequences, with lots of variations and alternatives, allowing students to shape their own practice. Some classes will also end with sound baths before silent meditation. Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.
Join the Persian table every Thursday. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mshahbaz@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 24, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ochilton@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 24, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail fchamoun@bard.edu.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Come play chess with the Chess Club! We will be playing in the Georgeball Lounge, except on on 02/06, 02/13, and 03/27 when we will be playing in the Red Room.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail dabend@bard.edu.
Campus Center Lobby Learn about Health, Counseling, and Wellness. Get information on recovery or harm reduction resources on and off campus. Ask questions and make a connection with your peers!Sponsored by: Health, Counseling an Wellness .
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 24, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail zdallal@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, April 24, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail plopezga@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 Join us for a one hour mat pilates class, focusing on strengthening and toning muscles.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Campus Center, Lobby Guess what’s back? Thursday Night Live is kicking off again—starting Thursday, March 27th from 7 to 9 pm at Down The Road Café—and you’re invited. Presented by The Real in collaboration with the Student Activities Board, this weekly music series features a student band or artist tearing it up for the first 30 minutes, an open jam session where you can hop in and make some noise, chill vibes, and live music. But wait... there’s more. Only during Thursday Night Live, you can feast on:
A Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich hotter than your midterm stress
A new themed mocktail every week (surprise your taste buds)
So whether you’re here to play, vibe, or just vibe next to the people playing—come through. Let’s turn DTR into the live music hub it was always meant to be. We will not be having this event on 5/1.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Humanities, Room 204 Interested in improving your public speaking skills, traveling to compete at other colleges, or getting involved in our local events? All are welcome to join our regular weekly debate meetings! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail cbronte@bard.edu.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Thursday evening, come bake challah and help prepare Shabbat dinner for our Friday evening community gathering. Although these evenings serve a practical purpose, they are also a wonderful opportunity for students to chat, relax, and engage with one another with the openness and closeness that seem so natural in kitchens. All are welcome. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail jboettiger@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Disability as a Social Identity Protects Against Ableism
A talk by Dr. Kathleen Bogart, Oregon State University
Thursday, April 24, 2025 4 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium The largest minority group in the United States, disability, is often overlooked in prejudice research. As with other socially constructed minorities, it is valuable to examine disability through a social identity lens. Recent research shows that experiencing ableism may prompt development of disability pride, which in turn protects self-esteem. Thus, we might resist ableism by fostering disability pride and increasing representation of the social model of disability.
This lecture is made possible through the generous support of the Andrew J. Bernstein Foundation. It is free and open to the public. Sponsored by: The Andrew J. Bernstein Foundation and Psychology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nwittlin@bard.edu.
Kline Commons Lawn Join us at the BardEATS Community Market for live music, crafts, games, thrifting, food, and more! Come meet local businesses, student clubs, and passionate community members doing work at Bard and in the greater Hudson Valley!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Socialist F(r)action of Oil: Petropoetics of Early Soviet Culture
Lecture by preeminent Russian literary critic and scholar in exile Ilya Kalinin (Humboldt University and Bard College Berlin)
Thursday, April 24, 2025 5:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 205 In his lecture, Ilya Kalinin will explore the impact of the Bolshevik petroleum project - the extraction and use of oil - on the culture and ideology of the early Soviet state. Soviet society communicated with oil in the language of socialist transformation. But the sovietization of oil was broader than its technological and sociopolitical processing. For oil to flow from the wells and fill the arteries of the socialist economy, it had to permeate the discursive fabric of Soviet media and cultural production. Dr. Kalinin will discuss this complex relationship through an analysis of literary works, film, and visual art from the 1920s and beyond.Sponsored by: The Russian and Eurasian Studies program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ovoronin@bard.edu.
Olin Humanities, Room 102 Join us for a talk by Senior Fellow at Bard Center for Civic Engagement Frederic C. Hof. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail itscomplicatedhac@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions and more. Schedule an appointment by texting or calling Dr. Sarah Heslip at (413) 884-2798. Please inquire about insurance. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Craft and Connect at 12 pm at Sawkill Coffee House. Offered by Wellness Education, Counseling, and Disability Access Services
Friday, April 25, 2025 12–1 pm
Sawkill Coffee House Crafting, puzzles. community, connections, and tips and strategies for being and staying resilient! Email wellnesseducation@bard.edu to sign up, but walk-ins are welcome.
New Annandale House The International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) meets for lab time every Friday at New Annandale House. Those interested in digital humanities or archiving are welcome to stop by any time between 12 and 4 pm. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pf0250@bard.edu.
Arendt Center There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion known as the parsha, each week. Join Rabbi Joshua Boettiger and others in the Bard community for an informal Torah Study session each Friday—open to everyone of all religious backgrounds.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy; Jewish Studies Program.
Kingston Mosque The Muslim Student Organization (MSO) offers transportation for anyone who would like to go to the mosque on Fridays for Jummah Prayers. The pick-up time is at 12:00 p.m. for the Kingston Mosque and the departure time from the Mosque is 2 pm. Time is flexible based on who is driving and how many people join.
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Gathering of writers and editors for the paper to work on current issues! Anyone is welcome to join, and no experience is required. On 3/28 we will be meeting in Olin 203.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
TBD weekly Bring your bike to one or all of these rides. Meet at 2 pm. More Info when you sign up by scanning the QR code below or email lb9580@bard.edu All experience levels are welcome. Helmets available! Programs made possible by a generous donation in loving memory of James Kirk Bernard. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Red Room 203 Bard On Go weekly meeting. The first meeting is for our club members to connect with each other, discussing video ideas for the upcoming semester.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Stevenson Library You're warmly invited to join from 3:30 to 5:00pm in Stevenson Library 402 (fourth floor) to work on your Senior Project in a calm, quiet, and supportive space.Sponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jesmith@bard.edu.
Sawkill Coffee House Come craft with us. We will be doing sewing, knitting, paper crafts, and anything else you like! Learn new skills or work on a project.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a short Shabbat prayer service with singing and discussion, followed by a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening. For more information, call 802-733-6342, or e-mail jboettiger@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Online Event We're reading The Life of the Mind, Hannah Arendt’s unfinished final work. In it, she focuses on three basic mental activities—thinking, willing, and judging—and their relation to the world of appearances and to the human capacity for moral and political action. The new critical edition makes available in print, for the first time, the text of the typescripts as Arendt left them, complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished material, detailed annotations, and extensive scholarly commentary. We will also be referring to Mary McCarthy's edition for increased accessibility.
Free to HAC members and to Bard students, staff, and faculty! Email arendt@bard.edu for the Zoom link.
Find the full Virtural Reading Group schedule: hac.bard.edu/programs/vrg/ Get the new critical edition of The Life of the Mindhere.
Don't worry if you miss a VRG meeting! We post them all on our YouTube channel the week after they're recorded. Or tune in to an edited version of the chapter readings plus bonus episodes on our podcast, Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center.
Sidelines Redrawn: Re-examining the Role of Marginality in Ancient Greek Literature
*Note location change
Friday, April 25, 2025 9 am – 5 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In our contemporary era, marginality typically refers to people that lie on the fringes or margins of society with regard to some socio-economic or socio-political characteristic. In the context of the ancient Greek world, it is fairly easy to assign groups to this marginal category. However, ancient literature tends to complicate this modern notion of marginality, and characters that would normally be considered marginal from a historical standpoint are often put in positions that allow them to influence others and act beyond the limitations of their societal station. This talk will discuss the disconnect between literature and historical reality when it comes to marginal characters and their potential for agency and efficacy. Reexamining ancient Greek literature with this in mind will provide another avenue of interpretation that will contribute to our understanding of these works.Sponsored by: Classical Studies and the Dean's Office.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail tarcher@bard.edu.
Hybrid Event The 2025 April Conference is a full day workshop in small, interactive groups. It is a hybrid event, and participants can join us in person at Bard College or online. Participants read and write together in their workshop groups, drawing on a rich anthology of texts, and gather for a mid-morning plenary session that helps to anchor and inspire the day’s work. For more information, call 845-752-4516, e-mail alipman@bard.edu, or visit https://iwt.bard.edu/april/.
Detecting Gravitational-waves: From Instrumentation to Compact Binaries
A talk by Georgia Mansell, Syracuse University
Friday, April 25, 2025 12 pm
Brody Lab - Hegeman 107 The advanced LIGO (laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory) detectors are currently in their fourth observing run, with greater sensitivity to gravitational waves than ever before, able to detect binary neutron star inspirals out to over 165 Mpc. In this talk, I will explain some of the technologies which enable gravitational-wave detection, including squeezed light, laser stabilization, and quadruple suspensions. I will also talk about the gravitational-wave instrumentation projects going on at Syracuse University, including an electrostatic violin mode damper for suspended optics.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
THINKING ABOUT STUDYING ABROAD? Director for Study Abroad and Student Exchange Trish Fleming will be tabling in the Campus Center Lobby today to answer all your questions.
Friday, April 25, 2025 12–3 pm
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge INFO WILL BE AVAILABLE ON: The Petition for Study Abroad process Bard Abroad programs (including Bard NYC) Tuition Exchanges (including a new one in Spain!) Non-Bard programs Summer programs Financial Aid/Scholarships Deadlines/Timelines COME SEE WHAT’S POSSIBLE!
SOPHOMORES: Want to study abroad for Spring 2026? You should attend a Study Abroad Info Session first if at all possible (there’s another one on Monday, April 28 at noon!) and then meet with Trish Fleming asap (before Summer Break would be best). The deadlines for Spring come VERY early in the fall term, so you’ll want to be prepared. CAN’T ATTEND THE INFO TABLE OR INFO SESSION but STILL WANT TO MEET WITH TRISH BEFORE SUMMER? Complete THIS FORM and be on the lookout for an email from International Programs Assistant Dylan Short to schedule that. Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7080, or e-mail fleming@bard.edu.
Drop in help with citations, formatting & more for the home stretch
Friday, April 25, 2025 3–5 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor Students submitting their senior projects this semester are invited to drop by any or all of the library's Sproj Clinics for help with citations, formatting, & other last minute questions:
Wednesday, April 23, 3-5 pm
Friday April 25, 3-5 pm
Sunday April 27, 3-5 pm
Can't make it? Request an appointment or stop by the research help desk during reference hours.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail amurphy@bard.edu.
State of Fracture: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights and the Arts, 2025
Runs through Sunday, May 4, 2025 3–7:30 pm
Massena Campus The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts is pleased to announce its Class of 2025 MA thesis exhibition.
The exhibition is taking place April 25 through May 4, 3 – 7:30 pm, across the Massena Campus at Bard. The exhibition features installations, films, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
State of Fracture: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2025
Runs through Sunday, May 4, 2025 3–7:30 pm
Massena Campus The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2025.
The exhibition is taking place April 25 through May 4, 3–7:30 pm, across the Massena Campus at Bard College. The exhibition features installations, films, and written works by the graduating cohort. The artistic, academic, and hybrid theses are all based on original research by students. They make interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis.
Below is the program for the thesis exhibition, including a list of events and showcased works :
Opening Reception Friday, 25 April 2025 4pm–7pm Exhibition opening and food-for-purchase provided by Samosa Shack.
Lecture Performance Conducting Empire by Elinor Arden Friday 25 April, Sunday 27 April, Saturday 3 May 6:30 pm–7pm
Panel Presentation Featuring Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona, Pyae Phyo Aung, and Arina Pshenichnaya Saturday, May 3 4 pm–5 pm
Written Theses Excerpts of these works are on display in the exhibition
“The Human Right to What?” Hunger, Food, and People: A Journey to the South Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona
Sacred War as the Russian National Idea Arina Pshenichnaya
“Late pyar lone lar?” In Search of A Clear Conscience in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Pyae Phyo Aung
A Baghdad Sin: Peregrinations in A Ruptured Geography Nabil Salih
Installations Open daily, 3–7:30 pm
FordDat Sariyah Abuzant
Livestreamed Genocide: TikTok LIVE in Gaza Sarah Al-Yahya
Calls from an Unseen Chorus Amr Amer
Conducting Empire Elinor Arden
The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine Leil Zahra Mortada
Prison Rule 113.11 and Fugitive Tools Mauro Tosarelli
Thesis Project Abstracts
FordDat Sariyah Abuzant This installation features a docufiction video and explores the role of an unofficial taxi vehicle vital to mobility in occupied Palestine, using the cases of Abu Dis and Al-Eizariya, two towns located in Area C of the West Bank. Manufactured by Ford Motor Company, this US vehicle has unintentionally functioned as the connective tissue of a fragmented landscape, navigating an apartheid system reinforced by the Oslo Accords. Operating illegally for over thirty years, the Ford Transit has not only sustained movement but also emerged as a tool of cultural sovereignty, community-structured infrastructure, and self-governance. A time capsule of Oslo’s failures, this vehicle offers a lens into the lived realities of Palestinian daily resistance and the unyielding struggle for the right to move.
Livestreamed Genocide: TikTok LIVE in Gaza Sarah Al-Yahya This hybrid project, comprised of an interactive, web-based installation and research article, examines how “history’s first livestreamed genocide” in Gaza has been presented on TikTok LIVE. The work explores these streams, characterized by their low viewership as well as scattered and disorienting nature, arguing that they reshape our understanding of “livestreamed genocide” as a historical media paradigm. The installation foregrounds the tensions between a gamified platform and the realities of war on the Gaza Strip. In doing so, it examines the uneasy rise of TikTok’s algorithmically-driven platform as a space where social media visibility and atrocity merge, clash, and are reshaped by the logic of public engagement.
Calls from an Unseen Chorus Amr Amer Calls from an Unseen Chorus is a sound installation that resists the passive consumption of Palestine as an image of suffering, instead demanding engagement through the act of listening. Centering the auditory as a site of resistance, the work immerses audiences in the sonic realities of occupation and defiance—from the oppressive stasis of colonial checkpoints to the collective force of protest chants, resistance music, and the recorded wills of martyrs. These layered soundscapes challenge static representations of Palestinian struggle, asserting a mobilized, dissenting presence and an unceasing fight for liberation. By stripping away the visual, Calls from an Unseen Chorus transforms listening into an entry point for solidarity, where sound becomes both testimony and a call to resistance.
Conducting Empire Elinor Arden Conducting Empire is a research article and an installation-performance investigating the material history of the undersea cable network: the physical ‘backbone’ of the internet. The project explores what lies beneath Google’s marketing strategies for their new transatlantic cables, tracing the genealogy of this infrastructure to 19th-century Britain and the era of so-called abolition. A live activation of a sound sculpture exposes the metallic substance of the cable network and its transmission of historical records into the present. By linking claims of technological progress to imperial control, the work reframes the utopian ideal of global connectivity with evidence found in the British National Archives, from the Birmingham copper industry to a mass of colonial correspondences. Conducting Empire removes the network’s insulation to uncover how telecommunications were produced through a violent historical circuit.
“Late pyar lone lar?” In Search of A Clear Conscience in Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Pyae Phyo Aung This written thesis explores the question of morality and conscience in the anti-authoritarian revolution that took shape in response to the 2021 military coup in Myanmar. The term late pyar lone chin refers to the pride of performing a just action or the shame and guilt of not doing so, and the question, late pyar lone lar?, means roughly “do you have a clear conscience?” It is now widely used to testify to (or question) one’s stance and involvement in the revolution. Examining the digital artifacts and lived experiences of protestors, resistance fighters, and activist fundraisers, the thesis studies the role of calls to conscience in political mobilization and investigates how affect and morality have been activated through aesthetic means to shape the trajectory of the Spring Revolution in Myanmar.
“The Human Right to What?” Hunger, Food, and People: A Journey to the South. Miguel Angel Castañeda Barahona The public policy known as Areas of Protection for Food Production was launched in July of 2024 in the south of La Guajira, Colombia. It aims to focus land use on agricultural production and prohibit any type of mining exploitation. This transition is based on concepts such as the human right to food and food security. This written thesis explores the origins of these concepts, their scope, and their limitations. This is particularly relevant at a time when the La Guajira Corporation is about to grant approval to the mining company Best Coal Company to exploit millions of tons of coal in the Cañaverales Community. This thesis responds to the crisis and the difficulties of the energy transition from an epistemological point of view, through an analysis of archives and geopoetics.
The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine Leil Zahra Mortada This hybrid project interrogates the role of Arab cultural production—particularly Egyptian songs and films about the Aswan High Dam—in shaping public history and contributing to Nubian dispossession. Building on an ongoing collaboration with Nubian activists, one component of this project is a research article that critiques nationalism and encourages a reflection on the power of cultural memory to perpetuate erasure or resist it. The second component of this project is an interactive installation titled The Land, Not a Film By Youssef Chahine, which examines state propaganda and confronts the failures of Arab liberation movements, while centering a Nubian narrative and presents a speculative grassroots response.
Sacred War as the Russian National Idea Arina Pshenichnaya Despite the secular image often associated with modern nationalism, the Russian state’s sacralization of war reveals the enduring power of religious symbols, rituals, and narratives in shaping national identity. This written thesis examines how the concept of sacred war has become central to the Russian national idea through a fusion of Orthodox theology, state power, and militarized aesthetics. It focuses on two key phenomena: the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces, which presents war as a timeless and divine foundation of Russian identity; and front-line baptismal rituals, which transform soldiers into metaphysical agents of a civilizational mission. I analyze these practices through the writings of Aleksandr Dugin, whose metaphysical theory of civilizational conflict (noomachy) frames war not as a geopolitical act but as an ontological necessity. Dugin’s thought provides the ideological architecture through which Russia is positioned as a sacred civilization resisting Western nihilism, where war is not simply justified, but ritually and cosmologically required. In doing so, the study challenges secular readings of nationalism and highlights how authoritarian regimes can mobilize religious metaphysics to render war not only legitimate, but liturgically necessary.
A Baghdad Sin: Peregrinations in a Ruptured Geography Nabil Salih Aftermaths are deceptive. They obscure and conceal. This text, weaved along a photographic inquiry, troubles the notion of quietude. Together, they try to point to what lurks and haunts in the crevices of a wounded urbanscape. Twenty-one years after the invasion and occupation of Iraq, what litter and refuse remain in Baghdad today? In a time of rapid urban reconfiguration, what do the residual wartime rubble and the paraphernalia of security regimes tell us of the present, its politics, and relationship to the past? Put differently, what forces and apparatuses obstruct an Iraqi’s walk? Standing by the ruins is an old tradition dating to pre-Islamic poetry and the laments of ancient Mesopotamia. This essay follows suit but goes beyond. Its fragments narrate my auto-ethnographic and ethnographic walks and rides in Baghdad, where I investigate the constellations of rubble, the affects they discharge, and the memories they awaken in a given locale. Much ink and blood were spilled on the streets of Baghdad and world newspapers; this endeavor asks what Iraqis are left with today. The photographs aspire to a private archive for public loss, each being an obstinate interlocutor tested for what eludes vision and what is thought to be seen.
Prison Rule 113.11 and Fugitive Tools Mauro Tosarelli Prisons are not just spaces of deprivation and submission but environments where survival gives rise to new forms of expression and interaction. Despite spatial, social, and political constraints, prisoners cultivate communication networks through sound, imagery, and handmade tools. This installation reframes prison life by focusing on acquired culture and produced knowledge rather than narratives of marginalization. Prison Rule 113.11 highlights both clandestine tools of disobedience—tattoo guns, fishing lines, and makeshift speakers—and the coercion tools manufactured through prison labor. These objects are not merely functional but symbolic of defiance and connection. By amplifying sound rather than retreating into silence, prisoners reclaim their lives and assert their resistance to isolation. Positioning these tools as ‘fugitive objects’, this work reveals how incarcerated individuals are not merely passive subjects but a challenge to the very structures designed to contain them.Sponsored by: Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
Works by Hansen, Blume, Piazzolla, Dvořák, Wolf, Beach, Poulenc, Debussy, Franck, and more!
Friday, April 25, 2025 4–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
This concert is a part of the Conservatory’s Chamber Music Program, which all instrumental and studio faculty support through their generous coaching and mentorship. Please note that there will be a break in the program from approximately 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel.
SMOG: Kassie Krut, Le Bang, Pocket Merchant, Summer Fling
Friday, April 25, 2025 8:30 pm – 2 am
SMOG Kassie Krut, alumni of the much missed math-rock band Palm and of Bard College itself, return to campus for the first time since maybe the 10th anniversary of SMOG itself. Joining them will be the seven-piece funk-rock band summer fling, alumni band Pocket Merchant with their debut album, and Brooklyn punk trio Le Bang. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Bring your broken but beloved items for free fixings by volunteer coaches.
Saturday, April 26, 2025 10 am – 1 pm
Red Hook Community Center, 59 Fisk St, Red Hook A Repair Café is a free meeting place where people come together to repair "broken but beloved" things. We love keeping fixable things out of the landfill! We will have volunteers with repair skills ("Repair Coaches") in all kinds of fields ready to fix. Sometimes they can just provide advice, and sometimes more parts are needed than they have, but they have a good time trying!Sponsored by: Bard Office of Sustainability.
Tennis Courts The Women's Tennis team competes in a home match against Russell Sage College for Senior Day. Come out and support Women's Tennis!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Works by Bourgeois, Beethoven, Debussy, Bizet, Prokofiev, and Brahms.
Saturday, April 26, 2025 3–5 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
This concert is a part of the Conservatory’s Chamber Music Program, which all instrumental and studio faculty support through their generous coaching and mentorship.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel.
Studio Art Senior Project Exhibition Opening Reception
Fisher Studio Art Galleries Exhibition #2
Saturday, April 26, 2025 4–7 pm
Please join us to celebrate the thesis work of Mark Williams (in the Lobby Gallery) and Hollis Fluker (in the Center Gallery). For more information, call 845-758-7674, or e-mail pmead@bard.edu.
Saturday, April 26, 2025 – Sunday, April 27, 2025 7:30–8:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater A play performed, directed, and designed by students of the Musical Theater Performance Workshop. Runtime is approximately 105 minutes with no intermission.
This show contains material that might be triggering for some audience members. For more information, please contact dsytkowski@bard.edu.Sponsored by: Music Program.
Manor Let’s celebrate lesbian visibility week with DJ YaYa! There will be mocktails, prizes, and giveaways. Open to all identities! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Road, Barrytown Join us for services (Holy Communion) at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist (1114 River Road) in Barrytown. Rides to the church are provided every Sunday throughout the academic year. Please be at the Bard Chapel at 9:45 am to get picked up.
All are welcome!
Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world—anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world! For more information, call 203-858-8800, or e-mail mwilliams@bard.edu.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents Catholic Mass will be available at 11:30 in the Holy Innocents Chapel. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail jhess@bard.edu.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge A space for Anthro seniors to read SPROJ work, discuss, receive feedback, and for all Anthro majors to share any anthropological writing. There will be refreshments.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Coalition Of Christian Students: Quaker Meeting For Worship
Sunday, April 27, 2025 1–2 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents All are invited to join us as we gather in silence to seek the Inner-Light. No minister leads us in worship, no prayers or hymns are planned. We wait and listen for the Holy Spirit to speak in and through us. Both our silence and our spoken words bring us closer together and closer to God. Meeting will take place on the First Day of each week (Sunday) at the Chapel of the Holy Innocents from 1-2pm.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Saturday, April 26, 2025 – Sunday, April 27, 2025 7:30–8:30 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater A play performed, directed, and designed by students of the Musical Theater Performance Workshop. Runtime is approximately 105 minutes with no intermission.
This show contains material that might be triggering for some audience members. For more information, please contact dsytkowski@bard.edu.Sponsored by: Music Program.
Heaven in a Wild Flower: The Earthly and the Divine
A Graduate Conducting Degree Recital with The Orchestra Now
Sunday, April 27, 2025 2–3 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
The Degree Recital is the culminating project of the Graduate Conducting Program. Given during the second year of study, students have the opportunity to conduct the repertoire of their choice in this concert.
Join The Orchestra Now and the Graduate Conducting Program’s class of 2025 on a journey through the spiritual and the mundane, and their essential roles in the human experience. Featuring works from Mozart to Ginastera, this program explores the joy of life, the solemnity of death, and the hope for renewal.
Drop in help with citations, formatting & more for the home stretch
Sunday, April 27, 2025 3–5 pm
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor Students submitting their senior projects this semester are invited to drop by any or all of the library's Sproj Clinics for help with citations, formatting, & other last minute questions:
Wednesday, April 23, 3-5 pm
Friday April 25, 3-5 pm
Sunday April 27, 3-5 pm
Can't make it? Request an appointment or stop by the research help desk during reference hours.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail amurphy@bard.edu.
Tennis Courts The Women's Tennis team competes in a home match against Vassar College. Come out and support Women's Tennis!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
Works by Gliére, Strauss, Mozart, Chopin, and Hindemith.
Sunday, April 27, 2025 4 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Featuring Gabriele Zemaityte, Alberto Arias-Flores, Felix Johnson, Robert Santini, and Sabrina Schettler.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Learning about the history of Carnival, making wings and masks, and picking up costumes and tye-dye shirts! Presented by the Carribean Students Association.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life Buddhist Meditation Room Mondays: Guided Meditation 6-6:15 pm: Dharma words 6:15-6:45: Meditation 6:45-7 pm: Walking meditation and chanting Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and popcorn.
Thursdays: Silent Meditation 6-7 pm: Meditation in stillness Followed by a Sangha get-together with herbal tea and rice.
Join at any time and stay for any length of time.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
For more information, call 845-752-4619, or e-mail gaffron@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, April 28, 2025 1–2 pm
Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON MARCH 10 During this gentle Kripalu Yoga flow, students are invited to play with their edge, experiment with what works for their body, and make the practice their very own. In this yoga of compassion, we move through centering techniques and flow through postures, keeping an emphasis on the breath. Kripalu Yoga invites experimentation and inquiry into every movement and moment...come play!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Albee Basement (Chaplaincy Offices) Come by the Chaplaincy office (Albee Basement) to knit or learn how to knit! Crocheters and needleworkers are also invited. Materials including yarn and knitting needles are provided. Everyone is welcome.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge Join us for our bi-weekly meetings to learn about Caribbean culture through fun events, tough talks, collabs, and more! Dates: 2/10/25, 2/24/25, 3/10/25, 3,24/25, 4/7/25, 4/21/25, 5/5/25Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Stevenson Gym- Class Room 1 Come join us for our weekly juggling meeting on Mondays 7 pm - 9 pm. No experience required (We Will Teach You)!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
THINKING ABOUT STUDYING ABROAD? Come to this session to learn how it all works here at Bard!
Monday, April 28, 2025 12–1 pm
Campus Center, George Ball Lounge WILL DISCUSS: The Petition for Study Abroad process Bard Abroad programs (including Bard NYC) Tuition Exchanges (including a new one in Spain!) Non-Bard programs Summer programs Financial Aid/Scholarships Deadlines/Timelines COME SEE WHAT’S POSSIBLE!
SOPHOMORES: Want to study abroad for Spring 2026? You must attend a session and then meet with Director for Study Abroad and Student Exchange Trish Fleming asap (before Summer Break would be best). The deadlines for Spring come VERY early in the fall term, so you’ll want to be prepared.
CAN’T MAKE THIS SESSION? Trish Fleming will be tabling in the Campus Center on Friday, April 25 from noon to 3pm AND will offer another Study Abroad Info Session on Monday, April 28 from noon – 1pm.
BUSY ALL THOSE TIMES but STILL WANT TO MEET WITH TRISH BEFORE SUMMER? Complete THIS FORM and be on the lookout for an email from International Programs Assistant Dylan Short to schedule it.Sponsored by: Bard Abroad; Institute for International Liberal Education.
For more information, call 845-758-7080, or e-mail fleming@bard.edu.
An hour-long program of short performances by Bard Conservatory students.
Monday, April 28, 2025 12 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Sierra4Speaker: Discussing the Freshman Experience
Monday, April 28, 2025 1–2:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 CALLING ALL FRESHMEN: Come talk L&T, CitSci, FYSEM, Residential Life, and more. What has the freshman experience been like for you? What could be better? Come visit my table at the campus center and chat as a community about how the student government can enhance the freshman experience moving forward.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Massage is excellent for stress relief, to ease tense muscles, for headaches and backaches, and promotes a general sense of well-being.
Students: $80 for one hour, 30 minute sessions (students only) $45 Staff & Faculty: $100 for one hour
You can schedule a massage by texting or calling 845-702-6751. For more information visit www.gentlemountain.com. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Sottery Hall Bard College’s Campus Advocate Divine Perez-Ferreira will host regular office hours in Sottery 107 this semester on Tuesdays from 12–2 pm.
Divine works for the Family Services Center for Victim Safety and Support in Poughkeepsie and provides confidential services and information to anyone seeking assistance related to gender-based misconduct. All conversations will be private and one-on-one. You don't need an appointment, and you can come to Sottery anytime between 12–2 pm.
CVSS offers:
- Information about domestic violence and sexual assault prevention; - Advocates who are there to support and believe you; - Connection to counseling or support groups; - Information about police reporting and the criminal justice system; and - Help finding additional services for student/faculty needs.
If you would like to schedule a meeting in advance, you can reach out to Divine directly at dperez@familyservicesny.org or to the Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination at nondiscrimination@bard.edu with your request.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail baldasso@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Squash Courts This indoor cycle class focuses on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity, and recovery with an upbeat playlist to keep you moving! Many different techniques are used to work the legs, core, and arms making this class a full body workout! All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please bring sneakers (or clip-in cycling shoes), water, and a small towel.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sylee@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail pngo@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 TIME CHANGE FOR THE FOLLOWING DATE: April 22 6:30 p.m. instead of 5:30 p.m. Power Vinyasa focuses on building whole body strength and flexibility through a quick paced yoga flow. Incorporating lunges, squats, core work and balance postures, this challenging practice will make you sweat as you match breath and movement. Class will conclude with a wind-down to send you out the door feeling grounded. Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail sxiong@bard.edu.
Latin American Student Organization General Meeting
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 6–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 A space to connect with LASO student members, share your thoughts, and learn more about our organization.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Humanities, Room 302 Come join, Tuesdays at 7 pm, to chat and play all things Pokemon! Meetings will be in Olin 302.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Five Disruptive Principles in the Liberal Arts Series: Engagement
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 4–5:30 pm
Online Event 4 PM New York l 10 PM Vienna
AltLiberalArts' “Five Disruptive Principles in the Liberal Arts” series explores the core values that define an exceptional liberal arts education. The second event in the series will explore "Engagement." Carol Flint will moderate and Maureen T. Cannon and Maria Vesperi are panelists.
In student-driven learning environments, students aren’t treated as consumers of education, nor as vessels to be filled with information. Instead, they are expected to be active participants in their own academic journeys.
Carol Flint and Emmy Award winner who has written and produced over 400 hours of episodic prime time television, including the shows LA Law, ER, and the West Wing.
Maureen T. Cannon has practiced at both the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and the Washington, D.C. law firm of Williams and Connolly. In her own law practice, she has represented leading executives in the fields of higher education and professional sports.
Maria Vesperi is an anthropologist and a professor at the University of South Florida and then a journalist for the Tampa Bay Times. She then joined the New College of Florida Anthropology department and helped students establish The Catalyst, a student-led newspaper.
CCS Bard, Classroom 102 As part of a series co-presented by Forge Project and CCS Bard, artist Marilou Schultz will speak about her work on April 29 at 5 pm.
Forge Project Talks are part of a set of broader initiatives at Bard College that seek to place Native American and Indigenous Studies at the heart of curricular innovation, which includes programming organized by the Center for Indigenous Studies and the Rethinking Place initiative. These programs are made possible by the Forge Endowed Fund for Indigenous Studies at Bard College, generously supported by the Gochman Family Foundation along with George Soros and the Open Society Foundations.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Olin Language Center, Room 115 Do you know your community? If yes, this is the event for you! Test your knowledge for a chance to win a mystery prize...and snacks too!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Join us for an evening of a guided tango! Learn the principles of tango with our group.Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House The Food Pantry at Bard provides students, faculty and staff experiencing food insecurity with food and select personal care items, in a stigma-free environment. We have moved to Sawkill Coffee House to serve you better. For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellnesseducation@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 30 minutes of high-intensity interval training designed to boost your fitness, rocket your energy levels, and give you big results in the shortest amount of time using your own body weight. Complete body workout. Great way to start your day!Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-7531, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Center for Spiritual Life ( Lower level of Resnick Commons Village A ) Acupuncture treats: anxiety, depression, physical pain, acute and chronic conditions, and more. Schedule by texting/calling Phillip Brown at 845-943-7644
Please inquire about Health Insurances accepted For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail wellness@bard.edu.
Stevenson Athletic Center, Classroom 1 NO CLASS ON JANUARY 15 This class blends optimal alignment with the movement and grace of Vinyasa flow. Class includes seated, standing, and supine poses. The Vinyasa segment moves at a moderate pace allowing alignment cues to be woven in. A slower flow is accessible for newer students and allows more experienced students to refine their poses.Sponsored by: Bard Athletics.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail hooper@bard.edu.
Albee; Annex Basement (La Voz Magazine on google Maps) Are you interested in journalism, activism, and Latino immigrant issues? La Voz magazine seeks to empower the Spanish speaking communities of the Mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill regions with actionable information, ranging from topics such as health and education to environmental concerns and political issues. We welcome artists, writers and volunteers to become reporters for La Voz and help coordinate our events such as panel discussions on immigration, concerts, and film screenings.
We invite students of all skills and talents to come to our weekly meeting on Wednesdays, 1:30 to 2:30pm, at the La Voz office (Albee Annex Basement, in front of Henderson computer lab), or via Zoom in case of bad weather. Regularly held at the Kline College Room.
Albee The Coalition of Christian Students will offer an Ecumenical Bible Study for the Bard Community every Wednesday from 5 to 6 pm in the Chaplaincy Office (Albee Basement). Our goal is to find common ground and prayerfully study scripture together. All are welcome! For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 Come join us for our Film Making At Bard weekly meetings. Any ideas/scripts for films are more than welcome, otherwise, come ready to plan and discuss!Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Olin Language Center, Room 120 This is a support group open for people who are looking to learn more about addiction. Sponsored by: Student Activities.
Sawkill Coffee House Come join us for a low-stakes writing group to get the creative juices flowing! Different guided prompts and themes every week. For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Hessel Museum of Art The exhibitions on display, curated by 15 M.A. candidates at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, are the culmination of two years of research, writing, and conversation. The projects span from painting to video to site-specific commissions; from exhibitions that grapple with contemporary conditions to those that mine the past; from explorations of digital dystopias to those of underrepresented archives.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Leadership in a Time of Crisis: University Leaders Speak
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 9–10:30 am
Online Event 9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna
Universities as Frontline Responders, an initiative supported by OSUN and the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities, will host an important panel discussion focused on the leadership strategies that university presidents have employed to respond to various crises and discuss the lessons that can be drawn from this moment, as universities face wide ranging challenges. OSUN faculty, staff and students, are welcome.
Moderator: Jonathan Becker, Executive Vice President of Bard College
Speakers:
Margee Ensign, President of American University of Bulgaria Fadlo R. Khuri, President of American University of Beirut Dmytro Sherengovsky, Vice-Rector for Outreach and Social Engagement, Ukrainian Catholic University Kyaw Moe Tun, President of Parami University (Myanmar)
April 15th Application Deadline | Levy Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
The Levy Economics Institute Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy were created to offer students an alternative to mainstream programs in economics and finance. These innovative programs combine a rigorous course of study with the exceptional opportunity to participate in advanced economics research. Our application deadline is April 15th, 2025. Apply Now Sponsored by: Bard Graduate Programs; Levy Economics Institute; Levy Graduate Programs.
For more information, call 845-758-7776, or e-mail temerson@bard.edu.
CCE is excited to announce an open call for submissions from emerging artists to show their art to the local community. Artists are invited to create art to display in one of four art boxes located in publicly-accessible spaces around the Town and Village of Red Hook. Each unit is permanently mounted on a six-sided wooden pole at eye level to provide an intimate viewing opportunity for the visitor from Spring 2025 to Spring 2026. This year's theme is Flora and Fauna: Celebrating the Hudson Valley.
If you live, work or attend school in or around Red Hook, you are most likely artistically inspired by the natural beauty of the Hudson Valley and its rich biodiversity. This is an opportunity to share your work and inspiration with the community! Official opening is May 10.
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