Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Campus Center, Weis Cinema On Monday, March 2, at 2:30 p.m., in Weis Cinema, Carole Maso reads from her work. Presented by the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series, and introduced by Bard literature professor and novelist Bradford Morrow, the reading is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required.
A contemporary American novelist and essayist known for her experimental, poetic, and fragmentary narratives, Carole Maso is the award–winning author of ten books, beginning with the novel Ghost Dance, published in 1986. In 1990, Maso published The Art Lover, followed by AVA (1993), The American Woman in the Chinese Hat (1994), and a book a short stories, Aureole: An Erotic Sequence (1996). Defiance, perhaps her best-known work, appeared in 1998, depicting a Harvard professor who is sentenced to death for the murder of her two students. In 2000, Maso published the essay collection Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, and Moments of Desire and The Room Lit by Roses: A Journal of Pregnancy and Birth. She is also author of the biographical meditation Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo (2002) and the novel Mother and Child (2012). She currently is at work on a novel, The Bay of Angels.
Carole Maso is a professor of literary arts at Brown University, where she has been teaching since 1995. She has previously held positions at Columbia University, George Washington University, and Illinois State University. She is the recipient of many awards, including an NEA Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Award for fiction. She is the recipient of the 2018 Berlin Prize.
PRAISE FOR CAROLE MASO
“Maso often seems to be embroidering silk onto water; in the wake of her sensory pull, words thread along forceful yet unfixable patterns. . . . [An] extraordinary level of craft.” —New York Times
“Maso is a writer of such power and originality that the reader is carried away with her, far beyond the usual limits of the novel. . . . Maso’s voice is all her own: simultaneously cerebral and sensual, violently romantic, and insistently woman-centered.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Carole Maso is a writer who succeeds brilliantly at relaying the fragile notion of life’s enigma. . . . She tries to capture something of life’s true rhythms, to express the extreme, the fleeting, the fugitive states that hover at the outermost boundaries of speech.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Maso is not content to muse on the relationship between life and art; she brings to life a ‘bombardment of images and sounds,’ fashioning a pattern of astonishing complexity and beauty. The tough-mindedness, originality, and wit of her perceptions are intoxicating.” —Publishers WeeklySponsored by: Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
Faculty Panel Discussion on the Impacts of the Coronavirus
Monday, March 2, 2020 5:30–7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Helen Epstein, Felicia Keesing, Malia du Mont, and Shuo Zhang will discuss the impacts of the coronavirus with a student moderator.
The event will have a donation/information table. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
The Brant Foundation Lecture in Contemporary Art: Dr. Kobena Mercer - “Basquiat, Mapplethorpe and Other Bodies”
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 5–7 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema CCS Bard is proud to present the fourth annual lecture in The Brant Foundation Lecture in Contemporary Art series that will be given by Dr. Kobena Mercer. The lecture entitled “Basquiat, Mapplethorpe and Other Bodies” will be delivered on Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 5pm at Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center, Bard College.
Kobena Mercer’s work has significantly transformed current thinking about art and identity. Currently Professor in the History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University, Mercer has maintained generative relationships with artists throughout his career. In the early 1980s he appeared in a number of significant projects by Isaac Julien; in the early 1990s his words appeared in a seminal project by Glenn Ligon. All the while he was looking at the art of his moment, including Robert Mapplethorpe’s work, from new and challenging viewpoints. His work has been key to understanding the art of our time, and in this way he contributes to the tradition of the Brant lectures, which attempt to understand artmaking and critical thought as one overall project.
More info: ccs.bard.eduSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Blum Hall Doctoral students and faculty from the Electronic Arts program of Rensselaer Polytechnic present a concert of electronic, experimental, and live coded music.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.
Featuring work by: Sakinah Bennett Leah Fraser-Fallyn* Kai Hutton Leslie Morales* Katherine Skinner Samantha Tomecek
* Submitting work in fulfillment for moderating into Dance.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
Carriers of Meaning: Some Research Threads in The Night Visitors, a Film about Moths by Michael Gitlin
Michael Gitlin, Hunter College
Thursday, March 5, 2020 12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Filmmaker Michael Gitlin will talk about and show pieces of his work in progress, The Night Visitors, an experimental documentary that explores some aesthetic, theoretical, and social questions about moths.
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Anna Rosmus: The Nasty Girl, Film Screening and Discussion
Thursday, March 5, 2020 6–8 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Anna Rosmus, an author and researcher whose high school essay exposed the Nazi past of her home town, will speak about her research and experiences, the importance of historical truth, and the challenges of being labeled a traitor, following the showing of The Nasty Girl, a film based on Anna’s life. Cosponsored by Center for Civic Engagement, German Studies, Hannah Arendt Center, Historical Studies, Political Studies.Sponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Hate.
A Panel Discussion with Alums Megan Lynch and Aly Criscuolo
Thursday, March 5, 2020 7–8:30 pm
Fairfield University Library Auditorium Interested in landing a career in sustainability? Join us to hear from alums Megan Lynch—analyst at the Cadmus Group—and Alexandra Criscuolo—environmental sustainability manager at New York Road Runner—to learn about their career paths upon graduating from Fairfield University. Aly and Megan both leveraged their undergraduate education and work experiences to further their careers through attending Bard's Graduate Programs in Sustainability for their Master’s Degrees.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.
Featuring work by: Sakinah Bennett Leah Fraser-Fallyn* Kai Hutton Leslie Morales* Katherine Skinner Samantha Tomecek
* Submitting work in fulfillment for moderating into Dance.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Conceived and Directed by Stephanie Blythe with John Jarboe Conducted by James Bagwell Performed and written by the artists of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and The Orchestra Now
A devised opera celebrating the tribulations, glories, and loves of this tempestuous art form, featuring the music of Mozart, Strauss, Bizet, Copland, and Puccini. Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; The Orchestra Now.
Olin Humanities Building, Auditorium, and Language Center
Presented by the Council for Inclusive Excellence with the Center for Civic Engagement and Bard Early Colleges
The second annual Difference and Justice Symposium is a cross-network event that will host student presentations and conversations on the following topics:
10:00–11:00 am Session 1: Land and Cultural Spaces Opening Remarks by the Dean of Inclusive Excellence (Olin LC 115) Brave Spaces: National Coalition Building and Welcoming Diversity (Olin LC 115) The 16: A Short Documentary for a Greater Mondawmin (Olin LC 206)
11:15 am – 12:15 pm Session 2: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion How to be an Anti-Racist | Reading Group (Olin 301) Thread | Documentary Screening (Olin LC 115) Becoming a White Ally (Olin 302) The Inequities of Learning How to Swim (Olin 304) The Intersectionality of Identity and Opportunity in Modern America (Olin 308)
1:45–2:45 pm Session 3: Civic Engagement, Social Justice, and Experiential Learning We Have a Dream: Supporting Our Immigrant Community (Olin 204) Media and the Black Community (Olin LC 120) Queerness as Liberation: The Formation of the Intersectional Self and Queer Spaces Community (OLIN LC 210) Community Science and the Urban Ocean (Olin 205)
3:00–4:00 pm Decompression Session (Olin Auditorium) Sponsored by: Council for Inclusive Excellence.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Mathematics as a discipline has relied on symbolic abstractions and symbol manipulations for the last few centuries, shaped by static surfaces (such as paper) as the dominant medium of communication. Algebra as a tool to manipulate symbols has been widely used to deal with mathematical abstractions so far. In this work, I demonstrate how the embodied, constructionist, and explainable elements of basic mathematics curricula (such as counting, grouping, sets, shapes etc.) can be combined with symbolic algebra and programming concepts to create a novel and powerful drawing language that leverages embodied interactions to do mathematics.
Compared to symbolic abstractions, I will argue (via user studies with scientists and children) that this representation is more suitable for human perception and understanding of mathematics. I will describe three unique brushes (iconic element brush, list brush, function brush) and two key design ideas (fused representations and abstraction layers) that make up this embodied interaction framework.
Moving beyond paper and 2D screens, I will demonstrate how other embodied mediums of communication such as human gestures and body postures can be used to define programmable actions, and drive interactions for storytelling, presentations, and information visualization. All of such design principles can be utilized to redesign the "front-end" of mathematics and programming, taking into account embodied cognition and how humans learn and think. The implications of these frameworks in the context of Artificial Intelligence, mixed reality devices, and next generation computing will be discussed.
If time permits, I will also discuss how my liberal arts training at Bard prepared me to work in the uncomfortable zones of interdisciplinary research, combining a few seemingly disparate fields.
Nazmus Saquib designs interactive technology and wearable sensors, and is always looking for ways to merge powerful ideas from different fields. Significant projects include the invention of drawing-based mathematics, gesture-based storytelling in augmented reality, shoe-based sensor network helping social learning for children, and simulation software for particle accelerators. His works have been featured on NHK World TV and Edsurge and in the Boston Globe, and funded by the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative and Omidyar Network, among others, for startup ventures. Saquib studied physics and liberal arts at Bard College, scientific computing and applied math (MS) at the University of Utah, and media arts and sciences (MS) at the MIT Media Lab, and is currently a PhD candidate at MIT.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail [email protected].
Poetry / Infrastructure / Climate Change: Ecologies of War and Energy in the Middle East
Please join us for a roundtable featuring anthropologists Bridget Guarasci (Franklin and Marshall College) and Gökçe Günel (Rice University), moderated by Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins.
Short presentations by Professors Guarasci and Günel will be followed by discussion with the audience.
Friday, March 6, 2020 1:30–3 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102
Drawing on her ethnographic book project on the Iraqi-exile led, U.S. supported project to restore Iraq’s marshes, Professor Guarasci's paper will think about Iraq's marshes with Muzaffar al-Nawab, one of Iraq’s most beloved revolutionary poets. In the mid-twentieth century al-Nawab lived in the southern marshes of Iraq where he conducted educational outreach for a faction of the communist party. Al-Nawab’s poems feature meditations on nature, particularly on Iraq’s wetlands expanse and riverine ecology, its genealogical connection to civilizations past, and the relationship of this swampy environs to political movements in Iraq. Al-Nawab is sometimes called a “guerrilla” poet: his poems critique the corruption of authoritarian regimes and were banned in almost every Arab country. Her paper will show how his work insists on the connection between nature and revolution. In 2016 UNESCO declared Iraq’s marshes a World Heritage Site. Once drained by Saddam Hussein, Iraqi exiles in partnership with the US government subsequently re-flooded and conserved the marshes during the occupation. She will argue that twenty-first century environmental reformers insist on the apolitical nature of their work. Al-Nawab helps us see otherwise.
Drawing on her recently published book Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019), Professor Günel's paper will discuss how, in 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world’s first zero-carbon city: Masdar City. In Spaceship in the Desert Gökçe Günel examines the development and construction of Masdar City's renewable energy and clean technology infrastructures, providing an illuminating portrait of an international group of engineers, designers, and students who attempted to build a post-oil future in Abu Dhabi. While many of Masdar's initiatives—such as developing a new energy currency and a driverless rapid transit network—have stalled or not met expectations, Günel analyzes how these initiatives contributed to rendering the future a thinly disguised version of the fossil-fueled present. Spaceship in the Desert tells the story of Masdar, at once a “utopia” sponsored by the Emirati government, and a well-resourced company involving different actors who participated in the project, each with their own agendas and desires.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.
Featuring work by: Sakinah Bennett Leah Fraser-Fallyn* Kai Hutton Leslie Morales* Katherine Skinner Samantha Tomecek
* Submitting work in fulfillment for moderating into Dance.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.
Featuring work by: Sakinah Bennett Leah Fraser-Fallyn* Kai Hutton Leslie Morales* Katherine Skinner Samantha Tomecek
* Submitting work in fulfillment for moderating into Dance.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
Attendees will hear from a panel of current students and alumni of Bard's MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy. Our Panel of student/alum experts will discuss topics such as:
career outcomes -- how the MS degrees at CEP and MBA in Sustainability have led to impactful sustainability careers
the program experience -- highlights on courses and key features at Bard (including the NYCLab course and the CEP internship)
how to get the most of your graduate school journey -- career development + student engagement opportunities at Bard
how to make your application stand out -- tips on perfecting your application materials, advice on getting through the graduate school admissions process
In addition: Program Director Eban Goodstein will provide an overview of the program offerings at Bard CEP and the MBA in Sustainability.
Our Admissions staff will also be on hand to provide information on the application process and answer questions regarding:
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Conceived and Directed by Stephanie Blythe with John Jarboe Conducted by James Bagwell Performed and written by the artists of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and The Orchestra Now
A devised opera celebrating the tribulations, glories, and loves of this tempestuous art form, featuring the music of Mozart, Strauss, Bizet, Copland, and Puccini. Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; The Orchestra Now.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Master Class: Alexandrina Boyanova, violin and viola
Monday, March 9, 2020 7:30–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Alexandrina Boyanova is a mult-faceted violinist and violist, performer, teacher, and scholar. A passionate advocate for new music, her practice encompasses music of all eras, from the Renaissance to the present time. For the past several years, Alexandrina has been collaborating with Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer Tan Dun, performing as a featured soloist in the international premieres of his Water Passion in cities including Brussels, Shanghai, Athens, Philadelphia, and New York, in venues such as Bozar Hall, Shanghai Symphony Hall, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Temple of Dendur.
Alexandrina’s most recent project is focused on the extant violin works of Vasco Abadjiev, a formidable virtuoso whose life was dramatically influenced by the political climate in Europe during WWII. She performed Abadjiev’s 9 Caprices for Solo Violin and Sonata for Violin and Piano at the 50th Sofia Music Weeks Festival, and recorded these works for a CD, Tribute to Vasco Abadjiev, produced and released by the Bulgarian National Radio. Additionally, Alexandrina was the chief editor of the new editions of Abadjiev’s 9 Caprices and Sonata, published by IK Lyra.
A frequent performer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alexandrina has been featured in performances such as Arvo Pärt @ 80, Stockhausen’s complete KLANG cycle, Sara Berman’s Closet in The Women exhibition, and at TEDxMET with dancers from New York City Ballet. She has given recitals at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, and at the most prestigious music festivals in Italy and Bulgaria, exploring the vast repertoire for solo violin, which is a specialty of hers. For one of her solo violin projects she commissioned the piece Tanz.Tanz.—a contemporary take on Bach’s Ciaccona—by distinguished German composer Reiko Füting.
As a chamber musician, Alexandrina has performed with artists such as Antonio Meneses (Beaux Arts Trio), Bruno Giuranna, and Salvatore Accardo, and has been mentored by members of the Alexander, American, Orion, and Emerson String Quartets. She is the cofounder of TRAKT, a duo with cellist Issei Herr dedicated to performing innovative concert programs in New York City. TRAKT is often guest performing at the Met Museum’s Balcony Bar.
In theater, Alexandrina has curated the music for the Off-Broadway production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew at Baruch Performing Arts Center, where she had both an acting and playing role onstage. She was also the violin chair in the critically acclaimed production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, subsequently Off-Broadway.
Since her first appearance with the Orfei Chamber Orchestra at age 10, Alexandrina has been featured as a violin soloist with the Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra, Saint Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra Klassika, Lima Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra della Toscana, among others.
As a recording artist, Alexandrina can be heard on Bulgarian National Radio’s first recordings of Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VIII for solo violin, Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto d’Estío for violin and orchestra, and Vasco Abadjiev’s 9 Caprices for Solo Violin and Sonata for Violin and Piano.
Alexandrina recently completed her coctorate at The Juilliard School, with a dissertation on Salvatore Sciarrino’s Six Caprices for Solo Violin. She also holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, and has been mentored by Salvatore Accardo in Italy. The President of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Minister of Culture of Bulgaria have both awarded Honorary Diplomas of Recognition to Alexandrina. In her family lineage, Alexandrina is a third-generation violinist and a fourth-generation teacher. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Missing Stories: On Documenting and Reimagining the Borderlands
With Valeria Luiselli and Leo Heiblum, hosted by Dinaw Mengestu
Monday, March 9, 2020 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Valeria Luiselli and Leo Heiblum’s Missing Stories project will be presented alongside Jason De Leon’s Hostile Terrain 94. This collaborative conversation across two distinct works of art invites audience members to depart from dominant narratives and reimagine the border through a variety of media. Missing Stories is a sound piece that documents the history of violence against land and the female body in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It is a work of documentary fiction centered on forms of capital accumulation—mining, maquilas, surveillance technology, and immigration detention centers—that combines field recordings and stories from the U.S.-Mexico border. The particular section that will be shown at Bard is centered on the political and environmental violence generated by the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Hostile Terrain 94(HT94) is a prototype of a participatory political art installation organized by the Undocumented Migration Project that launches simultaneously in 150 locations around the globe in fall 2020. A 20-foot-long map of the Arizona/Mexico border is populated with 3,117 handwritten toe tags that contain information about those who have died while migrating, including name (if known), age, sex, cause of death, condition of body, and location. Some tags contain QR and augmented-reality codes that link to content related to migrant stories, and visuals connected to immigration that can be accessed via cell phone. HT94 is intended to memorialize and bear witness to the thousands who have died as a result of the U.S. Border Patrol’s immigration enforcement strategy known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.”Sponsored by: Fisher Center LAB; Written Arts Program; the MacArthur Foundation.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Style and Race: Medieval and African Art at the Trocadéro Palace
Risham Majeed, Ithaca College
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This presentation explores how medieval art, and particularly Romanesque art, came to be understood as “primitive” and “originary” through the museums of the Trocadéro (the Museum of Comparative Sculpture and the Museum of Ethnography). Theories of racial hierarchies were brought to bear on this “primitive” period in France to the extent that theoreticians’ engagements with the Romanesque furnished them with language and a model of comparison for the great variety of non-Western and mostly nonnaturalistic styles that were brought back to Europe from the future colonies during the same period .
This public lecture is being offered in association with the course Race and the Museum.Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Art History and the Visual Culture Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7163, or e-mail [email protected].
Climate and Periodization: Sir Orfeo in the Wolf Solar Minimum
Alexis Becker, Assistant Professor of English, Ithaca College
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 6–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 205 Bruce M.S. Campbell has recently suggested that climate history think of the period between the 1260s and 1470s as a distinct transitional period between the Medieval Climate Anomaly (or Medieval Warm Period) and the Little Ice Age. Alongside this re-periodization, I want to think about how climate can help literary scholars think about, and experiment with, our own often fraught periodizations. Near the beginning of what Campbell calls the Great Transition (a period that brought with it, in England, famine, plague, and a newly energized vernacular literature), was the Wolf Solar Minimum, an approximately seventy-year period of decreased solar activity. The Wolf Minimum period saw an uptick in certain kinds of literary productions in England, particularly Middle English versions and translations of romance. While the environment and textual production are intricately intertwined, I am not claiming that climate has a direct or immediately calculable effect on literature, literary production, or reading habits. But what happens when we use climatic periods, in addition to the other ideologically invested forms of chronological partitioning we currently use, to think with? What happens when we think about, for example, this period of decreased solar activity as a discrete period of literary production? Can it help us make sense of our own period of climate crises and cultural productions? As material for this experiment, I will be looking at a Wolf Solar Minimum text, one that was likely written during this period and which survives in a manuscript from this period. Sir Orfeo, a retelling of the Orpheus myth as an otherworld adventure with a happy ending, is in the Auchinleck Manuscript from around 1331. I will be reading this text—and thinking about its manuscript context—with attention to its climatic period.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Literature Program; Medieval Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7221, or e-mail [email protected].
The Da Capo Chamber Players Celebrate Bard! Works by Tan Dun, Joan Tower, Kyle Gann, John Halle, Corey Chang '19, Peri Mauer '76, and Elizabeth Brown
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 8–10 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building The Da Capo Chamber Players and guest artists perform works by Bard faculty, alumni/ae, and composers from the region. CELEBRATE BARD!
Tan Dun, In Distance (1987) Joan Tower, String Force (2010) Kyle Gann, Hovenweep (2000) John Halle, A Free People (2006) Corey Chang, ‘19, Foreshadowed Flashback (2017) Peri Mauer, ‘76, Pixeliance (2011/2017) Elizabeth Brown, Liguria (1999)
Da Capo Chamber PlayersGuest Artists Curtis Macomber, violin Margaret Kampmeier, piano Chris Gross, cello Sara Cutler, harp Patricia Spencer, flute Jon Clancy, percussion Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet John Halle, narrator
Elizabeth Brown, Liguria Corey Chang,Foreshadowed Flashback John Halle, A Free People Kyle Gann, Hovenweep Joan Tower, String Force Tan Dun, In Distance Peri Mauer, Pixeliance Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
POSTPONED: Market Dominance or Climate Justice? Warren versus Sanders on the Green New Deal
Michael Menser, CUNY Brooklyn College
Thursday, March 12, 2020 4:45–6:15 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 The Green New Deal changed the contemporary political debate. But what kind of philosophy grounds it? Never before has a mainstream policy framework treated the climate crisis as a global and even existential threat requiring a national commitment not seen since the Great Depression and WWII. Promoted by the Sunrise Movement and officially formulated by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Markey, the GND has since evolved, with many candidates having their own versions, including Senators Sanders and Warren. While both have game-changing and justice-enhancing elements in their proposals, the differences are striking and illuminate a major debate about the role of the public in this time of system change. In this presentation, I will look at their proposals from the normative frameworks of economic democracy and climate justice, and argue that one of these views has a much better chance of promoting climate justice than the other.Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7280, or e-mail [email protected].
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.
Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.
Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.
Open to everyone. Free training is available.
If interested, please contact: Lindsey Drew Bard Water Lab Manager [email protected]Sponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Leila Makdisi ’09, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
Friday, March 13, 2020 12–1 pm
Hegeman 107 Leila Makdisi ’09 will discuss how scientific practices and thought are applied in informal settings through her work as an educator at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail [email protected].
CANCELED: Núcleo: A Reading and Performance by Cecilia Vicuña
Friday, March 13, 2020 5–7 pm
Bard Hall Artist-poet Cecilia Vicuña creates songs, performances, installations, paintings, films, written works, books, lectures, and sculptures. Born in Chile, profoundly impacted by the encouraging time of Allende, the subsequent terrors of Pinochet, and decades lived in exile, Vicuña makes work that is always attentive to ethics, the earth, and history. Her improvisatory, participatory performances, often associated with site-specific installations, emphasize the collective nature of action and creativity to bring forth justice, balance, and the transformation of the world. Vicuña will read from her latest book, Núcleo.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Human Rights Program; John Ashbery Poetry Series; LAIS Program; Spanish Studies; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7382, or e-mail [email protected].
Postponed: Celebrity Chef Event Featuring Food Network Chef Aarti Sequeira
Friday, March 13, 2020 5–8 pm
Kline Commons, Campus Center MPR Bard Dining and BardEATS invite you to join us on March 13 for our celebrity chef event featuring Food Network Star winner Chef Aarti Sequeira! Chef Aarti will be in Kline Commons from 5pm to 6pm, where we will feature recipes from her cookbook Aarti Paarti!
Chef Aarti will then be hosting two plant-based teaching kitchen sessions in the MPR beginning at 7pm. There will be food samples, prizes, take-a-ways, cookbook signing, and meet and greet photo ops! Please register HERE if you would like to cook with Chef Aarti. Hands-on cooking slots are limited but there will be plenty of seating for those who would like to observe and learn and be part of this exciting event! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
BY INVITATION ONLY: Complete Études for Piano by Alexander Scriabin: Sung-Soo Cho, piano
Saturday, March 14, 2020 1–2:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building The recital will be live-streamed. Go to the Conservatory home page and scroll to bottom right. Click on YouTube. JOIN THE CONVERSATION Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTubeSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
CANCELED - Visiting Artist Concert: Bent Duo—Piano, Percussion, and Electronics
Saturday, March 14, 2020 7:30–9:30 pm
Blum Hall Bent Duo, a New York–based piano and percussion duo of David Friend and Bill Solomon, perform new work by Bard electronic music faculty Matt Sargent and Sarah Hennies, as well as a premiere of a new composition by Bard senior Meghan Mercier.
David Friend has been hailed as “astonishingly compelling” (Washington Post), “spooky precision” (London Times), and “[one] of the finest, busiest pianists active in New York’s contemporary-classical scene” (New York Times). Bill Solomon has been called a “fine soloist” (New York Times) and “a stand out” (Boston Globe).
This concert is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
CANCELED: Speaker Series on Disability: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Disability: Implications for Disabled Black Women
Angel Love Miles, Ph.D., Healthcare/Home and Community Based Services Policy Analyst, Access Living
Monday, March 16, 2020 4:45–6 pm
RKC - Bito Auditorium Although African Americans have one of the highest rates of disability, there is a dearth of research describing their social and economic experiences. The research that does exist suggests that African American women with disabilities face multiple barriers to resources and equitable treatment in society. In a mixed-methods study of the barriers and facilitators to homeownership for African American women with physical disabilities, self-concept emerged among the primary themes. This presentation will explore the intersections of race, class, gender, and disability by discussing how participants in the study perceived themselves and negotiated how they were perceived by others as multiply marginalized women.
All are welcome!
Bard is committed to making every effort to provide reasonable accommodations for accessibility needs. RKC Bito Auditorium is an accessible, ground level space. For other accessibility needs or for more information about this event's location, please contact the Disability Speaker Series Coordinator, Michael Sadowski, by March 10: [email protected]; 845-758-7112. Sponsored by: Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7122, or e-mail [email protected].
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
CANCELED Translation as Pedagogy: A Manifesto for Reading
Presentation and Discussion by Sophie Seita, Boston University
Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6–7:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 “To translate is to surpass the source”— these are words Sophie Seita puts into the mouth of a character in her performance My Little Enlightenment Plays, a project in which she rewrites, translates, responds to, and, one could say, corresponds with Enlightenment thinkers and writers and other historical source materials.
In her talk, Seita will propose an expansive understanding of translation: translation as an inventive, generative, and often collaborative practice; translation as a form of writing-as-reading; and translational reading as a pedagogical tool.
She writes: “Like a manifesto, I see translation as a deeply pedagogical form. In my teaching, I promote what I would call ‘translational reading,’ which tries to understand a text by doing something with it. Following Sara Ahmed’s terminology in her manifesto‘Living a Feminist Life,’ translation would have to be in my ‘feminist survival kit.’ Translation, for me, then encompasses the moving of matter from one place to another. This might mean transforming a word, sentence, image, idea, or material (like paper, Tippex, or clay) into another form, genre, medium, or context.”
Seita will discuss these theoretical ideas with a view to how they might work in practice in the context of her own translational projects, from text- and performance-based work to pedagogical experiments.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7363, or e-mail [email protected].
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
CANCELED Hear, Here? The What and Where of Northern Saw-whet Owl Auditory Processing
Megan Gall, Vassar College
Thursday, March 19, 2020 12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium You’ve probably heard that owls have fantastic hearing, both in terms of detecting and localizing sound. However, we have surprisingly little comparative data on owl hearing, with most of the information coming from barn owls. In this talk I will discuss our recent work on the (very cute and fairly small) Northern saw-whet owl (Aegolius acadicus). We’ll cover the morphological specializations of saw-whet ears; their ability to detect and process sounds that differ in frequency, rate, and onset; and how the location of the sound source in space affects their auditory sensitivity. Come learn about all the auditory specializations these little owls have that allow them to hunt in complete darkness!Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail [email protected].
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Maria Sachiko Cecire, Associate Professor of Literature and Director of the Center for Experimental Humanities Gabriel Perron, Assistant Professor of Biology
This session will talk faculty through the collection of low-tech assignment ideas that the Center for Experimental Humanities has developed for use during the COVID-19 pandemic, available here: eh.bard.edu/covid-19. The session will begin with an introduction to the collection, which includes asynchronous and synchronous assignments that students can do on their own, in groups, and with members of their local communities as part of courses in a wide array of fields and subject areas. Professors Cecire and Perron will then hold a Q&A to help colleagues think through how they might integrate, modify, and contextualize such assignments in their various courses.Sponsored by: Center for Faculty and Curricular Development.
For more information, call 718-440-2528, or e-mail [email protected].
CANCELED Institute of Advanced Theology Spring Lecture Series: Salome
Friday, March 20, 2020 11:50 am – 1 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The figure of Salome, not the person but an artifact composed from various sources, has been prominent since Oscar Wilde’s play, Richard Strauss’s opera, and many cinematic representations. The sources drawn upon—principally the New Testament and the historian Josephus, but also Byzantine and Renaissance painting—need to be understood in their own terms for the modern amalgam to be appreciated.
The Institute of Advanced Theology Spring 2020 Lecture Series will occur March 20 and 27; April 3, 10, and 17; and May 1 and 8.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hegeman 107 The stories scientists tell are not just mythologies or poorly researched histories to be judged inferior by historians of science and brushed aside as Whiggish accounts of the scientific past. These myth-histories are a unique species of narrative, fundamentally different from scholarly historical accounts. In the concept of myth-history, the hyphen is critical, for it bridges narrative modes. In communicating their science, scientists tend to use these hybrid narratives for important rhetorical purposes. Myth-histories, like those you might find in textbooks and popularizations of science, employ history as a rough scaffolding. They also filter out unwanted historical details, emphasize mythological tropes, and perpetuate essentialist images of ideal science built upon the shoulders of scientific heroes. The stories scientists tell undoubtedly deliver value, coherence, and inspiration to scientific communities but they also bear unintended consequences that must be brought to light.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail [email protected].
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of Graduate Programs in Sustainability at Bard College, will outline career strategies for both soon-to-be and recent college graduates, and for professionals looking to make a move. Goodstein will provide participants with a concrete job-search strategy, discuss what the current political climate means for careers in social and environmental sustainability, and also field questions in a live, interactive webinar.
Webinar link will be sent upon completion of registration.
<<<<< REGISTER HERE >>>>>Sponsored by: Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Bard MBA in Sustainability.
Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Collection
Runs through Monday, March 30, 2020
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Abolition/Resistance offers a chance to view rare and extraordinary works on slavery and racial oppression: first editions of the Narratives of Douglass, Ball, and Equiano, Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, stunning images from William Still’s Underground Rail Road. This exhibit also includes works by women abolitionists, Stowe, Child, and Grimké along with Black Power movement luminaries: Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Curated by Kristin Waters '73.
Please join us for the opening reception on Tuesday, February 18, 4:00-5:30pm, Library LobbySponsored by: Libraries at Bard College.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Campus Center, Weis Cinema On Monday, March 2, at 2:30 p.m., in Weis Cinema, Carole Maso reads from her work. Presented by the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series, and introduced by Bard literature professor and novelist Bradford Morrow, the reading is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required.
A contemporary American novelist and essayist known for her experimental, poetic, and fragmentary narratives, Carole Maso is the award–winning author of ten books, beginning with the novel Ghost Dance, published in 1986. In 1990, Maso published The Art Lover, followed by AVA (1993), The American Woman in the Chinese Hat (1994), and a book a short stories, Aureole: An Erotic Sequence (1996). Defiance, perhaps her best-known work, appeared in 1998, depicting a Harvard professor who is sentenced to death for the murder of her two students. In 2000, Maso published the essay collection Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, and Moments of Desire and The Room Lit by Roses: A Journal of Pregnancy and Birth. She is also author of the biographical meditation Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo (2002) and the novel Mother and Child (2012). She currently is at work on a novel, The Bay of Angels.
Carole Maso is a professor of literary arts at Brown University, where she has been teaching since 1995. She has previously held positions at Columbia University, George Washington University, and Illinois State University. She is the recipient of many awards, including an NEA Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Award for fiction. She is the recipient of the 2018 Berlin Prize.
PRAISE FOR CAROLE MASO
“Maso often seems to be embroidering silk onto water; in the wake of her sensory pull, words thread along forceful yet unfixable patterns. . . . [An] extraordinary level of craft.” —New York Times
“Maso is a writer of such power and originality that the reader is carried away with her, far beyond the usual limits of the novel. . . . Maso’s voice is all her own: simultaneously cerebral and sensual, violently romantic, and insistently woman-centered.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Carole Maso is a writer who succeeds brilliantly at relaying the fragile notion of life’s enigma. . . . She tries to capture something of life’s true rhythms, to express the extreme, the fleeting, the fugitive states that hover at the outermost boundaries of speech.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Maso is not content to muse on the relationship between life and art; she brings to life a ‘bombardment of images and sounds,’ fashioning a pattern of astonishing complexity and beauty. The tough-mindedness, originality, and wit of her perceptions are intoxicating.” —Publishers WeeklySponsored by: Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series.
For more information, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].
Faculty Panel Discussion on the Impacts of the Coronavirus
Monday, March 2, 2020 5:30–7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Helen Epstein, Felicia Keesing, Malia du Mont, and Shuo Zhang will discuss the impacts of the coronavirus with a student moderator.
The event will have a donation/information table. Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
The Brant Foundation Lecture in Contemporary Art: Dr. Kobena Mercer - “Basquiat, Mapplethorpe and Other Bodies”
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 5–7 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema CCS Bard is proud to present the fourth annual lecture in The Brant Foundation Lecture in Contemporary Art series that will be given by Dr. Kobena Mercer. The lecture entitled “Basquiat, Mapplethorpe and Other Bodies” will be delivered on Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 5pm at Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center, Bard College.
Kobena Mercer’s work has significantly transformed current thinking about art and identity. Currently Professor in the History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University, Mercer has maintained generative relationships with artists throughout his career. In the early 1980s he appeared in a number of significant projects by Isaac Julien; in the early 1990s his words appeared in a seminal project by Glenn Ligon. All the while he was looking at the art of his moment, including Robert Mapplethorpe’s work, from new and challenging viewpoints. His work has been key to understanding the art of our time, and in this way he contributes to the tradition of the Brant lectures, which attempt to understand artmaking and critical thought as one overall project.
More info: ccs.bard.eduSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Blum Hall Doctoral students and faculty from the Electronic Arts program of Rensselaer Polytechnic present a concert of electronic, experimental, and live coded music.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.
Featuring work by: Sakinah Bennett Leah Fraser-Fallyn* Kai Hutton Leslie Morales* Katherine Skinner Samantha Tomecek
* Submitting work in fulfillment for moderating into Dance.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
Carriers of Meaning: Some Research Threads in The Night Visitors, a Film about Moths by Michael Gitlin
Michael Gitlin, Hunter College
Thursday, March 5, 2020 12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Filmmaker Michael Gitlin will talk about and show pieces of his work in progress, The Night Visitors, an experimental documentary that explores some aesthetic, theoretical, and social questions about moths.
Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Anna Rosmus: The Nasty Girl, Film Screening and Discussion
Thursday, March 5, 2020 6–8 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Anna Rosmus, an author and researcher whose high school essay exposed the Nazi past of her home town, will speak about her research and experiences, the importance of historical truth, and the challenges of being labeled a traitor, following the showing of The Nasty Girl, a film based on Anna’s life. Cosponsored by Center for Civic Engagement, German Studies, Hannah Arendt Center, Historical Studies, Political Studies.Sponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Hate.
A Panel Discussion with Alums Megan Lynch and Aly Criscuolo
Thursday, March 5, 2020 7–8:30 pm
Fairfield University Library Auditorium Interested in landing a career in sustainability? Join us to hear from alums Megan Lynch—analyst at the Cadmus Group—and Alexandra Criscuolo—environmental sustainability manager at New York Road Runner—to learn about their career paths upon graduating from Fairfield University. Aly and Megan both leveraged their undergraduate education and work experiences to further their careers through attending Bard's Graduate Programs in Sustainability for their Master’s Degrees.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.
Featuring work by: Sakinah Bennett Leah Fraser-Fallyn* Kai Hutton Leslie Morales* Katherine Skinner Samantha Tomecek
* Submitting work in fulfillment for moderating into Dance.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Conceived and Directed by Stephanie Blythe with John Jarboe Conducted by James Bagwell Performed and written by the artists of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and The Orchestra Now
A devised opera celebrating the tribulations, glories, and loves of this tempestuous art form, featuring the music of Mozart, Strauss, Bizet, Copland, and Puccini. Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; The Orchestra Now.
Olin Humanities Building, Auditorium, and Language Center
Presented by the Council for Inclusive Excellence with the Center for Civic Engagement and Bard Early Colleges
The second annual Difference and Justice Symposium is a cross-network event that will host student presentations and conversations on the following topics:
10:00–11:00 am Session 1: Land and Cultural Spaces Opening Remarks by the Dean of Inclusive Excellence (Olin LC 115) Brave Spaces: National Coalition Building and Welcoming Diversity (Olin LC 115) The 16: A Short Documentary for a Greater Mondawmin (Olin LC 206)
11:15 am – 12:15 pm Session 2: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion How to be an Anti-Racist | Reading Group (Olin 301) Thread | Documentary Screening (Olin LC 115) Becoming a White Ally (Olin 302) The Inequities of Learning How to Swim (Olin 304) The Intersectionality of Identity and Opportunity in Modern America (Olin 308)
1:45–2:45 pm Session 3: Civic Engagement, Social Justice, and Experiential Learning We Have a Dream: Supporting Our Immigrant Community (Olin 204) Media and the Black Community (Olin LC 120) Queerness as Liberation: The Formation of the Intersectional Self and Queer Spaces Community (OLIN LC 210) Community Science and the Urban Ocean (Olin 205)
3:00–4:00 pm Decompression Session (Olin Auditorium) Sponsored by: Council for Inclusive Excellence.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Mathematics as a discipline has relied on symbolic abstractions and symbol manipulations for the last few centuries, shaped by static surfaces (such as paper) as the dominant medium of communication. Algebra as a tool to manipulate symbols has been widely used to deal with mathematical abstractions so far. In this work, I demonstrate how the embodied, constructionist, and explainable elements of basic mathematics curricula (such as counting, grouping, sets, shapes etc.) can be combined with symbolic algebra and programming concepts to create a novel and powerful drawing language that leverages embodied interactions to do mathematics.
Compared to symbolic abstractions, I will argue (via user studies with scientists and children) that this representation is more suitable for human perception and understanding of mathematics. I will describe three unique brushes (iconic element brush, list brush, function brush) and two key design ideas (fused representations and abstraction layers) that make up this embodied interaction framework.
Moving beyond paper and 2D screens, I will demonstrate how other embodied mediums of communication such as human gestures and body postures can be used to define programmable actions, and drive interactions for storytelling, presentations, and information visualization. All of such design principles can be utilized to redesign the "front-end" of mathematics and programming, taking into account embodied cognition and how humans learn and think. The implications of these frameworks in the context of Artificial Intelligence, mixed reality devices, and next generation computing will be discussed.
If time permits, I will also discuss how my liberal arts training at Bard prepared me to work in the uncomfortable zones of interdisciplinary research, combining a few seemingly disparate fields.
Nazmus Saquib designs interactive technology and wearable sensors, and is always looking for ways to merge powerful ideas from different fields. Significant projects include the invention of drawing-based mathematics, gesture-based storytelling in augmented reality, shoe-based sensor network helping social learning for children, and simulation software for particle accelerators. His works have been featured on NHK World TV and Edsurge and in the Boston Globe, and funded by the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative and Omidyar Network, among others, for startup ventures. Saquib studied physics and liberal arts at Bard College, scientific computing and applied math (MS) at the University of Utah, and media arts and sciences (MS) at the MIT Media Lab, and is currently a PhD candidate at MIT.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail [email protected].
Poetry / Infrastructure / Climate Change: Ecologies of War and Energy in the Middle East
Please join us for a roundtable featuring anthropologists Bridget Guarasci (Franklin and Marshall College) and Gökçe Günel (Rice University), moderated by Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins.
Short presentations by Professors Guarasci and Günel will be followed by discussion with the audience.
Friday, March 6, 2020 1:30–3 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102
Drawing on her ethnographic book project on the Iraqi-exile led, U.S. supported project to restore Iraq’s marshes, Professor Guarasci's paper will think about Iraq's marshes with Muzaffar al-Nawab, one of Iraq’s most beloved revolutionary poets. In the mid-twentieth century al-Nawab lived in the southern marshes of Iraq where he conducted educational outreach for a faction of the communist party. Al-Nawab’s poems feature meditations on nature, particularly on Iraq’s wetlands expanse and riverine ecology, its genealogical connection to civilizations past, and the relationship of this swampy environs to political movements in Iraq. Al-Nawab is sometimes called a “guerrilla” poet: his poems critique the corruption of authoritarian regimes and were banned in almost every Arab country. Her paper will show how his work insists on the connection between nature and revolution. In 2016 UNESCO declared Iraq’s marshes a World Heritage Site. Once drained by Saddam Hussein, Iraqi exiles in partnership with the US government subsequently re-flooded and conserved the marshes during the occupation. She will argue that twenty-first century environmental reformers insist on the apolitical nature of their work. Al-Nawab helps us see otherwise.
Drawing on her recently published book Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019), Professor Günel's paper will discuss how, in 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world’s first zero-carbon city: Masdar City. In Spaceship in the Desert Gökçe Günel examines the development and construction of Masdar City's renewable energy and clean technology infrastructures, providing an illuminating portrait of an international group of engineers, designers, and students who attempted to build a post-oil future in Abu Dhabi. While many of Masdar's initiatives—such as developing a new energy currency and a driverless rapid transit network—have stalled or not met expectations, Günel analyzes how these initiatives contributed to rendering the future a thinly disguised version of the fossil-fueled present. Spaceship in the Desert tells the story of Masdar, at once a “utopia” sponsored by the Emirati government, and a well-resourced company involving different actors who participated in the project, each with their own agendas and desires.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.
Featuring work by: Sakinah Bennett Leah Fraser-Fallyn* Kai Hutton Leslie Morales* Katherine Skinner Samantha Tomecek
* Submitting work in fulfillment for moderating into Dance.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Choreographed and performed by Bard students, assisted by professional lighting and costume designers, this concert gives students a chance to explore new territory in dance making. Some dances are presented in partial fulfillment for acceptance into the Dance Program.
Featuring work by: Sakinah Bennett Leah Fraser-Fallyn* Kai Hutton Leslie Morales* Katherine Skinner Samantha Tomecek
* Submitting work in fulfillment for moderating into Dance.Sponsored by: Dance Program.
Attendees will hear from a panel of current students and alumni of Bard's MBA in Sustainability and Center for Environmental Policy. Our Panel of student/alum experts will discuss topics such as:
career outcomes -- how the MS degrees at CEP and MBA in Sustainability have led to impactful sustainability careers
the program experience -- highlights on courses and key features at Bard (including the NYCLab course and the CEP internship)
how to get the most of your graduate school journey -- career development + student engagement opportunities at Bard
how to make your application stand out -- tips on perfecting your application materials, advice on getting through the graduate school admissions process
In addition: Program Director Eban Goodstein will provide an overview of the program offerings at Bard CEP and the MBA in Sustainability.
Our Admissions staff will also be on hand to provide information on the application process and answer questions regarding:
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Conceived and Directed by Stephanie Blythe with John Jarboe Conducted by James Bagwell Performed and written by the artists of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and The Orchestra Now
A devised opera celebrating the tribulations, glories, and loves of this tempestuous art form, featuring the music of Mozart, Strauss, Bizet, Copland, and Puccini. Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program; The Orchestra Now.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
Master Class: Alexandrina Boyanova, violin and viola
Monday, March 9, 2020 7:30–9 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building Alexandrina Boyanova is a mult-faceted violinist and violist, performer, teacher, and scholar. A passionate advocate for new music, her practice encompasses music of all eras, from the Renaissance to the present time. For the past several years, Alexandrina has been collaborating with Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer Tan Dun, performing as a featured soloist in the international premieres of his Water Passion in cities including Brussels, Shanghai, Athens, Philadelphia, and New York, in venues such as Bozar Hall, Shanghai Symphony Hall, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Temple of Dendur.
Alexandrina’s most recent project is focused on the extant violin works of Vasco Abadjiev, a formidable virtuoso whose life was dramatically influenced by the political climate in Europe during WWII. She performed Abadjiev’s 9 Caprices for Solo Violin and Sonata for Violin and Piano at the 50th Sofia Music Weeks Festival, and recorded these works for a CD, Tribute to Vasco Abadjiev, produced and released by the Bulgarian National Radio. Additionally, Alexandrina was the chief editor of the new editions of Abadjiev’s 9 Caprices and Sonata, published by IK Lyra.
A frequent performer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alexandrina has been featured in performances such as Arvo Pärt @ 80, Stockhausen’s complete KLANG cycle, Sara Berman’s Closet in The Women exhibition, and at TEDxMET with dancers from New York City Ballet. She has given recitals at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, and at the most prestigious music festivals in Italy and Bulgaria, exploring the vast repertoire for solo violin, which is a specialty of hers. For one of her solo violin projects she commissioned the piece Tanz.Tanz.—a contemporary take on Bach’s Ciaccona—by distinguished German composer Reiko Füting.
As a chamber musician, Alexandrina has performed with artists such as Antonio Meneses (Beaux Arts Trio), Bruno Giuranna, and Salvatore Accardo, and has been mentored by members of the Alexander, American, Orion, and Emerson String Quartets. She is the cofounder of TRAKT, a duo with cellist Issei Herr dedicated to performing innovative concert programs in New York City. TRAKT is often guest performing at the Met Museum’s Balcony Bar.
In theater, Alexandrina has curated the music for the Off-Broadway production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew at Baruch Performing Arts Center, where she had both an acting and playing role onstage. She was also the violin chair in the critically acclaimed production of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, subsequently Off-Broadway.
Since her first appearance with the Orfei Chamber Orchestra at age 10, Alexandrina has been featured as a violin soloist with the Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra, Saint Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra Klassika, Lima Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra della Toscana, among others.
As a recording artist, Alexandrina can be heard on Bulgarian National Radio’s first recordings of Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VIII for solo violin, Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto d’Estío for violin and orchestra, and Vasco Abadjiev’s 9 Caprices for Solo Violin and Sonata for Violin and Piano.
Alexandrina recently completed her coctorate at The Juilliard School, with a dissertation on Salvatore Sciarrino’s Six Caprices for Solo Violin. She also holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, and has been mentored by Salvatore Accardo in Italy. The President of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Minister of Culture of Bulgaria have both awarded Honorary Diplomas of Recognition to Alexandrina. In her family lineage, Alexandrina is a third-generation violinist and a fourth-generation teacher. Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Missing Stories: On Documenting and Reimagining the Borderlands
With Valeria Luiselli and Leo Heiblum, hosted by Dinaw Mengestu
Monday, March 9, 2020 7:30 pm
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Valeria Luiselli and Leo Heiblum’s Missing Stories project will be presented alongside Jason De Leon’s Hostile Terrain 94. This collaborative conversation across two distinct works of art invites audience members to depart from dominant narratives and reimagine the border through a variety of media. Missing Stories is a sound piece that documents the history of violence against land and the female body in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It is a work of documentary fiction centered on forms of capital accumulation—mining, maquilas, surveillance technology, and immigration detention centers—that combines field recordings and stories from the U.S.-Mexico border. The particular section that will be shown at Bard is centered on the political and environmental violence generated by the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Hostile Terrain 94(HT94) is a prototype of a participatory political art installation organized by the Undocumented Migration Project that launches simultaneously in 150 locations around the globe in fall 2020. A 20-foot-long map of the Arizona/Mexico border is populated with 3,117 handwritten toe tags that contain information about those who have died while migrating, including name (if known), age, sex, cause of death, condition of body, and location. Some tags contain QR and augmented-reality codes that link to content related to migrant stories, and visuals connected to immigration that can be accessed via cell phone. HT94 is intended to memorialize and bear witness to the thousands who have died as a result of the U.S. Border Patrol’s immigration enforcement strategy known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.”Sponsored by: Fisher Center LAB; Written Arts Program; the MacArthur Foundation.
Style and Race: Medieval and African Art at the Trocadéro Palace
Risham Majeed, Ithaca College
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This presentation explores how medieval art, and particularly Romanesque art, came to be understood as “primitive” and “originary” through the museums of the Trocadéro (the Museum of Comparative Sculpture and the Museum of Ethnography). Theories of racial hierarchies were brought to bear on this “primitive” period in France to the extent that theoreticians’ engagements with the Romanesque furnished them with language and a model of comparison for the great variety of non-Western and mostly nonnaturalistic styles that were brought back to Europe from the future colonies during the same period .
This public lecture is being offered in association with the course Race and the Museum.Sponsored by: Art History and Visual Culture Program; Art History and the Visual Culture Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7163, or e-mail [email protected].
Climate and Periodization: Sir Orfeo in the Wolf Solar Minimum
Alexis Becker, Assistant Professor of English, Ithaca College
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 6–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 205 Bruce M.S. Campbell has recently suggested that climate history think of the period between the 1260s and 1470s as a distinct transitional period between the Medieval Climate Anomaly (or Medieval Warm Period) and the Little Ice Age. Alongside this re-periodization, I want to think about how climate can help literary scholars think about, and experiment with, our own often fraught periodizations. Near the beginning of what Campbell calls the Great Transition (a period that brought with it, in England, famine, plague, and a newly energized vernacular literature), was the Wolf Solar Minimum, an approximately seventy-year period of decreased solar activity. The Wolf Minimum period saw an uptick in certain kinds of literary productions in England, particularly Middle English versions and translations of romance. While the environment and textual production are intricately intertwined, I am not claiming that climate has a direct or immediately calculable effect on literature, literary production, or reading habits. But what happens when we use climatic periods, in addition to the other ideologically invested forms of chronological partitioning we currently use, to think with? What happens when we think about, for example, this period of decreased solar activity as a discrete period of literary production? Can it help us make sense of our own period of climate crises and cultural productions? As material for this experiment, I will be looking at a Wolf Solar Minimum text, one that was likely written during this period and which survives in a manuscript from this period. Sir Orfeo, a retelling of the Orpheus myth as an otherworld adventure with a happy ending, is in the Auchinleck Manuscript from around 1331. I will be reading this text—and thinking about its manuscript context—with attention to its climatic period.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Literature Program; Medieval Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7221, or e-mail [email protected].
The Da Capo Chamber Players Celebrate Bard! Works by Tan Dun, Joan Tower, Kyle Gann, John Halle, Corey Chang '19, Peri Mauer '76, and Elizabeth Brown
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 8–10 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building The Da Capo Chamber Players and guest artists perform works by Bard faculty, alumni/ae, and composers from the region. CELEBRATE BARD!
Tan Dun, In Distance (1987) Joan Tower, String Force (2010) Kyle Gann, Hovenweep (2000) John Halle, A Free People (2006) Corey Chang, ‘19, Foreshadowed Flashback (2017) Peri Mauer, ‘76, Pixeliance (2011/2017) Elizabeth Brown, Liguria (1999)
Da Capo Chamber PlayersGuest Artists Curtis Macomber, violin Margaret Kampmeier, piano Chris Gross, cello Sara Cutler, harp Patricia Spencer, flute Jon Clancy, percussion Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet John Halle, narrator
Elizabeth Brown, Liguria Corey Chang,Foreshadowed Flashback John Halle, A Free People Kyle Gann, Hovenweep Joan Tower, String Force Tan Dun, In Distance Peri Mauer, Pixeliance Sponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program.
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Twice a week we meet in our tranquil meditation space for meditation (Mondays 7-9:30 pm and Thursdays 5-6:30 pm). We sit for two rounds of meditation (30 minutes), with walking meditation in between. Newcomers receive an introduction to meditation, meditation following. Afterwards we have tea and cookies and share stories of our life. Everybody is welcome!Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
POSTPONED: Market Dominance or Climate Justice? Warren versus Sanders on the Green New Deal
Michael Menser, CUNY Brooklyn College
Thursday, March 12, 2020 4:45–6:15 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 The Green New Deal changed the contemporary political debate. But what kind of philosophy grounds it? Never before has a mainstream policy framework treated the climate crisis as a global and even existential threat requiring a national commitment not seen since the Great Depression and WWII. Promoted by the Sunrise Movement and officially formulated by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Markey, the GND has since evolved, with many candidates having their own versions, including Senators Sanders and Warren. While both have game-changing and justice-enhancing elements in their proposals, the differences are striking and illuminate a major debate about the role of the public in this time of system change. In this presentation, I will look at their proposals from the normative frameworks of economic democracy and climate justice, and argue that one of these views has a much better chance of promoting climate justice than the other.Sponsored by: Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7280, or e-mail [email protected].
Center For Spiritual Life, Resnick Commons A Every Friday evening, we gather for a brief Shabbat worship service and a vegetarian Shabbat dinner. All Bardians are welcome to join us for any part of the evening.Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
As a member of one of our four sampling teams, you’ll collect water samples (from stream bank or bridges) from 3–4 sites on the Saw Kill and record the results.
Sampling is done on the second Friday of the month starting at 10:30 a.m. From start to finish, it takes about 2 hours.
Sampling is fun and easy—and you’re contributing to the science that helps keep your drinking water safe. If you wish, you can also help process the samples in the Bard Water Lab after collection.
Open to everyone. Free training is available.
If interested, please contact: Lindsey Drew Bard Water Lab Manager [email protected]Sponsored by: Bard Center for the Study of Land, Air, and Water; Environmental and Urban Studies Program.
Leila Makdisi ’09, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
Friday, March 13, 2020 12–1 pm
Hegeman 107 Leila Makdisi ’09 will discuss how scientific practices and thought are applied in informal settings through her work as an educator at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.
Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail [email protected].
CANCELED: Núcleo: A Reading and Performance by Cecilia Vicuña
Friday, March 13, 2020 5–7 pm
Bard Hall Artist-poet Cecilia Vicuña creates songs, performances, installations, paintings, films, written works, books, lectures, and sculptures. Born in Chile, profoundly impacted by the encouraging time of Allende, the subsequent terrors of Pinochet, and decades lived in exile, Vicuña makes work that is always attentive to ethics, the earth, and history. Her improvisatory, participatory performances, often associated with site-specific installations, emphasize the collective nature of action and creativity to bring forth justice, balance, and the transformation of the world. Vicuña will read from her latest book, Núcleo.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Human Rights Program; John Ashbery Poetry Series; LAIS Program; Spanish Studies; Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7382, or e-mail [email protected].
Postponed: Celebrity Chef Event Featuring Food Network Chef Aarti Sequeira
Friday, March 13, 2020 5–8 pm
Kline Commons, Campus Center MPR Bard Dining and BardEATS invite you to join us on March 13 for our celebrity chef event featuring Food Network Star winner Chef Aarti Sequeira! Chef Aarti will be in Kline Commons from 5pm to 6pm, where we will feature recipes from her cookbook Aarti Paarti!
Chef Aarti will then be hosting two plant-based teaching kitchen sessions in the MPR beginning at 7pm. There will be food samples, prizes, take-a-ways, cookbook signing, and meet and greet photo ops! Please register HERE if you would like to cook with Chef Aarti. Hands-on cooking slots are limited but there will be plenty of seating for those who would like to observe and learn and be part of this exciting event! For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
BY INVITATION ONLY: Complete Études for Piano by Alexander Scriabin: Sung-Soo Cho, piano
Saturday, March 14, 2020 1–2:30 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building The recital will be live-streamed. Go to the Conservatory home page and scroll to bottom right. Click on YouTube. JOIN THE CONVERSATION Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTubeSponsored by: Bard College Conservatory of Music.
CANCELED - Visiting Artist Concert: Bent Duo—Piano, Percussion, and Electronics
Saturday, March 14, 2020 7:30–9:30 pm
Blum Hall Bent Duo, a New York–based piano and percussion duo of David Friend and Bill Solomon, perform new work by Bard electronic music faculty Matt Sargent and Sarah Hennies, as well as a premiere of a new composition by Bard senior Meghan Mercier.
David Friend has been hailed as “astonishingly compelling” (Washington Post), “spooky precision” (London Times), and “[one] of the finest, busiest pianists active in New York’s contemporary-classical scene” (New York Times). Bill Solomon has been called a “fine soloist” (New York Times) and “a stand out” (Boston Globe).
This concert is free and open to the public.Sponsored by: Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Chapel of the Holy Innocents You are invited to be part of our service of prayer and Holy Communion as we gather for intellectual discussions about theology, the Bible, and current events. Snacks and fellowship occur after the service. We welcome all—Christians, non-Christians, spiritual but not religious, agnostics, believers, doubters, seekers, those who have questions about faith and religion, those struggling to understand where God is in our challenging world, anyone wanting to use their faith to change and act in the world!
Please note: Sunday services also take place at 10:00 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 1114 River Road, Barrytown, just past Montgomery Place.)Sponsored by: Chaplaincy.
CANCELED: Speaker Series on Disability: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Disability: Implications for Disabled Black Women
Angel Love Miles, Ph.D., Healthcare/Home and Community Based Services Policy Analyst, Access Living
Monday, March 16, 2020 4:45–6 pm
RKC - Bito Auditorium Although African Americans have one of the highest rates of disability, there is a dearth of research describing their social and economic experiences. The research that does exist suggests that African American women with disabilities face multiple barriers to resources and equitable treatment in society. In a mixed-methods study of the barriers and facilitators to homeownership for African American women with physical disabilities, self-concept emerged among the primary themes. This presentation will explore the intersections of race, class, gender, and disability by discussing how participants in the study perceived themselves and negotiated how they were perceived by others as multiply marginalized women.
All are welcome!
Bard is committed to making every effort to provide reasonable accommodations for accessibility needs. RKC Bito Auditorium is an accessible, ground level space. For other accessibility needs or for more information about this event's location, please contact the Disability Speaker Series Coordinator, Michael Sadowski, by March 10: [email protected]; 845-758-7112. Sponsored by: Dean of the College.
For more information, call 845-758-7122, or e-mail [email protected].
CANCELED Translation as Pedagogy: A Manifesto for Reading
Presentation and Discussion by Sophie Seita, Boston University
Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6–7:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 “To translate is to surpass the source”— these are words Sophie Seita puts into the mouth of a character in her performance My Little Enlightenment Plays, a project in which she rewrites, translates, responds to, and, one could say, corresponds with Enlightenment thinkers and writers and other historical source materials.
In her talk, Seita will propose an expansive understanding of translation: translation as an inventive, generative, and often collaborative practice; translation as a form of writing-as-reading; and translational reading as a pedagogical tool.
She writes: “Like a manifesto, I see translation as a deeply pedagogical form. In my teaching, I promote what I would call ‘translational reading,’ which tries to understand a text by doing something with it. Following Sara Ahmed’s terminology in her manifesto‘Living a Feminist Life,’ translation would have to be in my ‘feminist survival kit.’ Translation, for me, then encompasses the moving of matter from one place to another. This might mean transforming a word, sentence, image, idea, or material (like paper, Tippex, or clay) into another form, genre, medium, or context.”
Seita will discuss these theoretical ideas with a view to how they might work in practice in the context of her own translational projects, from text- and performance-based work to pedagogical experiments.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7363, or e-mail [email protected].
CANCELED Hear, Here? The What and Where of Northern Saw-whet Owl Auditory Processing
Megan Gall, Vassar College
Thursday, March 19, 2020 12–1 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium You’ve probably heard that owls have fantastic hearing, both in terms of detecting and localizing sound. However, we have surprisingly little comparative data on owl hearing, with most of the information coming from barn owls. In this talk I will discuss our recent work on the (very cute and fairly small) Northern saw-whet owl (Aegolius acadicus). We’ll cover the morphological specializations of saw-whet ears; their ability to detect and process sounds that differ in frequency, rate, and onset; and how the location of the sound source in space affects their auditory sensitivity. Come learn about all the auditory specializations these little owls have that allow them to hunt in complete darkness!Sponsored by: Biology Program.
For more information, call 845-752-2332, or e-mail [email protected].
Maria Sachiko Cecire, Associate Professor of Literature and Director of the Center for Experimental Humanities Gabriel Perron, Assistant Professor of Biology
This session will talk faculty through the collection of low-tech assignment ideas that the Center for Experimental Humanities has developed for use during the COVID-19 pandemic, available here: eh.bard.edu/covid-19. The session will begin with an introduction to the collection, which includes asynchronous and synchronous assignments that students can do on their own, in groups, and with members of their local communities as part of courses in a wide array of fields and subject areas. Professors Cecire and Perron will then hold a Q&A to help colleagues think through how they might integrate, modify, and contextualize such assignments in their various courses.Sponsored by: Center for Faculty and Curricular Development.
For more information, call 718-440-2528, or e-mail [email protected].
CANCELED Institute of Advanced Theology Spring Lecture Series: Salome
Friday, March 20, 2020 11:50 am – 1 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents The figure of Salome, not the person but an artifact composed from various sources, has been prominent since Oscar Wilde’s play, Richard Strauss’s opera, and many cinematic representations. The sources drawn upon—principally the New Testament and the historian Josephus, but also Byzantine and Renaissance painting—need to be understood in their own terms for the modern amalgam to be appreciated.
The Institute of Advanced Theology Spring 2020 Lecture Series will occur March 20 and 27; April 3, 10, and 17; and May 1 and 8.Sponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Hegeman 107 The stories scientists tell are not just mythologies or poorly researched histories to be judged inferior by historians of science and brushed aside as Whiggish accounts of the scientific past. These myth-histories are a unique species of narrative, fundamentally different from scholarly historical accounts. In the concept of myth-history, the hyphen is critical, for it bridges narrative modes. In communicating their science, scientists tend to use these hybrid narratives for important rhetorical purposes. Myth-histories, like those you might find in textbooks and popularizations of science, employ history as a rough scaffolding. They also filter out unwanted historical details, emphasize mythological tropes, and perpetuate essentialist images of ideal science built upon the shoulders of scientific heroes. The stories scientists tell undoubtedly deliver value, coherence, and inspiration to scientific communities but they also bear unintended consequences that must be brought to light.Sponsored by: Physics Program.
For more information, call 845-752-4391, or e-mail [email protected].
Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of Graduate Programs in Sustainability at Bard College, will outline career strategies for both soon-to-be and recent college graduates, and for professionals looking to make a move. Goodstein will provide participants with a concrete job-search strategy, discuss what the current political climate means for careers in social and environmental sustainability, and also field questions in a live, interactive webinar.
Webinar link will be sent upon completion of registration.
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