October 2023
News for Bard
Families & Friends
Dear Families,
The leaves are changing in Annandale and we are excited to see many of you on campus for Family & Alumni/ae Weekend from October 27-29. Many thanks to all who have registered! Please RSVP here by October 10 to let us know you are coming. Whether or not you are coming, a few of the activities will be live streamed, so please check the weekend schedule here.
This August we welcomed 394 first-year students to campus (with an additional 10 first-year students who are beginning their Bard studies in Berlin). We also welcomed 94 transfer students to campus. These first-year and transfer numbers include 43 displaced students from Ukraine, Afghanistan, as well as students who enrolled at Bard through the Eurasia Student Refugee Program. We also have 26 visiting students on campus this fall. #bardianandproud
Bard has also implemented a Disability and Accessibility Studies Course Initiative; its purpose is to develop new courses related to disability and accessibility and to encourage faculty to incorporate disability-related topics in existing courses. Disability and Accessibility Studies courses for Fall 2023 include American Sign Language, Disability Rights in Education, Extraordinary Bodies: Disability in American Literature and Culture, Gender in the History of Psychological Disorders, Global Perspectives on Mental Health, and Illness and Performance.
Additionally, there have been many physical accessibility improvements, with the most recent summer projects focusing on pathways and entrance improvements.
The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities' 15th annual fall conference, Friendship and Politics, is October 12-13. The Hannah Arendt Center conference on Friendship and Politics brings together writers, thinkers, activists, and artists to collectively think about the importance of friendship in our world. You can read more about it here. The conference is in person and will be live-streamed. Please join us if you can.
The Fisher Center at Bard concludes its immensely successful 20th Anniversary Season: Breaking Ground with a public groundbreaking celebration for its new 25,000-square-foot performing arts studio building designed by Maya Lin. The event will feature a special concert, at 5 pm, in the Sosnoff Theater, with longtime Fisher Center collaborator Ms. Lisa Fischer and her band Grand Baton, alongside Bard’s own The Orchestra Now conducted by James Bagwell, and a rare performance of Béla Bartók’s The Wooden Prince conducted by Leon Botstein. Tickets start at $25 and can be found here.
Best wishes for a happy and healthy fall,
Sasha Boak-Kelly
Sr. Director of Development
Dates to Remember
Friday, August 9, 2024, 9 am – 2 pm | Arrival Day, Check-in, and Financial Clearance for all other new First-Year Students
Friday, August 23, 2024, 9 am – 12 pm | Arrival Day, Check-in, and Financial Clearance for All New Transfer Students.
Reem-Kayden Center
New students check in with the Deans of Students, Dean of Studies, Residence Life, Health Services, and the Center for Civic Engagement as your first stop before launching into an activity-filled move-in and orientation period. Use this period to get your student ID and parking permit, if applicable. Students will get their IDs, keys, and course registration information.
Monday, August 26, 2024 – Wednesday, August 28, 2024, 9 am – 3:30 pm | Transfer Student Language and Thinking Program
Thursday, August 29, 2024 – Friday, August 30, 2024 | Matriculation Days - Advising and Class Registration for New First-Year and Transfer Students
Saturday, August 31, 2024 | Arrival Day for All Returning Students and Check-in and Financial Clearance for All Returning Students
Monday, September 2, 2024 | First Day of Fall Classes
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 | Moderation Short Papers Due for students moderating in the fall semester and Drop/Add Period Ends 5 pm
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 | Late Drop Period Ends (last day to drop a class) and Pass/Fail Grading Option Deadline (last day for students to petition faculty to take a class pass/fail)
Monday, October 14, 2024 – Tuesday, October 15, 2024 | Fall Break
Newsmakers
Annual Bard Fiction Prize Is Awarded to Zain Khalid
Author Zain Khalid has received the Bard Fiction Prize for his first novel, Brother Alive (Grove Press, 2022). Khalid’s residency at Bard College is for the fall 2024 semester, during which time he will continue his writing and meet informally with students. Khalid will give a public reading at Bard during his residency.
Full StoryBard Early College to Offer Virtual Courses for Florida High School Students
Starting this month, Bard Early College will offer three tuition-free virtual college courses to high school students in Florida. Participating students who complete the program will receive three transferable college credits from Bard for each course, as well as a Bard College transcript. “These virtual courses, offered exclusively to students in Florida, cover educational topics that are under threat or actively blocked in the state, and Bard Early College aims to make these subjects available to the students who wish to study them,” said Dumaine Williams ’03, vice president for Early College at Bard.
Full StoryBard Conservatory Appoints Harpist Mariko Anraku to Faculty
The Bard College Conservatory of Music announces the appointment of harpist Mariko Anraku to the faculty. Mariko Anraku is hailed as “a manifestation of grace and elegance” (Jerusalem Post) and has enchanted audiences through numerous appearances as soloist, as well as chamber and orchestral musician. The New York Times has called her a “masterful artist of intelligence and wit.” Since 1995, she has held the position of associate principal harpist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. She is a devoted teacher, deeply committed to the mentoring and development of young musicians.
Full StoryBard College Hosts Second Annual Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck Conference on Indigenous Research Methods and Practice in the Liberal Arts, October 12–14
“Refusal, Creation, and Intersectionality” Features Keynote Speakers Audra Simpson, Robert Keith Collins, and Corrie Roe
Bard College will host the second annual conference of Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck from October 12 through 14. The conference, “Indigenous Research Methods and Practice in the Liberal Arts: Refusal, Creation, and Intersectionality,” explores the topic of “research” within the humanities. Building on last year’s conference surrounding methods, viewpoints, and experiences of archives within Native American and Indigenous Studies and African American Studies, this conference explores historically marginalized epistemologies of social sciences and arts research. This is the second of three annual conferences supported by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck, part of the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities for All Times initiative.
Full StoryInvestigative Journalist and Author Suki Kim Named 2023–24 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism at Bard College
The Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard) and Bard College’s Human Rights Project named author Suki Kim as the 2023–24 recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism. Established in 2014, the fellowship supports an annual faculty position that brings a prominent scholar, activist, or practicing artist to teach and conduct research within the CCS Bard graduate program and the undergraduate Human Rights Program.
Full StorySeptember Supporters
Thank you to all our families and friends who made a gift to Bard in September. #donorsmakedegreespossible
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