First-Year Seminar at Bard College is a required two-semester program for first-year students that introduces them to important intellectual, artistic, and cultural traditions, and to methods of studying those traditions. The lecture series provides a public forum for students, the public, and leading scholars and artists to explore contemporary and relevant issues, as well as the latest scholarship on enduring questions. No reservations are necessary. For information or directions to the Fisher Center, call 845-758-7900. For information about First-Year Seminar at Bard, visit inside.bard.edu/fys.

Monday, January 30, 2012
Montaigne, Virginia Woolf, and the Art of Noticing
James Wood, Harvard University and The New Yorker

Monday, February 6, 2012
35 mm Film Screening: Truffaut's The Wild Child
Two screenings:  4:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m.  
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center

Monday, February 20, 2012
The Origins of Romantic Sensibility
Bard President Leon Botstein with a performance of Beethoven’s String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6 (“La Malinconia”) by students of The Bard College Conservatory of Music


Monday, March 26, 2012
Roundtable on the State of the Humanities
Geoffrey Harpham, National Humanities Center, and Mark Taylor, Columbia University

 
Monday, April 9, 2012
“Two-ness” and Modernity in Du Bois and Nietzsche
Robert Gooding-Williams, University of Chicago

 
Monday, May 7, 2012
The Singularity and the Human Condition
Roger Berkowitz, Bard College 

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(01/24/12)