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Tuesday, April 1, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Gazing Back at the Compound Eye: The Estrangement of Surveillance Images in Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes
By Luwei Wang, Ph.D. Candidate University of Wisconsin, Madison
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 5:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 The imagination of surveillance cameras and the digital media as “compound eyes” is a dominant motif in contemporary Chinese critical and cultural production. This concept resonates deeply within Chinese visual culture and film, where the compound eye functions as both a technological reality and a symbolic structure. In this talk, I examine this intersection through Xu Bing’s experimental art film Dragonfly Eyes (2017). My analysis focuses on Xu Bing’s distinctive approach of repurposing the found surveillance footage, through which he subverts traditional power dynamics, and transforms the surveillance apparatus into an object of critical reflection. By defamiliarizing audiences from the machine vision they have grown accustomed to, the film disrupts the neutrality of digital seeing. In doing so, it prompts reflection on deep- seated anxieties in the digital age—including the takeover of visual representation by digital media, the alienation from lived experience, the obsession with achieving a totalized and comprehensive replication of reality, and the estrangement from nature. I argue that Dragonfly Eyes fundamentally engages with these concerns by constructing an intricate relationship between surveillance footage, webcam recordings, the film’s protagonists, and the audience. Blurring the boundaries between viewing subject and object, the film positions its protagonists as both narrators and characters, oscillating between reality and fiction, observer and observed. Through this interplay, Dragonfly Eyes invites contemplation on the pervasive impact of digital surveillance and the shifting nature of visuality in the contemporary world.Sponsored by: Dean of the College, Division of Languages and Literature, Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL), and Chinese Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Poetry of Physics: What Literature Can Teach Us About the Ultimate Nature of Reality
William Egginton, Decker Professor in the Humanities, Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, April 3, 2025 5:30–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In this lecture I explore the two major physical theories of the twentieth century, relativity and quantum mechanics, by way of what we could call their poetic and philosophical foundations. Key to this approach will be the idea that reality isn’t an unfiltered picture of what’s out there, but rather a complex human construct, and that because of that we need essentially human means to understand it, among them literature and philosophy. In this light I argue that philosophers like Plato and Kant, and poets like Dante and Borges, are key to understanding the ideas of Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg.
William Egginton is the Decker Professor in the Humanities, Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of multiple books, including How the World Became a Stage (2003), Perversity and Ethics (2006), A Wrinkle in History (2007), The Philosopher’s Desire (2007), The Theater of Truth (2010), In Defense of Religious Moderation (2011), The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World (2016), The Splintering of the American Mind (2018), and The Rigor of Angels (2023), which was named to several best of 2023 lists, including The New York Times and The New Yorker. He is co-author with David Castillo of Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media (2017) and What Would Cervantes Do? Navigating Post-Truth with Spanish Baroque Literature (2022). His most recent book, on the philosophical, psychoanalytic, and surrealist dimensions of the work of Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, was published in January 2024.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; LAIS Program; Literature Program; Philosophy Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Central Asia at the Crossroads: Governance, Innovation, and Identity in Transition CONFERENCE
Friday, April 4, 2025 10 am – 5 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium This conference brings together faculty, scholars, and administrators from the American University of Central Asia and Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY). As long-standing partners, Bard and AUCA have impacted the education and professional development of thousands of young people, responding to and contributing to the political, economic, and socio-cultural changes in the region. We will discuss the achievements and goals of the partnership, as well as issues of legal frameworks, cultural identity, and evolving geopolitical alignments that shape the future of Central Asia's regional stability and global influence. Over the course of a day, scholars will engage in dialogue about political participation and economic opportunity in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia; the region's culture as it evolves in response to shifting geopolitical alignments; and the region's educational visions, ambitions, and hopes.
10.00 – 10.30 Opening remarks
10.30 – 12.00 Panel 1 LAW & SECURITY Moderated by Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University
Kamila Mateeva, Head of Law Division; Associate Professor of Law, AUCA “Evolving Legal Frameworks in Central Asia: Navigating Challenges and Seizing Opportunities”
Saniia Toktogazieva, Dean of Academic Planning and Strategic Partnerships; Associate Professor of Law, AUCA “Constitutionalism in Central Asia: Challenges and current trends”
Togzhan Kassenova (Senior Fellow, Project on International Security, Commerce and Economic Statecraft at the University of Albany) “Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Story: Reclaiming the Agency and National Identity Building”
1.30 – 3.15 Panel 2 ECONOMICS & THE ENVIRONMENT Moderated by Eban Goodstein, Bard College
Zarylbek Kudabaev, Head of the Applied Sciences Division; Professor of Economics, AUCA “Economic Transformations in Central Asia: Current Trends, Challenges, and Future Prospects”
Urmat Ryskulov, Chair of the School of Entrepreneurship and Business Administration; Associate Professor of Business and Finance, AUCA “Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Central Asia: Catalysts for Sustainable Development”
Aniruddha Mitra, Bard College (co-authors: James T. Bang, St. Ambrose University, Nurgul Ukueva, Associate Professor, Economics Department, American University of Central Asia, Visiting Associate Professor, Bard College) “Trust, Risk, and Attitudes toward Climate Change, Evidence from Kyrgyzstan”
Aisalkyn Botoeva, Co-Founder and Principal Researcher of Altai Atlantic research company “The Power of Narrative: Rethinking How We Share Knowledge about the Region.”
3.30 – 5.15 Panel 3 CULTURE & IDENTITY Moderated by Elena Kim, Bard College
Ruslan Rahimov, Head of the Division of Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Development, AUCA “Reclaiming Identity: Decolonization Narratives and Cultural Reawakening in Central Asia”
Daniyar Karabaev, Head of the Division of Arts, Humanities and Communication; Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, AUCA “Memory Politics: The Role of Oral History in Central Asia”
Marek Eby, Visiting Scholar, Columbia University Harriman Institute “Narratives of Soviet Kyrgyzstan through the Lens of Health: The Case of Malaria”
Jarkyn Shadymanova, Associate Professor, Sociology Department, AUCA, M.Ed. Candidate in Environmental Education, Bard College “NGOs at the Intersection of Drug Treatment and Infectious Disease Prevention: Practices from Central Asia and China”Sponsored by: REAS, CCE, and IILE.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Monday, April 7, 2025 1–2 pm
Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
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“All poetry is revolution”: Reading and Discussion of Anna Greki’s Algeria, Capital: Algiers with Marine Cornuet and Ammiel Alcalay
Monday, April 7, 2025 5:30–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In 1963, a year after Algerian independence, Anna Greki, an Algerian poet of French descent living in exile in Tunisia, published Algeria, Capital: Algiers, her first poetry collection, in French and Arabic. Greki, 32 at the time, had participated in the Algerian revolution and was arrested, incarcerated and tortured by the French military for her activism. Algeria, Capital: Algiers, translated by Marine Cornuet, and introduced by Ammiel Alcalay, includes poems Greki wrote while in prison and is available in English for the first time. Please join us for a reading and discussion of Greki’s life and work, and of the translation itself.
Marine Cornuet is a Brooklyn-based translator, poet, and editor. Recent publications include Cloche Pèlerine (Le Castor Astral, 2024), a French translation of Kaveh Akbar’s poetry collection Pilgrim Bell, and Algeria, capital: Algiers (Pinsapo Press and Lost & Found, 2024), an English translation of Anna Gréki’s poetry collection Algérie, capitale Algers. She holds an MFA from Queens College, CUNY, and is the co-founder of the literary journal Clotheslines. She is a member of the working collective and an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse.
Poet, novelist, translator, essayist, critic, and scholar Ammiel Alcalay’s latest books are CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books, his co-translation of Nasser Rabah’s Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece, and the forthcoming Follow the Person: Archival Encounters. In 2017, he received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for his work as founder and General Editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative; he is a Distinguished Professor at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative, French Studies, Hannah Arendt Center, Middle Eastern Studies, and Pinsapo Press.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
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Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space On Tuesday, April 8 at 6pm, poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge will read from her work. Introduced by David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature Ann Lauterbach, this reading is free and open to the public.
Born in Beijing, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is the author of fourteen books of poetry, including Hello, the Roses,Empathy, and I Love Artists. Her latest collection, A Treatise on Stars, received the Bollingen Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, among others. Her collaborations include works in theater, dance, music, and the visual arts. Her poems were broadcast from a SpaceX flight in 2021 and her work with composer George Lewis and The Crossing Choir won a Grammy in 2025. She lives in northern New Mexico. Sponsored by: John Ashbery Poetry Series and Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 10, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 10, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 10, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 10, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
RKC 200 When Carey Goldberg was growing up during the Cold War, US-Soviet relations loomed as critical for avoiding nuclear Armageddon. So she studied Russian and journalism in high school and college, and finagled a visa as a nanny to get to Moscow and start reporting. For more than six years she covered the former Soviet Union, its collapse and what came after, and was a Pulitzer finalist for group coverage of the 1991 coup. She then came home to work for The New York Times and went on to other jobs in journalism, but her time in Moscow remains her “glory days.” She will share some of her experiences and discuss the importance of Russian language skills for a successful career in international reporting.Sponsored by: Russian and Eurasian Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Preston Theater Inspired by real events occured in the People's Republic of China, A Touch of Sin 天注定 (2014) weaves together four distinct stories to reflect on the growing social inequalities, corruption, and moral erosion in contemporary Chinese society as a result of its rapid modernization. The film's director, Jia Zhangke, is one of the most renowned contemporary Chinese filmmakers and known for his documentary-style realism and focus on the lives of marginalized and working people. Snacks and light refreshments will be served. Sponsored by: Chinese Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Monday, April 14, 2025 1–2 pm
Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
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Traduttore, Traditore? Reflections on Translating Dante
by Joe Luzzi (Bard College)
Monday, April 14, 2025 6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 The Italians have a saying traduttore, traditore – that is, the “translator" of a book can often be a “traitor” to it if he fails to capture both its letter and its spirit! In this event, Professor Joseph Luzzi will discuss his new translation of Dante’s Vita Nuova (Liveright/Norton, December 2024), which was Dante’s first book and a moving account of his youthful love for his muse, Beatrice, and his discovery of his passion for poetry. Professor Luzzi will show how his understanding of translation as a “way of thinking” also helped him complete his recent Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography (Princeton University Press, November 2024). Overall, he will share his experiences in trying to remain faithful to Dante’s original language, while at the same time bringing his own personal understanding and interpretation of the Vita Nuova, an early masterpiece by Italy’s so-called sommo poeta, supreme poet.Sponsored by: Italian Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Daniel Mendelsohn and Robert Cioffi will read from Mendelsohn's edition of Homer’s Odyssey. Widely known for his essays on classical literature and culture in the New Yorker and many other publications, Mendelsohn gives us a line-for-line rendering of the Odyssey that is both engrossing as poetry and true to its source. Mendelsohn’s expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer’s dense verses without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original. A discussion will follow.
Please register for this free event here. Sponsored by: Classical Studies, the Dean of the College, and Oblong Books.
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Thursday, April 17, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 17, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 17, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 17, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Monday, April 21, 2025 1–2 pm
Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
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Monday, 21 April, 5:30PM. Stevenson Library A Conversation between editor Bradford Morrow and critic Christian Lorentzen on the importance of literary journals for contemporary writers.
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Tuesday, 22 April, 5:00PM. Bito Conservatory Auditorium A Reading with special guests, including Forrest Gander, Shane McCrae, and Francine Prose.
Since 1981, Conjunctions, founded and edited by Bradford Morrow, has been the preeminent home for writers who challenge convention with works that are formally innovative and culturally transformative.
Bard has been publishing Conjunctions since 1990, beginning with issue #15 and running through to forthcoming issue #84 We Love All We Voices.
Conjunctions was Initially conceived as a festschrift for New Directions’ founder, James Laughlin. The inaugural issue included Tennessee Williams, John Hawkes, Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, and Paul Bowles. Since the journal has come to Bard, it has featured work by, among many others: Forrest Gander, Mary Caponegro, Joyce Carol Oats, Robert Creeley, Lydia Davis, Ben Okri, Jayne Anne Phillips, Ann Lauterbach, David Foster Wallace, Rick Moody, Peter Gizzi, Karen Russell, Nathanael Mackey and Shane McCrae. Sponsored by: Office of the President, Office of the Dean of the College, and Written Arts Program.
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Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, and Literary Biography: A talk by Zachary Leader
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 5:30–7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce has been called “the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century.” This talk, by the critic and biographer Zachary Leader, tells the story of the book and its maker, in the process arguing for the artistic claims not only of Ellmann himself, a remarkable man, but of literary biography in general.
Zachary Leader (born 1946) is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton. He was an undergraduate at Northwestern University, and did graduate work at Trinity College, Cambridge and Harvard University, where he was awarded a PhD in English in 1977. Although born and raised in the U.S. he has lived for over forty years in the U.K., and has dual British and American citizenship. His best-known works are The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2001), The Life of Kingsley Amis (2007), a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964 (2015), which was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize in the U.K. The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife 1965 to 2005 was published in 2018. He has written and edited a dozen books, including both volumes of the Saul Bellow biography, and is General Editor of The Oxford History of Life-Writing, a seven-volume series published by OUP. A recipient of Guggenheim, Whiting, Huntington, Leverhulme and British Academy Fellowships, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Introduction: Gregory Moynahan, Associate Professor of History, Bard College Q&A Moderator: Elizabeth Frank, Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, Bard CollegeSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Division of Social Studies; German Studies Program; Hannah Arendt Center; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Irish and Celtic Studies (ICS) Program; Written Arts Program.
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Thursday, April 24, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
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Thursday, April 24, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
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Thursday, April 24, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 24, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Socialist F(r)action of Oil: Petropoetics of Early Soviet Culture
Lecture by preeminent Russian literary critic and scholar in exile Ilya Kalinin (Humboldt University and Bard College Berlin)
Thursday, April 24, 2025 5:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 205 In his lecture, Ilya Kalinin will explore the impact of the Bolshevik petroleum project - the extraction and use of oil - on the culture and ideology of the early Soviet state. Soviet society communicated with oil in the language of socialist transformation. But the sovietization of oil was broader than its technological and sociopolitical processing. For oil to flow from the wells and fill the arteries of the socialist economy, it had to permeate the discursive fabric of Soviet media and cultural production. Dr. Kalinin will discuss this complex relationship through an analysis of literary works, film, and visual art from the 1920s and beyond.Sponsored by: The Russian and Eurasian Studies program.
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Sidelines Redrawn: Re-examining the Role of Marginality in Ancient Greek Literature
Friday, April 25, 2025 9 am – 5 pm
Blithewood In our contemporary era, marginality typically refers to people that lie on the fringes or margins of society with regard to some socio-economic or socio-political characteristic. In the context of the ancient Greek world, it is fairly easy to assign groups to this marginal category. However, ancient literature tends to complicate this modern notion of marginality, and characters that would normally be considered marginal from a historical standpoint are often put in positions that allow them to influence others and act beyond the limitations of their societal station. This talk will discuss the disconnect between literature and historical reality when it comes to marginal characters and their potential for agency and efficacy. Reexamining ancient Greek literature with this in mind will provide another avenue of interpretation that will contribute to our understanding of these works.Sponsored by: Classical Studies and the Dean's Office.
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Monday, April 28, 2025 1–2 pm
Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Gazing Back at the Compound Eye: The Estrangement of Surveillance Images in Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes
By Luwei Wang, Ph.D. Candidate University of Wisconsin, Madison
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 5:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 The imagination of surveillance cameras and the digital media as “compound eyes” is a dominant motif in contemporary Chinese critical and cultural production. This concept resonates deeply within Chinese visual culture and film, where the compound eye functions as both a technological reality and a symbolic structure. In this talk, I examine this intersection through Xu Bing’s experimental art film Dragonfly Eyes (2017). My analysis focuses on Xu Bing’s distinctive approach of repurposing the found surveillance footage, through which he subverts traditional power dynamics, and transforms the surveillance apparatus into an object of critical reflection. By defamiliarizing audiences from the machine vision they have grown accustomed to, the film disrupts the neutrality of digital seeing. In doing so, it prompts reflection on deep- seated anxieties in the digital age—including the takeover of visual representation by digital media, the alienation from lived experience, the obsession with achieving a totalized and comprehensive replication of reality, and the estrangement from nature. I argue that Dragonfly Eyes fundamentally engages with these concerns by constructing an intricate relationship between surveillance footage, webcam recordings, the film’s protagonists, and the audience. Blurring the boundaries between viewing subject and object, the film positions its protagonists as both narrators and characters, oscillating between reality and fiction, observer and observed. Through this interplay, Dragonfly Eyes invites contemplation on the pervasive impact of digital surveillance and the shifting nature of visuality in the contemporary world.Sponsored by: Dean of the College, Division of Languages and Literature, Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL), and Chinese Studies.
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Poetry of Physics: What Literature Can Teach Us About the Ultimate Nature of Reality
William Egginton, Decker Professor in the Humanities, Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, April 3, 2025 5:30–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In this lecture I explore the two major physical theories of the twentieth century, relativity and quantum mechanics, by way of what we could call their poetic and philosophical foundations. Key to this approach will be the idea that reality isn’t an unfiltered picture of what’s out there, but rather a complex human construct, and that because of that we need essentially human means to understand it, among them literature and philosophy. In this light I argue that philosophers like Plato and Kant, and poets like Dante and Borges, are key to understanding the ideas of Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg.
William Egginton is the Decker Professor in the Humanities, Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of multiple books, including How the World Became a Stage (2003), Perversity and Ethics (2006), A Wrinkle in History (2007), The Philosopher’s Desire (2007), The Theater of Truth (2010), In Defense of Religious Moderation (2011), The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World (2016), The Splintering of the American Mind (2018), and The Rigor of Angels (2023), which was named to several best of 2023 lists, including The New York Times and The New Yorker. He is co-author with David Castillo of Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media (2017) and What Would Cervantes Do? Navigating Post-Truth with Spanish Baroque Literature (2022). His most recent book, on the philosophical, psychoanalytic, and surrealist dimensions of the work of Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, was published in January 2024.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; LAIS Program; Literature Program; Philosophy Program.
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Thursday, April 3, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Central Asia at the Crossroads: Governance, Innovation, and Identity in Transition CONFERENCE
Friday, April 4, 2025 10 am – 5 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium This conference brings together faculty, scholars, and administrators from the American University of Central Asia and Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY). As long-standing partners, Bard and AUCA have impacted the education and professional development of thousands of young people, responding to and contributing to the political, economic, and socio-cultural changes in the region. We will discuss the achievements and goals of the partnership, as well as issues of legal frameworks, cultural identity, and evolving geopolitical alignments that shape the future of Central Asia's regional stability and global influence. Over the course of a day, scholars will engage in dialogue about political participation and economic opportunity in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia; the region's culture as it evolves in response to shifting geopolitical alignments; and the region's educational visions, ambitions, and hopes.
10.00 – 10.30 Opening remarks
10.30 – 12.00 Panel 1 LAW & SECURITY Moderated by Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University
Kamila Mateeva, Head of Law Division; Associate Professor of Law, AUCA “Evolving Legal Frameworks in Central Asia: Navigating Challenges and Seizing Opportunities”
Saniia Toktogazieva, Dean of Academic Planning and Strategic Partnerships; Associate Professor of Law, AUCA “Constitutionalism in Central Asia: Challenges and current trends”
Togzhan Kassenova (Senior Fellow, Project on International Security, Commerce and Economic Statecraft at the University of Albany) “Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Story: Reclaiming the Agency and National Identity Building”
1.30 – 3.15 Panel 2 ECONOMICS & THE ENVIRONMENT Moderated by Eban Goodstein, Bard College
Zarylbek Kudabaev, Head of the Applied Sciences Division; Professor of Economics, AUCA “Economic Transformations in Central Asia: Current Trends, Challenges, and Future Prospects”
Urmat Ryskulov, Chair of the School of Entrepreneurship and Business Administration; Associate Professor of Business and Finance, AUCA “Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Central Asia: Catalysts for Sustainable Development”
Aniruddha Mitra, Bard College (co-authors: James T. Bang, St. Ambrose University, Nurgul Ukueva, Associate Professor, Economics Department, American University of Central Asia, Visiting Associate Professor, Bard College) “Trust, Risk, and Attitudes toward Climate Change, Evidence from Kyrgyzstan”
Aisalkyn Botoeva, Co-Founder and Principal Researcher of Altai Atlantic research company “The Power of Narrative: Rethinking How We Share Knowledge about the Region.”
3.30 – 5.15 Panel 3 CULTURE & IDENTITY Moderated by Elena Kim, Bard College
Ruslan Rahimov, Head of the Division of Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Development, AUCA “Reclaiming Identity: Decolonization Narratives and Cultural Reawakening in Central Asia”
Daniyar Karabaev, Head of the Division of Arts, Humanities and Communication; Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, AUCA “Memory Politics: The Role of Oral History in Central Asia”
Marek Eby, Visiting Scholar, Columbia University Harriman Institute “Narratives of Soviet Kyrgyzstan through the Lens of Health: The Case of Malaria”
Jarkyn Shadymanova, Associate Professor, Sociology Department, AUCA, M.Ed. Candidate in Environmental Education, Bard College “NGOs at the Intersection of Drug Treatment and Infectious Disease Prevention: Practices from Central Asia and China”Sponsored by: REAS, CCE, and IILE.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Monday, April 7, 2025 1–2 pm
Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
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“All poetry is revolution”: Reading and Discussion of Anna Greki’s Algeria, Capital: Algiers with Marine Cornuet and Ammiel Alcalay
Monday, April 7, 2025 5:30–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In 1963, a year after Algerian independence, Anna Greki, an Algerian poet of French descent living in exile in Tunisia, published Algeria, Capital: Algiers, her first poetry collection, in French and Arabic. Greki, 32 at the time, had participated in the Algerian revolution and was arrested, incarcerated and tortured by the French military for her activism. Algeria, Capital: Algiers, translated by Marine Cornuet, and introduced by Ammiel Alcalay, includes poems Greki wrote while in prison and is available in English for the first time. Please join us for a reading and discussion of Greki’s life and work, and of the translation itself.
Marine Cornuet is a Brooklyn-based translator, poet, and editor. Recent publications include Cloche Pèlerine (Le Castor Astral, 2024), a French translation of Kaveh Akbar’s poetry collection Pilgrim Bell, and Algeria, capital: Algiers (Pinsapo Press and Lost & Found, 2024), an English translation of Anna Gréki’s poetry collection Algérie, capitale Algers. She holds an MFA from Queens College, CUNY, and is the co-founder of the literary journal Clotheslines. She is a member of the working collective and an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse.
Poet, novelist, translator, essayist, critic, and scholar Ammiel Alcalay’s latest books are CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books, his co-translation of Nasser Rabah’s Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece, and the forthcoming Follow the Person: Archival Encounters. In 2017, he received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for his work as founder and General Editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative; he is a Distinguished Professor at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative, French Studies, Hannah Arendt Center, Middle Eastern Studies, and Pinsapo Press.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
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Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space On Tuesday, April 8 at 6pm, poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge will read from her work. Introduced by David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature Ann Lauterbach, this reading is free and open to the public.
Born in Beijing, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is the author of fourteen books of poetry, including Hello, the Roses,Empathy, and I Love Artists. Her latest collection, A Treatise on Stars, received the Bollingen Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, among others. Her collaborations include works in theater, dance, music, and the visual arts. Her poems were broadcast from a SpaceX flight in 2021 and her work with composer George Lewis and The Crossing Choir won a Grammy in 2025. She lives in northern New Mexico. Sponsored by: John Ashbery Poetry Series and Written Arts Program.
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Thursday, April 10, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
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Thursday, April 10, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 10, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 10, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
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RKC 200 When Carey Goldberg was growing up during the Cold War, US-Soviet relations loomed as critical for avoiding nuclear Armageddon. So she studied Russian and journalism in high school and college, and finagled a visa as a nanny to get to Moscow and start reporting. For more than six years she covered the former Soviet Union, its collapse and what came after, and was a Pulitzer finalist for group coverage of the 1991 coup. She then came home to work for The New York Times and went on to other jobs in journalism, but her time in Moscow remains her “glory days.” She will share some of her experiences and discuss the importance of Russian language skills for a successful career in international reporting.Sponsored by: Russian and Eurasian Studies.
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Preston Theater Inspired by real events occured in the People's Republic of China, A Touch of Sin 天注定 (2014) weaves together four distinct stories to reflect on the growing social inequalities, corruption, and moral erosion in contemporary Chinese society as a result of its rapid modernization. The film's director, Jia Zhangke, is one of the most renowned contemporary Chinese filmmakers and known for his documentary-style realism and focus on the lives of marginalized and working people. Snacks and light refreshments will be served. Sponsored by: Chinese Program.
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Monday, April 14, 2025 1–2 pm
Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
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Traduttore, Traditore? Reflections on Translating Dante
by Joe Luzzi (Bard College)
Monday, April 14, 2025 6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 The Italians have a saying traduttore, traditore – that is, the “translator" of a book can often be a “traitor” to it if he fails to capture both its letter and its spirit! In this event, Professor Joseph Luzzi will discuss his new translation of Dante’s Vita Nuova (Liveright/Norton, December 2024), which was Dante’s first book and a moving account of his youthful love for his muse, Beatrice, and his discovery of his passion for poetry. Professor Luzzi will show how his understanding of translation as a “way of thinking” also helped him complete his recent Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography (Princeton University Press, November 2024). Overall, he will share his experiences in trying to remain faithful to Dante’s original language, while at the same time bringing his own personal understanding and interpretation of the Vita Nuova, an early masterpiece by Italy’s so-called sommo poeta, supreme poet.Sponsored by: Italian Studies.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Daniel Mendelsohn and Robert Cioffi will read from Mendelsohn's edition of Homer’s Odyssey. Widely known for his essays on classical literature and culture in the New Yorker and many other publications, Mendelsohn gives us a line-for-line rendering of the Odyssey that is both engrossing as poetry and true to its source. Mendelsohn’s expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer’s dense verses without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original. A discussion will follow.
Please register for this free event here. Sponsored by: Classical Studies, the Dean of the College, and Oblong Books.
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Thursday, April 17, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 17, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 17, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 17, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Monday, April 21, 2025 1–2 pm
Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
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Monday, 21 April, 5:30PM. Stevenson Library A Conversation between editor Bradford Morrow and critic Christian Lorentzen on the importance of literary journals for contemporary writers.
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Tuesday, 22 April, 5:00PM. Bito Conservatory Auditorium A Reading with special guests, including Forrest Gander, Shane McCrae, and Francine Prose.
Since 1981, Conjunctions, founded and edited by Bradford Morrow, has been the preeminent home for writers who challenge convention with works that are formally innovative and culturally transformative.
Bard has been publishing Conjunctions since 1990, beginning with issue #15 and running through to forthcoming issue #84 We Love All We Voices.
Conjunctions was Initially conceived as a festschrift for New Directions’ founder, James Laughlin. The inaugural issue included Tennessee Williams, John Hawkes, Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, and Paul Bowles. Since the journal has come to Bard, it has featured work by, among many others: Forrest Gander, Mary Caponegro, Joyce Carol Oats, Robert Creeley, Lydia Davis, Ben Okri, Jayne Anne Phillips, Ann Lauterbach, David Foster Wallace, Rick Moody, Peter Gizzi, Karen Russell, Nathanael Mackey and Shane McCrae. Sponsored by: Office of the President, Office of the Dean of the College, and Written Arts Program.
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Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, and Literary Biography: A talk by Zachary Leader
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 5:30–7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce has been called “the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century.” This talk, by the critic and biographer Zachary Leader, tells the story of the book and its maker, in the process arguing for the artistic claims not only of Ellmann himself, a remarkable man, but of literary biography in general.
Zachary Leader (born 1946) is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton. He was an undergraduate at Northwestern University, and did graduate work at Trinity College, Cambridge and Harvard University, where he was awarded a PhD in English in 1977. Although born and raised in the U.S. he has lived for over forty years in the U.K., and has dual British and American citizenship. His best-known works are The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2001), The Life of Kingsley Amis (2007), a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964 (2015), which was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize in the U.K. The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife 1965 to 2005 was published in 2018. He has written and edited a dozen books, including both volumes of the Saul Bellow biography, and is General Editor of The Oxford History of Life-Writing, a seven-volume series published by OUP. A recipient of Guggenheim, Whiting, Huntington, Leverhulme and British Academy Fellowships, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Introduction: Gregory Moynahan, Associate Professor of History, Bard College Q&A Moderator: Elizabeth Frank, Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, Bard CollegeSponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Division of Social Studies; German Studies Program; Hannah Arendt Center; Historical Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Irish and Celtic Studies (ICS) Program; Written Arts Program.
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Thursday, April 24, 2025 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
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Thursday, April 24, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 24, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, April 24, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Socialist F(r)action of Oil: Petropoetics of Early Soviet Culture
Lecture by preeminent Russian literary critic and scholar in exile Ilya Kalinin (Humboldt University and Bard College Berlin)
Thursday, April 24, 2025 5:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 205 In his lecture, Ilya Kalinin will explore the impact of the Bolshevik petroleum project - the extraction and use of oil - on the culture and ideology of the early Soviet state. Soviet society communicated with oil in the language of socialist transformation. But the sovietization of oil was broader than its technological and sociopolitical processing. For oil to flow from the wells and fill the arteries of the socialist economy, it had to permeate the discursive fabric of Soviet media and cultural production. Dr. Kalinin will discuss this complex relationship through an analysis of literary works, film, and visual art from the 1920s and beyond.Sponsored by: The Russian and Eurasian Studies program.
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Sidelines Redrawn: Re-examining the Role of Marginality in Ancient Greek Literature
Friday, April 25, 2025 9 am – 5 pm
Blithewood In our contemporary era, marginality typically refers to people that lie on the fringes or margins of society with regard to some socio-economic or socio-political characteristic. In the context of the ancient Greek world, it is fairly easy to assign groups to this marginal category. However, ancient literature tends to complicate this modern notion of marginality, and characters that would normally be considered marginal from a historical standpoint are often put in positions that allow them to influence others and act beyond the limitations of their societal station. This talk will discuss the disconnect between literature and historical reality when it comes to marginal characters and their potential for agency and efficacy. Reexamining ancient Greek literature with this in mind will provide another avenue of interpretation that will contribute to our understanding of these works.Sponsored by: Classical Studies and the Dean's Office.
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Monday, April 28, 2025 1–2 pm
Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025 5–6 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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