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Monday, February 3, 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].
Big Chop: Race, Trauma, and Refusal in Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Shenny De Los Angeles’ “The Ritual to Beauty”
Gisabel Leonardo
Monday, February 3, 2025 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Lola explores her contentious relationship with her mother, childhood trauma, and racial identity through hair. Similarly, Shenny De Los Angeles’ autobiographical documentary short “The Ritual to Beauty” explores themes of race, gender, and haircare through intimate interviews with Shenny’s mother and grandmother. These women turn to haircare as a site of expression to address the trauma they and the women before them have endured. In critical moments of release, both Lola and Shenny shave their heads in complete refusal of the Dominican aesthetics of race that promote hair straightening. In a Dominican context, the “Big Chop”—as this is often referred to in anglophone cultures—conjures a negative affect that mirrors the traumatic memory of El Corte, or The Parsley Massacre (1937), when tens of thousands of Haitians were slaughtered at the hands of Dominican armed forces. The works explored here confront the racial terror of the corte to heal generational trauma rooted in an anti-Black aesthetic imaginary. Through literature and visual media, this talk explores the nuances and consequences of the “chop” as an act of aesthetic refusal and an affirmation of Dominican Blackness.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL); Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Monday, February 3, the Written Arts program will be holding a moderation Q&A in RKC 103. Students intending to moderate into the Written Arts will have the opportunity to speak with faculty about the moderation process and specific Written Arts requirements. Students intending to moderate into Written Arts this semester are required to attend this event. Those who are unable to attend are asked to please notify the program coordinator ([email protected]) in advance.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
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Tuesday, February 4, 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, February 4, 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, February 4, 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].
Yŏdaesaeng Reclaimed: Rewriting Identity and Resistance in 1950s and 1960s Postwar Women’s Narratives
Monica W. Cho
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 5:30–6:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium This talk illuminates the troubling figure of the postwar yŏdaesaeng (female college student) in two short stories: Han Mu-suk’s “Abyss with Emotions” (Kamjŏngi innŭn simyŏn, 1957) and Son So-hŭi’s “The Sunlight of That Day” (Kunalŭi haetbitŭn, 1960). Yŏdaesaeng encapsulates the troubling memories of Japanese colonialism and the Korean War, as well as principles of the postwar ideologies within her youthful college-educated body in the two stories. I discuss the yŏdaesaeng by first historicizing her colonial progenitor, yŏhaksaeng (schoolgirl), to historically contextualize the Han and Son’s experiences as yŏhaksaeng. I also touch on how colonial writers have mobilized the yŏhaksaeng figure and their descent into madness as fictional representations of modernity and ethnonationalism. In examining Han and Son’s postwar yŏdaesaeng and their descent into madness as both an escape from censorship and as a method of radical resistance against patriarchy, this talk shows how postwar women writers reclaim the exploited figure of the yŏhaksaeng and their madness by rejecting the very use of national representation by focusing on yŏdaesaeng’s feminine desires and experiences. This kind of writing practice has allowed women writers to recuperate their own autonomy as writers, women, and yŏhaksaeng-pasts in the immediate postwar era.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL).
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, February 4, 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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Thursday, February 6, 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, February 6, 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].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, February 6, 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].
FEBRUARY 6 LECTURE HAS BEEN MOVED TO FEBRUARY 18 From Dystopia to Feminist Utopias: Future Visions in South Korean Science Fiction
A talk by Soonyoung Lee
Thursday, February 6, 2025 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This talk explores two prominent imaginaries of the future in South Korean science fiction: the dystopian visions portrayed in Netflix’s global hits such as Hellbound, All of Us Are Dead, and Sweet Home, and the radical futures articulated in women’s science fiction literature by authors like Kim Bo-young and Yun Ihyŏng. Netflix dramas employ horror and fantasy genres to critique societal issues such as class inequality, school violence, and systemic corruption, yet paradoxically normalize militaristic and Cold War ideologies. In contrast, South Korean women’s science fiction uses feminist and ecological frameworks to challenge established binaries while addressing Anthropocene crises and women’s lived experiences. Together, these narratives critique contemporary social structures and envision alternative futures, offering profound insights into the intersection of culture, politics, and imagination. Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL).
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, February 6, 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, February 10, 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].
Ruined Splendor: Korean Travelers in (Semi) Colonial Cities
A talk by Aliju Kim
Monday, February 10, 2025 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 Korean travel writings under Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945) are often interpreted as imperial propaganda, yet this narrative overlooks the subversive potential of decadence as a literary aesthetic in these works. This talk examines two examples of Korean travel writings that are set in colonial or semi-colonial cities, written around the Second Sino-Japanese War: Yi Hyosŏk’s Harbin (Haŏlbin), set in Harbin, and Chŏng Pisŏk’s This Atmosphere (I punwigi), set in Beijing. In these stories, the foreign cities present as disquietingly uncanny sites of identification and critique for the Korean travelers. Where Yi’s Harbin laments the loss of urban utopia, Chŏng’s This Atmosphere envisions a violent renewal through the city’s destruction. Together, these works show a resistance to the narrative of capitalist-imperial modernity as progress. Situating the texts within the broader goals of imperial propaganda, this talk highlights the imaginative possibilities that emerge through decadence.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL).
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, February 11, 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, February 11, 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, February 11, 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, February 11, 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].
Mystical Martyrs and Hidden Remains: Puerto Rico's Turbulent 1950s
Dr. Juan Diego Mariátegui
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 Puerto Rico emerged from the 1950s transformed. By 1952, governor Luis Muñoz Marín inaugurated the Free Associated State, a new legal status that ostensibly ended Puerto Rico’s colonial subordination as a “non-incorporated territory” of the United States. Another key development in these heady years was the Korean War (1950-1953), in which 61,000 Puerto Rican soldiers participated. This conflict was crucial because it allowed Muñoz Marín to present Puerto Rico as an exemplary defender of capitalist democracy and thereby discursively support its colonial relationship with the United States. But there is a parallel war that occurred in this period: the armed insurrection known as the Jayuya Uprising that Pedro Albizu Campos and the pro-independence Nationalist Party launched as a response to the Free Associated State. This talk centers on two opposed visions of war, a nationalist one and a neo-imperialist one. Through the speeches of governor Luis Muñoz Marín, poems by the Nationalist mystic Francisco Matos Paoli, and a short story by pro-independence author José Luis González, I explore how literary representations of these armed conflicts formed different anti-colonialist cultural and political subjectivities at a time when the island’s commitment to the U.S. was enshrined.
Juan Diego Mariátegui is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Lehigh University. Prior to that he received a PhD in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies from the University of Chicago as well as a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies from Brown University. His teaching and research focus on modern Puerto Rican and Cuban literature, particularly the way literary representations of space explore the relationship between man and the natural world, the cultural dimensions of colonialism, and the tensions between citizenship and diaspora. Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL); Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, February 13, 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, February 13, 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, February 13, 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, February 13, 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, February 17, 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].
Poetics of Maroonage: Posthuman Spaces in Hispanophone Caribbean Poetry
Dr. Ethel Barja Cuyutupa
Monday, February 17, 2025 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This presentation will discuss twenty-first century poetry by two Afro-Hispanophone Caribbean poets, Mayra Santos-Febres from Puerto Rico and Soleida Ríos from Cuba, to underline how their poetry imagines futures under threatening circumstances such as forced displacement and anti-blackness. How does the longue durée of Black resistance influence twenty-first-century poetics?
Dr. Ethel Barja Cuyutupa will present her research, which takes place through an interdisciplinary approach in between history and poetics and in dialogue with scholars interested in how lyric language is historically inflicted and intertwined with social justice and Blackness. The intertwining of imagery of long-lasting Black resistance and the emotional and political dimensions of the posthuman lyric subject ensures the poetics of maroonage exposes transhistorical genealogies of hope.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL); Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, February 18, 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, February 18, 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, February 18, 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, February 18, 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].
From Dystopia to Feminist Utopias: Future Visions in South Korean Science Fiction
A talk by Soonyoung Lee
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 5:30–6:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium This talk explores two prominent imaginaries of the future in South Korean science fiction: the dystopian visions portrayed in Netflix’s global hits such as Hellbound, All of Us Are Dead, and Sweet Home, and the radical futures articulated in women’s science fiction literature by authors like Kim Bo-young and Yun Ihyŏng. Netflix dramas employ horror and fantasy genres to critique societal issues such as class inequality, school violence, and systemic corruption, yet paradoxically normalize militaristic and Cold War ideologies. In contrast, South Korean women’s science fiction uses feminist and ecological frameworks to challenge established binaries while addressing Anthropocene crises and women’s lived experiences. Together, these narratives critique contemporary social structures and envision alternative futures, offering profound insights into the intersection of culture, politics, and imagination. Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL).
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, February 20, 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, February 20, 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, February 20, 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].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, February 20, 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].
A Celebration of Scholarship: Reception for the new Critical Hannah Arendt Edition and The Life of the Mind
Thursday, February 20, 2025 5–7:30 pm
Library, Finberg House Join the Bard College community for an evening celebrating our colleagues and the launch of the new Critical Hannah Arendt Edition and The Life of the Mind! We'll gather for an engaging discussion about the new editions, featuring welcoming remarks from Dean Deirdre d’Albertis, and a presentation by Thomas Wild and Anne Eusterschulte. Join us for stimulating conversation and refreshments. We look forward to celebrating this exciting achievement with you!
Please direct any questions to [email protected] by: German Studies Program; Hannah Arendt Center.
Olin Humanities, Room 204 A one-day conference on The Critical Hannah Arendt Edition and The Life of the Mind.
The Critical Edition of Hannah Arendt’s Complete Works presents a vital new view of this eminent political thinker. For the first time, all of Hannah Arendt’s published and unpublished works are being made available in a philologically reliable scholarly edition with critical commentary. Two additional features make this edition distinct: Arendt wrote and published nearly all of her books and essays in English and in German; this fundamental multilingualism can now be fully taken into account by future Arendt scholarship. Further, the Critical Edition is designed as an innovative hybrid project, appearing both in print as books and in an open access web portal enabling new technologically supported textual analyses. Over two days of celebration, presentation, and discussion, the audience will be invited to learn about the new edition, to consider the place of editorial scholarship in academic and intellectual life, and to discover together this unknown Arendt.
The Life of the Mind was Hannah Arendt’s unfinished final work. In it, she focuses on three basic mental activities—thinking, willing, and judging—and their relation to the world of appearances and to the human capacity for moral and political action. The new critical edition makes available in print, for the first time, the text of the typescripts as Arendt left them, complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished material, detailed annotations, and extensive scholarly commentary. In this symposium, the editors will introduce this groundbreaking edition, offer three points of entry into the material, and invite the audience to join in a wide-ranging discussion about The Life of the Mind and its urgent contemporary import.
Open to the public.Sponsored by: German Studies Program; Hannah Arendt Center.
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Monday, February 24, 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].
Literature Salon: “You hunt me, and yet I wish you no harm”: A Bear Speaks Back In a Medieval Chronicle
A talk by Karen Sullivan, Irma Brandeis Professor of Romance Literature and Culture
Monday, February 24, 2025 5–6 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 201 According to the chronicler Jean Froissart, Sir Peter of Béarn, the half-brother of Gaston Phoebus, III count of Foix and X viscount of Béarn, was hunting one day in the Forest of Biscay when he killed a large bear. When he brought the animal’s carcass home back to his castle, his wife fainted and had to be carried off to her chamber. After she came to, she informed her husband that she needed to leave immediately on a pilgrimage with their two children and to take with them a fair amount of her wealth. She never returned from this trip. According to a squire associated with Gaston’s household, she explained to her servants that the bear her husband had killed was same one her father had once hunted. She added that, while her father was pursuing this bear, he had heard someone say, “You hunt me, and yet I wish you no harm.”
Nowadays, we are familiar with animal rights arguments that inveigh against the morality of hunting. But what meaning did the words attributed to the bear in Froissart’s chronicle possess for its fourteenth-century audience? What is the relation between the language of chivalry employed by Gaston’s hunting manual and the language of justice invoked by the bear? How are we to understand who uttered the bear’s words? This talk will discuss these questions and more.Sponsored by: Literature Program.
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Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Monday, February 24, at 5:30 pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Samantha Hunt will discuss her work after a screening of her short film The Yellow. Introduced and moderated by Dinaw Mengestu, this event is free and open to the student body.
Samantha Hunt is the author of five books. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner. Her work has been translated into thirteen languages. Her short film The Yellow, was selected for the Toronto International Film Fest. Hunt teaches at Pratt and Bennington College.Sponsored by: Center for Ethics and Writing and Written Arts Program.
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Tuesday, February 25, 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, February 25, 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, February 25, 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, February 25, 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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Thursday, February 27, 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, February 27, 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, February 27, 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.
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Thursday, February 27, 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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Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media
Andrew Campana, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Thursday, February 27, 2025 5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This talk will draw from the just-published book, Expanding Verse, and look at experimental poetic practice in Japan over the last hundred years, focusing on poetry in engagement with cinema in the 1920s and Augmented Reality poetry in the 2010s. Drawing together approaches from literary, media, and disability studies, we will consider how poets push back against the new media technologies of their day, find new possibilities at the edge of media, and in so doing challenge dominant conceptions of both who counts as a poet, and what counts as poetry.Sponsored by: Asian Studies, BTTI, the Division of Languages & Literature, Experimental Humanities, Japanese, and Literature present.
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Monday, February 3, 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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Big Chop: Race, Trauma, and Refusal in Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Shenny De Los Angeles’ “The Ritual to Beauty”
Gisabel Leonardo
Monday, February 3, 2025 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 In Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Lola explores her contentious relationship with her mother, childhood trauma, and racial identity through hair. Similarly, Shenny De Los Angeles’ autobiographical documentary short “The Ritual to Beauty” explores themes of race, gender, and haircare through intimate interviews with Shenny’s mother and grandmother. These women turn to haircare as a site of expression to address the trauma they and the women before them have endured. In critical moments of release, both Lola and Shenny shave their heads in complete refusal of the Dominican aesthetics of race that promote hair straightening. In a Dominican context, the “Big Chop”—as this is often referred to in anglophone cultures—conjures a negative affect that mirrors the traumatic memory of El Corte, or The Parsley Massacre (1937), when tens of thousands of Haitians were slaughtered at the hands of Dominican armed forces. The works explored here confront the racial terror of the corte to heal generational trauma rooted in an anti-Black aesthetic imaginary. Through literature and visual media, this talk explores the nuances and consequences of the “chop” as an act of aesthetic refusal and an affirmation of Dominican Blackness.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL); Spanish Studies.
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Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Monday, February 3, the Written Arts program will be holding a moderation Q&A in RKC 103. Students intending to moderate into the Written Arts will have the opportunity to speak with faculty about the moderation process and specific Written Arts requirements. Students intending to moderate into Written Arts this semester are required to attend this event. Those who are unable to attend are asked to please notify the program coordinator ([email protected]) in advance.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
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Tuesday, February 4, 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, February 4, 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, February 4, 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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Yŏdaesaeng Reclaimed: Rewriting Identity and Resistance in 1950s and 1960s Postwar Women’s Narratives
Monica W. Cho
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 5:30–6:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium This talk illuminates the troubling figure of the postwar yŏdaesaeng (female college student) in two short stories: Han Mu-suk’s “Abyss with Emotions” (Kamjŏngi innŭn simyŏn, 1957) and Son So-hŭi’s “The Sunlight of That Day” (Kunalŭi haetbitŭn, 1960). Yŏdaesaeng encapsulates the troubling memories of Japanese colonialism and the Korean War, as well as principles of the postwar ideologies within her youthful college-educated body in the two stories. I discuss the yŏdaesaeng by first historicizing her colonial progenitor, yŏhaksaeng (schoolgirl), to historically contextualize the Han and Son’s experiences as yŏhaksaeng. I also touch on how colonial writers have mobilized the yŏhaksaeng figure and their descent into madness as fictional representations of modernity and ethnonationalism. In examining Han and Son’s postwar yŏdaesaeng and their descent into madness as both an escape from censorship and as a method of radical resistance against patriarchy, this talk shows how postwar women writers reclaim the exploited figure of the yŏhaksaeng and their madness by rejecting the very use of national representation by focusing on yŏdaesaeng’s feminine desires and experiences. This kind of writing practice has allowed women writers to recuperate their own autonomy as writers, women, and yŏhaksaeng-pasts in the immediate postwar era.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL).
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Tuesday, February 4, 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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Thursday, February 6, 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, February 6, 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, February 6, 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].
FEBRUARY 6 LECTURE HAS BEEN MOVED TO FEBRUARY 18 From Dystopia to Feminist Utopias: Future Visions in South Korean Science Fiction
A talk by Soonyoung Lee
Thursday, February 6, 2025 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This talk explores two prominent imaginaries of the future in South Korean science fiction: the dystopian visions portrayed in Netflix’s global hits such as Hellbound, All of Us Are Dead, and Sweet Home, and the radical futures articulated in women’s science fiction literature by authors like Kim Bo-young and Yun Ihyŏng. Netflix dramas employ horror and fantasy genres to critique societal issues such as class inequality, school violence, and systemic corruption, yet paradoxically normalize militaristic and Cold War ideologies. In contrast, South Korean women’s science fiction uses feminist and ecological frameworks to challenge established binaries while addressing Anthropocene crises and women’s lived experiences. Together, these narratives critique contemporary social structures and envision alternative futures, offering profound insights into the intersection of culture, politics, and imagination. Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL).
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, February 6, 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, February 10, 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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Ruined Splendor: Korean Travelers in (Semi) Colonial Cities
A talk by Aliju Kim
Monday, February 10, 2025 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 Korean travel writings under Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945) are often interpreted as imperial propaganda, yet this narrative overlooks the subversive potential of decadence as a literary aesthetic in these works. This talk examines two examples of Korean travel writings that are set in colonial or semi-colonial cities, written around the Second Sino-Japanese War: Yi Hyosŏk’s Harbin (Haŏlbin), set in Harbin, and Chŏng Pisŏk’s This Atmosphere (I punwigi), set in Beijing. In these stories, the foreign cities present as disquietingly uncanny sites of identification and critique for the Korean travelers. Where Yi’s Harbin laments the loss of urban utopia, Chŏng’s This Atmosphere envisions a violent renewal through the city’s destruction. Together, these works show a resistance to the narrative of capitalist-imperial modernity as progress. Situating the texts within the broader goals of imperial propaganda, this talk highlights the imaginative possibilities that emerge through decadence.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL).
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, February 11, 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, February 11, 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, February 11, 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, February 11, 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].
Mystical Martyrs and Hidden Remains: Puerto Rico's Turbulent 1950s
Dr. Juan Diego Mariátegui
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 Puerto Rico emerged from the 1950s transformed. By 1952, governor Luis Muñoz Marín inaugurated the Free Associated State, a new legal status that ostensibly ended Puerto Rico’s colonial subordination as a “non-incorporated territory” of the United States. Another key development in these heady years was the Korean War (1950-1953), in which 61,000 Puerto Rican soldiers participated. This conflict was crucial because it allowed Muñoz Marín to present Puerto Rico as an exemplary defender of capitalist democracy and thereby discursively support its colonial relationship with the United States. But there is a parallel war that occurred in this period: the armed insurrection known as the Jayuya Uprising that Pedro Albizu Campos and the pro-independence Nationalist Party launched as a response to the Free Associated State. This talk centers on two opposed visions of war, a nationalist one and a neo-imperialist one. Through the speeches of governor Luis Muñoz Marín, poems by the Nationalist mystic Francisco Matos Paoli, and a short story by pro-independence author José Luis González, I explore how literary representations of these armed conflicts formed different anti-colonialist cultural and political subjectivities at a time when the island’s commitment to the U.S. was enshrined.
Juan Diego Mariátegui is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Lehigh University. Prior to that he received a PhD in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies from the University of Chicago as well as a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies from Brown University. His teaching and research focus on modern Puerto Rican and Cuban literature, particularly the way literary representations of space explore the relationship between man and the natural world, the cultural dimensions of colonialism, and the tensions between citizenship and diaspora. Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL); Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, February 13, 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, February 13, 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, February 13, 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, February 13, 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, February 17, 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].
Poetics of Maroonage: Posthuman Spaces in Hispanophone Caribbean Poetry
Dr. Ethel Barja Cuyutupa
Monday, February 17, 2025 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This presentation will discuss twenty-first century poetry by two Afro-Hispanophone Caribbean poets, Mayra Santos-Febres from Puerto Rico and Soleida Ríos from Cuba, to underline how their poetry imagines futures under threatening circumstances such as forced displacement and anti-blackness. How does the longue durée of Black resistance influence twenty-first-century poetics?
Dr. Ethel Barja Cuyutupa will present her research, which takes place through an interdisciplinary approach in between history and poetics and in dialogue with scholars interested in how lyric language is historically inflicted and intertwined with social justice and Blackness. The intertwining of imagery of long-lasting Black resistance and the emotional and political dimensions of the posthuman lyric subject ensures the poetics of maroonage exposes transhistorical genealogies of hope.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL); Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, February 18, 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, February 18, 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, February 18, 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, February 18, 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].
From Dystopia to Feminist Utopias: Future Visions in South Korean Science Fiction
A talk by Soonyoung Lee
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 5:30–6:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium This talk explores two prominent imaginaries of the future in South Korean science fiction: the dystopian visions portrayed in Netflix’s global hits such as Hellbound, All of Us Are Dead, and Sweet Home, and the radical futures articulated in women’s science fiction literature by authors like Kim Bo-young and Yun Ihyŏng. Netflix dramas employ horror and fantasy genres to critique societal issues such as class inequality, school violence, and systemic corruption, yet paradoxically normalize militaristic and Cold War ideologies. In contrast, South Korean women’s science fiction uses feminist and ecological frameworks to challenge established binaries while addressing Anthropocene crises and women’s lived experiences. Together, these narratives critique contemporary social structures and envision alternative futures, offering profound insights into the intersection of culture, politics, and imagination. Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures (FLCL).
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, February 20, 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].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, February 20, 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].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, February 20, 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].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, February 20, 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].
A Celebration of Scholarship: Reception for the new Critical Hannah Arendt Edition and The Life of the Mind
Thursday, February 20, 2025 5–7:30 pm
Library, Finberg House Join the Bard College community for an evening celebrating our colleagues and the launch of the new Critical Hannah Arendt Edition and The Life of the Mind! We'll gather for an engaging discussion about the new editions, featuring welcoming remarks from Dean Deirdre d’Albertis, and a presentation by Thomas Wild and Anne Eusterschulte. Join us for stimulating conversation and refreshments. We look forward to celebrating this exciting achievement with you!
Please direct any questions to [email protected] by: German Studies Program; Hannah Arendt Center.
Olin Humanities, Room 204 A one-day conference on The Critical Hannah Arendt Edition and The Life of the Mind.
The Critical Edition of Hannah Arendt’s Complete Works presents a vital new view of this eminent political thinker. For the first time, all of Hannah Arendt’s published and unpublished works are being made available in a philologically reliable scholarly edition with critical commentary. Two additional features make this edition distinct: Arendt wrote and published nearly all of her books and essays in English and in German; this fundamental multilingualism can now be fully taken into account by future Arendt scholarship. Further, the Critical Edition is designed as an innovative hybrid project, appearing both in print as books and in an open access web portal enabling new technologically supported textual analyses. Over two days of celebration, presentation, and discussion, the audience will be invited to learn about the new edition, to consider the place of editorial scholarship in academic and intellectual life, and to discover together this unknown Arendt.
The Life of the Mind was Hannah Arendt’s unfinished final work. In it, she focuses on three basic mental activities—thinking, willing, and judging—and their relation to the world of appearances and to the human capacity for moral and political action. The new critical edition makes available in print, for the first time, the text of the typescripts as Arendt left them, complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished material, detailed annotations, and extensive scholarly commentary. In this symposium, the editors will introduce this groundbreaking edition, offer three points of entry into the material, and invite the audience to join in a wide-ranging discussion about The Life of the Mind and its urgent contemporary import.
Open to the public.Sponsored by: German Studies Program; Hannah Arendt Center.
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Monday, February 24, 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].
Literature Salon: “You hunt me, and yet I wish you no harm”: A Bear Speaks Back In a Medieval Chronicle
A talk by Karen Sullivan, Irma Brandeis Professor of Romance Literature and Culture
Monday, February 24, 2025 5–6 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 201 According to the chronicler Jean Froissart, Sir Peter of Béarn, the half-brother of Gaston Phoebus, III count of Foix and X viscount of Béarn, was hunting one day in the Forest of Biscay when he killed a large bear. When he brought the animal’s carcass home back to his castle, his wife fainted and had to be carried off to her chamber. After she came to, she informed her husband that she needed to leave immediately on a pilgrimage with their two children and to take with them a fair amount of her wealth. She never returned from this trip. According to a squire associated with Gaston’s household, she explained to her servants that the bear her husband had killed was same one her father had once hunted. She added that, while her father was pursuing this bear, he had heard someone say, “You hunt me, and yet I wish you no harm.”
Nowadays, we are familiar with animal rights arguments that inveigh against the morality of hunting. But what meaning did the words attributed to the bear in Froissart’s chronicle possess for its fourteenth-century audience? What is the relation between the language of chivalry employed by Gaston’s hunting manual and the language of justice invoked by the bear? How are we to understand who uttered the bear’s words? This talk will discuss these questions and more.Sponsored by: Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium On Monday, February 24, at 5:30 pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Samantha Hunt will discuss her work after a screening of her short film The Yellow. Introduced and moderated by Dinaw Mengestu, this event is free and open to the student body.
Samantha Hunt is the author of five books. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner. Her work has been translated into thirteen languages. Her short film The Yellow, was selected for the Toronto International Film Fest. Hunt teaches at Pratt and Bennington College.Sponsored by: Center for Ethics and Writing and Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, February 25, 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].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, February 25, 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, February 25, 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, February 25, 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].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, February 27, 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].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, February 27, 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].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, February 27, 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].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, February 27, 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].
Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media
Andrew Campana, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Thursday, February 27, 2025 5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102 This talk will draw from the just-published book, Expanding Verse, and look at experimental poetic practice in Japan over the last hundred years, focusing on poetry in engagement with cinema in the 1920s and Augmented Reality poetry in the 2010s. Drawing together approaches from literary, media, and disability studies, we will consider how poets push back against the new media technologies of their day, find new possibilities at the edge of media, and in so doing challenge dominant conceptions of both who counts as a poet, and what counts as poetry.Sponsored by: Asian Studies, BTTI, the Division of Languages & Literature, Experimental Humanities, Japanese, and Literature present.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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