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Italian TablePlease join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Tuesday, April 2, 2024Kline, College Room |
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Russian TablePlease join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Wednesday, April 17, 2024Kline, College Room |
Ukrainian TablePlease join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Thursday, April 18, 2024Kline, College Room |
The Bill Mullen Recitation ContestFriday, April 19, 2024Bard Hall |
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Monday, April 1, 2024
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].
Monday, April 1, 2024
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].
Monday, April 1, 2024
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].
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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].
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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].
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Avery Art Center
“…one of the most dramatic and charged Russian film debuts in recent memory. The movie refashions the novel as a revenge tragedy about a writer’s struggle under censorship, borrowing from the story of Bulgakov’s own life” (Paul Sonne, New York Times).
“… a blistering critique of Soviet power and authoritarianism… a box-office smash and a cultural phenomenon …” (Christopher Vourlias, Variety).
“As Russia becomes more repressive, it is possible that Master and Margarita could be one of the last films of its kind, a blockbuster where the criticism of the state lies on the surface.” (Andrew Roth, Guardian).
The American-Russian film-maker Michael Lockshin was born in the US and moved to the Soviet Union as a child in 1986. His first feature film, Silver Skates (2020) became the first Russian-language original film on Netflix. Lockshin directed and coauthored The Master and Margarita after Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel, composed in 1928–1940 and published posthumously in 1967–68. Released on January 25, the film was blasted by pro-Kremlin propagandists for its “sharp, anti-Soviet, anti-modern Russian theme.” Russian ideologues’ appeals to cancel Lockshin and his film have been brought about by the director’s pronouncements against the war and his support for Ukraine.Sponsored by: Center for Ethics and Writing, Center for Moving Image Arts, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, and Film and Electronic Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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].
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
In this performance, artist JJJJJerome Ellis presents portions of their latest project Aster of Ceremonies. Using piano, saxophone, electronics, and voice, they’ll perform excerpts from “Benediction,” a devotional song cycle attending to 18th and 19th century Black runaway slaves who stuttered. This lecture-performance is an ongoing attempt to, in the words of critic Hortense Spillers, “hear [slavery’s] stutter more clearly.”
JJJJJerome Ellis (any pronoun) is a disabled animal, artist, and person who stutters. Through music, performance, writing, video, and photography, the artist asks what stuttering can teach us about justice. Born in 1989 to Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants, the artist lives in Norfolk, Virginia, USA with their wife, ecologist-poet Luísa Black Ellis. Ellis has been a lecturer in Sound Design at Yale University. Their debut album, The Clearing (2021), was called “an astonishing, must-listen project” (The Guardian). It was co-produced by NNA Tapes and The Poetry Project, and it was released with an accompanying book published by Wendy’s Subway. The Clearing won the 2022 Anna Rabinowitz Prize.
The artist has received a Fulbright Fellowship (2015), a United States Artists Fellowship (2022), a Foundation for Contemporary Art Grants to Artists Award (2022), a Creative Capital Grant (2022). The artist has received residencies at MacDowell (2019, 2022), Ucross (2021), Lincoln Center Theater (2019), ISSUE Project Room (2021), and La MaMa (2021).
JJJJJerome’s solo and collaborative musical/performance work has been presented by Lincoln Center, The Poetry Project, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Sawdust, WNYC, and ISSUE Project Room (New York); Venice Biennale 2023; Haus der Kunst (Munich); Rewire Festival (The Hague); Schauspielhaus Zürich; Chrysler Hall (Norfolk, Virginia); MASS MoCA (North Adams, Massachusetts); Arraymusic (Toronto); and the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), among others. The artist’s visual work (video and photography) has been presented by Oklahoma Contemporary (Oklahoma City), Juf (Madrid), Artspace New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), and Ballroom Marfa (Marfa, Texas). They have received commissions from the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, The Shed, and REDCAT.
Ellis is a signed artist with NNA Tapes and is represented by Michaël Gardiner at Heavy Trip, Pascal Mungioli at Stay Service, and Ben Izzo at A3 Artists Agency. The artist’s work has been covered by the Guardian, This American Life, Pitchfork, Artforum, Black Enso, and Christian Science Monitor.
Read more about JJJJerome's work here. Sponsored by: Center for Ethics and Writing and the Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
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].
Thursday, April 4, 2024
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.
Since Ukrainian language instruction is not currently available at Bard, we also welcome folks interested in learning some basic Ukrainian phrases to join us!Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 4, 2024
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].
Thursday, April 4, 2024
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].
Monday, April 8, 2024
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].
Monday, April 8, 2024
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].
Monday, April 8, 2024
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].
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
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].
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
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].
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
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].
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
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].
Ross Benjamin, translator
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 102
An essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers.
"This new and scrupulously faithful translation of the Diaries brings us...the true inner life of the twentieth century’s most complex and enigmatic literary prophet." —Cynthia Ozick, author of Antiquities
Dating from 1909 to 1923, the handwritten diaries contain various kinds of writing: accounts of daily events, reflections, observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, accounts of dreams, as well as finished stories. This volume makes available for the first time in English a comprehensive reconstruction of the diary entries and provides substantial new content, including details, names, literary works, and passages of a sexual nature that were omitted from previous publications. By faithfully reproducing the diaries’ distinctive—and often surprisingly unpolished—writing in Kafka’s notebooks, translator Ross Benjamin brings to light not only the author’s use of the diaries for literary experimentation and private self-expression, but also their value as a work of art in themselves.
Ross Benjamin’s translations include Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion, Joseph Roth’s Job, and Daniel Kehlmann’s You Should Have Left and Tyll. He was awarded the 2010 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar’s Speak, Nabokov, and he received a Guggenheim fellowship for his work on Franz Kafka’s diaries.
Jana Schmidt is an assistant professor of German Studies at Bard College. She writes about German and American, transatlantic and exilic literatures.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 11, 2024
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.
Since Ukrainian language instruction is not currently available at Bard, we also welcome folks interested in learning some basic Ukrainian phrases to join us!Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 11, 2024
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].
Thursday, April 11, 2024
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].
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
This presentation is devoted to contemporary Russophone Antiwar Poetry. I will talk about an anthology Doomsday Poetry, recently published in Russia, which I edited. The volume testifies to the complex state of current Russian literature: its bewilderment, its turmoil, its profound shock. It includes contemporary Russophone Antiwar poems by more than 100 authors who reside in Russia, Ukraine, Europe, America, and the Near and Far East—their years of birth range from 1937 to 1997. All of the authors are united by their use of the art of poetry as the means of making sense of a collective trauma. The anthology opens with poems written just prior to the beginning of the military invasion of Ukraine by Putin’s Russia and ends with those dated July 25. I will introduce selected authors (both in Russian and in English translation) and survey the reception of the book upon its publication, claiming that Doomsday Poetry stands as both a collective authorial statement and a mirror to the fractured state of Russian literature and society, echoing the broader discourse of war, cultural identity, and the role of art in times of crisis.Sponsored by: Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 15, 2024
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].
Monday, April 15, 2024
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].
Monday, April 15, 2024
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].
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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].
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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].
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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].
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202
Culturally and often personally, fairy tales, folklore, and myth are the humanity’s earliest narratives. Fiction writers have drawn from this source throughout the history of literature—both to get inspired themselves and to inspire others. Carol Goodman will discuss the influence that fairy tales, folklore and myth have had on her writing, from the traditional stories encountered in childhood to the myth-inflected novels, including Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre.
Carol Goodman is the author of 25 novels, including The Seduction of Water, which won the 2003 Hammett Prize, The Widow’s House, which won the 2018 Mary Higgins Clark Award, and The Night Visitors, which won the 2020 Mary Higgins Clark Award. Her latest novel is The Bones of the Story. She teaches writing and literature at SUNY New Paltz and lives in the Hudson Valley. Sponsored by: Center for Ethics and Writing and Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 102
Il Moro (The Moor), directed by Daphne Di Cinto, is a short film delving into the overlooked narrative of Alessandro de’ Medici, Duke of Florence in 1530 and the first family member of African lineage to ascend to a leadership position in Renaissance Europe. By recounting Alessandro's unique history, the film endeavors to unearth a significant story from a forgotten past that sheds light on the ongoing struggles faced by Black Europeans today.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
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].
Thursday, April 18, 2024
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.
Since Ukrainian language instruction is not currently available at Bard, we also welcome folks interested in learning some basic Ukrainian phrases to join us!Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 18, 2024
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].
Thursday, April 18, 2024
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].
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Yiddish has no clear boundaries of either space or time. Some speak of the beginning of Yiddish at the end of the 19th Century, with the novels of Mendele Mokher Sforim. Some go back a further century to the stories of Rabbi Nakhman of Braslev. And some go back to the 13th and 15th centuries. Some people say that it’s a dead language, and some people would be quite upset by such an assertion. Some contradictory images of Yiddish are that it is the language of poor ignorant people, but that Yiddish has reached impressive cultural feats in literature and criticism, poetry, the theater, and even in the cinema. Some people think that Yiddish is a sad language, and others think that it is actually funny.
Insight to Yiddish language, history, and culture (and the forthcoming Yiddish courses in 2024–25) will be provided in an information session on Thursday, April 18, at 2 pm, in Weis Cinema.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 352-222-1349, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Bard Hall
On Thursday, April 18, at 6 pm in Bard Hall, Aaliyah Bilal will read from her work. She will be introduced by Rachel Ephraim, Bard Early College Hudson Valley faculty member. The reading will be followed by a discussion moderated by her editor Yahdon Israel, senior editor at Simon & Schuster.
Aaliyah Bilal was born and raised in Prince George’s County, Maryland. She has degrees from Oberlin College and the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies. She’s published stories and essays with the Michigan Quarterly Review and The Rumpus. Temple Folk is her first short story collection.
Yahdon Israel is a Senior editor at Simon Schuster and founder of Literaryswag, a cultural movement that intersects literature and fashion to make books accessible. He has written for The New Inquiry, LitHub, Poets and Writers, Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic. He teaches Creative Writing at the MFA Program at City College. Read more about Yahdon's work here.
More about Temple Folk
Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction
“Temple Folk is more than a special literary accomplishment, it is a gift of glorious songs. The people in the nation of Islam have not appeared very often in literature. Now, Aaliyah Bilal arrives with a splendid and grand collection of 10 stories that, with sensitivity and insight and skill, give us a world of people, our loved ones, and neighbors, who decided that life might be better in the nation. We have long needed these stories, these songs, and this gift should be praised from as many rooftops as possible.” —Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World
“With her landmark debut, Temple Folk, Aaliyah Bilal shines a light on a Black American community that, for all its influence, hasn’t been given its due in fiction—the Nation of Islam. The deftness of her storytelling allows total access to characters struggling to practice faith as a means of survival. This is a truly masterful work, full of compassion, humor, nuance, and great insight.” –Emily Raboteau, Author of Searching for Zion
Read more about Aaliyah's work here. Sponsored by: Center for Ethics and Writing, Written Arts Program, and Bard Early College Hudson Valley.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Friday, April 19, 2024
Bard Hall
In Ancient Greece, professional performers of Homer were called Rhapsodes. Their job was to memorize Homeric poetry and perform it at festivals around Greece. Today we honor their tradition and that of Bill Mullen, a former professor of Classics and Rhetoric at Bard College.
The Contest
The Bill Mullen Recitation Contest is an annual competition amongst Bard College and BHSEC Cleveland students. The recitation prize competition encourages the love of literature, the joy in oral recitation, the committing to memory of great poetry, the love of public speaking, and the agonal spirit, all of which are at the heart of how we remember Bill Mullen’s intellectual legacy. The Bill Mullen Recitation contest aims to expose students to, and perhaps instill a love for, the art of memorizing and reciting poetry. Read more here.
We are no longer accepting entries as we have reached our upper limit for capacity at the event!
Contest Rules
- Participants must be undergraduates at Bard College.
- Poem must be recited in English (translations into English are welcome).
- The poem’s author must be deceased.
- Full texts only, no excerpts.
- Recitation length: no longer than 3 minutes.
- Entry deadline: April 12, 2024.
Prizes:
$500 1st place
$100 2nd place
Who Is Bill Mullen?
In 2021, Bard College announced the William C. Mullen Memorial Fund, created by a generous donation from longtime Bard professor Bill Mullen. This fund is used to promote his legacy through grants to any of Bill’s former students to continue their studies in the liberal arts and sciences. William “Bill” Mullen (1946–2017) was a professor of classics and taught at Bard from 1985 until his death.
Read more about Professor Mullen here
Who Are the Judges?
Thomas Bartscherer is the Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College. He writes on the intersection of literature and philosophy, with a particular focus on tragic drama, aesthetics, and performance. He also writes on contemporary art, new media technology, and the history and practice of liberal education.
Ann Lauterbach is a poet and essayist. Her eleventh collection of poetry, Door, will be published by Penguin Random House in March (2023). She writes at the intersection of poetics, politics and the visual arts. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1986) and a MacArthur Fellowship (1993), she is Ruth and David Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature (Written Arts) at Bard College.
Sponsored by: Bard High School Early College; Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Monday, April 22, 2024
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].
Monday, April 22, 2024
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].
Monday, April 22, 2024
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].
EVENT CANCELED
Novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Hand will read from new work at Bard College on Monday, April 22 at 4:00 pm in Weis Cinema, located in the Bertelsmann Campus Center. Hand is the author of over 20 genre-spanning, award-winning novels and collections of short fiction. Her most recent novel, A Haunting on the Hill, is an homage to Shirley Jackson’s classic The Haunting of Hill House and was commissioned by Jackson’s family. The reading, which is being presented as part of Bradford Morrow’s course on innovative contemporary fiction, is free and open to the public.
A longtime critic and reviewer, Hand’s writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Boston Review, Salon, the Los Angeles Times, and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, among other outlets. Her noir novels featuring post-punk photographer and provocateur Cass Neary have been translated into myriad languages and are being developed for a TV series. Hand has been an instructor at writing workshops across the US and abroad, including Oxford and Pakistan, and is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing. She divides her time between the Maine coast and North London, and is at work on Unspeakable Things, which is loosely inspired by Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca.
Praise for Elizabeth Hand
“Hand has a gift for the sensuous, evocative detail, and her descriptions are often simultaneously seductive and spooky.” —The New Yorker
“A Haunting on the Hill is a love letter to Hill House and a very impressive tribute to Shirley Jackson. It is also a tremendous addition to Hand’s already outstanding, multi-genre oeuvre.” —Gabino Iglesias, NPR
“Only the brilliant Elizabeth Hand could so expertly honor Jackson’s rage, wit, and vision with a 21st century twist. The old place is as creepy, disorienting, and menacing as ever.” —Paul Tremblay
“To describe Elizabeth Hand as a mystery writer is to not have read another Elizabeth Hand book. Over decades, she has proved that she’s eclectic, genre-bending, and comfortable in fantasy and mystery, crime, myth, magic—and more.” —The Washington Post
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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].
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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].
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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].
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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].
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 102
Many Japanese authors from the 1880s to 1900s either converted to Christianity or seriously flirted with religion. By the 1910s, however, the number of vocally religious authors had plummeted. Was literature therefore purged of the supernatural and filled instead with scientific rationality? Not exactly. I will argue that in Japan, and across the globe, the modern shift away from institutional religion, especially Christianity, did not necessarily foster a broader “disenchantment.” Instead, Japanese authors, along with their contemporaries across the globe, sought alternative avenues for the spiritual and supernatural. Some speculated that hypnotism would allow access to powers that the rational mind could not reach. Others investigated the mystical teachings of medieval Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism for ideas on how the modern subject might still access aspects of reality that science could not. Most importantly, art, including the best works of literature, was seen as a possible vessel for modern enchantment. In this talk I will offer a brief history of religion and secularization in modern Japan before moving on to several case studies that expose the complex contours of belief among several authors in the early twentieth century.
Joshua Rogers is an assistant professor at Queens College, CUNY, teaching Japanese literature and cinema. Their research examines how religion and secularity impacted modern Japanese fiction and aesthetics. Joshua is the author of the upcoming article “Politics of the Spirit: Secularity and the Power of Art in 1910s Japan,” and is working on a book manuscript titled Secularity and Enchantment in Modern Japanese Literature.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Japanese Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 25, 2024
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.
Since Ukrainian language instruction is not currently available at Bard, we also welcome folks interested in learning some basic Ukrainian phrases to join us!Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Thursday, April 25, 2024
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].
Thursday, April 25, 2024
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].
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
On Thursday, April 25 at 6 pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Terrance Hayes will read from his work. He will be introduced by Erica Kaufman, Bard Writer in Residence and Director of the Institute for Writing and Thinking. The reading will be followed by a discussion moderated by Dawn Lundy Martin, Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.
Terrance Hayes is the author of seven poetry collections: So to Speak; American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin, a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and TS Eliot Prize; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music, recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Hip Logic, winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series; and Wind in a Box. His prose collection, To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Hayes has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and Whiting Foundation, and is a professor of English at New York University.Sponsored by: Center for Ethics and Writing and the Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, April 29, 2024
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].
Monday, April 29, 2024
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].
Monday, April 29, 2024
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].
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
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].
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
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].
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
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].
Korean Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, April 1, 2024
12–1 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Japanese Table
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Monday, April 1, 2024
1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Chinese Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, April 1, 2024
5–6 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Italian Table
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
1–2 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Spanish Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
5–6 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
The Master and Margarita (2024)
Film Screening and Director Q&A with Michael Lockshin
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
5:30–9 pm
Avery Art Center“…one of the most dramatic and charged Russian film debuts in recent memory. The movie refashions the novel as a revenge tragedy about a writer’s struggle under censorship, borrowing from the story of Bulgakov’s own life” (Paul Sonne, New York Times).
“… a blistering critique of Soviet power and authoritarianism… a box-office smash and a cultural phenomenon …” (Christopher Vourlias, Variety).
“As Russia becomes more repressive, it is possible that Master and Margarita could be one of the last films of its kind, a blockbuster where the criticism of the state lies on the surface.” (Andrew Roth, Guardian).
The American-Russian film-maker Michael Lockshin was born in the US and moved to the Soviet Union as a child in 1986. His first feature film, Silver Skates (2020) became the first Russian-language original film on Netflix. Lockshin directed and coauthored The Master and Margarita after Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel, composed in 1928–1940 and published posthumously in 1967–68. Released on January 25, the film was blasted by pro-Kremlin propagandists for its “sharp, anti-Soviet, anti-modern Russian theme.” Russian ideologues’ appeals to cancel Lockshin and his film have been brought about by the director’s pronouncements against the war and his support for Ukraine.Sponsored by: Center for Ethics and Writing, Center for Moving Image Arts, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, and Film and Electronic Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
6–7 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Aster of Ceremonies
A Performance with JJJJJerome Ellis
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
6:30–8 pm
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceIn this performance, artist JJJJJerome Ellis presents portions of their latest project Aster of Ceremonies. Using piano, saxophone, electronics, and voice, they’ll perform excerpts from “Benediction,” a devotional song cycle attending to 18th and 19th century Black runaway slaves who stuttered. This lecture-performance is an ongoing attempt to, in the words of critic Hortense Spillers, “hear [slavery’s] stutter more clearly.”
JJJJJerome Ellis (any pronoun) is a disabled animal, artist, and person who stutters. Through music, performance, writing, video, and photography, the artist asks what stuttering can teach us about justice. Born in 1989 to Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants, the artist lives in Norfolk, Virginia, USA with their wife, ecologist-poet Luísa Black Ellis. Ellis has been a lecturer in Sound Design at Yale University. Their debut album, The Clearing (2021), was called “an astonishing, must-listen project” (The Guardian). It was co-produced by NNA Tapes and The Poetry Project, and it was released with an accompanying book published by Wendy’s Subway. The Clearing won the 2022 Anna Rabinowitz Prize.
The artist has received a Fulbright Fellowship (2015), a United States Artists Fellowship (2022), a Foundation for Contemporary Art Grants to Artists Award (2022), a Creative Capital Grant (2022). The artist has received residencies at MacDowell (2019, 2022), Ucross (2021), Lincoln Center Theater (2019), ISSUE Project Room (2021), and La MaMa (2021).
JJJJJerome’s solo and collaborative musical/performance work has been presented by Lincoln Center, The Poetry Project, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Sawdust, WNYC, and ISSUE Project Room (New York); Venice Biennale 2023; Haus der Kunst (Munich); Rewire Festival (The Hague); Schauspielhaus Zürich; Chrysler Hall (Norfolk, Virginia); MASS MoCA (North Adams, Massachusetts); Arraymusic (Toronto); and the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), among others. The artist’s visual work (video and photography) has been presented by Oklahoma Contemporary (Oklahoma City), Juf (Madrid), Artspace New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), and Ballroom Marfa (Marfa, Texas). They have received commissions from the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, The Shed, and REDCAT.
Ellis is a signed artist with NNA Tapes and is represented by Michaël Gardiner at Heavy Trip, Pascal Mungioli at Stay Service, and Ben Izzo at A3 Artists Agency. The artist’s work has been covered by the Guardian, This American Life, Pitchfork, Artforum, Black Enso, and Christian Science Monitor.
Read more about JJJJerome's work here. Sponsored by: Center for Ethics and Writing and the Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Russian Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
12–1 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Ukrainian Table
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Thursday, April 4, 2024
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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.
Since Ukrainian language instruction is not currently available at Bard, we also welcome folks interested in learning some basic Ukrainian phrases to join us!Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
French Table
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Thursday, April 4, 2024
12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
German Table
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Thursday, April 4, 2024
1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Korean Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, April 8, 2024
12–1 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Japanese Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, April 8, 2024
1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Chinese Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, April 8, 2024
5–6 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Italian Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
1–2 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Spanish Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
5–6 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
6–7 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Russian Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
12–1 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Ross Benjamin, translator
Discussant: Jana Schmidt
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
5:30–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102An essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers.
"This new and scrupulously faithful translation of the Diaries brings us...the true inner life of the twentieth century’s most complex and enigmatic literary prophet." —Cynthia Ozick, author of Antiquities
Dating from 1909 to 1923, the handwritten diaries contain various kinds of writing: accounts of daily events, reflections, observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, accounts of dreams, as well as finished stories. This volume makes available for the first time in English a comprehensive reconstruction of the diary entries and provides substantial new content, including details, names, literary works, and passages of a sexual nature that were omitted from previous publications. By faithfully reproducing the diaries’ distinctive—and often surprisingly unpolished—writing in Kafka’s notebooks, translator Ross Benjamin brings to light not only the author’s use of the diaries for literary experimentation and private self-expression, but also their value as a work of art in themselves.
Ross Benjamin’s translations include Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion, Joseph Roth’s Job, and Daniel Kehlmann’s You Should Have Left and Tyll. He was awarded the 2010 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar’s Speak, Nabokov, and he received a Guggenheim fellowship for his work on Franz Kafka’s diaries.
Jana Schmidt is an assistant professor of German Studies at Bard College. She writes about German and American, transatlantic and exilic literatures.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Ukrainian Table
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Thursday, April 11, 2024
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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.
Since Ukrainian language instruction is not currently available at Bard, we also welcome folks interested in learning some basic Ukrainian phrases to join us!Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
French Table
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Thursday, April 11, 2024
12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
German Table
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Thursday, April 11, 2024
1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Language in Coma: Contemporary Russophone Antiwar Poetry
Yuri Leving, Princeton University
Thursday, April 11, 2024
5:30–7 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumThis presentation is devoted to contemporary Russophone Antiwar Poetry. I will talk about an anthology Doomsday Poetry, recently published in Russia, which I edited. The volume testifies to the complex state of current Russian literature: its bewilderment, its turmoil, its profound shock. It includes contemporary Russophone Antiwar poems by more than 100 authors who reside in Russia, Ukraine, Europe, America, and the Near and Far East—their years of birth range from 1937 to 1997. All of the authors are united by their use of the art of poetry as the means of making sense of a collective trauma. The anthology opens with poems written just prior to the beginning of the military invasion of Ukraine by Putin’s Russia and ends with those dated July 25. I will introduce selected authors (both in Russian and in English translation) and survey the reception of the book upon its publication, claiming that Doomsday Poetry stands as both a collective authorial statement and a mirror to the fractured state of Russian literature and society, echoing the broader discourse of war, cultural identity, and the role of art in times of crisis.Sponsored by: Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Korean Table
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Monday, April 15, 2024
12–1 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Japanese Table
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Monday, April 15, 2024
1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Chinese Table
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Monday, April 15, 2024
5–6 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Italian Table
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
1–2 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Spanish Table
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
5–6 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Arabic Table
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
6–7 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Myth and Fairy Tale in the Modern Novel
A Talk with Carol Goodman
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
5–6:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 202Culturally and often personally, fairy tales, folklore, and myth are the humanity’s earliest narratives. Fiction writers have drawn from this source throughout the history of literature—both to get inspired themselves and to inspire others. Carol Goodman will discuss the influence that fairy tales, folklore and myth have had on her writing, from the traditional stories encountered in childhood to the myth-inflected novels, including Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre.
Carol Goodman is the author of 25 novels, including The Seduction of Water, which won the 2003 Hammett Prize, The Widow’s House, which won the 2018 Mary Higgins Clark Award, and The Night Visitors, which won the 2020 Mary Higgins Clark Award. Her latest novel is The Bones of the Story. She teaches writing and literature at SUNY New Paltz and lives in the Hudson Valley. Sponsored by: Center for Ethics and Writing and Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Il Moro (2022)
By Daphne Di Cinto
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
7–8:30 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102Il Moro (The Moor), directed by Daphne Di Cinto, is a short film delving into the overlooked narrative of Alessandro de’ Medici, Duke of Florence in 1530 and the first family member of African lineage to ascend to a leadership position in Renaissance Europe. By recounting Alessandro's unique history, the film endeavors to unearth a significant story from a forgotten past that sheds light on the ongoing struggles faced by Black Europeans today.
Following the screening, a panel discussion, and Q&A with Bard Faculty
Tabetha Ewing, History and African Studies
Joseph Luzzi, Comparative Literature
Luisanna Sardu, Italian Studies
Sponsored by: Bard Language Lab; Italian Studies Program.Tabetha Ewing, History and African Studies
Joseph Luzzi, Comparative Literature
Luisanna Sardu, Italian Studies
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Russian Table
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024
12–1 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Ukrainian Table
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Thursday, April 18, 2024
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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.
Since Ukrainian language instruction is not currently available at Bard, we also welcome folks interested in learning some basic Ukrainian phrases to join us!Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
French Table
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Thursday, April 18, 2024
12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
German Table
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Thursday, April 18, 2024
1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
What is Yiddish?
In Fall 2024, we will introduce a language class in Yiddish! But what is Yiddish?
Thursday, April 18, 2024
2–3 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaYiddish has no clear boundaries of either space or time. Some speak of the beginning of Yiddish at the end of the 19th Century, with the novels of Mendele Mokher Sforim. Some go back a further century to the stories of Rabbi Nakhman of Braslev. And some go back to the 13th and 15th centuries. Some people say that it’s a dead language, and some people would be quite upset by such an assertion. Some contradictory images of Yiddish are that it is the language of poor ignorant people, but that Yiddish has reached impressive cultural feats in literature and criticism, poetry, the theater, and even in the cinema. Some people think that Yiddish is a sad language, and others think that it is actually funny.
Insight to Yiddish language, history, and culture (and the forthcoming Yiddish courses in 2024–25) will be provided in an information session on Thursday, April 18, at 2 pm, in Weis Cinema.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.
For more information, call 352-222-1349, or e-mail [email protected].
A Reading with Aaliyah Bilal
Thursday, April 18, 2024
6 pm
Bard HallOn Thursday, April 18, at 6 pm in Bard Hall, Aaliyah Bilal will read from her work. She will be introduced by Rachel Ephraim, Bard Early College Hudson Valley faculty member. The reading will be followed by a discussion moderated by her editor Yahdon Israel, senior editor at Simon & Schuster.
Aaliyah Bilal was born and raised in Prince George’s County, Maryland. She has degrees from Oberlin College and the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies. She’s published stories and essays with the Michigan Quarterly Review and The Rumpus. Temple Folk is her first short story collection.
Yahdon Israel is a Senior editor at Simon Schuster and founder of Literaryswag, a cultural movement that intersects literature and fashion to make books accessible. He has written for The New Inquiry, LitHub, Poets and Writers, Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic. He teaches Creative Writing at the MFA Program at City College. Read more about Yahdon's work here.
More about Temple Folk
Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction
“Temple Folk is more than a special literary accomplishment, it is a gift of glorious songs. The people in the nation of Islam have not appeared very often in literature. Now, Aaliyah Bilal arrives with a splendid and grand collection of 10 stories that, with sensitivity and insight and skill, give us a world of people, our loved ones, and neighbors, who decided that life might be better in the nation. We have long needed these stories, these songs, and this gift should be praised from as many rooftops as possible.” —Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World
“With her landmark debut, Temple Folk, Aaliyah Bilal shines a light on a Black American community that, for all its influence, hasn’t been given its due in fiction—the Nation of Islam. The deftness of her storytelling allows total access to characters struggling to practice faith as a means of survival. This is a truly masterful work, full of compassion, humor, nuance, and great insight.” –Emily Raboteau, Author of Searching for Zion
Read more about Aaliyah's work here. Sponsored by: Center for Ethics and Writing, Written Arts Program, and Bard Early College Hudson Valley.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
The Bill Mullen Recitation Contest
Friday, April 19, 2024
3–5 pm
Bard HallIn Ancient Greece, professional performers of Homer were called Rhapsodes. Their job was to memorize Homeric poetry and perform it at festivals around Greece. Today we honor their tradition and that of Bill Mullen, a former professor of Classics and Rhetoric at Bard College.
The Contest
The Bill Mullen Recitation Contest is an annual competition amongst Bard College and BHSEC Cleveland students. The recitation prize competition encourages the love of literature, the joy in oral recitation, the committing to memory of great poetry, the love of public speaking, and the agonal spirit, all of which are at the heart of how we remember Bill Mullen’s intellectual legacy. The Bill Mullen Recitation contest aims to expose students to, and perhaps instill a love for, the art of memorizing and reciting poetry. Read more here.
We are no longer accepting entries as we have reached our upper limit for capacity at the event!
Contest Rules
- Participants must be undergraduates at Bard College.
- Poem must be recited in English (translations into English are welcome).
- The poem’s author must be deceased.
- Full texts only, no excerpts.
- Recitation length: no longer than 3 minutes.
- Entry deadline: April 12, 2024.
Prizes:
$500 1st place
$100 2nd place
Who Is Bill Mullen?
In 2021, Bard College announced the William C. Mullen Memorial Fund, created by a generous donation from longtime Bard professor Bill Mullen. This fund is used to promote his legacy through grants to any of Bill’s former students to continue their studies in the liberal arts and sciences. William “Bill” Mullen (1946–2017) was a professor of classics and taught at Bard from 1985 until his death.
Read more about Professor Mullen here
Who Are the Judges?
Thomas Bartscherer is the Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College. He writes on the intersection of literature and philosophy, with a particular focus on tragic drama, aesthetics, and performance. He also writes on contemporary art, new media technology, and the history and practice of liberal education.
Ann Lauterbach is a poet and essayist. Her eleventh collection of poetry, Door, will be published by Penguin Random House in March (2023). She writes at the intersection of poetics, politics and the visual arts. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1986) and a MacArthur Fellowship (1993), she is Ruth and David Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature (Written Arts) at Bard College.
Sponsored by: Bard High School Early College; Hannah Arendt Center.
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Korean Table
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Monday, April 22, 2024
12–1 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Japanese Table
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Monday, April 22, 2024
1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Chinese Table
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Monday, April 22, 2024
5–6 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
CANCELED: A Reading by Elizabeth Hand
The acclaimed, genre-spanning writer reads from her work.
Monday, April 22, 2024
Campus Center, Weis CinemaEVENT CANCELED
Novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Hand will read from new work at Bard College on Monday, April 22 at 4:00 pm in Weis Cinema, located in the Bertelsmann Campus Center. Hand is the author of over 20 genre-spanning, award-winning novels and collections of short fiction. Her most recent novel, A Haunting on the Hill, is an homage to Shirley Jackson’s classic The Haunting of Hill House and was commissioned by Jackson’s family. The reading, which is being presented as part of Bradford Morrow’s course on innovative contemporary fiction, is free and open to the public.
A longtime critic and reviewer, Hand’s writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Boston Review, Salon, the Los Angeles Times, and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, among other outlets. Her noir novels featuring post-punk photographer and provocateur Cass Neary have been translated into myriad languages and are being developed for a TV series. Hand has been an instructor at writing workshops across the US and abroad, including Oxford and Pakistan, and is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing. She divides her time between the Maine coast and North London, and is at work on Unspeakable Things, which is loosely inspired by Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca.
Praise for Elizabeth Hand
“Hand has a gift for the sensuous, evocative detail, and her descriptions are often simultaneously seductive and spooky.” —The New Yorker
“A Haunting on the Hill is a love letter to Hill House and a very impressive tribute to Shirley Jackson. It is also a tremendous addition to Hand’s already outstanding, multi-genre oeuvre.” —Gabino Iglesias, NPR
“Only the brilliant Elizabeth Hand could so expertly honor Jackson’s rage, wit, and vision with a 21st century twist. The old place is as creepy, disorienting, and menacing as ever.” —Paul Tremblay
“To describe Elizabeth Hand as a mystery writer is to not have read another Elizabeth Hand book. Over decades, she has proved that she’s eclectic, genre-bending, and comfortable in fantasy and mystery, crime, myth, magic—and more.” —The Washington Post
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Italian Table
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
1–2 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Spanish Table
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
5–6 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Arabic Table
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
6–7 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Russian Table
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
12–1 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Religion, Modernity, and Japanese Literature in the Early 20th Century
Joshua Rogers, Assistant Professor, Queens College, CUNY
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
5:30–7 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102Many Japanese authors from the 1880s to 1900s either converted to Christianity or seriously flirted with religion. By the 1910s, however, the number of vocally religious authors had plummeted. Was literature therefore purged of the supernatural and filled instead with scientific rationality? Not exactly. I will argue that in Japan, and across the globe, the modern shift away from institutional religion, especially Christianity, did not necessarily foster a broader “disenchantment.” Instead, Japanese authors, along with their contemporaries across the globe, sought alternative avenues for the spiritual and supernatural. Some speculated that hypnotism would allow access to powers that the rational mind could not reach. Others investigated the mystical teachings of medieval Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism for ideas on how the modern subject might still access aspects of reality that science could not. Most importantly, art, including the best works of literature, was seen as a possible vessel for modern enchantment. In this talk I will offer a brief history of religion and secularization in modern Japan before moving on to several case studies that expose the complex contours of belief among several authors in the early twentieth century.
Joshua Rogers is an assistant professor at Queens College, CUNY, teaching Japanese literature and cinema. Their research examines how religion and secularity impacted modern Japanese fiction and aesthetics. Joshua is the author of the upcoming article “Politics of the Spirit: Secularity and the Power of Art in 1910s Japan,” and is working on a book manuscript titled Secularity and Enchantment in Modern Japanese Literature.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Japanese Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Ukrainian Table
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Thursday, April 25, 2024
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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.
Since Ukrainian language instruction is not currently available at Bard, we also welcome folks interested in learning some basic Ukrainian phrases to join us!Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
French Table
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Thursday, April 25, 2024
12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
German Table
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Thursday, April 25, 2024
1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
A Reading with Terrance Hayes
Thursday, April 25, 2024
6 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumOn Thursday, April 25 at 6 pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Terrance Hayes will read from his work. He will be introduced by Erica Kaufman, Bard Writer in Residence and Director of the Institute for Writing and Thinking. The reading will be followed by a discussion moderated by Dawn Lundy Martin, Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.
Terrance Hayes is the author of seven poetry collections: So to Speak; American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin, a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and TS Eliot Prize; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music, recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Hip Logic, winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series; and Wind in a Box. His prose collection, To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Hayes has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and Whiting Foundation, and is a professor of English at New York University.Sponsored by: Center for Ethics and Writing and the Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Korean Table
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Monday, April 29, 2024
12–1 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Japanese Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, April 29, 2024
1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Chinese Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Monday, April 29, 2024
5–6 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Italian Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
1–2 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Spanish Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
5–6 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
6–7 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].