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Tuesday, November 1, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline Commons 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].
Translation In/With Computing - Let Me Count The Ways
Valerie Barr, Margaret Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Translation is omnipresent within computer science given that data in human consumable forms (pictures, music, text) is stored in completely different internal representations. Furthermore, the software that allows us to see, hear, and manipulate that data has itself been translated so that the hardware can execute it. Yet the notion of and need for "translation" only increases when we also consider two additional questions: what is it that those using computation should know about computing in order to be effective, and what should all students understand about computing (the good, the bad, the ugly history) in order to actively critique and challenge the current pace and impact of technological change?Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Poetry and Politics - Hannah Arendt’s Essays on Benjamin and Brecht
Olin Hall- Room 203
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Olin, Room 203
Hannah Arendt’s engagement with literature makes up a significant part of her life’s work. She corresponded with poets and writers and drew connections between their efforts and her own practice of political theory in a way that broke the bounds of narrowly philological work. In a pair of presentations, Cosima Mattner and Christopher Hoffman will ask about the ambitions of Arendt’s literary criticism: how did Arendt go about doing literary criticism, and what insights did she hope to draw from it?
Arendt's Biographical Criticism: The Case of Brecht Chris Hoffman For Hannah Arendt, "writers are there to be quoted, not talked about." This poses problems for the enterprise of literary criticism: what can be said about writers that they haven't already articulated? Arendt's work has recourse to a kind of "life-writing" or biography. The unit of analysis, in essays on key figures like Kafka, Benjamin, and Brecht, turns out to be the life of the artist. But the attempt to read these a writer in an unadorned way ends up confronting arch-literary questions about plot, narrative, and form. Hoffman will read Arendt's essay on Brecht as exemplary of this and trace the consequences of Arendt's biographical form of criticism.
Transatlantic Citation in Hannah Arendt’s Benjamin Essay(s) Cosima Mattner Tracing a significant citational difference between the German and American versions of Hannah Arendt’s Benjamin essay, this paper examines the development of Arendt’s citational practice based on the essay’s production and publication history across 20 years after Arendt’s arrival in New York. The paper argues that the essay indicates how Arendt became a powerful ‘transatlantic critic’, challenging established statues and conventions of ‘criticism’ in the US and Germany.
Chris Hoffman studied comparative literature and history in Chicago, Paris, and Hamburg, earning a BA from Northwestern University. In the 2022-2023 academic year, they are teaching political theory from Plato to the present as a Preceptor in Contemporary Civilization. Chris’s dissertation studies the ambition among modernist writers to make of literature a “way of life" by offering a rational reconstruction of this project through close readings of key texts by Rilke, Kafka, Walser, and Susman. Other interests include German literature, especially poetry, theater, and song, critical theory and the history of philosophy, theories of reading, and the social project of literary criticism.
Cosima Mattner is a PhD candidate and teaching fellow at Columbia University’s German Department. She works on transatlantic literary history and theory, with a focus on contemporary and 20th century criticism in the US and Germany. Her dissertation is a comparative study of Hannah Arendt’s and Susan Sontag’s criticisms. Before joining Columbia, Cosima completed her BA degree in German literature and philosophy at Göttingen University with a quantitative study of Kafka’s diaries for which she won the Digital Humanities Young Scholar Award. A Studienstiftung- and Cusanus fellow, she has worked as a research and editorial assistant and in cultural management in Göttingen, at WashU (St Louis) and in NYC. Apart from academic writing, Cosima publishes essayistic work and translations. Sponsored by: German Studies Program.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline, College Room Please note the day change to Wednesday.
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].
Online Event Alicia Partnoy is a poet, memoirist, scholar, and human rights activist. One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared", she was abducted from her home by secret police in 1977 and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Her writings were smuggled out of prison and published anonymously in human rights journals. In this session we will discuss Partnoy's literary testimony of her disappearance and imprisonment, titled La escuelita/The Little School. Told in a series of tales that resound in memory like parables, La escuelita is the proof of the resilience of the human spirit and the healing powers of art. Cosponsored by OSUN and LAIS.
This event will be held on Zoom in Spanish. Open to the OSUN Spanish-speaking community. To RSVP for this event, please email Prof. López-Gay at [email protected].Sponsored by: LAIS Program; OSUN; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
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].
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Thursday, November 3, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Sarah Kay, Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture, NYU Christopher Preston Thompson, Tenor and Medieval Harpist
Thursday, November 3, 2022 5–7 pm
Bard Hall This collaborative event – part lecture, part concert – by medieval literary scholar Sarah Kay and early music ensemble Concordian Dawn, under director Christopher Preston Thompson, draws on Kay’s experimental book Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera and Thompson’s companion website of recordings. Together, Kay and Thompson find the sounds of medieval song in the least expected places: stars, the dawn light, the touch of a hand, beasts’ breath, and wild imaginings. The songs on their program range from the earliest alba to Guillaume de Machaut, but their voices sound from the outer spheres to the inner senses.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; French Studies Program; Literature Program; Medieval Studies Program; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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].
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: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Elizabeth Holt, Associate Professor of Arabic, Co-Director, Middle Eastern Studies, Bard College
Monday, November 7, 2022 5–6 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115
Please join us for another Literature Program Salon where we’ll have the pleasure of discussing current research by Prof. Elizabeth Holt.
When British Petroleum was looking to have their 1955 film The Third River translated into Arabic, they turned to Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, a Palestinian refugee who worked in Baghdad as an editor for the Iraq Petroleum Company's influential in-house industry and culture publications. Better remembered as a novelist, memoirist, painter, and translator of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury into Arabic, Jabra also advised the architects of networks of United States Cold War culture projects, such as Franklin Books and the CIA's Congress for Cultural Freedom, with his letters appearing frequently in the CCF's 1950s and 1960s archives. Constellating these sources, the production of a global boom in Faulknerian and Eliotic petro-modernism comes into view, allowing us to see how pipelines and energy infrastructures curate the global canon.
All students interested in Literature are encouraged to attend!
Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7284, or e-mail [email protected].
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Monday, November 7, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, November 8, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, November 8, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline Commons 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].
On Brokenness: Experiments in Representing the Algerian War of Independence
Jackson Smith, Princeton University
Tuesday, November 8, 2022 5:30–7 pm
Preston Theater In 1954, just after the start of what would later be called the Algerian War of Independence, François Mitterand—the future French president, then serving as minister of the interior—famously proclaimed, “Algeria is France.” The politician’s words succinctly express the French imperialist project’s purportedly assimilationist approach since, at the time, Algeria was part of France and Algerians were French citizens. And yet, the lasting repercussions of the violent war of decolonization expose these words as an example of the capacity for totalizing categories and claims to obscure the complex mechanisms underlying real historical and political circumstances—namely, the materially inferior status of ethnically Algerian French citizens despite their alleged juridical equality. Against the imaginary uniformity emblematized by Mitterand’s statement, this presentation turns to contemporary works of literature and art whose representations of the Algerian struggle for independence invent and enact forms—which I will describe as broken—that have the power to disrupt the illusions of homogeneity produced by ideological forces. A broken form inhibits any supposedly definitive interpretation so that spectators are left to draw their own tentative connections or simply to submit to the seeming irreparability of the represented object. Examples will include works by the author Nathalie Quintane and the visual artist Kader Attia that make use of poetic, performative, or literal acts of breaking in order to respond to the fragmentary reality of the Algerian War of Independence and put its fundamental brokenness on display.Sponsored by: French Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Literature Program; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-7121, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline, College Room Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
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].
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Thursday, November 10, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Weis Cinema Renowned scholars Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips will deliver the Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities in honor of preeminent poet, alumnus, and former Bard faculty member Anthony Hecht ’44. Greenblatt, who is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, and Phillips, who is a visiting professor in the Department of English at the University of York, will present the lecture series, “Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud.” Yale University Press will publish the lectures.
The lecture series includes “Shakespeare’s First Chance” by Stephen Greenblatt and “Freud’s First Chance,” by Adam Phillips on Thursday, November 10, at 5 pm; “Second Chances: For and Against” by Adam Phillips on Friday, November 11, at 10 am. Free and open to the public, these lectures will take place in Weis Cinema of the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College. A reception precedes each lecture. For more information about this lecture series, please call (845) 758-7405.Sponsored by: Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
For more information, call 845-758-7405, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Weis Cinema This November, Bard College presents renowned scholars Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips delivering the Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities in honor of preeminent poet, alumnus, and former Bard faculty member Anthony Hecht ’44. Greenblatt, who is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, and Phillips, who is a visiting professor in the Department of English at the University of York, will present the lecture series, “Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud.” Yale University Press will publish the lectures.
The lecture series includes “Shakespeare’s First Chance” by Stephen Greenblatt and “Freud’s First Chance,” by Adam Phillips on Thursday, November 10, at 5 pm; “Second Chances: For and Against” by Adam Phillips on Friday, November 11, at 10 am. Free and open to the public, these lectures will take place in Weis Cinema of the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College. A reception precedes each lecture. For more information about this lecture series, please call (845) 758-7405.Sponsored by: Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
For more information, call 845-758-7405, or e-mail [email protected].
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: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Monday, November 14, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Online Event Layla Martínez is a writer, editor, translator, and public intellectual from Spain. She is the author of two best-selling books, the essay "Utopia no no es una isla [Utopia is not Island]" (Episkaia, 2020), where she defends the political potential of utopia in our present time, and Carcoma [Wood Worm] (Amor de madre, 2021), a highly original terror novel that deals with Spain’s post-dictatorial historical memory. Cosponsored by OSUN and LAIS.
This event will be held on Zoom in Spanish. Open to the OSUN Spanish-speaking community. To RSVP for this event, please email Prof. López-Gay at [email protected].Sponsored by: LAIS Program; OSUN; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality
Monday, November 14, 2022 5:30–7 pm
Olin, Room 102 Bard’s new Carceral Studies speaker series launches with a visit from the NYU Prison Education Project. Their recently published book Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality explores how the car, despite its association with American freedom and mobility, functions at the crossroads of two great systems of entrapment and immobility– the American debt economy and the carceral state. We will be joined by four of the Lab members, a group representing formerly incarcerated scholars and non-formerly incarcerated NYU faculty. Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; Anthropology Program; Bard Prison Initiative; Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Division of Social Studies; Economics Program; Human Rights Program; Political Studies Program; Sociology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline Commons 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].
Leonid Schwab: Poetry between Stillness and Passage
Leonid Schwab, Alexander Spektor, Anton Tenser
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 5:30–7 pm
RKC 200 - Seminar Room The celebrated Russian-Israeli poet Leonid Schwab reads from his new collection, Everburning Pilot (Cicada Press, 2021) and discusses the art of collaborative translation with Alexander Spektor (University of Georgia) and Anton Tenser (Google).Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline, College Room Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
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].
The Language of Landscape: Literary Translation in Comparative Context
Jana Mader, Lecturer in the Humanities
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin, Room 203 When we see, feel, and think of nature, it is never just an objective encounter with an outside world. Rather, landscapes carry meaning like a complex language, spoken and written in land, air, and water. Humans are storytellers in dialog with landscapes, influenced by their past, present and imagined future. When a group of German farmers who had fled famine and persecution settled along the Hudson, they were reminded of their river back home, the Rhine, and founded Rhinebeck. In a broad sense, then, they translated their home into their new place. This talk examines two river landscapes, the Hudson River Valley and the Rhine Valley in Germany, the contradictory narratives they were shaped by and the cultural translation of landscape, from the visual into the textual and what that entails. To what extent is our perception filtered through experience and our collective history?Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Thursday, November 17, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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].
What Does It Take To Make a Saint? Translating Medieval Women to Modern Times: Dacia Maraini’s Clare of Assisi
Jane Tylus, Yale University
Thursday, November 17, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin, Room 102 Jane Tylus (Yale) discusses her recent translation of Dacia Maraini's novel In Praise of Disobedience: Clare of Assisi.
Jane Tylus specializes in late medieval and early modern European literature, religion, and culture, with secondary interests in 19th–20th century fiction. Her work has focused on the recovery and interrogation of lost and marginalized voices—historical personages, dialects and “parole pellegrine,” minor genres such as pastoral, secondary characters in plays, poems, and epics. She has also been active in the practice and theory of translation. Her current book project explores the ritual of departure in early modernity, especially how writers and artists sent their works into the world.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Italian Studies Program; Medieval Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Monday, November 21, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, November 22, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
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Nicole Wallace’s first chapbook, WAASAMOWIN, was published by IMP in 2019. Most recently, Nicole was the June/July 2020 poetry micro-resident at Running Dog and a 2019 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow. Recent work can be read in print in Survivance: Indigenous Poesis Vol. IV Zine and online at Running Dog, A Perfect Vacuum, and LitHub. They have also contributed to programs and publications celebrating the work and life of the late poet, Diane Burns, author of Riding the One-Eyed Ford (Contact II, 1981).
Through their ongoing participation in language classes and through their work as a writer and poet, Nicole is dedicated to reconnecting with and carrying forward the Ojibwe language (Ojibwemowin / Anishinaabemowin). They have participated in remote language classes with Dr. Wendy Makoons Geniusz through UW-Eau Claire, and most recently with Memegwesi Sutherland through the Minneapolis American Indian Center/Culture Language And Arts Network.
Nicole received a BA from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study (2008) and a Masters of Library Science in Archives and Preservation of Cultural Materials from Queens College, CUNY (2012). They have lived and made work as a guest on occupied Canarsee and Lenape territory (NYC) since 2005 and are currently the Managing Director of The Poetry Project. Nicole is of mixed settler/European ancestry and is a patrilineal descendent of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe).
On Diane Burns' Legacy:
Diane Burns (1957–2006) was born in Lawrence, Kansas to a Chemehuevi father and an Anishinabe mother. She moved to New York in the 1970s to attend Barnard College, and after dropping out her senior year, she became active in the poetry scene of the Lower East Side, where she lived. She was a founding poet of the Nuyorican Poets Café, a frequent performer at the Bowery Poetry Club and the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, and published a book of poems entitled Riding the One-Eyed Ford (1981), illustrated with her pen and ink drawings. Along with Allen Ginsberg, Joy Harjo, and Pedro Pietri, she was invited by the Sandinista government to visit Nicaragua for the Ruben Dario Poetry Festival. In her direct, wry poems, Burns engages themes of Native American identity and stereotypes. She published a single volume of poems during her life, Riding the One-Eyed Ford (1981). She lived in New York City until her death at the age of 49 from liver and kidney failure. On the occasion of Diane Burns’s inclusion in Moma' PS1's Greater New York exhibit, poet Nicole Wallace organized a day of reflection on Burns’s work and legacy featuring Lou Cornum, Sky Hopinka, Maria Hupfield and Justin Mejias.
This conversation is part of the American and Indigenous Studies Course, Indigenous Feminist Critiques and Geographies, and is sponsored by the Mellon Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck Initiative.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline, College Room Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
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].
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Thursday, November 24, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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].
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: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
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Monday, November 28, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline, College Room Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
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].
Talking Herodotus: Celebration of Carolyn Dewald's Herodotus Book 1
Carolyn Dewald (Bard) with James Romm (Bard) and Rachel Friedman (Vassar)
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Hegeman 204A There are few authors more central to Greek history than Herodotus, whose nine books of Histories (literally, Investigations) set out not only to describe the conflict between Greece and the Persian empire but also to discover its origins. And there are few scholars whose work has been more central to our understanding of Herodotus than Carolyn Dewald, whose commentary on Book 1 of the Histories (co-authored with Rosaria Munson) has just been published. Professor Dewald has been working on this commentary since she arrived at Bard (2003-4) and is delighted to have finally finished it. She still finds him (aka the "Father of History") amazing and will be equally delighted to discuss how remarkable Herodotus is with all of you who have time to come and take part in the conversation. Professor Dewald will be joined by James Romm of Bard’s Classical Studies Program and Rachel Friedman of Vassar.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, November 1, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
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Translation In/With Computing - Let Me Count The Ways
Valerie Barr, Margaret Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Translation is omnipresent within computer science given that data in human consumable forms (pictures, music, text) is stored in completely different internal representations. Furthermore, the software that allows us to see, hear, and manipulate that data has itself been translated so that the hardware can execute it. Yet the notion of and need for "translation" only increases when we also consider two additional questions: what is it that those using computation should know about computing in order to be effective, and what should all students understand about computing (the good, the bad, the ugly history) in order to actively critique and challenge the current pace and impact of technological change?Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative.
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Poetry and Politics - Hannah Arendt’s Essays on Benjamin and Brecht
Olin Hall- Room 203
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Olin, Room 203
Hannah Arendt’s engagement with literature makes up a significant part of her life’s work. She corresponded with poets and writers and drew connections between their efforts and her own practice of political theory in a way that broke the bounds of narrowly philological work. In a pair of presentations, Cosima Mattner and Christopher Hoffman will ask about the ambitions of Arendt’s literary criticism: how did Arendt go about doing literary criticism, and what insights did she hope to draw from it?
Arendt's Biographical Criticism: The Case of Brecht Chris Hoffman For Hannah Arendt, "writers are there to be quoted, not talked about." This poses problems for the enterprise of literary criticism: what can be said about writers that they haven't already articulated? Arendt's work has recourse to a kind of "life-writing" or biography. The unit of analysis, in essays on key figures like Kafka, Benjamin, and Brecht, turns out to be the life of the artist. But the attempt to read these a writer in an unadorned way ends up confronting arch-literary questions about plot, narrative, and form. Hoffman will read Arendt's essay on Brecht as exemplary of this and trace the consequences of Arendt's biographical form of criticism.
Transatlantic Citation in Hannah Arendt’s Benjamin Essay(s) Cosima Mattner Tracing a significant citational difference between the German and American versions of Hannah Arendt’s Benjamin essay, this paper examines the development of Arendt’s citational practice based on the essay’s production and publication history across 20 years after Arendt’s arrival in New York. The paper argues that the essay indicates how Arendt became a powerful ‘transatlantic critic’, challenging established statues and conventions of ‘criticism’ in the US and Germany.
Chris Hoffman studied comparative literature and history in Chicago, Paris, and Hamburg, earning a BA from Northwestern University. In the 2022-2023 academic year, they are teaching political theory from Plato to the present as a Preceptor in Contemporary Civilization. Chris’s dissertation studies the ambition among modernist writers to make of literature a “way of life" by offering a rational reconstruction of this project through close readings of key texts by Rilke, Kafka, Walser, and Susman. Other interests include German literature, especially poetry, theater, and song, critical theory and the history of philosophy, theories of reading, and the social project of literary criticism.
Cosima Mattner is a PhD candidate and teaching fellow at Columbia University’s German Department. She works on transatlantic literary history and theory, with a focus on contemporary and 20th century criticism in the US and Germany. Her dissertation is a comparative study of Hannah Arendt’s and Susan Sontag’s criticisms. Before joining Columbia, Cosima completed her BA degree in German literature and philosophy at Göttingen University with a quantitative study of Kafka’s diaries for which she won the Digital Humanities Young Scholar Award. A Studienstiftung- and Cusanus fellow, she has worked as a research and editorial assistant and in cultural management in Göttingen, at WashU (St Louis) and in NYC. Apart from academic writing, Cosima publishes essayistic work and translations. Sponsored by: German Studies Program.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline, College Room Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
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Online Event Alicia Partnoy is a poet, memoirist, scholar, and human rights activist. One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared", she was abducted from her home by secret police in 1977 and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Her writings were smuggled out of prison and published anonymously in human rights journals. In this session we will discuss Partnoy's literary testimony of her disappearance and imprisonment, titled La escuelita/The Little School. Told in a series of tales that resound in memory like parables, La escuelita is the proof of the resilience of the human spirit and the healing powers of art. Cosponsored by OSUN and LAIS.
This event will be held on Zoom in Spanish. Open to the OSUN Spanish-speaking community. To RSVP for this event, please email Prof. López-Gay at [email protected].Sponsored by: LAIS Program; OSUN; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
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].
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Thursday, November 3, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Sarah Kay, Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture, NYU Christopher Preston Thompson, Tenor and Medieval Harpist
Thursday, November 3, 2022 5–7 pm
Bard Hall This collaborative event – part lecture, part concert – by medieval literary scholar Sarah Kay and early music ensemble Concordian Dawn, under director Christopher Preston Thompson, draws on Kay’s experimental book Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera and Thompson’s companion website of recordings. Together, Kay and Thompson find the sounds of medieval song in the least expected places: stars, the dawn light, the touch of a hand, beasts’ breath, and wild imaginings. The songs on their program range from the earliest alba to Guillaume de Machaut, but their voices sound from the outer spheres to the inner senses.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; French Studies Program; Literature Program; Medieval Studies Program; Music Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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].
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: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Elizabeth Holt, Associate Professor of Arabic, Co-Director, Middle Eastern Studies, Bard College
Monday, November 7, 2022 5–6 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115
Please join us for another Literature Program Salon where we’ll have the pleasure of discussing current research by Prof. Elizabeth Holt.
When British Petroleum was looking to have their 1955 film The Third River translated into Arabic, they turned to Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, a Palestinian refugee who worked in Baghdad as an editor for the Iraq Petroleum Company's influential in-house industry and culture publications. Better remembered as a novelist, memoirist, painter, and translator of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury into Arabic, Jabra also advised the architects of networks of United States Cold War culture projects, such as Franklin Books and the CIA's Congress for Cultural Freedom, with his letters appearing frequently in the CCF's 1950s and 1960s archives. Constellating these sources, the production of a global boom in Faulknerian and Eliotic petro-modernism comes into view, allowing us to see how pipelines and energy infrastructures curate the global canon.
All students interested in Literature are encouraged to attend!
Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-7284, or e-mail [email protected].
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Monday, November 7, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, November 8, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, November 8, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline Commons 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].
On Brokenness: Experiments in Representing the Algerian War of Independence
Jackson Smith, Princeton University
Tuesday, November 8, 2022 5:30–7 pm
Preston Theater In 1954, just after the start of what would later be called the Algerian War of Independence, François Mitterand—the future French president, then serving as minister of the interior—famously proclaimed, “Algeria is France.” The politician’s words succinctly express the French imperialist project’s purportedly assimilationist approach since, at the time, Algeria was part of France and Algerians were French citizens. And yet, the lasting repercussions of the violent war of decolonization expose these words as an example of the capacity for totalizing categories and claims to obscure the complex mechanisms underlying real historical and political circumstances—namely, the materially inferior status of ethnically Algerian French citizens despite their alleged juridical equality. Against the imaginary uniformity emblematized by Mitterand’s statement, this presentation turns to contemporary works of literature and art whose representations of the Algerian struggle for independence invent and enact forms—which I will describe as broken—that have the power to disrupt the illusions of homogeneity produced by ideological forces. A broken form inhibits any supposedly definitive interpretation so that spectators are left to draw their own tentative connections or simply to submit to the seeming irreparability of the represented object. Examples will include works by the author Nathalie Quintane and the visual artist Kader Attia that make use of poetic, performative, or literal acts of breaking in order to respond to the fragmentary reality of the Algerian War of Independence and put its fundamental brokenness on display.Sponsored by: French Studies Program; Human Rights Program; Literature Program; OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
For more information, call 845-758-7121, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline, College Room Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
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].
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Thursday, November 10, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
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Campus Center, Weis Cinema Renowned scholars Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips will deliver the Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities in honor of preeminent poet, alumnus, and former Bard faculty member Anthony Hecht ’44. Greenblatt, who is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, and Phillips, who is a visiting professor in the Department of English at the University of York, will present the lecture series, “Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud.” Yale University Press will publish the lectures.
The lecture series includes “Shakespeare’s First Chance” by Stephen Greenblatt and “Freud’s First Chance,” by Adam Phillips on Thursday, November 10, at 5 pm; “Second Chances: For and Against” by Adam Phillips on Friday, November 11, at 10 am. Free and open to the public, these lectures will take place in Weis Cinema of the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College. A reception precedes each lecture. For more information about this lecture series, please call (845) 758-7405.Sponsored by: Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
For more information, call 845-758-7405, or e-mail [email protected].
Campus Center, Weis Cinema This November, Bard College presents renowned scholars Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips delivering the Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities in honor of preeminent poet, alumnus, and former Bard faculty member Anthony Hecht ’44. Greenblatt, who is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, and Phillips, who is a visiting professor in the Department of English at the University of York, will present the lecture series, “Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud.” Yale University Press will publish the lectures.
The lecture series includes “Shakespeare’s First Chance” by Stephen Greenblatt and “Freud’s First Chance,” by Adam Phillips on Thursday, November 10, at 5 pm; “Second Chances: For and Against” by Adam Phillips on Friday, November 11, at 10 am. Free and open to the public, these lectures will take place in Weis Cinema of the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College. A reception precedes each lecture. For more information about this lecture series, please call (845) 758-7405.Sponsored by: Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
For more information, call 845-758-7405, or e-mail [email protected].
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: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Monday, November 14, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
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Online Event Layla Martínez is a writer, editor, translator, and public intellectual from Spain. She is the author of two best-selling books, the essay "Utopia no no es una isla [Utopia is not Island]" (Episkaia, 2020), where she defends the political potential of utopia in our present time, and Carcoma [Wood Worm] (Amor de madre, 2021), a highly original terror novel that deals with Spain’s post-dictatorial historical memory. Cosponsored by OSUN and LAIS.
This event will be held on Zoom in Spanish. Open to the OSUN Spanish-speaking community. To RSVP for this event, please email Prof. López-Gay at [email protected].Sponsored by: LAIS Program; OSUN; Spanish Studies.
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Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality
Monday, November 14, 2022 5:30–7 pm
Olin, Room 102 Bard’s new Carceral Studies speaker series launches with a visit from the NYU Prison Education Project. Their recently published book Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality explores how the car, despite its association with American freedom and mobility, functions at the crossroads of two great systems of entrapment and immobility– the American debt economy and the carceral state. We will be joined by four of the Lab members, a group representing formerly incarcerated scholars and non-formerly incarcerated NYU faculty. Sponsored by: Africana Studies Program; Anthropology Program; Bard Prison Initiative; Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Division of Social Studies; Economics Program; Human Rights Program; Political Studies Program; Sociology Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline Commons 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].
Leonid Schwab: Poetry between Stillness and Passage
Leonid Schwab, Alexander Spektor, Anton Tenser
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 5:30–7 pm
RKC 200 - Seminar Room The celebrated Russian-Israeli poet Leonid Schwab reads from his new collection, Everburning Pilot (Cicada Press, 2021) and discusses the art of collaborative translation with Alexander Spektor (University of Georgia) and Anton Tenser (Google).Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline, College Room Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
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].
The Language of Landscape: Literary Translation in Comparative Context
Jana Mader, Lecturer in the Humanities
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin, Room 203 When we see, feel, and think of nature, it is never just an objective encounter with an outside world. Rather, landscapes carry meaning like a complex language, spoken and written in land, air, and water. Humans are storytellers in dialog with landscapes, influenced by their past, present and imagined future. When a group of German farmers who had fled famine and persecution settled along the Hudson, they were reminded of their river back home, the Rhine, and founded Rhinebeck. In a broad sense, then, they translated their home into their new place. This talk examines two river landscapes, the Hudson River Valley and the Rhine Valley in Germany, the contradictory narratives they were shaped by and the cultural translation of landscape, from the visual into the textual and what that entails. To what extent is our perception filtered through experience and our collective history?Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative.
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Thursday, November 17, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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].
What Does It Take To Make a Saint? Translating Medieval Women to Modern Times: Dacia Maraini’s Clare of Assisi
Jane Tylus, Yale University
Thursday, November 17, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Olin, Room 102 Jane Tylus (Yale) discusses her recent translation of Dacia Maraini's novel In Praise of Disobedience: Clare of Assisi.
Jane Tylus specializes in late medieval and early modern European literature, religion, and culture, with secondary interests in 19th–20th century fiction. Her work has focused on the recovery and interrogation of lost and marginalized voices—historical personages, dialects and “parole pellegrine,” minor genres such as pastoral, secondary characters in plays, poems, and epics. She has also been active in the practice and theory of translation. Her current book project explores the ritual of departure in early modernity, especially how writers and artists sent their works into the world.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Italian Studies Program; Medieval Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Monday, November 21, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline Commons 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].
Nicole Wallace’s first chapbook, WAASAMOWIN, was published by IMP in 2019. Most recently, Nicole was the June/July 2020 poetry micro-resident at Running Dog and a 2019 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow. Recent work can be read in print in Survivance: Indigenous Poesis Vol. IV Zine and online at Running Dog, A Perfect Vacuum, and LitHub. They have also contributed to programs and publications celebrating the work and life of the late poet, Diane Burns, author of Riding the One-Eyed Ford (Contact II, 1981).
Through their ongoing participation in language classes and through their work as a writer and poet, Nicole is dedicated to reconnecting with and carrying forward the Ojibwe language (Ojibwemowin / Anishinaabemowin). They have participated in remote language classes with Dr. Wendy Makoons Geniusz through UW-Eau Claire, and most recently with Memegwesi Sutherland through the Minneapolis American Indian Center/Culture Language And Arts Network.
Nicole received a BA from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study (2008) and a Masters of Library Science in Archives and Preservation of Cultural Materials from Queens College, CUNY (2012). They have lived and made work as a guest on occupied Canarsee and Lenape territory (NYC) since 2005 and are currently the Managing Director of The Poetry Project. Nicole is of mixed settler/European ancestry and is a patrilineal descendent of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe).
On Diane Burns' Legacy:
Diane Burns (1957–2006) was born in Lawrence, Kansas to a Chemehuevi father and an Anishinabe mother. She moved to New York in the 1970s to attend Barnard College, and after dropping out her senior year, she became active in the poetry scene of the Lower East Side, where she lived. She was a founding poet of the Nuyorican Poets Café, a frequent performer at the Bowery Poetry Club and the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, and published a book of poems entitled Riding the One-Eyed Ford (1981), illustrated with her pen and ink drawings. Along with Allen Ginsberg, Joy Harjo, and Pedro Pietri, she was invited by the Sandinista government to visit Nicaragua for the Ruben Dario Poetry Festival. In her direct, wry poems, Burns engages themes of Native American identity and stereotypes. She published a single volume of poems during her life, Riding the One-Eyed Ford (1981). She lived in New York City until her death at the age of 49 from liver and kidney failure. On the occasion of Diane Burns’s inclusion in Moma' PS1's Greater New York exhibit, poet Nicole Wallace organized a day of reflection on Burns’s work and legacy featuring Lou Cornum, Sky Hopinka, Maria Hupfield and Justin Mejias.
This conversation is part of the American and Indigenous Studies Course, Indigenous Feminist Critiques and Geographies, and is sponsored by the Mellon Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck Initiative.Sponsored by: American and Indigenous Studies Program.
For more information, call 347-300-5648, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline, College Room Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
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].
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Thursday, November 24, 2022 12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard. Meet us in the faculty dining area inside Kline. Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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].
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: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Monday, November 28, 2022 5:30–6:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022 12–1:30 pm
Kline, College Room Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022 12–1 pm
Kline, College Room Please note the day change to Wednesday.
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022 6–7 pm
Kline, College Room Please note: Meeting is now in-person inside Kline's main dining hall (faculty area).
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].
Talking Herodotus: Celebration of Carolyn Dewald's Herodotus Book 1
Carolyn Dewald (Bard) with James Romm (Bard) and Rachel Friedman (Vassar)
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 6–7:30 pm
Hegeman 204A There are few authors more central to Greek history than Herodotus, whose nine books of Histories (literally, Investigations) set out not only to describe the conflict between Greece and the Persian empire but also to discover its origins. And there are few scholars whose work has been more central to our understanding of Herodotus than Carolyn Dewald, whose commentary on Book 1 of the Histories (co-authored with Rosaria Munson) has just been published. Professor Dewald has been working on this commentary since she arrived at Bard (2003-4) and is delighted to have finally finished it. She still finds him (aka the "Father of History") amazing and will be equally delighted to discuss how remarkable Herodotus is with all of you who have time to come and take part in the conversation. Professor Dewald will be joined by James Romm of Bard’s Classical Studies Program and Rachel Friedman of Vassar.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program.
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