Stumbling on the Good: The Private Triumphs of Common Decency
The First Annual Stuart Stritzler-Levine Lecture in Common Decency
Wednesday, September 1, 2021 5–7 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Professor of French and Comparative Literature Marina van Zuylen will give the first annual Stuart Stritzler-Levine Lecture in Common Decency with a talk titled “Stumbling on the Good: The Private Triumphs of Common Decency.” The series honors longtime dean, faculty member, and beloved member of the Bard community Stuart Stritzler-Levine. Recognizing Stuart’s fascination with the world around him and his devotion to educating a wide community, the annual lecture will sustain his spirit of courtesy, respect and inquiry. Join us in person in the Multipurpose Room of the Bertelsmann Campus Center, or via livestream.
The Stuart Stritzler-Levine Lecture in Common Decency is generously supported by the President’s Office, the Office of the Dean of the College and the Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
Style, Sex, Shame, and the End of Literature in Ivy Compton-Burnett
Len Gutkin, Senior Editor, The Chronicle Review and Author
Tuesday, September 7, 2021 5:30–7:30 pm
Olin, Room 102 Len Gutkin is a senior editor at The Chronicle Review and the author of Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present (University of Virginia Press, 2020). His essays and reviews have appeared in venues including Times Literary Supplement, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Bookforum, and Post45.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Literature Program; Written Arts Program.
Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 One tap mobile +16699009128,,89428252315# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,89428252315# US (Tacoma)
Dial by your location +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/khvw4DJr2Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail heid@bard.edu.
Chinese Table Please note: New time 6:30-7:30pm and now in person at Kline Tent.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, September 9, 2021 6:30–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Lawn Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is 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 ayou@bard.edu.
Meet faculty and other student writers, and ask questions about workshops and Moderation.
Monday, September 13, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Shafer House The Written Arts Program welcomes any and all interested students to an open house in Shafer House. Members of the faculty will be in attendance to answer any specific questions you may have, and/or to talk with you generally about workshops, Moderation, and Senior Projects.
Enjoy the waterfall and have some refreshments as you chat with other student writers about their experiences in the program and Senior Projects.
Shafer House (9 Cedar Hill Road) is located at the Annandale Triangle on south campus, across the road from Feitler House.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mbrien@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, September 14, 2021 6:30–7:30 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; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 One tap mobile +16699009128,,89428252315# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,89428252315# US (Tacoma)
Dial by your location +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/khvw4DJr2Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail heid@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 12–1 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; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail twild@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 12:30–1:30 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 nshockey@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 4:30–6 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; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 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 baldasso@bard.edu.
Oblong Online: Alaa Al Aswany, The Republic of False Truths
In conversation with Dinaw Mengestu. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor in the Humanities at Bard College.
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 7–8:30 pm
Online Event
Alaa Al Aswany is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Yacoubian Building, the best-selling novel in the Arab world for more than five years, with more than a million copies sold around the world; Chicago, named by Newsday as the best-translated novel of 2006; and The Automobile Club of Egypt. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages and published in more than one hundred countries. He is the recipient of the Grinzane Cavour Prize, and in 2016 he was appointed a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France.
Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1978. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and was named a “20 under 40” writer to watch by The New Yorker. Mengestu’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Harper’s, Granta, and other publications.
Register here for the event. Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
Chinese Table Please note: New time 6:30-7:30pm and now in person at Kline Tent.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, September 16, 2021 6:30–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Lawn Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is 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 ayou@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, September 16, 2021 12:30–1:30 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; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail trudel@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 6:30–7:30 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; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Impostor Syndrome: Notes on Writing and Asian American Identity
Hua Hsu, Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Vassar College and Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 5–6:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema A consideration of how various Asian American writers and artists have wrestled with questions of authority and imposture, from thirties Chinatown authors to the first generations of authors who worked under the banner of "Asian American literature" in the sixties, from contemporary manifestations of "impostor syndrome" (wherein individuals doubt their own authority--a condition psychologists have deemed unusually prevalent among Asian American students) to my own work on memoir.
Hua Hsu is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Vassar College, and a Staff Writer at the New Yorker. His first book, A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific, was published in 2015 by Harvard University Press. In 2022, Doubleday will publish Stay True, a memoir. He is currently working on an essay collection about identity and imposture called Impostor Syndrome. He serves on the boards of the Asian American Writers' Workshop and Critical Minded, an initiative to support cultural critics of color.Sponsored by: American Studies Program; Asian Studies Program; Dean of the College; Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nshockey@bard.edu.
Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 One tap mobile +16699009128,,89428252315# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,89428252315# US (Tacoma)
Dial by your location +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/khvw4DJr2Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail heid@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 12–1 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; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail twild@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 12:30–1:30 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 nshockey@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 4:30–6 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; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 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 baldasso@bard.edu.
Chinese Table Please note: New time 6:30-7:30pm and now in person at Kline Tent.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, September 23, 2021 6:30–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Lawn Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is 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 ayou@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, September 23, 2021 12:30–1:30 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; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail trudel@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 6:30–7:30 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; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Curtis Dozier, Assistant Professor of Greek and Roman Studies,Vassar College
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 6–7 pm
Olin Language Center Room 118 Curtis Dozier (Vassar College) will speak about his webpage Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics (@pharosclassics), where he documents and responds to appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by contemporary hate groups. These include both high-profile examples, such as Spartan helmets worn by those who attacked the US Capitol in January 2021, and a whole (mostly online) world of what has been termed "highbrow white nationalism." These latter groups, in particular, pose a particular challenge to the discipline of Classics because, unlike the superficial engagement with antiquity of the Capitol rioters, the appropriations practiced by the thought leaders of white ethnonationalism reflect a deep understanding of the violence inherent in ancient social and political practices and of the ways that the prestige of the ancient world has been, and in the present, can be harnessed rhetorically to legitimize racist and oppressive politics. Dessert to go will be provided!Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail rcioffi@bard.edu.
Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 One tap mobile +16699009128,,89428252315# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,89428252315# US (Tacoma)
Dial by your location +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/khvw4DJr2Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail heid@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12–1 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; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail twild@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12:30–1:30 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 nshockey@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 4:30–6 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; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 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 baldasso@bard.edu.
Chinese Table Please note: New time 6:30-7:30pm and now in person at Kline Tent.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, September 30, 2021 6:30–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Lawn Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is 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 ayou@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, September 30, 2021 12:30–1:30 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; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail trudel@bard.edu.
Stumbling on the Good: The Private Triumphs of Common Decency
The First Annual Stuart Stritzler-Levine Lecture in Common Decency
Wednesday, September 1, 2021 5–7 pm
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Professor of French and Comparative Literature Marina van Zuylen will give the first annual Stuart Stritzler-Levine Lecture in Common Decency with a talk titled “Stumbling on the Good: The Private Triumphs of Common Decency.” The series honors longtime dean, faculty member, and beloved member of the Bard community Stuart Stritzler-Levine. Recognizing Stuart’s fascination with the world around him and his devotion to educating a wide community, the annual lecture will sustain his spirit of courtesy, respect and inquiry. Join us in person in the Multipurpose Room of the Bertelsmann Campus Center, or via livestream.
The Stuart Stritzler-Levine Lecture in Common Decency is generously supported by the President’s Office, the Office of the Dean of the College and the Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
Style, Sex, Shame, and the End of Literature in Ivy Compton-Burnett
Len Gutkin, Senior Editor, The Chronicle Review and Author
Tuesday, September 7, 2021 5:30–7:30 pm
Olin, Room 102 Len Gutkin is a senior editor at The Chronicle Review and the author of Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present (University of Virginia Press, 2020). His essays and reviews have appeared in venues including Times Literary Supplement, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Bookforum, and Post45.Sponsored by: Hannah Arendt Center; Literature Program; Written Arts Program.
Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 One tap mobile +16699009128,,89428252315# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,89428252315# US (Tacoma)
Dial by your location +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/khvw4DJr2Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail heid@bard.edu.
Chinese Table Please note: New time 6:30-7:30pm and now in person at Kline Tent.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, September 9, 2021 6:30–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Lawn Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is 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 ayou@bard.edu.
Meet faculty and other student writers, and ask questions about workshops and Moderation.
Monday, September 13, 2021 6–7:30 pm
Shafer House The Written Arts Program welcomes any and all interested students to an open house in Shafer House. Members of the faculty will be in attendance to answer any specific questions you may have, and/or to talk with you generally about workshops, Moderation, and Senior Projects.
Enjoy the waterfall and have some refreshments as you chat with other student writers about their experiences in the program and Senior Projects.
Shafer House (9 Cedar Hill Road) is located at the Annandale Triangle on south campus, across the road from Feitler House.Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mbrien@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, September 14, 2021 6:30–7:30 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; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 One tap mobile +16699009128,,89428252315# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,89428252315# US (Tacoma)
Dial by your location +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/khvw4DJr2Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail heid@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 12–1 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; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail twild@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 12:30–1:30 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 nshockey@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 4:30–6 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; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 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 baldasso@bard.edu.
Oblong Online: Alaa Al Aswany, The Republic of False Truths
In conversation with Dinaw Mengestu. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor in the Humanities at Bard College.
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 7–8:30 pm
Online Event
Alaa Al Aswany is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Yacoubian Building, the best-selling novel in the Arab world for more than five years, with more than a million copies sold around the world; Chicago, named by Newsday as the best-translated novel of 2006; and The Automobile Club of Egypt. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages and published in more than one hundred countries. He is the recipient of the Grinzane Cavour Prize, and in 2016 he was appointed a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France.
Dinaw Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1978. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and was named a “20 under 40” writer to watch by The New Yorker. Mengestu’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Harper’s, Granta, and other publications.
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Chinese Table Please note: New time 6:30-7:30pm and now in person at Kline Tent.
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Thursday, September 16, 2021 6:30–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Lawn Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is 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 ayou@bard.edu.
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Thursday, September 16, 2021 12:30–1:30 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; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail trudel@bard.edu.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2021 6:30–7:30 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; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Impostor Syndrome: Notes on Writing and Asian American Identity
Hua Hsu, Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Vassar College and Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 5–6:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema A consideration of how various Asian American writers and artists have wrestled with questions of authority and imposture, from thirties Chinatown authors to the first generations of authors who worked under the banner of "Asian American literature" in the sixties, from contemporary manifestations of "impostor syndrome" (wherein individuals doubt their own authority--a condition psychologists have deemed unusually prevalent among Asian American students) to my own work on memoir.
Hua Hsu is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Vassar College, and a Staff Writer at the New Yorker. His first book, A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific, was published in 2015 by Harvard University Press. In 2022, Doubleday will publish Stay True, a memoir. He is currently working on an essay collection about identity and imposture called Impostor Syndrome. He serves on the boards of the Asian American Writers' Workshop and Critical Minded, an initiative to support cultural critics of color.Sponsored by: American Studies Program; Asian Studies Program; Dean of the College; Literature Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nshockey@bard.edu.
Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 One tap mobile +16699009128,,89428252315# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,89428252315# US (Tacoma)
Dial by your location +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/khvw4DJr2Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail heid@bard.edu.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2021 12–1 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; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail twild@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 12:30–1:30 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 nshockey@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 4:30–6 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; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 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 baldasso@bard.edu.
Chinese Table Please note: New time 6:30-7:30pm and now in person at Kline Tent.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, September 23, 2021 6:30–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Lawn Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is 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 ayou@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, September 23, 2021 12:30–1:30 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; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail trudel@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 6:30–7:30 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; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail ominin@bard.edu.
Curtis Dozier, Assistant Professor of Greek and Roman Studies,Vassar College
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 6–7 pm
Olin Language Center Room 118 Curtis Dozier (Vassar College) will speak about his webpage Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics (@pharosclassics), where he documents and responds to appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by contemporary hate groups. These include both high-profile examples, such as Spartan helmets worn by those who attacked the US Capitol in January 2021, and a whole (mostly online) world of what has been termed "highbrow white nationalism." These latter groups, in particular, pose a particular challenge to the discipline of Classics because, unlike the superficial engagement with antiquity of the Capitol rioters, the appropriations practiced by the thought leaders of white ethnonationalism reflect a deep understanding of the violence inherent in ancient social and political practices and of the ways that the prestige of the ancient world has been, and in the present, can be harnessed rhetorically to legitimize racist and oppressive politics. Dessert to go will be provided!Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail rcioffi@bard.edu.
Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 One tap mobile +16699009128,,89428252315# US (San Jose) +12532158782,,89428252315# US (Tacoma)
Dial by your location +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Meeting ID: 894 2825 2315 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/khvw4DJr2Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail heid@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12–1 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; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail twild@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12:30–1:30 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 nshockey@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 4:30–6 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; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail nicholso@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 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 baldasso@bard.edu.
Chinese Table Please note: New time 6:30-7:30pm and now in person at Kline Tent.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, September 30, 2021 6:30–7:30 pm
Kline Commons Lawn Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is 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 ayou@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, September 30, 2021 12:30–1:30 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; French Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail trudel@bard.edu.
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