Online Event Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
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Artist Ibrahim Zayer shot himself in 1972, following the opening of a three-artist exhibition in Beirut. The reporting on this historical account overlooks the relationship between the timing of the exhibition and the artist’s act; it has always centered on the artist’s political and emotional life. His friend later wrote that the ‘shock factor’ resulted from Zayer’s choice of timing—apparently, he had talked about taking his own life since 1969. He moved from Baghdad to Beirut to join the PFLP in 1969. He wrote and illustrated for its magazine Al Hadaf (The Target). The cover of the sixth issue of Al Hadaf, published in 1969, depicts two militants jumping into the void. The duo appears as a two-headed, four-legged, multi-angled figure. The form of the two synched bodies signify their collaboration in combat. Photographs of sportsmen attempting to jump over the Berlin Wall in 1974 suggest a similar performance. In these isolated yet related incidents, particular bodies are forced in or out of a collective. These bodies are physical, minimal, choreographed—and driven by politics. This presentation is on the forms the body takes when supporting other bodies in a political project, in relation to the Arab world’s history of insurgency and collective struggle.
Ala Younis is an artist with research, curatorial, film, and publishing projects. Younis’s projects are expanded experiences of relating to materials from distant times and places; working against archives play on predilections and how its lacunas and mishaps manipulate imagination. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Berlinale’s Forum Expanded the Akademie der Künste der Welt in Cologne. She co-founded Kayfa ta, a non-profit publishing initiative that publishes in book and exhibition formats. Younis's projects include Nefertiti, Tin Soldiers, An Index of Tensional and Unintentional Love of Land, Plan for Greater Baghdad, and Drachmas. Younis curated the first Kuwaiti Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; and the Museum of Manufactured Response to Absence interventions in Algeria, Kuwait and Ramallah. She holds a B.Sc. in Architecture from University of Jordan, and a Masters of Research from Goldsmiths College.
This event is organized in conjunction with MES301 Solidarity as WorldMaking.
Phuc Tran ’95, Author of SIGH, GONE: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 5–7 pm
Online Event I was born in Sài Gòn Việt Nam, my family fled to America in 1975, and I grew up in Carlisle PA. Reared on a steady diet of Saturday morning cartoons, John Hughes, Star Wars, Bones Brigade videos, and bootlegged cassettes of Minor Threat and TSOL, I graduated high school in 1991. I majored in Classical Languages and Literature at Bard College—how did no one talk me out of that?—got my Master’s Degree at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and then moved to New York City in 1997. There I apprenticed to be a tattooer while teaching Latin during the day, and I’ve been teaching and tattooing ever since. I’ve never been good at staying in one lane—ask my wife about my driving.
Following in the footsteps of E.B. White (who was neither a tattooer nor Latin teacher), my wife and I left the city and moved to Maine in 2003 (she’s an honest-to-goodness Mainer) where we opened our shop, Tsunami Tattoo.
In 2012, I delivered a TEDx talk which was highlighted by NPR’s TED Radio Hour. The TEDx talk and its reception planted a seed in me for sharing more of my story as a refugee (of which I’d shared very little). I embarked on writing my memoir in 2016, and in April 2020 SIGH, GONE was published by Flatiron Books. You can read the memoir to get all the gory details of my childhood and adolescence, but spoiler alert: I do somehow survive.
And here I am at present, deeply grateful to be following this brambly path to its unknown destination.
Collecta in Classicis : “Together in Classics,” will provide a space for scholars, teachers, and students to have a conversation about inclusivity in Classics, what that means, what it looks like, and why Classics is not always inclusive. We welcome scholars who have engaged critically with diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, physical ability, and more as it relates to their experience in the field of Classics, or in their study of the Classical World, or both. Furthermore, we hope to include voices of marginalized groups typically silenced either in the past, or even today, by the Classics. How we make Classics more inclusive and accessible, and what that means and looks like, are difficult questions. We hope to encourage productive dialogues that contribute, in individual steps, to the transformative work needed in order for the field of Classics to be reimagined.
*A note on the name: The Latin title is representative of Classics, and having the words declined in the neuter, accusative, plural is representative of the inclusivity. The neuter excludes neither men nor women, while also including people identifying outside of masculine or feminine binaries. The plural is—quite literally—denoting that Classics is for and made up of all people.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; DoC Inclusion Grant.
A Talk With Richard Jean So Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Analytics, McGill University
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 5–7 pm
Online Event This talk introduces some recent research on the history of American book publishing and racial inequality. Its main argument is, historically, the post-war period (1950-2000) invented a form of white hegemony, both in terms of who gets to write books, as well as the kinds of stories that get told, that persists into the present. It also includes a discussion of the affordances of data and data science for the humanities, particularly the study of culture, the arts, and race.
Richard Jean So is assistant professor of English and Cultural Analytics at McGill University. His most recent book is Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
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Online Event Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
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The Buddha’s Shadow and God’s Flesh: Image and Anti-image in Huiyuan and Julian of Norwich
Yun Ni, Assistant Professor of English Literature, Peking University
Friday, April 9, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event In this talk the speaker will compare how medieval Chinese Buddhism and medieval English Christian mysticism deal with the relationship between the transcendent and the immanent. Specifically, the comparison centers on the ideology of visualization of the late fourth-century Chinese Buddhist monk Huiyuan 慧遠 (334–417) and the late fourteenth-century English Christian mystic Julian of Norwich (1342–1430). A thousand years apart, their articulations of the imagistic representation of the transcendent still reveal synchronic connections between Buddhist and Christian ideas about the absolute presence and necessary absence of the divine. Both religious thinkers use details related to the skin and to textiles when they address the representation of the “ineffable.” The ways they treat the boundaries between skin and textiles expose fundamental differences between the Trinity of the Christian God and the Buddha’s three bodies (the Trikāya), but the two religious writers reflect on a similar oscillation between the active generation and passive reception of mental images.
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A presentation followed by an open discussion, in Spanish, with Prof. Jimena Zuluaga from Universidad de los Andes
Friday, April 9, 2021 2–3 pm
Online Event
The industrial society created great archival structures to intermediate products, services and information circulation. The digital environment has challenged not only these mediation systems but its materiality and the hierarchy and power relationships associated with these exchanges. In this session we will discuss these transformations emphasizing on digital storytelling related to the arts in particular, and to cultural industries in general.
Prof. Zuluaga is Associate professor at the Center for Journalism Studies, Ceper, at Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. Her research and teaching are related to digital media and technology, with an emphasis on the historical and social perspective of technology and the active role of audiences.
This event is co-sponsored by EH and LAIS. Open to the Bard Spanish-speaking community. To RSVP and receive Zoom details, please contact Prof. López-Gay at plopezga@bard.edu
A Conversation Between Morgan Giles and David Boyd
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 5–6:30 pm
Online Event Morgan Giles is a translator and critic. She has translated fiction by authors including Yu Miri, Hideo Furukawa, and Hitomi Kanehara. Her translation of Yu Miri's Tokyo Ueno Station won the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the 2019 Translators Association First Translation Prize.
David Boyd is Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has translated novels and stories by Hiroko Oyamada, Masatsugu Ono, and Toh EnJoe, among others. His translation of Hideo Furukawa’s Slow Boat (Pushkin Press, 2017) won the 2017/2018 Japan-US Friendship Commission (JUSFC) Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. With Sam Bett, he is cotranslating the novels of Mieko Kawakami.
Zoom Link: https://bard.zoom.us/j/89128393344 Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Japanese.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
Meeting ID: 870 3574 1591 One tap mobile +16465588656,,87035741591# US (New York) +13126266799,,87035741591# US (Chicago)
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Online Event Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
Meeting ID: 509 771 5132 One tap mobile +16465588656,,5097715132# US (New York) +13017158592,,5097715132# US (Washington D.C)
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Kick Open the Doors: How to make Classics for everyone, and I do mean everyone
A Talk with John Bracey
Friday, April 16, 2021 5–6:30 pm
Online Event Do we want to make our Classics programs inclusive and welcoming to everyone? Do we want our programs to represent the full demographics of our schools? Do we want our field to grow larger and more diverse? I can show you exactly how to make that happen. Come and learn how to kick the doors of Classics wide open and let everyone inside. Change is possible, if we are willing to do what it takes.
Collecta in Classicis : “Together in Classics,” will provide a space for scholars, teachers, and students to have a conversation about inclusivity in Classics, what that means, what it looks like, and why Classics is not always inclusive. We welcome scholars who have engaged critically with diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, physical ability, and more as it relates to their experience in the field of Classics, or in their study of the Classical World, or both. Furthermore, we hope to include voices of marginalized groups typically silenced either in the past, or even today, by the Classics. How we make Classics more inclusive and accessible, and what that means and looks like, are difficult questions. We hope to encourage productive dialogues that contribute, in individual steps, to the transformative work needed in order for the field of Classics to be reimagined.
*A note on the name: The Latin title is representative of Classics, and having the words declined in the neuter, accusative, plural is representative of the inclusivity. The neuter excludes neither men nor women, while also including people identifying outside of masculine or feminine binaries. The plural is—quite literally—denoting that Classics is for and made up of all people. Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; DOC Inclusion Grant.
In this talk, Marwa Arsanios will present the research she has been conducting since 2017, which took her to different geographies such as Iraqi Kurdistan and southern Colombia, and to the encounter of different women's communes and feminist cooperatives that are directly resisting the dispossession of their land and resources and fighting for a "diprivatization" and a communalization process. Working at the intersection of feminist, ecological, and land struggles, they are often making paradigmatic shifts that Arsanios will try to articulate. She will also talk about her position as an artist and researcher in relation to their struggles, especially when it comes to their theoretical and political paradigms. Marwa Arsanios is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher who reconsiders politics of the mid 20th century from a contemporary perspective, with a particular focus on gender relations, urbanism, and industrialization. She approaches research collaboratively and seeks to work across disciplines. Arsanios has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Skuc gallery in Lujubljana (2018); Beirut Art Center (2017); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2016); Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2015); and Art in General, New York (2015). Her work has also been shown in a number of group exhibitions, including the Warsaw Biennial (2019), Sharjah Biennial (2019), Gwangju Biennial (2018), Lulea Biennial (2018), Let’s Talk About the Weather, Sursock Museum, Beirut (2016); Thessaloniki Biennial (2015); Home Works Forum, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2010, 2013, 2015); Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York (2014); 55th Venice Biennale (2013); and 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011), among others. Arsanios is the recipient of the Georges de Beauregard award at FID Marseille (2019) and the Special Prize of the Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize (2012). She was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany (2014), and the Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo Arts and Space (2010). She is the cofounder of the 98weeks Research Project. Arsanios received a master's of fine art, University of the Arts London (2007), and was a researcher in the Fine Art Department, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2011–12). She is currently a PhD candidate at the Akademie der bildenden Kunst in Vienna.
This event is organized in conjunction with MES301, Solidarity as Worldmaking.
Tuesday, April 20, 3pm Annandale / 9pm Berlin / 10pm Abu Dis Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
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Online Event Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
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Seeing Countries From Afar: A Conversation with Suzy Hansen & Kamila Shamsie
Thursday, April 22, 2021 12–1 pm
Online Event Donald Trump and Brexit shook up the liberal world order and the notion of global cooperation. The Covid-19 crisis further diminished the leadership role that the US and UK have long held. How does the rest of the world see these two countries? BGIA professor and award winning journalist Suzy Hansen and award winning novelist Kamila Shamsie have both written extensively about the US and UK from abroad. Join us for a conversation about seeing countries from afar on Thursday, April 22 at 12pm EST/6pm Vienna. RSVP required. Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
Learn to Love the Questions Themselves: Rilke on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
Prof. Ulrich Baer in Conversation
Friday, April 23, 2021 10:30–11:30 am
Online Event Prof. Ulrich Baer of NYU will discuss via Zoom the works of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) with Prof. Peter Filkins and the students of LIT 2248 - Rilke in English. Following the threads of Loss, Grief, and Transformation that run throughout Rilke's poetry, fiction, and correspondence, Ulrich Baer will take up Rilke's thoughts on the role of "death in life" and how Rilke struggled to resolve its force and nemesis. Those attending from the broader Bard community will also be encouraged to participate in the conversation and pose questions of their own about Rilke's work, life, and thinking on grief and loss.
Ulrich Baer is University Professor at New York University where he teaches literature and photography. His books include Remnants of Song: The Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan; Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma; The Rilke Alphabet; What Snowflakes Get Right: Free Speech, Equality and Truth in the University, and, as editor and translator, The Dark Interval: Rilke’s Letters on Loss, Grief and Transformation; Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters on Life, the German edition of Rainer Maria Rilke's Prose. He hosts the ideas podcast, Think About It, and has published editions of numerous classic books with Warbler Press.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
“We Don't Talk About That”: Storytelling and Podcasting
A presentation followed by an open discussion, in Spanish, with Isabel Cadenas Cañón
Friday, April 23, 2021 2–3 pm
Online Event “De eso no se habla” (in English, “We Don't Talk About That”) is a narrative podcast about silences... and about how we break them. Every episode tries to link the dots between personal and collective silences. Directed and hosted by Isabel Cadenas Cañón, it was part of PRX's Google Podcasts creator program and it won a special mention of the Jury in the prestigious Ondas awards, in Spain.
This event is co-sponsored by EH and LAIS. Open to the Bard Spanish-speaking community. To RSVP and receive Zoom details, please contact Prof. López-Gay atplopezga@bard.eduSponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program; LAIS Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail plopezga@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
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Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago)
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Online Event Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
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Michael Sadowski, MEN I'VE NEVER BEEN: A MEMOIR, in conversation with Domenica Ruta
Thursday, April 29, 2021 7–8:30 pm
Hosted by Oblong Books
Award-winning author Michael Sadowski will talk with Domenica Ruta about his new memoir, Men I’ve Never Been, in which he recounts his odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity—and, ultimately, his sexual orientation—in order to become who he thinks he’s supposed to be.
Each chapter of Men I've Never Been highlights a different image of manhood that Sadowski saw at home, at school, or on television—from sports heroes, hunters, and game show hosts to his charismatic but hard-drinking father. As he learns not to talk, laugh, cry, or love, he retreats further behind a stoic mask of silence—outwardly well-functioning but emotionally isolated, sinking under the weight of the past.
Michael Sadowski is the author of the acclaimed books In a Queer Voice, Safe Is Not Enough, and Adolescents at School. He is an administrator and professor at Bard College.
Domenica Ruta is the author of the celebrated New York Times bestselling memoir With or Without You and the novel Last Day. Her short fiction has appeared in the Boston Review, the Indiana Review, and Epoch. She lives in New York City.
This online event is free. Your purchase of a book helps support the author and our independent bookstore and is greatly appreciated. Shipping or contactless curbside pickup available.
Online Event Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
Meeting ID: 509 771 5132 One tap mobile +16465588656,,5097715132# US (New York) +13017158592,,5097715132# US (Washington D.C)
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Artist Ibrahim Zayer shot himself in 1972, following the opening of a three-artist exhibition in Beirut. The reporting on this historical account overlooks the relationship between the timing of the exhibition and the artist’s act; it has always centered on the artist’s political and emotional life. His friend later wrote that the ‘shock factor’ resulted from Zayer’s choice of timing—apparently, he had talked about taking his own life since 1969. He moved from Baghdad to Beirut to join the PFLP in 1969. He wrote and illustrated for its magazine Al Hadaf (The Target). The cover of the sixth issue of Al Hadaf, published in 1969, depicts two militants jumping into the void. The duo appears as a two-headed, four-legged, multi-angled figure. The form of the two synched bodies signify their collaboration in combat. Photographs of sportsmen attempting to jump over the Berlin Wall in 1974 suggest a similar performance. In these isolated yet related incidents, particular bodies are forced in or out of a collective. These bodies are physical, minimal, choreographed—and driven by politics. This presentation is on the forms the body takes when supporting other bodies in a political project, in relation to the Arab world’s history of insurgency and collective struggle.
Ala Younis is an artist with research, curatorial, film, and publishing projects. Younis’s projects are expanded experiences of relating to materials from distant times and places; working against archives play on predilections and how its lacunas and mishaps manipulate imagination. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Berlinale’s Forum Expanded the Akademie der Künste der Welt in Cologne. She co-founded Kayfa ta, a non-profit publishing initiative that publishes in book and exhibition formats. Younis's projects include Nefertiti, Tin Soldiers, An Index of Tensional and Unintentional Love of Land, Plan for Greater Baghdad, and Drachmas. Younis curated the first Kuwaiti Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; and the Museum of Manufactured Response to Absence interventions in Algeria, Kuwait and Ramallah. She holds a B.Sc. in Architecture from University of Jordan, and a Masters of Research from Goldsmiths College.
This event is organized in conjunction with MES301 Solidarity as WorldMaking.
Phuc Tran ’95, Author of SIGH, GONE: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 5–7 pm
Online Event I was born in Sài Gòn Việt Nam, my family fled to America in 1975, and I grew up in Carlisle PA. Reared on a steady diet of Saturday morning cartoons, John Hughes, Star Wars, Bones Brigade videos, and bootlegged cassettes of Minor Threat and TSOL, I graduated high school in 1991. I majored in Classical Languages and Literature at Bard College—how did no one talk me out of that?—got my Master’s Degree at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and then moved to New York City in 1997. There I apprenticed to be a tattooer while teaching Latin during the day, and I’ve been teaching and tattooing ever since. I’ve never been good at staying in one lane—ask my wife about my driving.
Following in the footsteps of E.B. White (who was neither a tattooer nor Latin teacher), my wife and I left the city and moved to Maine in 2003 (she’s an honest-to-goodness Mainer) where we opened our shop, Tsunami Tattoo.
In 2012, I delivered a TEDx talk which was highlighted by NPR’s TED Radio Hour. The TEDx talk and its reception planted a seed in me for sharing more of my story as a refugee (of which I’d shared very little). I embarked on writing my memoir in 2016, and in April 2020 SIGH, GONE was published by Flatiron Books. You can read the memoir to get all the gory details of my childhood and adolescence, but spoiler alert: I do somehow survive.
And here I am at present, deeply grateful to be following this brambly path to its unknown destination.
Collecta in Classicis : “Together in Classics,” will provide a space for scholars, teachers, and students to have a conversation about inclusivity in Classics, what that means, what it looks like, and why Classics is not always inclusive. We welcome scholars who have engaged critically with diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, physical ability, and more as it relates to their experience in the field of Classics, or in their study of the Classical World, or both. Furthermore, we hope to include voices of marginalized groups typically silenced either in the past, or even today, by the Classics. How we make Classics more inclusive and accessible, and what that means and looks like, are difficult questions. We hope to encourage productive dialogues that contribute, in individual steps, to the transformative work needed in order for the field of Classics to be reimagined.
*A note on the name: The Latin title is representative of Classics, and having the words declined in the neuter, accusative, plural is representative of the inclusivity. The neuter excludes neither men nor women, while also including people identifying outside of masculine or feminine binaries. The plural is—quite literally—denoting that Classics is for and made up of all people.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; DoC Inclusion Grant.
A Talk With Richard Jean So Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Analytics, McGill University
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 5–7 pm
Online Event This talk introduces some recent research on the history of American book publishing and racial inequality. Its main argument is, historically, the post-war period (1950-2000) invented a form of white hegemony, both in terms of who gets to write books, as well as the kinds of stories that get told, that persists into the present. It also includes a discussion of the affordances of data and data science for the humanities, particularly the study of culture, the arts, and race.
Richard Jean So is assistant professor of English and Cultural Analytics at McGill University. His most recent book is Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
Meeting ID: 870 3574 1591 One tap mobile +16465588656,,87035741591# US (New York) +13126266799,,87035741591# US (Chicago)
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Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago)
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Online Event Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
Meeting ID: 509 771 5132 One tap mobile +16465588656,,5097715132# US (New York) +13017158592,,5097715132# US (Washington D.C)
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The Buddha’s Shadow and God’s Flesh: Image and Anti-image in Huiyuan and Julian of Norwich
Yun Ni, Assistant Professor of English Literature, Peking University
Friday, April 9, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event In this talk the speaker will compare how medieval Chinese Buddhism and medieval English Christian mysticism deal with the relationship between the transcendent and the immanent. Specifically, the comparison centers on the ideology of visualization of the late fourth-century Chinese Buddhist monk Huiyuan 慧遠 (334–417) and the late fourteenth-century English Christian mystic Julian of Norwich (1342–1430). A thousand years apart, their articulations of the imagistic representation of the transcendent still reveal synchronic connections between Buddhist and Christian ideas about the absolute presence and necessary absence of the divine. Both religious thinkers use details related to the skin and to textiles when they address the representation of the “ineffable.” The ways they treat the boundaries between skin and textiles expose fundamental differences between the Trinity of the Christian God and the Buddha’s three bodies (the Trikāya), but the two religious writers reflect on a similar oscillation between the active generation and passive reception of mental images.
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A presentation followed by an open discussion, in Spanish, with Prof. Jimena Zuluaga from Universidad de los Andes
Friday, April 9, 2021 2–3 pm
Online Event
The industrial society created great archival structures to intermediate products, services and information circulation. The digital environment has challenged not only these mediation systems but its materiality and the hierarchy and power relationships associated with these exchanges. In this session we will discuss these transformations emphasizing on digital storytelling related to the arts in particular, and to cultural industries in general.
Prof. Zuluaga is Associate professor at the Center for Journalism Studies, Ceper, at Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. Her research and teaching are related to digital media and technology, with an emphasis on the historical and social perspective of technology and the active role of audiences.
This event is co-sponsored by EH and LAIS. Open to the Bard Spanish-speaking community. To RSVP and receive Zoom details, please contact Prof. López-Gay at plopezga@bard.edu
A Conversation Between Morgan Giles and David Boyd
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 5–6:30 pm
Online Event Morgan Giles is a translator and critic. She has translated fiction by authors including Yu Miri, Hideo Furukawa, and Hitomi Kanehara. Her translation of Yu Miri's Tokyo Ueno Station won the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the 2019 Translators Association First Translation Prize.
David Boyd is Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has translated novels and stories by Hiroko Oyamada, Masatsugu Ono, and Toh EnJoe, among others. His translation of Hideo Furukawa’s Slow Boat (Pushkin Press, 2017) won the 2017/2018 Japan-US Friendship Commission (JUSFC) Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. With Sam Bett, he is cotranslating the novels of Mieko Kawakami.
Zoom Link: https://bard.zoom.us/j/89128393344 Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Japanese.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
Meeting ID: 870 3574 1591 One tap mobile +16465588656,,87035741591# US (New York) +13126266799,,87035741591# US (Chicago)
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Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago)
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Online Event Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
Meeting ID: 509 771 5132 One tap mobile +16465588656,,5097715132# US (New York) +13017158592,,5097715132# US (Washington D.C)
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Kick Open the Doors: How to make Classics for everyone, and I do mean everyone
A Talk with John Bracey
Friday, April 16, 2021 5–6:30 pm
Online Event Do we want to make our Classics programs inclusive and welcoming to everyone? Do we want our programs to represent the full demographics of our schools? Do we want our field to grow larger and more diverse? I can show you exactly how to make that happen. Come and learn how to kick the doors of Classics wide open and let everyone inside. Change is possible, if we are willing to do what it takes.
Collecta in Classicis : “Together in Classics,” will provide a space for scholars, teachers, and students to have a conversation about inclusivity in Classics, what that means, what it looks like, and why Classics is not always inclusive. We welcome scholars who have engaged critically with diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, physical ability, and more as it relates to their experience in the field of Classics, or in their study of the Classical World, or both. Furthermore, we hope to include voices of marginalized groups typically silenced either in the past, or even today, by the Classics. How we make Classics more inclusive and accessible, and what that means and looks like, are difficult questions. We hope to encourage productive dialogues that contribute, in individual steps, to the transformative work needed in order for the field of Classics to be reimagined.
*A note on the name: The Latin title is representative of Classics, and having the words declined in the neuter, accusative, plural is representative of the inclusivity. The neuter excludes neither men nor women, while also including people identifying outside of masculine or feminine binaries. The plural is—quite literally—denoting that Classics is for and made up of all people. Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; DOC Inclusion Grant.
In this talk, Marwa Arsanios will present the research she has been conducting since 2017, which took her to different geographies such as Iraqi Kurdistan and southern Colombia, and to the encounter of different women's communes and feminist cooperatives that are directly resisting the dispossession of their land and resources and fighting for a "diprivatization" and a communalization process. Working at the intersection of feminist, ecological, and land struggles, they are often making paradigmatic shifts that Arsanios will try to articulate. She will also talk about her position as an artist and researcher in relation to their struggles, especially when it comes to their theoretical and political paradigms. Marwa Arsanios is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher who reconsiders politics of the mid 20th century from a contemporary perspective, with a particular focus on gender relations, urbanism, and industrialization. She approaches research collaboratively and seeks to work across disciplines. Arsanios has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Skuc gallery in Lujubljana (2018); Beirut Art Center (2017); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2016); Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2015); and Art in General, New York (2015). Her work has also been shown in a number of group exhibitions, including the Warsaw Biennial (2019), Sharjah Biennial (2019), Gwangju Biennial (2018), Lulea Biennial (2018), Let’s Talk About the Weather, Sursock Museum, Beirut (2016); Thessaloniki Biennial (2015); Home Works Forum, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2010, 2013, 2015); Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York (2014); 55th Venice Biennale (2013); and 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011), among others. Arsanios is the recipient of the Georges de Beauregard award at FID Marseille (2019) and the Special Prize of the Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize (2012). She was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany (2014), and the Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo Arts and Space (2010). She is the cofounder of the 98weeks Research Project. Arsanios received a master's of fine art, University of the Arts London (2007), and was a researcher in the Fine Art Department, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2011–12). She is currently a PhD candidate at the Akademie der bildenden Kunst in Vienna.
This event is organized in conjunction with MES301, Solidarity as Worldmaking.
Tuesday, April 20, 3pm Annandale / 9pm Berlin / 10pm Abu Dis Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
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Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago)
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Online Event Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
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Seeing Countries From Afar: A Conversation with Suzy Hansen & Kamila Shamsie
Thursday, April 22, 2021 12–1 pm
Online Event Donald Trump and Brexit shook up the liberal world order and the notion of global cooperation. The Covid-19 crisis further diminished the leadership role that the US and UK have long held. How does the rest of the world see these two countries? BGIA professor and award winning journalist Suzy Hansen and award winning novelist Kamila Shamsie have both written extensively about the US and UK from abroad. Join us for a conversation about seeing countries from afar on Thursday, April 22 at 12pm EST/6pm Vienna. RSVP required. Sponsored by: Bard Globalization & International Affairs Program.
Learn to Love the Questions Themselves: Rilke on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
Prof. Ulrich Baer in Conversation
Friday, April 23, 2021 10:30–11:30 am
Online Event Prof. Ulrich Baer of NYU will discuss via Zoom the works of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) with Prof. Peter Filkins and the students of LIT 2248 - Rilke in English. Following the threads of Loss, Grief, and Transformation that run throughout Rilke's poetry, fiction, and correspondence, Ulrich Baer will take up Rilke's thoughts on the role of "death in life" and how Rilke struggled to resolve its force and nemesis. Those attending from the broader Bard community will also be encouraged to participate in the conversation and pose questions of their own about Rilke's work, life, and thinking on grief and loss.
Ulrich Baer is University Professor at New York University where he teaches literature and photography. His books include Remnants of Song: The Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan; Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma; The Rilke Alphabet; What Snowflakes Get Right: Free Speech, Equality and Truth in the University, and, as editor and translator, The Dark Interval: Rilke’s Letters on Loss, Grief and Transformation; Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters on Life, the German edition of Rainer Maria Rilke's Prose. He hosts the ideas podcast, Think About It, and has published editions of numerous classic books with Warbler Press.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
“We Don't Talk About That”: Storytelling and Podcasting
A presentation followed by an open discussion, in Spanish, with Isabel Cadenas Cañón
Friday, April 23, 2021 2–3 pm
Online Event “De eso no se habla” (in English, “We Don't Talk About That”) is a narrative podcast about silences... and about how we break them. Every episode tries to link the dots between personal and collective silences. Directed and hosted by Isabel Cadenas Cañón, it was part of PRX's Google Podcasts creator program and it won a special mention of the Jury in the prestigious Ondas awards, in Spain.
This event is co-sponsored by EH and LAIS. Open to the Bard Spanish-speaking community. To RSVP and receive Zoom details, please contact Prof. López-Gay atplopezga@bard.eduSponsored by: Experimental Humanities Program; LAIS Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail plopezga@bard.edu.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 12–1:30 pm
Online Event At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
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Meeting ID: 816 8146 6447 Passcode: 024147 One tap mobile +16465588656,,81681466447# US (New York) +13126266799,,81681466447# US (Chicago)
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Online Event Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
Meeting ID: 509 771 5132 One tap mobile +16465588656,,5097715132# US (New York) +13017158592,,5097715132# US (Washington D.C)
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Michael Sadowski, MEN I'VE NEVER BEEN: A MEMOIR, in conversation with Domenica Ruta
Thursday, April 29, 2021 7–8:30 pm
Hosted by Oblong Books
Award-winning author Michael Sadowski will talk with Domenica Ruta about his new memoir, Men I’ve Never Been, in which he recounts his odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity—and, ultimately, his sexual orientation—in order to become who he thinks he’s supposed to be.
Each chapter of Men I've Never Been highlights a different image of manhood that Sadowski saw at home, at school, or on television—from sports heroes, hunters, and game show hosts to his charismatic but hard-drinking father. As he learns not to talk, laugh, cry, or love, he retreats further behind a stoic mask of silence—outwardly well-functioning but emotionally isolated, sinking under the weight of the past.
Michael Sadowski is the author of the acclaimed books In a Queer Voice, Safe Is Not Enough, and Adolescents at School. He is an administrator and professor at Bard College.
Domenica Ruta is the author of the celebrated New York Times bestselling memoir With or Without You and the novel Last Day. Her short fiction has appeared in the Boston Review, the Indiana Review, and Epoch. She lives in New York City.
This online event is free. Your purchase of a book helps support the author and our independent bookstore and is greatly appreciated. Shipping or contactless curbside pickup available.
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