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Korean Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Tuesday, September 5, 2023
12–1 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Spanish Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Tuesday, September 5, 2023
1:15–2:15 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Chinese Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Tuesday, September 5, 2023
5–6 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 12–1 pm Korean TableTuesday, September 5, 2023, 12–1 pm
  • 1:15–2:15 pm Spanish TableTuesday, September 5, 2023, 1:15–2:15 pm
  • 5–6 pm Chinese TableTuesday, September 5, 2023, 5–6 pm

German Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Wednesday, September 6, 2023
1–2 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Italian Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Wednesday, September 6, 2023
6–7:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 1–2 pm German TableWednesday, September 6, 2023, 1–2 pm
  • 6–7:30 pm Italian TableWednesday, September 6, 2023, 6–7:30 pm

French Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Thursday, September 7, 2023
12:30–1:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
 Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Japanese Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Thursday, September 7, 2023
1:30–2:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 12:30–1:30 pm French TableThursday, September 7, 2023, 12:30–1:30 pm
  • 1:30–2:30 pm Japanese TableThursday, September 7, 2023, 1:30–2:30 pm

Reading Eugenius of Toledo

Poetry, Politics, and Religion in Post-Roman Iberia

Friday, September 8, 2023 – Saturday, September 9, 2023

Olin 102 (Friday) & Blithewood (Saturday)
At the center of our workshop is an icon of Visigothic literary culture, and one of the most prolific Latin poets of the post-Roman world: Eugenius of Toledo, bishop of the Visigothic urbs regia from 646-657 CE. Despite the acknowledged richness of Eugenius’s material—spanning epigraphic, liturgical, lyrical, and epistolary genres, and including a vast pseudepigraphic corpus—his writings remain underused by historians, and there has never been a monographic study of his work.

This conference and subsequent volume aim to invigorate conversation surrounding the poet-bishop, building off a soon-to-be-published translation of his complete works (Routledge), the first ever into English, by Graham Barrett and David Ungvary, as well as Paulo Farmhouse Alberto’s foundational Corpus Christianorum edition (2005). Taking inspiration from more recent work in late antique literary history, which has revalorized Late Latin poetry as a profoundly social discourse, we seek to develop approaches to Eugenius that are sensitive to the interplay between his sophisticated poetics and his cultural and political contexts. In this way, we hope to gain a better understanding of how Eugenius’s distinctive literary practice interacted with the evolving institutions of power, religious environments, and literary communities of Visigothic Iberia. Together, we wish to discover more about how Eugenius functioned socially as a clerical poet in this world; how he leveraged his writing practice in moves for political power; and how Eugenius’s legacy may have reshaped the cultural landscape of Latin poetry in the post-Roman West.


PROGRAM

Friday, September 8
Olin Humanities Building
Room 102

9:30-10AM
WELCOME&COFFEE

10-10:30AM
INTRODUCTION: TRANSLATING AND INTERPRETING EUGENIUS OF TOLEDO

Graham Barrett
University of Lincoln, UK

David Ungvary
Bard College

1:30-2:30PM
KEYNOTE: THE POETIC LANDSCAPES OF LATE LATIN ANTIQUITY

Joseph Pucci
Brown University

10:45AM-12:15PM
SESSION 1: SITUATING THE BISHOP: EUGENIUS’S RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL WORLD

Jamie Wood
University of Lincoln, UK
“From Zaragoza to Toledo: Eugenius in ecclesiastical and royal context”

Eleonora Dell’ Elicine
Universidad de Buenos Aires/Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento/ UCEL
“Guarding Orthodoxy: Eugenius of Toledo and the theological debate of his time”

12:15-1:30PM
BREAK & LUNCH

2:45-4:15PM
SESSION 2: FRAMING THE POET: EUGENIUS’S LITERARY WORLD

Paulo Farmhouse Alberto
University of Lisbon
“Eugenius of Toledo and grammatical teaching in the Early Middle Ages”

Cillian O’Hogan
University of Toronto
“Il miglior fabbro? Eugenius as a reader and editor of Dracontius”
 

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
BLITHEWOOD

8:30-9AM
COFFEE & BREAKFAST

9:00AM-12:15PM
SESSION 3: READING EUGENIUS

Mark Tizzoni
Bates College
“Eugenius and Educational Culture”

Céline Urlacher-Becht
University of Haute-Alsace
 “Eugenius towards late Latin epigram”

Dennis Trout
University of Missouri
 “Eugenius’s “Epigraphic” Poetry: Contents and Context”

Annemarie Pilarski
University of Regensburg
“Curses, laments, and compunction: Handling Death through Poetry in Eugenius' Libellus carminum and in the Epitaphion Antoninae”Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Medieval Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • Reading Eugenius of ToledoFriday, September 8, 2023 – Saturday, September 9, 2023

Reading Eugenius of Toledo

Poetry, Politics, and Religion in Post-Roman Iberia

Friday, September 8, 2023 – Saturday, September 9, 2023

Olin 102 (Friday) & Blithewood (Saturday)
At the center of our workshop is an icon of Visigothic literary culture, and one of the most prolific Latin poets of the post-Roman world: Eugenius of Toledo, bishop of the Visigothic urbs regia from 646-657 CE. Despite the acknowledged richness of Eugenius’s material—spanning epigraphic, liturgical, lyrical, and epistolary genres, and including a vast pseudepigraphic corpus—his writings remain underused by historians, and there has never been a monographic study of his work.

This conference and subsequent volume aim to invigorate conversation surrounding the poet-bishop, building off a soon-to-be-published translation of his complete works (Routledge), the first ever into English, by Graham Barrett and David Ungvary, as well as Paulo Farmhouse Alberto’s foundational Corpus Christianorum edition (2005). Taking inspiration from more recent work in late antique literary history, which has revalorized Late Latin poetry as a profoundly social discourse, we seek to develop approaches to Eugenius that are sensitive to the interplay between his sophisticated poetics and his cultural and political contexts. In this way, we hope to gain a better understanding of how Eugenius’s distinctive literary practice interacted with the evolving institutions of power, religious environments, and literary communities of Visigothic Iberia. Together, we wish to discover more about how Eugenius functioned socially as a clerical poet in this world; how he leveraged his writing practice in moves for political power; and how Eugenius’s legacy may have reshaped the cultural landscape of Latin poetry in the post-Roman West.


PROGRAM

Friday, September 8
Olin Humanities Building
Room 102

9:30-10AM
WELCOME&COFFEE

10-10:30AM
INTRODUCTION: TRANSLATING AND INTERPRETING EUGENIUS OF TOLEDO

Graham Barrett
University of Lincoln, UK

David Ungvary
Bard College

1:30-2:30PM
KEYNOTE: THE POETIC LANDSCAPES OF LATE LATIN ANTIQUITY

Joseph Pucci
Brown University

10:45AM-12:15PM
SESSION 1: SITUATING THE BISHOP: EUGENIUS’S RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL WORLD

Jamie Wood
University of Lincoln, UK
“From Zaragoza to Toledo: Eugenius in ecclesiastical and royal context”

Eleonora Dell’ Elicine
Universidad de Buenos Aires/Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento/ UCEL
“Guarding Orthodoxy: Eugenius of Toledo and the theological debate of his time”

12:15-1:30PM
BREAK & LUNCH

2:45-4:15PM
SESSION 2: FRAMING THE POET: EUGENIUS’S LITERARY WORLD

Paulo Farmhouse Alberto
University of Lisbon
“Eugenius of Toledo and grammatical teaching in the Early Middle Ages”

Cillian O’Hogan
University of Toronto
“Il miglior fabbro? Eugenius as a reader and editor of Dracontius”
 

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
BLITHEWOOD

8:30-9AM
COFFEE & BREAKFAST

9:00AM-12:15PM
SESSION 3: READING EUGENIUS

Mark Tizzoni
Bates College
“Eugenius and Educational Culture”

Céline Urlacher-Becht
University of Haute-Alsace
 “Eugenius towards late Latin epigram”

Dennis Trout
University of Missouri
 “Eugenius’s “Epigraphic” Poetry: Contents and Context”

Annemarie Pilarski
University of Regensburg
“Curses, laments, and compunction: Handling Death through Poetry in Eugenius' Libellus carminum and in the Epitaphion Antoninae”Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Medieval Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • Reading Eugenius of ToledoFriday, September 8, 2023 – Saturday, September 9, 2023
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Korean Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Tuesday, September 12, 2023
12–1 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Spanish Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Tuesday, September 12, 2023
1:15–2:15 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Chinese Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Tuesday, September 12, 2023
5–6 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Arabic Table 

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Tuesday, September 12, 2023
6:50–7:50 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 12–1 pm Korean TableTuesday, September 12, 2023, 12–1 pm
  • 1:15–2:15 pm Spanish TableTuesday, September 12, 2023, 1:15–2:15 pm
  • 5–6 pm Chinese TableTuesday, September 12, 2023, 5–6 pm
  • 6:50–7:50 pm Arabic Table Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 6:50–7:50 pm

German Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Wednesday, September 13, 2023
1–2 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Italian Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Wednesday, September 13, 2023
6–7:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Russian Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Wednesday, September 13, 2023
12–1 pm

Kline, College Room

Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Hebrew Table

Please join us weekely stay as long as you like.

Wednesday, September 13, 2023
4–5 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 12–1 pm Russian TableWednesday, September 13, 2023, 12–1 pm
  • 1–2 pm German TableWednesday, September 13, 2023, 1–2 pm
  • 4–5 pm Hebrew TableWednesday, September 13, 2023, 4–5 pm
  • 6–7:30 pm Italian TableWednesday, September 13, 2023, 6–7:30 pm

French Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Thursday, September 14, 2023
12:30–1:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
 Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Japanese Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Thursday, September 14, 2023
1:30–2:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 12:30–1:30 pm French TableThursday, September 14, 2023, 12:30–1:30 pm
  • 1:30–2:30 pm Japanese TableThursday, September 14, 2023, 1:30–2:30 pm
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Ukrainian Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Monday, September 18, 2023
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.

Since Ukrainian language instruction is not currently available at Bard, we also welcome folks interested in learning some basic Ukrainian phrases to join us!Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 12–1 pm Ukrainian TableMonday, September 18, 2023, 12–1 pm

Korean Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Tuesday, September 19, 2023
12–1 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Spanish Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Tuesday, September 19, 2023
1:15–2:15 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Chinese Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Tuesday, September 19, 2023
5–6 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Arabic Table 

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Tuesday, September 19, 2023
6:50–7:50 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 12–1 pm Korean TableTuesday, September 19, 2023, 12–1 pm
  • 1:15–2:15 pm Spanish TableTuesday, September 19, 2023, 1:15–2:15 pm
  • 5–6 pm Chinese TableTuesday, September 19, 2023, 5–6 pm
  • 6:50–7:50 pm Arabic Table Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 6:50–7:50 pm

German Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Wednesday, September 20, 2023
1–2 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Italian Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Wednesday, September 20, 2023
6–7:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Russian Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Wednesday, September 20, 2023
12–1 pm

Kline, College Room

Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Hebrew Table

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Wednesday, September 20, 2023
4–5 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 12–1 pm Russian TableWednesday, September 20, 2023, 12–1 pm
  • 1–2 pm German TableWednesday, September 20, 2023, 1–2 pm
  • 4–5 pm Hebrew TableWednesday, September 20, 2023, 4–5 pm
  • 6–7:30 pm Italian TableWednesday, September 20, 2023, 6–7:30 pm

French Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Thursday, September 21, 2023
12:30–1:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
 Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Japanese Table

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Thursday, September 21, 2023
1:30–2:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Who Was Fritz Kittel

A Reichsbahn Worker Decides // 1933–2022

Thursday, September 21, 2023
6:30–8 pm

Olin Humanities, Room 102
Esther Dischereit
Eminent German Poet, Essayist, and Activist

In 2023, Esther Dischereit created an exhibition in cooperation with Deutsche Bahn to honor the railroad worker Fritz Kittel. In 1944 and 1945, he hid her mother Hella and sister Hannelore, who as Jews were persecuted by the Gestapo and threatened with death in Germany under National Socialism. They were liberated by U.S. troops in 1945. Dischereit began to search for the family of the rescuer and found them in 2019. Fritz Kittel had not told his own family about his courageous act throughout his life. Esther Dischereit's literary response in 17 text pieces includes other found objects from the lives of her mother, sister, and Fritz Kittel, and they offer a dialogue with those who are now the daughters and sons or grandchildren. False information given at a registration office, illegal names and addresses ... What do we read when we read these documents?What do we see when we look at these photos?

Esther Dischereit lives in Berlin, writes prose, poems, essays and radio works. Recent publications: Hab keine Angst! Erzähl alles. Das Attentat von Halle und die Stimmen der Überlebenden (Ed., 2020). Sometimes a Single Leaf (2020), Flowers for Otello On the Crimes that Came out of Jena (2022) – both transl. by Iain Galbraith. Wer war Fritz Kittel, Exhibition 2023: Berlin / Frankfurt am Main / Chemnitz / Nürnberg.

Maggie Hough studies Classics, German, philosophy and theater at Bard College.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; German Studies Program; Jewish Studies Program; Literature Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 12:30–1:30 pm French TableThursday, September 21, 2023, 12:30–1:30 pm
  • 1:30–2:30 pm Japanese TableThursday, September 21, 2023, 1:30–2:30 pm
  • 6:30–8 pm Who Was Fritz KittelThursday, September 21, 2023, 6:30–8 pm

Classics Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Friday, September 22, 2023
11 am – 12 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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After Chinua Achebe: African Writing and the Future

Honoring the Memory of the Late Chinua Achebe (1930–2013)

Friday, September 22, 2023
2–6 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Join us for After Chinua Achebe: African Writing and the Future, an event honoring the memory of the late Chinua Achebe (1930–2013), former Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature. 

A symposium in the afternoon in the Weis Cinema at the Bertelsmann Campus Center will examine the current flowering of writing by African authors, in Africa and in the diaspora. The symposium will be followed by the dedication of a room in the Stevenson Library at Bard in memory of Achebe.

The event will begin at 2:00 pm on Friday, September 22, with a dance performance by Souleymane Badolo celebrating the life of Achebe, followed by an opening address by President Leon Botstein. There will be two panel discussions, Writing Beyond Africa: The African imagination in the diaspora at 2:30 pm, and Activism and the Word: Writing, speech, and song in African political culture at 4 pm. Confirmed panelists include the novelists Nuruddin Farah, Teju Cole, Dinaw Mengestu, and Fatin Abbas, and the musician and activist DJ Switch. 

The event is sponsored by President's Office, the Hannah Arendt Center, the Stevenson Library, Africana Studies, and the Offices of the Dean and Alumni/ae Affairs. Members of the Achebe family will be in attendance, and the event is free and open to the public.
 
Chinua Achebe was a groundbreaking Nigerian writer best known for his first and most influential novel, Things Fall Apart. He wrote numerous other books, including works of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and children's books. Professor Achebe received more than 30 honorary degrees, as well as many awards for his work. From 1990 to 2009 he was the Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. 
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://www.bard.edu/news/chinua-achebe-celebration-contemporary-african-writing-sept-22-2023-09-07.
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  • 11 am – 12 pm Classics TableFriday, September 22, 2023, 11 am – 12 pm
  • 2–6 pm After Chinua Achebe: African Writing and the FutureFriday, September 22, 2023, 2–6 pm
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Ukrainian Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Monday, September 25, 2023
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.

Since Ukrainian language instruction is not currently available at Bard, we also welcome folks interested in learning some basic Ukrainian phrases to join us!Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Literature Salon

David Vichnar, Senior Lecturer,
Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures,
Charles University in Prague

Monday, September 25, 2023
5:10–6:30 pm

Olin Humanities, Room 202
The first Literature Salon event of the year will feature Professor David Vichnar, a Bard Literature alumnus and current senior lecturer in the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University in Prague. Prof. Vichnar's presentation will offer an overview of his recently published book, The Avant-Postman: Experiments in Anglophone and Francophone Fiction in the Wake of James Joyce (Karolinum Press, 2023).

The Avant-Postman explores a broad range of innovative postwar writing from France, Britain, and the United States. Taking James Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as a joint starting point, David Vichnar draws genealogical lines from there through the work of more than fifty writers up to very recent years, including William Burroughs, B. S. Johnson, Ian Sinclair, Kathy Acker, Alan Moore, David Foster Wallace, and many others. Centering the exploration around five strategies employed by Joyce—narrative parallax, stylistic metempsychosis, concrete writing, forgery, and neologizing the logos—the book reveals the striking continuities and developments from Joyce’s day to our own.Sponsored by: Literature Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Written Arts Open House

Monday, September 25, 2023
6 pm

Shafer House
Meet faculty and other student writers, and ask questions about workshops and Moderation.

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. Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 12–1 pm Ukrainian TableMonday, September 25, 2023, 12–1 pm
  • 5:10–6:30 pm Literature SalonMonday, September 25, 2023, 5:10–6:30 pm
  • 6 pm Written Arts Open HouseMonday, September 25, 2023, 6 pm

Korean Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Tuesday, September 26, 2023
12–1 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Spanish Table

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023
1:15–2:15 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Chinese Table

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023
5–6 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Arabic Table 

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023
6:50–7:50 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 12–1 pm Korean TableTuesday, September 26, 2023, 12–1 pm
  • 1:15–2:15 pm Spanish TableTuesday, September 26, 2023, 1:15–2:15 pm
  • 5–6 pm Chinese TableTuesday, September 26, 2023, 5–6 pm
  • 6:50–7:50 pm Arabic Table Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 6:50–7:50 pm

German Table

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
1–2 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Italian Table

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
6–7:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Russian Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Wednesday, September 27, 2023
12–1 pm

Kline, College Room

Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Hebrew Table

Please join us weekely stay as long as you like.

Wednesday, September 27, 2023
4–5 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 12–1 pm Russian TableWednesday, September 27, 2023, 12–1 pm
  • 1–2 pm German TableWednesday, September 27, 2023, 1–2 pm
  • 4–5 pm Hebrew TableWednesday, September 27, 2023, 4–5 pm
  • 6–7:30 pm Italian TableWednesday, September 27, 2023, 6–7:30 pm

French Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Thursday, September 28, 2023
12:30–1:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
 Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Japanese Table

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Thursday, September 28, 2023
1:30–2:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Hafiz of Shiraz and the Latency of Eternity

Peter Booth ’74, author and translator

Thursday, September 28, 2023
5:30–7 pm

Olin Humanities, Room 102
Hafiz of Shiraz (1325–1392), Iran’s favorite poet and the most influential writer to ever take up a pen, in addition to being a great romantic poet is also a poet of nature.  As such, true to his appellation “the tongue of the hidden mysteries,” his poetry is structured on the laws of nature—that is on the laws of physics. The presentation of physics in his poetry is in keeping both with the theories of relativity and quantum physics. Additionally, his poetry is a fascinating account of the sojourn of the soul as it travels from the mortality of separation to the immortality of union with the source of all existence—infinite, eternal, and limitlessly creative.  

Peter Booth ('74) is a distinguished translator and interpreter of Hafiz of Shiraz. As a pre-college teen, he studied Sanskrit at Georgetown University,  then English Literature at Bard, Persian Literature in graduate school at Harvard, and finally under a scholarship from the Shah of Iran, at Ferdowsi University in Mashhad, Iran. Peter also studied physics at Georgetown University.  He is the co-author of a number of books on Hafiz, including Dante/Hafiz, and The Illuminated Hafiz, with Robert Bly et al. He has translated 512 poems of Hafiz and is preparing the volume of his collected poetry for publication. Peter lives in Meherabad, India where he conducts poetry seminars. Over a period of forty-five years, using recycled waste water, Peter has transformed a treeless desert on India’s Deccan Plateau into a four-hundred acre gardened forest. Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Middle Eastern Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 12:30–1:30 pm French TableThursday, September 28, 2023, 12:30–1:30 pm
  • 1:30–2:30 pm Japanese TableThursday, September 28, 2023, 1:30–2:30 pm
  • 5:30–7 pm Hafiz of Shiraz and the Latency of EternityThursday, September 28, 2023, 5:30–7 pm

Classics Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Friday, September 29, 2023
11 am – 12 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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  • 11 am – 12 pm Classics TableFriday, September 29, 2023, 11 am – 12 pm
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Korean Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Tuesday, September 5, 2023
12–1 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Spanish Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Tuesday, September 5, 2023
1:15–2:15 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Chinese Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Tuesday, September 5, 2023
5–6 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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German Table

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Wednesday, September 6, 2023
1–2 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Italian Table

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Wednesday, September 6, 2023
6–7:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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French Table

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Thursday, September 7, 2023
12:30–1:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
 Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Japanese Table

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Thursday, September 7, 2023
1:30–2:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Reading Eugenius of Toledo

Poetry, Politics, and Religion in Post-Roman Iberia

Friday, September 8, 2023 – Saturday, September 9, 2023

Olin 102 (Friday) & Blithewood (Saturday)
At the center of our workshop is an icon of Visigothic literary culture, and one of the most prolific Latin poets of the post-Roman world: Eugenius of Toledo, bishop of the Visigothic urbs regia from 646-657 CE. Despite the acknowledged richness of Eugenius’s material—spanning epigraphic, liturgical, lyrical, and epistolary genres, and including a vast pseudepigraphic corpus—his writings remain underused by historians, and there has never been a monographic study of his work.

This conference and subsequent volume aim to invigorate conversation surrounding the poet-bishop, building off a soon-to-be-published translation of his complete works (Routledge), the first ever into English, by Graham Barrett and David Ungvary, as well as Paulo Farmhouse Alberto’s foundational Corpus Christianorum edition (2005). Taking inspiration from more recent work in late antique literary history, which has revalorized Late Latin poetry as a profoundly social discourse, we seek to develop approaches to Eugenius that are sensitive to the interplay between his sophisticated poetics and his cultural and political contexts. In this way, we hope to gain a better understanding of how Eugenius’s distinctive literary practice interacted with the evolving institutions of power, religious environments, and literary communities of Visigothic Iberia. Together, we wish to discover more about how Eugenius functioned socially as a clerical poet in this world; how he leveraged his writing practice in moves for political power; and how Eugenius’s legacy may have reshaped the cultural landscape of Latin poetry in the post-Roman West.


PROGRAM

Friday, September 8
Olin Humanities Building
Room 102

9:30-10AM
WELCOME&COFFEE

10-10:30AM
INTRODUCTION: TRANSLATING AND INTERPRETING EUGENIUS OF TOLEDO

Graham Barrett
University of Lincoln, UK

David Ungvary
Bard College

1:30-2:30PM
KEYNOTE: THE POETIC LANDSCAPES OF LATE LATIN ANTIQUITY

Joseph Pucci
Brown University

10:45AM-12:15PM
SESSION 1: SITUATING THE BISHOP: EUGENIUS’S RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL WORLD

Jamie Wood
University of Lincoln, UK
“From Zaragoza to Toledo: Eugenius in ecclesiastical and royal context”

Eleonora Dell’ Elicine
Universidad de Buenos Aires/Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento/ UCEL
“Guarding Orthodoxy: Eugenius of Toledo and the theological debate of his time”

12:15-1:30PM
BREAK & LUNCH

2:45-4:15PM
SESSION 2: FRAMING THE POET: EUGENIUS’S LITERARY WORLD

Paulo Farmhouse Alberto
University of Lisbon
“Eugenius of Toledo and grammatical teaching in the Early Middle Ages”

Cillian O’Hogan
University of Toronto
“Il miglior fabbro? Eugenius as a reader and editor of Dracontius”
 

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
BLITHEWOOD

8:30-9AM
COFFEE & BREAKFAST

9:00AM-12:15PM
SESSION 3: READING EUGENIUS

Mark Tizzoni
Bates College
“Eugenius and Educational Culture”

Céline Urlacher-Becht
University of Haute-Alsace
 “Eugenius towards late Latin epigram”

Dennis Trout
University of Missouri
 “Eugenius’s “Epigraphic” Poetry: Contents and Context”

Annemarie Pilarski
University of Regensburg
“Curses, laments, and compunction: Handling Death through Poetry in Eugenius' Libellus carminum and in the Epitaphion Antoninae”Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Medieval Studies Program.

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Reading Eugenius of Toledo

Poetry, Politics, and Religion in Post-Roman Iberia

Friday, September 8, 2023 – Saturday, September 9, 2023

Olin 102 (Friday) & Blithewood (Saturday)
At the center of our workshop is an icon of Visigothic literary culture, and one of the most prolific Latin poets of the post-Roman world: Eugenius of Toledo, bishop of the Visigothic urbs regia from 646-657 CE. Despite the acknowledged richness of Eugenius’s material—spanning epigraphic, liturgical, lyrical, and epistolary genres, and including a vast pseudepigraphic corpus—his writings remain underused by historians, and there has never been a monographic study of his work.

This conference and subsequent volume aim to invigorate conversation surrounding the poet-bishop, building off a soon-to-be-published translation of his complete works (Routledge), the first ever into English, by Graham Barrett and David Ungvary, as well as Paulo Farmhouse Alberto’s foundational Corpus Christianorum edition (2005). Taking inspiration from more recent work in late antique literary history, which has revalorized Late Latin poetry as a profoundly social discourse, we seek to develop approaches to Eugenius that are sensitive to the interplay between his sophisticated poetics and his cultural and political contexts. In this way, we hope to gain a better understanding of how Eugenius’s distinctive literary practice interacted with the evolving institutions of power, religious environments, and literary communities of Visigothic Iberia. Together, we wish to discover more about how Eugenius functioned socially as a clerical poet in this world; how he leveraged his writing practice in moves for political power; and how Eugenius’s legacy may have reshaped the cultural landscape of Latin poetry in the post-Roman West.


PROGRAM

Friday, September 8
Olin Humanities Building
Room 102

9:30-10AM
WELCOME&COFFEE

10-10:30AM
INTRODUCTION: TRANSLATING AND INTERPRETING EUGENIUS OF TOLEDO

Graham Barrett
University of Lincoln, UK

David Ungvary
Bard College

1:30-2:30PM
KEYNOTE: THE POETIC LANDSCAPES OF LATE LATIN ANTIQUITY

Joseph Pucci
Brown University

10:45AM-12:15PM
SESSION 1: SITUATING THE BISHOP: EUGENIUS’S RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL WORLD

Jamie Wood
University of Lincoln, UK
“From Zaragoza to Toledo: Eugenius in ecclesiastical and royal context”

Eleonora Dell’ Elicine
Universidad de Buenos Aires/Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento/ UCEL
“Guarding Orthodoxy: Eugenius of Toledo and the theological debate of his time”

12:15-1:30PM
BREAK & LUNCH

2:45-4:15PM
SESSION 2: FRAMING THE POET: EUGENIUS’S LITERARY WORLD

Paulo Farmhouse Alberto
University of Lisbon
“Eugenius of Toledo and grammatical teaching in the Early Middle Ages”

Cillian O’Hogan
University of Toronto
“Il miglior fabbro? Eugenius as a reader and editor of Dracontius”
 

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
BLITHEWOOD

8:30-9AM
COFFEE & BREAKFAST

9:00AM-12:15PM
SESSION 3: READING EUGENIUS

Mark Tizzoni
Bates College
“Eugenius and Educational Culture”

Céline Urlacher-Becht
University of Haute-Alsace
 “Eugenius towards late Latin epigram”

Dennis Trout
University of Missouri
 “Eugenius’s “Epigraphic” Poetry: Contents and Context”

Annemarie Pilarski
University of Regensburg
“Curses, laments, and compunction: Handling Death through Poetry in Eugenius' Libellus carminum and in the Epitaphion Antoninae”Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Medieval Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Korean Table

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
12–1 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

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Spanish Table

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
1:15–2:15 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.

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Chinese Table

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
5–6 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Arabic Table 

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
6:50–7:50 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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German Table

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
1–2 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Italian Table

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
6–7:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Russian Table

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
12–1 pm

Kline, College Room

Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Hebrew Table

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
4–5 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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French Table

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Thursday, September 14, 2023
12:30–1:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
 Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Japanese Table

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Thursday, September 14, 2023
1:30–2:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Ukrainian Table

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Monday, September 18, 2023
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.

Since Ukrainian language instruction is not currently available at Bard, we also welcome folks interested in learning some basic Ukrainian phrases to join us!Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Korean Table

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
12–1 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Spanish Table

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
1:15–2:15 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Chinese Table

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
5–6 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Arabic Table 

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
6:50–7:50 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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German Table

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Wednesday, September 20, 2023
1–2 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Italian Table

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Wednesday, September 20, 2023
6–7:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Russian Table

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Wednesday, September 20, 2023
12–1 pm

Kline, College Room

Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Hebrew Table

Please join us weekely stay as long as you like.

Wednesday, September 20, 2023
4–5 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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French Table

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Thursday, September 21, 2023
12:30–1:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
 Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Japanese Table

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Thursday, September 21, 2023
1:30–2:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Who Was Fritz Kittel

A Reichsbahn Worker Decides // 1933–2022

Thursday, September 21, 2023
6:30–8 pm

Olin Humanities, Room 102
Esther Dischereit
Eminent German Poet, Essayist, and Activist

In 2023, Esther Dischereit created an exhibition in cooperation with Deutsche Bahn to honor the railroad worker Fritz Kittel. In 1944 and 1945, he hid her mother Hella and sister Hannelore, who as Jews were persecuted by the Gestapo and threatened with death in Germany under National Socialism. They were liberated by U.S. troops in 1945. Dischereit began to search for the family of the rescuer and found them in 2019. Fritz Kittel had not told his own family about his courageous act throughout his life. Esther Dischereit's literary response in 17 text pieces includes other found objects from the lives of her mother, sister, and Fritz Kittel, and they offer a dialogue with those who are now the daughters and sons or grandchildren. False information given at a registration office, illegal names and addresses ... What do we read when we read these documents?What do we see when we look at these photos?

Esther Dischereit lives in Berlin, writes prose, poems, essays and radio works. Recent publications: Hab keine Angst! Erzähl alles. Das Attentat von Halle und die Stimmen der Überlebenden (Ed., 2020). Sometimes a Single Leaf (2020), Flowers for Otello On the Crimes that Came out of Jena (2022) – both transl. by Iain Galbraith. Wer war Fritz Kittel, Exhibition 2023: Berlin / Frankfurt am Main / Chemnitz / Nürnberg.

Maggie Hough studies Classics, German, philosophy and theater at Bard College.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; German Studies Program; Jewish Studies Program; Literature Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Classics Table

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Friday, September 22, 2023
11 am – 12 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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After Chinua Achebe: African Writing and the Future

Honoring the Memory of the Late Chinua Achebe (1930–2013)

Friday, September 22, 2023
2–6 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Join us for After Chinua Achebe: African Writing and the Future, an event honoring the memory of the late Chinua Achebe (1930–2013), former Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature. 

A symposium in the afternoon in the Weis Cinema at the Bertelsmann Campus Center will examine the current flowering of writing by African authors, in Africa and in the diaspora. The symposium will be followed by the dedication of a room in the Stevenson Library at Bard in memory of Achebe.

The event will begin at 2:00 pm on Friday, September 22, with a dance performance by Souleymane Badolo celebrating the life of Achebe, followed by an opening address by President Leon Botstein. There will be two panel discussions, Writing Beyond Africa: The African imagination in the diaspora at 2:30 pm, and Activism and the Word: Writing, speech, and song in African political culture at 4 pm. Confirmed panelists include the novelists Nuruddin Farah, Teju Cole, Dinaw Mengestu, and Fatin Abbas, and the musician and activist DJ Switch. 

The event is sponsored by President's Office, the Hannah Arendt Center, the Stevenson Library, Africana Studies, and the Offices of the Dean and Alumni/ae Affairs. Members of the Achebe family will be in attendance, and the event is free and open to the public.
 
Chinua Achebe was a groundbreaking Nigerian writer best known for his first and most influential novel, Things Fall Apart. He wrote numerous other books, including works of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and children's books. Professor Achebe received more than 30 honorary degrees, as well as many awards for his work. From 1990 to 2009 he was the Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. 
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or visit https://www.bard.edu/news/chinua-achebe-celebration-contemporary-african-writing-sept-22-2023-09-07.
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Ukrainian Table

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Monday, September 25, 2023
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.

Since Ukrainian language instruction is not currently available at Bard, we also welcome folks interested in learning some basic Ukrainian phrases to join us!Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Literature Salon

David Vichnar, Senior Lecturer,
Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures,
Charles University in Prague

Monday, September 25, 2023
5:10–6:30 pm

Olin Humanities, Room 202
The first Literature Salon event of the year will feature Professor David Vichnar, a Bard Literature alumnus and current senior lecturer in the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University in Prague. Prof. Vichnar's presentation will offer an overview of his recently published book, The Avant-Postman: Experiments in Anglophone and Francophone Fiction in the Wake of James Joyce (Karolinum Press, 2023).

The Avant-Postman explores a broad range of innovative postwar writing from France, Britain, and the United States. Taking James Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as a joint starting point, David Vichnar draws genealogical lines from there through the work of more than fifty writers up to very recent years, including William Burroughs, B. S. Johnson, Ian Sinclair, Kathy Acker, Alan Moore, David Foster Wallace, and many others. Centering the exploration around five strategies employed by Joyce—narrative parallax, stylistic metempsychosis, concrete writing, forgery, and neologizing the logos—the book reveals the striking continuities and developments from Joyce’s day to our own.Sponsored by: Literature Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Written Arts Open House

Monday, September 25, 2023
6 pm

Shafer House
Meet faculty and other student writers, and ask questions about workshops and Moderation.

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. Sponsored by: Written Arts Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Korean Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Tuesday, September 26, 2023
12–1 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture, and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Spanish Table

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023
1:15–2:15 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Spanish Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Chinese Table

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023
5–6 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Chinese Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Arabic Table 

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Tuesday, September 26, 2023
6:50–7:50 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Middle Eastern Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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German Table

Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.

Wednesday, September 27, 2023
1–2 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Italian Table

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
6–7:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Italian Studies Program.

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Russian Table

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
12–1 pm

Kline, College Room

Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Russian/Eurasian Studies Program.

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Hebrew Table

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
4–5 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Jewish Studies Program.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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French Table

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Thursday, September 28, 2023
12:30–1:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
 Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; French Studies Program.

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Japanese Table

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Thursday, September 28, 2023
1:30–2:30 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Asian Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Hafiz of Shiraz and the Latency of Eternity

Peter Booth ’74, author and translator

Thursday, September 28, 2023
5:30–7 pm

Olin Humanities, Room 102
Hafiz of Shiraz (1325–1392), Iran’s favorite poet and the most influential writer to ever take up a pen, in addition to being a great romantic poet is also a poet of nature.  As such, true to his appellation “the tongue of the hidden mysteries,” his poetry is structured on the laws of nature—that is on the laws of physics. The presentation of physics in his poetry is in keeping both with the theories of relativity and quantum physics. Additionally, his poetry is a fascinating account of the sojourn of the soul as it travels from the mortality of separation to the immortality of union with the source of all existence—infinite, eternal, and limitlessly creative.  

Peter Booth ('74) is a distinguished translator and interpreter of Hafiz of Shiraz. As a pre-college teen, he studied Sanskrit at Georgetown University,  then English Literature at Bard, Persian Literature in graduate school at Harvard, and finally under a scholarship from the Shah of Iran, at Ferdowsi University in Mashhad, Iran. Peter also studied physics at Georgetown University.  He is the co-author of a number of books on Hafiz, including Dante/Hafiz, and The Illuminated Hafiz, with Robert Bly et al. He has translated 512 poems of Hafiz and is preparing the volume of his collected poetry for publication. Peter lives in Meherabad, India where he conducts poetry seminars. Over a period of forty-five years, using recycled waste water, Peter has transformed a treeless desert on India’s Deccan Plateau into a four-hundred acre gardened forest. Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Middle Eastern Studies Program.

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Classics Table

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Friday, September 29, 2023
11 am – 12 pm

Kline, College Room
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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