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