Division of Languages and Literature News by Date
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July 2019
07-16-2019
Bard Language and Thinking faculty member Cecelia Watson brings the semicolon to life in this “deceptively playful-looking book that turns out to be a scholarly treatise on a sophisticated device that has contributed eloquence and mystery to Western civilization,” Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark.
Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Language and Thinking Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Language and Thinking Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
07-12-2019
Jonathan Brent, Bard faculty member and executive director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, received the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania from H.E. Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania. The honor recognizes Brent’s work in promoting cooperation between Lithuania and YIVO and for the preservation of the prewar Jewish archives of Lithuania.
Photo: H.E. Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania, and Jonathan Brent, YIVO’s Executive Director and CEO, at Order for Merits to Lithuania Conferment
Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Literature Program,Religion and Theology,Russian and Eurasian Studies Program | Institutes(s): YIVO |
Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Literature Program,Religion and Theology,Russian and Eurasian Studies Program | Institutes(s): YIVO |
07-03-2019
Professor Mendelsohn invokes the classics to offer perspectives on modern-day events in this collection—“one fascinating essay after another from one of America’s best critics.”
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Classical Studies Program,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Classical Studies Program,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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