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Huiwen Li Receives Award from the American Society of Shufa Calligraphy Education

Huiwen Li, continuing associate professor at Bard, is the recipient of the 2025 Best Chinese Calligraphy Curriculum Design Award from the American Society of Shufa Calligraphy Education.
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Hua Hsu in the New Yorker: “What Happens After AI Destroys College Writing?”

As more students—and some professors—are findings ways to include AI in their work, Hsu discusses the various pedagogical approaches educators are using to either avoid or incorporate the influence of AI in their classrooms.
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Daniel Mendelsohn Interviewed in the New York Review of Books

Mendelsohn discussed his new translation of Homer’s Odyssey for the University of Chicago Press.

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July 2019

07-16-2019
Bard Faculty Cecelia Watson’s Sympathy for the Semicolon
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.
 
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Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Language and Thinking Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
07-12-2019
Professor Jonathan Brent Receives Lithuanian State Award for Preserving Jewish Archives
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.
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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 |
07-03-2019
Review: Daniel Mendelsohn’s <em>Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to “Game of Thrones”</em>
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.”
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Classical Studies Program,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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