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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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Bard College Student Samantha Barrett ’26 Wins 2025 PEN/Robert J Dau Short Story Prize

This award recognizes 12 emerging writers each year for their debut short story published in a literary magazine, journal, or cultural website, and aims to support the launch of their careers as fiction writers.

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February 2013

02-12-2013
Bard College at Simon's Rock faculty member and poet Peter Filkins examines the relationship of Sylvia Plath's poetry to her life and death.

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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard College at Simon's Rock,Center for Civic Engagement |
02-11-2013
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Chinua Achebe Center |
02-06-2013
<em>Conjunctions</em> and Dalkey Press Archive Celebrate Novelist William Gaddis at The New School<br />
On February 20 Robert Coover, Samuel R. Delany, Ben Marcus, Rick Moody, and Francine Prose will read letters by Gaddis and discuss what he has meant to them as writers and readers, introduced by Conjunctions editor Bradford Morrow.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Conjunctions |
02-06-2013
John Ashbery discusses poetry, surrealism, and the New York School.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
02-01-2013
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Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Student | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
02-01-2013
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Foreign Language,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

January 2013

01-24-2013
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Chinua Achebe Center |
01-23-2013
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
01-23-2013
Bard Professor Daniel Mendelsohn Named Finalist for 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award<br />
Daniel Mendelsohn, award-winning author, critic, and Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College since 2006, has been named a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism for his most recent book, Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
01-18-2013
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
01-15-2013
Fisher Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary Year With a Month of Special Performances in April<br />
This April, Bard College is launching a yearlong 10th anniversary celebration of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts with a month of music, theater, and dance. Highlights include an all-Wagner concert performed by the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO); a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 performed by members of the ASO and the Bard Conservatory Orchestra; a production of Euripides’ The Bacchae; comic works by Jack Ferver and QWAN Company; Sō Percussion’s Student Concert; the 2013 Bard Faculty Dance Concert; and an evening with author Neil Gaiman and singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Dance,Division of Languages and Literature,Music,Theater | Institutes(s): Fisher Center |
01-14-2013
Bard Professor and Renowned Photojournalist Gilles Peress Exhibits Work in Schenectady
Gilles Peress, Bard College visiting professor of human rights and photography and internationally renowned photojournalist, is exhibiting work in Art or Evidence: The Power of Photojournalism, on view from January 3 through March 10 at the Mandeville Gallery, Union College in Schenectady, New York.
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Photo: First snow in Ardoyne, a Nationalist neighborhood, Belfast, Ireland, 1981 (detail). Credit: ©Gilles Peress/Magnum
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Division of the Arts,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
01-13-2013
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Photo: First snow in Ardoyne, a Nationalist neighborhood, Belfast, Ireland, 1981 (detail). Credit: ©Gilles Peress/Magnum
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
01-11-2013
Telling the Difficult Stories: Gretchen Wilson ’97<br />
Devotees of American Public Media’s Marketplace will be pleased to know that the show’s Africa correspondent is Bard’s very own Gretchen Wilson ’97. During the last eight years, Wilson has established herself as a political reporter who tackles serious labor, economic, and social justice issues.
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Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Division of Languages and Literature,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
01-10-2013
Center for Civic Engagement Announces Essay Contest
What does it mean to be human? How can we consider freedom and constraint in the year 2013? Bard's Center for Civic Engagement invites students from the Bard network of institutions to examine these questions in a written essay or multimedia piece for its annual contest. The deadline for submission is March 1, 2013.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement |
01-07-2013
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

December 2012

12-28-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
12-27-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
12-22-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Chinua Achebe Center |
12-21-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Film | Institutes(s): MFA |
12-18-2012
Whither Humanities in a Market-Driven World?
What place do the humanities have in a global economy increasingly focused on educating a work force for business, finance, and technology? Bard leaders weighed in with the New Indian Express. "Without humanities, social sciences and arts," says Bard IILE Director Susan Gillespie, "we won’t have just and liveable societies or even prosperous economies." Arendt Center director Roger Berkowitz adds that teaching the humanities is about "transmitting a tradition of meaning and substance, texts and ideas that can inspire young people to care more for the common world they share than for their parochial or personal interests."
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Career Development,Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Division of Social Studies,Division of the Arts,Economics,Foreign Language,Music,Religion and Theology | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
12-06-2012
On December 10 at 5 p.m., Paris Review editor Lorin Stein will give a talk at Bard on publishing careers and the literary life, followed by a panel of alumni/ae guests who are recent graduates of the Division of Languages and Literature at Bard.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Career Development,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

November 2012

11-25-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Chinua Achebe Center |
11-19-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Chinua Achebe Center |
11-11-2012
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11-09-2012
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11-07-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
11-01-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Film | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

October 2012

10-23-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Chinua Achebe Center |
10-23-2012
Annual Bard Fiction Prize Is Awarded to Brian Conn
Author Brian Conn has been selected to receive the annual Bard Fiction Prize for 2013. Conn will be awarded $30,000 and will join Bard as writer in residence next semester. He won the prize for his debut novel, The Fixed Stars, a work of experimental science fiction that our judges call "wondrous."
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Conjunctions |
10-16-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-16-2012
On Monday, November 5, highly acclaimed science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany will read from his most recent novel, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, at Bard College. The New York Times Book Review called Delany “the most interesting writer of science fiction writing in English today.”
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-15-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-12-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Division of Languages and Literature,Theater | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-10-2012
Ann Lauterbach Named Pearl Andelson Sherry Memorial Poet
Ann Lauterbach, esteemed poet and the Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College, has been named the Pearl Andelson Sherry Memorial Poet by the Creative Writing Program at the University of Chicago. From October 16 to 18, Lauterbach will be a distinguished guest to the university, where she will work with students and present the Pearl Andelson Sherry Memorial Poetry Reading and Lecture.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
10-02-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

September 2012

09-27-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Division of Languages and Literature,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): MFA |
09-26-2012
Yannick Murphy, author of Here They Come; Signed, Mata Hari; and other books, will read from her most recent novel, The Call, at Bard College on Monday, October 1. Dave Eggers has called Murphy “one of our most daring and original writers” and “an exquisitely attuned observer of human behavior.”
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Credit: Photo by Marina Van Zuylen
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
09-26-2012
Daniel Albright Delivers Fourth Biennial Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities
Bard honors preeminent poet, alumnus, and former Bard faculty member Anthony Hecht ’44 with renowned scholar Daniel Albright delivering the fourth biennial Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities, October 1–4.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of the Arts,Music | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
09-23-2012
Hear Writer in Residence Edie Meidav Read from Her Story in Upcoming Issue of <em>Conjunctions</em>
The November issue of Bard's literary magazine Conjunctions is in production, featuring work by Robert Coover, William Gaddis, William H. Gass, Jonathan Lethem, and China Miéville, among many others. Click below to hear Bard writer in residence Edie Meidav read from her new story, "Dogs of Cuba: The Buddha of the Vedado," appearing in the new issue.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Conjunctions |
09-10-2012
Bard Writer in Residence Teju Cole Tells a Story of London and New York, Naipaul and Conrad
Bard author Teju Cole enjoys a unique residency in London. Click here to listen to him read the essay he wrote that week, or click here to read it in the New Yorker, or below to read his residency diary in the Financial Times.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Chinua Achebe Center |
09-06-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
09-03-2012
A Reading by Award-Winning Author Neil Gaiman
Acclaimed author Neil Gaiman will give a reading of a new, not yet published short story Wednesday, September 5 in the Fisher Center, before the Amanda Palmer concert. Tickets to the reading are free, but seating is on a first come, first served basis.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Fisher Center |
09-02-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Music,Theater | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Fisher Center |

August 2012

08-29-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
08-20-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |

July 2012

07-16-2012
Arendt Center Launches 2012 Thinking Challenge
Looking for a summer project? Today the Hannah Arendt Center announced the 2012 Thinking Challenge: "Does the President Matter?" Create a blog post, video, or multimedia piece and enter to win cash prizes and a place at their fall conference.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Politics and International Affairs,Student | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement,Hannah Arendt Center |
07-12-2012
Binyavanga Wainaina Nominated for Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
Bard author and Achebe Center director Binyavanga Wainaina's memoir One Day I Will Write About This Place has been shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Chinua Achebe Center |
07-05-2012
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Conjunctions |
07-05-2012
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