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Wednesday, March 1, 2023
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].
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
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].
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Olin, Room 102
Drawing on and expanding Jacques Derrida’s notion of the archive as a site that negotiates the relationship between memory and forgetting, this lecture focuses on testimonies that resist to appear in any given site or space of commemoration. How can we imagine and secure memory and political responsibility if the testimony is unavailable, absent, or unreliable? What happens if an archive no longer follows the archontic principle that is invested in the preservation and even the constitution of an event?
Within literary renderings of imprisonment a powerful mode of testimony can unfold: Emmy Hennings’ autobiographical novel Prison (1918), written during World War I as her contribution to the Dada movement, and Werner Krauss’ novel PLN—The Passions of the Halyconian Soul (1946), written while the Romance scholar was on death row in a Gestapo prison and as a secret addendum to his official study on Baltasar Gracián, are exemplary texts that are fixated on and even obsessed with language. Caught between confession, resistance, transformation, and survival, the prisoner’s testimony brings forth an invisible archive by means of language as a mode of probability, not principality, that reconfigures the relation between history, politics, and fiction.
Nicola Behrmann is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Her research combines studies of literature, history, and gender and media studies. Within this framework, Behrmann focuses on 20th-century avant-garde movements and works on the politics of the archive and on non-representational forms of memory in literary, visual, and architectural spaces. She is author of the book Geburt der Avantgarde—Emmy Hennings (2018) and co-editor of several volumes of an annotated edition of the works of Emmy Hennings (2016-2020). Currently, Behrmann is working on a book-length study of four women writers in 1920s’ Germany, titled “The Mystical Archive”.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
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].
Thursday, March 2, 2023
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].
Monday, March 6, 2023
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].
Monday, March 6, 2023
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].
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
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].
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
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].
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Olin, Room 102
Sponsored by: Italian Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
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].
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
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].
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Olin, Room 102
How to find entry points in a brutal conversation? How to summon a community of voices to diffuse a deadlock? Maha Maamoun’s artistic practices often intertwine visual and literary images, both popular and obscure, in a process of reflection on the cultural and social fabric of present day Cairo. Her subtle intervention in image and text pick on redundancies, exhausted languages, recycled imagery - features that both reveal and calcify deep-rooted structures of meaning. In their conversation, artist Maha Maamoun and writer Haytham el-Wardany will elaborate on aspects of Maamoun’s artistic practice, bringing up common themes of conversationality, seriality, quotation and reading.
Maamoun and el-Wardany are long-time collaborators. They have co-worked on different projects such as The Middle Ear (co-editors), How to Disappear (writer-publisher), and Dear Animal (writer-filmmaker).Sponsored by: Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
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].
Thursday, March 9, 2023
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].
Finding an Authentic Voice for an Ancient Poet: Translating Eugenius of Toledo
Graham Barrett, University of Lincoln, UK
Friday, March 10, 2023
Olin, Room 102
“Be present to us, You Holy One, loosen the muscles of our throats,
fill our mouths with articulate phrases, fill our hearts with tears…”
“Blubbery fat on his neck chokes off his pudgy gullet
and his horribly raspy voice loses its dulcet tones.”
These starkly different couplets were composed during the so-called “Dark Ages” by the same Latin poet: Eugenius of Toledo (d. 657 CE). Maybe. In this workshop, Professors Graham Barrett (University of Lincoln, UK) and David Ungvary (Bard) will expose participants to the challenges of locating an authentic “voice” in Eugenius’s verse, which has never before been rendered into English, but which, in the Middle Ages, was popular enough to inspire a host of imitators and pseudo-Eugenian posers. Together, those in the workshop will explore—partly through experiments in re-writing Eugenius—how various modes of translation may help (or hinder) attempts to find and animate the “true Eugenius,” a poet whose tone can range wildly from pious and reverent to just plain mean. All students and faculty interested in translation are encouraged to attend; no knowledge of Latin is necessary.
Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Medieval Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, March 13, 2023
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].
Monday, March 13, 2023
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].
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
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].
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
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].
Radioactive Aesthetics:
Chiara Pavone
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Moved to Zoom
In the wake of the Tōhoku Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster, many Japanese intellectuals came to see 2011 as a clear turning point for the country, in terms both of its identity and of its political and economic objectives. Writers and artists, similarly, called for a new ethics of representation adequate to the need to reflect people’s experience of the disaster. Behind this impetus toward change was a widespread reconsideration of the country’s reliance on nuclear power, a debate that brought thousands to the streets to protest the government’s deference to the ‘nuclear village.’
These loud demands for change, however, died down after a few years. The works that came to circulate under the rubric of an emerging “Post-Fukushima Literature” have thus tended almost without fail to emphasize certain aspects of the triple disaster over others. Indeed, far from engaging with the long-lasting legacy of radioactive contamination, many works seem actively to obscure it—to push it to the margins just as they do, in a way that is not at all coincidental, the ethnic and sexual minorities who numbered among the victims of the triple disaster.
In this talk, I will delineate some of the most common tropes characterizing “post-Fukushima” narratives, such as the focus on the authenticity of the accounts and their connection to the perceived epicenter of the disaster. I will then introduce the concept of ‘radioactive aesthetics’—a mode of reading that challenges these tropes. Here, I will focus on the literary work of writer and visual artist Kobayashi Erika, in particular her novella Precious Stones (2016) and her novel Trinity, Trinity, Trinity (2019), both recently translated in English. These texts, I argue, show the potential of a radioactive reading as it engages, on one hand, elements marginalized, or even erased‚ in narratives more closely aligned with official discourses; and as it widens, on the other, the purview of “post-Fukushima literature” to texts that trace the hidden paths and long histories of radiation, and its relationship to human and non-human lives.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
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].
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
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].
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
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].
Thursday, March 16, 2023
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].
Reclaimed Landscapes:
Julia Clark
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Olin, Room 202
The neighborhood of Ikaino in Osaka has been home to Japan's largest population of ethnically Korean residents (commonly referred to as "Zainichi Koreans") since it was first settled in the 1920s. In this talk, I discuss the literary representation of this urban space as a "Korea inside Japan" or "second homeland" for the Zainichi Korean community, beginning in the 1950s and continuing far beyond Ikaino's official erasure from Osaka city maps in 1973. In particular, I consider how mythological narratives of Ikaino as built on land reclaimed through the construction work of Koreans laboring under conditions of empire have been used as a spatial metaphor for the lived experiences of the Korean diaspora in Japan.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Japanese Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Monday, March 20, 2023
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].
Monday, March 20, 2023
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].
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
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].
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
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].
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
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].
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
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].
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
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].
Thursday, March 23, 2023
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].
Monday, March 27, 2023
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].
Monday, March 27, 2023
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].
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
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].
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
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].
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Online Event
Lara Moreno is a well-established Spanish writer, an editor at Caballo de Troya (Penguin Random House), and a professor of creative writing. She is the author of volumes of poetry, essays, and short stories, as well as three novels. Moreno will discuss with us her acclaimed novel, La ciudad/The City (Lumen, 2022), where she explores gendered vulnerability and social precarity without ever falling into victimism.
This event will be held on Zoom in Spanish. Open to the Bard Spanish-speaking community. To RSVP for this event, please email Prof. López-Gay at [email protected].
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
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].
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
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].
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
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].
Thursday, March 30, 2023
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].
Friday, March 31, 2023
Olin, Room 102
Federico García Lorca is perhaps the most recognizable Spanish poet in English translation. This workshop will explore the many ways in which Lorca's poetry has been translated with sometimes radically different results. In addition to comparing some different translations of some of Lorca's poetry, we will attempt to translate some of his work as a group, although no prior knowledge of Spanish is required.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Italian Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
1–2 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Save this event: Chinese Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
5–6 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Invisible Archives: The Prisoner’s Testimony
Nicola Behrmann, Rutgers University
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
6–7 pm
Olin, Room 102Drawing on and expanding Jacques Derrida’s notion of the archive as a site that negotiates the relationship between memory and forgetting, this lecture focuses on testimonies that resist to appear in any given site or space of commemoration. How can we imagine and secure memory and political responsibility if the testimony is unavailable, absent, or unreliable? What happens if an archive no longer follows the archontic principle that is invested in the preservation and even the constitution of an event?
Within literary renderings of imprisonment a powerful mode of testimony can unfold: Emmy Hennings’ autobiographical novel Prison (1918), written during World War I as her contribution to the Dada movement, and Werner Krauss’ novel PLN—The Passions of the Halyconian Soul (1946), written while the Romance scholar was on death row in a Gestapo prison and as a secret addendum to his official study on Baltasar Gracián, are exemplary texts that are fixated on and even obsessed with language. Caught between confession, resistance, transformation, and survival, the prisoner’s testimony brings forth an invisible archive by means of language as a mode of probability, not principality, that reconfigures the relation between history, politics, and fiction.
Nicola Behrmann is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Her research combines studies of literature, history, and gender and media studies. Within this framework, Behrmann focuses on 20th-century avant-garde movements and works on the politics of the archive and on non-representational forms of memory in literary, visual, and architectural spaces. She is author of the book Geburt der Avantgarde—Emmy Hennings (2018) and co-editor of several volumes of an annotated edition of the works of Emmy Hennings (2016-2020). Currently, Behrmann is working on a book-length study of four women writers in 1920s’ Germany, titled “The Mystical Archive”.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; German Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Arabic Table
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023
6–7 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
French Table
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Thursday, March 2, 2023
12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Russian Table
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Monday, March 6, 2023
1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
German Table
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Monday, March 6, 2023
6–7 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Spanish Table
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023
12–1 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Japanese Table
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023
1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Pasolini Film Series: Uccellacci e uccellini (The Hawks and the Sparrows)
Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1966
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
7–9 pm
Olin, Room 102Sponsored by: Italian Studies Program.
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Italian Table
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Wednesday, March 8, 2023
1–2 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Chinese Table
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Wednesday, March 8, 2023
5–6 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
The Law of Existence
artist/curator Maha Maamoun in conversation with writer Haytham el-Wardany
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
6–8 pm
Olin, Room 102How to find entry points in a brutal conversation? How to summon a community of voices to diffuse a deadlock? Maha Maamoun’s artistic practices often intertwine visual and literary images, both popular and obscure, in a process of reflection on the cultural and social fabric of present day Cairo. Her subtle intervention in image and text pick on redundancies, exhausted languages, recycled imagery - features that both reveal and calcify deep-rooted structures of meaning. In their conversation, artist Maha Maamoun and writer Haytham el-Wardany will elaborate on aspects of Maamoun’s artistic practice, bringing up common themes of conversationality, seriality, quotation and reading.
Maamoun and el-Wardany are long-time collaborators. They have co-worked on different projects such as The Middle Ear (co-editors), How to Disappear (writer-publisher), and Dear Animal (writer-filmmaker).
Maha Maamoun is an Egyptian artist, curator, and publisher. She is a founding board member of the Contemporary Image Collective (CiC), an independent non-profit space for art and culture in Cairo (2004), and co-founder of Kayfa ta, an alternative publishing platform (2012).
Haytham el-Wardany lives and works in Berlin. He writes short stories and experimental prose. His most recent publication is Jackals And The Missing Letters: On Speaking Animals At Moments Of Danger (Dar Alkarma, 2023). He is the recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism (2022-23).
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Arabic Table
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Wednesday, March 8, 2023
6–7 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
French Table
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Thursday, March 9, 2023
12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Finding an Authentic Voice for an Ancient Poet: Translating Eugenius of Toledo
Graham Barrett, University of Lincoln, UK
David Ungvary, Bard College
Friday, March 10, 2023
2–3:30 pm
Olin, Room 102“Be present to us, You Holy One, loosen the muscles of our throats,
fill our mouths with articulate phrases, fill our hearts with tears…”
“Blubbery fat on his neck chokes off his pudgy gullet
and his horribly raspy voice loses its dulcet tones.”
These starkly different couplets were composed during the so-called “Dark Ages” by the same Latin poet: Eugenius of Toledo (d. 657 CE). Maybe. In this workshop, Professors Graham Barrett (University of Lincoln, UK) and David Ungvary (Bard) will expose participants to the challenges of locating an authentic “voice” in Eugenius’s verse, which has never before been rendered into English, but which, in the Middle Ages, was popular enough to inspire a host of imitators and pseudo-Eugenian posers. Together, those in the workshop will explore—partly through experiments in re-writing Eugenius—how various modes of translation may help (or hinder) attempts to find and animate the “true Eugenius,” a poet whose tone can range wildly from pious and reverent to just plain mean. All students and faculty interested in translation are encouraged to attend; no knowledge of Latin is necessary.
Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Classical Studies Program; Division of Languages and Literature; Medieval Studies Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Russian Table
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Monday, March 13, 2023
1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
German Table
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Monday, March 13, 2023
6–7 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Spanish Table
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023
12–1 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Japanese Table
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023
1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Radioactive Aesthetics:
Reading Radiation in Post-3.11 Literature
Chiara Pavone
PhD Candidate,UCLA
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
5:30–7 pm
Moved to ZoomIn the wake of the Tōhoku Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster, many Japanese intellectuals came to see 2011 as a clear turning point for the country, in terms both of its identity and of its political and economic objectives. Writers and artists, similarly, called for a new ethics of representation adequate to the need to reflect people’s experience of the disaster. Behind this impetus toward change was a widespread reconsideration of the country’s reliance on nuclear power, a debate that brought thousands to the streets to protest the government’s deference to the ‘nuclear village.’
These loud demands for change, however, died down after a few years. The works that came to circulate under the rubric of an emerging “Post-Fukushima Literature” have thus tended almost without fail to emphasize certain aspects of the triple disaster over others. Indeed, far from engaging with the long-lasting legacy of radioactive contamination, many works seem actively to obscure it—to push it to the margins just as they do, in a way that is not at all coincidental, the ethnic and sexual minorities who numbered among the victims of the triple disaster.
In this talk, I will delineate some of the most common tropes characterizing “post-Fukushima” narratives, such as the focus on the authenticity of the accounts and their connection to the perceived epicenter of the disaster. I will then introduce the concept of ‘radioactive aesthetics’—a mode of reading that challenges these tropes. Here, I will focus on the literary work of writer and visual artist Kobayashi Erika, in particular her novella Precious Stones (2016) and her novel Trinity, Trinity, Trinity (2019), both recently translated in English. These texts, I argue, show the potential of a radioactive reading as it engages, on one hand, elements marginalized, or even erased‚ in narratives more closely aligned with official discourses; and as it widens, on the other, the purview of “post-Fukushima literature” to texts that trace the hidden paths and long histories of radiation, and its relationship to human and non-human lives.
Join Zoom Lecture: https://bard.zoom.us/j/86848113540?pwd=OHYxUTRlSzJieUkvWDhHS1kwcVFhdz09
Meeting ID: 868 4811 3540 Passcode: 878752
Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Japanese Program.For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Italian Table
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023
1–2 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Chinese Table
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023
5–6 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Arabic Table
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023
6–7 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
French Table
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Thursday, March 16, 2023
12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Reclaimed Landscapes:
Diasporic Space in Postwar Japanese Literature
Julia Clark
PhD Candidate, UCLA
Thursday, March 16, 2023
5:30–7 pm
Olin, Room 202The neighborhood of Ikaino in Osaka has been home to Japan's largest population of ethnically Korean residents (commonly referred to as "Zainichi Koreans") since it was first settled in the 1920s. In this talk, I discuss the literary representation of this urban space as a "Korea inside Japan" or "second homeland" for the Zainichi Korean community, beginning in the 1950s and continuing far beyond Ikaino's official erasure from Osaka city maps in 1973. In particular, I consider how mythological narratives of Ikaino as built on land reclaimed through the construction work of Koreans laboring under conditions of empire have been used as a spatial metaphor for the lived experiences of the Korean diaspora in Japan.Sponsored by: Dean of the College; Division of Languages and Literature; Japanese Program.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Russian Table
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Monday, March 20, 2023
1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
German Table
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Monday, March 20, 2023
6–7 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Spanish Table
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023
12–1 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Japanese Table
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023
1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Italian Table
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023
1–2 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Chinese Table
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023
5–6 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Arabic Table
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023
6–7 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
French Table
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Thursday, March 23, 2023
12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Russian Table
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Monday, March 27, 2023
1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
German Table
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Monday, March 27, 2023
6–7 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Spanish Table
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
12–1 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Japanese Table
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
1:30–2:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Boycott
Julia Bacha, 2021
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
5:30–7:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis CinemaOver the past six years, unbeknownst to most Americans, 34 states passed laws intending to silence boycott and other nonviolent measures aimed at pressuring Israel on its human rights record. These dangerous bills remove the legal protection that has been awarded to boycotts for generations, granting governments the power to condition jobs on political viewpoints.
As this wave of anti-boycott legislation has swept through the country, so has a counter-wave in defense of freedom of speech. Everyday Americans are challenging these laws for their constitutionality in a nation-wide battle likely to go all the way to the Supreme Court.
With full access to the plaintiffs and in revelatory moments with elected officials, Boycott chronicles one of the most consequential First Amendment battles of the past few decades and investigates the question – how did we get here?
As this wave of anti-boycott legislation has swept through the country, so has a counter-wave in defense of freedom of speech. Everyday Americans are challenging these laws for their constitutionality in a nation-wide battle likely to go all the way to the Supreme Court.
With full access to the plaintiffs and in revelatory moments with elected officials, Boycott chronicles one of the most consequential First Amendment battles of the past few decades and investigates the question – how did we get here?
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Julia Bacha, moderated by Peter Rosenblum, Professor of International Law and Human Rights.
This event is organized in conjunction with the OSUN Network Collaborative Course, Freedom of Expression.
Sponsored by: Global and International Studies Program; Human Rights Project; Middle Eastern Studies Program.For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
A Conversation with Lara Moreno: Gendered Vulnerability and the Politics of Literature
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
10:30–11:30 am
Online EventLara Moreno is a well-established Spanish writer, an editor at Caballo de Troya (Penguin Random House), and a professor of creative writing. She is the author of volumes of poetry, essays, and short stories, as well as three novels. Moreno will discuss with us her acclaimed novel, La ciudad/The City (Lumen, 2022), where she explores gendered vulnerability and social precarity without ever falling into victimism.
This event will be held on Zoom in Spanish. Open to the Bard Spanish-speaking community. To RSVP for this event, please email Prof. López-Gay at [email protected].
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Italian Table
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023
1–2 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Chinese Table
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023
5–6 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
6–7 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
French Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Thursday, March 30, 2023
12:30–1:30 pm
Kline, College RoomLanguage 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].
The Many Masks of Federico García Lorca
John Burns, Associate Professor of Spanish, Bard College
Friday, March 31, 2023
2–3:30 pm
Olin, Room 102Federico García Lorca is perhaps the most recognizable Spanish poet in English translation. This workshop will explore the many ways in which Lorca's poetry has been translated with sometimes radically different results. In addition to comparing some different translations of some of Lorca's poetry, we will attempt to translate some of his work as a group, although no prior knowledge of Spanish is required.Sponsored by: Bard Translation and Translatability Initiative; Spanish Studies.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
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Friday, March 31, 2023
- 2–3:30 pm The Many Masks of Federico García Lorca