Book Review: Bard Professor Robert Cioffi on Robert Kanigel’s Hearing Homer’s Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry
The classicist Milman Parry, who died in 1935 at the age of 33, “completely revolutionized the study of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, showing that the epics had not been written, as had long been thought, but were oral—composed in the act of performance,” writes Professor Cioffi in the New York Times. “His work has had wide-ranging ramifications, ushering in an emphasis on orality that has become increasingly central to modern literary culture.”
Book Review: Bard Professor Robert Cioffi on Robert Kanigel’s Hearing Homer’s Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry
Post Date: 05-11-2021
Student Spotlight: Jahari Fraser ’22
The Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program profiles Jahari Fraser, a Bard junior and Posse Scholar studying Global and International Studies and Spanish Studies. This semester, Jahari is studying at BGIA and interning at Project CETI, a nonprofit organization and 2020 TED Audacious Project Grant recipient that is applying advanced machine learning and non-invasive robotics to listen to and translate the communication of whales.Student Spotlight: Jahari Fraser ’22
Post Date: 03-19-2021
Forms of Regulation and Control: Professor Dina Ramadan on the Subversive Humor of Yara El-Sherbini
Dina Ramadan, assistant professor of Arabic, reviews Yara El-Sherbini's Forms of Regulation and Control at the Cue Art Foundation in New York for Art-agenda. “The first US solo exhibition for British-born, Santa Barbara–based El-Sherbini, curated by Naeem Mohaiemen, is an elegant rejoinder to the din of recent months,” Ramadan writes. “Deftly weaponizing humor through a series of discreet interventions, it challenges the so-called ‘unconscious’ bias that permeates even the most seemingly benign forms of knowledge and their production.”Forms of Regulation and Control: Professor Dina Ramadan on the Subversive Humor of Yara El-Sherbini
Post Date: 02-08-2021
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Two Bard College Students Win Critical Language Scholarships for Foreign Language Study Abroad
Two Bard College Students Win Critical Language Scholarships for Foreign Language Study Abroad
Adelina Colaku ’18 and Evan Tims ’19 have both won US State Department Critical Language Scholarships for study abroad this summer.
Post Date: 04-25-2018
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Violence and Creativity: Bard Writer in Residence Wyatt Mason on Pierre Michon
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Bard College Alumna Charlotte Mandell ’90 Named Finalist For Prestigious Man Booker International Prize
Bard College Alumna Charlotte Mandell ’90 Named Finalist For Prestigious Man Booker International Prize
Bard College alumna Charlotte Mandell ’90 has been named one of six finalists for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, which celebrates the finest works of translated fiction from around the world.
Post Date: 06-14-2017
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Bard College Students Win Prestigious Fulbright, Watson, and Davis Awards
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Professor Joseph Luzzi Discusses A Cinema of Poetry at Harvard
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How to Read Dante in the 21st Century, by Professor Joseph Luzzi
FLCL Events
- 6/24Thursday12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Online Event
Thursday, June 24, 2021
BLM: Getting to Real Change
A conversation about activism and change
Online Event 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
George Floyd's murder in May 2020 shined a brutal light on racism and inequality, not only in the U.S. but throughout the world. It renewed energy into the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Today, BLM is widely embraced and conversations about how to end systemic racism have become mainstream. What changed? And how are activists working to build on this momentum and achieve change? Talaya Robinson-Dancy and Cammie Jones join us virtually on Thursday, June 24 at 12pm for the Chace Speaker Hour to discuss. Talaya Dancy was the Founder and President of the Black Body Experience Council at Bard College and was the co-head of the Womxn of Color United club. Cammie Jones is the Executive Director of Community Engagement and Inclusion at Columbia University. Please join us on Zoom.
- 7/15Thursday12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Online Event
Thursday, July 15, 2021
The Hacked World Order
Foreign Policy in the Digital Age
Online Event 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Foreign policy is among the things that the Internet has revolutionized. No longer is diplomacy confined to oak-paneled rooms and gilded corridors. This change, as New York Times reporter Mark Landler noted, “happened so fast that it left the foreign policy establishment gasping to catch up.” Author Adam Segal joins us for a conversation about how technology has changed diplomacy, geopolitics, war, and, most of all, power.
- 10/01FridayBlithewood, Levy Institute
Friday, October 1, 2021 – Saturday, October 2, 2021
Celebrating Celan: Witnessing for the Witness
Blithewood, Levy InstituteOn October 1-2, 2021, Bard College will host “Celebrating Celan: Witnessing for the Witness,” a gathering of poets, scholars, writers, publishers, and translators to reflect on Celan’s work and his influence upon German and English poetry, including a performance of musical settings of Celan’s poetry and an exhibition of lithographs by his wife and collaborator Gisèle Lestrange.Organized by a trio of translators with long ties to Bard – Peter Filkins, Susan H. Gillespie, and Pierre Joris – in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Dutchess County, the conference will celebrate the publication by Farrar, Straus and Giroux of Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan, the final volume of the complete bilingual edition of Celan’s poetry, translated by Joris. Christine Ivanovic will deliver the keynote address, and welcoming ceremonies will include Paul Celan’s son, Éric Celan, and his literary executor Bertrand Badiou. The conference will feature six panels to be presented by poets, writers, and scholars, a concert of musical settings of Celan’s poetry presented by the Bard College Music Conservatory, and a screening of Wolfsbohne – From Czernowitz to Mychailivka, a documentary by Thierry Valletoux (in French, German and English with English subtitles) that traces Celan’s life journey.
The conference will take place at Blithewood on the Bard campus and is free and open to the public. Lunch and coffee will be provided on both days. To register for the conference, please fill out the linked Google form. Walk-ins will be welcome, but it is best to register ahead of time in order to reserve a seat and box lunch.