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News Mason Zoeller '24 is heading to Paris this fall 2023, to pursue his studies of French with the Institute for Field Education (IFE). Rose Mancuso '25 is also spending the fall 2023 semester studying in Paris with CUPA.
Six Bard College Students Win Gilman International Scholarships to Study Abroad
Six Bard College juniors—Lyra Cauley, David Taylor-Demeter, Lisbet Jackson, Yadriel Lagunes, Angel Ramirez, and Jennifer Woo—have been awarded highly competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships by the US Department of State. Gilman Scholars receive up to $5,000, or up to $8,000 if also a recipient of the Gilman Critical Need Language Award, to apply toward their study abroad or internship program costs.
Six Bard College Students Win Gilman International Scholarships to Study Abroad
Six Bard College students have been awarded highly competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships by the US Department of State. Gilman Scholars receive up to $5,000, or up to $8,000 if also a recipient of the Gilman Critical Need Language Award, to apply toward their study abroad or internship program costs. This cohort of Gilman scholars will study or intern in more than 90 countries and represents more than 500 US colleges and universities.
Biology major Yadriel Lagunes ’25, from Clifton, New Jersey, has been awarded a $3,000 Gilman scholarship to study at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador via tuition exchange for spring 2024. At Bard, he serves as a Residential Life Peer Counselor and a supervisor on the Bard EMT Squad. “This scholarship has made studying abroad a possibility for me,” says Lagunes. “I want to center global public health in my future career as a healthcare worker and researcher. Through travel, I hope foster cultural sensitivity and communication skills that are desperately needed in my field. I am so grateful for Gilman scholarship for this opportunity.”
French and Anthropology double major Lyra Cauley ’25, from Blue Hill, Maine, has been awarded a $4,000 Gilman scholarship to study at the Center for University Programs Abroad (CUPA) in Paris, France via tuition exchange for spring 2024. “I would like to thank the Gilman scholarship for giving me financial security and freedom abroad. This scholarship allows me to fully embrace the experience of learning and living abroad with financial worry or strain,” says Cauley.
Biology major Angel Ramirez ’25, from Bronx, New York, has been awarded a $3,000 Gilman scholarship to study at University College Roosevelt in Middelburg, The Netherlands via tuition exchange for spring 2024. “I’m very grateful to be a recipient of the Gilman scholarship,” says Ramirez. “It’s a huge opportunity to be able to pursue my goals within biology for my future in STEM. I’m excited to learn a new language abroad in the Netherlands and experience new cultures without a financial barrier. I proudly come from a family of Mexican immigrants; therefore, I feel empowered that people like me are able to partake in a change as great as this one.”
Spanish and Written Arts joint major Lisbet Jackson ’25, from Colorado Springs, Colorado, has been awarded a $4,000 Gilman scholarship to study at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador via tuition exchange for spring 2024. “I am incredibly grateful to the Gilman Scholarship for supporting my semester in Ecuador and ensuring I can commit to developing my Spanish, studying literature, and immersing myself in Ecuadorian culture. Thanks to the Gilman Scholarship I will also be more prepared to pursue a career in multilingual and global education,” says Jackson.
Sociology major Jennifer Woo ’25, from Brooklyn, New York, has been awarded a $3,500 Gilman scholarship to study at Bard College Berlin in Germany for spring 2024. “To be awarded this scholarship means to fully explore and pursue my dream of studying abroad with the freedom of having the financial support I hoped for,” says Woo. “My dad is an artist who has always pushed me to travel and search for culture, the arts, and new experiences, so being able to fulfill this dream while having the resources of education means the world to me.”
German Studies major David Taylor-Demeter ’25, from Budapest, Hungary, has been awarded a $5,000 Gilman scholarship to study at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany via tuition exchange for spring 2024. “To combine my studies of German language and literature with a day-to-day experience of Berlin is an invaluable opportunity,” says Taylor-Demeter.
Since the program’s inception in 2001, more than 41,000 Gilman Scholars from all US states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and other US territories have studied or interned in more than 160 countries around the globe. The Department of State awarded more than 3,600 Gilman scholarships during the 2022-2023 academic year.
The late Congressman Gilman, for whom the scholarship is named, served in the House of Representatives for 30 years and chaired the House Foreign Relations Committee. When honored with the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Medal in 2002, he said, “Living and learning in a vastly different environment of another nation not only exposes our students to alternate views but adds an enriching social and cultural experience. It also provides our students with the opportunity to return home with a deeper understanding of their place in the world, encouraging them to be a contributor, rather than a spectator in the international community.”
The Gilman Program is sponsored by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and is supported in its implementation by the Institute of International Education (IIE). To learn more, visit: gilmanscholarship.org.
Sedona, Arizona, native Viveca Lawrie was discovered by a Bard College Conservatory of Music faculty member, who encouraged her to apply to Bard. The opportunity to attain a double degree, a bachelor of music in trumpet performance and a bachelor of arts in French studies, appealed to her.
Lawrie recalls that Edward Carroll, who teaches trumpet, heard her play and asked her to apply to Bard. She enrolled in the Conservatory, as a bachelor of music student in trumpet performance, and in the College, as a bachelor or arts student majoring in French studies, with a concentration in medieval studies. “The double degree appealed to me,” says the Sedona, Arizona, native. “Trumpet and French are two things I enjoy.”
Her first impression of Bard was of “a beautiful campus.” Her next impression was one of welcome. “It’s a small community and I felt part of it right away.” She soon met Karen Sullivan, Irma Brandeis Professor of Romance Literature and Culture, “and that set me up for the rest of my academic career.” She credits Sullivan with teaching classes “that were 100 percent fun,” and Carroll with “being on board with my love of contemporary music, and help with the technical side” of horn virtuosity. “Bard is very good at matching you with someone,” she says.
At the Conservatory, she and colleagues played together and critiqued one another in “brass class.” “We are a tight-knit group. We really support each other,” she says. “Elsewhere there’s competition, but it’s never been that way here.”
At Bard, “I definitely learned how to write an essay and push the boundaries of how to study.” A surprise was realizing how much she enjoyed academic research and “learning history from the perspective not of the conqueror but of those not in power. This is something that will forever influence how I approach all my research.”
With work for her Senior Project in Welsh Arthurian legend, and her Graduation Recital in trumpet, she has little time for extracurricular activities. But she works in the Conservatory audio-visual office on live streaming and recording, and gave AV assistance to a student-organized concert to benefit a Conservatory student whose family is suffering from consequences of COVID-19.
For Lawrie, that kind of outreach exemplifies the Bard community. “I meet people who are interested in what I’m doing and I’m open to what they’re doing. It’s healthy that we all show such curiosity.”
After graduation, she plans to apply to an MA program in Wales, then a PhD in comparative literature; she also wants to commission composers of contemporary works. “I think people should have multiple options,” she says.
How should high school students prepare for Bard? “Come with an open mind. I can’t stress enough how wonderful a preparation Bard’s Language and Thinking Program is for thinking about the world.” She adds, “And come uncomfortable, because you won’t be used to such focused thinking. But don’t feel afraid of it, and be open to listening to others.”
Bard has changed Lawrie’s life in myriad ways. “I am a lot more confident,” she says. “As a homeschooled student, I learned to live on my own. Here I’ve learned how to make friends. I’ve learned—through the support system, counseling, and Upper College students who do tutorials—how to deal when things don’t go my way. Every professor lets me know I can come to them with any problem, especially in the Conservatory. And the French Studies Program has more of a support system than I could imagine, in terms of recommendations, tutoring, wanting to help. Not a lot of colleges have that.”
Rising junior Maxwell Toth ’22, a joint French and American studies major, has been awarded a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad. Max was awarded $4,000 toward his studies in Paris with the Institute for Field Education, a program that matches undergraduates with international internships aligning with their academic interests.
Bard College Student Wins Prestigious Study Abroad Scholarship
Rising junior Maxwell Toth ’22, a joint French and American studies major, has been awarded a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad. Max was awarded $4,000 toward his studies in Paris with the Institute for Field Education, a program that matches undergraduates with international internships aligning with their academic interests.
“I’m really honored to have received the Gilman Scholarship,” says Max. “As someone who’s barely traveled outside their home region of New England, studying abroad has been a dream of mine for quite some time.”
Max had originally planned to study abroad this fall, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic he chose to defer his plans to the spring and return to Annandale instead. This fall, he’s taking “a nice smorgasbord of courses,” ranging from The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre to Contagion: Rumor, Heresy, Disease, and Financial Panic. Outside the classroom, he’ll continue his work as a Peer Counselor, campus tour guide, and Bard nursery school aide—“You can see I wear many hats on campus!”
“Regardless of how my semester abroad may be altered due to the pandemic, I am very excited,” Max says. “Beyond the City of Light, I really want to hop a train to Salzburg at some point and take the ‘Sound of Music’ tour—provided travel restrictions have loosened up by then!”
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 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.
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 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.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 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.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 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.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 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.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 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.
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 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.
Monday, March 25, 2024
Michel Delville, University of Liège Olin Language Center, Room 1155:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Erasurism consolidates and expands cut-up, collagist, plagiarist, and other foundational techniques of avant-gardist détournement—intersecting on the one hand with the writing-through experiments of John Cage and Jackson MacLow, and with what Kenneth Goldsmith recently theorized and promoted as “uncreative writing”; and on the other with interventionist strategies which seek to reassert the critical and revolutionary potential of experimentalism against the aporias of postmodern pastiche.
Erasurist poetics can be broadly characterized by its interdisciplinary and transmedial nature. In addition to literary examples this talk will be devoted to experiments with poetry off the page and other transmedial works such as Jochen Gerner’s abstract reduction of Hergé’s comics (TNT en Amérique) and Martin Arnold’s uncanny Walt Disney blackouts in Shadow Cuts.
Michel Delville is a lecturer, writer, and musician born in Belgium. He teaches English, American, and comparative literature at the University of Liège, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics. He is the author or coauthor of ca. twenty books including The American Prose Poem (1998), J.G. Ballard (1998), Hamlet & Co (2001), Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Secret History of Maximalism (2005; w. Andrew Norris), Eating the Avant-Garde (2009), Crossroads Poetics (2013), Radiohead : OK Computer (2015), Undoing Art (2017; w. Mary Ann Caws), and The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust (2017; w. Andrew Norris), as well as several poetry collections.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 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.
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 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.
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 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.
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 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.
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 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.
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 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.
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 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.
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 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.
Thursday, November 2, 2023
Ann Goldstein, translator Jenny McPhee, NYU Daniel Mendelsohn, Bard College Mark Polizzotti, Metropolitan Museum of Art Campus Center, Weis Cinema5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 What happens when translation falters and languages cannot be reconciled? What is irremediably “foreign” in a foreign language, culture, literature and art? How to transform this challenge into a creative resource? We ask these probing questions to four of the most prominent literary translators of today, to learn from their experiences and struggles, as well as their successes.
Ann Goldstein is a translator from the Italian language, best known for her celebrated translations of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet. Former editor of The New Yorker, her many translations include works from Alba de Cespedes, Elsa Morante, Giacomo Leopardi, Jhumpa Lahiri. She also edited the three-volume publication of The Complete Works of Primo Levi (2015).
Jenny McPhee teaches in the Master’s in Translation and Interpreting program at NYU and in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton. Author of several novels, her translations from the Italian include works by the authors Anna Banti, Natalia Ginzburg, Primo Levi, Elsa Morante, Anna Maria Ortese, Curzio Malaparte, and Pope John Paul II.
Daniel Mendelsohn is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College. An internationally bestselling author, critic, essayist, and translator, his notable works include An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic (2017), and The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006). His translation of Homer’s Odyssey will be published next year.
Mark Polizzotti is a publisher and editor-in-chief at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He has translated more than 50 books from the French, including works by Gustave Flaubert, Marguerite Duras and André Breton, and written 11 books, the latest of which is Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto (2018).
Moderated by Marina van Zuylen (Bard) and Franco Baldasso (Bard).
Friday, May 19, 2023
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium3:30 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please join us on Friday, May 19 at 3:30 pm in RKC 103 for the presentation of the latest issue of Sui Generis, Bard’s student-run journal dedicated to literary translation. Please come to celebrate the hard work of the journal’s editorial board and the many translators who contributed to a robust and diverse issue of the journal. In addition to readings of work in many languages and in English translation, there will be light refreshments. All are welcome!
Monday, April 17, 2023
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 On Monday, April 17, at 6 pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), writer Sara Freeman will read from her work. Introduced by Bard faculty member Gabriella Lindsay, and followed by a Q&A, the reading is free and open to the public.
Sara Freeman is a Canadian-British writer based in the United States. She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in fiction in 2013. At Columbia, she won the Henfield Prize for the best piece of short fiction by a graduate student. Her debut novel, Tides, published in 2022, was the winner of The Bridge Book Award and named one of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 by Time Magazine.
Gabriella Lindsay comes to Bard from New York University, where she was a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture. She is the recipient of a Georges Lurcy Fellowship and numerous research fellowships and travel awards from NYU. Her work has appeared in Comparative Literature Studies (special issue), American Philosophical Association Blog, and Études littéraires africaines, and elsewhere.
Véronique Aubouy Olin Humanities, Room 1025:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 In this performance, I try to summarize Proust's beloved In Search of Lost Time with my own words, as a story of another time which reveals itself contemporary.
Véronique Aubouy has directed numerous short fiction films and documentaries (Albertine a disparu, 2018; Micaëla Henich, 2017; Je suis Annemarie Schwarzenbach, 2015, among many others). Since October 1993, she has been working on Proust Lu, and films people from all walks of life as they read Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, page after page, in a large array of settings. The first six volumes have been recorded to date, for a total of 140 hours and more than 1300 readers. Since 2011, Abouy has performed various versions of “Proust in One Hour”, in French and in English, in France, Italy, the UK and the USA.
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Listen or even perform literature in different languages. Olin Language Center, Room 203 (Tutoring Seminar)3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5 If you're interested in poetry and languages this is your event! Come and listen to your peers.
If you want to participate write to [email protected]. Please send the original text and an English translation. Any type of written art is accepted. Original works and translations are welcome too!
Food and drinks are provided.
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Jackson Smith, Princeton University Preston Theater5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 In 1954, just after the start of what would later be called the Algerian War of Independence, François Mitterand—the future French president, then serving as minister of the interior—famously proclaimed, “Algeria is France.” The politician’s words succinctly express the French imperialist project’s purportedly assimilationist approach since, at the time, Algeria was part of France and Algerians were French citizens. And yet, the lasting repercussions of the violent war of decolonization expose these words as an example of the capacity for totalizing categories and claims to obscure the complex mechanisms underlying real historical and political circumstances—namely, the materially inferior status of ethnically Algerian French citizens despite their alleged juridical equality. Against the imaginary uniformity emblematized by Mitterand’s statement, this presentation turns to contemporary works of literature and art whose representations of the Algerian struggle for independence invent and enact forms—which I will describe as broken—that have the power to disrupt the illusions of homogeneity produced by ideological forces. A broken form inhibits any supposedly definitive interpretation so that spectators are left to draw their own tentative connections or simply to submit to the seeming irreparability of the represented object. Examples will include works by the author Nathalie Quintane and the visual artist Kader Attia that make use of poetic, performative, or literal acts of breaking in order to respond to the fragmentary reality of the Algerian War of Independence and put its fundamental brokenness on display.
Thursday, November 3, 2022
Sarah Kay, Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture, NYU Christopher Preston Thompson, Tenor and Medieval Harpist Bard Hall5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 This collaborative event – part lecture, part concert – by medieval literary scholar Sarah Kay and early music ensemble Concordian Dawn, under director Christopher Preston Thompson, draws on Kay’s experimental book Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera and Thompson’s companion website of recordings. Together, Kay and Thompson find the sounds of medieval song in the least expected places: stars, the dawn light, the touch of a hand, beasts’ breath, and wild imaginings. The songs on their program range from the earliest alba to Guillaume de Machaut, but their voices sound from the outer spheres to the inner senses.
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Online Event12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Peace is the goal for every country, community, and, hey, family. (See, we're funny here at BGIA.) In general, peace is the absence of war and violence. Through its work on the Global Peace Index and the Positive Peace Framework, the Institute for Economics and Peace takes peace and peace building further. It focuses on strengths not deficits and individual action on creating and sustaining positive societies.
Join us on Thursday, November 18 at 12pm for an hour long Positive Peace Workshop. In this workshop, participants will learn how to better think about actions and approaches to creating peaceful societies. It will focus on policy, strategy, and implementation. If you're interested in conflict resolution, policymaking, and peace building, don't miss this virtual event. RSVP required.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Zrinka Stahuljak, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature, UCLA Olin Humanities, Room 2045:30 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Ever since the western involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq, and then Syria, the term 'fixer' became commonplace. It designates almost exclusively men who perform a range of services for foreign journalists and armies. Acting as interpreters, local informants, guides, drivers, mediators, brokers, these men are intermediaries, enablers who possess multiple skills and bodies of knowledge. Fixers existed already in the Middle Ages, in situations of multilingual encounter, such as crusades, pilgrimages, proselytization, trade, translation. Fixers are the invisible men and women of history, then as now. My new book, Fixers in the Middle Ages: History and Literature Connected (Seuil, 2021), aims to restore their presence in a productive conversation between the fixers of the past and of the present, and this paper will try to address ways in which looking at history, literature and politics through the lens of fixers, changes our relationship to the world and how we structure it.
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
The First Annual Stuart Stritzler-Levine Lecture in Common Decency Campus Center, Multipurpose Room5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Professor of French and Comparative Literature Marina van Zuylen will give the first annual Stuart Stritzler-Levine Lecture in Common Decency with a talk titled “Stumbling on the Good: The Private Triumphs of Common Decency.” The series honors longtime dean, faculty member, and beloved member of the Bard community Stuart Stritzler-Levine. Recognizing Stuart’s fascination with the world around him and his devotion to educating a wide community, the annual lecture will sustain his spirit of courtesy, respect and inquiry. Join us in person in the Multipurpose Room of the Bertelsmann Campus Center, or via livestream.
The Stuart Stritzler-Levine Lecture in Common Decency is generously supported by the President’s Office, the Office of the Dean of the College and the Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs.
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Online Event12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
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Thursday, May 6, 2021
Online Event12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
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Thursday, April 29, 2021
Online Event12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
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Thursday, April 22, 2021
Online Event12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/5097715132
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Thursday, April 15, 2021
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Thursday, April 8, 2021
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Thursday, April 1, 2021
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Thursday, March 25, 2021
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Thursday, March 18, 2021
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Thursday, March 11, 2021
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
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Thursday, February 25, 2021
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Thursday, February 18, 2021
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Thursday, February 11, 2021
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Thursday, February 4, 2021
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Thursday, December 10, 2020
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Thursday, December 3, 2020
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Thursday, November 26, 2020
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Thursday, November 19, 2020
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Thursday, November 12, 2020
Moderated by Alys Moody and Stephen Ross Online Event6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 To receive the Zoom invitation for this event, please email [email protected]. Invitations will be sent out on the morning of the event.
Global modernism exists only in translation. Its condition of possibility is the circulation of texts through time and space, across languages and in languages that are not the texts’ own. Historically speaking, the texts we think of as modernist are, almost without exception, the products of lively eras of translation in an expanded sense that reaches beyond the strict remit of textual translation between languages. In order to have global modernism, then, there must be translation and, necessarily, its distortions. Global modernism, by foregrounding this established problematic of translation in the context of an awareness of the unevenness of global exchange, highlights the centrality of language politics to modernist literary creation.
The study of global modernism, too, relies on active and continuous translation efforts. Contemporary translators, many of them themselves practicing poets or writers, are increasingly making available modernisms from around the world. In doing so, they underscore the extent to which modernists so often regarded translation as a primary creative act rather than secondary or derivative one.
This roundtable and reading features the work of four scholars and translators of modernist poetry who contributed original translations to the anthology Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2020) and whose efforts shine illuminating cross-lights on the modernist labour of translation. As several of our participants are also practicing multilingual poets, the event will offer an occasion to listen to and reflect on the contemporary legacies of modernist poetics.
This conversation, held under the shared auspices of the Literature Program at Bard College and Concordia University’s Centre for Expanded Poetics, is the second in a three-part series exploring global modernism, in celebration of the anthology. It was preceded by a roundtable on “Editing Global Modernism,” held on October 23, and will be followed by a workshop on pedagogy and global modernism on Friday, December 4, 1:30–4:30pm EST.
Speakers Emily Drumsta is an assistant professor of comparative literature at Brown University, where she works on modern Arabic and Francophone literatures. Her translation, Revolt Against the Sun: A Bilingual Reader of Nazik al-Mala'ika's Poetry was awarded a PEN/Heim Grant in 2018 and is forthcoming with Saqi Books in January 2021. She is a cofounder of Tahrir Documents, an online archive of newspapers, broadsides, pamphlets, and other ephemera collected in Cairo’s Tahrir Square during the 2011 Egyptian uprisings. Her translations have been published in McSweeney's, Asymptote, Jadaliyya, Circumference, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation. Emily contributed translations of Nazik al-Mala’ika’s critical writing to the anthology’s section on Modernism in the Arab World.
Klara Du Plessis is a second-year, FRQSC-funded PhD student in English literature at Concordia University, focusing on contemporary, Canadian poetry and the curation of literary events. As part of her dissertation preparation, she is pursuing a practical, experimental research creation component called Deep Curation, which approaches the organization of literary events as directed by the curator and places poets’ work in deliberate dialogue with each another, heightening the curator’s agency toward the poetic product; to date, she has curated eight such poetry readings, most recently with Sawako Nakayasu, Lee Ann Brown, and Fanny Howe at Boston University, in January 2020. Klara is also deeply involved with SpokenWeb, acting both as a researcher and as the student representative of its governing board; SpokenWeb is a SSHRC-funded, multi-institutional research project, founded at Concordia, that digitizes and archives poetry readings from the past seventy years in North America. Parallel to her scholarly activities, Klara is a poet and critic, active in both the Canadian and South African literary scenes. Her writing is informed by a multilingual poetics grounded in a fluently bilingual identity in English and Afrikaans, and a curiosity about languages generally. Her debut multilingual collection of essay-like long poems, Ekke, won the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award for a book of poetry published by a woman in Canada, and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for a debut collection. Her second English collection, Hell Light Flesh, was published by Palimpsest Press in September 2020, and her first Afrikaans book, ver taal, is currently under consideration for publication in South Africa. Her chapbook, Wax Lyrical, was shortlisted for the 2016 bpNichol Chapbook Award, and she has appeared at festivals, readings, residencies, and conferences in Canada, South Africa, the United States, and elsewhere.
Ariel Resnikoffis the author of Unnatural Bird Migrator (Operating System, 2020) and the chapbooks Ten-Four: Poems, Translations, Variations (Operating System, 2015), with Jerome Rothenberg, and Between Shades (Materialist Press, 2014). His writing has been translated into Russian, French, Spanish, German, and Hebrew, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Golden Handcuffs Review, Full Stop Quarterly, Protocols, The Wolf Magazine for Poetry, Schreibheft, Zeitschrift für Literatur and Boundary2. With Stephen Ross, he is at work on the first critical bilingual edition of Mikhl Likht’s modernist Yiddish long poem, Processions, and with Lilach Lachman and Gabriel Levin, he is translating into English the collected writings of the translingual Hebrew poet Avot Yeshurun. Ariel is a reviews editor at Jacket2 and a founding editor of the journal and print-archive Supplement, copublished by the Materialist Press, Kelly Writers House, and the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught courses on multilingual diasporic literatures at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (UPenn) and at BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change. In 2019, he completed his PhD in comparative literature and literary theory at the University of Pennsylvania, and and he is currently a Fulbright Postdoctoral US Scholar. Ariel lives on Alameda Island in the San Francisco Bay Area with his partner, the artist and designer Riv Weinstock, and their baby, Zamir Shalom.
Sho Sugita writes and translates poetry in Matsumoto, Japan. His translation of Hirato Renkichi’s Spiral Staircase: Collected Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017) is the first book of Japanese Futurist poetry to appear in English. He is currently working on translating Japanese Dada/anarchist poetry by Hagiwara Kyojiro.
Moderators Alys Moody is assistant professor of literature at Bard College. She is the author of The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomyand the Afterlives of Modernism (OUP, 2018) and is currently working on a second book, provisionally entitled The Literature of World Hunger: Poverty, Global Modernism, and the Emergence of a World Literary System. She is one of the general editors of Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2020), and section editor or coeditor of the sections on modernism in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, the Arab world, Japan, and the South Pacific.
Stephen J. Ross is assistant professor of English at Concordia University. He is the author of Invisible Terrain: John Ashbery and the Aesthetics of Nature (OUP, 2017). He is one of the general editors of Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2020), and was section editor or coeditor of the sections on modernism in the Caribbean, the Arab world, and greater China.
Thursday, November 12, 2020
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Thursday, November 5, 2020
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Thursday, October 29, 2020
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Thursday, October 22, 2020
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Thursday, October 15, 2020
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Thursday, October 8, 2020
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Thursday, October 1, 2020
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Thursday, September 24, 2020
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Thursday, September 17, 2020
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Thursday, September 10, 2020
Online Event12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/91786482761?pwd=MDdndmllLzM1ZnhxZDRieWl4Z1BXZz09
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Thursday, September 3, 2020
Online Event12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please join us weekly for an hour of conversation in French, now on Zoom! Join meeting: https://bard.zoom.us/j/91786482761?pwd=MDdndmllLzM1ZnhxZDRieWl4Z1BXZz09
French-speaking students and professors gather to share about their week, experiences, and culture. Everyone is more than welcome to join in--stay for as long as you'd like.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Zoe Griffith, Baruch College (CUNY) Olin Humanities, Room 1025:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 The French invasion and occupation of the Ottoman province of Egypt from 1798 to 1801 is an oft-cited (if misplaced) turning point in the history of the modern Middle East. But just over a decade earlier, another, lesser-known military campaign in Egypt made Napoleon’s invasion possible and thinkable. From 1786 to 1787, the Ottoman central government itself launched a campaign of imperial “reconquest” in Egypt, whose military ruling caste had posed serious challenges to Ottoman sovereignty. These two occupations are rarely discussed in tandem, despite important commonalities. Both occupying powers justified their actions in the language of benevolent “regime change” for the proclaimed benefit of peasants, merchants, and religious scholars. Both the Ottomans and the French used these justifications to extort wealth from Egyptian commercial networks in order to finance the country’s “liberation.” Attention to the networks of debt and obligation incurred during both of these campaigns brings otherwise invisible actors and social categories into the grand narratives of Mediterranean geopolitics and Egypt’s “encounter” with European modernity at the end of the 18th century.
Saturday, November 23, 2019
With Joe Burke, viola, and Andres Rivas, conductor Olin Hall8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Introductory talk on Hector Berlioz by Joe Burke.
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
RKC 1035:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Maylis de Kerangal is the author of several novels and novellas in French, including La vie voyageuse (2003), Corniche Kennedy (2008), Naissance d’un pont (winner of the Prix Médicis 2010, and published in English as Birth of a Bridge), and, most recently, Un monde à portée de main (2018). In 2014, her fifth novel, Réparer les vivants, was published to wide acclaim, topped bestseller lists for months, and went on to win several prestigious prizes. Its American translation (The Heart, FSG 2016) was one of the Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Fiction Works of 2016 ; its UK translation (Mend the Living) was the winner of the Wellcome Book Prize. Un chemin de table (2016) is de Kerangal’s most recent book made available in English, under the title The Cook (2019).
Praise for Mend the Living “I’ve seldom read a more moving book” —Lydia Kiesling, Guardian “[an] extraordinary novel that etches itself in the mind” —Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
Praise for The Cook “de Kerangal’s food writing is incantatory […] I was left hungry for more” —Moira Hodgson, Wall Street Journal
Cosponsored by Bard’s Division of Languages and Literature, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Olin Humanities, Room 1022:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 2:00 p.m. Welcome. Éric Trudel (Associate Professor of French, Bard College), Moderator
2:15 p.m. Morgane Cadieu (Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, French Department, Yale University), “The Return of Rastignac-Télémaque in Contemporary French Prose and Politics.”
3:00 p.m. Caroline Weber (Professor of French, Barnard College), “The Three Faces of Proust’s Duchess.”
Coffee Break: 3:30–4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. Maurice Samuels (Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French, Yale University), “Dress Rehearsal for Dreyfus: Simon Deutz, the Duchesse de Berry, and Modern France’s First Antisemitic Affair.”
4:30 p.m. Concluding Remarks. Marina van Zuylen (Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Bard College), “I Am a Snob, You Are a Snob: On the Inevitability of Social Shame.”
5:00 p.m. Discussion with Students and Faculty
Thursday, March 28, 2019
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Across the humanities and social sciences, appeals to authenticity have been subject to a variety of criticisms. Developments in postfoundational philosophy have challenged many of the foundational concepts underlying ideas of authenticity, such as a unitary self, transparent self-knowledge, and accounts of authentic roots. Many scholars are particularly critical of how authenticity is deployed in political life: authenticity claims may marginalize those deemed “inauthentic,” they may challenge facts and expertise in the name of feeling, and they may marginalize those who do not identify with their vision of the good. In this talk, I examine the political risks and possibilities of authenticity claims in a particular contemporary discourse—namely, in the self-descriptions of transgender children. At first glance, the authenticity claims in this discourse may generate troubling inadvertent effects: they may disseminate constraining and narrow standards of what it means to be “real,” they may encourage a false presentation of self in order to elicit rights and recognition, they may deem other identities less real and less valuable. I suggest that some of these effects arise from the particular frames we use to read these claims, and offer an alternative framing that may help us better negotiate their risks and grasp the political stakes of authenticity. In what I term a democratic frame, I show how there are certain ways of reading and deploying authenticity claims that can do the work of critique and resistance without becoming mired in potentially depoliticizing debates about ontological truths of the self, genuine self-knowledge, or “realness.” Such a reading separates the political stakes of authenticity from the ontological language often advanced by appeals to the term; showing that we don’t need to believe in a “true self” to grasp the political stakes of these claims. By attending to the ways we read authenticity claims, we might be able to counter the tendency to make automatic and unconscious determinations of authenticity, and enable the term to be deployed in freer and fairer ways.
Thursday, November 8, 2018
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Thursday, November 1, 2018
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Thursday, October 25, 2018
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Monday, October 22, 2018
Professor Jan Baetens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Olin Humanities, Room 1025:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 The 1950s are not only the golden age of the classic European photonovel (a kind of romance comics with photographs), they also saw the emergence of a short-lived subgenre, the film photonovel, which “transmedializes” real movies in photonovel format. This astonishing mix used to be extremely popular in the late 1950s, before rapidly disappearing in the 1960s. In this lecture, Jan Baetens will sketch the commercial and editorial logic of this fascinating “cultural form” and address a specific example, the adaptation of Louis Malle’s Ascenseur pour l’échafaud.
Jan Baetens is professor of literary theory and cultural studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). He is the author of the forthcoming The Film Photonovel:A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations (Texas University Press, 2019) and, most recently, of Novelization: From Film to Novel (Ohio State University Press, 2018), À voix haute (Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2016), The Graphic Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2014, with H. Frey), and Pour en finir avec la poésie dite minimaliste (Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2014). Baetens coedited the Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel (2018). He is also a prolific poet (Cent fois sur le métier, 2004; Vivre sa vie, 2005; Autres nuages, 2012, Ce monde, 2015; La lecture, 2017—among many other titles) and a novelist (Faire sécession, 2017).
Thursday, October 18, 2018
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Jenny McPhee, New York University Stephen Twilley, Public Books
*Please note start time changed to 7:00 p.m.* Olin Humanities, Room 1027:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Pioneering autofiction with his WWII novels Kaputt (1944) and The Skin (1949), Italian writer Curzio Malaparte is one of most controversial authors of the 20th Century. Malaparte was a protagonist of interwar Europe, from his tumultuous relations with Mussolini and the fascist regime to the cosmopolitan dalliances with French and Russian intelligentsia. He narrated these experiences in the two memoirs The Kremlin Ball and Diary of a Stranger in Paris, for the first time translated into English respectively by Jenny McPhee and Stephen Twilley and now published by NYRB Classics. The two translators will discuss their experience with Malaparte's texts and their relationship with this fascinating yet problematic author.
Thursday, October 11, 2018
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Thursday, October 4, 2018
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Thursday, May 10, 2018
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Thursday, May 3, 2018
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Sunday, April 29, 2018
With Samuel Oram, collaborative piano fellow Bitó Conservatory Building3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Program of works by Bernhard Krol, W. A. Mozart, R. Strauss, Henri Kling, and J. F. Gallay.
Free admission.
Friday, April 27, 2018
A conference on the theory and practice of translation, organised by Bard's Translation and Translatability Initiative. Bard College Campus9:00 am – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Thursday, April 26, 2018
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Thursday, April 19, 2018
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
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Thursday, April 5, 2018
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Thursday, March 29, 2018
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Thursday, March 22, 2018
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Thursday, March 15, 2018
Camille Robcis Associate Professor of History, Cornell University Olin Humanities, Room 1025:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Hosted by Big Ideas 215: Of Utopias. This talk explores the intersections of politics, philosophy, and radical psychiatry in 20th-century France. It focuses on a psychiatric reform movement called “institutional psychotherapy” that had an important influence on many intellectuals and activists, including François Tosquelles, Jean Oury, Felix Guattari, Frantz Fanon, Georges Canguilhem, and Michel Foucault. Anchored in Marxism and in Lacanian psychoanalysis, institutional psychotherapy advocated a fundamental restructuring of the asylum in order to transform the theory and practice of psychiatric care. More broadly, for many of these thinkers, the psychiatric offered a lens to rethink the political in the particular context of postwar France.
Camille Robcis is associate professor of history at Cornell University. Her teaching and research interests have focused on three broad issues: the historical construction of norms, the intellectual production of knowledge, and the articulation of universalism and difference in modern French history. Her first book, The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France (2013), examines how French policy makers called upon structuralist anthropology and psychoanalysis to reassert the centrality of sexual difference as the foundation for all social and psychic organization. She is currently working on a history of institutional psychotherapy, a movement born after World War II that advocated a radical restructuring of the asylum in an attempt to rethink and reform psychiatric care.
Thursday, March 15, 2018
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Thursday, March 8, 2018
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Monday, March 5, 2018
Kristin Ross Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, New York University Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium4:45 pm EST/GMT-5 The longest-lasting ongoing struggle in France today is the occupational attempt to block the construction of an international airport in farmland in western France, the ZAD, or “zone à defendre,” outside of Notre-Dame-des-Landes. In this talk I will consider a number of innovative practices reworked and lived by the inhabitants of the ZAD, in relation to historic examples such as the Commune de Paris of 1871. At the center of my presentation will be the notion of the territory and the logics of difference, possibility and autonomy it implies—the local, often rural construction of an autonomous zone, in secession from the state, which does not result in a closing in upon itself. What is a territory worth defending? What does it mean to defend a zone, or to work at creating—over time, and perhaps over a lifetime—a territory worthy of defense? How can a struggle whose particularity lies in being anchored in one place be extended to other territories?
Kristin Ross is professor emerita of comparative literature at New York University. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, she is the author of a number of books about modern and contemporary French political culture, all of which have appeared in French translation, including The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (1988); Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (1995); and May ’68 and Its Afterlives (2002). Her most recent book, Communal Luxury (2015), was published first in France by La Fabrique.
Thursday, March 1, 2018
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
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Thursday, February 15, 2018
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Thursday, February 8, 2018
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Thursday, February 1, 2018
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Thursday, December 14, 2017
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Thursday, December 7, 2017
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Thursday, November 30, 2017
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Thursday, November 23, 2017
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Thursday, November 16, 2017
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Thursday, November 9, 2017
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Thursday, November 2, 2017
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Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Charles B. Potter, Professor of History at the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence Olin Humanities, Room 1026:45 pm EDT/GMT-4
Charles B. Potter, Professor of History at the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence and former professor of NYU, in a conversation with Elizabeth Frank, Division of Languages & Literature at Bard College, about his recent book The Resistance, 1940: An Anthology of Writings from the French Underground (LSU Press 2016). Translated from French into English for the first time.
Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Introduced by Francine Prose In conversation with Charlotte Mandell, his translator. Olin Humanities, Room 1025:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 “Énard has written a masterful novel that speaks to our current, confused moment in history by highlighting the manifold, vital contributions of Islamic and other Middle Eastern cultures to the European canon. More than that, it points toward, as one character puts it, ‘a new vision that includes the other in the self.’ ” Andrew Ervin, The Washington Post
French novelist Mathias Énard is the award-winning author of Zone (2008) and Street of Thieves (2012), and a translator from Persian and Arabic. He won the Prix Goncourt (France’s oldest and most prestigious literary prize) in 2015 for Compass. The novel, translated like previous ones by Bard’s own Charlotte Mandell, was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize.
For more information, please contact Professor Éric Trudel at [email protected]
Thursday, October 26, 2017
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Philippe C. Met Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 How germane and applicable is poetry as both idiom and practice to such an ostensibly unrelated, if not diametrically opposed filmic genre as horror (or the fantastic)? Through the dual mediation of E.A. Poe’s “Philosophy of Composition” and Shakespeare’s Ophelia, the purpose of this talk is to bring out and elucidate secret affinities or conceptual commonalities between the two realms concerned within a type of cinema that deliberately subverts narrativity. Specific examples across periods and countries will be examined (C. Laughton, J. Tourneur, H. Harvey, G. Franju, M. Bava, D. Argento, R. Vadim).
Philippe C. Met is Professor of French and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal French Forum. He is the author of Formules de la poésie (1999) and La lettre tue. Spectre(s) de l'écrit fantastique (2008), and co-editor of Screening the Paris Suburbs (2017). He is currently editing a collected volume devoted to French filmmaker Louis Malle, to be published next year.
Thursday, October 19, 2017
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Thursday, October 12, 2017
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Thursday, October 5, 2017
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Thursday, September 28, 2017
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Thursday, September 21, 2017
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Thursday, September 14, 2017
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Thursday, September 7, 2017
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Thursday, May 11, 2017
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Thursday, May 4, 2017
Exclusion Preston7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 More than ever, the feeling of exclusion is preponderant. But what is it like to be the outsider? Aren't we all, in one way or another, outsiders?
Francophone cinema has often embodied this theme through powerful and challenging movies. From the prison system to the regular family dinner, the French Film Festival gives the opportunity to explore the idea of alienation.
Thursday, May 4, 2017
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Thursday, April 27, 2017
Exclusion Preston7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 More than ever, the feeling of exclusion is preponderant. But what is it like to be the outsider? Aren't we all, in one way or another, outsiders?
Francophone cinema has often embodied this theme through powerful and challenging movies. From the prison system to the regular family dinner, the French Film Festival gives the opportunity to explore the idea of alienation.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
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Thursday, April 20, 2017
Exclusion Preston7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 More than ever, the feeling of exclusion is preponderant. But what is it like to be the outsider? Aren't we all, in one way or another, outsiders?
Francophone cinema has often embodied this theme through powerful and challenging movies. From the prison system to the regular family dinner, the French Film Festival gives the opportunity to explore the idea of alienation.
Thursday, April 20, 2017
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 The public discussion with Isabelle Huppert begins at 3:00 PM.Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Exclusion Preston7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 More than ever, the feeling of exclusion is preponderant. But what is it like to be the outsider? Aren't we all, in one way or another, outsiders?
Francophone cinema has often embodied this theme through powerful and challenging movies. From the prison system to the regular family dinner, the French Film Festival gives the opportunity to explore the idea of alienation.
Thursday, April 13, 2017
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Thursday, April 6, 2017
Exclusion Preston7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 More than ever, the feeling of exclusion is preponderant. But what is it like to be the outsider? Aren't we all, in one way or another, outsiders?
Francophone cinema has often embodied this theme through powerful and challenging movies. From the prison system to the regular family dinner, the French Film Festival gives the opportunity to explore the idea of alienation.
Thursday, April 6, 2017
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Thursday, March 30, 2017
Exclusion Preston7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 More than ever, the feeling of exclusion is preponderant. But what is it like to be the outsider? Aren't we all, in one way or another, outsiders?
Francophone cinema has often embodied this theme through powerful and challenging movies. From the prison system to the regular family dinner, the French Film Festival gives the opportunity to explore the idea of alienation.
Thursday, March 30, 2017
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Thursday, March 23, 2017
Exclusion Preston7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 More than ever, the feeling of exclusion is preponderant. But what is it like to be the outsider? Aren't we all, in one way or another, outsiders?
Francophone cinema has often embodied this theme through powerful and challenging movies. From the prison system to the regular family dinner, the French Film Festival gives the opportunity to explore the idea of alienation.
Thursday, March 23, 2017
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
Exclusion Preston7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 More than ever, the feeling of exclusion is preponderant. But what is it like to be the outsider? Aren't we all, in one way or another, outsiders?
Francophone cinema has often embodied this theme through powerful and challenging movies. From the prison system to the regular family dinner, the French Film Festival gives the opportunity to explore the idea of alienation.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
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Thursday, March 9, 2017
Exclusion Preston7:30 pm EST/GMT-5 More than ever, the feeling of exclusion is preponderant. But what is it like to be the outsider? Aren't we all, in one way or another, outsiders?
Francophone cinema has often embodied this theme through powerful and challenging movies. From the prison system to the regular family dinner, the French Film Festival gives the opportunity to explore the idea of alienation.
Thursday, March 9, 2017
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Thursday, March 2, 2017
Exclusion Preston7:30 pm EST/GMT-5 More than ever, the feeling of exclusion is preponderant. But what is it like to be the outsider? Aren't we all, in one way or another, outsiders?
Francophone cinema has often embodied this theme through powerful and challenging movies. From the prison system to the regular family dinner, the French Film Festival gives the opportunity to explore the idea of alienation.
Thursday, March 2, 2017
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Thursday, February 23, 2017
Exclusion Preston7:30 pm EST/GMT-5 More than ever, the feeling of exclusion is preponderant. But what is it like to be the outsider? Aren't we all, in one way or another, outsiders?
Francophone cinema has often embodied this theme through powerful and challenging movies. From the prison system to the regular family dinner, the French Film Festival gives the opportunity to explore the idea of alienation.
Thursday, February 23, 2017
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Thursday, February 16, 2017
Exclusion Preston7:30 pm EST/GMT-5 More than ever, the feeling of exclusion is preponderant. But what is it like to be the outsider? Aren't we all, in one way or another, outsiders?
Francophone cinema has often embodied this theme through powerful and challenging movies. From the prison system to the regular family dinner, the French Film Festival gives the opportunity to explore the idea of alienation.
Thursday, February 16, 2017
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Thursday, February 9, 2017
Exclusion Preston7:30 pm EST/GMT-5 More than ever, the feeling of exclusion is preponderant. But what is it like to be the outsider? Aren't we all, in one way or another, outsiders?
Francophone cinema has often embodied this theme through powerful and challenging movies. From the prison system to the regular family dinner, the French Film Festival gives the opportunity to explore the idea of alienation.
Thursday, February 9, 2017
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Thursday, February 2, 2017
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Thursday, December 15, 2016
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Thursday, December 8, 2016
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Thursday, December 1, 2016
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Thursday, November 24, 2016
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Thursday, November 17, 2016
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Thursday, November 10, 2016
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Monday, November 7, 2016
A Reading & Conversation with by Florence Noiville Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium6:00 pm EST/GMT-5 On Monday, November 7, at 6:00 p.m., in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium of the Reem-Kayden Center at Bard College, Florence Noiville reads from her work and engages in dialogue with Norman Manea. This event is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required.
The French novelist, biographer, journalist, and editor Florence Noiville is a staff writer for Le Monde and the author of such books as A Cage in Search of a Bird, The Gift, The Attachment, and Isaac B. Singer, A Life.
“What is revealed in A Cage in Search of a Bird is the presence—as strong as it is inexplicable—of love in hatred. One must love greatly to make another suffer.” —Milan Kundera
Monday, November 7, 2016
Coffee and conversation with the author of A Cage in Search of a Bird Shafer House1:30 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5 All Bard faculty and students are encouraged to stop by Shafer House anytime between 1:30 and 3:00 p.m. on Monday, November 7, for an open house with guest author Florence Noiville. Refreshments will be offered at this informal gathering for anyone interested in discussing fiction, biography, journalism, editing, or publishing with the visiting French intellectual and Le Monde staff writer.
Noiville will present a public reading and conversation with Norman Manea on the same day, at 6:00 p.m. in the Reem-Kayden Center.
Shafer House (9 Cedar Hill Road) is located on south campus at the Annandale Triangle, across from Feitler House. The reception space is located in the downstairs lounge.
Thursday, November 3, 2016
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
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Thursday, October 20, 2016
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Thursday, October 13, 2016
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Thursday, October 6, 2016
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Thursday, September 29, 2016
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Thursday, September 22, 2016
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Thursday, September 15, 2016
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Thursday, September 8, 2016
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Thursday, May 19, 2016
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Thursday, May 12, 2016
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Thursday, May 5, 2016
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Thursday, April 28, 2016
Leopold Lambert, editor of The Funambulist magazine and author of the books Topie Impitoyable and Bulldozer Politcs. Campus Center, Weis Cinema5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Architecture is a political weapon. Its elemental form, the wall, organizes (sometimes violently) bodies in space both at the domestic and geographical levels. This lecture will introduce instances of such violence through the two examples of Palestine and the French banlieues (suburbs). The case of Palestine will be presented in terms of the role of architecture in the current situation and with reference to a post-apartheid vision for the future. The French banlieues are the dwelling places of a post-colonial population who must cope with both segregative urbanism and an antagonistic relationship with the police, which has been exacerbated during the present state of emergency in France. In both cases, a political and architectural interpretation of the situation will be presented through cartography and photography.
Free & open to the public
Thursday, April 28, 2016
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Monday, April 25, 2016
Olin Humanities, Room 1027:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please join us on Mondays for our French Film Festival. All films will be shown in French with English subtitles.
Thursday, April 21, 2016
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016
How I wrote Mathias et la révolution Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium4:45 pm – 6:45 pm EDT/GMT-4 Renowned French writer Leslie Kaplan will be discussing (and reading from) her latest novel, Mathias et la révolution (Paris: POL, 2016). Leslie Kaplan was born in New York in 1943, lives in Paris and writes in French. She is the author of several celebrated novels, among them Le pont de Brooklyn (1987), L’excès-l’usine (1987), a series composed of Miss Nobody Knows (1996), Les prostituées philosophes (1997) and Le psychanalyste (1999), Les amants de Marie (2002); Fever (2005) and Mon Amérique commence en Pologne (2012). Millefeuille won the Wepler Prize in 2012. Her new novel, Mathias et la révolution, was published earlier this year. Her books have often been adapted to the stage, and are translated in several languages.
Monday, April 18, 2016
Olin Humanities, Room 1027:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please join us on Mondays for our French Film Festival. All films will be shown in French with English subtitles.
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Malick W. Ghachem Associate Professor of History, MIT Reem-Kayden Center Room 1024:45 pm EDT/GMT-4 Malick W. Ghachem is a historian and lawyer. His primary areas of concentration are slavery and abolition, criminal law, and constitutional history. He is the author of The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2012), a history of the law of slavery in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) between 1685 and 1804. The book received the American Historical Association’s J. Russell Major Prize for the best work in English on French history and was co-winner of the Caribbean Studies Association’s Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Prize for the best book published in the field of Caribbean studies over the past three years. He teaches courses on the Age of Revolution, Slavery and Abolition, American criminal justice, and other topics.
Professor Ghachem earned his undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University and his doctorate in history from Stanford. He clerked for the Honorable Rosemary Barkett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Miami, FL in 2004. A member of the Massachusetts bar, Professor Ghachem practiced law in Boston from 2005 to 2010 for two law firms: Zalkind, Rodriguez, Lunt & Duncan LLP and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. For part of that period (2006-2007) he served as a lecturer in MIT’s Political Science Department. Between 2010 and 2013, he taught at the University of Maine School of Law in Portland, ME, where he is now a Senior Scholar.
Thursday, April 14, 2016
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Monday, April 11, 2016
Olin Humanities, Room 1027:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please join us on Mondays for our French Film Festival. All films will be shown in French with English subtitles.
Thursday, April 7, 2016
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Monday, April 4, 2016
Olin Humanities, Room 1027:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please join us on Mondays for our French Film Festival. All films will be shown in French with English subtitles.
Thursday, March 31, 2016
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Thursday, March 24, 2016
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Thursday, March 17, 2016
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Monday, March 14, 2016
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
"Vocal cords, lyre string, bowstring are a single string: entrails or nerves of a dead animal that emit the invisible sound that kills from afar."
In 1994, Pascal Quignard, who had just begun to enjoy considerable popular success as a novelist after having previously published numerous, quite esoteric essays and fragmentary texts, abruptly decided to renounce all of his professional activities: he stepped down as secretary general of literature at the illustrious Gallimard publishing house; he canceled the annual International Festival of Baroque Opera and Theater at Versailles that he had founded only four years earlier under the aegis of François Mitterrand; he distanced himself from the Concert des nations, which he had directed with Jordi Savall since 1990. He would no longer decide which authors to publish; he would no longer choose which songs to play, which forgotten masterpieces to unearth. He would do nothing but write. The Hatred of Music, originally published two years later, is a book that results from this rupture, but the title must not be misinterpreted. Quignard hints at the genealogy of the project in the following succinct formulation: “The expression Hatred of Music is meant to convey to what point music can become an object of hatred to someone who once adored it beyond measure.”
Come join a panel of respected scholars and the translators of The Hatred of Music on the occasion of the publication of the English translation of the book to learn more about the work of one of France’s most esteemed contemporary writers.
Matthew Amos (Bard College, co-translator of The Hatred of Music) Yue Zhuo (University of Pennsylvania) Yasser El-Hariry (Dartmouth College) Raphaël Sigal (Amherst College) Fredrik Rönnbäck (NYU Paris, co-translator of The Hatred of Music)
Thursday, March 10, 2016
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Monday, March 7, 2016
Olin Humanities, Room 1027:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Please join us on Mondays for our French Film Festival. All films will be shown in French with English subtitles.
Thursday, March 3, 2016
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Wednesday, March 2, 2016
A lecture in French by Bruno Clément (Paris) Reem-Kayden Center Room 1026:00 pm EST/GMT-5 “Lorsqu'on rapproche littérature et philosophie, on tente généralement de montrer que les grandes questions de la philosophie (Dieu, l'amour, la nature, le travail, la société, l'art, etc.) ne sont pas étrangères à la littérature, qui, comme elle, se soucie de vérité, d'éthique, de sagesse. Bref, on s'efforce de montrer que la littérature pense elle aussi. On ajoute seulement qu'elle le fait par ses moyens propres (la fiction, la beauté formelle) - des moyens qu'elle est d'ailleurs censée adapter à son propos.
J'aimerais quant à moi suggérer qu'on peut adopter une position pour ainsi dire symétrique. Et avancer que comme la littérature, la philosophie a le souci de la forme, que le philosophe adopte le genre (traité, poème, essai, dialogues, aphorismes, récit autobiographique même) le plus approprié à son entreprise - et même, pourquoi pas? qu'il est sans doute impossible d'évaluer le propos, voire la pertinence d'une œuvre philosophique sans prendre en compte la forme d'expression pour laquelle elle a opté.
Cette question de l'adéquation de la forme et du fond est l'une seulement de celles, nombreuses, qu'il faudrait se poser si l'on décidait de considérer le philosophe comme un écrivain.”
Bruno CLÉMENT teaches literature and philosophy at Paris-8, where he is professeur des universités. He also was president of the Collège international de Philosophie between 2004 and 2007. He is the author of several important books, such as L’Œuvre sans qualités: Rhétorique de Samuel Beckett (1989), Le lecteur et son modèle (1999), L’Invention du commentaire (2000), Le récit de la méthode (2005), Emmanuel Levinas et les territoires de la pensée (with D. Cohen-Levinas, 2007), and La voix verticale (2013).
The talk will be delivered in French.
Monday, February 29, 2016
Olin Humanities, Room 1027:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Please join us on Mondays for our French Film Festival. All films will be shown in French with English subtitles.
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Bard Hall7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Award-winning author Luc Sante, Bard’s visiting professor of writing and photography, reads from his most recent book, The Other Paris.
The Other Paris offers a panoramic view of the shadow city within the great French metropolis, drawing on testimony from a great range of witnesses, from Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, and tramps. Sante scuttles through the knotted streets of pre-Haussmann Paris, through the improvised accommodations of the original bohemians, through the whorehouses and dance halls and hobo shelters of the old city. A lively survey of labor conditions, prostitution, drinking, crime, and popular entertainment, and of the reporters, réaliste singers, pamphleteers, and poets who chronicled their evolution, The Other Paris is a book meant to upend the story of the French capital, to reclaim the city from the bons vivants and the speculators, and to hold a light to the works and lives of those expunged from its center by the forces of profit.
“This brilliant, beautifully written essay is the finest book I have ever read about Paris. Ever. Thank you, Luc Sante.” —Paul Auster
“The Other Paris is a heartbreaking spectacle, immense in intellectual and political scope and emotional reach. Peopled by crooks and movie stars, gamblers and thinkers, the world’s premier city of dreams is rendered, through Luc Sante’s fine hand, historian’s eye, and poet’s heart, into a place we hardly knew-a world of hitherto unknown mysteries and realities. A grand journey in an epic work.” —Hilton Als
The reading takes place on 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 25th, in Bard Hall, and is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Books will be available for sale and signing from Oblong Books & Music.
Thursday, February 25, 2016
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Monday, February 22, 2016
Olin Humanities, Room 1027:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Please join us on Mondays for our French Film Festival. All films will be shown in French with English subtitles.
Thursday, February 18, 2016
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Monday, February 15, 2016
Olin Humanities, Room 1027:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Please join us on Mondays for our French Film Festival. All films will be shown in French with English subtitles.
Thursday, February 11, 2016
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Monday, February 8, 2016
Olin Humanities, Room 1027:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Please join us on Mondays for our French Film Festival. All films will be shown in French with English subtitles.
Monday, February 8, 2016
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Monday, February 8, 2016
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016
presented by filmmaker, Véronique Aubouy Ottaway Theater7:15 pm – 9:15 pm EST/GMT-5 Je suis Annemarie Schwarzenbach is a biopic of the Swiss writer and world traveler of the 1930s, who had a short and intense fate. A free woman, homosexual, and physically androgynous, an anti-fascist activist and great bourgeois—Annemarie Schwarzenbach is an icon of modernity.
Biofilmography Director Véronique Aubouy is a filmmaker and artist. She has directed some documentary films for Arte, but also fictional short films, such as The Silent of the Summer, chosen for Un Certain Regard (the Cannes Film Festival's official selection) and broadcasted by France's 2 et Canal +. She also directed a film marathon entitled Proust lu. In it, she winds through France and the world to shoot all sorts of people reading, page after page, Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Today, the film is 120 hours long, and it is still far from being completed. Proust lu is shown in museums, as an installation, and has been exhibited at La Force De l'art at The Grand Palais in Paris (2009), at the Kunsthalle in Vienna (2008), and at Villa Medicis in Rome (2007).
Synopsis A film cast in Paris. Young actresses (and actors) try to incarnate the Swiss writer and traveler, Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-1942). In order to adopn the role of this emblematic and sulfurous figure of the late 30’s -- child of the “lost generation”, antifascist and gay -- the actors play scenes of her life, try to assume poses of hers from photos and talk about their own life through the prism of her fascinating and ambiguous personality. A portrait arises, singular and multiple, public biography as well as intimate memory, drawn up by the woman of the past as well as by the young generation of 2014. Slowly, a reconstituted and collective figure emerges and encounters an own fictitious life.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
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Thursday, December 10, 2015
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Thursday, December 3, 2015
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Thursday, November 26, 2015
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Friday, November 20, 2015
A conversation hosted by Hannah Arendt Center Post Doctoral Fellow, Samantha Hill, and Founding Director Institute for International Liberal Education Bard, Susan H. Gillespie Arendt Center3:00 pm EST/GMT-5 In 1962, a politically active Elisabeth Lenk moved to Paris and persuaded Theodor W. Adorno to supervise her sociology dissertation on the surrealists. Adorno, though critical of Surrealism, agreed. The Challenge of Surrealism presents their correspondence, written between 1962 and Adorno’s death in 1969, set against the backdrop of Adorno and Walter Benjamin’s disagreement about the present possibilities of future political action, crystallization, and the dialectical image. The letters offer a fresh portrait of Adorno and expand upon his view of Surrealism and the student movements in 1960s France and Germany, while Lenk’s essays and Bischof’s introduction argue that there is a legitimate connection between Surrealism and political resistance that still holds true today. Please join us at the Hannah Arendt Center for a conversation with Elisabeth Lenk and Rita Bischof to celebrate the English translation of The Challenge of Surrealism: The Correspondence of Theodor W. Adorno and Elisabeth Lenk.
Elisabeth Lenk is a German literary scholar and sociologist. She studied philosophy and sociology at the University of Frankfurt and turned down the offer of an assistantship with Adorno to move to Paris, where she met André Breton and became a member of the surrealist group. Later, she was an assistant to Helge Pross and Peter Szondi and since 1976 Professor of Literature (now emerita) at the University of Hanover. She is the author of collections of essays on Adorno, surrealist aesthetics, and other subjects.
Rita Bischof studied philosophy, sociology and literature in Frankfurt, Marburg and Berlin. She conducted research in Paris and Florence and taught at various universities. Bischof has published numerous books and articles, among other things about Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin and Surrealism. Her most recent book, Nadja revisited, includes letters and drawings by Léona Delcourt alias Nadja. She is a freelance writer living in Berlin.
Susan H. Gillespie is founding director of the Institute for International Liberal Education at Bard College, where she is Vice President for Special Global Initiatives. Her translations from German to English include numerous works by Theodor W. Adorno and the poetry of Paul Celan.
Samantha Rose Hill received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2014. Her research and teaching interests include critical theory, the Frankfurt School, aesthetic theory, poetic thinking, and German literature. She recently joined Bard College as a Hannah Arendt Center Post Doctoral Fellow and teaches in the Political Studies Program.
Time: 3pm Free & Open To the Public Kaffee und Kuchen will be served!
Thursday, November 19, 2015
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Thursday, November 12, 2015
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Thursday, November 5, 2015
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Thursday, October 29, 2015
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Monday, October 26, 2015
Preston 1107:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please join us on 28 Sept. and 26 Oct. for our film screening. All films are shown in French with subtitles.
Thursday, October 22, 2015
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Thursday, October 15, 2015
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Thursday, October 8, 2015
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Thursday, October 1, 2015
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Monday, September 28, 2015
Preston 1107:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please join us on 28 Sept. and 26 Oct. for our film screening. All films are shown in French with subtitles.
Thursday, September 24, 2015
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Thursday, September 17, 2015
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Thursday, September 10, 2015
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Monday, May 4, 2015
Please join us! Preston Theater, 1108:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 See contact for more details.
Monday, April 27, 2015
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Monday, April 27, 2015
Deconstructing "Bon Appétit" Campus Center, Multipurpose Room6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join us for a wonderful art exhibition by French students, who will deconstruct gastronomy through the lense of French Culture.
French amouse-bouche will be served.
Monday, April 20, 2015
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Monday, April 13, 2015
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Monday, April 6, 2015
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Monday, March 30, 2015
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Monday, March 23, 2015
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Monday, March 16, 2015
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Monday, March 9, 2015
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Monday, February 23, 2015
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Monday, February 16, 2015
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Monday, February 9, 2015
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Monday, February 2, 2015
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Monday, December 8, 2014
U.S.A. à la Française: “Je t’aime, moi non plus” Campus Center, Multipurpose Room5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Please join us for an exhibition of student works and celebrate a cultural love-affair that is more requited than meets the eye.
Nerval and the Romantic Legacy Preston Theater, 1105:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Presented by Bard Alumna, Cate Talley
The cult of sincerity and naturalness associated with Rousseau and early Romanticism had radical implications in helping to imagine a democratic, post-Revolutionary French society. But by the 1850s, these values were squarely within the mainstream, both aesthetically and politically. This talk will consider the writer Gérard de Nerval as a critic of this cooptation of Romantic values by a conservative, bourgeois culture, reinterpreting Romanticism's fundamental terms to restore its radical, creative potential.
Monday, May 5, 2014
Please join us! Preston8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 See contact for more details.
Monday, March 3, 2014
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Monday, February 24, 2014
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Monday, February 17, 2014
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Monday, February 10, 2014
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Monday, February 3, 2014
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Thursday, December 12, 2013
Every Thursday Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Join us for weekly language practice.
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
Every Thursday Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Join us for weekly language practice.
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Thursday, November 28, 2013
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
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Thursday, November 7, 2013
Every Thursday Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Join us for weekly language practice.
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013
A lecture by Antoine Compagnon Olin Humanities, Room 1025:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Antoine Compagnon is the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In 2006, he was elected professor at the prestigious Collège de France (Chair of French Modern & Contemporary Literature: History, Criticism and History). He studies literary representations in three main areas: Renaissance, late 19th and early 20th centuries, theory of literature and history of criticism. Among his many very influential books: Les Antimodernes (2005), Le démon de la théorie (2008), Les cinq paradoxes de la modernité (1990), Proust entre deux siècles (1989), La seconde main ou le travail de la citation (1979)His latest books, a novel and an essay respectively entitled La classe de rhéto and Un été avec Montaigne, were published in 2012 and 2013.
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Every Thursday Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join us for weekly language practice.
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
The John Ashbery Poetry Series Presents: Omar Berrada and Sarah Riggs reading from their work, including bilingual translations from the Arabic and French Campus Center, Weis Cinema5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Sarah Riggs is the author of Autobiography of Envelopes (Burning Deck, 2012), 60 Textos (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), Waterwork (Chax Press, 2007), and Chain of Minuscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling (Reality Street Editions, 2007). Currently she is completing a series of cinepoems called Six Lives, which include “Hudson,” “Brest,” “Brooklyn,” and “Skye.” Her book of essays, Word Sightings: Poetry and Visual Media in Stevens, Bishop, and O’Hara, was published by Routledge in 2002. She has translated or co-translated from the French the poets Isabelle Garron, Marie Borel, Etel Adnan, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and, most recently, Oscarine Bosquet. A member of the bilingual poetry collective Double Change and founder of the interart non-profit Tamaas, she lives in Paris, where she is a professor at NYU-in-France. Her new book, Pomme & Granite, is forthcoming with 1913 press.Writer and translator Omar Berrada grew up in Casablanca and lives between France and Morocco, where he directs the library and translation center at Dar al-Ma’mûn in Marrakech. He is a member of the bilingual poetry collective Double Change and of the intercultural arts non-profit Tamaas. He has translated, alone or in company, usually into French, sometimes into English, texts by Jennifer Moxley, Rod Mengham, Lisa Jarnot, Kathleen Fraser, Stanley Cavell, Robert Glück, Kristin Prevallet, Avital Ronell, Forrest Gander, Marie Borel, Jalal Toufic, and others. He recently edited, with Erik Bullot, Expanded Translation—A Treason Treatise (2011), a book of joyful verbal and visual betrayals; and, with Yto Barrada, Album—Cinémathèque de Tanger (2012), a multilingual book about film in Tangier and Tangier on film.
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Every Thursday Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join us for weekly language practice.
All levels welcome! Come for as little or as long as you would like.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Every Thursday Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join us for weekly language practice.
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Friday, October 11, 2013
Kline, College Room11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Study abroad program Internships in Francophone Europe (IFE) holds an info session at Bard today. Interested in study abroad in Paris, Bruxelles, or Strasbourg? Interested in combining academics with a specially selected internship in your chosen field (in art history, human rights, politics, or any number of areas)? The keys to understanding IFE’s success can be found in the restricted size of its enrollments, its focus on one small area of the world, its embedded presence and dense local networks in that area, and its individual approach and commitment to designing the best possible international education for each student it enrolls. Come meet IFE co-director Timothy Carlson to discuss how IFE could further your studies in French and in other subject areas (in French). Thinking about Study Abroad but don't know how it works at Bard? It's never too early to start planning where/when/how. Contact Study Abroad Adviser Trish Fleming at 845-758-7080 or [email protected] to make an appointment.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Every Thursday Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join us for weekly language practice.
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Thursday, October 3, 2013
Every Thursday Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join us for weekly language practice.
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Thursday, September 26, 2013
Every Thursday Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join us for weekly language practice.
All levels welcome! Come for as little or as long as you would like.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Every Thursday Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join us for weekly language practice.
All levels welcome! Come for as little or as long as you would like.
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Every Thursday Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join us for weekly language practice.
All levels welcome! Come for as little or as long as you would like.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Every Thursday, Spring Semester 2013 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Monday, May 6, 2013
All films have English subtitles. Olin 102, unless otherwise noted8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Monday, 8pm, Olin 102, with exeption of 5/6 viewing, which is in Olin LC 115.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Every Thursday, Spring Semester 2013 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Monday, April 29, 2013
All films have English subtitles. Olin 102, unless otherwise noted8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Monday, 8pm, Olin 102, with exeption of 5/6 viewing, which is in Olin LC 115.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Every Thursday, Spring Semester 2013 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Monday, April 22, 2013
All films have English subtitles. Olin 102, unless otherwise noted8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Monday, 8pm, Olin 102, with exeption of 5/6 viewing, which is in Olin LC 115.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Every Thursday, Spring Semester 2013 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Monday, April 15, 2013
All films have English subtitles. Olin 102, unless otherwise noted8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Monday, 8pm, Olin 102, with exeption of 5/6 viewing, which is in Olin LC 115.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Every Thursday, Spring Semester 2013 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Monday, April 8, 2013
All films have English subtitles. Olin 102, unless otherwise noted8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Monday, 8pm, Olin 102, with exeption of 5/6 viewing, which is in Olin LC 115.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Every Thursday, Spring Semester 2013 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Monday, April 1, 2013
All films have English subtitles. Olin 102, unless otherwise noted8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Monday, 8pm, Olin 102, with exeption of 5/6 viewing, which is in Olin LC 115.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Every Thursday, Spring Semester 2013 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Every Thursday, Spring Semester 2013 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Every Thursday, Spring Semester 2013 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Olin 2054:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Sophie White University of Notre DameThe earliest known eye-witness account of Mardi Gras in New Orleans depicted a masquerade that took place in 1730. But this description of hedonism and cross-gender disguises was an unexpected twist in a larger narrative. For this episode was immediately preceded by the 1729 uprising in which the Natchez Indians attacked French settlers, stripping, killing, and torturing survivors. And it was followed by the ritual torture and killing in New Orleans of a stripped Natchez woman captive. Most galling for the author of the account was the fact that French survivors had imitated, and even outdone, Indians’ torture methods. This transgression magnified anxieties about the potential for colonists to become indianized as a result of their presence in America. But in interweaving misrule descriptions of stripped, dressed, and disguised bodies, the author signaled that dress could channel Frenchmen’s metamorphosis into Indians, but also reverse such transformations. The key to this conceit lies in interpreting the placement of a topsy-turvy Mardi Gras masquerade in the very middle of massacre, torture and cannibalism.Sophie White is assistant professor of American Studies and concurrent assistant professor of Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her book, Wild Frenchmen & Frenchified Indians: Race and Material Culture in Colonial Louisiana, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2012. Her articles have appeared in journals such as The William and Mary Quarterly, the Journal of Early American History, Winterthur Portfolio, and Gender and History. She was a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2010–11.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Every Thursday, Spring Semester 2013 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Every Thursday, Spring Semester 2013 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Every Thursday, Spring Semester 2013 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Every Thursday, Spring Semester 2013 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Every Thursday, Spring Semester 2013 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Every Thursday, Spring Semester 2013 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Ottaway Theater, Avery Center for the Arts7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 (weather permitting)
Please join us for 35mm screenings of these key works of French Poetic Realism. The rare, imported prints are being shown being shown as part of the course Film Among the Arts (ARTH/FILM 230) and the series Reinventing Realism: The Films of Jean Grémillon.
Ottaway Theater, Avery Center for the Arts7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Please join us for 35mm screenings of these key works of French Poetic Realism. The rare, imported prints are being shown as part of the course Film Among the Arts (ARTH/FILM 230).
Avery Art Center7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Lumière d'été (Summer Light, Jean Grémillon, 1943, France, 112 minutes, 35mm) L'Étrange Monsieur Victor (Jean Grémillon, 1938, France, 103 minutes, 35mm)
Please join us for 35mm screenings of these key works of French Poetic Realism. The rare, imported prints are being shown being shown as part of the course Film Among the Arts (ARTH/FILM 230) and the series Reinventing Realism: The Films of Jean Grémillon, co-sponsored by the Film and Electronic Arts, Art History, and French Programs
The Prehistoric Detour of French Modernism RKC 1035:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 a lecture by Michèle Richman Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania
Professor Richman's work focuses on the relations between literature, anthropology and social criticism in 20th Century France. She is the author of Reading Georges Bataille: Beyond the Gift (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1982) and Sacred Revolutions: Durkheim and the Collège de Sociologie (U. of Minnesota Press, 2002), and of numerous articles devoted to Bataille, Barthes, Leiris, Mauss and many others.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Every Thursday, September - December 2010, College Room Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Every Thursday, September - December 2010, College Room Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Every Thursday, September - December 2010, College Room Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Every Thursday, September - December 2010, College Room Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Every Thursday, September - December 2010, College Room Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Every Thursday, September - December 2010, College Room Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Thursday, September - December 2010, College Room Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Thursday, September - December 2010, College Room Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Thursday, September - December 2010, College Room Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Thursday, September - December 2010, College Room Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Thursday, September - December 2010, College Room Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Thursday, September - December 2010, College Room Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Thursday, September - December 2010, College Room Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Thursday, September - December 2010, College Room Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Monday, September 13, 2010 – Thursday, September 16, 2010
Noted French Poet Comes to Bard Conversation Pierre Alferi and Eric Trudel, Associate Professor of French Olin 102 Tuesday, September 14 5:00 p.m.
Reading Alferi reads his work in French, with Bard poets reading translatios in English Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center Wednesday, September 15 6:00 p.m.
Films Parlants and Cinepoemes Alferi's cinematic work is screened continuouusly. Additional information is provided at the entrance of the exhibition. Center for Curatorial Studies Monday, September 13-Thursday, September 16 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Pierre Alferi, born in France in 1963, is one of the most innovative French poets alive today. He earned a degree in philosophy at the University of Paris with a thesis on William of Ockham, published in 1989. He is the author of several books of poetry, including Les allures natureless (1991), Le chemin familier du poisson combatif (1992), Kub Or (1994), Sentimentale journee (1997), and La voie des airs (2004). His volumes of essays and novels include Chercher une phrase (1991), Fmn (1994), Le cinema des familles (1999), Les Jumelles (2009), and Apres vous (2010). Alferi nurtures collaboration with other artists and often performs with musicians, painters, and othe rpoets. In 2003, Films parlants et cinepoemes, a DVD collecting his cinematic works, was released. Alferi is well known for his translations of works by Giorgio Agamben, John Donne, and Meyer Schapiro. His work available in English includes Natural Gaits (sun & Moon Press, 1995) and OXO (Burning Deck, 2004), both translated from the French by Cole Swensen. A special issue of the journal SubStance devoted to Alferi's work is set to appear in November.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Thursday, September - December 2010, College Room Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
College Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Every Thursday, September - December 2010, College Room Come and practice your French in a convival atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Fall 2009 Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Come and practice your French in a convivial atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Fall 2009 Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Come and practice your French in a convivial atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Fall 2009 Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Come and practice your French in a convivial atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Fall 2009 Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Come and practice your French in a convivial atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Fall 2009 Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Come and practice your French in a convivial atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Fall 2009 Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Come and practice your French in a convivial atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Fall 2009 Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come and practice your French in a convivial atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Fall 2009 Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come and practice your French in a convivial atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Fall 2009 Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come and practice your French in a convivial atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Fall 2009 Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come and practice your French in a convivial atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Fall 2009 Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come and practice your French in a convivial atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Fall 2009 Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come and practice your French in a convivial atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Fall 2009 Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come and practice your French in a convivial atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Fall 2009 Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come and practice your French in a convivial atmosphere. All levels welcome.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Fall 2009 Kline, President's Room12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come and practice your French in a convivial atmosphere. All levels welcome.