2023 Past Events
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Thursday, November 30, 2023
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room 12:30 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.
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Thursday, November 23, 2023
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Kline, College Room 12:30 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.
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Thursday, November 16, 2023
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room 12:30 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.
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Thursday, November 9, 2023
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room 12:30 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.
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Thursday, November 2, 2023
Ann Goldstein, translator
Jenny McPhee, NYU
Daniel Mendelsohn, Bard College
Mark Polizzotti, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Campus Center, Weis Cinema 5:00 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).
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Thursday, November 2, 2023
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Kline, College Room 12:30 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.
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Thursday, October 26, 2023
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Kline, College Room 12:30 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.
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Thursday, October 19, 2023
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Kline, College Room 12:30 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.
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Thursday, October 12, 2023
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Kline, College Room 12:30 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.
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Thursday, October 5, 2023
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Kline, College Room 12:30 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.
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Thursday, September 28, 2023
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Kline, College Room 12:30 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.
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Thursday, September 21, 2023
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room 12:30 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.
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Thursday, September 14, 2023
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room 12:30 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.
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Thursday, September 7, 2023
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room 12:30 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.
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Friday, May 19, 2023
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 3:30 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!
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Monday, April 17, 2023
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 6:00 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.
Read more about Sara's work here.