Faculty Activities

Faculty Highlights & Accomplishments 

• The chapter, “The Alchemical Kitchen: At Home with Leonora Carrington,” by Susan Aberth was published in Nierika, Revista de Estudios de Arte in June 2012.
• Richard Aldous spoke with Mike Emanuel on FoxNews.com Live, about the difficult relationship between Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan on April 8, 2013.
• Diana Al-Hadid has several exhibitions this year: at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, March 10, 2012 through November 25, 2012; MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, April 14, 2012 through March 1, 2013; Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City, September 14, 2012 through October 20, 2012; Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 19, 2012 through January 6, 2013; and at the Institute du Monde Arabe in Paris, France in October 2012. She gave a lecture “Studio Conversations” at the Moore College of Art in Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 12, 2012.
• In July 2012, James Bagwell performed ten concerts with The Collegiate Chorale, where he is music director, and The Israel Philharmonic in Tel Aviv and Haifa under Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti. The Collegiate Chorale performed three concerts at the Salzburg Festival with Zubin Mehta and The Israel Philharmonic; this is the first American chorus to appear at the Festival since 1989 and is one of the most prestigious music festivals in the world: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/arts/music/salzburg-to-lincoln-center-spirituality-is-on-the-program.html?hpw. Bagwell also prepared the choruses for the operas: “Le Roi Malgre Lui” for Bard SummerScape, July 2012 through August 2012, the Bard Festival Chorus for the Bard Music Festival and the Concert Chorale of New York for four performances at the Mostly Mozart Festival, both in August 2012. He prepared the Collegiate Chorale for two performances in October 2012 at Carnegie Hall, with The Israel Philharmonic and The American Symphony Orchestra. In December 2012 and January 2013, he performed with singer Natalie Merchant at the Tilles Center in Long Island, at The New Jersey Performing Arts Center, with The Clearwater Symphony and with the Las Vegas Symphony. In December, he led the Collegiate Chorale and The American Symphony Orchestra in a highly acclaimed performance of Bellini’s opera Beatrice di Tenda at Carnegie Hall.
• An interview with Thurman Barker appeared in the October 2012 issue (no. 126) of The New York City Jazz Record.
• Sanjib Baruah’s article “Whose River is it Anyway? The Political Economy of Hydropower in the Eastern Himalayas” appeared in Economic and Political Weekly in July 2012. He guest edited the December 2012 issue of the Indian policy journal Seminar. Devoted to the theme ‘Assam: Unstable Peace,’ the issue also included his article, “Hydropower, Mega Dams, and the Politics of Risk.” His article “The Politics of Territoriality in Northeast India” in Territorial Changes and Territorial Restructurings in the Himalayas has been published by the Centre d'Études Himalayenne, Paris. His essay, “The Mongolian Fringe,” appears in the January 2013 issue of the quarterly magazine Himal  (Kathmandu). He spoke on the “Political Economy of Hydropower in the Eastern Himalayas” at New York University’s conference on Global South Asia on February 16, 2013; in March 2013, he spoke at a workshop, “Far From the Nation: Close to the State,” at Stanford University; and in April 2013, he spoke at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs on “Routine Emergencies: India’s Armed Forces Special Powers Act.”  
• Imagining Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century Theater: Global Perspectives edited by Brenda Werth, Florian Becker and Paola Hernandez, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in January 2013.
• In April 2013, Alex Benson organized the seminar, “Mapping Animality III: Communicative Ecologies, Nonhuman Worlds,” for the annual convention of the American Comparative Literature Association at which he also delivered the paper “Rat Tales: John Oskison and the Political Ecology of Local Color Fiction.”
• Roger Berkowitz was on WAMC’s roundtable on November 5, 2012 to discuss the Presidential election and Presidential electoral politics in America. In September 2012, Fordham University Press published The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis, edited by Roger Berkowitz and Taun Toay.
• Recently published articles by Daniel Berthold include: “Either/Or? Kierkegaard and Camus,” in the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 73.2 (2013): 137-150, and “The Author as Stranger: Nietzsche and Camus,” in Idealistic Studies 42.1-2 (2013).
• “Polyhedral Representation of Discrete Morse Functions,” by Ethan Bloch, was published in Discrete Mathematics, vol. 313, issue 12.
• Leon Botstein received the Bruckner Society Medal of Honor in February 2013. The award was given in recognition of his exemplary work in furthering the understanding and appreciation of the life and work of Anton Bruckner.
• In August 2012, “Propagation of charged particle waves in a uniform magnetic field” a paper by Christian Bracher, was published in Physical Review A. An image from the publication was chosen for the American Physical Society wall calendar 2013, which is sent to roughly 50,000 members of the society worldwide.
• Teresa Buchholz was the winner of the female division of the Nico Castel International Master Singer Competition held on April 1, 2013 at Carnegie Hall.
• Ken Buhler’s exhibition, Birdlands, was at the Lesley Heller Workspace in New York City from December 12, 2012 through January 20, 2013 and at Galerie Gris in Hudson, New York from December 1, 2012 through January 26, 2013.
• “North Korea’s real tragedy: Nobody really wants to change the status quo,” by Ian Buruma, was published by The Globe and Mail on April 3, 2013.
• In January 2013, Nicole Caso participated in a roundtable discussion about “Political Trauma and Literary Alchemy: Testimonios and the Regenerative Power of Language,” for the Modern Language Association in Boston. Her article “La narrativa fragmentada y el anhelo de comunidad en Caperucita en la zona roja” was published in April 2013, in an edited volume entitled De la hamaca al trono y al más allá: Lecturas críticas de la obra de Manlio Argueta, edited by Astvaldur Astvaldsson, Linda J. Craft, and Ana Patricia Rodríguez; published by Editorial UTEC, San Salvador.
• Maria Cecire’s article, “Reality Remixed: Neomedieval Princess Culture in Disney’s Enchanted,” was published in Disney’s Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past, edited by Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein (Palgrave Macmillan, December 2012).
• Bruce Chilton’s review of Pope Benedict’s last book, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives, appeared in the Dec/Jan issue of The National Catholic Reporter. His article “What Would Jesus Tax” was published on Huffington Post on April 4, 2013.
• Alex Chung’s paper “Could Accruals Predict R2?” appeared in the August 2012 issue of International Research Journal of Applied Finance.
• Works by James Clark were included in a summer group show at Pace Gallery in New York City through August 23, 2012.
• In December 2012, Writer in Residence Teju Cole’s short story “Farewell Tour,” was published in the Financial Times, and he wrote the introductory essay for Disappearing Shanghai: Photographs and Poems of an intimate Way of Life by Howard French. In March 2013, Cole was interviewed by Vassar College Professor Amitava Kumar for Guernica magazine.
• In September 2012, monologues by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas's were published in Actor’s Choice: Monologues for Teens, Vol. 2. His play Bird in the Hand was at the Fulcrum Theater, Theater for the New City, in New York City from August 29, 2012 through September 23, 2012; and enjoyed an extended run at the Miami based New Theatre, March 22, 2013 through April 14, 2013 - the play script will be published by Dramatic Publishing this year.
• In July 2012, Jennie D’Ambroise presented a talk on her research at the Association for Women in Mathematics Workshop held in conjunction with the 2012 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was also awarded the AMS Simons Travel Grant for 2012-2014; supported by the Simons Foundation, the grant provides an early-career mathematician funds to be used for research related travel. “Asymmetric wave propagation through nonlinear PT-symmetric oligomers,” a paper co-written by D’Ambroise, was published by the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, (vol 45, number 44).
• Two essays by Mark Danner appeared in the New York Review of Books; “The Politics of Fear” in November 2012 and “How, and What, Did Obama Win?” in December 2012.
• Gods in Print: Masterpieces of India’s Mythological Art, by Richard Davis was published by Mandala Publishers in November 2012.
• The Winter 2012 issue of aperture featured articles by both Tim Davis, “The Neighborhood Ketchup Ad: Photography and Housing in Unzoned Arizona,” and An-My Lê, “Events Ashore: Photographs and Commentary by An-My Lê.”
• Adjunct professor of jazz guitar, Mike DeMicco, has been touring with The Brubeck Brothers Quartet in support of their new CD, Lifetimes. The Quartet recently toured Russia performing with the Russian National Orchestra at Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow) and in quartet concerts at Conservatory Hall (Moscow) and Mariinsky Hall (St. Petersburg). DeMicco contributed his composition “Prezsence” to Lifetimes and served as co-producer for the CD. He is featured on flutist Ali Ryerson’s new CD, Con Brio, which includes two more of his compositions, and is also highlighted on pop singer/songwriter Robbie Dupree’s latest release, The Arc of a Romance.
• Carolyn Dewald was awarded a Visiting Residential Fellowship for faculty research from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She will spend the spring term at All Souls College in Oxford.
• Michèle Dominy presented a keynote lecture, “Place Conservation in Post-Settler Societies,” at the Australian Anthropological Association annual conference, “Culture and Contest in a Material World,” in Brisbane in September 2012. 
• “Ethnic Inequality in the Education of Immigrants and Second Generation Immigrants: A Reexamination,” by Yuval Elmelech and Joel Perlmann, was published in Megamot 48 (3-4): 486-505 (Hebrew).
• Helen Epstein was awarded an Open Society Fellowship beginning in June 2013. The program supports individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches to fundamental open society challenges, and funds work that will enrich public understanding of those challenges. Her article “The Wrong Way to Fight Polio,” appeared on the NYR Blog of The New York Review of Books website on December 22, 2012. In February and March 2013, the following blog posts by Epstein appeared in The New York Review of Books online: “Obama: Failing the African Spring?” on February 25; “Why Are We Funding Abuse in Ethiopia?” On March 14 and “Lead Poisoning: The Ignored Scandal” on March 21.
• In September 2012, Omar Encarnación was invited by Foreign Affairs to contribute to “What to Read?” a feature of the magazine that advises readers on what to read about current affairs. “What to Read on Spanish Politics” highlighted seven books essential for understanding the current economic crisis in Spain. “The Catholic Crisis in Latin America,” by Encarnación, was featured on the Foreign Affairs website in March 2013.
• Clerks of the Passage by Abou Farman was published by Linda Leith Publishing in September 2012. His article, “Re-Enchantment Cosmologies: Mastery and the Obsolescence in an Intelligent Universe,” appeared in Anthropology Quarterly, special collection issue; vol. 85, #4.
• Miriam Felton-Dansky co-edited "Digital Dramaturgies," in Yale’s Theater magazine. The issue includes Felton-Dansky's essay about viral performance, and an interview with Annie Dorsen about her play for chatbots, Hello Hi There. You can access the journal's online edition through Bard's library portal. 
• In August 2012, Jack Ferver had two video works at Andrew Edlin Gallery and, together with QWAN Company, he performed at the Berkshire Theater Festival.  In October 2012, he created an original multidisciplinary and multimedia evening-length work with theatre students from his alma mater, Interlochen Arts Academy. These Young Men and Women opened at Interlochen’s symposium on the future of the arts for the school’s 50^th anniversary. He also premiered a new solo, Mon, Ma, Mes, for the Crossing the Line Festival at the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) and in January 2012, at the American Realness Festival at Abrons Arts Center in New York City.
• The View We’re Granted, a new book of poems by Peter Filkins, was published in July 2012 by Johns Hopkins University Press. In September 2012, he co-curated and participated in a poetry reading series for the Berkshire Wordfest at Edith Wharton’s estate. In October 2012, he delivered a keynote address, “Memory’s Witness – Witnessing Memory,” at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London for the symposium “H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald: Memory, Witness, and Poetics.” In November 2012, he delivered a paper, “The Self Positioned/The Deposited Self/The Soul Released: The Uses of Biography in H.G. Adler’s Shoah Trilogy,” at the conference “H.G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy,” at York University in Toronto. In December 2012 and January 2013, Filkins held a residency at the MacDowell Colony.
• In December 2012, Andrew Gallup’s book review “Could modularity give rise to general-purpose cognitive structures?” of Robert Kurzban’s Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite was published in the Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, 6(4). 506-510. In January 2013, articles co-written by Gallup appeared in the following journals: “When hawks give rise to doves: the evolution and transition of enforcement strategies,” published in Evolution; “The influence of real-world resource asymmetries on punishment in economic games,” published in the Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology; and “The thermoregulatory theory of yawning: what we know from 5 years of research,” published in Frontiers in Neuroscience.
• Robert Ashley (American Composers), by Kyle Gann, was published by the University of Illinois Press in December 2012. In January 2013, he presented a paper, “Algorithm and Intuition in Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach" at the University of Amsterdam's Einstein on the Beach conference; was the keynote speaker at Beyond Notation: An Earle Brown Symposium at Northeastern University; and the second movement of his piano concerto “Sunken City” was performed by the Utrecht Wind Ensemble at the Utrecht Center for the Arts, the Netherlands.
• An interview with Jeffrey Gibson was featured in LUXE IMMO Magazine, no. 26. Exhibitions of his work are at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, “Peekskill Project V,” September 29, 2012 through July 28, 2013; the Museum of Art and Design in New York City, “Changing Hands,” through October 21, 2012 and the Marc Straus Gallery in New York City, November 18, 2012 through December 23, 2012.
• In December 2012, Jacqueline Goss received a USA Rockefeller fellowship. Each year, United States Artists (USA) honors 50 of America’s finest artists with individual fellowship awards of $50,000 each, for more information visit http://www.usafellows.org/fellows.
• In February, Marka Gustavsson, together with the Colorado Quartet, commissioned a piece by Tamar Muskal on texts of Hanoch Levin, called "Farewell Letters to the Beloved One." The piece was premiered at Symphony Space for the quartet's final New York City performance. The quartet finished a Beethoven cycle with 127, 130, 133, 59/3, 18/1, 18/3, and 18/5 at Virginia Tech, in a weekend commemoration for their 5th anniversary of the tragic shooting. Gustavvson performed on a CD of Laura Kaminsky's music, released this spring. The Colorado Quartet retires from concertizing this spring, ending its career of 30 years.
• In September 2012, “Getting to page four of King Lear with Jean-Luc Godard,” an article by Lianne Habinek was published in the journal Shakespeare. She was named a short-term research fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
• In December 2012, Ken Haig was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. The grant will support a year of research in Japan and South Korea for his project, “The Greying of Democratic East Asia: The Politics of Population Policies in Japan and South Korea.”
• Lynn Hawley played the role of Queen Elizabeth in The New York Public Theater's production of Richard III in August 2012.  The production also toured prisons, homeless shelters, and other venues where people have no access to professional theater.
• “Already Far From The Road,” by Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, translated by Cole Heinowitz, was published in CLOCKS 2, 2013. In March 2013, Heinowitz was invited to speak at Bolaño for Poets, Saint Marks Poetry Project on “Maria Santiago Papasquiaro’s Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic.”
• Philip Johns and colleagues, Richard Baker, Apurva Narechania, and Gerald Wilkinson, published the paper, "Gene duplication, tissue-specific gene expression and sexual conflict in stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae)" in the August 2012 issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, devoted to ‘Sexual selection, social conflict and the female perspective.’ Johns and biology student, Maximillian Brown, traveled during August 2012 to the Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre in Brunei, Borneo, and to the Ulu Gombak Biodiversity Centre in Peninsular Malaysia. The aim of this NSF-funded research venture was to collect and perform genomic analyses on several species of stalk-eyed flies. In 2013, Johns and colleagues, Jerry Wilkinson, Rick Baker, and Jackie Metheney, published the article, "Sex-biased gene expression during head development in a sexually dimorphic stalk-eyed fly", in the journal PLoS ONE. Johns and three of his students (Jyoti Dev, Wyatt Shell, and Hannah Shapero) conducted the research for the article with the support from A National Science Foundation Opportunities Award.
• Femininity in Asian Women Artists’ Work from China, Korea and USA: If the Shoe Fits, an e-book by Patricia Karetzky, was published by KT Press in September 2012. The exhibit “Living in a Material World,” curated by Karetsky will be at the Center Arts Gallery at Kaplan Hall at SUNY Orange through March 29, 2013.
• In November 2012, Felicia Keesing gave a seminar on her research at the Stazione Zoologica in Naples, Italy. She was appointed a member of the national steering committee for the Vision and Change conference on undergraduate biology education, organized by the National Science Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She also co-wrote and published the following papers: “Effects of garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) removal on re-colonization by entompathogenic fungi,” in Invasive Plant Science and Management; “Effects of host diversity on disease risk,” in the Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics; “Reservoir competence of common tick hosts for Babesia miroti” in Emerging Infectious Diseases; “Identifying reservoir hosts of Anaplasma phagocytophilum” in Emerging Infectious Diseases; “Dropping dead: causes and consequences of vulture population declines worldwide” in The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology; “Relationship between pace of life and immune responses in wild rodents,” in Oikos; and “Lessons on the relationship between pastoralism and biodiversity from the Kenya Long-term Exclosure Experiment (KLEE),” in Policy and Practice. 
• Peter Kyle’s project “100 Days” was selected among the Top Five Picks at NYC-ARTS during the week of October 15, 2012.
• Stephanie Kufner co-authored a book (in German) on Schiller, entitled Schiller. Ethik, Politik und Nemesis im Drama (Peter Lang, 2012).
• Christopher LaFratta’s article "Optical Tweezer for Medical Diagnostics" will be published in the journal, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. The article can be read now at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00216-013-6919-9
• Kristin Lane was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Academic Research Enhancement (AREA) Award (R15), specifically from The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, in support of her project entitled, "The Lonely Scientist: How Implicit Science Construals, Stereotypes, and Attitudes Contribute to the Gender Gap in Science Participation." The award is to be used over a three-year period, starting July 2012. Lane, as part of a collection of psychological scientists called the Open Science Collaboration, published the article “An open, large-scale, collaborative effort to estimate the reproducibility of psychological science,” in Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 657-660. In February 2013, she gave the keynote presentation on unconscious biases, at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s second Diversity Summit.
• In October 2012, Ann Lauterbach was invited to be the University of Chicago’s distinguished guest as the Pearl Andelson Sherry Memorial Poet. Past Sherry Poets have included Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Michael Palmer, Mark Strand, Allan Grossman and Keith and Rosemary Waldrop.
• An-My Lê was named a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. The award recognizes her insightful and subtle accomplishment as an artist.
• In September and October 2012, Gideon Lester co-curated “Crossing the Line,” a cross-disciplinary arts festival in New York City. In November 2012, he was part of a curatorial delegation in Bogota, Colombia, organized by the Goethe Institut, and in January 2013, he gave a guest lecture on contemporary theater practice at Tulane University in New Orleans. In March 2013, Lester served as a panelist for the 2013 Alpert Award in the Arts, and participated in the Hungarian Theater Showcase in Budapest.
• In January 2013, Marisa Libbon presented a talk,“Richard Coer de Lyon and the Textualization of Gossip,” co-sponsored by UCLA’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Department of English.
• Nicola López participated in the inaugural exhibition of “The Inside-Out Museum,” in Beijing, China, September 2012 through October 2012. Land of Illusion, an exhibition of work by López, is at Pace Prints (521 West 26^th Street) April 26 through June 8.
• In fall 2012, the Italian publication of Joseph Luzzi’s book Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy (Yale University Press) appeared as Il romanticismo italiano e l’Europa. Fantasia e realta nell’immaginario occidentale, trans. Mattia Acetoso (Rome: Carocci). In October 2012, his article “The Work of Genre: Labor, Identity, and the Language of Finance in Wordsworth and Verga,” was published in PMLA, and he was invited to give the 2012 Nicholas C. Tucci Lecture at the University of Pittsburgh, where he delivered the presentation “Heirs of a Dark Wood: Principles and Poetics of Dante’s Reception.” His book review of Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale, “A World of Color” appeared in The New York Times on December 28, 2012. His review, “This Could Be ‘Heaven’ or This Could Be ‘Hell.’” of Dante, The Divine Comedy, translated by Clive James, appeared in the New York Times Book Review (April 21, 2013). His review, “A World of Color,” of Sheila Hales’s Titian: His Life appeared in the New York Times Book Review (December 30, 2012). Among his invited lectures were “Global Leopardi: National Identity, European Modernity, and the ‘Office’ of Poetry,” at Stanford University, in February 2013; "Introduction to Dante’s Inferno,” for the Core Curriculum in Literature and Humanities, Columbia University in February 2013, and a plenary lecture "La Dolce Vita in America: Red Menace, Neorealism Fatigue, and the Image of Italy," at the University of Pennsylvania in April 2013.
• A solo exhibition of new works by Medrie MacPhee was at Barbara Edwards Contemporary in Ontario, Canada, November 9, 2012 through December 22, 2012.
• PEN American Center presented “In Conversation: Claudio Magris and Norman Manea” on October 30, 2012 at The Strand Bookstore’s Rare Book Room in New York City, where Manea discussed literature, philosophy and exile. In December 2012, Queens College Evening Readings presented Aleksandar Hemon, Norman Manea and Gary Shteyngart in conversation with Leonard Lopate.
• Tanya Marcuse had a limited-edition portfolio of her new project “Fallen” acquired by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
• Wyatt Mason’s translation with commentary of “Hogy Visszanyerjük,” a short story by László Krasznahorkai, appeared in McSweeney’s #42, an issue devoted to translation and featuring a dozen stories translated in as many as six different versions by sixty-one writers working in eighteen languages. His translations of six poems by Marcel Proust appeared in The Collected Poems of Marcel Proust, published this spring by Penguin Classics. Mason’s feature story on American painter Kehinde Wiley's travels through Africa in search of models for his paintings appeared in the April GQ magazine. In the March 4, 2013 issue of New York Magazine, he participated in a caucus on the career of Philip Roth, occasioned by Roth's announced retirement from writing.
• In October 2012, Walter Mead published “Infostructure in the New Infrastructure,” in the Wall Street Journal; appeared on the PBS News Hour with Zbigniew Brzezinski; published a review essay in Foreign Affairs entitled “Peace Out” and published multiple cover stories in The American Interest.
• Edie Meidav interviewed Leela Corman about her novel Unterzakhn for THE MILLIONS in August 2012. A non-fiction piece about Meidav’s research in Cuba and Nicaragua appeared in the fall issue of Zyzzyva. “The Buddha of the Vedado” a short story about Cuba by Meidav appeared in the fall issue of Conjunctions.
• Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture by Daniel Mendelsohn was published by New York Review of Books in October 2012. A review of the book appeared in The New York Times Book Review in December 2012, and in January 2013 the book was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. “The American Boy,” an essay by Mendelsohn on his correspondence with the historical novelist Mary Renault, appeared in the January 7, 2013 issue of The New Yorker.
• In April 2013, “Modernism Upheld: Moscow Journals of Art and Literature Vesy (1904-9); Iskusstvo (1905); Zolotoe Runo (1906-9); and Makovets (1922),” by Oleg Minin was published in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume III: Europe 1880-1940.
• Chiori Miyagawa's play Dream Acts, co-written with four other playwrights, was published online at Indie Theater Now.  She was an artist-in-residence at Ithaca College where Dream Acts and a panel about the role of theater in social change were presented in October 2012. This Lingering Life kicked off the inauguration season of a new theater, Civic Theater Ensemble, in Ithaca at Kitchen Theater in October 2012, and was presented by Playwrights Foundation in January 2013 at Stanford University and at NOH Theater in San Francisco.  This Lingering Life will premiere in San Francisco in 2014.  She was featured in IATC's (International Association of Theater Critics) journal, Critical Stages, issue 27, "Interview with U.S. Playwright Chiori Miyagawa" by renowned theater critic Randy Gener. Miyagawa was the dramatug on Dispatches from A(mended) America, an Epic Theater Ensemble production in New York City, directed by Ron Russell in October-November 2012. Her play Way to Curaçao was selected as the first New Play Lab project at Center Stage in Baltimore under the new Artistic Director, Kwami Kwei-Armah, and received three public readings in December 2012.
• In December 2012, Adjunct Professor of Cello Garfield Moore performed his Gemini Series recital, with pianist Hiroko Sakurazawaat, at the Hudson Opera House. A review of the recital “Stunning classical holiday concerts” by John Paul Keeler appeared in On the Scene a Hudson-Catskill newspaper.
• An interview with Bradford Morrow appears in the current issue of OmniVerse.
• In December 2012, Rufus Müller sang “Messiah” in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. and Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” in Alice Tully Hall in New York City.
• In October 2012, Melanie Nicholson presented a paper “César Moro: Exile and the Poetic Imagination” at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. Her book Surrealism in Latin American Literature: Searching for Breton’s Ghost was published by Palgrave Macmillan in January 2013.
• Lothar Osterburg’s work will be part of the show “On Time/Grand Central at 100” at the New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex & Store at Grand Central Station in New York City from March 6, 2013 through July 7, 2013. His work “Zeppelins in Grand Central” is on display in subway cars throughout the system as part of New York’s MTA Art in Transit 2013 “Artcard” program. The poster will remain on display until the end of 2013 and can be purchased at the Transit Museum Store.  He appeared on CBS local New York TV to talk about his MTA ArtCard and work in the show. “Bookmobile for Dreamers,” a collaboration with Elizabeth Brown, was featured at Union Arts Center in Sparkill, NJ in March 2013.
• Neni Panourgia was appointed Editor for the Social Sciences of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies (2013-2016).
• “Legends of the Greek Fall,” by Dimitri Papadimitriou appeared on Huffington Post in February 2013; his op-ed piece “To create jobs, the U.S. must spend” was published in the Los Angeles Times in April 2013.
• Solo exhibitions and installations of Judy Pfaff’s work were at the Huntington Museum of Art in Huntington, West Virginia, June 16, 2012 through August 26, 2012; Robischon Gallery in Denver, Colorado, September 20, 2012 through October 29, 2012 and Ameringer|McEnery| Yohe in New York City, October 11, 2012 through November 10, 2012. “Judy Pfaff: Come What May,” a new solo exhibition by Pfaff, will be at the University of Wyoming Art Museum through May 4, 2013.  She has been elected as a member if the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences; the Academy’s elected members are world leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.
• John Pilson’s solo exhibition "Altogether Elsewhere" was at the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana from August 4, 2012 through September 14, 2012.
• In the fall of 2012, John Pruitt traveled to Lithuania to help introduce a gallery exhibit and a three-city film retrospective dedicated to the career of native Lithuanian and long time Bard professor, Adolfas Mekas. He gave lectures, at different universities, devoted to Mekas’s activities as a journal editor, film writer/director, and Bard professor.
• Within the last year, Joan Retallack has given a number of presentations; in particular, she was the keynote speaker at the University of London Poetry and Revolution conference, the University of Paris’s Cage Transatlantique, Transatlantique Cage,” Yale University’s A Symposium and Exhibition of Gertrude Stein, and at the University of Louisville’s Conference on Literature and Culture. Among her publications of the last year were “By Now: Alterity and its Others” in Formes Critiques Contemporaines; and “John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack, October 22, 1991” in Dancing Around the Bride: Cage Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg and Duchamp for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her work appeared in Eleven American Poets in the 21^st Century, Poetics Across North America; and Postmodern American Poetry, A Norton Anthology.
• Bruce Robertson organized a symposium entitled "Agroenergy and Biodiversity: Oxymoron or Opportunity?" at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America meeting in August 2012 in Portland, Oregon. He also gave a talk during the symposium on the same topic. Recent publications co-authored by Robertson include “Biofuels and Biodiversity: The Implications of Energy Sprawl,” in the Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, second edition, volume 1, pp. 528-539; “Perennial agroenergy feedstocks as en route habitat for spring migratory birds,” in Bioenergy Research 6: 311-320;  “Are agrofuels a conservation threat or opportunity for grassland birds in the United States?” in Condor 114: 679-688; “Investigating targets of avian habitat management to eliminate an ecological trap,” in Avian Conservation and Ecology 7 (2):2 (online).
• In September 2012, Susan Fox Rogers read from her book, My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir, as part of the SUNY Oswego Living Writers series. In October 2012, she was invited to speak at Wofford College’s first “Thinking Like a River” conference. Funded by the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation, the three-year initiative aims to shape a culture of sustainability centered on local waters by offering unique, hands-on experiences with area rivers for students and faculty. Rogers also spoke at the Environmental Consortium’s annual conference at Marist College. The focus of the roundtable was “An Ecological Curriculum: What do we want our students to know?”
• In September 2012, Plutarch: Lives that Made Greek History, edited by James Romm and Pamela Mensch, was published by Hackett Publishing Co. The book is a collection of excerpts from Plutarch’s Lives designed for classroom use. In November 2012, Romm spoke at the 92^nd Street Y Tribeca on the period after the death of Alexander, the topic of his 2011 book, Ghost on the Throne.
• During the summer of 2012, Jonathan Rosenberg conducted workshops in directing at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut. In September and October 2012, he directed Fen by Caryl Churchill at The Juilliard School. He created and directed an evening of short and lesser-known works by Tennessee Williams called Williams in Transit (short plays by Tennessee Williams, 1943-1973). The project was produced by Julliard in January/February 2013.
• A National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship was awarded to Julia Rosenbaum to study the visual culture of the American Civil War during the summer of 2012. The Terra Foundation for American Art, through the Newberry Library in Chicago, awarded her a grant to fund an international symposium in June 2013 on nineteenth-century art and cartographic practices in the Americas; she is organizing it with a historian at Macalester College.
• “Science and Its Discontents: Is There an End to Knowing,” an article by Gennady Shkliarevsky, was published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science, vol. 30 issue 1.
• In the beginning of 2013, The Museum of Modern Art made a major acquisition of Stephen Shore’s work: forty-two prints of work from 1969-2012. MoMA will exhibit twenty-one of the prints in the permanent collection galleries from May 2013 through January 2014.
• “Who Cares,” an essay by Mona Simpson was published as a cover story for The New York Times Magazine on July 13, 2012. She joined members of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra on April 15, 2013 in the final performance of their “Westside Connections” series, which this season paired the musicians with top authors for the exploration of the relationship between “Music & Story.”
• During the summer of 2012, Elizabeth Smith taught at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford. In December 2012, she worked on Volpone by Ben Jonson, directed by Jesse Berger at The Red Bull Theater in New York City.
• Benjamin Stevens presented his paper, “Virgilian Fantasies in A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book” at the 34^th annual International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando, Florida in March 2013.
• “How Futile Work Is: 'Les Destines sentimentalism’” by Richard Suchenski, was published in Olivier Assayas Kent Jones, ed.,  (Vienna:  Austrian Film Museum/Columbia University Press, 2012) in July 2012.
• Karen Sullivan was honored with a fellowship for 2013 from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 
• “How Deep Is Your,” a survey exhibition of work by Julianne Swartz, was at the deCordova Museum in Massachusetts September 2012 through December 2012; the exhibit will travel later this year to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work is currently included in an exhibition “Good Night” at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and in group shows at Josee Bienvenu Gallery and Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York City. 
• In January 2013, Pavlina Tcherneva was awarded the 2013 Helen Potter Prize by The Association for Social Economics (ASE). The prize is awarded each year to a promising scholar of social economics for authoring the best article in The Review of Social Economy. Tcherneva is being awarded the prize for her article “On-the-spot Employment: Keynes’s Approach to Full Employment and Economic Transformation” published in the March 2012 issue.
• In February-March 2013, Richard Teitelbaum spent three weeks in residence as Master Composer at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. In that period , he lectured on his own music at Stetson University.
• Joan Tower will receive an honorary degree from Smith College at their commencement in May 2013.
• In January 2013, Eric Trudel’s translation of and introduction to Jean Paulhan’s essay “Braque le patron” appeared in George Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928-1945, edited by Karen K Butler, published by Prestel. His essay “Entre Zone et Zooe: Figures et ecritures du devenir-animal chez Pierre Alferi” was published in French Forum, vol. 27, no. 1-2. In February 2013, Trudel was invited to lecture on the cinepoetics of Pierre Alferi at Villanova University. In March 2013, he presented a paper entitled "Le démon de l'inventaire" at the 20th/21st Century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium in Atlanta.
• In late summer and fall 2012, Emeritus Professor Suzanne Vromen gave lectures on different aspects of the Holocaust to high school teachers at Columbia Teachers’ College’s “Facing History and Ourselves,” and to parochial school teachers, gallery docents and NY metropolitan region educators at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. In February 2012, she was invited by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. to participate in a conference on New Research and Resources on Children and the Holocaust; she chaired a panel on “Surviving Survival: Children and Child – Survivors in History and Memory.”

Dean of the College
May 2013

Faculty Highlights & Accomplishments

• “Emissaries from the Primordial Realms: The presence of Pre-Columbian and Indigenous Art in the Work of Isabel De Obaldia” by Susan Aberth was published in the catalog for the exhibition of the artist at the Museum of Art in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The exhibition is on view from September 2011 through May 2012.
• Regan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship by Richard Aldous was published by W.W. Norton in March 2012.
• In August 2011, Craig Anderson was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for his proposal “RUI: Selective C-H and C-X Bond Activation to Platinum (II) and Reactivity of the Cyclometalated Complexes.” In November 2011, Anderson received a Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award.
• Freedom’s Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum American by Myra Armstead was published by New York University Press in February 2012. The book was reviewed in The New York Times on March 16, 2012.
• John Ashbery was awarded the National Book Foundation’s 2011 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
• From March 18 through April 16, 2012, Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn, presented “Inside Circle,” a solo exhibition by Peggy Ahwesh.
• In the fall of 2011, James Bagwell was the conductor of The Collegiate Chorale and The American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall; The Nashville Symphony at Schermerhorn Symphony Hall with soloist Natalie Merchant; and Choral Preparation of The Collegiate Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall. In December, he was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at Cincinnati Music Hall; the Michael Buble Christmas Special nationally broadcast on NBC and Choral Preparation of The Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall with Leon Botstein conducting. In February 2012, Bagwell conducted The Collegiate Chorale and The American Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time at Carnegie Hall in New York City; The Collegiate Chorale in a performance of Another Look at Harmony Part IV as part of the Tune-In Festival at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City; and prepared The Collegiate Chorale for three concerts with the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, with Leon Botstein conducting. Bagwell shared the stage with Botstein for a rare performance of George Crumb’s Star-Child at Carnegie Hall in April 2012. In June 2012 he conducted the San Francisco Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony with singer Natalie Merchant, and the Amici New York Orchestra at the OK Mozart Festival.
• Roger Berkowitz’s essay, “Bearing Logs on Our Shoulders: Reconciliation, Non-Reconciliation, and the Building of a Common World,” appeared in Theory & Event vol. 14.1 (2011). His essay, “Assassinating Justly: Reflections on Justice and Revenge in the Osama Bin Laden Killing,” appeared in the October issue of the Journal of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, volume 7, issue 3. In December 2011, Berkowitz announced that the NEH has offered the Arendt Center and Bard the Endowment Challenge Grant of $425,000 to build an endowment.. His essay, “The Power of Non-Reconciliation–Arendt’s Judgment of Adolf Eichmann,” appeared in Vol. 7. of Hannaharendt.net, a special issue dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the Eichmann Trial. His chapter “Hannah Arendt on Human Rights,” was part of Handbook of Human Rights, edited by Thomas Cushman. In May 2012, Berkowitz gave a keynote lecture "Examining the Human Condition: From Aristotle to Today" at One Day University. 
• Celia Bland’s recent works have appeared in The Evergreen Review, Connotation Press’s Poetry Congeries, Drunken Boat, Lumina and The Boston Review. Her essay on the work of Jean Valentine, formerly published in The American Poetry Review, is included in “Jean Valentine: This World Company” published by the University of Michigan Press in May 2012.
• In October 2011, Leon Botstein explored composers of great interest with names only known to the most curious of collectors in an interview posted in the Los Angeles Times.  He discussed the dismal state of American middle and high schools in The Hechinger Report, and was the 2012 recipient of Longy Conservatory’s Leonard Bernstein Award for the Elevation of Music in Society.
• Diana Brown’s invited papers include "Neighborhood Heroines: Suffering and Recognition of Elders' Family Caregiving in a Southern Brazilian City" at the Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, November 16-20, 2011.
• Works by Ken Buhler were included in a group show at VanDeb Editions in New York City in November 2011.
• A review by Ian Buruma appeared in the February 24, 2012 New York Review of Books: “Who Did Not Collaborate” about And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris
by Alan Riding; see http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/feb/24/who-did-not-collaborate/.
• Mary Caponegro’s essay on the author Don DeLillo was published in Italian Americana.
• In May 2012, Nicole Caso presented her paper, “Cortocircuito en el fluir de cuerpos y palabras en la cultura popular contemporánea,” at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) held in San Francisco, California.
• Rebecca Chace’s book Leaving Rock Harbor, published in June 2010 by Scribner, was published in German (Abschied von Rock Harbor) in September 2011 by Bloomsbury Berlin.
• Noah Chasin was featured as a “Historian of Urban Design” in a new documentary by Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Objectified) entitled, Urbanized. The film appeared at the Toronto International Film Festival and played in theaters across the country.
• Bruce Chilton’s article, “What Does The Bible Say About The Mother Of Jesus?” appeared August 16, 2011 on the Internet newspaper Huff Post. His recent books include The Way of Jesus (Abington Press) and The Targums co-authored with Paul W. M. Flesher (Baylor Press).
• In March 2012, Teju Cole won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award for his novel “Open City.” The award honors outstanding first works of fiction; previous winners include Bobbie Mason, Renata Adler, Ha Jin, Jhumpa Lahiri and Dagoberto Gilb.
• In December 2011, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas was awarded this year’s Cintas Fellowship in Creative Writing. The fellowship supports Cuban artists, living outside of Cuba. Previous winners include Reinaldo Arenas, María Irene Fornés and Oscar Hijuelos.
• Jonathan Cristol (Bard '00, Yale '02) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, "Classical Realism and American Diplomatic Recognition," at Bristol University in January 2012.
• In March 2012, Laurie Dahlberg was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities 2012 Summer Stipend award and in April 2012, she received a Franklin Grant from the American Philosophical Society, both for her book project “Amateur vs. amateur: Photography and the [D]evolution of a Gentleman’s Art, 1839-1900.” She also gave a talk at the University of Georgia “Caste and Taste: The Amateur Distinction in Early Photography.”
• In the fall of 2011, Richard Davis spent six weeks in India, with the help of a Bard Research Fund and NEH grant, researching for a book about the history of the Bhagavad Gita. He lectured at Jnanapravaha in Mumbai and the School of Art and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, and he spoke with students at the Institute for Gandhian Studies in Wardha, Maharashtra. His Mumbai lecture was covered with an interview in Time Out Mumbai. The District Commissioner of Kurukshetra interviewed him on local television in his role of an American professor studying Hinduism. During the spring 2012 semester, Davis presented “Boat over Troubled Water: The Bhagavad Gita and Indian Nationalists” at the Hindu Studies Colloquium at Harvard University; “A Mixture of Pure Waters: Thoreau Reads the Bhagavad Gita at Walden Pond,” for the Department of Religion and Center for Humanities at Tufts University and “Wilkins, Kasinatha, Hastings and the Bhagavad Gita,” for the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University.
• Tim Davis had a solo show at Galleria Marabini in Bologna, Italy from September through November 2011. His video project, “Dollar General Drive By” showed at Art Basel in Miami Beach, Florida. He also edited issue 44 of Blindspot magazine, featuring both Barbara Ess and Bard alumnus Paul Salveson. “Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video,” an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, from February through August 2012, includes works by Davis and John Pilson. The exhibition was reviewed in The New York Times on February 9, 2012. See http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/arts/design/spies-in-the-house-of-art-at-the-metropolitan-museum.html
• Jennifer Derr was awarded the 2012 International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) from the Social Science Research Council. She published “A Draft of the Colony: Historical Imagination and the Production of Agricultural Geography in British-Occupied Egypt” in an edited volume of Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa by Edmund Burke III and Diana K. Davis, published in December 2011 by Ohio University Press. 
• The article, “Racial and ethic price differentials in a small urban housing market,” co-authored by Sanjaya DeSilva, Anh Pham ’09 and Michael Smith ’09 was published in the journal Housing Policy Debate (vol 22 issue 22) in March 2012. The article was based on a faculty-student collaboration that was sponsored by the Bard Summer Research Institute.
• In July 2011, Michèle Dominy was an invited speaker in a session on indigenous/settler relations at the conference, "Knowledge and Value in a Globalizing World," sponsored by the Australian and New Zealand Anthropological Associations and the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in Perth. In December 2011, the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars approved Dominy for inclusion on the Fulbright Specialists Roster to support international scholarly exchanges.
• The article “Housing Inequality in the United States: Explaining the White-Minority Disparities in Homeownership,” by Yuval Elmelech and Sanjaya DeSilva was published in Housing Studies, volume 27, no. 1.
• Omar Encarnacion contributed a chapter on “civil society assistance and democratic promotion,” to the Oxford Civil Society Handbook, edited by Mike Edwards and published by Oxford university Press in August 2011. In February 2012, he spoke on "Latin America's Gay Rights Revolution" as part of a year-long celebration of 25 years of Latin American studies at Vassar College. His latest essay "Justice in Times of Transition: Lessons from the Iberian Experience," was published in International Studies Quarterly in April 2012.
• Gidon Eshel gave a talk at the University of California, Berkeley in November 2011 on “The Future of the Food Movement.” His book Spatiotemporal Data Analysis was published by Princeton University Press in December 2011.
• In the summer and fall of 2011, Peter Filkins spent three months working in the archive of H.G. Adler in Marbach, Germany, with the support of a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst – German Academic Exchange Service) Faculty Research Grant. From January until May, 2012 he was writer-in-residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, CT. His article “The Hidden Lens: How Translation Shapes Meaning” appeared in the March 16, 2012 issue of The Chronicle Review, and his translation of Adler’s novel PANORAMA was published in January 2012 in paperback from Modern Library. In March 2012, Filkins gave a talk on "The Art of Translation" at the Barnard College Conference on Translation, followed by a talk titled "Panorama: H.G. Adler's Life and Times" at Columbia University two weeks later.
• Cheat and Charmer (Random House, 2005), a novel by Elizabeth Frank, was published in Bulgaria in June 2012 by the publishing house Ciela in a translation by Ani Oreshkova. The publication was accompanied by a good deal of media attention: the translator, Ani Oreshkova and Frank were interviewed twice on the radio (Darik, and the channel Horizont of Bulgarian National Radio), twice on television (Bulgarian National Television and TV7), and have given four newspaper and magazine interviews. The book also received a rave review by Bulgarian critic Dimitar Kambourov in the journal Kultura. There was a reading and discussion of the book at Ciela's bookstore near Sofia University, with Frank, the translator, the film director Iglika Triffonova, and novelists Angel Wagenstein and Zdravka Evtimova.
• Kenji Fujita exhibited his sculpture in a three-person show, “Live at The Acropolis,” from June through August 2011 at The Company in Los Angeles, California. He was included in the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts and Letters (March 6-April 15, 2012) where two of the works in the show were acquired by the Academy’s Art Purchase Program for placement in an American museum. In April 2012, he was the recipient of an Individual Support Grant from the Adolph and Ester Gottlieb Foundation. The award is given in recognition of the quality of an artist’s work and that artist’s dedication to his or her work over a period of many years.
• In November 2011, Susan Gillespie read several of her translations of Ilana Shmueli’s poems as a guest of the Goethe Institute in Jerusalem; the evening honored the German publisher Rimbeau Verlag and its authors. Her review of Paul Celan’s Encounters with Surrealism, Trauma, Translation and Shared Poetic Space, by Charlotte Ryland, appeared in German Quarterly 85.1, Winter 2012. Gillespie served as a member of an external evaluation team reviewing the international programs of Bryn Mawr College, and as a panelist at a conference on “Global Citizenship in Practice,” organized by the United Nations Academic Impact Program and Lehigh University.
• While participating in a conference in November 2011, Olivier Giovannoni was quoted by Reuters in the article “Greece’s tiny debt load,” by Pedro da Costa.
• In May 2012, Richard Gordon organized and chaired a symposium on cultural variations in eating disorders and body image for the Transcultural Special Interest Group of the Academy for Eating Disorders at the annual International Conference on Eating Disorders in Austin, Texas. A book in which he had written the third chapter on the use and misuse of antidepressants (Dana Jack and Alisha Ali, Silencing the Self in Cross-Cultural Perspective:  Gender and Depression in the Social World, Oxford University Press, 2011) was awarded the Ursla Gielen Global Psychology Book Award. The award is given by the American Psychological Association to a recent book that makes the greatest contribution to psychology as an international discipline and profession.
• “The Observers,” a feature-length film by Jacqueline Goss, showed in November 2011 at the Museum of Natural History in New York City as part of the Margaret Mead Film Festival, in May 2012 at Anthology Film Archives in New York City and in June 2012 at the Northwest Film Forum’s NEXDOCS series in Seattle, Washington. Reviews in the New York Times and Time Out can be read at http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/movies/the-observers-looks-at-mount-washington.html and http://www.timeout.com/us/film/the-observers. 
• Marka Gustavsson performed at the Kennedy Center as part of the Cherry Blossom Festival in May 2012. She was a guest artist-teacher for master classes at Yellow Barn, and served as co-artistic director of Soundfest at University of Connecticut-Storrs. She also performed chamber music at this season's Bard Music Festival.
• Stephen Hammer recorded “Handel: Judas Maccabeus” with the Clarion Orchestra, New York, January 2012 and “Mozart: Coronation Mass” with the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, April 2012. In June 2012, he served as Instructor and co-director of a course in Classical woodwind performance at Brandeis University and performed Bach oboe concerti at the Aston Magna Festival and Blue Hill Bach Festival, June through July 2012.
• Elizabeth Holt gave a lecture “From Gardens of Knowledge to Ezbekiyya after Midnight: The Serialized Arabic Novel from Beirut to Cairo, 1870-1892,” at the American Research Center in Egypt, in Cairo on April 4, 2012. Holt is a National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellow at the ARCE this semester.
• In January 2012, Michael Ives and Joan Retallack performed a composition entitled Interruptus (conceived by Joan Retallack) for the K-PST Festival, in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time, a large-scale celebration of 20^th century art in southern California sponsored by the Getty. The engagements included performances in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
• “Syntheses, Characterization, Density Functional Theory Calculations, and Activity of Tridentate SNS Zinc Pincer Complexes Based on Bis-Imidazole or Bis-Triazole Precursors,” co-authored by Swapan Jain (among the authors was also Raed Al-Abbasee ’13) was published in Inorganica Chimica Acta, December 2011. Jain was successful in his application for The Dreyfus Boissevain Undergraduate Research & Lectureship award for 2012. This award provides an $18,500 grant that will support undergraduate research in chemical sciences, and will also be used to bring a prominent researcher to Bard for a series of lectures and interactions with our students & faculty.
• In January 2012, Philip Johns and colleagues received a National Science Foundation Research Opportunities Award “Collaborative Research: Origin and Evolution of X and Y Chromosomes in Stalk-eyed flies.” His student Mark Brown will participate in the collection trip to South East Asia and in the research. In April 2012, Johns presented his paper “Sexual competition and gene duplication in stalk-eyed flies (Family Diopsidae),” at the 21^st Annual Philippine Biodiversity Symposium of the Wildlife Conservation Society of the Philippines.
• In February 2012, Brooke Jude was invited to give a talk, “A Microbe at Home: Janthinobacterium isolate as a case study for molecular genetic progress,” at the Ithaca College Biology Seminar Series.
• As part of their Faculty Enhancement Program: Deeping Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, ASIANetwork has chosen Ken Haig to participate in their seminar in South Korea, “Understanding Global Trends through Korean History: Cultural Synthesis, Colonialism, Cold War and Globalization.”
• In fall 2011, Felicia Keesing co-wrote “Effects of Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) on Entomopathogenic Fungi,” with Philip Johns, R.S. Ostfeld and several Bard undergraduates, published in EcoScience 18: 164-168; she co-wrote “Molting Success of Ixodes Scapularis Varies Among Individual Blood Meal Hosts and Species,” for the Journal of Medical Entomology 48: 860-866; as well as “Ecological Importance of Large Herbivores in the Ewasco Ecosystem,” published in Conserving Wildlife in African Landscapes: Kenya’s Ewasco Ecosystem. Keesing gave talks at The Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Austin, Texas; The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Woods Hole, Massachusetts; at a meeting of the South African Society for Zoology and Parasitology in Cape Town, South Africa; and presented at a conference on 21^st Century Biology Education in Chicago, Illinois.
• In July 2011, Franz Kempf presented “The English Garden as a Vision and Critique of the Enlightenment” at the 13^th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Graz, Austria. In February 2012, he received a grant from the Max Kade Foundation for travel expenses to enable three Bard students to travel to Berlin to take part in a study abroad program at Humboldt University.
• Yishu published the following articles by Patricia Karetzky in 2011 “Xu Yong's This Face”(vol. 10, no. 6), “Bomu: Don't Fence Me In” (vol. 10, no. 4), and “Zhang O’s Recent Work” (vol. 10, no. 3). She presented last summer at two international conferences, the XVIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies at Dharma Drum Buddhist College in Taiwan and the 7th International Conference on Daoist Studies in Nanyue Changsha.
• “The Liquidation of Exile: Studies in the Intellectual Emigration of the 1930s” by David Kettler was published by Anthem Press in July 2011. He co-edited Nach dem Krieg! - Nach dem Exil? Erste Briefe/First Letters, with Detlef Garz in 2012. Other recent publications include “Karl Mannheim and Georg Simmel. Introduction to Soul and Culture” (with Volker Meja and Anna Wessely) in Theory, Culture and Society; “’How can we tell it to the children?’ A Deliberation at the Institute of Social Research: January 1941.” (with Thomas Wheatland) Thesis Eleven, and “Karl Mannheim’s Jewish Question” Revised and expanded (with Volker Meja); Detlef Garz and David Kettler, eds. Nach dem Krieg! - Nach dem Exil? Erste Briefe/First Letters , co-editor (with Detlef Garz). Munich: 2012; “Karl Mannheim and Georg Simmel.  Introduction to Soul and Culture,” (with Volker Meja and Anna Wessely) Theory, Culture and Society. 2012; “’How can we tell it to the children?’  A Deliberation at the Institute of Social Research: January 1941.” (with Thomas Wheatland) Thesis Eleven. 2012; “Georg Lukács und David Kettler,” pp. 23-66 in Frank Benseler/Rüdiger Dannemann, eds. Lukács 2012/2013.  Georg Lukács zum 125. Geburtstag.  Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2012 and “Karl Mannheim’s Jewish Question” Revised and expanded. (with Volker Meja). Religions 2012. www.mdpi.com/journal/religions. Presentations by Kettler include: April 13, 2012, roundtable to mark the 70^th Anniversary of Franz L. Neumann’s Behemoth.  Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago; May 7, 2012.  “First Letters of Jewish and Non-Jewish Exiles,” Dubnow Institute, Leipzig; May 9, 2012,  “The Politics of ‘Social Rights,’ Franz L. Neumann and the Labor Regime”; Political Science and International Relations, University of Vienna; May 12, 2012 “A Debate on Methodology at the Institute of Social Research,” Philosophy and Social Science Conference, Prague; May 14, 2012 “Franz Neumann and the Modern State,” Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung and June 29, 2012, “Beyond Ideology and Utopia: Mannheim’s Sociology as Political Cultivation.” Presented at a conference: ‘‘Politisierung der Wissenschaft’: Jüdische, völkische und andere Wissenschaftler an der Universität Frankfurt am Main”; Goethe University, Frankfurt, June 29, 2012.  “Beyond Ideology and Utopia: Mannheim’s Sociology as Political Cultivation,” presented at a conference: ‘‘Politisierung der Wissenschaft’: Jüdische, völkische und andere Wissenschaftler an der Universität Frankfurt am Main”; Goethe University, Frankfurt.
• On January 9, 2012, Cecile Kuznitz delivered the opening lecture to launch the YIVO-Bard Institute for East European Jewish History and Culture program, which held its first session January 1 through January 26, 2012.
• Luminous Airplanes, by Paul La Farge, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in September 2011.
• “Comic Anxiety and Kafka’s Black Comedy,” by Ben LaFarge was published in Garry Hagberg’s journal Philosophy and Literature, vol. 35, no. 2.
• “InfoBiology by printed arrays of microorganism colonies for timed and on-demand release of messages,” co-authored by Christopher LaFratta, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in September 2011. The article received attention from the science and mainstream media, including the journal Nature and Science. A patent was granted to LaFratta, Michael R. Webb and David R. Walt for Spectroscopic Imaging Microscope and Microsope Systems.
• “What Is College For? The Purpose of Higher Education,” edited by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann and Harry Lewis, was published by Teachers College Press in November 2011. They also contributed an essay to the book Renewing Civic Mission of American Higher Education.
• Peter Laki spoke on Béla Bartók at the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London in September 2011. He also performed Peter Warlock’s song cycle “The Curlew” in his own Hungarian translation at a concert devoted to Bartók and Warlock held at St. Peter’s Church, in honor of the un-veiling of Imre Barga’s Bartók statue in Kensington. In November 2011, Laki read a paper entitled “Le Petit Macabre: Personifications of Death in the Operas of Viktor Ullmann and György Ligeti” at the annual convention of the American Musicological Society in San Francisco.
• "Dimensional Enhancement via Supersymmetry", by Michael Faux, Kevin Iga, and Gregory Landweber, was published in Advances in Mathematical Physics, vol. 15. In June 2012, Landweber gave a talk titled "Moduli Spaces for Off-Shell Supersymmetry" at the 2012 Summer Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society in Regina, SK. He has also been awarded a Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians for his project "Supersymmetry and K-theory."
• In July 2011, the article “Implicit Science Stereotypes Mediate the Relationship between Gender and Academic Participation,” co-authored by Kristin Lane with Bard undergrad Jin Goh and Erin Driver-Linn was published by Sex Roles as an "Online First" and can be read on the journal's website http://www.springerlink.com/content/x2425x8737jh52j8/ . Her article “Being Narrow While Being Broad: The Importance of Construct Specificity and Theoretical Generality,” appeared as an “Online First” article in Sex Roles in October 2011. The article can be viewed at http://www.springerlink.com/content/97636255140213t6/.
• Intervals, an installation by Nicola López was on view at the Guggenheim in October 2011.
• Barbara Luka and Heidi Choi’s ‘09 article "Dynamic grammar in adults: Incidental learning of natural syntactic structures extends over 48 hours" was published in the Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 66, issue 2. With Cyma Van Petten, Luka co-authored "Prediction during language comprehension: Benefits, costs, and ERP components" which appeared in the International Journal of Psychophysiology (2011). “Client experiences of agency in therapy,” a paper arising from the Senior Project of Bard alumna Corinne Hoener, co-authored by Luka, Richard Gordon and William Stiles, was published in Person-Centered & Experimental Psychotherapies, vol. 11, issue 1.
• Joseph Luzzi contributed a chapter “Verga Economicus: Language, Money, and Identity in Verga’s I Malavoglia and House by the Medlar Tree” to an edited collection The Printed Media in Fin-de-Siècle Italy; Publishers, Writers, and Readers edited by Ann Hallamore Caesar, Gabriella Romani, and Jennifer Burns and published by Oxford in August 2011. In the fall of 2011, Luzzi co-edited “Literary Value” with Marshall Brown for a special issue of Modern Language Quarterly on literature and economics. His article “The Ends of Poetry: Sense and Sound in Giorgio Agamben and Ugo Foscolo,” appeared in Annali d’Italianostica 30. His DVD review “The Runaway Melodrama of Raffaello Matarazzo,” was a web exclusive on cineaste.com and “Dark Knight of the Soul,” his review of Andrew Graham-Dixon, Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane, appeared in Bookforum 18.3. His writing also appeared in the following publications: “Silvio and Signoria.” Review of Maurizio Viroli, Servants of Liberty: Berlusconi’s Italy. Beppe Severgnini, Mamma Mia! Berlusconi’s Italy Explained to Posterity and Friends Abroad. TLS (February 18, 2012): 13; “Faces of Florence.” Los Angeles Review of Books. June 26, 2012. Web exclusive/lareviewofbooks.org; “Italo Calvino’s Adolescence—That In-Between Time.” Review of Italo Calvino, Intro the War, trans. Martin McLaughlin. Times Literary Supplement (TLS) (June 27, 2012): 4. Luzzi was invited to present his work at Cambridge University, NYU Florence, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Rome (La Sapienza), and Yale University.
• Norman Manea was officially invited to become a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature of Great Britain. He is the first Romanian writer to be so honored. In July, the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York and Bard College presented a special event celebrating the Professor Manea’s 75th birthday, lauded as “one of the most remarkable writers of our time.” Videos of the event can be seen at http://www.icrny.org/s351-2011-Norman_Manea__A_Celebration.html . In September 2011, he received the Nelly Sachs Prize, a biennial literary award given by the German City of Dortmund. The award honors outstanding literary contributions to the promotion of understanding between peoples. Manea edited Romanian Writers on Writing, an anthology published by Trinity University Press in August 2011; “A Public Conversation,” sponsored by Bard and the Romanian Cultural Institute celebrated the publication and Romanian literature on March 23, 2012 at the College. Yale University Press published two of his books, “The Lair” in April 2012 and "The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language," in May 2012. The National Arts Club’s Literary Committee presented “Norman Manea and The Lair” on June 19, 2012.
• In October 2011, Steven Mazie published two articles on Occupy Wall Street -“Rawls on Wall Street,” was published in The New York Times philosophy forum The Stone and “Rawls, Radicalism and Occupy Wall Street: A Reply to Wilkinson,” on the Experts’ Corner of bigthink.com. His article “Up from Colorblindness: Equality, Race and the Lessons of Ricci v. DeStefano,” was published in the Law Journal for Social Justice vol. 2, no. 1.
• A review of Blair McMillan’s performance of Morton Feldman’s longest solo piano work, “Triadic Memories,” appeared in The New York Times in December 2011.
• In July and August 2011, Walter Russell Mead wrote two Wall Street Journal columns, “The Future Still Belongs To America” (http://on.wsj.com/qa1mMZ) and “Europe's Less Than Perfect Union” (http://on.wsj.com/qk2Xf5); he will continue to contribute monthly. He was also the author of an online op-ed in the New York Times online in July; http://nyti.ms/r1j5NE .
• Lola, California by Edie Meidav was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in July 2011. The novel received a lot of attention including reviews in The New Yorker, The Berkeley Monthly, San Francisco Weekly, and Seattle Times among others, and interviews with various radio stations, including Zyzzyva editor Oscar Villalion. The book was also nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Fiction. A filmic book trailer, featuring Bard writing students as actors can be seen on YouTube. See www.ediemeidav.com for more information. Both Meidav and Karen Russell were featured in the Chronogram article, “Sunshine States: Bard Fictionistas Edie Meidav and Karen Russell Go Coastal.” In October 2011, Meidav read at Brooklyn’s Book Court bookstore with Amii Legendre dancing; musician Kevin Salem playing a score from the novel; and Brielle Korn, a Bard alumna singing; WAMC’s Roundtable aired her essay “Grace with Children” and she television-taped two writing/creativity lessons for a New York City based Learning Annex’s online catalogue. In December 2011, Meidav published “A Year in Reading,” in The Millions and in January 2012, she had a reading at Books and Books in Miami, Florida. She participated in a panel discussion on April 14, 2012 as part of the Red Hook READ LOCAL festival along with Nine Shengold, Mary-Beth Hughes, Thelma Davis and John Sayles. Her narrative non-fiction piece on life in Cuba was published in the spring issue of the literary journal Zyzzyva. In May 2012, “Accolades for Edie Meidav and other East Bay authors” by Karen Law appeared on Berkeleyside - Berkeley, California’s independent news website. In June 2012, Meidav moderated a panel at the Hungarian Consulate in Manhattan on the new release of a Hungarian dystopian classic, VOYAGE TO KAZOHINIA, published previously only in Esperanto and Hungarian and newly released by New Europe Press. Other panelists included Greg Moynahan, Ben Hale, Francesco Crocco, Ralph Dumain, Anna North and Paul Olchvary.
• In April 2012, Daniel Mendelsohn was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science in the class of Humanities and the Arts. One of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, the Academy is also a leading center for independent policy research. He was also on the NPR program “All Things Considered” to tell the story of the trip that he and his father took to retrace the journey of The Odyssey that reflected the article that he wrote in Travel and Leisure Magazine; The New Yorker published his piece “Unsinkable: Why we can’t let go of the Titanic”; and he spoke on PBS NewsHour.
• In July 2011, Susan Merriam received a New York Council for the Arts grant for her “209 Project,” proposed to create an archive of the built and natural environmental history of Route 209 from Bard College to Woodbourne Correctional Faculty. Her book, Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings: Still Life, Vision, and the Devotional Image, with an introduction by Marina van Zuylen, was released by Ashgate Publishing in March 2012.
• Chiori Miyagawa’s new play, This Lingering Life, was awarded a 2012 MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The play will premiere in 2014 at Theatre of Yugen in San Francisco, California. Two collections of her plays were published this year: Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays, published by Seagull Books and distributed by the University of Chicago Press, and American Dreaming and Other Plays, published by NoPassport Press. Dream Acts, a play co-written by five playwrights, and funded partially by a Bard Research Fund grant awarded to Miyagawa, premiered at HERE in New York City in the Spring Artists Lodge Program in March 2012. Miyagawa’s next project, I Came to Look for You on Tuesday, has received the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Fund for Creative Communities and Manhattan Community Arts Fund.
• Brad Morrow’s book, The Uninnocent: Stories, was published in December 2011 by Pegasus.
• In October and November 2011, Rufus Müller performed in New York City, Oregon, Kansas, Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Washington D.C. and at Bard; he performed with the Rebel Baroque Orchestra in New York City; The American Symphony Orchestra in New York City; Meg Owens in Bedford, New York and he performed Händel’s “Messiah” at Christ Church in Montreal, Canada.
• Michelle Murray’s chapter, “Recognition, Disrespect and the Struggle for Morocco:  Rethinking Imperial Germany’s Security Dilemma,” was published in The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations.  Thomas Lindemann and Erik Ringmar, eds. (Paradigm Publishers, 2012):  131-151.
• Matthew Mutter received a NEH fellowship for a summer 2011 seminar on "The Study of Religion."  
• Keith O’Hara successfully defended his Ph.D. at Georgia Institute of Technology in July 2011. In March 2012, he presented the paper “A Multi-Programming-Language, Multi-Context Framework Designed for Computer Science Education” at the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education in Raleigh, North Carolina. The paper was written by O’Hara, Doug Blank, Jennifer Kay, James Marshall and Mark Russo.
• Lothar Osterburg’s work was published in the Korean Magazine Photo Monthly in November 2011. His work was presented as part of a group show “Beyond the Lens” at Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, CA through March 31, 2012. “New Images from ‘Library Dreams’ and ‘Yesterday’s City of Tomorrow,’” a solo exhibition by Osterburg was at the Lesley Heller Workspace in New York City in March 2012. “A Bookmobile for Dreamers,” a multimedia chamber opera created by composer Elizabeth Brown with video by Osterburg, premiered at the Greenwich House Music School in New York City and at the Renee Weiler Concert Hall in New York City in April 2012.
• In addition to many interviews by prominent newsleaders of print, radio, and the Internet, Dimitri Papadimitriou’s publications this year include “Need jobs? Call on government”, L.A. Times, 5 January 2012; “Greece: How to Slow the Nosedive”, The Huffington Post, 9 February 2012 Contributions in Stock-flow Modeling: Essays in Honor of Wynne Godley, edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Gennaro Zezza. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012;“Economic Turbulence in Greece”, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Rania Antonopoulos, Economic & Political Weekly, February 4, 2012, vol XLVII No. 5.;Dodd-Frank: Fossil of the Future”, The Huffington Post, 22 July 2012; "Europe's Highway to Hell", The Nation, 21 August 2012.
• John Pilson’s solo exhibition of photography and video, “Long Story Shorts,” was at the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York City from November 4, 2011 through December 23, 2011. Curator Peter Eleey brought together works by 41 artists, including Pilson, for the exhibit “September 11,” on view at the Museum of Modern Art through January 3, 2012. “Talking Pictures” an interview with Pilson appeared in aperture magazine, issue 204. His solo exhibition “Mr. Pickup” was at the College of Fine Arts in Austin, Texas, May 1, 2012 through May 31, 2012. He also participated in two group exhibitions: "From 0 to 100" Triennale Milano, Milan, Italy, February 21, 2012 through April 1, 2012 and “Spies in the House of Art,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from February 7, 2012 through August 26, 2012.  
• John Pruitt was awarded a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation in October 2011, for his project “Laboratory preservation work for source material: From Romance to Ritual and Marina’s Playhouse.”
• Dina Ramadan co-organized the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey's 2nd Annual Conference entitled "The Longevity of Rupture: 1967 in Art and its Histories," which took place at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon on June 1 and 2, 2012.
• Kelly Reichardt was awarded the USA Tisch Fellowship in 2011. Every year, United States Artists (USA) honors fifty of America’s finest artists with individual fellowship awards for their outstanding performances, visual, media and literary works. She will take part in the 2012 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum in New York City from March 1 through May 27, 2012.
• “John Cage, Visual Art: John Cage en conversación con Joan Retallack - Traducción: Sebastián Jatz Rawicz” was published by ediciones/metales pesados, Santiago de Chile, 2011. It is the first in a series of three books presented in Spanish translation of Joan Retallack's conversations with Cage first published by Wesleyan University Press in 1996. Yale University Press released Stanzas in Meditation by Gertrude Stein in November 2011, with a critical introduction by Retallack. The book has been designated a Modern Languages Association “Approved Edition” by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions. In October 2011, she delivered the keynote address at the symposium “Gertrude Stein and the Arts,” at the Grans Palais in Paris. The two-day symposium was in conjunction with The Steins Collect, an exhibition in the Grand Palais museum space.
• Susan Fox Rogers taught a NEH funded program on the Hudson River during the summer of 2011. Her book My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir was published by Cornell University Press; she was interviewed on National Public Radio’s Roundtable on November 14, 2011; and she has spoken about the Hudson River and read from her book at The Berkshire Women Writer’s Conference, Marist College, the Hudson Valley Institute, Beczak Environmental Center and in Tucson, Arizona with memoirist Beth Alvarado.
• Alfred A. Knopf published Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War of Crown and Empire by James Romm, in October 2011. “Greeks today might ask: What would Pericles do?” an op-ed piece by Romm was published in the Los Angeles Times in February 2012. In March 2012, he chaired a panel on “Examining Ancient Lives” at the annual conference of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center and his article “Who Killed Alexander the Great?” was the April 2012 cover story in History Today.
• Lauren Rose was successful in her application to the American Institute of Mathematics to take herself and her team of four collaborators to attend a week-long program in Washington DC entitled, "How to run a Math Teachers' Circle Workshop". The award is supported with funding from the National Security Agency.
• Jonathan Rosenberg conducted workshops in directing in July 2011 for the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut. He directed South African playwright Athol Fugard’s play My Children! My Africa! at Julliard at Lincoln Center in January and February 2012.
• Justus Rosenberg delivered a lecture at the New School of Social Research on “Assimilation versus Acculturation” based on his Jewish heritage and experiences while living and being educated in Germany, France and the United States. On that occasion, Rosenberg was given a special award by the New School’s Humanities Division for his contribution, in the past fifty years, to its education program.
• “The Sudan Handbook,” edited by John Ryle, Justin Willis, Suliman Baldo and Jok Madut Jok was published by James Currey Publishers in May 2012.
• In November 2011, Luc Sante lectured on police evidence photography at Columbia University in Chicago. In February 2012, he was awarded a Cullman Fellowship by the New York Public Library for the academic year 2012-2013.
• In January 2012, Andrew Schonebaum was awarded an American Philosophical Society and British Academy Fellowship to support his research in “Novel Medicine: The Curative Properties of Chinese Fiction,” specifically supporting research on relevant texts at The Wellcome Library in London during the fall 2012 semester.
• In September 2011, Annie Seaton gave a talk at the University of Pennsylvania on “Pastoral Origins” at the Kelly Writer’s House. She was also a discussant on Penn Sound’s Poem Talk about Cole Swenson’s Ours.
• “Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts” at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City, March through April 2012, included works from Stephen Shore and Kenji Fujita, as well as some BARD MFA faculty and graduates.
• Maria Simpson performed "Skin" a duet choreographed by NYC choreographer and performer Peter B. Schmitz in the 2012 Faculty Dance Concert in April 2012. She danced with Paul Matteson, former member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, with whom she first performed "Skin" in 1997. Music was a recording of Henryk Gorecki's 3rd Symphony, Opus 36, 3rd movement, played by the London Sinfonietta and sung by Dawn Upshaw.
• Patricia Spencer’s flute performance at Alice Tully Hall of Elliot Carter’s composition was reviewed in The New York Times in September 2011.
• Ariana Gonzalez Stokas was awarded $50,000 through the College Access Challenge Grant Program to support the creation of the Bard College Liberal Education Access Partnership (L.E.A.P). The pilot program will address college access through offering a curriculum that demystifies liberal education and the college application process for low-income students, their teachers and families. L.E.A.P will build on the innovative partnership between the Bard College Master of Arts in Teaching program and the International Community High School (ICHS) in the South Bronx.
• In November 2011, Richard Suchenski received a Tournées Festival grant for the 2011-2012 academic year. The program, run by FACE and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, supports a Tournées French Film Festival at Bard during the spring 2012 semester. In November 2011, Suchenski also spoke on the aesthetics of space in Indian art cinema at Rice University and on new German cinema at Yale University in December 2011. His article on Abel Gance’s silent epic La Roue appeared in The Moving Image (volume 11, number 2).
• Karen Sullivan was a respondent at the MLA convention for a session arranged by the French Medieval Language and Literature division about her recent book entitled “Karen Sullivan’s Lives of Medieval Inquisitors.”
• Julianne Swartz’s exhibition “Miracle Report,” will be at the University of Arizona Art Museum through June 2012; her work is included in the exhibition “Good Night” at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem and will be on view through February 2013, and a solo exhibition of her work opened at the Josee Bienvenu Gallery in New York City on April 28 and will be on view through June 20, 2012. Her site-specific public project, “Digital Empathy,” continues through June 2012 at the High Line Park in New York City.
• During this academic year, Pavlina Tcherneva has produced four Levy Institute working papers. Other publications include “On-the-spot Employment: Keynes Approach to Full Employment and Economic Transformation” in Review of Social Economy, and “Employer of Last Resort” in The Elgar Companion to Post Keynesian Economics (J. E. King, ed.)
• In November 2011, Presses de l’Université du Quebec published the book Pratiques et ejneux du détournement dans le discours littéraire des XX^e et XXI^e siècles co-edited by Eric Trudel and Nathalie Dupont. Trudel also introduced and contributed a chapter to the book.
• Mairaj Syed successfully completed the requirements to receive his Ph.D. in religion from Princeton University in October 2011.
• Tatjana Myoko von Prittwitz gave a talk "'Do you want a revolution without laughter?' Joseph Beuys, a humorous Zen master" at the conference "Deadly Serious Art: Strategies of humor as critique" at the Graduate Center, City of University of New York, on March 9, 2012. She also participated in the group exhibition "The Zen of Contemplation" with an installation of 73 handmade artist books and a sound piece at the Washington Art Association in Connecticut, May 5, 2012 through June 17, 2012.
• Olga Voronina’s translation of Vladimir Nabokov’s letters to his wife, from the forthcoming book Letters to Vera, 1923-1976 (Knopf, 2012), was published in The New Yorker in July 2011.
• Of One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir by Binyavanga Wainaina, reviewer Alexandra Fuller in The New York Times Book Review August 14 wrote: “skip this review and head directly to the bookstore.” This is one of many notes of praise for the author and the book, published July 2011.
• The exhibition, “Peggy Bacon: Cats and Caricatures,” curated by Tom Wolf, was at the Woodstock Artist’s Association & Museum from June through October 2011. Wolf will guest curate works by Yasuo Kuniyoshi for an exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum during the spring 2013 semester.
• David Woolner, senior fellow and Hyde Park historian at the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, was one of the featured historians on The History Channel's new documentary on Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor: 24 Hours After aired on December 7, 2011.
• Several faculty members participated in the 2011 summer Math Teachers’ Circle Workshop, “Optimization and Inequalities,” for middle and high school teachers, organized by Japeth Wood. Faculty who gave presentations as part of this workshop were Sven Anderson, Jim Belk, Maria Belk, Greg Landweber, Bob McGrail and Lauren Rose. Wood and Rose received a grant to support the Bard Math Circle activities during 2011-2012. This is their third grant since beginning the program in 2007.
• "Negotiating with the Past: the Art of Calligraphy in Pos-Mao China" an article by Li-Hua Ying, was published by ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, Vol 19, No 2 (2012).

Dean of the College
November 2012 

Faculty Highlights & Accomplishments

• Mustafa Abu Sway co-wrote an article that appeared in the December 4, 2010 “On Faith” section, “Guest Voices” column of the Washington Post online. “An Islamic Sermon for the World” can be read at http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/12/an_islamic_sermon_for_the_world.html. In January 2011, he served on the panel, The Story Behind the Story with the cast of Return to Haifa.
• “Jump,” directed by JoAnne Akalaitis was at The Public Theater in New York City during January 2011.
• Peggy Ahwesh had a one-person film screening at the Tate Modern in London, in conjunction with the photo exhibition "Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera.”  Her video "She Puppet" was featured in the exhibition "The Image in Question: War-Media-Art" at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Boston through December 23, 2010. In January 2011, her installation "The Ape of Nature" was on view during the Rotterdam International Film Festival in The Netherlands.
• Sven Anderson and Rebecca Thomas, together with student Camden Segal and alumnus Yu Wu, co-authored “Automatic Reduction of a Document-Derived Noun Vocabulary.” The paper will be included in the Proceedings of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-24), which will take place May 18-20, 2011, in Palm Beach, Florida.
• Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia, co-edited by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria with Colin McFarlane, was published in November 2010 by Routledge India. His article “Ordinary states: Everyday corruption and the politics of space in Mumbai,” was published in American Ethnologist, vol. 38, issue 1, pp. 58-72.
• James Bagwell and the Collegiate Chorale will host a benefit in honor of the Kurt Weill Foundation on May 19 ay Carnegie Hall.
• In December 2010, The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, New York Chapter hosted a concert featuring The Thurman Barker Sounds Trio; Michael Logan, Sam Morrison and Thurman Barker.
• “Regionalism and Secessionism” an essay by Sanjib Baruah appeared in the Oxford Companion to Politics in India' published by Oxford University Press, 2010. His essay “The Armed Forces Special Powers Act: Legacy of Colonial Constitutionalism’” appeared in the November 2010 issue of the Indian policy journal, Seminar. His May 2, 2011 article, “Assam Don’t Hold Your Breath,” can be read at business.in.com. http://business.in.com/article/special/assam-dont-hold-your-breath/24462/1.
• Lohin Geduld Gallery presented their third exhibition of paintings and drawings by Laura Battle, “Recent Work,” at their New York Gallery November 17 to December 23, 2010. The catalog for the show includes an essay written by Susan Aberth.
• Roger Berkowitz’s essay, “Why We Must Judge,” appears in the fall 2010 issue of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, and was reviewed in Harper’s Magazine in August 2010. His article, “The Wonders of Man in the Age of Simulations,” appeared in The Fortnightly Review in August 2010, and “Liberating the Animal: The False Promise of Nietzsche’s Anti-Human Philosophy” was published in Theory & Event, vol. 13, issue 2. The Gift of Science by Berkowitz, originally published in 2005, was published in Chinese by Law Press, China.
• Fordham University Press published a new book by Daniel Berthold, "The Ethics of Authorship: Communication, Seduction and Death in Hegel and Kierkegaard," in December 2010.
• Jennifer Schwartz Berky was nominated by Governor Paterson for appointment to the New York State Board for Historic Preservation for a four-year term.
• Celia Bland led workshops in the summer of 2010 at the American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan and Keene State College in New Hampshire. In April 2011, she gave a reading at the Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival to help launch the latest issue of LUMINA (the Sarah Lawrence College Literary Journal).
• The second edition of Ethan Bloch’s book “Proofs and Fundamentals” and his new book “The Real Numbers and Real Analysis” were published by Springer in May 2011.
• “Uncertainty relations for angular momentum eigenstates in two and three spatial dimensions,” a paper by Christian Bracher, was published in the American Journal of Physics in March 2011.
• Ian Buruma’s review of Christopher Hitchens’ book, Hitch-22: A Memoir, appeared in The New York Review of Books in July 2010.  His essay “Le Divorce: Why Belgium, home of the European Union, has never been more disunited,” appeared in the January 10, 2011 issue of The New Yorker. In February 2011, his article “Where are the Islamists?” appeared in Project Syndicate; and “Who Did Not Collaborate,” his review of And the Snow Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Alan Riding, appeared in The New York Review of Books. In March 2011, his article “Obama gets it right,” appeared in Al jazeera. His article “All the Queen’s Children” can be read at http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/buruma50/English.
• Mary Caponegro presented a paper on Robert Coover at the Associated Writing Programs Conference in Washington in February 2011. She gave a reading at the Kouros Gallery in April 2011 and at SODA in July 2011, both in New York City.
• “Ban Welondes: Wayland Smith in Popular Culture,” an article by Maria Sachiko Cecire, appeared in the collection Anglo Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination, published by Boydell & Brewer Press in October 2010. Her short documentary film Magnyfycence: Staging Medieval Drama, co-edited with Mike LaRocco, was made available online in January 2011; it can be accessed at http://thynkebyggly.org/magnyfycence. She defended her Ph.D. and received her doctorate from Oxford University in June 2011.
• Bruce Chilton delivered the 2010 Paddock Lectures, “Violence: Religious Sources, Religious Healing,” for the General Theological Society on November 10 and 11 at the New York campus. Bruce received his M.Div. from the GTS.
• An interview with Mark Danner was published in HavanaTimes.org in January 2011. On the occasion of the paperback publication of his book Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War; he spoke in Berkeley at “An Evening with Mark Danner, Stripping Bare the Body” in April 2011. In June 2011 in Berkeley, Director Peter Sellars interviewed Mark Danner about war, conflict and the role of music and the humanities in American public life.
• In December 2010, Richard Davis was offered a fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities, for his project “Dialogues with Krishna: The Bhagavad Gita in Great Time.” In March 2011, he presented his paper “The Fate of Indian God-Posters Abroad,” at a conference on the subject of “Conquest of the World as Picture: Indian Popular Visual Culture and Its Discontents,” at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, India.
• “Lush Life Chapter Two: Liar,” opened in June 2010 at On Stellar Rays, Orchard Street in New York City. It features works by seven artists including Tim Davis. His new video and sculpture piece, The Upstate New York Olympics, was exhibited at the 2011 Armory Show in New York City, and opens at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz on April 8, 2011.
• The February 1, 2011 Poughkeepsie Journal article “Cairo rebellion exhilarates Egyptians at SUNY New Paltz” included comments from both Jennifer Derr and Jonathan Cristol.
• Michèle Dominy presented the keynote lecture, "Mountainland Attachment and Detachment in New Zealand Family Farm Succession," for the Rocky Mountain Landscape and Memory Symposium: Soundscapes, Place and Pathways at the University of Wyoming, Laramie in October 2010.
• Emmanuel Dongala won the Prix VIRILO 2010 for the best francophone novel for Photo de groupe au bord du fleuve, published by Actes Sud.
• The Chinese language version of Mercedes Dujunco’s article, "The Performance of Gongde Post-funerary Rituals by Chaozhou Transmigrant Troupes in Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore: Some Social and Historical Considerations" was published in Shanghai in Volume 3 of the Chinese-language journal, Ritual Soundscapes, in August 2010. Dujunco and the Bard Chinese Music Ensemble were featured in The Poughkeepsie Journal in connection with the concert they performed during the annual benefit event of the Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society at the Elmendorph Inn in April 2011.
• Omar Encarnación’s essay, “Spain’s New Left Turn: Society-Driven or Party-Instigated?” appears in Spain’s Second Transition, a collection of essays about the administration of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, published by Routledge in July 2010. He was the chair and discussant at a panel on "Memory, History, and Politics" at the 2010 meeting of the American Political Science Association in August. He presented a paper on "Spain's Memory Wars," at a panel on "Transitional Justice and Post-Transitional Justice in Iberia and Latin America" at the Latin American Studies Association meeting held in Toronto in October 2010.  In January 2011, his essay “International Justice on Trial” appeared in Current History, the oldest publication in the United States devoted exclusively to international affairs. In March 2011 he gave a presentation titled “Peculiar but not Unique: Spain’s Memory Politics in Comparative Perspective” at Georgetown University to mark the 10^th anniversary of the establishment of the Prince of Asturias Chair in Spanish studies. He published “Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution” in the spring 2011 issue of the Journal of Democracy.
• In September 2010, Gidon Eshel was among 18 scientists named a 2010 PopTech Science and Public Leadership Fellow. The program addresses the crucial need for scientists as socially engaged public communicators and acknowledges the critically important role science plays in improving society and the simultaneous decline in public understanding of the field.
• Augustine’s Vision, Peter Filkin’s third book of poems, appeared from New American Press in August 2010. Panorama, a novel by H.G. Adler, translated from German by Filkins, was published by Random House in January 2011. In April, he received a 3-month DAAD Faculty Research Grant that will allow him to work in H. G. Adler’s archives in Marbach during the summer of 2011.
• Congratulations to Mariel Fiori, editor of La Voz, which was selected to receive a Special Citation from the Dutchess County Arts Council in July 2010.
• Larry Fink was featured in The New York Times article “A Moment With Larry Fink,” in January 2011. His exhibition, Hollywood 2000-2009, will be on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from February though April 2011.
• Marjorie Folkman choreographed Boston Baroque’s production of Rameau’s “Les Indes Galantes,” which will be performed in May 2011 at Boston’s Jordan Hall.
• Verlag published Tatjana Myoko Von Prittwitz und Gaffron’s book "Kreativität als allgemeines Menschenrecht!" Georg Jappe. Formen angewandter Ästhetik ("Creativity as a human right!" Georg Jappe. Forms of applied esthetics.) Here is a link to the publisher's website: http://www.verlag-silke-schreiber.de/alles_andere/112_prittwitz.html
• Beth Gershuny was the second Bard professor featured on WAMC's “Academic Minute.” Celia Bland was featured earlier this past fall. See http://www.wamc.org/academic-minute.html.
• In December 2010,“Laying a Liberal Arts Foundation, On Shaky Ground,” an article on Inside Higher Ed online, featured comments by Susan Gillespie, Jonathan Becker and Leon Botstein on Bard’s international initiatives and other partnerships. See http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/09/01/bard
• “The Correspondence of Paul Celan & Ilana Shmueli,” translated by Susan Gillespie was published by The Sheep Meadow Press in January 2011 and includes an introduction by Norman Manea. “Music in German Philosophy: An Introduction,” translated by Gillespie was published by The University of Chicago Press in January 2011. Her translation of Theodor W. Adorno's "Gloss on Sibelius" was published in the Bard Music Festival volume "Jean Sibelius and his World.” Her essay “Norman the Listener” was a contribution to the volume “The Obsession of Uncertainty, in honorem Norman Manea.” She presented a lecture on "Paul Celan's Coronas: Parsing the Voice from the Voiceless" at Barnard College's conference on "Poetry, Music, and Translation." She was also quoted in a June 27 New York Times article “Long-Serving Finance Minister Calls for Reforms to Bolster Russia’s Power.” See: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/world/europe/28russia.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=smolny&st=cse
• In November 2010, Chevrolet announced its clean energy initiative with Eban Goodstein as one of the environmental experts working on the project. The initiative is based on projects that promote energy savings, renewable energy, responsible use of natural resources, and conservation in communities across the United States and its goal is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 8 million metric tons. To define project criteria and the program’s investment portfolio, General Motors has engaged environmental experts, nongovernmental organizations and academics through the Climate Neutral Business Network. He was featured on WAMC’s “Academic Minute” in March 2011.
• In May 2011, Jacqueline Goss premiered her first feature-length film, The Observers, at the Migrating Forms Festival at Anthology Film Archives in New York City.
• Marka Gustavsson, with the Colorado Quartet, performed programs of Haydn, Bartok and Brahms in New York City and at Princeton University. Parnassus Records has just released a CD of Katherine Hoover's Quartet's Nos. 1 and 2, highlighting the Colorado Quartet. In January 2011, Gustavsson performed and recorded the six string quartets of Bela Bartok. Together with the Colorado Quartet, a recording of Beethoven’s Opus 18 quartets was released in February 2011 on Parnassus Records. This completes the quartet’s recording of the entire cycle of sixteen works.
• In October 2010, Ken Haig gave a talk at Emerson College, briefing the Center for Global Partnership's 2010 Postgraduate Journalism Fellows on contemporary developments in Japan as part of their training as foreign affairs journalists in Asia. In November 2010, Haig served on an advisory panel on Japanese immigration policy put together by the Columbia University Law School.
• Elizabeth Holt received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in June 2011. During her spring 2012 leave of absence, she will be in residence in Cairo where she will be affiliated with the American Research Center as an NEH postdoctoral scholar.
• In December 2010, Peter Hutton’s film Study of a River (1996) was announced as one of the 25 films named to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Each year the Librarian of Congress names 25 films to the registry that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant, to be preserved for all time. Films are selected as works of enduring significance to American culture.
• The SEED Project of American Chemical Society (ACS) awarded a grant to Swapan Jain and Emily McLaughlin to carry out summer research with area high school students who come from low-income backgrounds. The grant currently covers salary support for two students from Poughkeepsie High School to work in Bard labs on eight-week projects during the summer of 2010 and 2011.
• In February 2011, Philip Johns organized the symposium, “Stalk-eyed Files (Diopsidae): a Model Organism for Studying the Evolution of Form and Function,” with Marion Kotrba (Munich Zoological Museum) at the 7^th International Congress on Systematics and Evolutionary Biology in Berlin. He gave a talk, “Gene expression differences in adult male and female heads in stalk-eyed flies.”
• Bill T. Jones, partner of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company who are in residence at Bard, was appointed an Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France at a reception at the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Paris in October 20, 2010. Jones has also been named as a 2010 Kennedy Center Honoree in recognition of his lifetime contribution to American culture through the performing arts.
• In December 2010, the boards of the Dance Theater Workshop and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company agreed to merge their organizations. The new nonprofit group, called New York Live Arts, will be led by Bill T. Jones, Carla Peterson and Jean Davidson.
• The George Ayers Cress gallery of art at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga presented “‘le deluge, après mao’ China's Surging Creative Tide: an exhibition of works by significant contemporary Chinese artists” curated by Patricia Karetzky, November 9 through December 14, 2010. The exhibition included sculpture, painting, photography, digital and video art created by a selection of some of China’s most recognized current artists. Karetzky also presented the public lecture that accompanied the exhibit. Her article “Gao Yuan’s ‘Precious Little Angel’” was published in n.paradoxa, vol. 27.
• Felicia Keesing is the lead author of a new study on biodiversity and human disease, which was published in Nature in December 2010. This important study has received international attention and press at over seventy venues and blogs. See http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101201/full/news.2010.644.html. In January 2011, a grant was received from the National Science Foundation to continue the summer undergraduate research program at the Cary Institute, which Keesing co-directs and serves as a mentor. The grant will allow students from around the country to spend the summer doing research at the institute under the guidance of scientific mentors. There is a spot reserved in the program for one Bard student every year. Keesing is one of the three investigators on a project to access environmental risk for Lyme disease in Dutchess County with a grant received from The Environmental Protection Agency in March 2011.
• Robert Kelly’s play “Oedipus after Colonus” renews the story of Oedipus, taking it up just where Sophocles leaves it. Crichton Atkinson '05, directed the play off-Broadway and at Byrdcliffe Arts Theater in Woodstock in September 2010 which featured playwright Carey Harrison (son of Sir Rex Harrison), and alumni/ae, Zoe Morris '09, Joanne Tucker '05, and Richard Saudek '05. Andrew Lush '05 did video for the piece. For more information, see http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/41788016/oedipus-after-colonus-at-here-sept-8-12-2010?ref=users. “Logic of the World: The Poetics of Robert Kelly,” hosted by The Brooklyn Rail, includes talks, readings and performances by Mary Caponegro, Michael Ives, Jonas Mekas, Carolee Scheeman, Robert Kelly among many others. The event will celebrate Kelly’s 75^th birthday and his 50 years at Bard College, and will be held on May 7, 2011.
• Ken Landauer and Julianne Swartz will present new and recent works at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz from April 9 through October 23, 2011.
• “Divided differences and the Weyl character formula in equivariant K-Theory” by Gregory Landweber and coauthored with Megumi Harada (McMaster University) and Reyer Sjamaar (Cornell University) was published in the journal Mathematics Research Letters, vol. 17, issue 3.
• Kristin Lane’s paper, “Black man in the White House: Ideology and Implicit Racial Bias in the Age of Obama,” co-authored with J. J. Jost, was published in December 2010, in an edited volume, Obama and a Post-Racial America, by Oxford University Press. “Seeing Through Colorblindness: Implicit Bias and the Law,” a paper that Lane coauthored with J. Kang was published in the December 2010 issue of the University of California-Los Angeles Law Review.  
• MoMa will host two exhibitions of An-My Lê’s work this year; a history of photography through the lens of women photographers and “The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today,” July through November 2010. Photographs from her travels with the American armed forces were at the Murray Guy Gallery in New York City, September through October 2010. A 5-panel photograph of the Suez Canal transit on USS Eisenhower by Lê will be included in the exhibition “After the Gold Rush: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from March 2011 through January 2012.
• Nancy Leonard delivered a paper, “Denial and Sacrifice in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling,” at the Columbian University seminar in religion in November 2010.
• In November 2010, Stuart Levine presented three papers at a conference in Moscow and Kolomna in Russia that celebrated the 50 Year anniversary of the obedience to authority research begun by Stanley Milgram: “Recent Work on Obedience to Authority;” “Non- Laboratory Study of Obedience;” and “Obedience in the Medical Hospital and the College Classroom.” In addition, several photos from his series called "Barns at Rest" will be on view at the National Arts Club in New York City in January 2011.
• Barbara Luka’s “Autolexical Grammar and the neurological substrates of language processing: Mismatch and resolution of semantic and syntactic representations” was published in June 2011 in Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar. In Honor of Jerry Sadock.
• Recent articles by Joseph Luzzi include “ ‘As a Leaf on a Branch...’: Dante’s Neologisms,” in PMLA and “Rossellini’s Cinema of Poetry: Voyage to Italy,” in Adaptation. Two reviews by Luzzi that were recently published were “Reassessing Rossellini,” in American Scholar (review of the Criterion DVD of Rossellini’s Rome Open City) and “Unblurred Melody,” in Bookforum (review of Galassi’s translation of Leopardi’s Canti). His review of the DVD Red Desert directed by Michaelangelo Antonioni appeared in Modernism/Modernity in January 2011 and his article: “Verbal Montage and Visual Apostrophe: Zanzotto’s Filò and Fellini’s Voce della luna,” was published in Modern Language Notes, Vol. 126.
• Mark Lytle, along with James West Davidson, Brian DeLay, Christine Leigh Heyrman, and Michael B Stoff, coauthored the 1st edition of Experience History: Interpreting America's Past, published by McGraw-Hill in October 2010.  Lytle was interviewed on May 2, 2011 in the USA Today article “Clinton: Bin Laden’s death doesn’t end war on terror.” See: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-05-03-bin-Laden-Clinton-war-terror_n.htm.
• Art 45 in Montreal hosted a solo exhibit by Medrie MacPhee in April 2011.
• In March 2011, The Malta Independent Online featured an article by Norman Manea titled, “Revolutionary Shadows.”
• “Smarter Than You Think,” an essay by Wyatt Mason on David Foster Wallace, appeared in The New York Review of Books in July 2010. In December 2010, his article “Scanners Gone Wild,” was published in The New York Times column, “How We Live Now.”
• In May 2011, Emily McLaughlin received a Cottrell College Science Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. This grant is intended to fund her research in the area of new synthetic methods driven by ultraviolet light, more specifically, the "development and synthesis of novel hydrogen-bonding scaffolds and thiourea organocatalysts for enantioselective [2 + 2] photocycloadditions."
• “Israel on Shifting Sands,” by Walter Russell Mead was published in January 2011 in Politico, January 2011. “Tea Party and U.S. Foreign Policy,” was published in the International Herald Tribune in February 2011 and his essay “The Tea Party and American Foreign Policy: What Populism Means for Globalism,” was published in Foreign Affairs, March/April 2011. His article “The Real Change That’s Happening in U.S.-Brazil Relations” appeared on the website blog thebusinessinsider.com on April 18, 2011. In May 2011, his book Special Providence was listed on the foreign policy website as one of three top books on international relations recommended for aspiring politicians; see http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/05/03/the_five_must_read_us_foreign_policv_books_for_aspring_politicians
• Edie Meidav received two "Special Mention" recognitions in the 2011 issue of Pushcart, for Kingdom of the Young and Beef. “The Millions” selected her new book, Lola, California (to be published summer 2011) to be featured on their list, “Most Anticipated: The Great 2011 Book Preview.” http://www.themillions.com/2011/01/most-anticipated-the-great-2011-book-preview.html. Other books included on the list were Swamplandia! by Bard Fiction Prize Winner Karen Russell, and My New American Life by Bard Faculty member Francine Prose.
• Daniel Mendelsohn’s essay “‘God’s Librarians’ The Vatican Library enters the twenty-first century” appeared in the January 3, 2011 issue of The New Yorker. In February 2011 his essay “The Mad Men Account” appeared in The New York Review of Books.
• Bradford Morrow and Conjunctions were featured in the article “Rivoluzione Culturale” published in the July/August 2010 issue of La Repubblica XL. An essay and portrait of Morrow were included in writer Nina Shengold and photographer Jennifer May’s River of Words: Portrait of Hudson Valley Writers, published by SUNY Press in August 2010. In November 2010, Morrow participated in a panel on the subject of noir fiction, with Otto Penzler and Thomas Cook in New York City. He delivered the annual Robert E. Knoll lecture at the University of Nebraska in December 2010, presenting his address “My Willa Cather,” at the same institution where Cather went to college. His new novel, The Diviner’s Tale, was published in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; in England by Grove Atlantic/Corvus; and as an audiobook by Blackstone, all in January 2011. His anthology, co-edited with David Shields, The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death, was published by W.W. Norton in February 2011 and Open Road Media published his backlist of novels, Come Sunday, The Almanac Branch, Trinity Fields, Giovannani’s Gift and Ariel’s Crossing, as e-books. NPR's "All Things Considered" broadcast Morrow reading his essay on Willa Cather's My Antonia for their "You Must Read This" feature on May 2, 2011. He gave readings from the novel and his Norton anthology, The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death in Providence, Portsmouth, New York and elsewhere, including one at Bard High School Early College with Karen Russell to fundraise for BHSEC's literary magazine. He did radio interviews and podcasts with Sirius XM's “Pia Lindstrom Presents,” David Wilk's “Writerscast,” and elsewhere.
• Bard College was the academic sponsor for “The Readers of Homer” 92^nd Street Y event in November 2010. The non-profit organization, which includes associate William Mullen, provides a method for reading Homer’s epics aloud, in a continuous and smooth audience-participation format. People of all ages participate and offer their pre-assigned passages, all day or all night long, in venues in the United States and abroad. For more information see http://thereadersofhomer.org.
• Michelle Murray’s article, "Identity, Insecurity and Great Power Politics:  The Tragedy of German Naval Ambition Before the First World War," was published in Security Studies in December 2010. 
• Matthew Mutter’s article, “‘The Power to Enchant That Comes from Disillusion’: W.H. Auden’s Critique of Magical Poetics,” was published in the Journal of Modern Literature, winter 2010. His book review of Norman Finkelstein’s On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry was published in Modernism/Modernity in January 2011.
• In January 2011, Jacob Neusner received the Papal Medal in the Vatican from Pope Benedict XVI, his book A Rabbi Talks with Jesus, was published in Croatian and Polish, among several other languages and he was cited in numerous articles about Pope Benedict’s new book Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times, including the NewsGuide.us article “Pope’s New Book is Instant New York Times Bestseller, from March 19, 2011.
• Along with Bard students Anis Zaman and Aaron Strauss, Keith O’Hara presented their paper "The IMP: An Intelligent Mobile Projector" as part of the 2010 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Exhibition and Robot Workshop in Atlanta in September 2010. O’Hara gave the plenary presentation for the Multi-Robot Systems and Physical Data Structures Workshop at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium in March 2011 in Palo Alto and presented his paper, "Towards Robot Systems Architecture." Professor O’Hara collaborated with Peggy Florin on the interactive dance piece, "Bird's Eye," performed at the Faculty Dance Concert in May 2011.
• Lothar Osterburg has two regional solo shows titled “Piranesi” at Rockland Center for the Arts October 17 through December 12, 2010 and at the The Center for Photography at Woodstock from November 13 to December 23, 2010. “Meet the Composer” 2010 Commissioning Music/USA awards included Elizabeth Brown (Osterburg’s wife) who will collaborate with him to create “A Bookmobile for Dreamers,” a multimedia chamber opera for thermin, electric sound and video. Osterberg was part of a group show “Fractured Earth” January 12 through February 20, 2011 at Lesley Heller Workspace in New York. His exhibition “Imagined Realities” was on display at Moeller Fine Art in Berlin from February through March 2011.
• Interviews with Dimitri Papadimitriou appeared in the New York Times; Fox Business Varney and Co., Bloomburg, Eleftherotypia, and Dow Jones regarding various aspects of the economy in the U.S. and abroad. The Elgar Companion to Hyman Minsky, edited by Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wrap, was published in fall 2010. Numerous op-eds by Papadminitriou appeared in the Greek daily morning paper KATHIMERINI last summer as he addressed the debt issue in Greece. Other journal articles included “2011: Jobs Versus the Deficit” in Thruthout and Newgeography in December 2010, “Mortgage Meltdown: How Underwriting Went Under” in Newgeography in February 2011, and “The Printing Press and the Euromess” in Thruthout, March 2011. Papadimitriou was also a discussion leader at ILP-IMF Conference in Oslo, Norway last fall, presented a lecture for the World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley in March 2011, and presented at the CFDA/UNIFEM international workshop “Towards Harmonization of Time Use Surveys at the Global Level with Special Reference to Developing Countries” in New Delhi, India in April 2011.
• Dance Magazine’s December 2010 issue featured an article about, and interview with Aileen Passloff, about her career and the Dance Program at Bard. See http://images.burrellesluce.com/7720/7720_8290&site=7720.
• An exhibition of the work of Judy Pfaff, “Five Decades,” was presented at the Amerigner-McEnery-Yohe Gallery in New York City, September 10 through October 16, 2010.
• In November 2010, Francine Prose was chosen to receive the 2010 Washington University International Humanities Medal. Awarded, biannually, the medal honors the lifetime work of a noted scholar, writer or artist who has made a significant and sustained contribution to the world of letters or the arts.
• In February 2011, Kelly Reichardt was interviewed by The Scotmans about her film Meek’s Cutoff. The film was reviewed in Film Comment in their March/April 2011 issue, on NYTimes.com on April 1, 2011 and in many other publications.
• Joan Retallack’s recent publications include “Arithmétique du langage et du plaisir: Stein Stein Stein Stein Stein,” translated from the English by Daniel Grenier; Contemporanéités de Gertrude Stein: Comment lire, traduire et écrire Gertrude Stein aujourd’hui. eds. Jean-François Chassay et Éric Giraud; “N Plus Zero,” in Ecopoetics 6/7, “from The Bosch Bookshelf: Four on Time” in Critical Quarterly, V.52, No.3. A critical chapter on her “Fields of Pattern-Bounded Unpredictability” appeared in Thinking Poetry: Readings in Contemporary Women’s Exploratory Poetics, by Lynn Keller, published in 2010. In December 2010, Procedural Elegies/Western Civ Cont’d/ by Retallack was named as one of the (thirteen) Best Books of 2010 by ARTFORUM selected by thirteen scholars, critics, writers and artists. She participated in the Poetics Forum at the CUNY Graduate Center “Conversation on Stein & Wittgenstein,” with Joan Richardson on April 29, 2011 and on “PoemTalk”, University of Pennsylvania: Podcast on PennSound on February 2011. She was interviewed and did a reading on Close Listening, Art on Air’s first broadcast April 11, 2011. She presented “Poetry’s Alerity” as part of the inaugural Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics at California College of the Arts in San Francisco in May 2011. She was the visiting artist in poetry at University of California-Santa Cruz, May 25-26, 2011; poetry reading and lecture were entitled “Trace Elements: Poethics of Interpretation.”
• “Swimming the River,” an essay by Susan Fox Rogers, appeared in Stone Canoe #5; her essay “Sitting by the River,” was in Alaska Quarterly Review, vol. 27, no. 3&4, and in May 2010 “Equilibrate” was included in What’s Your Exit? A Literary Detour though New Jersey, edited by Bard graduate Joe Vallese.
• The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander, a collaboration between two Bard/Simon's Rock faculty members, James Romm (editor) and Robert Strassler (series editor), was published in November 2010 by Pantheon, http://www.amazon.com/Landmark-Arrian-Campaigns-lexander/dp/037542346X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1288209779&sr=1-1. The volume was mentioned in The Wall Street Journal article, “The Greatest of Them All,” in January 2011 and was reviewed by The New York Times Book Review in February 2011. Forbes magazine hosted an online dialogue, which Romm conducted with Paul Cartledge, Greek historian at Cambridge University, on the topic of Alexander the Great, and Oliver Stone, the director of the film “Alexander.” Romm’s forthcoming book, Ghosts of the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Grat and the War for Crown and Empire, was selected as a History Book Club Main Selection in June 2011.
• Lauren Rose and Japheth Wood won a Math Circle grant from the Math Science Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley, CA in September 2010. This grant will help fund math outreach activities in the community done in conjunction with the Bard Math Circle TLS project, headed by Jackie Stone ('11). The Bard Math Circle was featured in the Daily Freeman (January 17, 2011), Las Noticias (October 6, 2010), and La Voz (August 2010).
• Julia Rosenbaum’s collection of essays entitled The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century was published in December 2010 by Palgrave Macmillan for their series “Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History.” The book was co-edited with Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University.
• Jonathan Rosenberg collaborated with playwright Diana Son on the development of her new play Jane Says for the New Work Now Festival at the Public Theater in New York (May 2010).
• Marina Rosenfeld’s new recording, “Sour Mash,” a collaboration with legendary composer George Lewis, was released on Innova during the summer of 2010. She curated and directed improvising ensembles of musicians that included Bard students and recent graduates for performances at the Whitney Museum during July and August 2010 for the museum’s exhibition, “Christian Marclay: Festival.” In November 2010, she was awarded a Foundation for Contemporary Arts award for 2011. Founders Jasper Johns, John Cage and others originated the concept of benefit exhibition; today, exhibitions and sales of works donated by more than 750 visual artists fund non-restrictive grants to individuals working in dance, music/sound, performance art/theater, poetry and the visual arts. She performed roygbiv&b at the Museum of Modern Art in April 2011, and has also created new sound installations in recent months for the Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool; “The Island” at Art Miami Basel; and performed for the Ultima Festival of Contemporary Music in Oslo, the Fundação de Serralves/Contemporary Art Museum in Porto, and Ensemble Zwischentöne’s “35 Megaphones for Democracy” project.
• Swamplandia! by Karen Russell, Bard Fiction Prize Winner 2011, was published by Knopf in February 2011. Emma Donoghue reviewed the book in The New York Times article (February 3, 2011), “Infested Waters."
• Geoffrey Sanborn’s new book, Whipscars and Tattoos: The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, and the Maori was published by Oxford University Press in February 2011.
• Lisa Sanditz’s show, “Stateside,” opened in November 2010 at Los Angeles-based ACME.
• Frank Scalzo was elected as Chair of the Publications Committee of the Neurobehavioral Teratology Society in July 2010. He will also serve on the Editorial Advisory Board for the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology, published by Elsevier, from January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011.  
• “The ‘Hamlet Complex’ in China, 1903-1936,” an essay by Andrew Schonebaum was in Shakespeare and Asia vol. 17.
• For the 2010 biennial, NRW-Forum focused on the transatlantic influence on photography of the 1970s and 1980s with Stephen Shore’s exhibit “NRW-Forum Düsseldorf – Der Rote Bulli (The Red Bus)” from September 2010 through January 2011. A catalogue of the same title was published along with the exhibition.
• In April 2011, Lisa Sigal was granted a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship.
• My Hollywood by Mona Simpson was published by Knopf in August 2010 and was reviewed in the New York Times Sunday Book Review (August 8, 2010) and in Books of the Times (August 10, 2010).
• In October 2010, Ben Stevens presented on Vergil and Jules Verne at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States; he designed the curriculum for the SoJam a cappella Festival at Duke University in November 2010, where he also led masterclasses plus workshops on music criticism and on vocal percussion. The Bard a cappella group he advises, “the Orcapelicans,” has been featured on The Huffington Post as one of the best 14 collegiate a cappella groups, in a video including their adviser on vocal percussion. Click here for the link. In January 2011, Stevens designed the curriculum for the Los Angeles a cappella Festival, where he led masterclasses and a workshop on music history. He also designed the curriculum for VoCAL Nation, an a cappella festival in New York City in March 2011.
• Richard Suchenski secured and supervised a new collection of sixty film prints containing a micro-history of Taiwanese cinema donated by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office. His review of the National Film Preservation Foundation's “Treasures from American Film Archives IV:  American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986” was published in The Moving Image (Volume 9, Number 2) and his article, "'100,000 Cigarettes:' Pedro Costa's Colossal Youth," was published in English and Korean in the bilingual collection The Cinema World of Pedro Costa (Jeonju:  Jeonju International Film Festival, 2010). “The Sum of a Mysterious Operation: Bresson’s Joan of Arc,” an essay by Suchenski, appeared in Robert Bresson, revised version, edited by James Quandt and published by Indiana University Press and Wilfrid Laurier University Press in February 2011. His essay “Turn Again Tourneur’ – Maurice Tourneur Between France and Hollywood,” was published in Studies in French Cinema, Volume 11, issue 2. He successfully completed his Ph.D. at Yale University in May 2011.
• In April 2011, the University of Chicago Press published The Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors, a new book by Karen Sullivan.
• “Terrain,” a large-scale installation by Julianne Swartz, was acquired by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in August 2010 and will be on long-term display.
• Joan Tower was named Composer of the Year by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in November 2010. They will play five of her orchestral works throughout the 2010-2011 season including a newly commissioned work, "Stroke," that will premiere May 12, 2011 with their new conductor Manfred Honneck. She was profiled n philly.com by the Philadelphia Inquirer music critic as she was working with Curtis Institute of Music students on an all-Tower concert that was performed April 29. The Miller Theater at Columbia University is hosting the Curtis Institute’s ensemble “Curtis 20/21” and Tower on May 5 as part of their 2010-2011 Composer Portrait Series.
• In December 2010, Stephen Tremaine was included on the Best of New Orleans 13^th annual 40 under 40 list. The list honors 40 people under the age of 40, who have been nominated by the public for their accomplishments and contributions to New Orleans.
• “Jean Paulhan on Poetry and Politics,” co-edited by Eric Trudel and co-introduced and co-translated (with Charlotte Mandell) was reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement in July 2010. "Poems and Monsters. Pierre Alferi's 'Cinépoésie'" by Trudel was published in the journal SubStance in November 2010. He also served on the national screening committee for the U.S. Student Fulbright Program for the Institute of International Education.
• In August 2010, Kwani?, an independent literary journal founded by Binyavanga Wainaina, was awarded the Prince Claus Prize for excellence in Nairobi. The Pilgrimage Project, conceived by Wainaina, was noted by CNN at http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/12/15/african.pilgrimages/index.html.
• Sara Pankenier Weld published an article in Russian on "Поэзия Хармса в контексте детского фольклора [The Poetry of Kharms in the Context of Children's Folklore]" in the article collection Фольклор: текст и контекст [Folklore: Text and Context] published in Moscow by the Russian State Center for Russian Folklore (Moscow: GRTsRF, 2010). She presented a paper on "Nabokov's North: Forgery, Paleography, Cartography" at VIII ICCEES (International Council of Central and East European Studies) World Congress in Stockholm in August 2010 and a paper on "Infantilism in Dialogue: Andrei Bely's Kotik Letaev” at the ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) National Convention in Los Angeles in November 2010.

Dean of the College
August 2011 

Faculty Highlights & Accomplishments

• An exhibition review entitled, "Zurcidos Invisibles: Alan Glass, Construcciones y Pinturas, 1950-2008" by Susan Aberth appeared in the Journal of Surrealism and the Americas (13:1). Her article, "Isabel De Obaldia: The Law of the Jungle," was published in Neues Glas/New Glass in No. 2/2010.
• Chinua Achebe's collection of essays, The Education of a British Protected Child, was published by Knopf in October 2009. The volume is dedicated to Charles P. Stevenson Jr., chair of Bard's Board of Trustees, and was featured in the December 16, 2009, issue of The New York Times.
• Peggy Ahwesh was awarded a grant from The National Film Preservation Foundation. She presented the installation “Warm Objects” at the James Gallery of The Graduate Center, CUNY. In August, she was the subject of a retrospective at NeMaf Newmedia Festival, in Seoul, Korea.  She screened a new short film in the Views from the Avant-Garde, a sidebar of the New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York.  In November 2009, Ahwesh was a judge at the Zinebi International Film Festival in Bilbao, Spain, and is having a three - program retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.
• JoAnne Akalaitis directed The Bacchae by Euripides during the summer of 2009 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park in New York City, and the Shakespeare Theater in Washington, D.C.
• James Bagwell was appointed as Music Director of The College Chorale. To read the announcement, go to http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/09/13/arts/AP-US-Collegiate-Chorale-Music-Director.html
• Emily Barton was invited by the National Book Foundation to participate in a public panel discussion on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow. She also gave a reading at Simon’s Rock, continued her work as Lecturer in English at Yale, and became a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton in the spring 2010.
• Thomas Bartscherer published “To Read What Has Never Been Written” in Lothar Baumgarten: Seven Sounds, Seven Circles (Kunsthaus Bregnez, 2009). He also was recently appointed consulting editor of The International Literary Quarterly and was named to the editorial board of The Point.
• Oxford University Press announced the publication of a new reader, Ethnonationalism in India, edited and introduced by Sanjib Baruah. He spoke on “Colonial Frontiers under Postcolonial Sovereignty: Lessons from Northeast India” for the University of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations in November. His article “The Partition’s Long Shadow: The Ambiguities of Citizenship in India” appeared in the December 2009 issue of Citizenship Studies, and “Separatist Militants and Contentious Politics: The Limits of Counterinsurgency in Assam” appeared in the December 2009 issue of Asian Survey.
• Laura Battle participated in two group exhibitions in the summer of 2009 at the Lohin Geduld Gallery in New York City. The first, “Artists Choice,” included participation from former Bard student, Sam Bornstein. The second was called “Intricacies.” She also exhibited work in September at the Philadelphia College of Art and Design in a show called “Drawing Atlas,” and showed new etchings at the Editions/Artist Books Fair in Chelsea in November 2009. In 2010 she received a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation to support her work.
• Professors Jim Belk, Maria Belk, John Cullinan, Lauren Rose and Japheth Wood presented at a week-long math circle workshop on the Theorem of Pythagoras on the Bard campus in summer 2010. The workshop organized by Wood, is geared towards middle school math teachers and is intended to become an annual event at Bard.
• “Approaching Infinity: Reflections on Dignity in Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon,” an essay by Roger Berkowitz, appears in the October 2009 issue of Philosophy and Literature. The December issue of Harper’s features a conversation about Hannah Arendt with Berkowitz titled “Thinking in Dark Times—Six Questions for Roger Berkowitz.” His book The Gift of Science was published in paperback in March 2010 by Fordham University Press.
• Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics, edited by Roger Berkowitz, Jeffrey Katz, and Thomas Keenan, was published in November 2009 by Fordham University Press. The book was selected by the Association of American University Presses for inclusion in its 2010 "Book, Jacket and Journal Show."
• “Passing-over: the Death of the Author in Hegel’s Philosophy,” an article by Daniel Berthold, was published in the Southern Journal of Philosophy. In February 2010 his book “The Ethics of Authorship” was accepted for publication by Fordham University Press. His article "Talking Cures: A Lacanian Reading of Hegel and Kierkegaard on Language and Madness," was published in Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology (16:4) as their featured article.
• Celia Bland taught a workshop in Summer 2009 at the Keene State College Writers Conference in New Hampshire.  She has published in recent issues of Field Notes, Writing on the Edge, and the Boston Review.
• Leon Botstein was recognized with a 2009 Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award. The awards recognize higher education leaders who have demonstrated a commitment to excellence in undergraduate education; the development of major interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary undergraduate and graduate programs; university outreach; and international initiatives. He appeared on ABC World News in a segment exploring the trend toward year-round public schools; he outlined ways to reform American education on a CNBC prime-time special called The Business of Innovation; he lectured on the future of classical music for the One Day University in New York City; he moderated a panel addressing the intellectual foundations of the financial crisis for the Bard-sponsored conference “The Burden of Our Times,” and he spoke about education and the new economy in a panel discussion sponsored by ValueAct Capital in San Francisco. He gave the commencement address at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, which awarded him an honorary doctorate of humane letters. He delivered a keynote speech, “Performance after the Age of Recording,” at the 32nd annual conference of Chamber Music America. A featured guest on the CNBC special Meeting of the Minds, he spoke about the future of American Education. His essay “Liberating the Pariah: Politics, the Jews, and Hannah Arendt” appeared in Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (Fordham University Press). For the German-language volume Art & Now, published by the University of Applied Arts Vienna, he contributed the essay “Music and Freedom: A Polemical History.” In May 2010 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 for the purpose of "promoting useful knowledge." Botstein is among 38 distinguished leaders and thinkers in mathematical and phyical sciences, biological sciences, social sciences, humanities, the arts, and public and private affairs to be elected this year.
• Jonathan Brent’s article “Inside the Gulag Museum” was published in the May 2009 issue of The New Criterion. He was recently appointed executive director and CEO of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City. Jonathan’s documentary based on his book Stalin’s Last Crime won the Terre(s) d’Histoire award in 2010.
• Ken Buhler’s solo exhibition, Notes From the Edge of The World, was presented in October 2009 at the Lesley Heller Gallery. He was also recently awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
• Ian Buruma’s book Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents was published by Princeton University Press in March 2010.  His editorial “Mountains and minarets” was published in the Guardian; and his letter from Amsterdam, “Parade’s End,” on the gay rights parade, Muslims and politics in Holland, appeared in the December 2009 issue of The New Yorker.
• Mary Caponegro took part in the “Study of the U.S Institute on Contemporary Literature” sponsored by the U.S. Department of State in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has given readings from her new story collection, All Fall Down, published by Coffee House Press, and participated in the “&Now Festival of Innovative Writing & the Literacy Arts” in Buffalo. Her fiction was the subject of a conference at the University of Siena in March 2010 and by the ODELA (Observatoire de literature americaine) group in Paris in May 2010. Her fictional work, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” was performed in celebration of Women’s History at the Kyiv International School in Kyiv, Ukraine in the spring of 2010.
• Gabriela Carrión presented a paper titled “Burlas en tiempo de tantas veras’: Humor and Violence in Lope’s Los melindres de Belisa” at the Association for Theatre Research. The conference took place in November 2009 in Puerto Rico.
• Practicing Memory in Central American Literature, by Nicole Caso was published in March 2010 by Palgrave Macmillan.
• Rebecca Chace finished filming her second novel, Capture the Flag, which she co-wrote with director, Lisanne Skyler. She received the Showtime Tony Cox Screenwriting Award for best screenplay for the short film at the Nantucket Film Festival in June 2010. Her story “Looking for Robinson Crusoe,” was nominated for inclusion in this year’s Pushcart Prize Best of the Small Presses. Her third book, Leaving Rock Harbor, was published by Scribner in June 2010, and was chosen as a June Indie Notable Book by the American Booksellers Association.  
• Jonathan Cristol’s article “Two States, One Capital: A Proposal for the Israeli/Palestine Conflict” was published on the home page of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs and featured in “Carnegie Ethics Online” and in “Global Policy Innovations.” The Israel Policy Forum published his article “Judge Lieberman by his Actions, Not His Words” on their Middle East Peace Pulse website. His “Incentivizing Peace in the Middle East: A New Role for the U.S” was published by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs as their April “Carnegie Ethics Online” article.
• Robert Culp received an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship for “New Perspectives in Chinese Culture and Society.”
• “The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means,” Mark Danner’s sequel to his article on the political implications of the torture debate, appeared in The New York Review of Books. He discussed his book, Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War, on PBS’s Bill Moyer’s Journal in October 2009. In April 2010 he appeared at the Herbst Theatre to discuss the book with Frank Rich. Mark also delivered the Tanner Lectures at Stanford titled, “Torture and the Forever War: Living in the State of Exception.”
• In July, Richard Davis presented the keynote lecture for a symposium at the University of Heidelberg, entitled "Objects on the Move: Circulation, Social Practice and Transcultural Intersections."  His talk was entitled "A Tale of Two Bronzes: From India to Los Angeles and Back Again." Oxford Press published his translation of a twelfth century Sanskrit work, A Priest’s Guide for the Great Festival: Aghorasiva’s Mahotsavavidhi, a manual for a priest performing a nine-day Hindu temple festival.  It is the first translation of a medieval festival work into English. "Global India: circa 100 CE: South Asia in Early World History," by Davis was published by the Association for Asian Studies in 2010.
• Timothy Davis’s solo show of photographs, “The New Antiquity,” appeared at the Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in New York City in September and October 2009. A monograph of the same title is being published by Damiani Grafiche. His MY LIFE IN POLITICS is on exhibit this fall at the University of Virginia, and a project organized by the Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, “Seeing through Huguenot Street” opened in September 2009. Davis’ exhibition Seeing Through History was on view at the Gallery@the DuBois Fort in New Paltz in October 2009.
• Michèle Dominy presented “Natural History, Biodiversity and Conservation in the Post Settler State” as part of the session “The Ends of Settler Studies: Settler Colonialism and Nostalgic Anthropology” for the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Philadelphia in December 2009.
• Mercedes DuJunco was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad fellowship for her Fall 2009 project “Ritual Labor, Migrancy and Chaozhou Performers of Chinese Death Rituals and Music in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.”
• A solo exhibition of new paintings Works by Nicole Eisenman was presented October through December 2009 at Leo Koenig, Inc. in New York City.
• Omar Encarnación presented a paper on historical memory and politics in Spain and participated in a roundtable on George Bush’s legacy at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Toronto. In October 2009 his essay “Justice in Times of Transition: Lessons from the Iberian Experience” was published as a working paper by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
• You are Not I, recent work by Barbara Ess, was exhibited at Thierry Goldberg Projects, 5 Rivington Street, in New York City from October to November.
• Peter Filkins was named a Top Ten Finalist in NARRATIVE Magazine's First Annual Poetry Contest for his poem “The Wild Boar.” He also recently published poems in The Iowa Review, Salamander, and The American Arts Quarterly. In September he read from his translation of Ingeborg Bachmann's poetry at the exhibition "Ingeborg Bachmann: Writing Agianst War" at the University of Montana, and again when the exhibition traveled to Worcester Polytechnic Institute in January 2010.
• Larry Fink’s limited-edition book, Night at the Met, which documents the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Apollo Circle benefit in 2007, was made available for purchase on Blurb.com. His photo essay “The Beats” appeared in the January 2010 issue of Visura Magazine.com.
• “No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage’s 4’33”” by Kyle Gann was published in December by Yale University Press. His CD “The Planets” was released in November 2009 with a cover design by Laura Battle. His piano concerto Sunken City (a tribute to New Orleans) was released on the Mode label by the Orkest de Volharding in Amsterdam.
• Lab projects by four of Beth Gershuny’s Clinical Psychology research lab students were accepted for presentations at the Eastern Psychological Associations conference in New York City.
• Eban Goodstein coauthored an op-ed article, “We Can Afford to Save the Planet,” published in The Washington Post in October 2009.
• "Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World," edited by Dana Jack and Alisha Ali, was published by Oxford University Press in March 2010 and included a chapter by Richard Gordon titled, "Drugs Don't Talk: Do Medications and Biological Psychiatry Contribute to Silencing the Self." As co-chair of the Transcultural Special Interest Group of the Academy of Eating Disorders, he organized a symposium at the International Conference of Eating Disorders in Salzburg in June 2010.
• The Museum of Modern Art in New York City will be screening "Stranger Comes to Town," a documentary by Jacqueline Goss, on June 4 and 6, 2010, as part of the "Creative Capital" series.
• Together with the Colorado Quartet, Marka Gustavsson, presented a lecture recital on Beethoven’s Quartet Op. 132 at the Paul Robeson Center in Princeton, N.J. in April 2010. The Quartet was featured in an evening concert at Symphony Space, in May 2010, which sponsored the New York premier of Keith Fitch’s String Quartet. As a member of the Syphony Space All-Stars, Marka performed rarely heard music of Enescu and Schulhoff in the marathon concert “Wall-to-Wall-behind-the-Wall.” Performing and teaching included guest artist invitations to Soundfest, on Cape Cod and the Portland Chamber Music Festival in the summer of 2010.  
• The Mansfield Foundation selected Ken Haig as one of the handful of “new generation” Japan scholars who will spend part of the next two years meeting with officials in the new administrations in both countries to discuss common policy dilemmas and new directions for U.S.– Japan relations.
• Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777-1826: Rewriting Conquest, by Rebecca Cole Heinowitz was published by Edinburgh University Press in February 2010.
• Lynn Hawley performed in “What Once We Felt,” a play produced by Lincoln Center at The Duke, October through November 2009. In the summer of 2010, she was part of The Continuum Company in Florence, Italy, creating and performing in a new play about the murdered journalists and human rights workers in Chechnya.
• Elizabeth Holt defended her dissertation early in September and was recommended for the Ph.D. with distinction from Columbia University.
• As part of a group exhibition, Roman Hrab will be showing his mixed media installation, "Chandelier for Ernst Haeckel (Radiolarian/Jellyfish Hybrid)" at the John Davis Gallery in New York City from May 27, 2010 through June 20, 2010.
• Samuel Hsiao coauthored the research article “Random walks on quasisymmetric functions” published in Advances in Mathematics, volume 222, issue 3. He also coauthored the paper, “Colored Posets and Colored Quasisymmetric Functions,” published in Annuals of Combinatorics in June 2010.
• Peter Hutton was awarded a grant in Filmmaking from the Peter S. Reed Foundation. On Halloween night, the NYU Institute for the Humanities presented Hutton’s Icelandic film, “Skagafjordur” in a program titled Wonder Cabinet, organized by Lawrence Weschler. Eight of his films were presented by the États Généraux du Documentaire in Lussas, France. He also screened three Hudson Valley River films in conjunction with Lives of the Hudson at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, and a program of regional films at SUNY Albany.
• Philip Johns’s paper "Non-relatives inherit colony resources in a primitive termite” was accepted to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. See the NSF's press release at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=115680 and read the paper at http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/10/02/0907961106.abstract.
• “Xun Dao: Seeking the Way Spiritual Themes in Contemporary Chinese Art,” an exhibit curated by Patricia Karetzky, was presented at the Frederike Taylor Gallery in New York City from May to June 2009. She also published an article in Yishu, “Conroy Sanderson: Two Heads are Better than One.” In March 2010 she was a guest curator at the Lehman College Art Gallery in New York City for a show on contemporary Chinese art entitled, "State of the Dao: Chinese Contemporary Art."
• Thomas Keenan and Leah Cox participated in a panel discussion of the role of dance in human rights struggles at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in October 2009.
• As principal investigator, Felicia Keesing received a National Science Foundation grant for the project “Investigating a rapidly emerging epidemic of babesiosis in upstate New York”; co-investigators of the project are Richard Ostfeld and Michael Tibbetts. She was also one of five specialists to be interviewed by The New York Times for a July 27 article about the tick problem, “More Ticks, More Misery.”
• Robert Kelly’s book The Logic of the World and other fictions was published by McPherson & Company in 2010.
• According to an electronic search done by John Hopkins University Press, Ben LaFarge’s essay “Comedy’s Intention,” which is featured in Philosophy and Literature, a journal edited by Garry Hagberg, is one of the ten essays most frequently consulted.
• Peter Laki participated in an international conference in November at the University of Hannover, Germany, on “Post-Modernism behind the Iron Curtain.” He read a paper titled “Hymn and Waltz: György Kurtág’s Compositions in Homage to Alfred Schnittke.” He also presented a version of the same paper at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and gave a talk at the University of Manheim describing Bard’s First-Year Seminar to administrators, faculty, and students from the university.
• Ann Lauterbach’s collection of poetry, Or to Begin Again published by Penguin Books, was among the five finalists for the 2009 National Book Award in Poetry.
• An-My Lê was a visiting critic at the University of Pennsylvania’s MFA program in fall 2009, and she received a grant in January 2010 from the Louis Tiffany Comfort Foundation. Her work is included in the show “Haunted” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, March 2010 through September 2010, which will then travel to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
• Kristin Lucas participated in “SEVEN ON SEVEN,” an event which pairs seven technologists with seven artists for one day, where they are challenged to develop something new through a collaborative process. Their ideas were then unveiled at a conference at the New Museum in New York City in April 2010.
• Barbara Luka received a grant from the Northeast Center for Special Care to fund two student research internships to study recovery from traumatic brain injury. In June 2010, she presented a paper in Tomsk, Russia, titled “Do Emotion Words Prime Figurative Meanings? An Investigation of Anger, Fear, Happiness, and Sadness.” The paper was the result of work completed with the assistance of the Bard Summer Research Internship to Katsman and Bova in 2009.
• Joseph Luzzi was awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies by the Modern Language Association for his book “Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy.” The prize recognizes an outstanding book by a member of the association in the field of Italian literature or comparative literature involving Italian. The book was also selected as an Outstanding Academic Title in 2009 by Choice magazine.
• Medrie MacPhee was among six contemporary artists who exhibited this summer at Sadler’s Wells Theater in London in a show reflecting Alberto Savino’s painting Objects in the Forest. She was also recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation with a 2009 fellowship in the category of creative arts. Her first solo exhibition, "What It Is," is at the Von Lintel Gallery in New York City from May 27, 2010 through July 2, 2010.
• David Madden published an article, “Revisiting the End of Public Space: Assembling the Public in an Urban Park” in the journal City & Community, vol. 9, issue 2.
• Affinal member of our community Charlotte Mandell (Kelly) ’90 was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant in the category of Literature Fellowships for Translation Projects. Her translation project is the French novel Zone by Mathias Énard.
• Norman Manea was awarded the annual prize for letters by the Foundation of French Judaism. He presented the William Phillips Lecture, “20 Years After the Berlin Wall,” at the New School of Social Research in November 2009 at the Lang Student Center. He was presented with the insignia of the Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in April 2010 at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
• Edie Meidav was awarded a fellowship by The Howard Foundation for the 2010 - 2011 academic year for her project “Convenience.” In February 2010, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize—an award that honors the best in “poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot.”
• During the Summer of 2009, Robert McGrail, James Belk, and Japheth Wood organized a weekly Bard - West Point collaborative seminar on Self-distributive Algebraic Structures.
• Robert McGrail’s article “On the Algebraic Structure of Declarative Programming Languages” was published in the Elsevier journal Theoretical Computer Science, volume 410, issue 46.
• Emily McLaughlin received an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Undergraduate New Investigator grant entitled “Development of novel methods toward the synthesis of non-proteinogenic amino acids and other biologically relevant nitrogen containing scaffolds.” She was also awarded a grant from the CEM Corporation to promote microchemistry.
• Daniel Mendelsohn’s article, “Who was Susan Sontag?,” appeared in the April issue of The New Republic.  His translations of poems by C. P. Cavafy have been published in two volumes, Collected Poems and The Unfinished Poems both published by Knopf.
• Bradford Morrow gave the keynote address at the Willa Cather International Symposium at the Chicago Public Library in June 2009 broadcast by NPR. His “The Hoarder” was selected for Best American Noir Stories of the Twentieth Century. In the fall of 2009 he participated on a panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival entitled "The Writer's Capital: From Experience to the Limits of Fiction." He also presented a paper on William S. Burroughs at a conference celebrating "Naked Lunch at 50," at Columbia University. In May 2010 Morrow spoke on a panel, "Artistic Witness to Atrocity," with Edward Hirsch and Ian Buruma at a conference on "The Wisdom of the Survivor," at Pace University. His novel, "The Diviner's Tale," was accepted for publication in England (Atlantic) and Brazil (Editora Record), and audio rights for the novel were taken by Blackstone Audiobooks. In June 2010 his essay, "A Wild Bookery," will appear in a book on Dominique Gonzalaz-Forester's chronotopes & dioramas, published by the Dia Foundation.
• Conjunctions, the literary magazine published by Bard College, released its latest issue, Conjunctions:54, Shadow Selves in May 2010. Edited by Brad Morrow, with contributing editors including Chinua Achebe, John Ashbery, Mary Caponegro, Robert Kelly, Ann Lauterbach, Norman Manea and Joan Retallack. The issue investigates the themes of self and other, appearance versus reality. It gathers many of today's leading writers and poets to examine the very tenuous nature of identity itself. Their website (www.conjunctions.com) has also recently had a milestone with a half a million visitors since its inception.
• Judith Muir received a grant from the Dutchess Community Foundation for her “Sing Out! Reach Out!” program at a Poughkeepsie Montessori school during the summer.
• Rufus Müller gave two concerts in November 2009, one at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City, Upon the Wine–Dark Sea: The Music of Margrieta’s World and one at the Purcell Theatre Music and Handel Cantatas Clarion Benefit for Brain Cancer Research Kosciusko Foundation. All proceeds went to support brain cancer research.
• Jacob Neusner received a grant from Carey Wolchok to finance the development of an undergraduate/faculty seminar, The Social Vision of Early Christianity and Judaism. He gave the Bamberger lecture in December 2009 and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion.  He met with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome in early January 2010. They talked about their next books and Neusner presented the pontiff with a copy of his most recent book, The Talmud: What Is It? What Does It Say? An interview with Neusner titled "A utopian document, a utopian law" appeared in the March 4, 2010 edition of the Jerusalem Post.
• A new work edited by Jacob Neusner, in consultation with Bruce Chilton and Richard Davis, Introduction to World Religions: Communities and Cultures, will be published in May 2010 by Abingdon Press. The book includes chapters by Jacob Neusner, Bruce Chilton, and Kristin Scheible.
• Melanie Nicholson’s translation of Olga Orozco’s short story “Mission Accomplished” appeared in Translation Review 77-78 (2009). She also contributed a book chapter entitled “Un talismán en las tinieblas: Olga Orozco y la tradición esotérica” to Olga Orozco: Territorios de fuego para una poética, published by the Universidad de Sevilla in 2010.
• A collaborative project in which Keith O’Hara was involved at Georgia Tech has recently been awarded an NSF grant to study the use of robotics as a context for leaning introductory computing. O’Hara will be able to use a portion of the grant for research at Bard.
• Lothar Osterburg was recently awarded a New York Foundation of the Arts grant in the category of Printing/Drawing/Artists Books. A show of his works was at the Lesley Heller Gallery in September 2009. In February 2010, The Studio of Electronic Music, Inc. presented Rural Electrification with video by Osterburg. He was included in the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts and Letter in New York, and had a solo show “Architecture of Memory” at ICPNA in Lima Peru during March and April 2010. He was honored with a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship and he will also be receiving an "Academy Award in Art" from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
• Dimitri B. Papadimitriou was interviewed by Kathleen Hays at Bloomberg Television regarding the 18th-annual Hyman P. Minsky conference; by Nikolaus Piper at Süddeutsche Zeitung about Hyman Minsky and his theories for the current crisis; and by Paul Davis at American Banker regarding banking industry expectations that unemployment will peak at 10 percent and the sustainability of the decline in early stage delinquencies. He also delivered several talks, including “Full Employment Policy: Theory and Practice” at the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development in the Dominican Republic; “Global Imbalances and Economic Growth” at the XXI Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar on “Global Crisis and Long-Term Growth: A New Capitalism Ahead?” in Italy; and  “Time of Upheaval” at the HSBC Emerging Markets Conference, “Realities and Opportunities in 2009 and Beyond,” in Zurich, Switzerland. He participated in the Euro50 Group Roundtable on the 10th anniversary of the Euro, “Is There Still a Paradigm for Monetary Policy Today?” held in Paris; and in a seminar, “The ‘Great Recession’ and Beyond: Economic Outlook for the U.S. and Global Economy,” held at the University of Athens.
• Gilles Peress was honored by the Lucie Foundation with the 2009 Lucie Award for Achievement in Photojournalism. Thomas Keenan presented the award at Lincoln Center on October 19, 2009.
• Judy Pfaff was included in the group exhibition Slash: Paper Under the Knife at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City through April 2010. She also had solo exhibitions at The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland in College Park, and at the Flint Institute of Arts in Flint, Michigan.
• There was a screening of John Pilson’s work “Frolic and Detour” at The Museum of Modern Art in April 2010 in conjunction with the exhibition series “9 screens.”
• Francine Prose’s book Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife was discussed in The Wall Street Journal in September 2009, featured on NPR, and reviewed in The New York Times in September 2009. For the New York Times review, see:  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/books/01maslin.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
• Kelly Reichardt was recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation with a 2009 fellowship in the category of film.
• Joan Retallack gave the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Lecture and Reading on October 15, 2009, entitled Poetry and the Mirror of Nature at the University of Cambridge. A two-day symposium of talks, readings, and discussions were organized in honor of her visit. “Fields of Pattern-Bounded Unpredictability: Palimtexts by Rosmarie Waldrop and Joan Retallack,” an essay on Joan Retallack’s work by Lynn Keller, appeared in Thinking Poetry: Readings in Contemporary Women’s Exploratory Poetics, published by the University of Iowa Press in April 2010. Retallack’s new volume of poetry, Procedural Elegies/Western Civ Cont’d, was published by Roof Books in June 2010.
• “If You Are Lucky,” by Susan Roger’s appeared in Isotope in summer 2009. What’s Your Exit? A Literary Detour through New Jersey, edited by Joe Vallese and Alicia A. Vallese included her essay entitled “Equilibrate” (Word Riot Press, May 2010). Roger’s also received a six-week writer’s residency from the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming.
• In March 2010, Jamie Romm was awarded a Cullman Center Fellowship by the New York Public Library.
• In February 2010, Lauren Rose and Gregory Landweber were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for their project proposal, "REU: Site: Bard College Summer Research in Mathematics and Computation."
• Julia Rosenbaum wrote the text for Fans, a curatorial project that has just been published as part of the Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge University’s permanent set of on-line exhibitions. In 2010 she was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship at the Newberry Library.
• On May 21, 2010 at a special recognition ceremony, The New School for Social Research honored Justus Rosenberg for his 50 years of distinguished teaching and valuable contribution to the academic life of The New School. 
• Marina Rosenfeld’s installation P.A. was on view at the Park Avenue Armory in November 2009.
• Keith Sanborn’s translation of essays on Paoli Gioli from Italian and French into English were published by Cineteca Nazionale (Rome); his translation of Russian intertitles of The Death Ray by Lev Kuleshov was presented with a lecture in New York City in September 2009 at Light Industry; he participated in a public conversation with Stefanie Schulte Strathaus and Florian Wüst in September 2009 on Super-8 film in the 1980s in connection with an exhibition called Screaming City: West Berlin 1980s at Goethe Institute, New York City.
• Sigrid Sandström’s show of works, “Cut-Out,” was featured at the Galleri Gunnar Olsson in Stockholm, Sweden in August and September 2009. In Spring 2010, she received the Vera and Goran Agnekil Award from The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.
• Folk Photography: The American Real-Photo Postcard 1905 - 1930, by Luc Sante, will be published in September 2009 by Yeti Books/Verse Chorus Press.
• 303 Gallery in New York hosted an exhibit of lesser-known black and white works by Stephen Shore during June and July 2009. His work was included in the exhibitions Into the Sunset at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Edward Hopper & Co. at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, and New Topographics at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. His photographs were installed in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and published in Another Fashion Book; The Printed Picture by Richard Benson, and Shoot: Photography of the Moment, for which he wrote the forward. His photo essay “The Private World of Ingmar Bergman,” was featured in the November issue of W magazine. “Abu Dhabi: New Photographs by Stephen Shore” was exhibited at the Woods Studio at Bard College in April 2010. 
• Maria Simpson received an American Masterpieces grant from the National Endowment of the Arts for the setting of the Continuous Replay, a seminal work of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. It will be performed by Bard students at the Faculty Concert in 2011.
• In May 2010, Arnold Steinhardt, violinist and facuty at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, was among the 229 leaders in the sciences, humanities and arts, business, public affairs, and non-profit sector elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Benjamin Stevens published “Drawn to Distraction: Comics Reading in Kevin Huizenga’s Lost and Found” in the International Journal of Comic Art.
• Yuka Suzuki was selected for a postdoctoral fellowship in the Program of Agrarian Studies at Yale University for the 2009 - 2010 academic year.
• Julianne Swartz was awarded an Academy Award in Art from the Academy of Arts and Letters in May 2010.
• Richard Teitelbaum wrote the program notes for the American Symphony Orchestra concert, “An American Biography: The Music of Henry Cowell,” at Lincoln Center, and performed original compositions and improvisations with Joe McPhee and Thurman Barker at Vassar College in January 2010. There was a performance of his composition “SoundPaths,” for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and computer, with Da Capo Chamber Players at The Twelfth Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology at Connecticut College and “Da Capo at Salutes Bard” concert at Bard in March 2010. He performed a duet with Anthony Braxton for Braxton’s 65^th Birthday Celebration, at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City in June 2010.
• In April 2010, Elaine Thomas served as chair and discussant of a panel on the social integration of immigrants in Europe at the Council for European Studies conference in Montreal.
• Eric Trudel published an article entitled, “La poésie précaire de Georges Perros,” in The French Review in December 2009. In spring 2010, he published an article entitled “Une phrase, à la limite, une poème” about French poet Pierre Alferi in the journal French Forum. He also organized a one-day symposium on “détournement” in 20^th and 21^st century French literature at the University of Montreal that brought together scholars from the U.S., Canada, France and the United Kingdom.
• In the Arts & Culture section of the May 2010 Chronogram, George Tsontakis gave an interview about the East Coast Contemporary Ensemble. The ensemble performed short works by five promising young composers at Woodstock's Colony Cafe on May 26, 2010. The program was a culmination of the first Highpoint Composition Seminar - a forum for emerging talent brought into being by the effort and vision of Tsontakis.
• As one of the three 2009 - 2010 Mellon Scholars Marina van Zuylen gave a day of seminars and keynote lecture “Dissociative Disorders: Le Rouge et Le Noir and The Resistance to Empathy” at Brown University in November 2009.
• The Institute for Writing and Thinking book, Writing-Teaching. Essential Practices and Enduring Questions co-edited by Teresa Vilardi was published by SUNY Press in December 2009. The book contains essays on “writing to learn” practices that inform the Institute’s workshops and includes a preface by Leon Botstein.
• In spring 2010, Suzanne Vromen was invited to Belgium to speak about her research regarding Jewish children hidden during the Holocaust in Belgian convents at KADOC, the prestigious interdisciplinary seminar at the Catholic University of Leuven, the University of Antwerp and the Free University of Brussels. In April 2010, Vromen was also invited to participate in a conference entitled, “Rising from the Ashes: Jewish Families and Children During and After the War,” organized by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University.
• Tom Wolf curated a retrospective exhibition of works by the early 20th-century photographer Eva Watson-Schütze at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.
• Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature by Li-Hua Ying was published in December 2009 by Scarecrow Press.

Faculty Highlights & Accomplishments

• In November, The Library of Congress hosted a symposium and celebratory evening in honor of Chinua Achebe upon the 50^th anniversary publication of Things Fall Apart.
• Peggy Ahwesh and Keith Sanborn edited Vertov from Z to A, published by Ediciones la Calavera, a volume of essays by noted critics, poets, and filmmakers, as a Special Jubilee Edition in honor of the 90^th anniversary of the October Revolution
• JoAnne Akalaitis directed The Play of Daniel in New York City in December at The Cloisters and at Grace Church.
• As a visiting fellow, Sanjib Baruah was the guest of the University of Heidelberg in Germany in November where he gave a public lecture and a workshop for faculty and graduate students working on a project “Citizenship as Conceptual Flow: Asia in Comparative Perspective.” Baruah’s latest book as editor and contributor, Beyond Counterinsurgency: Breaking the Impasse in Northeast India, will be published in February by Oxford University Press.
• During the summer of 2008, Laura Battle exhibited work in an invitational exhibition at the National Academy Museum in New York where she received the Academy’s Charles Loring Elliot Award and Medal.
• Jonathan Becker’s review article, “The Perfect Storm. George W. Bush and the American Press,” appeared in Vol. 23, No. 2 of the European Journal of Communication.
• Recent published articles by Daniel Berthold include “Talking Cures: A Lacanian Reading of Hegel and Kierkegaard on Language and Madness” in Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology and “The Golden Rule in Kant and Utilitarianism” for Analyzing the Golden Rule, edited by Jacob Neusner.
• Jonathan Brent’s new book, Inside the Stalin Archives, was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Book Review. A documentary based on his book, Stalin’s Last Crime, will be released in January by Roche Productions in France for likely broadcast on the BBC.
• During the year in his Rome Prize fellowship, Tim Davis created “Kings of Cyan”, a show of his photographs centering on political posters in Italy which was featured at Galerie Mitterand and Sanz in Zurich, May 30 through October 18. A large-scale catalog of his works accompanied the exhibit.
• Two Mark Danner essays relating to the fall elections were featured in the New York Review of Books in October: “Sweet Potato Pie in Philly: Watching Obama” and “2008 and the Weight of the Past.”  His essay “Weapons of Mass Destruction and Other Imaginative Acts” which was about Ron Suskind’s new book The Way of the World appeared in the August 27^th New York Times.
• Yuval Elmelech’s book Transmitting Inequality: Wealth and the American Family was published in May by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
• Omar Encarnación’s latest book “Spanish Politics: Democracy After Dictatorship” was published last July. His essay “Reconciliation after Democratization: Coping with the Past in Spain was published in the fall 2008 issue of Political Science Quarterly.
• Peter Filkins’ translation of the H. G. Alder’s novel, The Journey, was published in November by Random House.
• Larry Fink was guest lecturer at the School of Visual Arts Amphitheater in New York, sponsored by the Camera Club of New York.
• A translation from Bulgarian by Elizabeth Frank and Deliana Simeonova of Angel Wagenstein’s Isaac’s Torah, was published in October by Other Press.
• Jacqueline Goss’s animated documentary Stranger Comes to Town, which was completed in 2006 with support from a Bard Research Fund Grant won the Gus Van Sant Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Best Experimental Work prize at the Onion City Film Festival. It has been reviewed in the Village Voice and Time Out magazines and has been screened at over forty festivals, museums and colleges.
• Sam Hsiao co-authored “Enumeration in convex geometries and associated polytopal subdivisions of spheres” which appeared in the twentieth anniversary issue of Discrete & Computational Geometry.
• Among venues that have hosted Peter Hutton presenting film programs and/or have screened his films during fall 2008 year are Cornell University, Ithaca College, Harvard University, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Anthology Film Archives in New York, and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa, Spain
• Philip Johns received a Research Opportunity Award from the National Science Foundation for his study, "Pleiotropy and sex-biased gene expressions for sexually selected traits in the stalk-eyed fly, Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni".
• Felicia Keesing, co-edited a volume of essays entitled Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems published by Princeton University Press.One of her co-authors, Richard Ostfeld, will be in residence at Bard during the spring 2009.
• Robert Kelly will be reading from his book, The Book from the Sky published by North Atlantic Books, at a faculty book celebration to be held at Finberg House, 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 3, 2009.
• Philip Kunhardt’s book, Looking for Lincoln, written with Peter W. Kunhardt and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., was published by Knopf Publishing Group in November 2008. The New York Times review appeared in the October 13 issue, written by Thomas Mallon.
• Ann Lauterbach’s essay “The Thing Seen: Reimagining Arts Education for Now,” will be published this spring by MIT Press in What is Art Education? Ann has also had recent poems published in Conjunctions, No Magazine of the Arts and Glitterpony. Her eighth collection of poems, Or to Begin Again, is due out this spring from Penguin Press.
• CNN reported on a exhibition of “On the Subject of War” by An-My Lê at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. The exhibit, running from October 17, 2008 through January 25, 2009, includes a dozen new photographs as well as a film installation.
• Published locally by Friends of Clermont, Bob’s Folly: Fulton, Livingston and the Steamboat was co-edited by Nancy Leonard and included short essays by Greg Moynahan and Myra Armstead.
• Mark Lytle co-authored the sixth edition of the textbook, Nation of Nations: A Narrative History of the American Public, published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
• Joseph Luzzi’s book, Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy, was published in November 2008 by Yale University Press.
• The Keith Talent Gallery in London featured the exhibit All of the Parts, None of the Pieces, new work by Medrie MacPhee, in October and November.
• During 2008, Norman Manea received two honorary degrees in Romania, from the University of Bucharest and from the University of Cluj. He also participated in a launching at the Romanian Cultural Institute of his complete work in 22 volumes; new translations of his work have been published in Israel, the Czech Republic, Spain, and Italy.
• Bill Mullen presented a paper “Q Lightning” at a conference in Paris this past summer sponsored by the Center for Quantavolution and is the recipient of a grant from the Mainwaring Archives Foundation which supports writing within the same general paradigm.
• Jacob Neusner edited The Treasury of Judaism: A New Collection and Translation of Essentials, Volumes One (The Calendar), Two (The Life Cycle), and Three (Theology), all published last year by University Press of America.
• Susan Osberg’s choreography “Rhinoceros” was performed in October at Cabaret Einstein in Gøteborg, Sweden. This dance, which is a big event for a small space, was originally performed in her studio at Beacon Studios for ten people at a time.
• Lothar Osterburg screened a new video in October at a concert performed by composers Elizabeth Brown and Frances White at the TheTimesCenter in New York City.
• Francine Prose’s book, Goldengrove: A Novel, was published in September by Harper.
• Dimitri Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray (senior scholar at the Levy Economics Institute)  wrote the introduction to two books by Hyman P. Minsky. John Maynard Keynes: Hyman P. Minsky’s Influential Reinterpretation of the Keynesian Revolution was published in April of this year, as was the hard-cover edition of Stabilizing an Unstable Economy, which was first published in 1986.
• JUDY PFAFF: PAPER, an exhibition of recent works in mixed medium and paper, can be viewed at Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art in New York City from January 15 to February 21, 2009
• In October, John Pilson premiered his new video “A Thousand Miles Away” as part of Prospect 1.New Orleans at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Center.
• Susan Fox Rogers’ book Antarctica: Life on the Ice won a silver award from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation.
• One of the major galleries of contemporary art in Sweden, Galleri Thomas Wallner in Malmö is currently hosting “Mock-ups”, an exhibit of work by Sigrid Sandström through December 17. Sigrid is the recent recipient of the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation: 2008 Painters & Sculptures Grant (see Swartz below).
• Julianne Swartz was also chosen by The Joan Mitchell Foundation for a 2008 Painters & Sculptures Grant. The Foundation give grants annually to about twenty recipients in recognition of their artistic merit to further their artistic careers.
• Commemorating the 35^th anniversary of his 1973 journey across the country, Stephen Shore’s A Road Trip Journal, was published in June 2008 by Phaidon Press Inc.
• During summer 2008, Richard Teitelbaum was in residency at the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice Italy, composing a new work for Da Capo Chamber Players to be premiered this summer at Merkin Hall in New York. Richard also performed three works at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival and in November, he performed at the All Frontiers Festival in Gorizia, Italy.
• Jean Paulhan on Poetry and Politics, edited and with an introduction by Jennifer Bajorek and Éric Trudel, translated by J. Bayorek, E. Trudel and C. Mandell, was published this year by University of Illinois Press. He also contributed a chapter to Chris Marker. L’imprimerie due regard, a book devoted to the French filmmaker, published by L’Harmattan. 

Dean of the College
January 2009

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