Symposia Schedule
Upcoming Events
There are no current events to display.
Past Events
Spring 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 in E Minor (Op. 93) Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Performance and discussion led by President Leon Botstein of the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra
Monday, May 6, 2013
Hannah Arendt and Education Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Presented by Roger Berkowitz, Thomas Wild and Grace Hunt (Bard College)
Friday, April 19, 2013
Circus Show Meeting
Be a part of the biggest event on campus!
Join the Surrealist Training Circus and get ready for our annual show. If you perform anything and want to be a part of the biggest performance at Bard join us, any and all are welcome.
Monday, April 8, 2013
On Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Presented by Christian Crouch (Bard College)
Monday, February 25, 2013
On Romantic Music Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Performance and discussion led by Jeffrey Kahane of the Bard Conservatory
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
The Kid with a Bike Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
(Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2011, 87 minutes) 35mm film screening introduced by Richard Suchenski (Bard College) The film will be shown at:4:45, 7:00 and 9:00 p.m.
Monday, February 4, 2013
Presenting the Self in the Renaissance: From Petrarch to Montaigne Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Anthony Grafton (Princeton University)
Fall 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
Galileo as Engaged Observer Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Presented by Matthew Deady (Bard College)
Thursday, December 6, 2012
First Fiction Students reading in Bard Hall
Just after online registration:
come hear Johnny Cherichello sing as an opening and closing act to short samples read by all first-year students in First Fiction. Reception to follow.
Monday, November 26, 2012
Scenes from Shakespeare's Othello Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg (Bard College)
Monday, November 5, 2012
Introduction to Dante's Inferno Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Presented by Joseph Luzzi (Bard College)
Monday, September 17, 2012
Roundable on "Discovery in the Humanities" Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Faculty members to include Thomas Bartscherer, Maria Cecire and Marjorie Folkman (Bard College)
Monday, September 3, 2012
A Conversation on College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be Presented by author, Andrew Delbanco
Andrew Delbanco, winner of the 2006 Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates, has been teaching at Columbia University since 1985. He is the Director of American Studies and the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities. Professor Delbanco's essays appear regularly in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Raritan, and other journals, on topics ranging from American literary and religious history to contemporary issues in higher education. In 2001, he was named by Time Magazine as "America's Best Social Critic."In February 2012, President Barack Obama presented Professor Delbanco with the National Humanities Medal for his writings on higher education and the place classic authors hold in history and contemporary life.His most recent book, A Conversation on College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be, was published in 2012.
Spring 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
The Singularity and the Human Condition Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Presented by Roger Berkowitz (Bard College)
Monday, April 9, 2012
"Two-ness" and Modernity in Du Bois and Nietzsche Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Presented by Robert Gooding-Williams (University of Chicago)Please remember that student attendance is MANDATORY!
Monday, March 26, 2012
Roundtable on the State of the Humanities Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Participants: Geoffrey Harpham (National Humanities Center) and Mark Taylor (Columbia University)
Monday, February 20, 2012
The Origins of the Romantic Sensibility Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Presented by President Leon Botstein, with a performance of Beethoven's String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6 (La Malinconia) by students of the Bard College Conservatory of Music
Monday, February 6, 2012
THREE TIME OPTIONS: Truffaut's The Wild Child Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Introduced by Richard Suchenski (Bard College)There are now THREE screening of this film: 3:00 p.m.4:45 p.m. 6:45 p.m. Seating is very limited - please consider showing up early!
Monday, January 30, 2012
Montaigne, Virginia Woolf and the Art of Noticing Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Presented by: James Wood, Harvard University and The New Yorker
Fall 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Scenes from Shakespeare's Othello Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Directed by: Jonathan Rosenberg, Bard College
Monday, October 31, 2011
Dante and African-American Culture Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Presented by: Dennis Looney, University of Pittsburgh
Monday, October 17, 2011
On Augustine's Confessions Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Presented by: Mark Lilla, Columbia UniversityStudents please bring your copy of Confessions to the Symposium.
Monday, September 26, 2011
On Virgil's Aeneid Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Presented by: Gareth Williams, Columbia University
Monday, September 12, 2011
TODAY: Roundtable on Discovery in the Humanities Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Presented by: Thomas Bartscherer, Maria Cecire and Benjamin Stevens (Bard College)MANDATORY FOR STUDENTS IN FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR!
Spring 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
An Introduction to First-Year Seminar Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Presented by: Carolyn Dewald and Joseph Luzzi
Monday, May 2, 2011
Student Panel "FYSEM Redux" Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Participants from Bard Senior Class Moderator: Michele Dominy!!!! TODAY !!!!
Monday, April 11, 2011
Roundtable: Revolutions in Science Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Participants; Ethan Bloch, Philip Johns Moderator: Matthew Deady
Monday, March 14, 2011
On Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Professor Robert Pogue Harrison Stanford University
Monday, February 21, 2011
Concert: Strauss, "Don Juan" Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Conducted by Leon Botstein
Monday, February 14, 2011
Bard Poets Read Romantic Poetry Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Participants: Celia Bland, Cole Heinowitz, Michael Ives, Jeff Katz, Robert Kelly, Ann Lauterbach, Phil Pardi and Joan Retallack Moderator: Cole Heinowitz
Monday, January 31, 2011
On the Book Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Professor Robert Darnton Harvard University
Fall 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
On Shakespeare's "Othello" Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Participants: Jonathan Rosenberg (Bard), with professional actors Richard Topol and Ezra Knight
Monday, November 1, 2010
On Dante's "Inferno" Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Speaker: Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia)
Monday, October 18, 2010
On Augustine's "Confessions" Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Speaker: Karen Sullivan (Bard)
Monday, October 4, 2010
Roundtable "Canons of the World" Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Participants: Rob Culp (Bard), Richard Davis (Bard), Kristin Scheible (Bard)
Monday, September 13, 2010
On Plato’s "Symposium" Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Speaker: Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago)To All First-year Students:Be sure to bring your copy of Plato's Symposium with you to this symposia.
Spring 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
Roundtable: "Why, and What Are, the Humanities?" Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Participants: David Bromwich (Yale), Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford) and Catherine Stimpson (NYU) Moderator: Leon Botstein (Bard)
Monday, April 26, 2010
LEON BOTSTEIN (Bard) Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
"Culture and Politics in Freud's Vienna"
Monday, April 12, 2010
Christian Crouch (Bard) Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
"Rethinking W.E.B. DuBois's Souls of Black Folkin Twenty-First-Century America"
Monday, March 29, 2010
Glenn Most (Chicago, Pisa) Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
"On the Genealogy of Nietzsche's Genealogy"
Monday, March 15, 2010
"The Humanities at Work" Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Participants: James Ottaway, Phil TerryModerators: Carolyn Dewald and Joseph Luzzi (Bard)
Monday, March 8, 2010
"Darwin's Legacy Across the Disciplines" Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Participants: Kris Feder (Bard), Felicia Keesing (Bard),Joan Richardson (CUNY)Moderator: Michèle Dominy (Bard)
Monday, February 15, 2010
Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Mary Poovey (NYU) "Egotistical Sublime or Romantic Collaboration?The Case of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"
Monday, February 8, 2010
First-Year Seminar Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Marina Van Zuylen (Bard) "On the Necessity of Boredom"
Monday, February 1, 2010
First-Year Seminar Self and Society in the Liberal Arts
Peter Brooks (Princeton) "The Dissolution of the Self"
Fall 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
First-Year Seminar Self and Society In the Liberal Arts
Matthew Deady(Bard College)"What Galileo Saw"All are welcome!
Monday, November 23, 2009
First-Year Seminar Self and Society In the Liberal Arts
Romulus LinneyShakespeare's King LearAll are welcome!
Monday, November 2, 2009
Dante's "Inferno"
Giuseppe Mazzotta(Yale University)All are welcome!
Monday, October 26, 2009
First-Year Seminar Self and Society In the Liberal Arts
Film Screening: Robert Bresson, Diary of a Country PriestIntroduced by John Pruitt (Bard)All are welcome!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Virgil's Epic Afterlife
Gregson Davis(Duke University)Please note: Prof. Davis’s presentation is Sunday, October 18 instead of Monday.All are welcome!
Monday, October 5, 2009
First-Year Seminar Self and Society In the Liberal Arts
Roundtable: Bard Writers on WritingModerated by Philip Pardi (Bard)Participants: Ian Buruma (Bard), Daniel Mendelsohn (Bard)All are welcome!
Monday, September 21, 2009
First-Year Seminar Self and Society In the Liberal Arts
Roundtable: On General EducationModerated by Leon Botstein (Bard)Participants: Andrew Delbanco (Columbia), Stanley Katz (Princeton), Ellen Condliffe Lagemann (Levy Economics Institute)All are welcome!
Monday, September 7, 2009
First-Year Seminar Self and Society In the Liberal Arts
Bruce Chilton (Bard);A Genesis of ViolenceAll are welcome!
Spring 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
First-Year Seminar Self and Society In the Liberal Arts
Carolyn Dewald and Joseph Luzzi (Bard), Why First-Year Seminar?
Fall 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
What is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture and Politics of Reason
Film screening.
Monday, November 3, 2008
What is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture and Politics of Reason
A lecture on 17th Century science. Alice Stroup, Bard College.
Monday, October 27, 2008
What is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture and Politics of Reason
Film screening.
Monday, October 6, 2008
What is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture and Politics of Reason
A lecture on Chinese Enlightenment. Robert Culp, Bard College.
Monday, September 22, 2008
What is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture and Politics of Reason
Performance and Lecture. American Symphony Orchestra with Leon Botstein.
Monday, September 8, 2008
What is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture and Politics of Reason
A lecture introducing First-Year Seminar. Matthew Deady, Bard College.
Spring 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
Film screening.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Ellison and Invisible Man.” Charles Walls, Bard College.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Also sprach Zarathustra: Richard Strauss’s Nietzsche.” American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, music director. Lecture/demonstration followed by a performance of Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“The Relativity and Quantum Revolutions.” Matthew Deady, Bard College.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Beethoven’s Op. 135, Commentary and Performance.” The Colorado Quartet, quartet in residence, Bard College.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Nietzsche.” Gregory Moynahan, Bard College.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Blake’s War on Terror: A Reading and Performance.” Michael Ives, Paul Stephens, and Robert Weston, Bard College.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Lecture on Kant.” Olivia Custer, Bard College.
Fall 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
Michele D. Dominy, Captain Cook's Endeavor: Science & Exploration in the Pacific
Monday, December 3, 2007
2001, A Space Odyssey
Monday, November 26, 2007
No Symposium
Monday, November 19, 2007
Geoff Sanborn, The Mark of Grandeur: Elitism and Anti-Racism in Equiano's Narrative
Monday, November 12, 2007
Jean Wagner, From Sentimentalism to Romanticism: 18th-Century Theater
Monday, October 29, 2007
Alice Stroup, Galileo and Modern Science: The Union of Observation and Theory
Monday, October 22, 2007
Nicole Caso, Sor Juana's Dream: The Elusive Pursuit of Knowledge
Monday, October 15, 2007
Youssef Yacoubi, Enlightenment and Islam: The Play of Reasons
Monday, October 8, 2007
Fall Break: No Symposium
Monday, October 1, 2007
Othello
Monday, September 24, 2007
Lives in Creation: Genesis and the Ecology of the Future
A Lecture by John Cronin
Monday, September 17, 2007
Leon Botstein and the ASO, New Worlds and Traditions
American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, music director. Lecture/demonstration followed by a performance of Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” by Antonín Dvořák.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Matthew Deady, The Authority of Reason
Spring 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Laurie Dahlberg, “Photography and the Alchemical Ancestor”
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.
Monday, May 7, 2007
American Symphony Orchestra with Leon Botstein, “Claude Debussy: La Mer”, Performance and Lecture
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.
Monday, April 30, 2007
Noah Chasin, “Dream + Reality, Ornament +Architecture in Vienna, ca. 1900”
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.
Monday, April 23, 2007
Michael Steinberg, "Sigmund Freud and Our Discontents"
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Peter Skiff, “Einstein vs. The Enlightenment”
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.
Monday, April 9, 2007
Roger Berkowitz, “The Ghost in the Machine: Max Weber and the End of Enlightenment”
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Luc Sante, "1848: The Revolution and Why It Failed"
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Greg Moynihan, “Pathos of Distance: Nietzsche, the Crisis of Christianity, and the Politics of Imperial Germany”
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Jennifer Day, “Dostoevsky's St. Petersburg”
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.
Monday, March 5, 2007
“Franz Schubert: ‘Death and the Maiden’ Quartet”
Colorado Quartet, Arthur Burrows, and Christopher Gibbs.
This Performance and Lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Ethan Bloch, “The Intellectual Revolution That You've Never Heard of"
"The Discovery of Non-Euclidean Geometry in the Age of Enlightenment"
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Cole Heinowitz, “Bad Reproduction: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the Gothic Logic of Enlightenment”
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Ian Buruma: “Eurabia: the Muslim Challenge in Europe”
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.
Monday, February 5, 2007
Robert Weston, "The Enlightenment as Pedagogical Project, or, What is First Year Seminar?"
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason."
Fall 2006
Monday, December 11, 2006
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“William Wilberforce and the First Phase of British Abolitionism.” David Brion Davis, Yale University.
Monday, December 4, 2006
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Be My Fantasy: Cannibalism and Prostitution in the 18th-Century Pacific.” Geoffrey Sanborn, Bard College.
Monday, November 27, 2006
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Selves: Imagining the Individual in 18th-Century Literary Culture.” Deirdre d’Albertis, Bard College.
Monday, November 20, 2006
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
Faculty panel discussion: “John Locke, Property, and Human Rights.”
Monday, November 13, 2006
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
Film Screening.
|
