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Recent Public Events

  • Translation: Traveling Beyond Our Own Times, Places, and Minds
    Translation: Traveling Beyond Our Own Times, Places, and Minds
    March 4, 2025

    Translation: Traveling Beyond Our Own Times, Places, and Minds

    Translation: Traveling Beyond Our Own Times, Places, and Minds
    In translating, we travel beyond our own minds and lived experiences to meet others—authors, epochs, places documented on, or erased from, maps of the universe. The act of translation is, at its heart, social and political. As we bring a text from one language to another, we may find that we too are transformed. In this lecture/reading/workshop, we will delve into these matters together; and, along the way, we’ll do some exercises to get you started on your own translations.

    Marguerite Feitlowitz's Bio:

    Marguerite Feitlowitz’s newest book-length translations are Night, by Ennio Moltedo, a collection of 113 prose poems written during and against the Pinochet dictatorship (supported by an NEA Fellowship and published by World Poetry Books, 2023), and Small Bibles for Bad Times: Selected Prose and Poetry by French Holocaust writer Liliane Atlan (2021). Other translations include Pillar of Salt: An Autobiography with Nineteen Erotic Sonnets, by Salvador Novo (2014), two volumes of plays by Griselda Gambaro, and stories by Luisa Valenzuela and Angélica Gorodischer. Feitlowitz is the author of A LEXICON OF TERROR: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, a New York Times Notable Book and Notable paperback, and a Finalist for PEN-L.L. Winship Prize. This book was also published in Argentina.

    Feitlowitz’s fiction, essays, translation, and writings on visual art and theatre have appeared in ACM, Asymptote, BOMB, Catapult, DELOS, Dissent, Iterant, The Nation, Les Temps Modernes, el viejo topo, among other journals and anthologies.

    From 2002-2023, she taught Literature and Literary Translation at Bennington College, where she founded and directed “Bennington Translates,” a multi-disciplinary initiative spanning literary to humanitarian translation with a focus on forced displacement, migration, and linguistic justice. Among her awards and fellowships, are two Fulbrights to Argentina, a fellowship to the Bunting Institute (now called the Radcliffe Institute), and a Harvard Faculty Research Grant.
  • Tech Policy in the Age of AI
    Tech Policy in the Age of AI
    February 17, 2025

    Tech Policy in the Age of AI

    Tech Policy in the Age of AI
    As artificial intelligence speeds forward, there are many concerns about user protections, data use and privacy, energy sources, and social cohesion, to name a few. While the US has been a pioneer in the technological space, it has been slow in putting in guardrails and considering the long term implications of an increasingly automated economic landscape and digitally connected citizenry. Join us for a discussion and interactive session with Linda Raftree and Lina Srivastava to reflect on the impacts of AI on us and our societies. 

    Linda Raftree is the founder of the MERL Tech Initiative, which supports the responsible design, use, and governance of digital technologies and digital data to achieve better outcomes for people, communities and societies.

    Lina Srivastava is the founder and director of the Center for Transformational Change and the host of the new podcast, Power Shift.
  • Living Independent Poetry
    Living Independent Poetry
    February 13, 2025

    Living Independent Poetry

    Living Independent Poetry
    Join us for an evening of readings and conversation with WINTER EDITIONS, featuring Betsy Fagin, Robert Fitterman, Alan Gilbert & founding editor Matvei Yankelevich.

    RSVP is required. Sign up here.

    Details: Thursday, February 13th, 7:00-9:00pm. 

    Location: Williamsburg dorm first floor lounge. 
  • Activism, Ambition, and Why Engagement Is Hard but Worth It
    Activism, Ambition, and Why Engagement Is Hard but Worth It
    November 13, 2024

    Activism, Ambition, and Why Engagement Is Hard but Worth It

    Activism, Ambition, and Why Engagement Is Hard but Worth It
    November 13, 2024 Come join us at the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program for a thought-provoking event delving into the world of activism and ambition.

    The campus protest has gripped headlines over the past year — and sparked great debate about activism, its consequences, its limits and what role it plays in policymaking and personal development. Join us on Wednesday, November 13 at 6pm for a talk with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela entitled, "Activism, Ambition, and Why Engagement is Hard But Worth It.” Dr. Petrzela is a professor at The New School, an author of numerous books, a columnist at MSNBC, and, this year, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Dr. Petrzela will look at civic engagement and the classroom in the current moment, through a historical lens.

    RSVP is required. Tickets are limited. 

    Details: Wednesday, November 13, 6:00-7:30 PM EDT (Doors open at 5:45pm. The talk will begin promptly at 6:00 PM)

    Location: 108 West 39th Street, 10th Floor
  • Does Engaging the Taliban Legitimize Gender Apartheid?
    Does Engaging the Taliban Legitimize Gender Apartheid?
    October 28, 2024

    Does Engaging the Taliban Legitimize Gender Apartheid?

    Does Engaging the Taliban Legitimize Gender Apartheid?
    October 28, 2024 Part of the James Chace Memorial Speaker Series

    A conversation about journalism, human rights, and foreign policy. In August 2021, Afghanistan's government fell. The Taliban took its place. This year, the Taliban passed a "vice and virtue" law that places numerous restrictions on women in the country. Activists have called what is happening to women in Afghanistan gender apartheid and pushed to isolate the Taliban as a result. How should the international community engage with the Taliban? What is the best way to support women in Afghanistan?

    Panelists: Kaava Asoka, Erica Gaston, Annie Pforzehimer, and Fatema Ahmadi. Moderated by Elmira Bayrasli. In collaboration with NYU Journalism. 

    Date/Location: Monday, October 28th, 6:00–8:00 pm at NYU. 

    RSVP here: https://events.nyu.edu/event/341579-does-engaging-the-taliban-legitimize-gender
  • Book cover for Mama by Nikkya Hargrove.
    Mama by Nikkya Hargrove ’04
    Mama Book Launch with Bard Alumna Nikkya Hargrove ’04
    October 20, 2024

    Mama Book Launch with Bard Alumna Nikkya Hargrove ’04

    Book cover for Mama by Nikkya Hargrove.
    October 20, 2024 Bard alumna, Nikkya Hargrove, is launching her memoir Mama.
    Date/Location: Williamsburg Dorm first floor lounge. Sunday, October 20th from 2:00pm-3:00pm. 

    From her website:
    In this searing and ultimately uplifting memoir, Lambda Literary Nonfiction Fellow Nikkya Hargrove describes how she—fresh out of college, Black, and queer—adopted her baby brother after their often incarcerated mother died, and how she was determined to create the kind of family she never had.

    Space is limited, please RSVP in advance.
  • Bangladesh’s Democracy Movement: Where Is It Headed?
    Bangladesh’s Democracy Movement: Where Is It Headed?
    October 9, 2024

    Bangladesh’s Democracy Movement: Where Is It Headed?

    Bangladesh’s Democracy Movement: Where Is It Headed?
    October 9, 2024 Part of the James Chace Memorial Speaker Series.

    With Chaumtoli Huq, professor at CUNY Law and formerly with the NYC Public Advocate's office. 

    In August, a mass-based student-led democratic revolution led to Bangladesh’s long-serving prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, to resign and flee to India.  She had been in power for 15 years. What was behind this historic movement? What will happen now that there is an interim government, with Nobel Laureate Muhammed Yunus at the helm, and students as part of the interim government?

    Date/Location: Wednesday, October 9th at 6:00pm. 
  • Book cover for Creolizing Hannah Arendt.
    Creolizing Hannah Arendt
    September 26, 2024

    Creolizing Hannah Arendt

    Book cover for Creolizing Hannah Arendt.
    Creolizing Hannah Arendt is the first book to explore the implications of creolizing Hannah Arendt (1906–75) and thinking for: action, liberation, freedom, power, democracy, identity, racism, prejudice, totalitarianism, immigration, judgment, revolution, decolonial politics, the human, and the modern traditions of Caribbean political thought, Africana philosophy, and existential phenomenology.

    Date/Location: Williamsburg Dorm first floor lounge. Thursday, September 26th at 7:00pm. 

Upcoming Student Events

  • An Afternoon With Martina Cheung, President and CEO S&P Global
    An Afternoon With Martina Cheung, President and CEO S&P Global
    February 25, 2025

    An Afternoon With Martina Cheung, President and CEO S&P Global

    An Afternoon With Martina Cheung, President and CEO S&P Global
    This special co-curricular event will feature S&P Global’s recruitment team and a special talk with Martina Cheung. The session will begin with a presentation on career opportunities at S&P Global, followed by an engaging discussion with Martina. She will share insights from her career journey, discuss key aspects of leadership, and answer questions from students.

    Martina L. Cheung,
    President & CEO, S&P Global


    Martina L. Cheung is President, CEO, and a member of the Board of Directors of S&P Global. During her previous 14 years with S&P, she served as the President of the Ratings & Market Intelligence divisions, Head of the Risk Services business, Vice President of Operations, and as the Chief Strategy Officer.

    Prior to joining S&P Global, Ms. Cheung worked as a consultant and holds a bachelor's and master's degree in commerce and business studies.

    Ms. Cheung has received many accolades during her career, most recently she was named one of the Most Powerful Women in Finance by American Banker.
  • English on Broadway
    February 26, 2025

    English on Broadway

    When: Wednesday February 26, at 7pm

    Where: Todd Haimes Theatre - 227 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036

    What: [Broadway Play] Knud Adams once again directs this Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the
    universal foibles of language and miscommunication. The comedy unfolds in an Iranian classroom where adult English learners practice for their proficiency exam. As they leapfrog through a linguistic playground, their wildly different dreams, frustrations, and secrets come to light. Can they overcome the limits of language to discover what they really want to say?
  • Moby Dick
    March 29, 2025

    Moby Dick

    When: Saturday March 29th, 1pm.

    Where: Metropolitan Opera House

    What: [Opera] A new (2010) Opera from composer Jake Heggiewith offers a new adaptation of Herman
    Melville’s sea-drenched, heaven-storming epic American novel. A cast of standouts comes together on the
    decks of the Pequod, where the monomaniacal Captain Ahab is implacable in his pursuit of the white
    whale. This performance also includes a newly enlarged and refined staging (set design) following
    acclaimed runs in Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington.
Recent Student Events
  • Tell Them You Love Me Film Screening + Q&A with Director Nick August-Perna

    Tell Them You Love Me Film Screening + Q&A with Director Nick August-Perna

    This film screening is a requirement for the Core Seminar Future of Work: Advocacy and Social Justice but open to all students. This documentary discusses the controversial relationship between former Rutgers professor Anna Stubblefield and the brother of one of her students, a man with cerebral palsy. It goes through  the 2015 court trial, Stubblefield’s conviction, and her release while bringing important questions on race, disability, power, communication, and ethics in the workplace. Director Nick August-Perna will hold a Q&A session after to discuss making the documentary and its reception.
  • Yellow Face on Broadway

    Yellow Face on Broadway

    [Broadway Play]  Tony Award winner and Pulitzer finalist David Henry Hwang will make his Roundabout debut with the Broadway premiere of Yellow Face, his hilarious is-he-or-isn’t-he comedy of identity, show business, and (perhaps) autobiography. In this play inspired by real events, the playwright’s fictionalized doppelgänger protests yellowface casting in Miss Saigon, only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play. This play is a laugh-out-loud farce about the complexities of race.
  • Aidanamar
    November 9, 2024

    Aidanamar

    November 9, 2024 [Opera] A new Opera from Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov, this work dramatizes the life and work of poet-playwright Federico García Lorca, who was assassinated by Fascist forces at the start of the Spanish Civil War for his socialist politics and homosexuality. His story emerges through the memories of Lorca’s muse actress Margarita, who reminisces to her student Nuria. Lorca and the politician who arranged Lorca’s execution also make appearances. Ainadamar crackles with the energy and rhythms of flamenco and rumba against the backdrop of civil war, all of which springs forth in a vivid production by Brazilian director and choreographer Deborah Colker, renowned for her work with Cirque du Soleil!

    1pm on Saturday November 9, 2024. 
  • American Symphony Orchestra in Bryant Park

    American Symphony Orchestra in Bryant Park

    [Classical Music/Concert} Bryant Park Picnic Performance, an outdoor festival that welcomes all New Yorkers to experience the city’s vibrant arts and culture, featuring extraordinary artists and events from a wide array of New York's cultural institutions. The American Symphony Orchestra is a New York-based American orchestra, founded in 1962 and conducted by Bard College President Leon Botstein. ASO is dedicated to providing great music for everyone that represents the diverse perspectives across New York City and worldwide, through explorations of the many styles and genres of American music.
  • Brooklyn Connect Networking Event with BUSH (Brooklyn Up-and-Coming Startup Hub)

    Brooklyn Connect Networking Event with BUSH (Brooklyn Up-and-Coming Startup Hub)

    Brooklyn Connect: Global Impact is a premier event spotlighting industry leaders and businesses that are making a significant positive impact on a global scale. We invite innovators, changemakers, and thought leaders to connect with a diverse network of professionals, college students, and community leaders. This event aims to showcase Brooklyn's dynamic perspective as a hub for pioneering connections and fostering a brighter future. Our goal is to empower attendees and strengthen support systems that inspire and drive meaningful, constructive actions worldwide.
  • Career Readiness Workshop with Bard’s Career Development Office

    Career Readiness Workshop with Bard’s Career Development Office

    Join Bard’s Career Development Office for a career preparation workshop. Learn LinkedIn tips and update your resume and cover letter. Remember to bring any relevant documents you would like to work on!
  • Mini Golf at Putting Green

    Mini Golf at Putting Green

    This Social Program involves a field trip to Williamsburg’s 18-hole mini golf course situated on the Brooklyn Waterfront. While students have fun trying their hand at landing a hole-in-one, they can also learn about creative solutions to tackling global climate change. The theme for each of the 18 holes on this course has been specially designed by a community partner, incorporating recycled and repurposed materials from around the neighborhood. A portion of proceeds will go to supporting local NYC organizations addressing climate change issues.

News from Bard NYC

  • Aleks Vitanov '25 (BGIA Fall '23) Chosen as Schwarzman Scholar
    Aleks Vitanov '25 (BGIA Fall '23) Chosen as Schwarzman Scholar
    We are thrilled to announce that Bard student, Aleks Vitanov '25, has been chosen as a 2026 Schwarzman Scholar! Aleks completed the BGIA program during the Fall 2023 semester. 

    Aleks Vitanov '25 (BGIA Fall '23) Chosen as Schwarzman Scholar

    Aleks Vitanov '25 (BGIA Fall '23) Chosen as Schwarzman Scholar
    We are thrilled to announce that Bard student, Aleks Vitanov '25, has been chosen as a 2026 Schwarzman Scholar! Aleks completed the BGIA program during the Fall 2023 semester. 
    About Aleks:
     
    Aleks, originally from North Macedonia, is a dual degree student in Political Studies and Music Performance. On campus, he was a student-fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center and founder and former president of the Alexander Hamilton Society at Bard. He interned at Hudson’s Europe and Eurasia Center and Charney Research. Aleks also founded the Musical Mentorship Initiative (MMI) through the Trustee Leader Scholar (TLS) program to provide free music education to Bard’s local community, and won, with a group of classmates, the Davis Projects for Peace Prize to expand the initiative to Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya. As a Schwarzman Scholar, Aleks hopes to study China’s strategy in Southeastern Europe.
    A little more information about the program:
    Schwarzman Scholars is a one year fully-funded Master’s program in Global Affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. As the first scholarship of its kind created to respond to the geopolitical landscape of the 21st century, Schwarzman Scholars aspires to build a global network of young leaders that are prepared to confront the pressing challenges facing the world.
    Scholars are selected based on their leadership qualities and the potential to understand and bridge cultural and political differences. They live in Beijing for a year of intensive study, honing leadership skills through a curriculum designed and taught by leading academics from internationally ranked institutions.
    This year, nearly 5,000 candidates applied from around the world. Close to 400 candidates were interviewed during a two-stage process, producing a class of approximately 150 Schwarzman Scholars from 38 countries to take part in this unparalleled program in August of 2025.
  • Internship Stories: Tyler Figueroa (BHSEC Brooklyn)
    Internship Stories: Tyler Figueroa (BHSEC Brooklyn)
    “Whenever a student needs help with anything they stop by and we work together to figure out a solution.”

    Internship Stories: Tyler Figueroa (BHSEC Brooklyn)

    Internship Stories: Tyler Figueroa (BHSEC Brooklyn)
    “Whenever a student needs help with anything they stop by and we work together to figure out a solution.” "My internship is at Bard High School Early College in Brooklyn, New York. It just opened up this Fall, adding to the growing network of BHSEC programs across various boroughs in New York City. As a part of my internship, I work in the learning commons. Whenever a student needs help with anything they stop by and we work together to figure out a solution. Along with that, we also create events for the staff and students to partake in. Recently, with Hispanic Heritage Month coming to a close, we threw a school-wide Hispanic Heritage Month party. At this particular BHSEC location, we have a very large Hispanic community. So we wanted to have an event where individuals from different Hispanic backgrounds could come together and eat some good food while celebrating Hispanic culture. This was the first event ever thrown at Bard High School Early College in Brooklyn, and more than 90% of our student population showed up and participated in this event!"

    —Tyler Figueroa, Bard College '26

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  • Time Traveling By Subway: Astoria, October 17, 2024
    Time Traveling By Subway: Astoria, October 17, 2024
    “It’s like stepping back in time to watch the hot bronze being poured as it has been done for thousands of years.”

    Time Traveling By Subway: Astoria, October 17, 2024

    Time Traveling By Subway: Astoria, October 17, 2024
    “It’s like stepping back in time to watch the hot bronze being poured as it has been done for thousands of years.” Public Art in NYC: Histories & Practices recently made a field trip to Modern Art Foundry in Astoria, Queens. The foundry specializes in the traditional craft of lost-wax casting, the process by which an original sculpture is cast into bronze.

    Our visit was timed to witness one of the twice-weekly bronze pours which takes place in a very warm, cavernous room with giant ovens baking molds. After watching a six-person team gracefully maneuver the cauldron with liquid bronze reaching 1,675 degrees Fahrenheit, Maddie Helford ’26 said “it’s like stepping back in time to watch the hot bronze being poured as it has been done for thousands of years”.

    Many of the foundry’s clients are well known contemporary artists. During our visit, students observed works-in-progress of Louise Bourgeois, Keith Haring, Wangechi Mutu and Rachel Feinstein. One bronze sculpture that was cast at the foundry back in 1959 is famous for having millions of children climb on it - Alice in Wonderland by Jose De Creeft in Central Park.

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    Student Updates: Notes from Peer Counselor Trudy
    “I would absolutely recommend Bard NYC to any student who is looking to expand their understanding of themselves, their future, and their career!”

    Student Updates: Notes from Peer Counselor Trudy

    Picnic in McCarren park
    “I would absolutely recommend Bard NYC to any student who is looking to expand their understanding of themselves, their future, and their career!” "My name is Trudy (they/them) and I’m a theater major at Bard College. During my time at Bard NYC, I have served as a Peer Counselor for our dorm. This has been very rewarding, as I love being in leadership roles, and because it has brought me out of my shell. I really enjoy our small, tight-knit community here at Bard NYC. 

    All in all, I have gained a greater sense of independence in the city which is always a pro for me. In my day to day, I have been taking classes and interning at a film company in Chelsea. I get to see the behind the scenes of how this company functions and I also have wonderful coworkers. This opportunity has taught me the routine of working in an office, how to balance various tasks, and how to navigate my own life while working a 9-5. I would absolutely recommend Bard NYC to any student who is looking to expand their understanding of themselves, their future, and their career!"
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