Pepi, Luci , Bom
(Pedro Almodóvar, 1980)
In Spanish with English Subtitles
Almodóvar’s first feature film will be screening for the course span 221 “Literature, Film & Theater in Spain’s Transition to Democracy”.
Date: Monday, November 28
Time: 7 pm
Location: Olin 102
Contact: David Rodríguez-Solás, dsolas@bard.edu
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Kate Doyle, a Senior Analyst of U.S. policy in Latin America, currently directs the Mexico Project, which aims to obtain documents on U.S.-Mexican relations. She edited two of the Archive’s collections of declassified records – Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999 and El Salvador: War, Peace and Human Rights, 1980-1994 – and numerous Electronic Briefing Books on Guatemala and Mexico for the Archive’s Web site. Since 1992, Doyle has worked with Latin American human rights organizations and truth commissions – in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras – to obtain the declassification of U.S. government archives in support of their investigations. She co-authored the 1994 report of the Washington Task Force on Salvadoran Death Squads, produced for the U.N.-appointed “Grupo Conjunto,” which examined the resurgence of death squads in El Salvador after the signing of the peace accords. She published the Guatemalan death squad dossier in Harper’s Magazine, and led the group of human rights organizations who briefed the press on the dossier in May 1999. In September 2002, Doyle appeared as an expert witness in the trial of senior military officers in Guatemala for the assassination of Myrna Mack. Doyle also works with citizens groups throughout the region on their campaigns for government transparency, accountability and freedom of information, and has written about the right to information in Latin America and the United States. She is a member of the advisory boards of the World Policy Journal, the Journal of the Right to Information, Libertad de Información-México and the Fund for Constitutional Government in Washington. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, World Policy Journal, Current History, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, and other publications. She now lives in Mexico City, directing the Mexico Project for the Archive and serving as a Research Fellow at the Iberoamerican University. In 2002, Doyle was awarded the Iberoamerican University’s annual “Right to Information Prize.”
For more information on GRANITO, please see the following link: http://skylightpictures.com/films/granito
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Olin, Room 102
LAIS Program Presents
Representing Spain’s Transition to Democracy
A festival of Spanish films as part of the course “Literature, Film & Theater in Spain’s Transition to Democracy”.
El Sur, directed by Víctor Erice
(In Spanish with no subtitles)
Date: Wednesday, September 28
Time: 7 pm
Location: Olin 202
Contact: David Rodríguez-Solás, dsolas@bard.edu, 845-758-7382
The John Ashbery Poetry Series Presents
The Veer Poetry Reading & Translation Forum
With guests: Gilbert Adair Demosthenes Agrafiotis Aoden McCardle Stephen Mooney and William Rowe
Tuesday, October 4 at 5pm
Weis CinemaOpen to the public & Free of charge ‡
Gilbert Adair co-founded, and for 12 years curated Sub-Voicive, a series of experimental poetry readings that ran in tandem with Eric Mottram’s King’s College readings; also a co-founder & member mid-80s of the New River Project, which hosted events of poetry, visual arts, music, dance. Left London in 1992; now based in Kauai & teaching at Kauai Community College. Author to date of 14 books of poetry, the two most recent (& best) from Veer: xiangren (2007) & sable smoke (2010). Currently working on a formal/geographical translation of Blake’s Milton.
Demosthenes Agrafiotis Poet and intermedia artist. He works at the limits, with the limits and beyond the limits of languages and artistic practices. Performance and interdisciplinarity are conceived as milestones in his explorations.
Aodan McCardle was part of the poetry collective, London Under Construction where he was involved in site-specific improvised performance writing. He is a member of the CPRC at Birbeck and co-editor of the web journals PORES and ‘Readings’ as well as co-editor of Veer Books. His recent books are: Shuddered – a collaborative work with authors Peirs Hugill and Stephen Mooney and ‘IS ing.’
Stephen Mooney is part of the performative poetry grouping ‘London Under Construction’, and one of the editors of the small poetry press Veer Books. He is the co-editor of the Readings web journal and co-assistant editor of the PORES web journal, as well as reviews editor for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. His poetry has appeared widely; he is the author of DCLP (Veer Books, 2008) and co-author of Shuddered (Veer Books, 2010).
William Rowe founder and current co-director (with Carol Watts) of the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck College, University of London. Fellow of the British Academy. Professor of Poetics at Birkbeck College. Founder (with Stephen Mooney, Aodan McCardle, Ulli Freer, Piers Hugill) of Veer Books.
this event is co-sponsored by the latin american & iberian studies program, languages & literature division
Join us for a presentation on
“Coming to terms with Islamic Spain: Contemporary Stagings of Early Modern Theatre”
by David Rodríguez-Solás
This presentation will take place in the class “Islam from Spain
to Russia and China: Art, Philosophy, and Politics in the Medieval World”
Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011
Time: 4:45 p.m.
Location: Olin 205
Contact: Ali Humayun Akhtar aakhtar@bard.edu
Tuesday, September 20th, 7:00 PM
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, Bard College
Special screening of a 35mm print of:
The Quince Tree Sun (aka Dream of Life, Victor Erice, 1992, Spain, 133 minutes)
Victor Erice’s masterful exploration of the relationship between painting and cinema is screening for Film Among the Arts (ARTH/FILM 230).
The screening is open to the entire Bard community.
Please email Richard Suchenski (rsuchens@bard.edu) with any questions.
Ottaway Theater, Avery Center for the Arts, Bard College
Join us for a presentation on
“El legado Andalusí”
by Ali Akhtar
Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic and History
This presentation will take place in the class “Introduction to Spanish Literature”
Date: Wednesday, September 7
Time: 1:30 pm
Location: Aspinwall 302
Contact: David Rodríguez-Solás, dsolas@bard.edu, 845-758-7382
LAIS Program Presents
Representing Spain’s Transition to Democracy
A festival of Spanish films as part of the course “Literature, Film & Theater in Spain’s Transition to Democracy”.
First screening:
Furtivos, directed by José Luis Borau
(In Spanish with no subtitles)
Date: Wednesday, September 7
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Olin 202
Contact: David Rodríguez-Solás, dsolas@bard.edu, 845-758-7382
Forthcoming films:
El Sur, directed by Víctor Erice
Un hombre llamado Flor de otoño, directed by Pedro Olea
Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
NAO BUSTAMANTE ARTIST TALK AND SCREENING
MONDAY APRIL 4, 5PM
AVERY THEATRE (FILM & ELECTRONIC ARTS BUILDING)
Nao Bustamante is an internationally known and beloved, media-saavy artist, and a recent contestant on the Bravo TV reality series Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. Originally from California, she attended San Francisco Art Institute where she was under the influence of the notorious New Genres department, and cut her teeth as an artist in San Francisco between 1984-2001. Bustamante now resides in upstate New York, where she teaches, and canoes with her poodle, Fufu (who also has an IMDB page).
On Monday, April 4 at 5pm in Avery Theatre, Nao Bustamante will present a selection of her at times precarious and radically vulnerable work that encompasses performance art, video installation, visual art, filmmaking, and writing. The New York Times (Kevin McGarry) says, “She has a knack for using her body.”
Bustamante has presented in Galleries, Museums, Universities and underground sites all around the world. She has exhibited, among other locales, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Franklin Furnace and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Sundance 2008, 2010, and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. Her movies have been shown at Outfest in Los Angeles and Mix in New York City among other festivals. Bustamante has been published by the Theatre Communications Group in the book, Out of the Fringe, as well as the Theatre Drama Review, published by the MIT Press. In 2000 she received the GLBT Historical Society Arts Award. In 2001 she received the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman fellowship and in 2007 named a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, as well as a Lambent Fellow. Currently, Bustamante holds the position of Associate Professor of New Media and Live Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
This event is being presented by Film & Electronic Arts and Studio Arts, and has been co-sponsored by the Fund for Difference.
