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Written Arts Program and The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard

invite you to a conference April 17-18

Cuba Today and Tomorrow:

The Individual Caught Between Nations

Tuesday, April 17th

Film showing:

Adio Kerida, 5 pm, Hegeman 102

Film by Ruth Behar on Cuban Jewish (Sephardic) community and exile

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Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

All events in Campus Center

MPR

1-1:15 Cuban Bard students talk of coming to Bard

1:20-1:40 Study Abroad Office/University of Burlington/Marist and Bard students who have studied in Cuba discuss experience, opportunities, show videos

2-3 pm History of Cuban music/salsa with live ensemble with singing led by conservatory musician Jose Agustin and samba leader Carlos Valdez

WEIS

3:30 pm Filmmaker Brin-Jonathan Butler discusses and shows clips from his film SPLIT DECISION, in conversation with Edie Meidav and S.L. Price.

Film details the American nightmare currently being lived by Afro-Cuban boxer and defector Guillermo Rigondeaux, considered greatest amateur in the sport’s history.

5:15 pm Reception and books available for sale outside Weis

5:30 pm Keynote address with Carlos Eire (Yale professor and author of WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA) and MacArthur Fellow and anthropologist Ruth Behar (University of Michigan, THE VULNERABLE OBSERVER)

6:30 pm Panel with S.L. Price, Brin-Jonathan Butler, Ruth Behar, Carlos Eire, and other guests, moderated by Edie Meidav

7:30 pm Reception and book-signing outside Weis

Sponsored by TLS, IILE, Dean’s Office, Human Rights Program, LAIS, La Voz, Anthropology Program, Jewish Studies, Written Arts and The Arendt Center

Special Screening of 35mm. print of

El espíritu de la colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive, Víctor Erice, 1973, Spain, 97 minutes).

In Spanish with English subtitles.

Víctor Erice begins his examination of fact and fantasy with the screening of James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931) in a small town in post-Civil War Spain.

This film is part of the series Robert Bresson and His Legacy, curated by Professor Richard Suchenski. This is screening for Representations of the Spanish Civil War (Span 236), and is free and open to the public.  

Date: Friday, April 13

Time: 7 pm

Location: Ottaway Theater, Avery Center for the Arts

Professor David Rodríguez-Solás’s class on Representations of the Spanish Civil War had the opportunity to visit the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives at the Tamiment Library, NYU in March.

 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 Cinema 

Open 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