2020 Past Events
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Recording will be shared Wednesday, November 11
Online Event 4:45 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
In the final panel conversation around the texts and ideas of First-Year Seminar, first-year students and faculty will speak with anthropologist and activist Gregory Duff Morton, whose teaching and research focus on migrant labor, economics, and social movement organizing in rural Latin America. Using Lėon-Portilla’s The Broken Spears as our touchstone text, this student/faculty panel will discuss the scholarly work required to reclaim indigenous narratives of history in the Western hemisphere, and the political stakes of such an effort. More broadly, the conversation will interrogate the challenges of bringing together academic research and civic engagement through the perspective of an anthropologist.
About our panelist: Gregory Duff Morton is assistant professor of anthropology at Bard College. A graduate of the University of Chicago and formerly a postdoctoral fellow in international and public affairs at Brown University’s Watson Institute, his academic work has appeared in Social Service Review, American Ethnologist, Anthropological Quarterly, Providence Journal, Journal of Recreational Mathematics, and World Development, among other publications. At Bard, he teaches courses such as Doing Ethnography, The Stranger in Latin America, as well as the Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences course The Anthropology of the Institution: Making Change through Social Service and Community Organizing. He also regularly teaches First-Year Seminar.
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Thursday, November 5, 2020
Campus Center, Weis Cinema 6:30 pm – 8:05 pm EST/GMT-5
A documentary about Puerto Rico's history of population control through sterilization and experimentation with birth control on Puerto Rican women. This film is in Spanish with English subtitles.
Followed by a discussion with Iris López, Director of Latin American and Latin@ Studies at CUNY and an expert on the subject.
Show up in person or online!
Warning: this film presents women who were sterilized against their will. It does not talk about women who were operated on because they did not want to have children anymore.
Free. Presented by the La Voz student club at Bard College. For more information, visit our Facebook event page: https://fb.me/e/3yDwUdDjI
To register, visit: https://tinyurl.com/y3kpdxgr
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020
A Two-Session Cyber Workshop with Paloma Celis Carbajal, Curator for Latin American, Iberian, and U.S. Latino Collections, at the NY Public Library (Session 2)
Online Event 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Some five years ago, the New York Times reported that the book in print was far from dead, a plot twist to the numerous predictions that the 21st century would turn books into bytes only. However, the current pandemic could bring about another plot change given that most aspects of our lives have moved to the digital realm. We are all aware that the virtual plane is not equally accessible throughout the world. How are the current trends defining book production worldwide, but more specifically in Latin America? How does its past and present inform us as to where it's heading? What is the role that libraries play, especially if these institutions have, as one of their goals, to document and preserve the intellectual production of our cultures? In these two sessions we will try to explore these questions together. Open to the wide Bard community.
Zoom Details:
Event: "The Future of the Book, and of Libraries, with Paloma Celis Carbajal (NYPL)"
Tuesday October 20, from 12:30-1:30pm; and Tuesday, October 27, from 2-3pm.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://bard.zoom.us/j/97663579921. Meeting ID: 976 6357 9921.
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Friday, October 23, 2020
with Alys Moody, Harsha Ram, Stephen J. Ross,
Kaitlin Staudt, and Camilla Sutherland
Online Event 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Modernist studies has been transformed in recent years by the claim that modernism is a global phenomenon. Alongside work linking British, Irish, North American, and European modernists to the rest of the world, we have seen controversial claims for modernism’s flourishing in non-Western locations, from Japan to Africa, from Turkey to the Caucasus, and from South-East Asia to Latin America. This uncoupling of modernism from a strictly Western teleology remains under-theorised, and under-sourced. How do we study modernism on a global scale? What implications for modernist scholarship does this disciplinary transformation bring, especially in relation to collaborative work? And what new ways of seeing and understanding modernism arise from adopting a global perspective?
This roundtable showcases the methods and findings of Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2020), a new anthology of source texts for global modernism. The book gathers texts by practitioners (writers, artists, critics, etc.) that reflect on the theory and practice of modernism around the world. In addition to celebrating (belatedly!) the publication of this volume last January, we will be discussing the collaborative nature of global modernist research and our “inductive” method of assembling and theorizing the anthology’s texts.
The roundtable brings together five editors of the anthology: experts in Russian and Georgian modernism (Harsha Ram), Turkish modernism (Kaitlin Staudt), and Latin American modernism (Camilla Sutherland) with the volume’s general editors, who will speak to modernism in sub-Saharan Africa (Alys Moody), and the Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora (Stephen Ross). We will discuss how global modernism troubles existing assumptions of modernist studies, and what the project of translating, editing, and circulating primary sources can contribute to this conversation. Following short position statements by each speaker, the roundtable will focus on discussion among presenters and with audience members.
This conversation, held under the shared auspices of the Literature Program at Bard College and Concordia University’s Centre for Expanded Poetics, is the first of a three-part series exploring global modernism, in celebration of the anthology. It will be followed by a discussion with poet-translators associated with the anthology on Thursday, 12 November, 6-7:30pm EST; and a workshop on pedagogy and global modernism on Friday, 4 December, 1:30-4:30pm EST.
To receive the Zoom invitation for this event, please email [email protected]. Invitations will be sent out on the morning of the event.
Speakers Alys Moody is Assistant Professor of Literature at Bard College. She is the author of The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism (OUP, 2018) and is currently working on a second book, provisionally entitled, The Literature of World Hunger: Poverty, Global Modernism, and the Emergence of a World Literary System. She is one of the general editors of Global Modernists on Modernism, and section editor or co-editor of the sections on modernism in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, the Arab world, Japan, and the South Pacific. Harsha Ram is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. He is the author of The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire, and is currently completing his second book, The Scale of Culture: City, Nation, Empire and the Russian-Georgian Encounter. Harsha edited the section on modernism in the Caucasus. Stephen J. Ross is Assistant Professor of English at Concordia University. He is the author of Invisible Terrain: John Ashbery and the Aesthetics of Nature (OUP, 2017). He is one of the general editors of the anthology, and was section editor or co-editor of the sections on modernism in the Caribbean, the Arab world, and greater China. Kaitlin Staudt is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of Auburn. She has published article in venues such as Feminist Modernist Studies and Middle Eastern Literatures, and is currently completing her first monograph, Move Forward and Ascend!: Temporality and The Politics of Form in the Turkish Modernist Novel and editing a cluster of essays on “Global Modernism’s Other Empires.” She edited the Turkish modernism section of this anthology. Camilla Sutherland is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. She is a contributor to the forthcoming Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Global Modernist Magazines and is currently working on a monograph entitled The Space of Latin American Women Modernists. Camilla edited the Latin American section of this anthology.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020
A Two-Session Cyber Workshop with Paloma Celis Carbajal, Curator for Latin American, Iberian, and U.S. Latino Collections, New York Public Library (Session 1)
Online Event 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Some five years ago, the New York Times reported that the book in print was far from dead, a plot twist to the numerous predictions that the 21st century would turn books into bytes only. However, the current pandemic could bring about another plot change given that most aspects of our lives have moved to the digital realm. We are all aware that the virtual plane is not equally accessible throughout the world. How are the current trends defining book production worldwide, but more specifically, in Latin America? How does its past and present inform us as to where it's heading? What is the role that libraries play, especially if these institutions have, as one of their goals, to document and preserve the intellectual production of our cultures? In these two sessions we will try to explore these questions together. Open to the wide Bard community.
Zoom Details:
Event: The Future of the Book, and of Libraries, with Paloma Celis Carbajal (NYPL)
Tuesday, October 20, 12:30pm–1:30pm; and Tuesday, October 27, 2:00–3:00pm
Join Zoom Meeting
https://bard.zoom.us/j/97663579921. Meeting ID: 976 6357 9921.
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Friday, March 13, 2020
Bard Hall 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Artist-poet Cecilia Vicuña creates songs, performances, installations, paintings, films, written works, books, lectures, and sculptures. Born in Chile, profoundly impacted by the encouraging time of Allende, the subsequent terrors of Pinochet, and decades lived in exile, Vicuña makes work that is always attentive to ethics, the earth, and history. Her improvisatory, participatory performances, often associated with site-specific installations, emphasize the collective nature of action and creativity to bring forth justice, balance, and the transformation of the world. Vicuña will read from her latest book, Núcleo.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
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Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
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Monday, February 17, 2020
Resnick Studio Classroom 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
“Right now and for the next five years, fifteen children ages four to seventeen at Still Waters in a Storm, a one-room schoolhouse in Brooklyn, are reading and translating Don Quixote from the Spanish original into English and retelling the tale as their own, reimagining the story of an old man in Spain in the late 1500s as a story of Spanish-speaking immigrant children living in Brooklyn today. The story has been adapted as and performed as musical theater, with dialogue and original songs written collectively by the kids. With the collaboration of world-renowned Edith Grossman, translator of the authoritative English version of Don Quixote.”
Co-sponsored by LAIS, the Division of Languages and Literature, and Bard's Translation and Translatability Initiative.
This event will take place in the Fisher Center's Resnick Studio classroom.
Please enter the Fisher Center through the administrative entrance (near the closest parking lot) and go up the stairs to find the classroom. A greeter will be on hand to help direct you.
Also, please note that seating for this event is limited and will be available on a first come, first-served basis. Seating will be primarily on the floor with a limited number of folding chairs available for accessibility.
For further details, please contact Prof. López-Gay at [email protected].
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Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
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Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
At the Spanish table we usually talk about matters related to the Hispanic and American cultures. It is a great source of information for those students who are interested in the cultural aspect of the language and want to exchange ideas and anecdotes, and also for those pupils who want to put their Spanish into practice in an informal environment.