News and Events

Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality
Olin Humanities, Room 102  5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Bard’s new Carceral Studies speaker series launches with a visit from the NYU Prison Education Project. Their recently published book Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality explores how the car, despite its association with American freedom and mobility, functions at the crossroads of two great systems of entrapment and immobility– the American debt economy and the carceral state. We will be joined by four of the Lab members, a group representing formerly incarcerated scholars and non-formerly incarcerated NYU faculty. 

Layla Martínez
Online Event  10:30 am – 11:30 am EST/GMT-5
Layla Martínez is a writer, editor, translator, and public intellectual from Spain. She is the author of two best-selling books, the essay "Utopia no no es una isla [Utopia is not Island]" (Episkaia, 2020), where she defends the political potential of utopia in our present time, and Carcoma [Wood Worm] (Amor de madre, 2021), a highly original terror novel that deals with Spain’s post-dictatorial historical memory. Cosponsored by OSUN and LAIS. 

This event will be held on Zoom in Spanish. Open to the OSUN Spanish-speaking community. To RSVP for this event, please email Prof. López-Gay at [email protected].

Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Alicia Partnoy is a poet, memoirist, scholar, and human rights activist. One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared", she was abducted from her home by secret police in 1977 and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Her writings were smuggled out of prison and published anonymously in human rights journals. In this session we will discuss Partnoy's literary testimony of her disappearance and imprisonment, titled La escuelita/The Little School. Told in a series of tales that resound in memory like parables, La escuelita is the proof of the resilience of the human spirit and the healing powers of art. Cosponsored by OSUN and LAIS. 

This event will be held on Zoom in Spanish. Open to the OSUN Spanish-speaking community. To RSVP for this event, please email Prof. López-Gay at [email protected].

  Online Event  5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Rural & Migrant Ministry fought for over 20 years – alongside a coalition of farmworkers and allies across New York State – to pass the historic Farm Laborer Fair Labor Practices Act in January 2019. Join us to learn more and become an active supporter for justice, dignity, and respect for farmworkers across New York State.

  Online Event  5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Join us to learn about Migrant Justice and the Milk with Dignity Campaign with Hannaford Supermarket! The Milk with Dignity Program brings together farmworkers, consumers, farmer owners and corporate buyers with the principal goal of fostering a sustainable Northeast dairy industry that advances the human rights of farmworkers, supports the long-term interests of farm owners, and provides an ethical supply chain for retail food companies and consumers.

  Online Event  5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Join a panel discussion with representatives from Migrant Justice, Rural & Migrant Ministry, Local 338, and the Ulster Immigrant Defense Network, to imagine and discuss systems of community care.

A Talk by Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
On Monday, April 4 at 6 pm, in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), writer and activist Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil will give a talk. Introduced by Nadine Fattaleh, this presentation will address the differences between art, literature, and other poetic manifestations of different Indigenous cultures. The tradition of these Native nations can become the future considering the challenges of climate crisis that humanity is facing. Verónica Mártínez-Cruz, Andrés Block Martínez and Nicole Hazan will be interpreting the subsequent Q&A. 

Born in Ayutla Mixe, Oaxaca, Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil is an Ayuujk linguist, writer, translator, and human rights activist. She has written for a variety of media in Mexico, including Letras Libres, Nexos, and Revista de la Universidad de México. She is a member of COLMIX, a collective of young Mixe people who carry out research on Mixe language, history, and culture. She studied Hispanic Languages and Literatures and holds a Master’s degree in Linguistics from UNAM. 

Nadine Fattaleh is a writer and researcher from Amman, Jordan. Her work focuses on spatial practices through cartography and film. She received a BA in Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies from Columbia University, and a MS in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. She previously worked on projects at Columbia’s Center for Spatial Research and Studio-X Amman, as well as the MMAG Foundation, Amman.

Read Yásnaya's work: "A modest proposal to save the world" // "The Map and the Territory"

Online Event  10:30 am – 11:30 am EST/GMT-5
Antonio Orejudo is considered one of the most brilliant contemporary authors from Spain. His narrative is raw and playful with unexpected twists and dark cynical humor for the purpose of entertaining the reader’s interest. Orejudo will discuss with us what it means to be an author today, and he will focus on his Advantages of Travelling by Train, which has also been adapted into a film. There is no greater influence in Orejudo’s Advantages of Travelling by Train than Cervantes’ Don Quixote and his Exemplary Novels.

This event will be in Spanish. Co-sponsored by LAIS and the Spanish program. Open to the wide Bard Spanish-speaking community. To RSVP and receive Zoom details, please contact Prof. López-Gay at [email protected].