A Weekly Lecture and Performance Series
Wednesdays, 2:43-3:28 (Auditorium)
See you in the fall for the start of the 2025-2026 lecture series.
BHSEC DEANS’ HOUR PERFORMANCE, SCREENING AND LECTURE
SERIES
2024-2025
Wednesdays, 2:43-3:28 (Auditorium)
9/16 Remarks Welcoming Year One Students to
the BHSEC College Program;
President Leon Botstein, Bard College
~12:16PM-1:01PM
9/18 BHSEC CLUB FAIR
9/25 McCarthyism, Red Scares, Black Lists, and The
Hollywood 10"
Joseph Gubbay, Judge (ret.) and BHSEC Literature Faculty
10/2 Enslaved Girls and the Deadly Simile of Odyssey 22.465-473"
Professor Andrea Kouklanakis, Hunter College and Graduate
Center
10/9 “On Data, Evidence and Institutional Change”
Dr. Vanessa Anderson, Founding Principal of BHSEC DC
BHSEC Network
10/16 On Educational Policy, Leadership and Empowerment”
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, Ph.D.
10/23 The Fight to Vote: Challenges Past and Present;
Wendy Weiser
Vice President, Brennan Center For Justice
10/30 “Of Public Letters and Dirty Laundry: Economies of
Truth-Telling and Grievance in Rousseau’s Confessions”
Professor Maureen Kelly, Social Studies Faculty
BHSEC Manhattan
11/06 Sweet Sorry Meats: Antigone, Tyranny, and the Politics of Red
Meat;
Professor Matthew Park, Bard Sequence and BHSEC Hudson
11/13 Is Justice a Noble Lie? Plato's Republic, the Love of
Learning, and Escaping the Cave
Professor Bruce Matthews
BHSEC Manhattan and OSUN
11/20 Fostering Real-World Change with Research: Connecting
People, Wearable Tech, and Urban Life
Lisa Maria DiSalvo Garcia, Columbia University
11/27 Thanksgiving Eve
12/4 Corazón Work/Heart Work: Decolonial Feminisms, Latinx
Arts, & Drawing-in the Already Here
Professor Suzanne Herrera Li Puma, BHSEC Bronx
12/18 What Should SCOTUS Do About
Transgender Teens?
Professor Steven Mazie, BHSEC Manhattan and
The Economist
02/05 “Reasonably Assuring Return to Court: Alternatives to
Monetary Bail in New York State”
Hon. Valentina M. Morales, Judge of the NYC Criminal Court
02/12 Citizens' Assemblies and New York
Philip Lindsay, Democracy Innovation Hub, Bard
02/26 British Colonialism, Music, & Resistance”
Dean Colin Harte, BHSEC Bronx
03/05 Keith Haring’s Murals at PS 97 in the LES, 1985-1988"
Rainer Turim, BHSEC Manhattan Alumnus
03/12 Design Innovations for Women
Chay Costello, MOMA
03/19 “Du Bois Lately: W. E. B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois in
Brooklyn”
Professor Lavelle Porter, CUNY
03/26 On the Coloniality of Time
Brahim Rouabah
04/02 “The Power of Your Story”
Meisha Porter
04/09 The Evolution of the Myth of the Vampyre
Henry Towery, ‘26
04/23 The Portuguese in West Africa Circa 1600"
Julian Zimmerman, '25
04/30 Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle
Ages
Dr. Melanie Holcomb, Metropolitan Museum of Art
05/07 Before the First Sale: The Dutch Ship and its Sailors in 17th
Century West & Central Africa
Cael Moser-Anderson, '25
05/14 Design and Decision: Decision-Making in Pride and
Prejudice
Professor Zach Holbrook, BHSEC Manhattan
05/21 39;The Letters of a Poem/Aren’t Little Machine Bits': On
Literary Translation and Roque Dalton
Natasha Wimmer
Renowned Translator
Princeton University (Visiting Lecturer)
05/28 ARTS Showcase
BHSEC DEANS’ HOUR PERFORMANCE, SCREENING AND LECTURE
SERIES
2023-2024
Wednesdays, 2:43-3:28 (Auditorium)
09/20 “The Genesis of the Canon and the Canonicity of Genesis;
Or, Is Eve to be Blamed or Celebrated?”
Professor Bruce Matthews, Philosophy
BHSEC Manhattan
9/28 Remarks Welcoming Year One Students to
the BHSEC College Program
President Leon Botstein, Bard College
10/4 “Gilgamesh and Frankenstein: Technology, Immortality,
Podcasting”
Matt Park, Director, Bard Sequence
10/11 “On the Battlefield with the Song of God:
An Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita”
Professor Richard Davis, Bard College
10/18 HOW TO THINK LIKE A WOMAN: Four Women
Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the
Mind
Regan Penaluna, Ph.D.
Author, Philosopher, Editor
11/1 How the Struggle for Student Voting Rights Reflects
Broader Challenges of Disenfranchisement in the United
States
Prof. Jonathan Becker, Executive Vice President and Vice
President for Academic Affairs, Bard College, Vice Chancellor,
OSUN
11/08 “Women in Homer's Odyssey and the Perils of Xenia”
Professor Melissa Marturano, Classics
BHSEC Queens and Hunter College
11/22 Writing a Country into Literature
Patrice Nganang, Writer and Scholar
Stony Brook University
11/29 “The Artist Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois, The Black Flame, and
the Art of Fiction”
Professor Lavelle Porter, CUNY
12/6 "Summer ‘23 Humanities Research
Practicum: Origins & Migrations of the Duala Circa the 16th
and 17th Centuries
Prof. Ursula Embola and Laura-Albane Peyronnet '24
12/13 Plato on the Goal of Life
Professor Jessica Moss, NYU
12/20 “Antisemitism and Genocide: A History”
Jonathan Brent of YIVO and Bard
12/25 Winter Recess
01/03 Corruption in the British East India Company in the 18th
Century
Professor Melissa Turoff, BHSEC Manhattan
02/07 Alternatives to Incarceration: Addressing Root Causes of
Crime and Transformative Justice
Professor Karen Miner-Romanoff, NYU
02/14 Can Capitalism Save Biodiversity Conservation?
Todd Stevens
Executive Director, Wildlife Conservation Society
02/21 Midwinter Recess
02/28 Gotham's Garbage: Recycling, Composting and Waste
Management in NYC
Allie Gumas
Senior Manager of Drop-off and Community Composting at
NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY)
03/6 "Organ Donation: 5 Minutes to Save 8 Lives"
Dipika Pujara and Safa Fazili, COO and Community
Relations Fellow respectively
03/13 How (and Why) to Read a Translation
William Dingee, Ph.D.
Classics Scholar and Former BHSEC Faculty Member
03/27 Faith, Nationalism, and the Pursuit of Liberal Democracy
David Elcott
Acclaimed Writer and NYU Professor
(BHSEC Grandparent)
04/03 Breaking Limitations: Pathways to the Bar and Bench
Hon. Inga O'Neale Natasha A. Delille, Esq.
04/17 The Way We Read Now”
Dean Deirdre D'Albertis and Professor Eric Trudel
Bard College
04/18 Black Women's History Presentation"
Clarke Greene, BHSEC '27
04/24 Spring Recess
05/01 Hormonal regulation of appetite, metabolism and drug
addiction
Dean Dumaine Williams, Bard Early Colleges
05/8 “On Birds and Social Justice”
Professor Ronnie Almonte, Biology
BHSEC Manhattan
05/15 “What is Bitcoin and why does it matter?”
Professor Patricio Delgado, Mathematics
BHSEC Manhattan
05/22 Our Inner Diversity: How Microbes Shape Human Health
José Clemente, PhD
Principal Investigator, Clemente Lab, Mt. Sinai
05/29 Arts Showcase
BHSEC DEANS’ HOUR PERFORMANCE, SCREENING AND LECTURE SERIES
2022-2023
Mondays 5:30 PM (Online); Wednesdays, 2:50-3:35 (Auditorium)
FILM SERIES (FOR WEDNESDAYS IN-PERSON)
Y1 Sem
Antigone
Tempest
Frankenstein
Beloved
Y2 Sem:
The Trial
Copenhagen
“Remarks Welcoming Year One Students to the BHSEC College Program”
President Leon Botstein, Bard College (09/15)
“The Genesis of the Canon and the Canonicity of Genesis; Or, Is Eve to be Blamed or Celebrated?”
Professor Bruce Matthews, Philosophy, BHSEC Manhattan (09/21)
“On the Battlefield with the Song of God: An Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita”
Professor Richard Davis, Bard College (10/26)
“Penelope’s Knowledge at the End of the Odyssey: Our Different Interpretative Paths”
Professor Melissa Marturano, Classics, BHSEC Queens and Hunter College (11/09)
“Role of the long-non coding RNA PVT1 exon 9 in the aggressiveness of Prostate Cancer in Males of African Ancestry”
Dean Adeodat Ilboudo, Sciences, BHSEC Manhattan (11/16)
“What’s so tragic about Greek tragedy?”
Professor David Clark, Classics, BHSEC Manhattan (11/23)
“The Artist Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois, The Black Flame, and the Art of Fiction”
Professor Lavelle Porter, CUNY (11/30)
FACULTY RESEARCH AND WRITING PANEL
Embola, Ilboudo, Chock-Goldman, Mazie, Matthews, Kouklanakis (required for Y2) (12/07)
“On Plato’s Republic”
Professor Bruce Matthews, Philosophy, BHSEC Manhattan (01/04)
“The Book of Songs: Ways of Reading in the Chinese Tradition”
John Weinstein, Provost, Simon’s Rock (01/04)
“Woolf in 2023, or, What is Modernist Literature Good For?”
Professor Ria Banerjee, CUNY (02/01 )
“The Post American World”
Professor Elmira Bayrasli, BGIA (02/08)
“Google Desk Talk – Interesting Technologies and Career Paths”
Asaph Arnon, Google Engineer (03/01)
“Organ Donation: 5 Minutes to Save 8 Lives”
Diya Cherian and Lasya Damaraju (03/08)
Inquiry Project Panel [ONLINE AT 5:30] (03/23)
“Crime and Punishment: A Nontraditional Approach”
Judge Joseph Gubbay (3/29)
“Tell Me How it Ends: A Conversation with the Author“
Valeria Luiselli, Bard Professor and Author (04/03)
“(Re)Envisioning Frankenstein: Pathways to Approaching the Text”
Professor Rosa Schneider, Bard Sequence (04/26)
“Remaining Decent? The Crimes of Nazi Germany and the Role of Professionals“
Thorsten Wagner, Executive Director, FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics) (05/03)
“Disability Justice for Test Takers”
Professor Shreya Mandal, Judith S. Kaye Fellow (05/10)
“Bimbia: The Story of Cameroon’s 2nd Largest Transatlantic Slave Port (from an African Perspective)”
Professor Ursula Embola, Literature, BHSEC Manhattan (05/17)
“Challenging Historical Revisionism with Theatre”
Judith S. Tate, Tony Award-Winning Actor, Director and Writer (05/24)
¨The Truth About Polyglots (and other thoughts about language learning)”
Professor Paul DuCett, Languages, BHSEC Manhattan (05/31)
“Remarks Welcoming Year One Students to the BHSEC College Program”
President Leon Botstein, Bard College (9/21)
“The Genesis of the Canon and the Canonicity of Genesis; Or, Is Eve to be Blamed or Celebrated?”
Professor Bruce Matthews, Philosophy, BHSEC Manhattan (9/29)
“Emerging from and Coping with Isolation”
Malia Du Mont, Chief of Staff and VP for Strategy & Policy, Bard College (10/13)
“On the Battlefield with the Song of God: An Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita” Professor Richard Davis, Bard College (10/20)
“The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America” Professor Joshua Rothman, University of Alabama (10/25)
“Interracial Families from Aristotle to Heliodorus, and Beyond to the New World”
Professor Andrea Kouklanakis, Classics, BHSEC Manhattan (10/27)
“Faith in the Future of the Race: A 100-Year Celebration of W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Brownies’ Book”
Professor Kesi Augustine, Literature (11/1)
“Calypso and Odysseus: Gendered (In)Stability and Its Manifestations in the Odyssey”
Professor Melissa Marturano, Classics, BHSEC Queens (11/3)
“On Developing Intersectionality as a Praxis”
Dr. Monique W. Morris, Grantmakers for Girls of Color (11/8)
“The Artist Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois, The Black Flame, and the Art of Fiction”
Professor Lavelle Porter, CUNY (11/15)
“What’s so tragic about Greek tragedy?”
Professor David Clark, Classics, BHSEC Manhattan (11/17)
The Unexpected Path: Reflections on Becoming a China Expert
Dr. Keisha Brown, Tennessee State University (11/29)
“Disease, Death, and Du Bois: Fragments of Public Health History”
Mark Williams, Jr. Columbia University and Hannah Arendt Center (12/1)
“Turbulent Ice: Dance and Science in the Arctic”
Jody Sperling, Founder/Artistic Director Time Lapse Dance (12/8)
“On Plato’s Republic”
Professor Bruce Matthews, Philosophy, BHSEC Manhattan (12/20)
“On Community Supported Agriculture”
Ella Schwarzbaum (1/12)
“On A Room of One’s Own”
Professor Ria Banerjee, CUNY (1/19)
“Rich Man, Poor Man: Considering Class in the Middle Ages and at the Metropolitan Museum”
Melanie Holcomb, Curator of Medieval Art, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (2/9)
“Changing the Narrative on West African Women”
Dionne Searcey, New York Times Journalist, Author and Pulitzer Prize Winner (2/16)
“From India to Iraq to Iberia; Or Just How ‘Western’ is Western Literature, Anyway?”
Ryan Szpiech, University of Michigan (3/7)
“What Can Medieval Art Teach Us About Systemic Racism?”
Dr. Maggie Williams (3/9)
“On Petrarch and Bocaccio”
Professor Joe Luzzi, Comparative Literature, Bard College (3/15)
The Gospel According to B. / Poems, A reading and conversation about queer and mystical poems in narrative verse of Jesus of Nazareth’s coming of age.
Benjamin Bagocius (Bard Sequence, DC) (3/28)
“Substantive Due Process and the Constitutional Right To Privacy”
Hon. Joseph E. Gubbay, BHSEC Manhattan (4/6)
“The Poetic Impulse”
Professor Jesse Garcés Kiley, BHSEC Manhattan (4/13)
“How Uncertainty Unfolds”
Tongji Philip Qian, BHSEC DC (5/4)
Professor Mazie and Panel on Supreme Court and Abortion Rights (5/5)
“On Cross-Dressing and the Vikings”
Prof. Lahney Preston-Matto, Adelphi University (5/9)
“Postcolonial West African Literature: Emerging Voices”
Prof. Ursula Embola, BHSEC Manhattan (5/16)
“Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States”
Professor Julia Rose Kraut (5/23)
“Asian Pacific Americans in the New York State Judiciary: The Challenges Faced, the Progress Made, and Looking Forward”
Judge Lilian Wan (6/1)
9/21 “Death and Friendship in the Iliad”
Professor David Clark, Classics, Bard High School Early College
9:00 AM
9/21 “On Bard Summerscape”
Professor Christopher Gibbs, Co-artistic Director, The Orchestra Now
9/22 “On Ellington, Bartok and Chevalier de Saint-Georges”
President Leon Botstein, Artistic Director, The Orchestra Now
12:30 PM
10/5 “Women and Foreign Policy”
Professor Elmira Bayrasli, Director, Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA)
10/15 “Our Voices: A Conversation on Youth Voting”
Chris Stauffer, March for Our Lives, Co-Executive Director
4:30 PM
10/19 “Every Vote Counts: A Conversation about Getting out the Vote”
Harold Ekeh, Co-Founder, Every Vote Counts
10/20 “Lamentation, Gender, and the Heroic Ethos: The Iliad’s Andromache”
Professor Melissa Marturano, Hunter College
10/26 “The Fight to Vote: Challenges Past and Present”
Michael Waldman, President, Brennan Center, NYU
10/27 “The Genesis of the Canon and the Canonical Status of Genesis; or, is Eve to be
Blamed or Celebrated?”
Professor Bruce Matthews, Philosophy, BHSEC Manhattan
4:30 PM
11/5 “Framing Privacy”
Professor Jason Schulman, Social Studies, Judith S. Kaye Fellow, BHSEC Queens
4:30 PM
11/9 “Greek Tragedy in the 21st Century”
Professor Lauren Curtis, Classics, First Year Seminar Program Director, Bard College
11/16 “Organ Donation: 5 minutes to save 8 lives”
Chirag Raj, Founder, Organ Donation Awareness Corporation (ODAC)
11/23 “An MD Made in America”
Dr. Inginia Genao, Associate Professor of Medicine, Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Aunt of Raquel and Roxanna Delgado, ‘20, Yale University
11/30 “W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Literature, and Black Life”
Professor Lavelle Porter, CUNY
12/7 “Adding injury to insult: Poetry and Law in Greek and Early Irish poetic language”
Professor Andrea Kouklanakis, Classics, BHSEC Manhattan
12/14 “Plato’s Retreat: The Allegory of the Cave, Digitized”
Professor Bruce Matthews, Philosophy, BHSEC Manhattan
1/4 “Making The Daily Show: The hows and whys of political comedy in the 2020s”
Daniel Radosh (comedy writer)
1/5 “Sighting the Non-sites: Code-meshing of Location and Movement in Contemporary
Art”
Professor Tongji Philip Qian, Visual Arts, BHSEC DC
1/11 “Digital Advertising”
Johan Gunawan, Social Studies, Visiting Adjunct, BHSEC Manhattan
1/14 “What is Seminar?”
Professor Patrick Oray, Literature, FYS Program Chair, BHSEC Baltimore
1/25 “To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf on War and Women”
Professor Ria Banerjee, Guttman College
2/1 “A New Politics of Care: On COVID-19, Social Justice and Health Care Reform”
Professor Gregg Gonsalves, Yale University
2/3 “Augustine the Reader, and his Readers”
Professor David Ungvary, Classics, Bard College
2/23 “Dante Without Footnotes: Personal Reflections on The Divine Comedy”
Professor Joseph Luzzi, Literature, Bard College
4:30 PM
2/24 “In the beginning was the word: New Testament basics and the problem of
translation”
Professor David Clark, Classics, BHSEC Manhattan
3/9 “Threat of Dissent”: Immigration, Ideology and Deportation
Dr. Julia Rose Kraut, Scholar, Writer and Judith S. Kaye Fellow
3/15 “Zora’s Epic: Their Eyes Were Watching God and Vergil’s Aeneid”
Prof. Christian Lehmann, Literature, BHSEC Cleveland
3/22 “The Gospel According to B: A Queer Autobiography of Jesus of Nazareth’s Life in
Poems”
Professor Ben Bagocius, Literature, BHSEC Cleveland
4/12 “’The Play’s the Thing:’ What Are We Talking About When We Talk About
Hamlet?”
Professor Jane Wanninger, Literature, Bard College at Simon’s Rock
4/19 “Police Encounters – The 4th Amendment and You”
Judge Joseph Gubbay, Literature, BHSEC Manhattan
4/26 “The Coolest Things I’ve Found”
Joanne Baron, Social Studies, BHSEC Newark
5/3 “Listening to Kafka’s Sirens”
Professor David Copenhafer, Literature, BHSEC Queens
5/11 “On Youth Economy, Crisis and Reinvention in Twenty-First Century China:
Morning Sun in the Tiny Times”
Professor Faye Xiao, University of Kansas
5:00 PM
5/12 “I will always include BLACK people and other mantras for (y)our anti-racist
mission”
Professor Cassandra St. Vil, Social Studies, BHSEC D.C.
4:30 PM
5/20 “Humanitarian Assistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territory”
Basma Alloush, Policy and Advocacy Adviser, Norwegian Refugee Council
5/24 “Pride and Prejudice: Truth, Murder, and Ten Pound Notes”
Professor Emily Hayman, Director Bard Sequence
5/26 “Justice, Crime, Equality and Evidence in the 21st Century”
Professor Karen Miner-Romanoff, New York University
4:30 PM
6/7 “Traveling Epic: Gilgamesh and the Global Humanities”
Professor Alex Forte, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BHSEC DEANS’ HOUR PERFORMANCE AND LECTURE SERIES
2019-2020
“Remarks Welcoming Year One Students to the BHSEC College Program”
President Leon Botstein, Bard College (9/6)
“Death, Authenticity and the Other in the Iliad”
Professor David Clark, Classics, Bard High School Early College, Manhattan (9/11)
“Reception Theory and the Canon”
Professor Andrea Kouklanakis, Classics, Bard High School Early College, Manhattan (9/18)
Club Fair (9/25)
“The Backwash of War: Ellen La Motte and her Explosive ‘Lost Classic’”
Professor Cynthia Wachtell, Yeshiva University (10/2)
“The Genesis of the Canon and the Canonical Status of Genesis; or, is Eve to be Blamed or Celebrated?”
Professor Bruce Matthews, Philosophy (10/16)
“The Ecology of the Quest in Greek and Latin Literature and Science Fiction”
Professor Samuel Cooper, BHSEC Queens (10/23)
PSAT (10/30)
“W. E. B. Du Bois in the South”
Professor Lavelle Porter, CUNY (11/6)
“On Repatriation of African Art”
Professor Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University (11/13)
“Some Mathematical Puzzles with Unexpected Solutions”
Professor Peter Winkler, Dartmouth College/MoMath (11/20)
“W.E.B DuBois and the Meaning and Deployment of Race, 1890 to 1915”
Professor Myra Armstead, Bard College (12/4)
“Chocolate and Cloth: the Money of the Ancient Maya”
Professor Joanne Baron, BHSEC Newark (12/11)
Fall Theater Performance, 2:30 PM (12/18)
Winter Concert (1/8)
FINALS (1/15)
REGENTS (1/22)
“nothing was simply one thing”: Reading To the Lighthouse”
Professor Mark Hussey, Pace University (1/29)
Summer Opportunities Fair (2/5)
“The Math and Software Behind Animated Films”
Nathan Zeichner, Senior Research Associate, Blue Sky Studios (2/12)
Midwinter Recess (2/19)
“This is Your Brain on Drugs: Exploring Addiction”
Professor Devon Collins, Science Faculty, BHSEC Manhattan (2/26)
“A Short Introduction to Dante’s Divine Comedy”
Professor Emily Hayman, Bard Sequence Director, (2/28)
SAT (3/4)
Inquiry Project Panel (11:30, Online) (3/20)
“’The Play’s the Thing:’ What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Hamlet?”
Professor Jane Wanninger, Literature Faculty, Simon’s Rock (4/8)
Mozart to Britten: Performance of Favorite Pieces by Members of TŌN (The Orchestra Now) (4/15)
“The European Renaissance and the Discovery of the World and of Man”
Professor Peter Miller, Dean, Bard Graduate Center (4/21)
“Sir Edward Coke, Magna Carta, and The Restraint of Royal Power”
Judge Joseph Gubbay (4/22)
“The Supreme Court in the Era of COVID-19”
Steven Mazie, BHSEC Manhattan and the Economist, (4/29)
“Saint Augustine’s Computer”
Alberto Manguel, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Bard Reading Initiative (5/6)
“Bridging the Gap: Location, Oppression and the Politics of Gender in the Works of Select 20th Century West African and African American Women Writers”
Professor Ursula Embola, BHSEC Manhattan (5/13)
“The Jewish Strong Arm Men; The Roots of Organized Crime in New York City, 1900 – 1940”
Aaron Welt, Judith S. Kaye Fellow of the Historical Society of the New York Courts, BHSEC Queens and Manhattan (5/18)
“Surreal and Precarious Bodies: Coates, Lamar, and Barris on Black (Male) Life”
Mark Williams, Director of Access, Equity, & Inclusion Programs, BHSEC Manhattan (5/20)
“Design and Decision: Decision-Making in Pride and Prejudice”
Professor Zach Holbrook, BHSEC Manhattan (5/22)
“Homeric Poetry in Greco-Roman Culture and Today”
Professor Andrea Kouklanakis, BHSEC Manhattan (5/26)
“Malkin: Some Practices and Problems of Small-Scale Game Design”
Professor Zach Holbrook, BHSEC Manhattan (5/27)
“Poet Against Prejudice”: Screening and Q&A with the Filmmaker”
Faiza Almontaser, Student, Poet and Filmmaker
Holly Carter, BYkids Founder (5/28)
“The Bible, And Other Stories We Tell Ourselves”
The Rev. Joshua Narcisse, Church Health, Memphis, TN (6/3)
9/6 “Remarks Welcoming Year One Students to the BHSEC College Program,” President Leon Botstein, Bard College
9/12 “Women and Foreign Policy,” Elmira Bayrasli, Co-Founder, Foreign Policy Interrupted; Professor, BGIA
9/26 “Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business,” Rana Foroohar, CNN
10/3 “On the Iliad,” Professor David Clark, Classics, Bard High School Early College, Manhattan
10/10 “Reception Theory and the Classical Canon,” Professor Andrea Kouklanakis, Classics, Bard High School Early College, Manhattan
10/3 “On the Iliad,” Professor David Clark, Classics, Bard High School Early College, Manhattan
10/10 “Reception Theory and the Classical Canon,” Professor Andrea Kouklanakis, Classics, Bard High School Early College, Manhattan
10/24 André Aciman “On Writing”
10/31 “On Archeology and African American Experience,” Professor Brittany Brown, Social Studies Faculty, Bard High School Early College, Queens
11/7 ECO Presentation
11/14 “On Du Bois,” Professor Lavelle Porter
11/21 “Writing Outside the Academy,” BHSEC Faculty Writers (Agredo, Augustine, Dolan, Graciano, Mazie), Children’s Literature, Spoken Word, Theater, Journalism, Short Stories
“Plato’s Retreat: The Allegory of the Cave, Digitized” (9/13/17)
Professor Bruce Matthews, Social Studies Faculty, BHSEC
“Death and Friendship in the Iliad” (9/29/17)
Professor David Clark, World Languages Faculty, BHSEC
“The Genesis of the Canon and the Canonical Status of Genesis; or, is Eve to be Blamed or Celebrated?” (10/4/17)
Professor Bruce Matthews, Social Studies Faculty, BHSEC
“Archeology of Ancient Cities” (10/6/17)
Professor Uzma Rizvi, Pratt Institute
“An American in Mzansi: Lessons on Social Politics, Justice and Sexuality in South Africa” (10/18/17)
Professor Rachael Gibson, Health Faculty, BHSEC
“White Supremacy and the Distribution of Legal Authority in America” (11/1/17)
Anna Lind Guzik, BHSEC
“114 Years of Souls: From Jim Crow to #BlackLivesMatter” (11/3/17)
Professor Kirin Wachter-Grene
“Let’s Go Down to Dungeon-Town: Some Notes on Designing a Game” (11/8/17)
Professor Zach Holbrook, Literature Faculty, BHSEC
“Give me liberty or give me debt” (11/15/17)
Deroy Murdock, Nationally Syndicated Columnist
“Origins and Adaptations: The FHA and Multi-Family Housing in Queens” (11/22/17)
Nick Shatan’10, K’18
“Science Fiction and Classical Literature, Olaf Stapledon: Posthuman Tragedy” (1129/17)
Professor Samuel Cooper, World Languages Faculty, BHSEC Queens
“Feeding the World, Feeding Ourselves” Part II (12/13/17)
Rene Marion, Director of Education, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture
“Jazz Diplomacy: Representing the Challenges of American Democracy” (12/15/17)
James Ketterer, Dean of International Studies, Bard College
“The Metaphysics of the Pythagorean Theorem” (1/3/18)
Professor Robert Hahn, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
“To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf on War and Women” (1/12/18)
Professor Ria Banerjee, Guttman Community College, CUNY
“In the beginning was the word: New Testament basics and the problem of translation” (1/31/18)
David Clark, World Languages Faculty, Bard High School Early College, Manhattan
“Vanguard African-American Literary Studies“ (2/14/18)
Professor Kesi Augustine, Literature Faculty, Bard High School Early College, Manhattan
“On Public Health in New York” (2/28/18)
Fabienne Laraque, MD, MPH, P’18, Medical Director, NYC Dept of Homeless Services/Dept of Social Services
“On Dante“ (3/8/18)
Professor Joe Luzzi, Bard Annandale
“The Caliphate and the Transformation of Culture from the Near East to Europe“ (3/14/18)
Professor Abigail Balbale, Bard Graduate Center
“New Perspectives and Approaches to Justice” (3/21/18)
Joseph Gubbay, Judge for the New York City Criminal Court for Kings County, NY
“Inquiry Project Panel” (3/23/18)
“On Hamlet” (3/28/18)
Professor Adhaar Noor Desai, Bard Annandale
“From Molecule to Medicine” (4/11/18)
Corinne Gamper, Pfizer
“Contingent Homes, Contingent Nation: Rwandan Settlers in Uganda, 1911-64″ (4/18/18)
Professor Ashley Rockenbach, Social Studies Faculty, Bard High School Early College, Manhattan
“Classics and Food” (4/25/18)
Andrew Colletti, History and Food Educator
“On Climate Change“ (5/2/18)
Professor Sonali McDermid, NYU
“On the Holocaust” (5/4/18)
Helga Shepard
“Design and Decision: Decision-Making in Pride and Prejudice“ (5/16/18)
Professor Zach Holbrook, Literature Faculty, Bard High School Early College, Manhattan
“A Firsthand History Lesson: A Story of Survival” (5/16/18)
Sonia Goldstein
“Symposium Day Speech” (6/2/18)
Giorgina Dopico, Dean for Humanities, New York University Faculty of Arts and Science
