A Weekly Lecture and Performance Series
Mondays 4:30 PM (Online); Wednesdays, 2:43-3:28 (Auditorium)
See you in the fall for the start of the 2023-2024 lecture series.
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
