A Weekly Lecture and Performance Series
Wednesday afternoons, 2:50 PM to 3:40 PM unless noted otherwise
See you in the fall for the start of the 2021-2022 lecture series.
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
“The Bible, And Other Stories We Tell Ourselves” (6/3/2020)
Minister Joshua Narcisse, BHSEC ’12
“Supreme Court in the Era of Covid-19″ (4/29/2020)
Professor Steven Mazie, Social Studies Faculty, BHSEC
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
