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Dean’s Hour Lecture Series Archive

 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

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