News and Events

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Kline Commons  1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

  A talk by Professor Katharina Galor
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
This talk introduces Innocent Knowledge, a collaborative research and public humanities project centered on nearly four hundred drawings created by children ages five to fourteen across Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel between October 2024 and June 2025. Encountered together, the drawings render visible the radically unequal conditions under which childhood unfolds across the region. The lecture reflects on the project’s conceptual and ethical foundations: the decision to juxtapose Israeli and Palestinian children’s work without imposing narrative symmetry; the refusal to interpret individual images; the use of context rather than analysis to mediate meaning; and the implications of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child for visual expression in wartime. Taken together, the drawings invite us to consider what it means to treat children not as symbols of conflict, but as agents of testimony and presence.

  Please join us weekly and stay as long as you like.
Kline Commons  1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

  Please join us weekly and stay as long as you like.
Kline Commons  1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

Olin Humanities, Room 102  5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Join us as we welcome Abby Stein, who will give a talk on Gender and Judaism and share her own powerful story. Stein was born and raised in a family of distinguished rabbinic lineage (she’s a tenth-generation descendent of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism), and studied to become a rabbi before leaving that world in 2012. Since coming out, she has been working to raise support and awareness for trans rights and for those leaving ultra-Orthodoxy. Stein is a Jewish educator, author, speaker, and activist, whose forthcoming book Sources of Pride is an anthology and exploration of Jewish texts on identity, gender, sexuality, and inclusivity.

  Please join us weekly and stay as long as you like.
Kline Commons  1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

Discussants: Ruby Namdar, Novelist (LABA). Professor Haim Weiss, Ben Gurion University. Facilitated by Professor Shai Secunda, Bard College
Olin Humanities, Room 102  5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
In this conversation between a professor of classical Hebrew literature and a contemporary Hebrew novelist, we will discuss a remarkable Talmudic tale about a rabbi, hiding in a cave to avoid Roman persecution, who then reemerges after twelve years to a world that appears unchanged. We will explore some of the literary and philosophical features of this story as we consider the relationship between the study of classical Hebrew literature and the writing of modern Hebrew literature today.

  Please join us weekly and stay as long as you like.
Kline Commons  1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

  Please join us weekly and stay as long as you like.
Kline Commons  1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.