2014
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Sophocles' Antigone
A Student Performance by the Advanced Greek ClassFeaturing Anne Carson Campus Center, Multipurpose Room Refreshments provided. |
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Thursday, December 4, 2014 Basic Intensive Latin Information Session
Olin LC 120 Come and learn about taking Basic Intensive Latin in the spring (Latin 106). The instructor and some current Latin students will be present to talk about the course and answer your questions. Students considering taking Latin 106 are strongly encouraged to attend. Please note new location: Olin Language Center 120. |
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Saturday, October 18, 2014 Bracko
A Reading of Sappho’s Poetry by Anne Carson, Robert Currie, Nick Flynn, and Sam AndersonOlin Auditorium Bracko presents the lyric poetry of Sappho, the ancient Greek poet known to many English-speaking readers through Anne Carson’s translation If Not, Winter. In addition to welcoming Sappho’s most distinguished translator to Bard, the event celebrates an extraordinary moment in the history of Sappho’s poetry. Sappho, whose bittersweet poetry on love, longing, and loss has survived the millennia in tantalizing fragments, made headlines in the international press this year because of the rare discovery of two previously unknown poems. Anne Carson, a classics scholar, poet, essayist, critic, and translator, has won international acclaim across genres. Named a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow in 2000, Carson has published 18 books that defy traditional literary genres—merging poetry, prose, fiction, nonfiction, and translation. Born in Canada, she teaches ancient Greek and is currently Visiting Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. Robert Currie is an artist working in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and New York City. An award-winning American writer, playwright, and poet, Nick Flynn has worked as a ship’s captain, an electrician, and as a caseworker with homeless adults. His most recent book is The Reenactments. A professor in the creative writing program at the University of Houston, he splits his time between Houston and Brooklyn. Sam Anderson is an American book reviewer and author. He is the critic at large for The New York Times Magazine, and was previously a book critic at New York Magazine. In 2007 he received the Balakian Award for Excellence in Criticism from the National Book Critics Circle. Bracko is the closing event of a full-day colloquium, Sappho: New Voices, that will be hosted at Bard College on October 18. The colloquium brings together a panel of experts to lead one of the first public discussions of this important new find of Sappho’s poetry, reevaluating the context, meaning, and implications of Sappho’s poetry and her literary world. The full program of talks, which will be held in Olin 204 and is also free and open to the public, can be found here: http://classicalstudies.bard.edu/events/. Free and open to the public. |
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Saturday, October 18, 2014 Sappho: New Voices
Olin Humanities, Room 204 Presented by the Bard College Classical Studies Program and sponsored by James H. Ottaway Jr. Bard's Classical Studies Program will host a day-long colloquium on the ancient Greek poet Sappho in light of the extraordinary discovery this year of two previously unknown poems. The colloquium will bring together a panel of experts to lead one of the first public discussions of this important new find, reevaluating the context, meaning and implications of Sappho's poetry and her literary world. Program: 10am: Introduction: Lauren Curtis (Bard College) and Robert Cioffi (Bard College)10.45-12.15: Session 1: Gender and PerformanceTimothy Power (Rutgers University): "Performance Scenarios for the New Poems of Sappho"Melissa Mueller (University of Massachusetts Amherst): "Recentering Epic Nostos: Gender and Genre in the Brothers Poem" 12.15-1.30: Lunch break1.30-3: Session 2: Sappho and Society Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University): "A High-class Trader, Courtesan, and Poetess, a Tyrant, and Archaic Greek-Eastern Interaction”Deborah Boedeker (Brown University): "Hera and Now"3-3.30: Coffee break3.30-5: Session 3: Religious PoeticsTimothy Barnes (Princeton University): "Sappho's daimon: a Reading of the Fourth Stanza"Albert Henrichs (Harvard University): “What’s in a Prayer? Sappho’s Way with Words"5-5.30: Round table discussionEvening performance: 6pm, Olin AuditoriumBracko: A reading of Sappho by Anne Carson, Robert Currie, Nick Flynn, and Sam Anderson. |
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014 Misa Andina, by Jaime Soto
NYS PremiereChapel of the Holy Innocents Immerse yourself in the fascinating sounds of the Andean cultures of Latin America, combined with some of the finest choral writing you can imagine! Based on the Roman Catholic Mass, this concert and presentation is the New York Premiere of Jaime Soto's Andean Mass, and will showcase the Alturas Duo and Crescendo Chorus, directed by Christine Gevert. Chilean empanadas, thanks to Los Hornitos Bakery, and other Chilean treats will be served at a reception following the concert. FREE, thanks to La Voz magazine, celebrating its 10th anniversary, ISO and LASO at Bard College. |
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Monday, March 17, 2014 Lecture by Professor Helene Foley
Professor Helena Foley of Columbia University is teaching Carolyn Dewald's class today on Aeschylus' Oresteia.Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium |
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014 Chuck Stein: Reading from a New Translation of Homer
Olin Humanities, Room 202 Poet and Translator Chuck Stein will read from his new version of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey," and discuss the art of translating Greek epic poetry. |