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2020

	Thursday, April 9, 2020 Online Research Skills in Classical Studies - Zoom Workshop Website 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Especially relevant for those moderating into Classical Studies, currently taking an upper-level seminar, or embarking upon a senior project next year. But any student with an interest in Classics, at any stage and any level, is welcome.
	Friday, March 13, 2020 TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED: Latin Table Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, President's Room 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 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.
	Friday, March 6, 2020 TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED: Latin Table Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, President's Room 12:00 pm – 2:00 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.
	Friday, February 28, 2020 TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED: Latin Table Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, President's Room 12:00 pm – 2:00 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.
	Friday, February 21, 2020 TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED: Latin Table Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, President's Room 12:00 pm – 2:00 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.
	Friday, February 14, 2020 TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED: Latin Table Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, President's Room 12:00 pm – 2:00 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.
	Thursday, February 13, 2020 The Ancient Egyptian Night Sky Sarah Symons, Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Science, McMaster University, Ontario Olin Humanities, Room 102 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5 This talk will describe some of the archeological evidence for astronomical knowledge in ancient Egypt and discuss the challenges of understanding (up to) 4,500-year-old texts, objects, and monuments. What did the ancient Egyptians know about astronomy? To what uses did they put this knowledge? And how much can we learn from a fragmentary archeological record? Sarah Symons is an associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Science, McMaster University, Ontario. She studies the history of astronomy in ancient Egypt, with particular interests in timekeeping and astronomical maps, and is also director of the William J. McCallion Planetarium in Hamilton, Ontario. She is coeditor (with Bard’s Kassandra Miller) of Down to the Hour, a recently published book on ancient and classical timekeeping.
	Friday, February 7, 2020 TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED: Latin Table Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, President's Room 12:00 pm – 2:00 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.
	Thursday, February 6, 2020 The Doubled Self and the Worship of the Gods *Charles Stang, Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School* Olin Humanities, Room 102 4:45 pm – 6:15 pm EST/GMT-5 How did the ancient Greeks and Romans conceive of the nature of the human subject and its relationship to the divine? The Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (203-270 CE) famously insisted that every human is doubled: our intellect “here” in the material world has an archetype “there” in a transcendent reality, where it eternally feasts on the intelligible Forms. This lecture will explore how Plotinus’s model of doubled selfhood fared in the generation that followed immediately upon his death, particularly in a debate between two of his most important Neoplatonic successors, Porphyry of Tyre (c. 234 – c. 305) and Iamblichus of Chalcis (c. 245 – c. 325). Specifically, it will explore the implications of this model of selfhood for ritual practice, that is, for the traditional worship of the gods.
	Friday, January 31, 2020 TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED: Latin Table Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, President's Room 12:00 pm – 2:00 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.