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Portrait of Ingrid Becker with blonde hair wearing a black shirt.

Ingrid Becker Named a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study

Becker will work on a new research project about the rise of the questionnaire—a sociological technology and ubiquitous mass cultural form—in relation to the shifting status of the question in post-1945 Anglo-American poetry.

Pierre Joris, a man in glasses and a turtleneck staring off camera.

Robert Kelly and Charlotte Mandell ’90 Write About Pierre Joris ’69 for the Poetry Foundation

“He was never jealous of anybody,” said Mandell. “He was always happy for other people's success.”

A photo portrait of Robert Cioffi who is wearing glasses and looking directly at the camera.

Robert Cioffi Reviews The Red Sea Scrolls for the London Review of Books

The book discusses the papyri of Wadi el-Jarf, which changed how we view the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Upcoming Events

  • 10/28
    Tuesday
    5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Olin Auditorium

    Ancestral Voices Prophesying: Notes on Britten's War Requiem

    Tuesday, October 28, 2025
    5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Olin Auditorium

    Bard College presents renowned tenor and musical scholar Ian Bostridge delivering the Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities in honor of preeminent poet, alumnus, and former Bard faculty member Anthony Hecht ’44. In his lecture series, “Ancestral Voices Prophesying: Notes on Britten's War Requiem,” Bostridge—who has performed War Requiem nearly a hundred times since 1994—will examine the layers of meaning and context in the piece, one of the most important works of classical music written after 1945.

    The first lecture in the series, “Requiem,” takes place on Monday, October 27 at 5:00 pm, and the second, “Anthem,” will be held on Tuesday, October 28 at 5:00 pm.  A reception precedes both lectures, which will take place in Olin Auditorium on Bard’s Annandale campus. The final lecture in the series, “Akedah,” will be held on Friday, October 31 at 6:00 pm in the Irving Posner and Herman Ackman Space at Kaufman Music Center located at 129 West 67th Street, NYC.

    Contact: Mary Strieder
    Phone: 845-758-7405
    E-mail: [email protected]

  • 10/28
    Tuesday
    5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Preston Theater
    "Yoko Tawada's Traveling Voice" event poster; "Yoko Tawada's Traveling Voices": A Screening and Conversation with Son HyeJeong

    "Yoko Tawada's Traveling Voices": A Screening and Conversation with Son HyeJeong

    Tuesday, October 28, 2025
    5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Preston Theater

    Tawada Yōko is very well-known in the US, especially thanks to the translation in English of The Emissary, which received in 2018 the National Book Award for Translated Literature. Less renowned are, however, her poetry and performances playing with language, media and voices, which Son has been following around the world for the past ten years. The teaser gives a taste of them, but does not encompass their originality, nor the way they ask their audience to interrogate their sense of identity, and their pre-established conceptions of how cultural and language canons operate. Tawada's work is translingual (shifting between her two main languages, Japanese and German, and an expanding repertoire of others) and interstitial, thriving in the no man's lands between and beyond national borders -- and different forms of media production. Her games with audio and video, word and gesture, human and non-human entities (including, at times, generative AI) all converge towards one goal: to give a voice to what and who is often unvoiced.

    Contact: Chiara Pavone
    E-mail: [email protected]

  • 11/11
    Tuesday
    5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
    A purple logo for the Hotel Majestic in Paris; Rival Riverains: Joyce and Proust in Paris

    Rival Riverains: Joyce and Proust in Paris

    Tuesday, November 11, 2025
    5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

    James Joyce and Marcel Proust met only once, at a late-night supper in the Hotel Majestic in Paris in May 1922. This lecture will revisit their brief and awkward encounter and explore what it reveals about the literary and social worlds of early twentieth-century Paris, how artistic value is created and sustained, and the contrasting experiences of exile and belonging that shaped each writer’s work.
    Barry McCrea is the Donald R. Keough Family Professor of Irish Studies and Professor of English at Notre Dame University. He is the author of three books: Languages of the Night, winner of the American Comparative Literature Association’s René Wellek prize for the best book of 2016; In the Company of Strangers which was awarded the Heyman prize for scholarship in the humanities; and a novel, The First Verse, which won a number of awards including the Ferro-Grumley prize for fiction and a Barnes & Noble “Discover” award. 
    For more information, contact Prof. Éric Trudel at [email protected]

    Contact: Éric Trudel
    E-mail: [email protected]

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