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Archive of Past Events
2026
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Tuesday, April 7, 2026 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 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. |
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Monday, April 6, 2026 MES Spring Film Series Screening: Feathers
Fractal RealitiesPreston Theater 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Feathers, the feature debut of Egyptian director Omar El Zohairy, follows an act of magic and its reverberations through the life of a woman bound by domestic duty. Specifically, her husband gets turned into a chicken. While moving heaven and earth to bring her husband back and secure her family’s survival, she goes through a total transformation. The absurdist dark comedy received the 2021 Grand Prize at Cannes Critics’ Week. |
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Wednesday, April 1, 2026 MES Spring Film Series Screening: Horses of God
Fractal RealitiesPreston Theater 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Fractal Realities screening: Hamid and Yachine spend most of their days smoking pot in Casablanca’s biggest slum. After a stint in prison Hamid returns home a changed man: he is now a religious fundamentalist, and believes his younger brother has been chosen to become a martyr. The two must embark on a transformative journey. From filmmaker Nabil Ayouch comes a dramatic and dark mise-en-scène of a dispossessed youth in an economically fractured society. Horses of God is an invitation to reflect on personal agency, interpersonal violence, and systemic marginalization. Running time: 1 hour 55 minutes. |
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Tuesday, March 31, 2026 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 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. |
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Monday, March 30, 2026 Organizing Against Empires from the Hudson Valley
with Demilitarize Hudson Valley, Ulster County Rapid Response, Break the Bonds New York State, Cosmic Dog House PressBertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Join us for a roundtable discussion with local organizers, activists, artists and educators, about what it looks like to organize against empire on occupied Mohican land (Hudson Valley). We will learn about organizing strategies and campaigns around divestment, demilitarization, immigrant defense and Palestinian liberation. Each guest speaker will share with the Bard community about the work they are doing on the ground and how to take part in strengthening the intersectional nature of organizing in this region. Masks encouraged and provided! |
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Thursday, March 26, 2026 Sema - A Devotional Gathering
Live music & sufi whirling meditationBertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Please contact Erin Atwell at [email protected] or Ziad Dallal at [email protected] for more information. |
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Tuesday, March 24, 2026 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 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. |
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Monday, March 23, 2026 MES Spring Film Series Screening: LAY YOUR TIRED HANDS ON A FULL STOMACH
Fractal RealitiesBertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 A Fractal Realities screening LAY YOUR TIRED HANDS ON A FULL STOMACH, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2025, 47 mins Dir. Shenah Abdullah & Sanger Kareem This compelling ethnographic film follows the oral histories of farmers in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. They tell stories of a past without pesticides, full of fresh produce and traditional farming techniques, and of a present with pesticides, diseases, and challenges, as well as hope of revival. 47 min. One of the Directors, Shenah Abdullah, will join us via zoom. |
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Tuesday, March 17, 2026 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 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. |
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Tuesday, March 10, 2026 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 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. |
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Monday, March 9, 2026 MES Spring Film Series Screening: Leila and the Wolves
Fractal RealitiesBertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Fractal Realities screening: A sweeping, poetic tribute to the enduring role of Arab women in liberation movements, Leila and the Wolves (1984) stands as Heiny Srour’s sole narrative feature. The film follows Leila (Nabila Zeitouni), a Lebanese woman living in London, who begins to uncover the often-ignored contributions of women within the larger revolutionary struggle. Blending archival footage with staged sequences, the film crafts a powerful feminist counter-history of resistance. Watch the trailer here. Heiny Srour is a Lebanese film director. She is best known for being the first female Arab filmmaker to have a film chosen for the Cannes Film Festival (The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived, 1974). Despite the film’s accolades and success at Cannes, The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived was banned in most of the Arab world for its socialist and feminist politics. Srour has advocated for women's rights through her films, her writing, and by funding other filmmakers. Her first feature film, Leila and the Wolves, also reflects her feminist politics and socialist politics. |
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Tuesday, March 3, 2026 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 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. |
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Thursday, February 26, 2026 "Innocent Knowledge: Israeli and Palestinian Children's Drawings"
A talk by Professor Katharina GalorReem-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. |
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 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. |
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Tuesday, February 17, 2026 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 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. |
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Tuesday, February 10, 2026 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 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. |
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Monday, February 9, 2026 MES Spring Film Series Fractal Realities Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5 It was Just an Accident, dir. Jafar Panahi (2025). Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Vahid, an unassuming mechanic, has a chance encounter with Eghbal, a man he strongly suspects to be his former sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, Vahid gathers several former prisoners, all abused by that same captor, to try and confirm Eghbal's identity. As the bickering group drives around Tehran with the captive, they must confront how far to take matters into their own hands with their presumed tormentor. From master filmmaker Jafar Panahi comes a searing moral thriller that engages with complex ideas about the uncertainty of the truth and the choice between revenge and mercy, as Panahi turns his personal dissonance into a profound and galvanizing work of art.Watch the trailer here. |
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Tuesday, February 3, 2026 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 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. |
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026 Arabic Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.Kline, College Room 6:00 pm – 7:00 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. |