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Archive of Past Events
2025
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025 Arabic Film Screening
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4Join your fellow Arabic students for Divine Intervention (2002) by Elia Suleiman: a satire, comedy, drama, romance, and war film about Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah who meet secretly. Refreshments will be served. |
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Tuesday, October 7, 2025 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, September 30, 2025 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, September 23, 2025 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, September 23, 2025 Reckoning with Ghosts: The Iran-Iraq War in Persian and Arabic Fiction Today
CCS Classroom 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4Although sometimes called “a forgotten war” by pundits, the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) was the longest two-state war of the 20th century. Since 1980, for a variety of reasons, writers, filmmakers, and visual artists from both countries have taken it up in their works. This talk explains why, three and half decades after its conclusion, this war remains a major topic for writers of Persian and Arabic fiction, and how Iranian and Iraqi writers have transformed the literatures of this war from authoritarian propaganda into literatures of mourning and resistance, connecting the war's afterlives to some of the most salient social and political challenges the two countries face today. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Curatorial Studies, Literature program, and the Human Rights Project. It is organized in conjunction with All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group at the Hessel Museum. Amir Moosavi is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University-Newark. He researches and teaches about modern Persian and Arabic literatures and the cultural histories of the modern Middle East, with a focus on Iran, Iraq and the Levant. His book Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War considers how Iraqi and Iranian writers have wrestled with representing the Iran-Iraq War and its legacy, from wartime to the present. |
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025 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, September 9, 2025 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, September 2, 2025 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 7, 2025 “All poetry is revolution”: Reading and Discussion of Anna Greki’s Algeria, Capital: Algiers with Marine Cornuet and Ammiel Alcalay
Olin Humanities, Room 102 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4In 1963, a year after Algerian independence, Anna Greki, an Algerian poet of French descent living in exile in Tunisia, published Algeria, Capital: Algiers, her first poetry collection, in French and Arabic. Greki, 32 at the time, had participated in the Algerian revolution and was arrested, incarcerated and tortured by the French military for her activism. Algeria, Capital: Algiers, translated by Marine Cornuet, and introduced by Ammiel Alcalay, includes poems Greki wrote while in prison and is available in English for the first time. Please join us for a reading and discussion of Greki’s life and work, and of the translation itself. Marine Cornuet is a Brooklyn-based translator, poet, and editor. Recent publications include Cloche Pèlerine (Le Castor Astral, 2024), a French translation of Kaveh Akbar’s poetry collection Pilgrim Bell, and Algeria, capital: Algiers (Pinsapo Press and Lost & Found, 2024), an English translation of Anna Gréki’s poetry collection Algérie, capitale Algers. She holds an MFA from Queens College, CUNY, and is the co-founder of the literary journal Clotheslines. She is a member of the working collective and an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse. Poet, novelist, translator, essayist, critic, and scholar Ammiel Alcalay’s latest books are CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books, his co-translation of Nasser Rabah’s Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece, and the forthcoming Follow the Person: Archival Encounters. In 2017, he received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for his work as founder and General Editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative; he is a Distinguished Professor at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. |
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025 Comedy for Organizers: Cliff Notes from an Anti-Zionist Jew
Fisher Center, Studio North 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4How do artists, comedians, and performers respond to crises? What tools and opportunities do comedy and laughter offer political and social movements in their confrontations with fascism and supremacy? Comedian and performance artist Morgan Bassichis, a longtime member of Jewish Voice for Peace, shares their experience at the intersection of comedy and political organizing. Morgan Bassichis is a comedic performer who has been described as “fiercely hilarious” by the New Yorker. They are touring their current show, Can I Be Frank?, about the queer performance artist Frank Maya. Recent shows include A Crowded Field, which explored the use and abuse of Jewish holidays. Morgan is co-editor with Jay Saper and Rachel Valinsky of Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah, published by Wendy’s Subway. |