News and Events

Jake Nabel, ’07 Penn State University
Olin Humanities, Room 204  5:15 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
A long tradition of scholarship on the concept of freedom in antiquity imagines it as a proprietary value of the Greeks and Romans. In other ancient cultures, the story goes, freedom was of marginal importance, and it was subordinated to other political ideals. This narrative founders, however, in the world of late antique Iran, where freedom (āzādīh in Middle Persian) is abundantly attested as a core value of the Sasanian ruling classes. This talk will explore the concept in diverse evidence from Sasanian epigraphy, Zoroastrian religious literature, Armenian historiography, and documentary texts in Bactrian and Sogdian. It will also compare Iranian āzādīh with Greco-Roman freedom to reassess the narrative of ancient civilizational divergence that has often been predicated upon this political value. The lecture will be followed by a reception co-sponsored by the Classical Studies Program and the Classics Club. All are welcome to attend.

Lecture: 5:15-6:30 pm, Olin 204
Reception: 6:30 pm, Olin second floor

We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.
 
Massena Campus  4:15 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Wíhanble S’a Center’s Spring Open House at the Massena Campus is a bi-yearly event for all of our Bard community that brings together collaborations with nonhuman beings through hide work, shared meals, and conversation on the land. We are an American Indian-led research center grounded in Lakota knowledge systems, where learning happens through relation, responsibility, and community. These practices form the root of our approach to developing ethical AI tools, grounding rigorous technological research in land-based knowledge. 

Our Open House supports our college community by providing structured student training and a site for faculty engagement with Wíhanble S’a Center’s ongoing initiatives, including, but not limited to, the development of Lakota Dream Language, a neuro-AI storytelling platform that enables interactive exploration of dream narratives. 

This year’s events center on a symposium with scholars and artists who consider present-day realities of technological entwinement within the context of Indigenous methodologies and advance new modes of ethical engagement. Fall 2026 features practitioners such as Nathan Young, Antoine Bellamare, Mikhel Proulx, Olivia Camfield, Wills Brewer, Bradley Dry, Asinnajaq, and more. 

  We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.
Massena Campus  3:45 pm – 4:15 pm EDT/GMT-4
Wíhanble S’a Center’s Spring Open House at the Massena Campus is a bi-yearly event for all of our Bard community that brings together collaborations with nonhuman beings through hide work, shared meals, and conversation on the land. We are an American Indian-led research center grounded in Lakota knowledge systems, where learning happens through relation, responsibility, and community. These practices form the root of our approach to developing ethical AI tools, grounding rigorous technological research in land-based knowledge. 

Our Open House supports our college community by providing structured student training and a site for faculty engagement with Wíhanble S’a Center’s ongoing initiatives, including, but not limited to, the development of Lakota Dream Language, a neuro-AI storytelling platform that enables interactive exploration of dream narratives. 

This year’s events center on a symposium with scholars and artists who consider present-day realities of technological entwinement within the context of Indigenous methodologies and advance new modes of ethical engagement. Fall 2026 features practitioners such as Nathan Young, Antoine Bellamare, Mikhel Proulx, Olivia Camfield, Wills Brewer, Bradley Dry, Asinnajaq, and more. 

We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.
Massena Campus  3:00 pm – 3:45 pm EDT/GMT-4
Wíhanble S’a Center’s Spring Open House at the Massena Campus is a bi-yearly event for all of our Bard community that brings together collaborations with nonhuman beings through hide work, shared meals, and conversation on the land. We are an American Indian-led research center grounded in Lakota knowledge systems, where learning happens through relation, responsibility, and community. These practices form the root of our approach to developing ethical AI tools, grounding rigorous technological research in land-based knowledge. 

Our Open House supports our college community by providing structured student training and a site for faculty engagement with Wíhanble S’a Center’s ongoing initiatives, including, but not limited to, the development of Lakota Dream Language, a neuro-AI storytelling platform that enables interactive exploration of dream narratives. 

This year’s events center on a symposium with scholars and artists who consider present-day realities of technological entwinement within the context of Indigenous methodologies and advance new modes of ethical engagement. Fall 2026 features practitioners such as Nathan Young, Antoine Bellamare, Mikhel Proulx, Olivia Camfield, Wills Brewer, Bradley Dry, Asinnajaq, and more. 

We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.
 
Massena Campus  2:30 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Wíhanble S’a Center’s Spring Open House at the Massena Campus is a bi-yearly event for all of our Bard community that brings together collaborations with nonhuman beings through hide work, shared meals, and conversation on the land. We are an American Indian-led research center grounded in Lakota knowledge systems, where learning happens through relation, responsibility, and community. These practices form the root of our approach to developing ethical AI tools, grounding rigorous technological research in land-based knowledge. 

Our Open House supports our college community by providing structured student training and a site for faculty engagement with Wíhanble S’a Center’s ongoing initiatives, including, but not limited to, the development of Lakota Dream Language, a neuro-AI storytelling platform that enables interactive exploration of dream narratives. 

This year’s events center on a symposium with scholars and artists who consider present-day realities of technological entwinement within the context of Indigenous methodologies and advance new modes of ethical engagement. Fall 2026 features practitioners such as Nathan Young, Antoine Bellamare, Mikhel Proulx, Olivia Camfield, Wills Brewer, Bradley Dry, Asinnajaq, and more. 

We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.
 
Massena Campus  11:30 am – 12:15 pm EDT/GMT-4
Wíhanble S’a Center’s Spring Open House at the Massena Campus is a bi-yearly event for all of our Bard community that brings together collaborations with nonhuman beings through hide work, shared meals, and conversation on the land. We are an American Indian-led research center grounded in Lakota knowledge systems, where learning happens through relation, responsibility, and community. These practices form the root of our approach to developing ethical AI tools, grounding rigorous technological research in land-based knowledge. 

Our Open House supports our college community by providing structured student training and a site for faculty engagement with Wíhanble S’a Center’s ongoing initiatives, including, but not limited to, the development of Lakota Dream Language, a neuro-AI storytelling platform that enables interactive exploration of dream narratives. 

This year’s events center on a symposium with scholars and artists who consider present-day realities of technological entwinement within the context of Indigenous methodologies and advance new modes of ethical engagement. Fall 2026 features practitioners such as Nathan Young, Antoine Bellamare, Mikhel Proulx, Olivia Camfield, Wills Brewer, Bradley Dry, Asinnajaq, and more. 

We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.
Massena Campus  11:10 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Wíhanble S’a Center’s Spring Open House at the Massena Campus is a bi-yearly event for all of our Bard community that brings together collaborations with nonhuman beings through hide work, shared meals, and conversation on the land. We are an American Indian-led research center grounded in Lakota knowledge systems, where learning happens through relation, responsibility, and community. These practices form the root of our approach to developing ethical AI tools, grounding rigorous technological research in land-based knowledge. 

Our Open House supports our college community by providing structured student training and a site for faculty engagement with Wíhanble S’a Center’s ongoing initiatives, including, but not limited to, the development of Lakota Dream Language, a neuro-AI storytelling platform that enables interactive exploration of dream narratives. 
This year’s events center on a symposium with scholars and artists who consider present-day realities of technological entwinement within the context of Indigenous methodologies and advance new modes of ethical engagement. Fall 2026 features practitioners such as Nathan Young, Antoine Bellamare, Mikhel Proulx, Olivia Camfield, Wills Brewer, Bradley Dry, Asinnajaq, and more. 

We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.
Massena Campus  11:00 am – 11:10 am EDT/GMT-4
Wíhanble S’a Center’s Spring Open House at the Massena Campus is a bi-yearly event for all of our Bard community that brings together collaborations with nonhuman beings through hide work, shared meals, and conversation on the land. We are an American Indian-led research center grounded in Lakota knowledge systems, where learning happens through relation, responsibility, and community. These practices form the root of our approach to developing ethical AI tools, grounding rigorous technological research in land-based knowledge. 

Our Open House supports our college community by providing structured student training and a site for faculty engagement with Wíhanble S’a Center’s ongoing initiatives, including, but not limited to, the development of Lakota Dream Language, a neuro-AI storytelling platform that enables interactive exploration of dream narratives. 

This year’s events center on a symposium with scholars and artists who consider present-day realities of technological entwinement within the context of Indigenous methodologies and advance new modes of ethical engagement. Fall 2026 features practitioners such as Nathan Young, Antoine Bellamare, Mikhel Proulx, Olivia Camfield, Wills Brewer, Bradley Dry, Asinnajaq, and more. 

  Various Campus Locations  Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 

  Bertelsmann Campus Center, Lobby  10:00 am – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Find out how easy it is to ride all through Dutchess County for free six days a week.  


Download: Dutchess-Co-09-15-26.pdf

Blithewood  5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Ever wondered what Plato sounds like in ancient Greek? Come support Bard Classical Studies students as they recite Greek and Latin passages and compete for prizes! Followed by a reception at Blithewood Manor. 

Olin Humanities, Room 102  5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
In the middle of the twentieth century, renowned dancer and choreographer, Martha Graham, and sculptor and set designer, Isamu Noguchi, collaborated on a group of dances based on Greek myth. Professor Ancona’s book, Martha Graham’s Greek Myth-Based Dances and Her Collaboration with Isamu Noguchi (Bloomsbury Academic 2026), explores their work together as performance artist and visual artist, arguing that the bold and woman-centered receptions of Greek myth created by Graham emerged from a mutual understanding of space and movement / objects and bodies. Her talk will discuss material from the book, including some of the challenges and opportunities for a Classics scholar writing about modern dance and modern art. The talk will be illustrated with still images and video.

Olin Humanities, Room 205  3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Come join us to discuss Oppian’s On Fishing, an epic poem in five books about the wonders of the ocean, human ingenuity, and the dominion of (the fisher)man over the creatures of the sea­­—from the clever octopus to the fearsome tunny. This seminar with scholars from across North America is free and open to the Bard Community. Anglers, experts, and novices are welcome. Please email [email protected] for more information and access to the text.

Professor Daniel Newsome, Bard Mathematics program
Olin Humanities, Room 201  5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
"The Myth of Er," located late in Chapter X of Plato's Republic, introduced much of the world to the idea of a musically motivated cosmos. In his Timaeus a bit more detail is given on how this harmonic world was constructed. The description is extremely evocative but like a dream, when you wake up, things don't always fit together. For the next 2000+ years astronomers, astrologers, philosophers, mathematicians, musicians, and music theorists tried to get the universe to fit into some sort of harmonic scheme. This is their story.

With James Romm and Lauren Curtis
Olin Humanities, Room 202  7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Join us for a screening of the documentary film Army of Lovers (50 minutes), the story of the elite Theban army corps made up of male couples, followed by a discussion of same-sex relations in the ancient world led by Classics professors James Romm and Lauren Curtis.

Lauren Curtis, Director, Classical Studies, Associate Professor of Classics, Bard College
Olin Humanities, Room 201  5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5
This presentation tackles how scholars of literature can approach historical archives, using the Roman poet Ovid as an example. Exiled to the northeastern frontier of the Roman empire (modern Romania) by the emperor Augustus in 8 CE, Ovid continued to write deeply personal poetry to friends and a wider reading public. Scholars have long noticed how his poetry is transformed by the experience of exile; this presentation argues that if we put his work in dialogue with the surviving written archives from the Roman frontier (military and diplomatic documents, for example, inscribed on wax, bronze, and stone), we see that not just his themes but also his very language is transformed by local written culture.Curtis will discuss how the traditional siloing of academic disciplines and subfields can occlude such connections, and argue that attempting to bridge them can result in new approaches to (ancient) literature.