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Undergraduate Faculty Newsletter Annandale, February 2017 Volume 12, Number 2

from the Dean of the College ______Rebecca Thomas

I am pleased to welcome Distinguished Writer in Residence Alaa Al-Aswany for the spring 2017 semester. We also welcome Ike Achebe in historical studies, Olga Bush in art history, Lindsay Walker Clark in dance, Brent Green in film and electronic arts, Tere O’Connor in theater and performance, Michelle Sipe in the First-Year Seminar, and Shinique Smith in studio arts.

Successful searches thus far this year will bring to Bard new tenure-track faculty Gregory “Duff” Morton in anthropology, Felipe Rezende in economics, Antonios Kontos in physics, and Laura Ford in sociology; Laura has been with Bard as visiting faculty for the last year. A tenure-track search is ongoing in philosophy; please watch for announcements of upcoming candidate talks.

Faculty activities and accomplishments can be found in an appended document at the end of the newsletter and it will appear on the dean’s website at www.bard.edu/doc by February 10. ______

FACULTY MEETINGS – Spring 2017 Faculty Meetings – 4:45 p.m., Multipurpose Room of Bertelsmann Campus Center Wednesdays: February 1, March 15, April 12 (faculty-led), May 24 First and final meetings of the semester are followed by the President’s Open House Executive Committee – Tuesdays 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Ludlow 301 Curriculum Committee – Wednesdays 1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m. Ludlow 301 Planning and Appointments Committee – Thursdays, 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. Ludlow 301 Faculty Senate Meetings –Tuesdays, 8:30 a.m. – 10 a.m. Location TBA February 21, March 14, April 18, May 9

Evaluation Letters are Due February 15

for Senior Faculty and Regular Renewals

If you would like to submit a letter to the evaluation file of a faculty member who is scheduled to be evaluated this semester, it should be signed and sent to the Dean of the College, Ludlow 203, or by e-mail to [email protected] by Wednesday, February 15

Senior Evaluations

Long-term faculty are evaluated at regular intervals

Roger Berkowitz SST/Political Studies Kenneth Buhler ARTS/Studio Arts Nicole Caso L&L/Spanish Studies Laurie Dahlberg ARTS/Art History R. Cole Heinowitz L&L/Literature Medrie MacPhee ARTS/Studio Arts Chiori Miyagawa ARTS/Theater and Performance Bradford Morrow L&L/Written Arts Joseph O’Neill L&L/Written Arts Lothar Osterburg ARTS/Studio Arts Frank Scalzo SMC/Psychology Maria Simpson ARTS/Dance

Regular Renewals

Jeffrey Gibson ARTS/Studio Arts Christopher McIntosh SST/Political Studies Erika Switzer ARTS/Music

Senior evaluation testimony is reviewed by the director of the program, the divisional chair, the dean of the college, and the president. Regular renewal testimony is read by the divisional evaluators, the division chair, the College Evaluation Committee (CEC), the associate dean of the college, and the president.

from the Associate Dean of the College ______Deirdre d’Albertis Big Ideas: CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The Curriculum Committee of Bard College invites members of the faculty to submit proposals for a faculty-led general education initiative Fall 2017 or Spring 2018

Big Ideas courses should be: • committed to addressing concerns of contemporary significance; • co-designed by two or more faculty members with expertise in very different disciplines (not necessarily team-taught); • focused on a problem or concern that actively engages student learning in more than one distribution area (thereby earning credit in those two areas with a single course); • explicit in articulating learning experiences or goals associated with the course. Big Ideas are general education offerings carrying 6-8 credits that may be offered more than once. Students will be allowed to enroll in only one Big Ideas course per semester; coordinated courses will be indivisible.

Class format is open and flexible: faculty may choose to design parallel courses that meet separately and plan plenary events/excursions for both classes, or they may elect to team-teach. The goal is to create an educational experience that genuinely crosses disciplines (and distribution requirement areas) in engaging the topic of the course.

Proposals can be general and exploratory. Course development is expected to be an extended process.

Deadline for Proposals to the Curriculum Committee: February 24, 2017

Big Ideas faculty will be awarded a one-time $1500 grant per course to be shared for the purpose of course development; course selection is subject to approval of the Dean of the College.

For more information: contact Associate Dean of the College Deirdre d’Albertis at 845-758-7242 or e- mail [email protected].

Courses selected for the Big Ideas Spring 2017 launch are:

Games at Work: Participation, Procedure, and Play (Ben Coonley and Keith O’Hara)

Performing Race and Gender: Uncle Tom’s Cabin on Page and Stage (Donna Ford Grover and Jean Wagner)

Chernobyl: The Meaning of Man-Made Disaster (Matthew Deady and Jonathan Becker)

SAVE the DATE: Friday, March 3, 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. How to Get What You Need to Thrive in the Academy

Faculty and administrators are invited to participate in a half-day National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity Workshop, “Mentoring 101: How to Get What You Need to Thrive in the Academy,” on Friday, March 3, from 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. in Finberg House.

This workshop is designed both for junior AND senior faculty, addressing the factors that contribute to professional productivity as well as work-life balance. NCFDD is at the forefront of conversations in higher education about supporting inclusive excellence in academe. You may recognize the name of NCFDD President Kerry Ann Rockquemore from her popular column in Inside Higher Ed.

Collectively sponsored by the Dean of the College, the Associate Dean of the College, CFCD, and the Dean for Inclusive Excellence, Bard’s workshop will be facilitated by Professor Rosemarie A. Roberts of Connecticut College. Trained as a social psychologist and dancer, Dr. Roberts’ interdisciplinary scholarship spans the areas of social inequality, social group and identity power relations, epistemology, pedagogy, qualitative research methods, and performance. Theoretically, her work also blends social history, dance, and critical social theory. She has published more than twenty articles and book chapters in peer-reviewed journals and books, co-authored a book, and is writing a second book about the relationship among hip hop dance, racialized bodies, knowledge, and power. Dr. Roberts’ work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the American Psychological Association. She has also been a research fellow at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. See http://www.facultydiversity.org/?page=RosemarieRoberts

Please register online for this event at: http://www.facultydiversity.org/events/register.aspx?id=898625 from the Faculty Seminar Coordinator______Matthew Deady

Faculty Seminars – Spring 2017 Please note the new start time for this semester

Wednesday, February 8 William Mullen Professor of Classics ‘Stanzaic’ Translation of Iliad and the “Homeric Hymn to Apollo”

Wednesday, March 15 Michael Staunton Visiting Associate Professor of Irish and Celtic Studies

Wednesday, April 5 Matthew Mutter Assistant Professor of Literature

Wednesday, April 26 Brooke Jude Assistant Professor of Biology

*All seminars take place in Olin 102 beginning at 6:30 p.m. Please join us for a reception prior to the event at 6:00 p.m. in the Olin Atrium

Center for Faculty and Curricular Development (CFCD)______Deirdre d’Albertis and Philip Pardi, co-directors Bard’s Center for Faculty and Curricular Development (CFCD) offers programs and support for faculty at all stages in their teaching and professional development. Below you will find information on some of the events planned for the spring semester. Updated information and the full schedule can be found at http://blogs.bard.edu/cfcd/semester-events.

"Lightning Lunches," designed to fit into 45-55 minutes, focus on a specific theme and are held throughout the semester in the French Room of the Faculty Dining Room (FDR). Grab your lunch and join us: we begin at 12:00 noon and end by 1:00 p.m. The cost of lunch is covered by CFCD.

Monday, January 30 Getting off to a Good Start

Tuesday, February 7 Interpreting your CaFE Forms

Tuesday, February 14 Grading with Rubrics [Location: Kline President’s Room]

Monday, February 20 Advising Senior Projects: Best Practices, Proven Tricks

Tuesday, February 28 How to get the Most out of Student Presentations

Monday, March 6 Google Classroom + Follow-up workshop on Google Classroom (Thursday, March 9, time and place TBA). This workshop will provide a hands-on opportunity to work with Google Classroom on your own laptop.

Tuesday, April 25 Tips on Advising [Note: Advising Day is the following week]

Other Programs during the Semester

Friday, March 3 National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity Workshop “Mentoring 101: How to Get What You Need to Thrive in the Academy,” 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. in Finberg House.

Ongoing during March Open Classrooms (for new and early-career faculty). Please contact us if you are in interested in visiting/observing a class taught by a colleague.

Reading Groups: CFCD reading groups offer an opportunity for faculty to read, think, and discuss important issues related to teaching, learning, and/or research. This year, the focus of these groups is on issues of race, identity, and gender, and in particular on the ways these concerns invite us to re-think how we teach. Space is limited; RSVP’s are required. We meet weekly during weeks 2 through 7 of the semester and ask faculty to commit to attending all of the meetings of their group. If interested, email Philip Pardi at [email protected].

Group 1 Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria (by Beverly Tatum). Fridays, 12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m.

Group 2 Everyday Anti-Racism (ed. Pollock) and Teaching to Transgress (by bell hooks). Wednesdays, 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

For additional information, to set up a one-on-one consultation, or to schedule a classroom visit, please contact Deirdre d’Albertis ([email protected]), Philip Pardi ([email protected]), or CFCD Faculty Fellow Adhaar Desai ([email protected]).

from the Co-Directors of First-Year Seminar ______Richard Aldous and Karen Sullivan

What is Freedom? Dialogues Ancient and Modern After the highly successful launch of the new syllabus in the fall, First-Year Seminar rolls out the second semester of “What Is Freedom? Dialogues Ancient and Modern.” Whereas last semester, we focused on “What Is Political Freedom?” this semester, we will be asking “What Is Personal Freedom?” In particular, we will be interrogating what it means to be free in the context of moral philosophy, religious conversion, scientific discovery, and literary creation. We will start the semester considering Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance,” with its identification of trust in individual insight as the source of our own genius. We will then put Aristotle’s Nicomachaean Ethics into dialogue with Friedrich Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals. What is the relation between Aristotle’s notion of classical virtue and Nietzsche’s post-Christian, post-Kantian ethics? With Augustine’s Confessions and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, we will examine two conversion narratives, the one Christian and the other Muslim. With Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, we will ask, is scientific investigation an unqualified good? Finally, turning to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Selected Works and James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, we will contemplate an individual’s emergence as a writer and thinker, in defiance of surrounding social, religious, and aesthetic structures.

As a follow-up to last semester’s popular “Experiencing Coriolanus,” we will be hosting “Experiencing Malcolm X” in the Fisher Center on Monday, April 3, in conjunction with our reading of The Autobiography of Malcolm X. The Acting Company (described by The Times as “the major touring classical theater in the United States”) will be coming to campus, where it will perform X: Or the Nation vs Betty Shabazz, a new play written by Marcus Gardley (according to The New Yorker, “the heir to Garcia Lorca, Pirandello, and Tennessee Williams”) and directed by Ian Belknap. Continuing with our theme of dialogues ancient and modern, this play juxtaposes the assassinations of Julius Caesar and Malcolm X. At a time of renewed activism regarding race and other social issues across the country, the play deepens our understanding of one of the most compelling and controversial revolutionary leaders of the 1960s. We will end the semester by considering speeches related to personal freedom by Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Harvey Milk. from the Middle State Accreditation Steering Committee ______Susan Merriam

The working groups have completed the Middle States Commission on Higher Education Self-Study document and forwarded the text to the visiting team. This team, led by former Vassar College president Catharine Hill, has already begun the process of visiting Bard network sites, including the American University of Central Asia and Eastern Correctional Facility (representing the Bard Prison Initiative). In addition to AUCA, members of the team will travel to the Bard Graduate Center, the Bard High School Early Colleges in Manhattan and Newark, and Bard College Berlin. The visiting team will complete the network visits before coming to Bard Annandale on February 26 for a four-day review. Members of the Bard community should look for announcements in the coming days of open sessions to discuss the self- study document.

Michèle Dominy Award for Teaching Excellence The Michèle Dominy Award for Teaching Excellence honors outstanding teachers who exemplify Bard College’s commitment to distinction in undergraduate liberal arts and sciences education. The annual award recognizes demonstrated intellectually rigorous and challenging teaching, creativity in course design and the application of innovative teaching concepts and methods, and energetic engagement within and outside of the classroom.

All full-time, tenured members of the faculty with at least five years of service are eligible for the annual award. Nominations are invited from students, faculty, and alumni. The selection is made by the president upon the recommendation of the dean of the college, the faculty director of the Center for Faculty and Curricular Development, and the prior recipient. The recipient receives an award of $2500, which is announced at the final faculty meeting of the year. The 2016 award was given to Professor of Physics Matthew Deady.

Nominations by students, alumni/ae, and faculty for the 2017 awards will be accepted through March 15, 2017. For nomination information and form, please see recent email announcements or contact the office of the dean of the college at [email protected].

The Michèle Dominy Award for Teaching Excellence was established in 2015 by the faculty and administration of the College to honor Professor Dominy’s fourteen years of service as dean of the college.

from the Citizen Science Program______Amy Savage, Director of Citizen Science The Citizen Science program is in its seventh year as part of the First-Year Experience at Bard. Data from our annual student self-assessment of learning gains have been used to refine the structure and curriculum from year to year. Students continue to report significant learning gains in their abilities to understand the appropriate use of evidence, identify patterns in data, and recognize how science is used to address real- world issues. Self-reported learning gains continue to increase annually, and providing students similarly robust learning experiences remains the program’s goal.

In year seven, students continued to engage with topics of global interest, such as Zika virus in the Americas and the recent Ebola outbreak in Western Africa. This year’s invited speakers came to us from Johns Hopkins, Yale University, and the Task Force for Global Health. They presented research on topics such as HIV transmission and management in adolescents, viral diversity and potential applications of viruses to improve health, and how research into the cold virus led to advances in polio research. Finally, the Citizen Science Teaching Fellow program, established in 2012-2013, placed its fifth team of Bard 2nd and 3rd year students in the laboratories to assist with implementation of experiments. This year students from history, biology, film & electronic arts, anthropology, and psychology comprise the CSTF team. This program provides an opportunity for upperclassmen to remain engaged in the Citizen Science program while working to support the learning community of the first year students. Science education outreach programs developed in collaboration between Citizen Science and the Center for Civic Engagement continue to expand, and we worked with more area schools than ever before.

Examined Lives: Reading and Writing Biography Friday, April 28, 2017 The Division of Languages and Literature is hosting a conference on “Examined Lives: Reading and Writing Biography,” at Bard on Friday, April 28. While biography remains one of the most popular genres of non-fictional writing, it has seldom been the object of critical attention. Taking advantage of the number of distinguished biographers on the Bard faculty, this conference will be considering the process by which biographers work, the standards by which we as readers judge biography, and the truth claims made by this genre of writing. Please contact Professors Michael Staunton ([email protected]) or Karen Sullivan ([email protected]) for further information.

from the Center for Civic Engagement______

Engaged Liberal Arts and Science (ELAS) Call for Course Proposals Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences (ELAS) courses are designed to link coursework and critical thinking skills developed in the classroom with civic and other forms of engagement activities that contextualize course materials and enhance learning. A significant portion of the learning takes place outside of the classroom: students learn through engagement with different geographies, organizations, and programs, in the surrounding communities or in the national and international venues in which Bard is involved. Courses can incorporate community-based research, fieldwork, public art, practica, internships, or policy research in collaboration with community organizations.

The Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) provides a range of faculty course development support that can include: faculty stipends, student intern funding, transportation, and event support. All faculty are eligible to apply, although preference will be given to tenured and tenure-track faculty. For more information, refer to: http://www.bard.edu/cce/programs/liberalarts/.

For courses proposed for fall 2017 or spring 2018, faculty should submit: 500 word proposals outlining ideas for new or revised courses that incorporate ELAS practices including: · conducting interviews, · engaging in environmental research with government or community organizations, · reviewing and summarizing research or policy options, · creating public art or instructional materials, · conducting project-based work, or · engaging with local governments including community projects, arts and activism, or community- based work/research. A budget should be included. Courses with sustainable cooperative community partnerships will be given priority.

The First 100 Days Initiative @ Bard The First 100 Days Initiative, sponsored by the CCE, Inclusive Excellence and Human Rights, is a civic action project—a Civics 3.0—that draws together Bard faculty, staff, and students, as well as members of our surrounding communities, in a set of informal, self-directed working groups, each focused on a different theme. Working groups will gather research and ideas that can help keep our community informed and connected to other initiatives happening at the local and state level.

The Initiative includes a public media component with dedicated student media fellows assigned to coordinate and disseminate news and information gathered from each of the working groups to the community. Watch for announcements for a series of public events created by the First 100 Days

Initiative. Interested in getting involved? Email: [email protected] or contact any of the collaborators: Erin Cannan ([email protected]), Danielle Riou ([email protected]) and Ariana Stokas ([email protected]). Email: [email protected] Follow us on Twitter @100DaysTeam https://twitter.com/100DaysTeam Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100daysteam

The First One Hundred Days Initiative events planned to date: • Thursday, February 2 – Bard College will host a public dialogue with Bard President Leon Botstein and Mark Danner, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities and contributor to the New York Review of Books, discussing President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. The discussion, “Trump Abroad: A New President Takes On an Endless War,” is the inaugural event of the First 100 Days Initiative at Bard. • Friday, February 10 – the First 100 Days leadership team will host “Media in the Public Interest.” This event is intended to begin a campus conversation about the role of media in serving the public, particularly voices historically underrepresented. It will be held from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. with time allocated for the working groups to connect and brainstorm with the media fellows. • Wednesday, February 22 – Darrell West: "Megachange in the Time of Trump and Technology" RKC 103, Sponsors include: Russian and Eurasian Program, Hannah Arendt Center, CCE. • Monday, February 27 – World Policy Institute Fellows Jonny Cristol and David Stevens, discuss “Jargon Redacted” at 5 p.m. in Olin 203. Sponsors include: Global and International Studies, CCE. • Friday, March 10 – 100 Days Initiative potluck dinner. Grey Stone Cottage @ 5 p.m. • Friday, April 14 – 100 Days Initiative potluck dinner. Grey Stone Cottage @ 5 p.m. Please send announcements for events or actions, such as: requests for tweets related to a confirmation hearing, information about who to call to help stop a piece of legislation, a brief of a bill to be distilled and then disseminated, or a request for information about a more extensive media collaboration. We have weekly Thursday deadlines for information to be disseminated by media fellows.

Equality – more or less West Point and Bard College In a conference at Blithewood Manor April 12 – 14, 2017 The theme of the third joint academic project between Bard College and West Point is the meaning and the nature of equality – equality for individuals, and equality for communities, societies, and nations.

The topic of equality reaches into every area of human culture: local politics, national identity, international relations; political science, philosophy, jurisprudence, and literature; religious institutions; the military profession; economics, psychology, sociology, and history. Problems focused on equality have broad dimensions of theory and practice, contrasting what should be and what can be with what is. The examination of what equality means in these different areas holds up a mirror to ourselves.

Once again, the two institutions will harness their academic strengths to promote mutual enrichment and depth in the areas of political theory, philosophy, theology, history, law, the social sciences, classics, the Middle East, and Asian studies. Members of faculty, as well as students, from West Point will contribute, and Professor Marina van Zuylan from Bard College, who directs the Bard Clemente Course, will give the keynote address.

Contact: Bruce Chilton at [email protected] for more information.

Spring 2017 Completion Days

Completion Days are scheduled for Wednesday, May 17 through Tuesday, May 23. Faculty are free to design any sort of completion exercises they wish (presentations, papers, exams, etc.) during this time, but it is understood that no new major assignments or readings should be given as Completion Days are set aside for summative work. Faculty are also urged to avoid scheduling outside speakers and events during the last three weeks of classes; all related expenses for such events will be charged to the next fiscal year, 2017-2018. These weeks should be reserved for presentation of student work, exhibitions, performances, and the like.

Global | Local: Experiments in the Arts and Humanities Friday, March 31 – Saturday, April 1, 2017 Bard College The Experimental Humanities (EH) concentration at Bard College, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will host a two-day conference on the theme of global-local experiments in the arts and humanities. The sciences and the arts have long used experimental methods to move from local circumstances (or, “deracinated particulars” in Francis Bacon’s words) to general, global discoveries, knowledge, and modes of expression. Over two days, this conference will foreground conversations that address the challenge of negotiating place-specific research and teaching with the desire for global interactions and exchanges. We hope to draw in a range of voices on broader questions regarding the challenges involved in moving across sites and scales of analysis and practice from different critical and historical perspectives.

Experimental Humanities is Bard’s liberal arts-driven answer to the Digital Humanities; it is an interdisciplinary scholarly and curricular initiative that examines how technologies mediate what it means to be human using theoretical, historical, and practice-based methods. The conference will provide an opportunity to ask what features of this approach and the approaches of other institutions can be adapted to different educational, social, and institutional contexts.

For more information, see http://eh.bard.edu/ or contact Maria Cecire at [email protected].

Volume 12, Number 2 This newsletter is intended by the Office of the Dean of the College to make information for faculty more accessible and available in an easy format. Where information is available on-line at our campus website http://www.bard.edu/doc/ you will be directed to that page. Please make use of the website; suggestions for posting of information and data are very welcome. If you have questions or comments about this newsletter, please contact [email protected].

Faculty Activities — February 2017 Newsletter

"Ingestion and Descent: The Chthonic Realms of Leonora Carrington," by Susan Aberth was published in Black Mirror 1: embodiment by Fulger Limited, Somerset, UK in October 2016. In January 2017, “An Allergy to Collaboration: The Early Formation of Leonora Carrington’s Artistic Vision,” by Aberth appeared in Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde edited by Jonathan P. Eburne and Catriona McAra and published by Manchester University Press.

Roger Berkowitz was featured in the article “Trump could destroy public discourse and lead to someone worse, according to Hannah Arendt’s philosophy” for DW in December 2016.

In December 2016, “The Election Was About Racism Against Barack Obama,” by Leon Botstein was published by TIME; he was interviewed by The Washington Post for “Bard president draws parallels between European anti-Semitism and American racism to explain Trump’s win,” and he signed an open letter to the Trump administration calling for action on Climate Change. In January 2017, Botstein directed The Orchestra Now (TŌN) at the Metropolitan Museum, “Sight and Sound: Brahms, Menzel, and Klinger.” The performance was featured in The New Yorker article “The Visual Artists Who Inspired Brahms.”

Jonathan Brent successfully negotiated with the Lithuanian government to undertake an international project to preserve, digitize, and disseminate 1.1 million documents and about 12,000 rare books from The YIVO Institute’s pre-WW II collection that was ransacked by the Nazis. He raised the funds for this project from private, public and government sources.

“Themes of 2016: across continents, autocrats take control,” by Ian Buruma, appeared in in December 2016.

In November 2016, Paul Cadden-Zimansky was elected to chair the American Physical Society's (APS) Forum on the History of Physics (FHP) beginning in 2018. The APS is the largest professional organization of physicists in the world and its 3,500-member FHP is the largest body dedicated to preserving and disseminating the history of physics.

“Jewish Mysticism, Nostra Aetate, and Renewal in Judaism and Christianity” by Bruce Chilton was published in Bridging between Sister Religions. Studies of Jewish and Christian Scriptures Offered in Honor of Professor John T. Townsend: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 51 (ed. Isaac Kalmi; Leiden: Brill, 2016) 262-283.

“Periodic Solution,” a dance film created by Jean Churchill and Peter Richards, which featured Bard alumni Arthur Aviles 87’, was at BAAD in New York City in October 2016.

Ben Coonley's 3D 360-degree video, "Trading Futures," was at the Whitney Museum of American Art in October 2016 as part of the Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016 exhibit.

In November 2016, Lauren Curtis spoke at the University of Pennsylvania Classical Studies Colloquium about “Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry.”

Michèle Dominy’s review of At Home in the Okavango: White Batswana Narratives of Emplacement and Belonging, by Catie Gressier was published in The Australian Journal of Anthropology in April 2016, and a review of The Naturalist and his ‘Beautiful Islands’: Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific, by David Russell Lawrence appeared in Pacific Affairs 89(3): 737-739.

An installation by Ellen Driscoll was on exhibit at Venti Trasversali in Italy from November 2016 through January 2017.

"Culturable bioaerosols along an urban waterfront are primarily associated with coarse particles" by Eli Dueker was published in PeerJ in December 2016.

"Reply to Müller: Aristotle on Vicious Choice," by Jay Elliott, was published in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy vol. 24, and "Anscombe on Practical Truth," was published in Klesis vol. 35. Elliott also presented his paper, "Aristotle on the Voluntariness of Vice," at the annual meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at Fordham University in October 2016.

“Colombia’s Failed Peace: Why It Failed, and What Comes Next,” by Omar Encarnación, was published by Foreign Affairs in October 2016.

In November 2016, The Population Council awarded Helen Epstein The Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg Prize for excellence in writing and editing in the population sciences.

Gideon Eshel discussed his research and the environmental impact of beef in Leonardo DiCaprio’s climate change documentary, “Before the Flood,” which premiered on National Geographic in October 2016.

"A Multilingual Workshop in Poetry and Prose Translation" by Peter Filkins appeared in Teaching Translation: Programs, Courses, Pedagogies, edited by Lawrence Venuti and published by Routledge in August 2016. In November 2016, three of his poems, "To the Eminent Hate Mongers," "Seven Almonds," and "Mr. Khan" were featured on the online version of The Common.

In October 2016, Karen Gunderson: The Dark World of Light by Elizabeth Frank, was published by Abbeville Press.

In December 2016, Susan Gillespie presented a paper entitled, "Prescience and Prediction. Walter Benjamin's Media Dialectics and the US-Presidential Election of 2016," at the faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University (Smolny College) conference on "Art and Political Engagement. Walter Benjamin's Thought in the XXI. Century.”

Lynn Hawley is currently performing in The Pubic Theater's production of Tony Award winner Richard Nelson's three cycle play, “The Gabriel's Election Year in the Life of One Family,” at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC. This play completed an extended run at the Public Theater in New York City in December 2016, and was highlighted in “Best Plays of 2016.”

In September 2016, Cole Heinowitz’s poem, "Letter to Charles Olson," was published in the collection, Letters for Olson, edited by Benjamin Hollander (Brooklyn NY: Spuyten Duyvil).

In October 2016, Tom Hutcheon received the Early Career Psychologist Poster Award at the Society for the Teaching of Psychology Annual Conference on Teaching in Atlanta, Georgia, for research which assessed the impact of a technology ban on student’s perceptions of the course and instructor. In November 2016, he presented a poster entitled “Applying response time distribution analysis to item-level manipulations: Evidence for stimulus-driven control” at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

Recent publications by Patricia Karetzky include “Cui Xiuwen,” in Yishu, vol. 15, no. 5; “Contemporary art by Chinese diaspora in a global age,” in East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 2, no. 2; and a review of “Material Culture and Asian Religions: Text, Image, and Object,” (edited by Benjamin J. Fleming and Richard D. Mann. New York: Routledge, 2014) in the Review of Religious and Chinese Society 3. She recently curated “Tang Desheng: Educated Youth: A Fading Living Evidence” at the 23rd International Conference of

Europeanists (organized by the Council for European Studies) in Philadelphia, PA, and “Infinite Compassion: Avalokiteshvara” at the Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor from October 2016 through November 2017. In May 2016, Karetzky gave a lecture entitled,“The Formation of a Daoist Pictorial Iconography in the Tang,” at the 10th International Conference on Daoist Studies, Tianan Taiho Retreat, in Taiwan; and in September 2016, she gave a lecture entitled “The Impact of the Curriculum of Chinese Art Schools: Western Influences in Chinese Contemporary Art” at the Central Academia of Fine Arts, in China.

Felicia Keesing was featured on NPR's Pulse of the Planet about the Tick Project in December 2016. She and her colleagues are testing two new ways of reducing ticks in suburban backyards. Link: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jim-metzner/pulse-of-the-planet/e/lyme-disease-tick-project-29dec16- 48664585?autoplay=true

James Ketterer was interviewed by the World Policy Journal on United States’ Policy and the Middle East in December 2016.

Recent publications by David Kettler include: In November 2016, “How Liberal the Arts? Hanna Deinhard’s Unhappy Interlude at Bard College,” published in Kunst und Gesellschaft zwischen den Kulturen from Munich: Edition Text + Kritik, edited by Irene Below and Burco Dogramaci; “Wissenssoziologie,” (with Volker Meja) in Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Leipzig, from Saxon Academy of Science; “Karl Mannheim in Frankfurt: A Political Education” in »Politisierung der Wissenschaft« Jüdische Wissenschaftler und ihre Gegner an der Universität Frankfurt vor und nach 1933, edited by Moritz Epple, Johannes, Series: Publications of the Frankfurter Universitätsarchivs (Hg. von Notker Hammerstein und Michael Maaser); vol. 05; and “La Sociologie comme Vocation. Viola Klein et Karl Mannheim,” (with Volker Meja), edited by Eve Gianoncelli and Eleni Verikas, for Viola Klein, Une pionnière, Paris: Cahiers de Genre 61/2016.

Porochista Khakpour discussed the election’s impact on her art, activism, and supporting Bard students in the November 21, 2016 Time article “How Artists Are Changing Their Work in Response to Donald Trump’s Victory.”

In January 2017, Cecile Kuznitz presented talks in Japan at a workshop entitled “Yiddishism and the Creation of the Yiddish Nation.” Kuznitz lectured on “Knowledge for the People: YIVO and the Development of the Yiddish Scholarship” at the University of Tokyo, and “The Capital of Yiddishland: Yiddish Culture in Vilna between the Two World Wars,” at Kyoto University.

Kristin Lane received the 2016 Teaching Resource Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

Amii LeGendre was a guest artist at the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival at the Sam Houston University in October 2016. She participated in a panel on Art and Activism and taught a master class for the Sam Houston College of Criminal Justice.

In October 2016, Medrie MacPhee and Shinique Smith both received an Anonymous Was a Women Award for making “significant contributions to their fields, while continuing to exhibit originality and creative potential through ongoing work.”

Fruitless/Fallen/Woven: Recent Acquisitions, an exhibition by Tanya Marcuse, was at the Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College from May 20 through September 11, 2016. Recent publications include: “10 Decompositions,” 0_100 Limited Editions, Fall 2016, and “Woven Nº 4” and “Woven Nº 9,” Roman Nvmerals, Vol. XIV and XV. In January 2017, Phantom Bodies, an exhibition by Marcuse, was at the College of St. Rose.

In September 2016, “The Homosexual Lifestyle: Time Use in Same-Sex Households,” co-authored by Michael Martell was published in the Journal of Demographic Economics, 82(4); and “Sexual Identity and the Lesbian Earnings Differential in the U.S.,” co-authored by Martell, was published in the Review of Social Economy advanced online publication. In January 2017, he presented his paper, “Modern Families: Household Bargaining and the Time Use in Same-Sex Households,” at the annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association in Chicago, and he was filmed giving an interview with the Institute for the New Economic Thinking as part of a series of discussions about New Economic Thinking.

“Russia, Turkey–and the United States?” by Sean McMeekin appeared in The American Interest in December 2016.

Walter Russell Mead’s article, “Trump’s Path to Mount Rushmore,” was published by The American Interest in December 2016.

“The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulanbaatar,” by Franz Nicolay (The New Press, August 2016) was named a “Best Travel Book” by The New York Times.

In September 2016, Isabelle O'Connell gave a solo recital at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland as part of the Composing The Island Festival – a 100 year retrospective of musical composition since the founding of the Irish state. The festival was reviewed in The Irish Times, and O’Connell gave an interview for the Contemporary Music Centre in Dublin about the program.

Joseph O’Neill’s short story, “Pardon Edward Snowden,” was published by The New Yorker in December 2016, he also read his story for their podcast, available on thenewyorker.com: http://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the- authors-voice/joseph-oneill-reads-pardon-edward-snowden

Fiona Otway’s work as a documentary editor was featured in curated screenings of THE PEARL at the Museum of Modern Art in December 2016.

In November 2016, Dimitri Papadimitriou was appointed as Greece’s minister of economy and development. He was interviewed on Bloomberg on “Bloomberg Markets: European Close” in December 2016.

“The Music of Blighted Dreams,” by Francine Prose, was published in The New York Review of Books in September 2016. Her novel, Mister Monkey, was published by Harper Collins, and reviewed by Cathleen Schine of The New York Times in October 2016; Prose was interviewed about the novel on NPR in November 2016, and in December 2016 “Truth is evaporating before our eyes,” by Prose, appeared in The Guardian.

In August 2016, Dina Ramadan published “The Alexandria Biennale and Egypt's Shifting Mediterranean” in A Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development 1880-1945 edited by Adam J. Goldwyn and Renée M. Silverman (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2016); in October 2016, she presented a paper entitled "Modernity and Artistic Subjectivity” at the symposium, Tracing an Imperfect Chronology, at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and in December 2016, she presented "Translating Art Education: The Beaux Arts between Paris and Cairo" at the French Studies seminar (Beyond France) at Columbia University.

In October 2016, Kelly Reichardt’s newest film Certain Women was honored as “Best Film” at the BFI London Film Festival, and she was interviewed for The New York Times Magazine article, “The Quiet Menace of Kelly Reichardt’s Feminist Westerns.”

Recent co-authored publications by Bruce Robertson include: “Polarized light pollution of matte solar panels: anti-reflective photovoltaics reduce polarized light pollution but benefit only some aquatic insects,” in the Journal of Insect Conservation in August 2016, and “Evolutionary traps as keys to understanding behavioral maladapation” in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences in December 2016.

“The Age of Caesar,” edited by James Romm, was published by Norton in January 2017.

Matthew Sargent presented a lecture entitled, "Ghost Hunter: Overtone Detection as a Source for Generative Scores," for Dartmouth College’s "Workshop in the Woods" conference on arts and technology in October 2016, and he lectured on recent compositions for "Applied Microtonalities" graduate music seminar at the California School for the Arts in Valencia, CA in November 2016.

In December 2016, Amy Savage and colleagues published research entitled "Transcriptome profiling of Trypanosoma brucei development in the tsetse fly vector Glossina morsitans" in PLoS One.

In a collaborative effort with Amy Richmond (Geography, West Point) and Suzanne Pierce (Research Scientist, UT Austin), Gautam Sethi wrote a case study, “Up in the Air: Understanding Vulnerability When Toilets Fly,” on waste management in Uganda through a course offered at the Socio-environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Annapolis, MD. The case study was judged as one of the two best written in 2014, an award which enabled Sethi to travel Toulouse, France to present his paper entitled, “Modeling Vulnerability: A Fuzzy Approach,” at the 8th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software meeting in July 2016.

In May 2016, “Academic Advising for the Liberal Arts and Sciences,” by David Shein was published in Educational Studies Moscow, no. 4, and his paper “Commentary: Daniel Halliday, The Ethics of a Smoking License,” was published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, 42.

Factory: Andy Warhol by Stephen Shore was published by Phaidon Press in October 2016. The book, which featured never before seen photos of Andy Warhol’s Factory, was reviewed by on September 28, 2016.

In December 2016, “Will Campus Criticism of Israel Violate Federal Law?” by Kenneth Stern appeared in The New York Times, and in January 2017, his article “What to do when anti-Semitic bullies come to town,” was printed in the Jewish Journal.

Karen Sullivan was elected to the Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association’s Arthurian Forum and to the MLA’s Delegate Assembly. In January 2017, she gave a talk, “‘A Galeotto was the book and he who wrote it’: Misreadings of Romance, Medieval and Modern,” at Yale.

In August 2016, Pavlina Tcherneva gave the keynote lecture at the annual meetings of the Canadian Association of Business Economists; in October 2016, she gave a talk at the inaugural international conference of the Central Bank of Ecuador; in November 2016, gave talks at New York University and at the Economists for Peace and Security annual conference in Washington, DC, and in January 2017, she spoke at Columbia University. She appeared on The Larry Flanders Show in October 2016, on why and how fiscal policy should incorporate race, gender, class, and in November 2016 she appeared on Bloomberg TV to discuss infrastructure plans and job growth.

Tatjana Myoko von Prittwitz und Gaffron gave a talk, “A Vast Net of Interconnected Diamonds: Buddhist Views of Nature,” at the conference Sacred Texts and Human Contexts: Nature and Environment in World Religions, at Nazareth College in May 2016.

In October 2016, “Proof Without Words: The Automorphism Group of the Petersen Graph Is Isomorphic S5” by Japheth Wood was published by the Mathematical Association of America in Mathematics Magazine. In January 2017, he presented two reports on the Bard Math Circle at the annual Joint Math Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

In August 2016, L. Randall Wray was interviewed on an episode of “The Radical Imagination,” by host Jim Vrettos, where he discussed the science of economics and what a U.S. economy would look like under the administration of Stein, Clinton, Trump or Johnson.