German Studies Program

Playwrights Tankred Dorst and Ursula Ehler during their 4-week residency at Bard College

Events

Upcoming Events

9/23

Wednesday

11:00 am – 11:10 am EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus

Opening Remarks, Abundant Intelligences: Jason Edward Lewis

We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.

Wednesday, September 23, 2026
11:00 am – 11:10 am EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus
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.

Contact: Macaella Gray
Phone: 512-547-8233
E-mail: [email protected]

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9/23

Wednesday

11:30 am – 12:15 pm EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus

Transformations through Image: Olivia Camfield, Woodrow Hunt, Schon Duncan, and assinijaq

We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.

Wednesday, September 23, 2026
11:30 am – 12:15 pm EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus
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.

Contact: Macaella Gray
Phone: 512-547-8233
E-mail: [email protected]

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9/23

Wednesday

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus

Paper Presentation: Nathan Young

We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.

Wednesday, September 23, 2026
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus
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.

Contact: Macaella Gray
Phone: 512-547-8233
E-mail: [email protected]

Go to Event Page
9/23

Wednesday

3:00 pm – 3:45 pm EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus

Transformations through Materials: Mikayla Patton, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Wills Brewer, and Clementine Bordeaux

We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.

Wednesday, September 23, 2026
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus
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.

Contact: Macaella Gray
Phone: 512-547-8233
E-mail: [email protected]

Go to Event Page
9/23

Wednesday

3:45 pm – 4:15 pm EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus

Mikhel Proulx and Suzanne Kite in discussion

We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.

Wednesday, September 23, 2026
3:45 pm – 4:15 pm EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus
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.

Contact: Macaella Gray
Phone: 512-547-8233
E-mail: [email protected]

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Events Archive

2025

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Library, Finberg House 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Join the Bard College community for an evening celebrating our colleagues and the launch of the new Critical Hannah Arendt Edition and The Life of the Mind! We'll gather for an engaging discussion about the new editions, featuring welcoming remarks from Dean Deirdre d’Albertis, and a presentation by Thomas Wild and Anne Eusterschulte. Join us for stimulating conversation and refreshments. We look forward to celebrating this exciting achievement with you!
Friday, February 21, 2025

Olin Humanities, Room 204 9:30 am – 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
A one-day conference on The Critical Hannah Arendt Edition and The Life of the Mind.

The Critical Edition of Hannah Arendt’s Complete Works presents a vital new view of this eminent political thinker. For the first time, all of Hannah Arendt’s published and unpublished works are being made available in a philologically reliable scholarly edition with critical commentary. Two additional features make this edition distinct: Arendt wrote and published nearly all of her books and essays in English and in German; this fundamental multilingualism can now be fully taken into account by future Arendt scholarship. Further, the Critical Edition is designed as an innovative hybrid project, appearing both in print as books and in an open access web portal enabling new technologically supported textual analyses. Over two days of celebration, presentation, and discussion, the audience will be invited to learn about the new edition, to consider the place of editorial scholarship in academic and intellectual life, and to discover together this unknown Arendt.

The Life of the Mind was Hannah Arendt’s unfinished final work. In it, she focuses on three basic mental activities—thinking, willing, and judging—and their relation to the world of appearances and to the human capacity for moral and political action. The new critical edition makes available in print, for the first time, the text of the typescripts as Arendt left them, complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished material, detailed annotations, and extensive scholarly commentary. In this symposium, the editors will introduce this groundbreaking edition, offer three points of entry into the material, and invite the audience to join in a wide-ranging discussion about The Life of the Mind and its urgent contemporary import.

Open to the public.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce has been called “the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century.” This talk, by the critic and biographer Zachary Leader, tells the story of the book and its maker, in the process arguing for the artistic claims not only of Ellmann himself, a remarkable man, but of literary biography in general.

Zachary Leader (born 1946) is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton. He was an undergraduate at Northwestern University, and did graduate work at Trinity College, Cambridge and Harvard University, where he was awarded a PhD in English in 1977. Although born and raised in the U.S. he has lived for over forty years in the U.K., and has dual British and American citizenship. His best-known works are The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2001), The Life of Kingsley Amis (2007), a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964 (2015), which was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize in the U.K. The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife 1965 to 2005 was published in 2018. He has written and edited a dozen books, including both volumes of the Saul Bellow biography, and is General Editor of The Oxford History of Life-Writing, a seven-volume series published by OUP. A recipient of Guggenheim, Whiting, Huntington, Leverhulme and British Academy Fellowships, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Introduction: Gregory Moynahan, Associate Professor of History, Bard College
Q&A Moderator: Elizabeth Frank, Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, Bard College
Monday, September 22, 2025

Transletting Collective
Hegeman 204A 5:10 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Transletting is an open multilingual collective of writers and translators aiming to explore translation as an autonomous and creative method. For this workshop, Transletting will guide participants through playful exploration and experiment with Hannah Arendt’s “Gap Between Past and Future” and Franz Kafka’s “He” fragment.
Speakers of all languages are welcome.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Finberg House 11:50 am – 1:10 pm EDT/GMT-4
Poems: Anedda, Bachmann, Aichinger [discussion in German].
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Finberg House 2:30 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Oral Translation: May Ayim
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Bertelsmann Campus Center, Yellow Room 214 11:50 am – 1:10 pm EDT/GMT-4
Reflexion on multilingualism and translation: Kleist in Thun - Robert Walser

Events

Upcoming Events

Opening Remarks, Abundant Intelligences: Jason Edward Lewis

We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.

Transformations through Image: Olivia Camfield, Woodrow Hunt, Schon Duncan, and assinijaq

We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.

Paper Presentation: Nathan Young

We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.

Transformations through Materials: Mikayla Patton, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Wills Brewer, and Clementine Bordeaux

We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.

Mikhel Proulx and Suzanne Kite in discussion

We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.

Events Archive

2025

A Celebration of Scholarship: Reception for the new Critical Hannah Arendt Edition and The Life of the Mind

Hannah Arendt, Unknown: Symposium

Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, and Literary Biography: A talk by Zachary Leader

Literature SalonReading the Gap: A Translation Workshop

Translation Seminar I with the Transletting Collective

Translation Seminar II with the Transletting Collective

Translation Seminar III with the Transletting Collective

Literature Salon
Reading the Gap: A Translation Workshop