Monday, April 28, 2008
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Also sprach Zarathustra: Richard Strauss’s Nietzsche.” American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, music director. Lecture/demonstration followed by a performance of Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30.

Monday, April 7, 2008
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“The Relativity and Quantum Revolutions.” Matthew Deady, Bard College.

Monday, March 17, 2008
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Beethoven’s Op. 135, Commentary and Performance.” The Colorado Quartet, quartet in residence, Bard College.

Monday, March 3, 2008
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Nietzsche.” Gregory Moynahan, Bard College.

Monday, February 18, 2008
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Blake’s War on Terror: A Reading and Performance.” Michael Ives, Paul Stephens, and Robert Weston, Bard College.

Monday, February 4, 2008
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason

“Lecture on Kant.” Olivia Custer, Bard College.

Monday, December 10, 2007
Michele D. Dominy, Captain Cook's Endeavor: Science & Exploration in the Pacific

Monday, December 3, 2007
2001, A Space Odyssey

Monday, November 26, 2007
No Symposium

Monday, November 19, 2007
Geoff Sanborn, The Mark of Grandeur: Elitism and Anti-Racism in Equiano's Narrative

Monday, November 12, 2007
Jean Wagner, From Sentimentalism to Romanticism: 18th-Century Theater

Monday, October 29, 2007
Alice Stroup, Galileo and Modern Science: The Union of Observation and Theory

Monday, October 22, 2007
Nicole Caso, Sor Juana's Dream: The Elusive Pursuit of Knowledge

Monday, October 15, 2007
Youssef Yacoubi, Enlightenment and Islam: The Play of Reasons

Monday, October 8, 2007
Fall Break: No Symposium

Monday, October 1, 2007
Othello

Monday, September 24, 2007
Lives in Creation: Genesis and the Ecology of the Future
A Lecture by John Cronin

Monday, September 17, 2007
Leon Botstein and the ASO, New Worlds and Traditions
American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, music director. Lecture/demonstration followed by a performance of Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” by Antonín Dvořák.

Monday, September 10, 2007
Matthew Deady, The Authority of Reason

Monday, May 14, 2007
Laurie Dahlberg, “Photography and the Alchemical Ancestor”
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.

Monday, May 7, 2007
American Symphony Orchestra with Leon Botstein, “Claude Debussy: La Mer”, Performance and Lecture
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.

Monday, April 30, 2007
Noah Chasin, “Dream + Reality, Ornament +Architecture in Vienna, ca. 1900”
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.

Monday, April 23, 2007
Michael Steinberg, "Sigmund Freud and Our Discontents"
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.

Monday, April 16, 2007
Peter Skiff, “Einstein vs. The Enlightenment”
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.

Monday, April 9, 2007
Roger Berkowitz, “The Ghost in the Machine: Max Weber and the End of Enlightenment”
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.

Monday, March 26, 2007
Luc Sante, "1848: The Revolution and Why It Failed"
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.

Monday, March 19, 2007
Greg Moynihan, “Pathos of Distance: Nietzsche, the Crisis of Christianity, and the Politics of Imperial Germany”
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.

Monday, March 12, 2007
Jennifer Day, “Dostoevsky's St. Petersburg”
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.

Monday, March 5, 2007
“Franz Schubert: ‘Death and the Maiden’ Quartet”
Colorado Quartet, Arthur Burrows, and Christopher Gibbs. This Performance and Lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.

Monday, February 26, 2007
Ethan Bloch, “The Intellectual Revolution That You've Never Heard of"
"The Discovery of Non-Euclidean Geometry in the Age of Enlightenment" This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.

Monday, February 19, 2007
Cole Heinowitz, “Bad Reproduction: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the Gothic Logic of Enlightenment”
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.

Monday, February 12, 2007
Ian Buruma: “Eurabia: the Muslim Challenge in Europe”
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason." All sessions are free and open to the public.

Monday, February 5, 2007
Robert Weston, "The Enlightenment as Pedagogical Project, or, What is First Year Seminar?"
This lecture is part of the Spring 2007 First-Year Seminar lecture series entitled "Revolution and the Limits of Reason."

Monday, December 11, 2006
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“William Wilberforce and the First Phase of British Abolitionism.” David Brion Davis, Yale University.

Monday, December 4, 2006
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Be My Fantasy: Cannibalism and Prostitution in the 18th-Century Pacific.” Geoffrey Sanborn, Bard College.

Monday, November 27, 2006
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Selves: Imagining the Individual in 18th-Century Literary Culture.” Deirdre d’Albertis, Bard College.

Monday, November 20, 2006
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
Faculty panel discussion: “John Locke, Property, and Human Rights.”

Monday, November 13, 2006
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
Film Screening.

Monday, November 6, 2006
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Galileo and Descartes as Natural Philosophers.” Matthew Deady, Bard College.

Monday, October 30, 2006
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Philosophy for Beginners: Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy ibn Yaqzan.” Richard Bulliet, Columbia University.

Monday, October 23, 2006
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
Film Screening.

Monday, October 16, 2006
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Mozart and the Enlightenment.” Lecture/demonstration, followed by performance of Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 “Prague” in D major. American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, music director.

Monday, October 2, 2006
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
Student Debate: “Plato’s The Republic.”

Monday, September 25, 2006
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Plato’s The Republic: A Layman’s View.” Leon Botstein, President and Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Bard College.

Monday, September 18, 2006
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Classical Architecture: A Visualization of Western Ideals.” Diana Minsky, Bard College.

Monday, September 11, 2006
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“The World of Confucius.” Daniel Gardner, Smith College.

Monday, May 8, 2006
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
Debate with faculty, student, and administration participants.

Monday, May 1, 2006
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Cultural Revolution and Mass Politics in Modern China.” Robert Culp, Bard College.

Monday, April 24, 2006
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Romanticism and History in Music and Architecture.” Lecture/demonstration and performance of Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 97, “Rhenish,” by Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra.

Monday, April 17, 2006
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
Panel discussion: “The Future of Atheism.” Bard faculty members are panelists.

Monday, April 10, 2006
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Debating Darwin's God.” Kenneth Miller, Brown University.

Monday, April 10, 2006
Lecture by Preeminent Evolutionary Biologist: Kenneth R. Miller
Preeminent Evolutionary Biologist and Lead Witness in Pennsylvania’s “Intelligent Design” Court Case, to Speak at Bard College on Monday, April 10 The Distinguished Scientist Lecture Series Continues with Kenneth R. Miller, Biology Professor at Brown University and Author of Finding Darwin’s God

Monday, April 3, 2006
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
Film Screening: "Pickpocket (1959; B&W; 75 minutes), written and directed by Robert Bresson."

Monday, March 20, 2006
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Pathos of Distance: Nietzsche, the Crisis of Christianity, and the Politics of Imperial Germany.” Gregory Moynahan, Bard College.

Monday, March 13, 2006
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“The Strange Enlightenment of Dostoevsky's St. Petersburg.” Jennifer Day, Bard College.

Monday, March 6, 2006
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“The Difficult Resolution: Beethoven’s Last String Quartet." Introductory lecture: Christopher Gibbs, Bard College; performance of Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Major, Opus 135, by The Colorado Quartet, Bard College.

Monday, February 27, 2006
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Human reason has this peculiar fate . . . The Philosophy of Immanuel ‘The All-Destroyer’ Kant.” Daniel Berthold, Bard College.

Monday, February 20, 2006
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Bad Reproduction: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the Gothic Logic of Enlightenment.” Cole Heinowitz, Bard College.

Monday, February 13, 2006
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
"Blake's War on Terror." Paul Stephens and Robert Weston, Bard College

Monday, February 6, 2006
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
Panel discussion: “Violence and Social Change: Are Revolutions Necessary?” Bard faculty members are panelists.

Monday, January 30, 2006
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
Film screening: The Weather Underground (2002; color; 92 minutes), directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel.

Monday, December 5, 2005
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Gender Trouble in the Age of Reason: Mansfield Park and the Enlightenment Project.” Eileen Gillooly, Columbia University.

Monday, November 28, 2005
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Philosophy, Science, and Cultural Principles of Reason.” Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, DePaul University.

Monday, November 21, 2005
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
Student debate on science and religion.

Monday, November 14, 2005
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Captain Cook’s Endeavor: Science & Exploration in the Pacific.” Michèle Dominy, Bard College.

Monday, November 7, 2005
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Mozart’s Final Reconciliation: The Magic Flute and the Enlightenment.” Christopher Gibbs, Bard College.

Monday, October 31, 2005
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
Film screening: The Magic Flute.

Monday, October 24, 2005
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Producing Knowledge in the Early Modern Curiosity Collection.” Susan Merriam, Bard College.

Monday, October 17, 2005
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Science and Religion in the Age of Galileo and Descartes.” Alice Stroup, Bard College.

Monday, October 3, 2005
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“From Island to Mainland: Varieties of Rationality.” Hossein Kamaly, Columbia University.

Monday, September 26, 2005
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
Film screening: Decalogue One: I Am the Lord Thy God; Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me (1988; 55 minutes), directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski.

Monday, September 19, 2005
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
Aristophanes’ The Clouds. A reading by Bard students and faculty, directed by Peter Criswell.

Monday, September 5, 2005
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Confucian Enlightenment.” Stephen C. Angle, Wesleyan University.

Friday, August 12, 2005
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Reason and Revolution: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.” Lecture and concert by Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra.

Monday, May 16, 2005
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Students and Faculty: A Critical Roundtable Discussion.” Presented by First-Year Seminar.

Monday, May 9, 2005
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Pacification of the Primitive: Colonialism, Violence, and Modernity.” Laura Kunreuther, Bard College. Presented by First-Year Seminar.

Monday, May 2, 2005
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
Film screening. Presented by First-Year Seminar.

Monday, April 25, 2005
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
"On the Subject in Psychoanalysis." Paola Mieli. Presented by First-Year Seminar.

Monday, April 18, 2005
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“The Reformation and the Myth of Yourself.” Bruce Chilton, Bard College. Presented by First-Year Seminar.

Monday, April 11, 2005
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Cosmic Revolution.” Ian Buruma, Bard College. Presented by First-Year Seminar.

Monday, April 4, 2005
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
Panel Discussion on Charles Darwin. Presented by First-Year Seminar.

Monday, March 21, 2005
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Nietzsche Contra Kant: A Student Debate on Morality.” Presented by First-Year Seminar.

Monday, March 14, 2005
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“The Two Faces of 19th-Century Romanticism.” Lecture and performance by Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra. Performances of Mendelssohn’s “Hebrides” Overture and Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll. Presented by First-Year Seminar.

Monday, March 7, 2005
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Art and Its Motives in the Age of Revolution: 1750–1850.” Laurie Dahlberg, Bard College. Presented by First-Year Seminar.

Monday, February 28, 2005
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Schubert’s Subjective Lyricism: Death and the Maiden as Song and String Quartet.” Lecture by Christopher H. Gibbs, Bard College. Performance of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden by the Colorado Quartet, artists in residence at Bard. Presented by First-Year Seminar.

Monday, February 21, 2005
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Bard Poets Read the Romantics.” Presented by First-Year Seminar.

Monday, February 14, 2005
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Women, Gender, and Power in the French Revolution.” Mita Choudhury, Vassar College. Presented by First-Year Seminar.

Monday, February 7, 2005
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
Film screening.

Monday, January 31, 2005
Lecture Series: Revolution and the Limits of Reason
“Monstrous Ambitions: What 21st Century Biotechnology Can Learn from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.” Ronald M. Green, Dartmouth College.

Monday, December 6, 2004
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Merrymaking at Mansfield Park: A Reading of Lovers’ Vows” by Elizabeth Smith’s Voice and Performance class

Monday, November 29, 2004
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
Panel discussion on “Equiano and the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” led by Myra Young Armstead, Bard College.

Monday, November 22, 2004
Lecture Series: “What Is Enlightenment? The Science, Culture, and Politics of Reason”
“Mozart’s Final Reconciliation: The Magic Flute and the Enlightenment,” Christopher Gibbs, Bard College.

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