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Kline, College Room  1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

With Literary Critic and Author Hans-Peter Kunisch
Olin Humanities, Room 203  5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
“What a beautiful speech by Mr. Mussolini!”, Rainer Maria Rilke writes in 1926. “No, my dear Rilke!”, the recipient of his letter, the Italian aristocrat and anarchist Lella Gallarati-Scotti, disagrees. What follows is an epistolary debate in which Rilke openly reveals his fascination with Benito Mussolini, founding figure of European fascism, and further philosophies of strength, re-birth, and domination of the time. This intricate part of Rilke’s life and work has been ignored or down-played by all biographies of this “secret king of the German soul” so far.
As we are celebrating Rilke’s 150th anniversary, Hans-Peter Kunisch invites us to revisit his writings in the light of these little-known documents. Kunisch challenges us not to denounce Rilke, but to expand our appreciation to the uncomfortable provocations of this eminent European poet who was writing at a time, not unlike ours, of radical political transformations.

  Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room  1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

  Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room  1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

  Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room  1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

  Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room  1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.