The Italian Studies program organizes several activites: here you can check out our events calendar and catch a glimpse of the life of the department. Italian film nights, visiting authors and filmmakers, lectures and schedule for language table can all be found here.
Current Events
9/24
Tuesday
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 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.
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Kline, College Room
10/01
Tuesday
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 A Reading and Conversation with Translators C. Francis Fisher and Kathleen Heil, moderated by Prof. Éric Trudel Olin Humanities, Room 2026:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 C. Francis Fisher is the translator of Joyce Mansour’s In the Glittering Maw: Selected Poems (World Poetry, 2024); Kathleen Heil is the translator of Meret Oppenheim’s The Loveliest Vowel Empties (World Poetry, 2022). Joyce Mansour (1928-1986) and Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) were arguably two of the most important female surrealist figures of the 20th century. Fisher and Heil will be in conversation about their translations on Tuesday, October 1.
About the translators:
C. Francis Fisher is a poet and translator who received her MFA in poetry from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in The Yale Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. She has been supported by scholarships from Breadloaf Writers Conference, Brooklyn Poets, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her first book of translations, In the Glittering Maw: Selected Poems of Joyce Mansour, appeared with World Poetry May ’24.
Kathleen Heil is an artist whose practice encompasses dance/performance and the writing and translating of poetry and prose. She is the author of the poetry collection You Can Have It All, forthcoming with Moist Books November 2024, and the translator of The Loveliest Vowel Empties, Meret Oppenheim’s collected poems (World Poetry, 2023). Her literary translations appear in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Threepenny Review, and other journals. Originally from New Orleans, she lives and works in Berlin.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 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.
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 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.
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 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.