2026 Past Events
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Monday, September 21, 2026 – Thursday, December 24, 2026
Various Campus Locations Visit our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports.
Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.
https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation
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Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room 12:00 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.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2026 – Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Lobby 10:00 am – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Find out how easy it is to ride all through Dutchess County for free six days a week.
Download: Dutchess-Co-09-15-26.pdf -
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room 12:00 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.
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Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room 12:00 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.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2026
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.