Marah on Deans’ Hour – Bard High School Early College Manhattan PTA

Deans’ Hour

Wednesday afternoons from 2:30 to 3:20 pm (7th period) at BHSEC Manhattan are Deans’ Hours. This time is designed for weekly community academic and artistic events and is held open for all faculty and students.

While Deans’ Hours are the time exclusively dedicated to such activities, the calendar also includes a number of additional events similar in function but held at different times.

Some 2015/16 events follow as example:

09/16/15	Writing & Thinking Celebratory Readings
09/30/15	“The Genesis of the Canon and the Canonical Status of Genesis; or, is Eve to be Blamed or Celebrated?” Professor Bruce Matthews, Social Studies Faculty Bard High School Early College, Manhattan
10/07/15	Ariadne Greif, “Concert and Lecture” (11:45-12:35, Rm. 202)
10/14/15	“Choosing What is Right: Arguments and Authority in the Bible and the Iliad” David Levene Professor and Chair of Classics Department New York University
10/16/15	Hunter College Dance Company (9:00 AM)
10/16/15	Peter Silberman “Lecture and Concert” (3:20 PM, Library)
10/19/15	Leon Botstein “Welcome Lecture for Year One Students” (9:50 AM)
10/21/15	Fall Opportunities Fair
10/28/15	Film Festival (curated by Anna Dolan)
11/04/15	“Jazz and Democracy” Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra Concert
11/18/15	Yelena Beriyeva, Concert and Lecture
12/02/15	STAGE Film Presentation, “The Hunting Ground”
12/4/15	“In Plato’s Cave” Jay Elliott Assistant Professor of Philosophy Bard College (11:45 AM)
12/09/15	“Augustine and the Rhetoric of Autobiography” George Baroud Postdoctoral Fellow New York University
12/11/5	“Things Fall Apart: The Egyptian Revolution and Aftermath” James Ketterer Dean of International Studies, Bard Director, Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program (12:40 PM)
12/16/15	Winter Concert and Art Exhibit
12/23/15	BHSEC Step Team Performance and Presentation
01/06/16	Concert with Randall Despommier and Jason Yeager
01/13/16	Fall Theater Production, Kafka’s The Trial (Directed by Anna Dolan)
01/15/16	16 “On Saint Augustine and Education” Joy Connolly Professor of Classics Dean for the Humanities New York University (11:45 AM)
02/03/16	“Jazz and the Harlem Renaissance” Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
02/05/16	“On Kafka” Franz Kempf Professor of German Bard College (11:45 AM)
02/12/16	“On Woolf” Mark Hussey Professor Englsh Pace University (12:40 PM)
02/24/16	“Reading the Renaissance” Thomas Martin Professor of Art History BHSEC Manhattan
02/26/16	“Gay Rights and Latin America” Omar Encarnación Professor of Political Studies Bard College (10:50 AM)
03/02/16	“Digging up the Past: How do we Discover New Texts from the Ancient World?” Lauren Curtis Assistant Professor of Classics Bard College
03/16/16	“The Caliphate and the Transformation of Culture from the Near East to Europe” Abigail Balbale Assistant Professor Islamic Art and Material Culture Bard Graduate Center
03/16/16	Teddy Uzamere, BHSEC ‘13 “Early avoidance of a heroin-paired taste-cue and subsequent addiction-like behavior in rats”
03/30/16	“Concert/lecture on Chopin and the Holocaust” Roger Peltzman Third Street Music Faculty
04/06/16	“On Montaigne” Tabetha Ewing Associate Professor of History Bard College
04/13/16	“Talk about The Disappeared, a Documentary about Argentina’s Dirty War” Peter Sanders, Filmmaker
04/20/16	“Reception Studies in Classics” Andrea Kouklanakis, Classics Faculty BHSEC Manhattan
05/04/16	“The Rest is Silence: Hamlet and Uncertainty” Ian Bickford Provost Bard College at Simon’s Rock
05/11/16	“Design and Decision: Decision-Making in Pride and Prejudice” Zach Holbrook Literature Faculty BHSEC Manhattan
05/18/16	“Jazz and Civil Rights” Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra