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Research programming is a major component of intellectual life at Bard Graduate Center. Weekly seminars and lectures are curated by faculty and bring into our midst scholarly conversations on relevant subject matter or methodological debate, broadening our curricular vision and helping to further the institution’s goal of promoting research in the areas of decorative arts, design history, and material culture—what we call the “cultural history of the material world.” Advance registration is strongly encouraged. Please click through for full descriptions and to register.
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Lectures and Seminars |
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Tuesday, October 30, 6–7:30 pm
Zoë Crossland
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
Forensic investigation shares archaeology’s concern with reconstructing past events from physical clues and traces. In both disciplines the different life worlds that emerge after a person’s death may be mobilized by investigators in the search for a past that is only recoverable in this narrowly mediated form. Read more.
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 BGCTV This event will be livestreamed. A link to the video will be posted to the event listing the day of the talk. |
Thursday, November 1, 9:15 am–6:15 pm
The working group on “Active Matter and History” aims to contextualize the current interest in active matter. Probing the boundaries of dualistic thought, from Pre-Socratics to plastics, this workshop will help us understand exactly how we got to the point that the activity of organic matter had to be rediscovered at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Beyond genealogy, however, the recognition that conceptual scene-setting is itself an artifact raises new possibilities for rethinking activity along the arc of all those other victims of dualization, such as the subject/object, archaic/modern, living/non-living, human/non-human, and West/Eastern dichotomies. Read more.
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BGCTV This event will be livestreamed. A link to the video will be posted to the event listing the day of the talk. |
 This event is part of our “Cultures of Conservation” initiative, supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Wednesday, November 7, 6–7:30 pm
Severin Fowles
Associate Professor, Barnard College
Europeans of the sixteenth century brought much more than the guns, germs, and steel that stand at the heart of our dominant histories of the American West. The colonists also introduced a swirl of new images organized around logics that were foreign to indigenous communities and often strongly dissonant with their own understandings of what an image is and how images work. Read more.
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation Seminar in New York and American Material Culture
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BGCTV This event will be livestreamed. A link to the video will be posted to the event listing the day of the talk. |
Friday, November 9, 9:30 am–5:30 pm
For much of the twentieth century, “Revivalism” and “Historicism” were seen as reactionary and outmoded tendencies in design. In 1961 Nikolaus Pevsner dismissed it out of hand, stating “all reviving of styles of the past is a sign of weakness.” Despite this sweeping condemnation, historicist and revivalist styles thrived in various parts of the world throughout the twentieth century, driven by a combination of nationalist, religious, aesthetic, and political agendas. This symposium aims to explore the meanings and deeper significance of revivalist movements in design, both short-lived and in the recurring forms that survived over longer periods. Read more.
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BGCTV This event will be livestreamed. A link to the video will be posted to the event listing the day of the talk. |
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Around the Center |
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One of the best ways to learn more about Bard Graduate Center is to visit! For this open house we invite prospective students to spend the afternoon at Bard Graduate Center. Learn more and register.
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This spring Zeev Weiss, Eleazar L. Sukenik Professor of Archaeology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will give the Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture. Learn more and register.
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The Bard Graduate Center Craft, Art, and Design Oral History Project is an online archive of oral history interviews of contemporary craftspeople, artists, and designers. Learn more.
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Bard Graduate Center invites scholars from university, museum, and independent backgrounds with a PhD or equivalent professional experience to apply for funded research fellowships, to be held during the 2019–20 academic year. Applications due November 1. Apply now.
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