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Research programing is a major component of intellectual life at Bard Graduate Center. Organized by our faculty, the seminars, lectures, and symposia scheduled throughout the semester broaden our curricular vision and help 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, February 5, 6–7:30 pm
David Fontijn
Professor, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University
The accumulation of wealth is generally regarded as a universal way of achieving power and prestige, but how can a society function when its members systematically destroy wealth? This happened in the Bronze Age and Iron Age of Europe, when communities deliberately discarded prestigious metalwork on a massive scale. 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. |
Friday, February 15, 1:30–5:30 pm
This symposium marks the opening of The Story Box, a BGC Focus Exhibition that examines the hidden histories and complex legacies of one of the most influential books in the field of anthropology: Franz Boas’s The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (1897). The collaborative product of Boas’s own observations and extensive materials authored by his long-time Indigenous co-worker George Hunt, the text was the first systematic attempt to document all sociocultural, spiritual, and aesthetic aspects of a spectacular Native North American ceremonial structure. 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. |
Tuesday, February 19, 6–7:30 pm; Tuesday, February 26, 6–7:30 pm; Tuesday, March 5, 6–7:30 pm
Zeev Weiss
Eleazar L. Sukenik Professor of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Join us this spring for the Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture. Zeev Weiss will deliver a three-part lecture entitled “Jewish Material Culture: Old Theories and New Approaches, from Eleazar L. Sukenik to the Twenty-First Century.” Learn more and register.
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture. Additional support provided by The David Berg Foundation.
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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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Bard Graduate Center’s week-long summer school for students, early career conservators, and conservation scientists is designed to acquaint them with a variety of approaches to scholarship on, and interpretation of, material culture. Learn more and apply.
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We are now accepting submissions for the 2018 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Book Prize, awarded annually to the best book on the decorative arts, design history, or material culture of the Americas. Learn more.
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As a lover of objects and an appreciator of the varied programs and activities at Bard Graduate Center, you are invited to join the Members Circle. Your support will strengthen our programs and ensure the ongoing success of Bard Graduate Center. Learn more and join.
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For Women’s History Month in March, Bard Graduate Center will host an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to address the lack of entries on Wikipedia about contributions by women to the fields of decorative arts, architecture, graphic design, textile design, material culture studies, and anthropology. Learn more and register.
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