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Research programming 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 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 as we continue the Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture. On Tuesday, February 26 Zeev Weiss will deliver part two of his three-part lecture entitled “Jewish Material Culture: Old Theories and New Approaches, from Eleazar L. Sukenik to the Twenty-First Century.” Join us Tuesday, March 5 for the final lecture. 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. |
Wednesday, February 27, 6–7:30 pm
Anna S. Agbe-Davies
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Archaeological fieldwork at two sites (the Phyllis Wheatley Home for Girls, in Chicago, and the childhood home of rights activist Pauli Murray, in Durham, NC) provides new insights into settings where race, gender, and civic activism are front and center. The former was a charitable institution run by African American women to aid others navigating the Great Migration northward. 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, March 1, 1–5 pm
This symposium explores digital afterlives: how we resurrect, preserve, and extend through digital means; the ways in which our accumulated online data haunts and challenges us; and the ways in which we process and understand our own mortality through the lens of the digital. Papers presented will explore this topic through a variety of technologies that will help illuminate the changes, opportunities, and disorientations we face and their implications for the future. Learn more and register.
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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 is the home for advanced study of the cultural history of the material world. Applications to our two-year MA program are being accepted on a rolling basis until March 1. Learn more and apply.
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On view through July 7 in the Bard Graduate Center Gallery: Making—Media—Material, exhibitions curated by associate professors Aaron Glass and Paul Stirton and BGC alumna Sasha Nixon (MA ’18). Learn more and visit.
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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. Submissions due March 1. 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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