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Professor Garry L. Hagberg Named the 2025 Monroe Beardsley Lecturer

Professor Garry L. Hagberg has been named the Monroe Beardsley Lecturer for 2025. He will deliver his lecture on the philosophical nature of the visual arts at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Hagberg also recently received the Peter Kivy Memorial Prize from the American Society for Aesthetics.

Professor Garry L. Hagberg Named the 2025 Monroe Beardsley Lecturer

James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics Garry L. Hagberg has been named the Monroe Beardsley Lecturer for 2025. The annual lecture series, hosted by the American Society for Aesthetics, honors the memory of Beardsley, a 20th-century American aesthetician who researched the relationship between art and philosophy. Hagberg will deliver his lecture on the philosophical nature of the visual arts at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.

Hagberg also received the Peter Kivy Memorial Prize from the American Society for Aesthetics for his article on how counterpoint in instrumental music generates meaning. His most recent book, Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood, was published by Oxford University Press in 2024.

Post Date: 07-07-2025

Henry Mielarczyk ’25 Joins Stennis Program for Congressional Interns

Bard alumnus Henry Mielarczyk ’25, a philosophy and music performance major, has been accepted into the 2025 Stennis Program for Congressional Interns. The internship, given by the Stennis Center for Public Service in Washington, DC, is a competitive program that aims to provide its interns with an opportunity to better understand the role of Congress as an institution and its role in the democracy of the United States.

Henry Mielarczyk ’25 Joins Stennis Program for Congressional Interns

Bard alumnus Henry Mielarczyk ’25, a philosophy and music performance major, has been accepted into the 2025 Stennis Program for Congressional Interns. The internship, given by the Stennis Center for Public Service in Washington, DC, is a competitive bipartisan program designed to provide congressional interns with an opportunity to better understand the role of Congress as an institution and its role in the democracy of the United States. Interns will connect with current and former senior congressional staff through a series of discussion sessions designed to provide an in-depth look at Congress and its operations with other institutions. The Stennis Center is a bipartisan legislative branch agency created by Congress in 1988 to promote and strengthen the highest ideals of public service in the United States. The center aims to develop and deliver a portfolio of unique programs for young people, leaders in local, state, and federal government, and congressional staff.

Post Date: 06-18-2025

Bard College Junior Lauren Mendoza ’26 Wins Goldwater Scholarship

Bard College is pleased to announce that Bard junior Lauren Mendoza ’26, a double major in physics and philosophy, has been announced as a recipient of the 2025 Barry Goldwater Scholarship. The scholarship supports college sophomores and juniors who intend to pursue research careers in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.

Bard College Junior Lauren Mendoza ’26 Wins Goldwater Scholarship

Bard College is pleased to announce that Bard junior Lauren Mendoza ’26, a double major in physics and philosophy, has been announced as a recipient of the 2025 Barry Goldwater Scholarship. The scholarship supports college sophomores and juniors who intend to pursue research careers in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.

Mendoza currently conducts research in astrophysics with Professor Clara Sousa-Silva and had previously conducted research in nanofabrication with Professor Paul Cadden-Zimansky.  After graduating from Bard, she hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in astronomy with a focus on the solar system and instrumentation, and aims to promote effective scientific communication between academics and the wider public.

The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, established by Congress in 1986 in honor of Senator Barry Goldwater, aims to ensure that the U.S. is producing highly-qualified professionals in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering. Over its 30-year history, Goldwater Scholarships have been awarded to thousands of undergraduates, many of whom have gone on to win other prestigious awards such as the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Fellowship, Rhodes Scholarship, Churchill Scholarship and the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship that support the graduate school work of Goldwater scholars. Learn more at https://goldwaterscholarship.gov/


Post Date: 04-02-2025

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2023

Tuesday, December 5, 2023
  Olin Humanities, Room 307  5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Professor Ungvary will be speaking about the ancient Christian Saint St. Anthony and the birth of hegiography as a literary genre.


Friday, November 3, 2023
Christopher Moore (Penn State)
Hegeman 204A  12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Some intellectual traditions take the four cardinal virtues – wisdom, justice, courage, and self-discipline – to constitute the virtuous (moral and successful) life. This list of canonical virtues, and an account of its sufficiency, is ascribed to Plato. In this presentation, I argue against doing so. Rather than asserting how things stand with virtues, Plato depicts many conversations about an already emerging (fifth-century) view of human goodness as articulable as a cluster of virtues. Throughout his dialogues, his Socrates criticizes the explanatory value of such clusters. A clinched tetrad of virtues sometimes proves dialectically helpful for him but, at the end of his writing career, Plato says that we need to keep investigating the number and nature of the virtues. I argue that Plato is depicting – and is advancing in the very process – perhaps the prime step in the development of ethics as a field of philosophical reflection: debating which virtues matter to the well-lived life.


Friday, October 20, 2023
Susan Buck-Morss (CUNY Graduate Center)
Hegeman 204A  12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
My book Year 1 (2021) is a philosophical recounting of historical time inspired by Walter Benjamin. Its thematic converges with the humanitarian border crises that now include the Hamas-Israeli war. The task is to address the destructive convergence of history and myth, nation-state and human rights, sovereignty and ecological survival, not by taking sides, but by addressing our shared state of emergency with every intellectual resource that we have.


Friday, September 22, 2023
  Hegeman 204  12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Interested in learning more about the Philosophy Program at Bard? Come to our Philosophy Program Information Session to meet faculty and current majors and to learn more about courses, requirements for moderation and graduation, senior projects, etc.! There will be light refreshments!


Friday, April 21, 2023
Yarran Hominh, Philosophy
Aspinwall 302  12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
What role is there for hope in hopeless times? The present is, if any, a time where to respond objectively to the state of the world is to despair. The systems of oppression and domination that comprise the basic structure of society are rampant; the political democratic means available of changing those systems are powerless, sunk in institutional deadlock and political polarization. The world continues to suffer from an ongoing pandemic, and to top it all off, we seem incapable of even so much as slowing our rush towards an uninhabitable future. The predominant forms of hope that are culturally available have been co-opted. At best, they are politically inert. At worst, they act as ideological figleaves by which existing systems and destructive ways of being are maintained and reproduced. Yet, I argue, drawing on a 1983 conversation between Audre Lorde and James Baldwin, even in such hopeless conditions there is still a place for hope. It is a hope not for a future way the world could be, but a hope in others, tied to the present possibilities of collective agency.


Friday, March 10, 2023
Marina van Zuylen (Literature) and Garry Hagberg (Philosophy)
Olin 205  12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Join the Philosophy & Literature Programs for a conversation between Marina van Zuylen and Garry Hagberg on the connections between philosophy and literature. What might it mean to read philosophy as literature? Does literature count as philosophy? In what ways can literature and philosophy together help people live a good life, or one that is good enough?


Thursday, March 2, 2023
  Inaugural De Gruyter–Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  5:15 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Part of “Judgment, Pluralism, & Democracy: On the Desirability of Speaking with Others” conference.Stream the Keynote Lecture on YouTube


Download: De-Gruyter-HAC-Lecture-posterFinal.pdf

Friday, February 17, 2023
Speakers: Clara Sousa-Silva, Assistant Professor of Physics, and Kathryn Tabb, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Olin 204  12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Physics Phriday and Philosophy Salon will be cohosting a conversation on the intersections between science and philosophy. How might philosophers help scientists in their work? How and when does the practice of science give rise to philosophical questions? What is the nature of life? Does the scientific attitude give rise to humility or to hubris?