July-December 2007

November 2007...

November 9, Katrina-related events at Simon's Rock Douglas Ahlers gives talk about rebuilding efforts in New Or... Douglas Ahlers to discuss New Orleans reconstruction Talk on November 9 at Simon's Rock... Discovery Day Open House Nov. 12 Discovery Day Open House is planned at Simon’s Rock... Fahima Vorgetts to speak about Afghan women Human rights activist Fahima Vorgetts will speak at Simon’... Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez and Rebecca Fiske to give Seminar Lectures Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez and Rebecca Fiske to give Semin... Simon's Rock Jazz Ensemble performs winter concert: Dec. 14 Simon's Rock Jazz Ensemble to perform faculty composition an... What's the Matter with American Education...Really? Ellen Condliffe Lagemann will discuss "What's the Matter wit... Early Music Collegium concert The Simon's Rock Early Music Collegium performs works from t... Vocal recital features solos, duets, trios, and quartets Vocal recital Dec. 9 at Simon's Rock... Student chamber concert Dec. 2 Student chamber music recital at Simon's Rock... Simon's Rock, Mount Holyoke A Cappella groups perform Dec. 1 Simon's Rock Free Trial and the Mount Holyoke M&CS perform t... Simon’s Rock presents a holiday concert Dec. 15 Chamber Orchestra and Chorus perform... Dance performance features Persian, Bollywood and tap dances Lighting design by Andre Schiff and students...

October 2007...

Nathan Englander to read at Simon's Rock Nathan Englander is a guest in the Poetry and Fiction Series... Walking on Walls: Notes on E. M. Forster and W.E.B. DuBois Asma Abbas presents Seminar Lecture on October 22... Author Margaret Randall to speak at Simon's Rock Margaret Randall, renowned women’s rights advocate and aut... Jacqueline Schwab presents a concert at Simon’s Rock Pianist in The War and other Ken Burns documentaries to perf... Seminar Lecture Series Seminar Lecture Series opens college classroom lectures to t... John Lawson exhibit at Simon's Rock Fragile, Exhibition of John Lawson's new work opens at Simo... Samuel Ruhmkorff to give Faculty Forum on Scientific Realism, Antirealism Academic Dean, Faculty in Philosophy Samuel Ruhmkorff to giv... MacArthur Fellow Joanna Scott to read from her fiction at Simon's Rock Scott joins list of celebrated writers as guests in the Poet... Gidon Eshel joins Simon’s Rock as Bard Center Faculty Fellow Climate change researcher will consult with faculty and teac... Groundbreaking Science Seminar begins Global climate change is the topic; global climate change re... Jonathan Aaron to read from his poetry Final reading in 2007 Poetry and Fiction Series... Lecture on Plato at Simon’s Rock By Dean of Academic Affairs Samuel Ruhmkorff... Freud (Marx, Darwin) and the Modern Zeitgeist Bernard Rodgers to give a lecture on “Freud (Marx, Darwin)... Multimedia performances of music by Hugo Distler Crescendo Choir and Bard College at Simon’s Rock faculty a... The Prometheus Piano Quartet performs at Simon's Rock World premier of Laurence Wallach’s Odyssey Quartet... Information Anxiety: Media Rites – Art installation at Simon's Rock Information Anxiety, an installation of Leslie Alfin’s wor... Aimee Michel to direct The Tempest at Simon's Rock Former New Orleans Shakespeare director reflects on Katrina ...

September 2007...

The Katrina Solution: Preventing the Next Disaster Mark Fischetti, author of Drowning New Orleans, to speak at ... Simon's Rock announces Faculty Recital Series September 22 concert features faculty members Anne Legene, L... Nancy Talanian to speak on the War on Terror: Its Toll on Freedom The Social Justice and Outreach Series at Bard College at Si... MacArthur Fellow Joanna Scott to read from her fiction Scott joins list of celebrated writers as guests in the Poet... Panel discussion on the Middle East Oct. 1 Seminar Lecture Series at Bard College at Simon's Rock conti... Gilbert Kalish to perform in first South Berkshire Concert South Berkshire Concerts kicks off the new season at Simon's...

August 2007...

Bard College at Simon's Rock hosts Early College Teaching Seminars Institute on Early College Pedagogy at Simon's Rock hosts Te... Is There Evolution after Darwin? Christopher Coggins presents a lecture at Bard College at Si... The 2007 Poetry and Fiction Series Connecticut Poet Laureate Marilyn Nelson begins the series o...

July 2007...

Ibtisam Barakat to open the academic year with a talk Author of Tasting the Sky to visit Great Barrington on Augu... Simon's Rock Hosts an exhibition of Berkshire Landscapes Paintngs by Great Barrington artist Stephen Filmus... Benigna Chilla Retrospective Exhibit Opens at Simon's Rock Exhibit to celebrate 30 years of artist’s major works...