MA/PhD
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Independent Study

Independent study offers students the opportunity to pursue research in areas beyond the range of the standard curriculum. Through independent study, students further their knowledge …

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200
Orientation
413
Modern Prometheus: Nineteenth-Century Design through the Gothic Novel
Freyja Hartzell
2nd Floor Classroom
THU 1:30pm – 4:00pm

The nineteenth century was a modernist century. Born out of late eighteenth-century revolutions in philosophy, science, and industry, the nineteenth century was primed to embrace …

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414
Supple Solids: A Deep History of Soft Containers
Caspar Meyer
5th Floor Classroom
MON 9:30am – 12:00pm

Research on technology has long prioritized tools over containers, privileging action, agency, and intervention—traits culturally coded as masculine—over receptivity, support, and relational capacity. …

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415
Dress in Art History: A Field Seminar
Mei Mei Rado
2nd Floor Classroom
FRI 9:30am – 12:00pm

This field seminar introduces students to the studies of fashion and dress in art history through close readings of key literature from the 1950s, when …

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416
Museums and their Values
Ivan Gaskell
5th Floor Classroom
TUE 5:00pm – 7:30pm

In many societies worldwide, museums of all kinds remain immensely popular. However, museums face an increasing skepticism regarding their roles in society, which, together with …

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417
Digital Objects: Meditations in Algorithmic Culture
Michael Assis
2nd Floor Classroom
THU 9:30am – 12:00pm

As the Artificial Intelligence cold war heats up, the blockchain seeks to upend global economies, and cultural production is ceded more and more to algorithms, …

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418
Visual and Material Culture of the Qing Court,1644-1911
Mei Mei Rado
5th Floor Classroom
THU 1:30pm – 4:00pm

Ruled by the Manchus, the Qing empire was a multiethnic, multicultural regime with an expansive territory and global connections. The visual and material culture of …

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419
Transcultural Objects
Annissa Malvoisin
5th Floor Classroom
FRI 9:30am – 12:00pm

Objects and materials are threads of connection that influence the societal, cultural, and political conditions of communities. Migration, trade, and exchange have been an important …

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457
Science and Sylvester Manor
Jennifer L. Mass
2nd Floor Classroom
WED 1:30pm – 4:00pm

Sylvester Manor is a Georgian-era plantation home on Shelter Island, New York that was built in 1652 to act as a provisioning plantation for the Barbados …

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471
Americana Redux: Materializing Multiculturalism in the Postwar United States
Catherine Whalen
2nd Floor Classroom
FRI 1:30pm – 4:00pm

This course investigates how individuals and groups have deployed material culture to challenge, redefine, and expand constructs of citizenship and belonging in the United States …

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500
Objects in Context: A Survey of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture I
Jeffrey L. Collins
Lecture Hall
MON 5:00pm – 7:30pm

This two-semester, team-taught course introduces incoming students to major historical developments in decorative arts, design, and material culture from antiquity to the present. Monday evening …

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502
Approaches to the Object
Catherine Whalen, Ivan Gaskell
Lecture Hall
WED 9:30am – 12:00pm

This course is required for entering students who have not taken a course deemed comparable. Drawing on the expertise of BGC faculty, it introduces incoming …

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510
Writing Objects
Helen Polson
5th Floor Classroom
TUE 1:30pm – 4:00pm

This two-semester practicum on Tuesday afternoons develops techniques for effective graduate-level writing through practical exercises and workshop sessions. Drawing on the assignments and readings in 500…

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515
Seminar Series

All students are encouraged to attend the rich program of lectures, symposia, seminars, performances, lunches, and talks organized by Bard Graduate Center’s Public Humanities + …

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584
Ceramics and Society: A Social and Cultural History of European Ceramics, 1500–1900
Andrew Morrall
2nd Floor Classroom
MON 1:30pm – 4:00pm

This seminar explores the evolution of ceramic techniques and materials within the wider contexts of economic, social, and cultural life. We will study the role …

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655
Markets to Manners: Cooking and Eating in Early Modern Europe
Deborah L. Krohn
5th Floor Classroom
WED 1:30pm – 4:00pm

How did early modern people cook, serve, and eat? Was there a Renaissance on the table? New markets, and the advent of printing in the …

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763
The Monument: Designing Memory
Jeffrey L. Collins
5th Floor Classroom
FRI 1:30pm – 4:00pm

Monuments, from the Latin monere, are things that remind, warn, or teach; memorials, as their name implies, serve as tangible markers of memory. But who …

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795
Exhibiting Culture/s: Anthropology In and Of the Museum
Aaron Glass
5th Floor Classroom
MON 1:30pm – 4:00pm

Over the past two centuries, the museum has emerged as one of the primary institutional venues for intercultural encounter mediated by objects. Practices of both …

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959
Curatorial Thinking: From Object to Exhibition
Julia Siemon
5th Floor Classroom
TUE 9:30am – 12:00pm

This course explores the multiple modes of object-based engagement intrinsic to modern curatorial practice, with an emphasis on storytelling through display. Structured around a critical …

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989
Metamorphosis in the Arts of Early Modernity and Beyond
Andrew Morrall
5th Floor Classroom
THU 9:30am – 12:00pm

This course will pursue the theme of metamorphosis in Renaissance art and decoration in terms of narrative illustration but also as a ruling metaphor and …

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