Research is the art of asking questions!

At Bard Graduate Center, we invite scholars, artists, and thinkers to engage in our shared practice of research. Explore all our programs below, and visit the events page to get tickets for upcoming events.

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Wednesdays@BGC
Every Wednesday night, we gather for another installment of our diverse program of lectures, performances, and conversations. Click here for our current program.
Faculty-Programmed Seminar Series
  • Archaeological Encounters
  • Arts and Material Culture of Africa and the African Diaspora
  • Dress and Textile History
  • Early Modern World
  • Global Middle Ages
  • Indigenous Arts in Transition
  • Modern Design History
Endowed Lecture Series
  • Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
  • Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation Seminar in New York and American Material Culture
  • Horowitz Book Prize: Material Culture of the Americas
  • Iris Foundation Awards Lectures
  • Leon Levy Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
  • Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture
  • Lee B. Anderson Memorial Lecture on the Gothic