The Asian Studies Program draws from courses in literature, history, politics, music, art history and visual culture, anthropology, religion, and economics. With program faculty, students select a regional and disciplinary focus to create a coherent program of study. Although the program focuses on China, Japan, and South and Southeast Asia, students can investigate other regions. Intellectual emphasis is placed on comparative perspectives, both within Asia and with other regions.
Chinese Language Table at Kline Commons.
Language Resources at Bard
Bard’s Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures Program (FLCL) is predicated upon the idea that the foreign languages currently taught at Bard constitute a distinct academic field of study not just within Bard but also in the context of Bard's increasing importance as a global liberal-arts institution.
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Kline, College Room
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Wednesday
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Chinese Table
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room5:30 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Kline, College Room
1/30
Friday
Friday, January 30, 2026
Race-Making and Empire in Filipino Louisiana
Michael Salgarolo, PhD, Faculty Fellow, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis at NYU Olin Humanities, Room 1021:30 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5 A talk drawn from the book manuscript, Manila Bayou: Louisiana Filipinos and the Birth of Asian America. Using census records, newspapers, court documents, and oral histories, this talk will trace the racial formation of Louisiana’s early Filipino communities from the antebellum era through Jim Crow. Arguing that the racial formation of Filipinos and other “third peoples” in the Jim Crow South must be understood both in relationship to the Black-white binary as well as through the circulation of racial ideologies across imperial boundaries. this talk will highlight the formation of racial ideologies as simultaneously a local and global process, one that draws our attention to the interplay between European and American imperial projects in the Atlantic and the Pacific.