Bard Sequence Seminar Podcast

Bard Sequence Seminar Podcast

Join the Bard Sequence as we explore great works of literature, philosophy, and history from unique perspectives. https://bhsec.bard.edu/sequence/ Contact Us: sequence@bhsec.bard.edu Keywords: Literature, great books, books, reading, culture, fiction, book lovers, good reads, classics, novels, arts, education

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November 22, 2025 67 mins

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Students from the Bard Sequence program Jentle Brown (Plainfield HS, NJ) ,  Donyjanae Weaver (Thurgood Marshall Academy PCS, DC) , and Aleeya White (Orange HS, NJ) discuss Sophocles' tragic play Antigone. 

Between minutes 25:00 and 29:11 we discuss Antigone's choice of death over life including thinking about this as a form of suicide. While the discussion is not graphic, anyone not interested in engaging wit...

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Matt, Katherine Bergevin ( PhD candidate at Columbia University's Department of English and Comparative Literature), and Jehan Senai Worthy (Attorney at the Hudson Valley Justice Center) discuss two of the most influential vampire texts of all time: Bram Stoker's Dracula and Sheridan LeFanu's Carmilla. 

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September 16, 2025 98 mins

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Matt, Allen Ascher (Osher Lifelong Learning Institue at Rutgers University), and Patrick Oray (Bard High School Early College Baltimore) discuss Shakespeare's historical tragedy depicting the assassination of the Roman leader and it's aftermath. 

This podcast was recorded on August 20, 2025. 

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August 21, 2025 102 mins

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Matt discusses Chinua Achebe's landmark novel Things Fall Apart with Yawa Agbemabiese (Bard Highschool Early College, DC) and Carla Stephens (Bard Queer Leadership Project, Borough of Brooklyn Chair for History and Culture at Bard Microcollege Brooklyn Public Library). 

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July 23, 2025 87 mins

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Bard Sequence professors Rosie Jayde Uyola (BHSEC Bronx), Paul Gilmore (Plainfield High School, NJ), and Andrew Worthington (Orange High School, NJ) discuss Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto. 

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Today, three students from the Bard Sequence program discuss Marx and Engels' seminal text: The Communist Manifesto. 

Anderson Morocho is from Orange High School in Orange, NJ. Dominick Cruz attends Bronx Envision Academy in Bronx, NY. David Ixcuna hails from Plainfield High School in Plainfield, NJ. 

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August 14, 2024 47 mins

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Bard Sequence students Tito Oshuntolu and Kimora James respond to Gilgamesh and to the Bard Sequence Podcast. 

Tito Oshuntolu attends Orange High School in New Jersey and Kimora attends Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School in Washington DC. 

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August 7, 2024 81 mins

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Matt and Shana Russell delve into the unlikely pairing of Gilgamesh and Roald Dahl's Matilda. 

Shana Russell is a professor at Bard High School Early College, Newark where she teaches Seminar, literature, and electives in anything from Afrofuturism to the Literature of Newark. 

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March 8, 2024 76 mins

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In which our intrepid panelists make connections between horror films and Mary Shelly's seminal horror text. 

Featuring Rosa Schneider, Katherine Bergevin, and Matt Park. 

Content Warning: Between 1:12 and 1:14  a stage adaptation of Frankenstein which features sexual assault is discussed. There are no graphic descriptions, but anyone who does not want to engage with this content will want to sk...

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October 17, 2023 75 mins

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The Bard Sequence explores Frankenstein with the help of Ben Bagocious (Bard Sequence), Kevin Doyle (Bard Sequence), Katherine Bergevin (Columbia University, Keats-Shelley Association of America), and Rosa Schneider (Bard Sequence, Urban Academy, Bronx). 

Key topics include sexuality, science and technology, shame, otherness, and exclusion. 

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October 17, 2023 74 mins

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The Bard Sequence explores humanity's oldest epic, Gilgamesh, with help from Shana Russell (Bard High School Early College Newark), Nico Veroli (Bard Sequence) and Matt Park (Bard Sequence). 

Key conversations touch on gender and sexuality, urbanism, and the historical context for the epic. 

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