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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

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For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Jerusalem: what makes a city “holy”?  

Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology

Monday, October 5, 2026
12:30–2 pm

Bard Hall
This series will examine three famous holy sites in Jerusalem: the Haram al-Sharif, the Western Wall, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Their founding narratives will reveal how holiness has been attributed to the city, and why characteristic religious practices are focalized there. On this basis, we will investigate the roots of conflicts, past and present, that have threatened Jerusalem’s survival.

Lecture series will be held on the following Mondays at 12:30pm in Bard Hall
Sept. 7th, Sept. 21st, Oct. 5th, Oct. 19th, and Nov. 2ndSponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.

For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Ordinary Made Extraordinary: Nietzsche’s Pedagogy of Non-Identity

Dr. Ulrike Wagner, Director of German Studies, Bard College Berlin

Friday, October 9, 2026
12 pm

Hegeman 204A
What happens when reading makes the ordinary strange? This talk argues that Nietzsche’s lifelong engagement with Emerson recasts criticism as a pedagogy of non-identity: a practice of learning to see differently. Rather than locating philology’s authority solely in the institutional protocols of German Wissenschaft, Nietzsche finds its vital force in everyday practices of reading, habit, and encounters with exemplary others. For Nietzsche, Emerson transforms the past from settled knowledge into a resource for reimagining the relations among scholarship, poetry, art, and life. Against the specialization and moral conformity of the modern university, Emersonian exemplarity provokes thought in unexpected directions. Criticism thus becomes an embodied practice that may disrupt inherited certainties and reopen the present to unrealized possibilities. Tracing this Emerson–Nietzsche connection, the talk illuminates Emerson’s formative role in Nietzsche’s philology and offers a new account of transatlantic intellectual history.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Jerusalem: what makes a city “holy”? 

Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Director, Institute of Advanced Theology

Monday, October 19, 2026
12:30–2 pm

Bard Hall
This series will examine three famous holy sites in Jerusalem: the Haram al-Sharif, the Western Wall, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Their founding narratives will reveal how holiness has been attributed to the city, and why characteristic religious practices are focalized there. On this basis, we will investigate the roots of conflicts, past and present, that have threatened Jerusalem’s survival.

Lecture series will be held on the following Mondays at 12:30pm in Bard Hall
Sept. 7th, Sept. 21st, Oct. 5th, Oct. 19th, and Nov. 2ndSponsored by: Institute of Advanced Theology.

For more information, call 845-758-7667, or e-mail [email protected].

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Maidservants, Matrons and Murderesses: Jewish Women Hidden in the Archives

Elisheva Carlebach, Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society, Columbia University

Thursday, October 22, 2026
5:15 pm

Olin Humanities, Room 102
Sponsored by: Jewish Studies, ISR, Neusner Memorial Lecture fund, Historical Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Locke on Substance Kinds and Human Minds

Jason Rosencrantz, Lecturer of Philosophy, California State University, Long Beach

Friday, October 23, 2026
12 pm

Hegeman 204A
Locke is explicitly agnostic about whether human minds are material or immaterial and claims there is no contradiction in supposing that God might have given a system of matter fitly disposed some degree of thought. Despite this agnosticism, many scholars have argued that Locke is implicitly inclined toward either materialism or immaterialism. Interpreting Locke as a consistent nominalist about substance kinds, I contend that his substance nominalism runs deeper than his apparent metaphysical inclinations and that his ontological and idea-theoretical commitments motivate a principled neutrality regarding the substantial basis of things we categorize as “thinking” or “material.” According to Locke, the sortal terms “mind” and “matter,” which figure prominently in competing propositions that human minds are material or immaterial, stand for complex ideas of substance kinds. But such ideas, on Locke’s analysis, are strictly limited: they are always to some degree obscure, always inadequate to the task of perfectly representing their archetypes, and always false when supposed to conform to the real essences of substances. I evaluate four competing arguments for Locke’s supposed metaphysical inclinations in light of these representational limits and argue that each is premised on a conflation between real and nominal essences.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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War and the Destruction of Historical Records in the Sudans

John Ryle, Legrand Ramsey Professor of Anthropology; Cofounder, Rift Valley Institute

Thursday, October 29, 2026
12 pm

Campus Center North 101
In Sudan and South Sudan, irreplaceable antiquities and archives are being lost to civil war and state collapse. Khartoum’s National Museum — home to artifacts spanning five millennia — has been comprehensively looted and the Ethnographic Museum largely destroyed by fire, In South Sudan’s capital Juba, the National Archive, rescued from termites in the aftermath of the 1983–2005 civil war, faces renewed threat from a dysfunctional government, insurgency beyond the capital, and the near-total withdrawal of foreign aid. I’ll describe the conservation and digitization work I’ve been involved in with the South Sudan Ministry of Culture and the Rift Valley Institute, and reflect on the role of history and memory in the making — and remaking — of national identity in these countries.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.

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Bard College Transportation Services

Runs through Thursday, December 24, 2026

Various Campus Locations
Visit  our website to find out about free shuttles for Bard students, staff and faculty to the Poughkeepsie Metro North train station, Rhinecliff Amtrak, Target, Walmart, Red Hook, Tivoli, Montgomery Place, Massena Campus, JFK, Albany, and La Guardia airports. 

Check our homepage for delays and cancellations to our services as well.

https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation

 
For more information, call 845-758-7625, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://blogs.bard.edu/transportation.