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
Episodes
Matt and Katherine Bergevin follow up on their discussion of Dracula and Carmilla to discuss F.W. Murnau's 1922 classic horror film Nosferatu as well as two of the most important remakes by Werner Herzog and Robert Eggers.
This podcast is tagged as explicit material because we discuss prominent themes from the films including sexuality, sexual assault, and animal abuse. While we do not go into more detail than ...
Students from Bard Early College Hudson Valley, Chance Tangunu (Poughkeepsie HS), Finn Simons (Beacon HS), Rowan Khleifat (Roy C. Ketcham HS), and Devin Suchite Rosado (Dover HS) discuss the 1818 edition of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and respond to our professor podcast on the same text.
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 w...
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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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